Worg

Taff souvent, mais regardes twitter de temps en temps. Parfois. Rarement. La @GamersAssembly c'est bon, mangez-en. Joue encore a WoW parfois.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It always astonishes me how there is virtually ZERO public debate - or even public awareness - in Europe about the decisions that will most shape ordinary people's lives.

These days, the EU is drafting a new anti-China legal framework where - quite literally - the more affordable and competitive Chinese products are, the more illegal they'd become.

You'd think EU citizens would want to be informed about such things - as it couldn't be more consequential for their prosperity.

Yet I bet virtually no EU citizen is even aware of it, beyond a vague sense that there is some sort of trade dispute going on.

So what's going on exactly? It all centers around a new legal instrument the EU is drafting called the "overcapacity instrument" (https://t.co/mNpCMudYyS).

First of all, the very notion of "overcapacity" is pretty ridiculous to begin with, especially the way it's being defined by the EU, as it basically means being competitive enough to export.

By this definition of "overcapacity," pretty much every European industry that's ever run a trade surplus - German cars, French wine, Italian fashion - has been guilty of "overcapacity."

I'm not even exaggerating: if you read this study by the EU Parliament on "Industrial overcapacities, with a focus on China" (https://t.co/TcwEBoL8mD), they define "overcapacity" as building more capacity than your domestic market can absorb. So the moment you build capacity to export abroad, you're in "overcapacity."

Utterly ridiculous.

And what this "overcapacity instrument" is about is creating a permanent legal mechanism for the EU to block Chinese competition across whole sectors of the economy, if they happen to be in "overcapacity."

In effect, this means that if China is competitive globally in a given sector in such a way that it exports a lot, that's proof of overcapacity, and legally it'd mean that the entire sector can be restricted from the EU market.

Which means it really, factually, is a legal framework where the more affordable and competitive your products are, the more illegal they become.

Which is a CRAZY economic concept! 🤦‍♂️

Please note that it's different from the anti-subsidy legal instrument, which the EU has already put in place in 2023 (the "Foreign Subsidies Regulation": https://t.co/SvPKFyN0zo).

This "overcapacity instrument" would be above and beyond this: it wouldn't even matter if a particular sector was subsidized by the Chinese government or not, the mere fact of its competitiveness in exports would be grounds for restrictions in the EU.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how badly this could impact everyday people: this is European consumers being forced to pay more for worse products by law, so that uncompetitive European firms don't have to improve.

Politicians frame it as avoiding a "China shock 2.0" but really this is choosing an even steeper self-inflicted decline than is already the case, where EU citizens would subsidize mediocre EU companies that would have even less pressure to catch up. It's a hidden tax: subsidies for uncompetitive firms paid by consumers instead of governments, which in turn makes them less incentivized to become competitive.

The first "China shock" did de-industrialize Europe somewhat, but at least it made things cheaper for European consumers. If this becomes Europe's response to a second "China shock" not only it'd make everything more expensive but it'd do nothing for EU industry: you don't become competitive by banning the competition...

Look at China itself: the way it industrialized was NOT by banning Western firms but on the contrary by welcoming them strategically and learning from them. You learn to compete by... competing, duh!

What I find most shocking in all of this isn't even the policy itself - you can make arguments for and against protectionism, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's shocking is that virtually no European media outlet is explaining any of this to the public. This is unarguably one of the single most consequential economic decisions the EU will make this decade, affecting the price of everything, and it's being drafted in near-total silence.

No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable" - even though that's essentially what's happening.

But that's what you call a "democracy" with "freedom of expression" these days apparently...

[Worg @Telynoar]

@UnitreeRobotics Put sigourney weaver inside and find me an alien queen.

[Worg @Telynoar]

@afpfr Ils ont tenté de faire le même gag qu'avec de funes ?

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

👉Pas besoin de corrompre un État quand vous pouvez l'absorber.

Palantir vient de réussir à faire ce que les lobbies mettent des décennies à accomplir.

Palantir n'a pas acheté des politiciens. Elle a acheté l'État lui-même.

32 hauts fonctionnaires britanniques.
Le directeur IA du ministère de la Défense.
La cheffe de l'IA du NHS.
L'ex-patron du MI6.
Quatre membres de la Chambre des Lords.
Tous passés chez Palantir (avant, pendant, ou juste après avoir négocié avec elle les contrats qui lui ont rapporté 670 millions de livres sterling d'argent public).

Palantir cible délibérément les agents qui connaissent de l'intérieur la culture de ses clients. Qui savent où sont les verrous. Qui ont les numéros de téléphone. Qui ont co-rédigé les lois que l'entreprise devra un jour contourner.

On appelle ça le "revolving door" (la porte tournante). Mais ce nom est trompeur. Une porte tournante, ça tourne dans les deux sens. Là, ça ne tourne que dans un seul : du public vers Palantir.

Ce que cette enquête révèle, c'est le manuel opératoire de la privatisation du pouvoir souverain.

🔗 Enquête complète : The Nerve, 24 avril 2026.
https://t.co/nrVkvxCDiw

[Worg @Telynoar]

@AlertesInfos HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Worg @Telynoar]

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[Jon De Lorraine @jon_delorraine]

🔴ALERTE INFO : Richard Ferrand limoge sa numéro 2 du Conseil constitutionnel pour avoir osé s’opposer au recours aux ordonnances sur le budget.
Aurélie Bretonneau, secrétaire générale, a été remerciée après avoir défendu que le Conseil constitutionnel n’avait pas à valider ce tour de passe-passe gouvernemental. (Politico)

Un an seulement après l’avoir nommée, Ferrand exécute. Clair message : à l’Élysée, on veut une institution aux ordres. Cela pose question encore une fois sur la séparation des pouvoirs en France.

[Worg @Telynoar]

@PStinebiz @Rick_Ling1 @RamAbdu They did, in fact, against putin, etc

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

This is probably revenge for winning against Leigh Rothschild, a patent troll that Valve was not supposed to win against. Winning that lawsuit disrupted the status quo of quietly settling like every other tech company does.

In addition to this lawsuit, Valve has 3 other ones just in 2026 so far.

New York State loot box lawsuit filed Feb 23 2026 by Attorney General Letitia James.
US Nation wide class action lawsuit against loot boxes filed March 9 2026.
UK collective proceedings on Steam's pricing + Commissions... Jan 26 2026.
Now this UK's PRS music suit.

FOUR major attacks in under a month can't be a coincidence. Valve embarrassed one of the untouchables and this really feels coordinated.

Valve is a company with its "open" platform one of the last few remaining ungated digital wild west for games and entertainment. Minimal censorship, no ESG, no globalist filter. It directly threatens global tech monopolies and disrupts narratives.

Steam is one of the last bastions for decentralized, player-sovereign, anti-fragile gaming... Gaming has been one of the largest disruptors of the globalist "script" largely giving rise to the current populist surge.

[Worg @Telynoar]

@FrenchResponse Huuuh, is this an official french account or a meme one ? If it's official, are you fucking out of your mind ? Did Trump lobotomized you with his meme war ? It is a temp worker who did this ?

[Worg @Telynoar]

@SirAfuera Heu, il n'a objectivement pas dit ça. :/
Ça commence a m'emmerder de voir les mecs de tous les bords qui tentent la manipulation pour leur propre agenda et tous les imbéciles qui marchent dedans simplement en lisant le titre clickbait sans regarder la séquence.

[Worg @Telynoar]

@realmarcel1 C'est qui les votants ? l'equipe de comm' de l'elysée ?

[Worg @Telynoar]

@Mediavenir Je ne suis pas pour elle du tout, mais quand même on s'en tapes qu'elle ignore quel joueur joue dans le PSG ou les trucs du genre. Elle ne veut pas être l'entraineur du club que je sache.
Ce genre de remarque ne sert a rien.

[Mediavenir @Mediavenir]

🏝️🇫🇷 FLASH - Emmanuel Macron envisage de réduire les vacances scolaires d’été à 1 seul mois. (Brut)

[Worg @Telynoar]

@realmarcel1 Ok, il dit qu'il n'a pas touché un centime, mais la question de fond ce n'est pas du tout de savoir s'il a touché de l'argent...

[Worg @Telynoar]

@Abeillle_ Autant je dis qu'il faut tous les bruler, autant cet email-la sent pas mal le fake, j'en ai trouvé mention nulle part ailleurs. Ça discrédite la verité de planter des trucs comme ça dedans si c'est le cas, elle est déjà bien assez horrible et réclamerait déjà des répercussions !

[Worg @Telynoar]

@bouliboulibouli Comme quoi faut interdire les reseaux sociaux aux politiques aussi.

[Tribune Populaire🌐 @TribunePop23]

🚨ALERTE INFO

Le ministre de l’Économie, Roland Lescure, a validé la cession de LMB Aerospace au groupe américain Loar Group, sans exiger l’entrée de Bpifrance au capital, malgré cette condition mise en avant par la Direction générale de l’armement..

[Worg @Telynoar]

@DoWCTO @DeptofWar @DOWResponse mirror mirror, you're the one targeted now !

[Romain Mielcarek @romainmielcarek]

Bonjour France Info.
Donner la parole à ce Monsieur sur les enjeux stratégiques liés au Groenland, c'est pour son expérience de contrôle de gestion chez Michel et Augustin, ou chez L'Oréal ?
Et France Info... C'est quoi Western Arc ? Son think tank a 4 followers sur Facebook et 28 sur Linkedin. Une association créée il y a un mois. Une coquille vide. Qui affiche comme adresse sur son site... celle d'une statue de Lafayette dans Paris.
Dans sa déclaration d'activité, l'association précise être "hors de toute activite partisane ou electorale". Alors que M. Conquer est lui même un militant politique.
Même l'activité de l'association est un mensonge, c'est fascinant.
@franceinfo