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  • April 5, 2025 8:19pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

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    Interactive Map #handsoff2025

    What to know about Saturday’s nationwide “Hands Off!” anti-Trump protests

  • April 5, 2025 6:24pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Fun read on #ableton #daftpunk

    thoughts-and-things.ghost.io/recreatin…

  • April 4, 2025 10:35pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    The key point is this: Without this abuse of power, Trump could not be unleashing such havoc. In short, Trump’s lawlessness and his economic destruction are the same story: The former doesn’t just enable the latter; the two are inextricably entangled with each other.

  • April 2, 2025 10:04pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

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    Une de mes scènes de Friends préférées 😅 #LeftPhalange

  • April 2, 2025 1:42am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

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    Cory Brooker breaking the #filibuster record and still going strong, while millions of people have been watching. THIS is what Democrats must do more, urgently more. Unite the country on the back of the Trump regime. Win the Midterms Impeach Trump. Abundance

  • Four Roads to Ruin: The Future of American Democracy Under Trump 2.0

    March 31, 2025 10:18pm
    Reading Time: 8 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politics

    Longform

    In the aftermath of the “Signalgate” scandal and economic freefall, President Donald J. Trump’s administration teeters on the edge of authoritarian ambition. With the Wisconsin Supreme Court election just days away and Project 2025 serving as the ideological and operational blueprint, the regime accelerates its grip on power. This four-part fiction explores four possible futures unfolding between now and 2029, each rooted in real legislative, economic, and political dynamics at play today. Continue reading →

  • Amerika : diving into oblivion while convincing itself otherwise

    March 31, 2025 12:46pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Longform

    In 2022, one of Peter Thiel’s favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO” who was not Trump and laid out a playbook for how it might work. Elon Musk is following it. Read the article about this here What would be the name of such system? First some definitions : Technocratic Authoritarianism A system where unelected elites or CEOs are placed in charge of government on the grounds of efficiency or managerial competence, often sidelining democratic institutions. Continue reading →

  • March 31, 2025 12:09pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Politics

    Microposts

    The Atlantic kicks off opening night at the NOLA Book Festival with a dynamic conversation reflecting on the Signal breach and weighing its national-security implications.

  • March 30, 2025 11:09pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Coding

    Microposts

    👀 Transform Your Code into AI-Optimized Prompts in Seconds

    code2prompt.dev

  • March 30, 2025 11:08pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    code2prompt.dev

  • March 30, 2025 11:06pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Holy crap : Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform.

  • March 30, 2025 11:04pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    gist.github.com/hackermon…

  • March 30, 2025 10:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Microposts

    Fascinating article by NYT on the history of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦.

  • March 30, 2025 10:29pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Microposts

    Et hop dans ma todo : Lire Lolita à Téhéran - Azar Nafisi www.babelio.com/livres/Na…

    Et dans ma liste de filme à voir :

    Lire Lolita à Téhéran (2024) - IMDb m.imdb.com/fr/title/…

  • March 30, 2025 7:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Fixed: Several elections on Tuesday will be a crucial test of the popularity of the chaotic and extremist first two months of Donald Trump’s second term and the clout of his co-destroyer, Elon Musk, the world’s stupid man who has been tasked with radically killing the US federal government

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  • Book : Don't Believe Everything You Think

    March 29, 2025 11:21pm
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Photos

    Health

    Longform

    Your mind is not a friend it’s a tyrant. It spins stories of inadequacy, catastrophizes the future, and replays past failures like a broken record. This mental noise isn’t just distracting; it’s soul-crushing. Joseph Nguyen’s “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” isn’t another platitude-filled pep talk. It’s a scalpel, cutting through the illusion that your thoughts define reality. In a world drowning in overthinking, anxiety, and self-doubt, this book is a rebellion against the prison of the mind. Continue reading →

  • March 29, 2025 10:42am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Not just Millenials, it’s everywhere.

    www.newsweek.com/millennia…

  • March 25, 2025 8:43pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Ouch

    The maintainers of #Kubernetes have released patches for four critical vulnerabilities in the Ingress NGINX Controller, affecting 6,500, or 41%, of all Internet-facing container orchestration clusters, including those used by several Fortune 500 companies.

  • March 23, 2025 2:18pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    I’m not on X anymore but this is nonetheless interesting

    notetracker.socialmediadata.org

  • March 22, 2025 8:40pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    ATmosphereConf 2025 - Smoke Signal, an journey in building open ecosystems for communities - Nick Gerakines

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