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  • May 5, 2025 1:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Politics

    Microposts

    “Online, they find a community around collective crises and traumatic events, such as fear of migration or the war in Gaza, which they connect to their personal struggle.”

    “AI and the algorithms are partly doing that job of a charismatic recruiter, just a hundred times better.” Read More

  • May 5, 2025 10:12am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Audio

    Microposts

    Ça m’a donné envie d’aller choper le bouquin

    Répliques: Les jeux du cirque médiatique

    Episode : www.radiofrance.fr/francecul…

  • May 4, 2025 7:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Music

    Microposts

    Anukari

    3D Physics Synthesizer Anukari is a software synthesizer and effects processor based on a fully interactive 3D physics simulation. Drag and drop physics components like masses and springs to design your own 3D instrument or effect. See and hear what you’ve built in real time.

    😳😃

  • May 4, 2025 3:57pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Audio

    Microposts

    👀🎙️Ils vont endoctriner des enfants

    The New Abnormal: Stephen Miller Rolls Out MAGA’s Indoctrination Plan for Kids

    Episode webpage: shows.acast.com/the-new-a…

  • Synchroniser vos podcasts entre plusieurs appareils avec AntennaPod et Nextcloud

    May 4, 2025 3:41pm
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Audio

    Longform

    Vous écoutez vos podcasts avec Spotify ou autre platforme et vous en avez assez d’être enfermé dans un écosystème fermé comme Google Podcasts ? Vous voulez pouvoir changer de téléphone ou utiliser plusieurs appareils sans perdre vos abonnements ni votre historique d’écoute ? Ce tutoriel est pour vous. Grâce à Nextcloud et à son application GPodder Sync, vous pouvez synchroniser automatiquement vos abonnements, la progression de lecture, et même les épisodes écoutés entre plusieurs instances d’AntennaPod — ou avec d’autres applications compatibles avec le protocole gpodder. Continue reading →

  • May 4, 2025 3:28pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Audio

    Microposts

    Podcast 🎙️

    What Next: TBD | How Elon Wields Power

    Listen

    Anything getting in the way of “Autonomous cars” envisioned by #Musk is an enemy of “evolution” never a victim of unvetted features, pushed to sell a dream, at any costs, even death.

  • April 30, 2025 11:20pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Politique

    Microposts

    Black-out : que s’est-il passé en Espagne ? 7 points sur les causes de la méga-coupure

  • April 29, 2025 8:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Contre la destruction des communs numérique :

    Il faut sauver le soldat Wayback Machine, signez!

  • April 28, 2025 8:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Interesting… stream.place

    “Streamplace is the video layer for decentralized social networks. We’re building open-source infrastructure to bring high-quality video experiences to the AT Protocol ecosystem, while preserving user sovereignty and content authenticity.”

    #livestream

  • April 28, 2025 6:07pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Ahhh le revival des #blogs (et du Web) blogroll.org 😀

  • April 28, 2025 5:54pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    🏳️‍⚧️They added, “There’s a real cognitive dissonance; most people I know really hate what’s going on, or believe it’s wrong, yet they’re doing it anyway.”

    Feels like a cult, walks like a cult : it’s literally an expression of fascism where unwilling 🇺🇸 are participating in it, willingly or not.

  • April 28, 2025 1:00pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    It’s crazy, How the 🇺🇸 Left ©®™ missed this train And wasn’t able to organize against the corporate-tech-conservative-neoliberal-neofascist alliance nexus leading up to Trump.

    Interesting read :

    The group chats that changed America

    Extract :

    The political journalist Mark Halperin, who now runs 2WAY and has a show on Megyn Kelly’s network, said it was remarkable that “the left seems largely unaware that some of the smartest and most sophisticated Trump supporters in the nation from coast to coast are part of an overlapping set of text chains that allow their members to share links, intel, tactics, strategy, and ad hoc assignments. Also: clever and invigorating jokes. And they do this (not kidding) like 20 hours a day, including on weekends.” He called their influence “substantial.”

  • April 27, 2025 11:40am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Tibetan Buddhism

    Microposts

    Samedi 14 juin : “Rivière de Feu” est une performance artistique et militante née du vécu de Rosa Yeshe et Ricardo Mendes, demi-frère et demi-sœur, tous deux survivants de la communauté bouddhiste sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), fondée par Robert Spatz. Plus d’info

  • April 26, 2025 7:56pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Bluesky

    Microposts

    Bluesky say it’s not down but it’s down here on mobile.

    Going for web version bsky.app or deer.social works but kinda slow, something is definitely not normal, anyone having the same?

  • The Media Flood Strategy: How the Trump Administration Overwhelms Oversight

    April 24, 2025 9:57pm
    Reading Time: 6 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Longform

    In the second term of the Trump elected regime, a deliberate strategy has emerged: inundate the media landscape with rapid, successive actions to outpace scrutiny and erode institutional checks. This approach not only overwhelms journalistic capacities but also pressures U.S. institutions to compromise their constitutional responsibilities. A Deluge of Deportations Central to this strategy is the imposition of stringent daily arrest quotas on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Each of ICE’s 25 field offices has been directed to execute at least 75 arrests daily, aiming for a nationwide total of 1,200 to 1,500 arrests per day. Continue reading →

  • Devoir de mémoire : La vérité des faits objectifs n’est jamais une diffamation

    April 24, 2025 6:41pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Longform

    Note à moi-même : La vérité des faits objectifs n’est jamais une diffamation. Aussi dure, dérangeante, insupportable ou destructrice soit-elle, la vérité, dans l’affaire qui nous concerne, n’est rien d’autre que des faits ignorés — consciemment ou inconsciemment. Une fois l’abcès crevé, commence alors un processus de recalibrage entre ce que l’on croit savoir et la réalité de celles et ceux qui l’ont vécu. Il faut du temps pour que les réalités s’alignent — autant de temps, parfois, qu’il en a fallu pour creuser le fossé entre soi et les autres. Continue reading →

  • Maturity isn’t about who wins an argument—it’s about knowing when an argument isn’t worth having.

    April 24, 2025 11:56am
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Random

    Longform

    Helen Mirren once said: Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there’s absolutely no point. Not every argument is worth your energy. Sometimes, no matter how clearly you express yourself, the other person isn’t listening to understand—they’re listening to react. They’re stuck in their own perspective, unwilling to consider another viewpoint, and engaging with them only drains you. Continue reading →

  • April 23, 2025 7:05pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Reading Pluralistic : Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’ #bookreview

  • April 22, 2025 11:16am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Bouli Lanners, vivant (alive and kicking) !

    cinevox.be/fr/bouli-…

    Une des rares voix en Belgique francophone qui rentre dans le tas de la dérive politique et social qui se met en place contre les chômeurs, les artistes, la culture et en fin de compte “les pauvres”

  • April 22, 2025 7:02am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    It’s good, that Comedians in the US are still able to write and take down other figures trying to normalize the regime.

    Looking at you Bill Maher.

    Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf

    www.nytimes.com/2025/04/2…

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