Comment la propagande russe fonctionne à l'étranger, en une phrase par couche :
Pour la droite : « La Russie défend la tradition. »
Pour la gauche : « L'OTAN a causé cela. »
Pour le pacifiste : « Les armes prolongent la guerre. »
Pour le cynique : « Tout le monde ment de manière égale. »
Pour l'épuisé : « C'est compliqué. »
Cinq messages contradictoires, une seule issue : ne rien faire.
How Russian propaganda works abroad, in one sentence per layer:
For the right: "Russia defends tradition." For the left: "NATO caused this." For the pacifist: "Weapons prolong war." For the cynic: "Everyone lies equally." For the tired: "It's complicated."
Five contradictory messages, one output: do nothing.
Russian propaganda doesn't need you to love Moscow. It needs you paralyzed — and it has a script for whichever ideology you brought to the table.
Whenever a take ends in "therefore, inaction," check the return address.
Pour la première fois depuis longtemps, je regarde une démonstration d’IA et le modèle passe au second plan.
> James, 49 ans, vit avec une aphasie depuis un AVC.
À partir de cinq secondes d’anciennes vidéos, Bland a reconstruit sa voix et créé une application qui lit ce qu’il écrit avec cette voix.
La machine lui rend un moyen de s’exprimer pendant qu’il poursuit sa rééducation. Il peut de nouveau commander son repas lui-même et dire à sa famille qu’il l’aime avec une voix qu’elle reconnaît.
C'est ça la technologie comme on l'aime
The Champions Who Forgot to Play Football!
Here is a statistic to frame above your fireplace and show your grandchildren: Argentina’s first shot of any kind in Sunday’s World Cup final arrived in the 115th minute, a record of futility for a World Cup. Spain finished with 20 shots to Argentina’s two, twelve on target to none. Not one. In a final. ESPN called it arguably the worst World Cup final in living memory, and that was the polite version.
NBC Sports put it plainly: Argentina were more concerned with fouling and fighting than playing football, and the way several players behaved was a disgrace that tarnished their legacy.
According to Football365, Scaloni’s men committed more first-half fouls than they completed passes into the attacking third. Their 12.29 fouls per game was, per NBC, far and away the highest of any semifinalist.
The punditry class reached for the thesaurus. “It’s a disgrace,” said Gary Neville on ITV. Alan Shearer told the BBC that Leandro Paredes “threw two or three haymakers into someone’s face” in the post-whistle brawl that earned him a red card after the final had ended. Joe Hart called it “disgusting.” Lee Dixon called it “anti-football.” Wayne Rooney simply shrugged: we’ve seen this from Argentina before.
And where was the captain? Sitting on the turf, weeping, while his teammates disgraced the shirt he made famous. Sorry, but no. A captain’s job in that moment is not to cry. It is to get up, wade into the scrum, grab the idiots by the collar and order them to behave like gentlemen. Messi shook every Spanish hand, as Hart noted, and fair play. But leadership was required, and leadership stayed seated.
Consider the route, too: a group of Algeria, Austria and Jordan, then Cape Verde in the round of 32. All the jeopardy of a heated driveway.
Spain were everything football should be. One goal conceded in eight matches, the fewest ever for a champion. Rodri took the Golden Ball, Ferran Torres the trophy. As Norwegian commentator Trond Johannessen put it: mighty scenes, but the right outcome. The victory bandits were finally caught.
Wherever Argentina play next, anywhere on Earth, they will walk out to a wall of boos. They earned every decibel.
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@xfedorova Silence ! Ce que la Russie a à dire à la France ne nous intéresse pas. Le message de guerre, c'est la Russie qui le porte depuis 2022 et 2014
List of players to have their red cards overturned (or suspended) at the World Cup, since the card was introduced in 1970:
🇺🇸 Florian Balogun
End of list.