In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid.
Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia.
Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women.
I changed a single variable: My name.
Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff."
Vous ne découvrez ni la date du concert, ni la capacité du Stade de France, ni l’heure à laquelle des dizaines de milliers de personnes quitteront simultanément le secteur.
Programmer des travaux à 22h45 ce soir-là, puis expliquer que « le calendrier l’impose », ce n’est pas anticiper. C’est transférer la totalité du problème, du risque et du chaos sur les voyageurs.
Alors la question est simple :
Quel dispositif précis, sécurisé et réellement dimensionné sera mis en place pour évacuer le Stade de France ?
Combien de bus de remplacement ?
À partir de quelles gares ?
Avec quelle fréquence ?
Quel encadrement des flux ?
Et quand le public sera-t-il informé ?
Parce que « merci pour votre compréhension » n’est ni un plan de transport, ni une réponse à un enjeu de sécurité.
@RERB@IDFmobilites@Prefet93@prefpolice@StadeFrance@vpecresse
🚨 En 2021 le ministre de la justice Dupond Moretti a demandé aux juges de classer TOUTES LES AFFAIRES qui n’avaient pas fait l’objet d’enquête depuis 1 an !
UN DÉNI DE JUSTICE !!!
Résultat il s’est vanté ensuite d’une baisse de 30% des affaires ! C’est effarant!
Faut absolument que vous sachiez comment Ubisoft a traité cet homme (créateur de Assassin's Creed) comme une merde :
- en 2010 il commençait à dire qu'il voulait réduire la cadence avec les AC et que le fait d'annualiser la licence allait nuire à la qualité des jeux
- quelques mois après il est poussé vers la sortie et démissionne (sûrement harcelé par Ubisoft vous connaissez les méthodes 🥹)
- en 2011 il rejoint THQ qui fondent spécialement pour lui un sous studio et commence a bosser sur 1666 Amsterdam
- en 2013 Ubisoft rachète THQ et vire spécifiquement Patrice, et conservent par la même occasion tous les droits sur sa création 1666 Amsterdam
- en 2016, après 3 ans de bataille juridique acharnée, ils récupèrent les droits sur son jeu
- en 2026, 10 ans après, il nous présente enfin 1666 Amsterdam
"des solutions numériques existent, comme l'application France Identité"
On parle bien de l'appli que vos contrôleurs refusent régulièrement c'est bien ça ? 🤔
coolest pokemon games that you can play the bad guy.
back in 2020, a creator named colonelsalt dropped a rom hack pokemon game called pokemon team rocket. built on firered software, instead of being the hero, you started as a low-level team rocket grunt with nothing but a rattata.
your entire job was to lie, cheat, and literally steal pokemon from trainers across kanto. but the game actually has a much deeper storyline than you’d expect. the whole story runs parallel to the original firered timeline while red is out becoming the strongest trainer. you get to see everything he didn’t, shady gym leaders, corrupt police officers, scientists doing messed up experiments, and a much darker side of kanto.
the game gives you a full rank system inside team rocket. you start at the very bottom, only allowed to steal from kids and old people. every successful mission pushes you higher up the ladder until you reach executive status and begin stealing rare and powerful pokemon from the same gym leaders that red fights.
the entire kanto region is hiding a massive conspiracy involving giovanni, lance, and even professor oak himself. as you complete missions you slowly uncover dark secrets about the great pokemon war, the true origins and creation of mewtwo, professor oak’s hidden lab, and why red was really “chosen” in the first place.
one of the best and most ambitious pokemon rom hacks ever made.
Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.
Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.
Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.
Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.
The parade that did not exist.
Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.
Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.
That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.
Je vais vous raconter mon histoire. Celle d’un surveillant dans un collège au cœur de l’Auvergne qui a fait son boulot. Et qui le paie encore aujourd’hui. 1/6
Google just permanently banned a manga artist’s entire Google account, just for uploading his own old manga files to Drive.
AI moderation triggered and flagged it, he tried to submit appeal then he got rejected it by Google and now he has lost everything like Gmail, Drive, all linked services is gone.
He never even sharing the files publicly, it’s only backing up his own a private work like any creator and artists.
This is Google Drive “AI moderation” in action. No human support and no serious to take action.
Physical storage or real private alternatives only.
Support the artists getting screwed by this. This level of corporate overreach is insane.
Je m’appelle Emma, ce n’est pas un pseudo c’est ma véritable identité, je fais ce post au cas il m’arrive quelque chose suite aux menaces que j’ai reçu directement chez moi cette semaine, de la part de personnes envoyées par des comptes basés en Israël; s’il m’arrive quelque chose c’est la faute du premier compte à avoir incité à l’harcèlement à mon encontre @SwordOfSalomon; ensuite les comptes qui ont relayés cet appel à l’harcèlement comme @Enthoven_R, @femmeazadi, @Nizardisabelle, @SlMONWEINBERG et tant d’autres !
Je précise que je ne suis pas suicidaire et que je ne l’ai jamais été, et que ma seule boussole à toujours été le droit et mon humanité, combattant toutes les formes des racismes y compris l’antisémitisme, mon compte est public et toutes les preuves y sont.
Um homem e sua namorada morrem num acidente de carro e vão parar nos Portões do Paraíso.
Lá está São Pedro, com aquela cara de quem já recebeu mais alma problemática do que atendente de SAC em segunda-feira.
- Bem-vindos ao Céu. Alguma pergunta antes de entrarem?
O homem olha pra namorada, emocionado, e diz:
- Na verdade sim… nós nunca conseguimos casar enquanto estávamos vivos. Será que podemos nos casar aqui no Paraíso?
São Pedro coça a barba.
- Boa pergunta. Vou verificar e já volto.
E some.
Os dois ficam esperando nos portões.
Conversam sobre amor.
Eternidade.
Alma gêmea.
Essas coisas que casal fala quando ainda não brigou por louça na pia.
Seis semanas depois, São Pedro finalmente reaparece.
- Pronto. Resolvido. Vocês podem sim se casar no Céu!
O casal comemora feliz.
Mas aí o homem faz outra pergunta:
- Então… eternidade é muito tempo, né? E se daqui uns séculos a relação desgastar? Se a gente quiser se divorciar… tem como?
São Pedro fecha os olhos devagar.
Respira fundo.
Olha pro céu como quem perdeu completamente a fé na humanidade.
E explode:
- PUTA QUE PARIU…
- Levou seis semanas pra eu encontrar um padre aqui em cima…você tem ideia de quanto tempo vai levar pra eu achar um advogado?! 🥴🫠🤡