Thomas Dechamps

Journaliste @RTBFinfo Études @IHECS et @SciencePoULB Passé par @RTLTVI @MedianextTV @F2Bruxelles @CC&CProd @lesoir @lecho @ARTEfr

[Thomas Dechamps @ThomDech]

Connaissez-vous l’histoire tragique, mais fascinante, des Archiducs Albert et Isabelle ?? Ils sont passés à deux doigts de fonder une 1ère « famille royale de Belgique » dès le… 16e siècle ! Tout est dans cette nouvelle chaîne YT 100% belge 🇧🇪 😉🤩

https://t.co/ocYqIqCrh1

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 China has built a giant magnet for a fusion reactor — weighing 582 tons

Construction and testing have been completed in Hefei on a toroidal superconducting magnet weighing 582 tons and measuring 21 meters in length. It is the largest magnet of its kind built for controlled nuclear fusion facilities.

The magnet is designed to confine plasma heated to temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius. A high-temperature superconducting central solenoid was also successfully tested alongside it.

Both components were developed for China's "Artificial Sun" fusion program. According to the project's timeline, the experimental reactor is expected to be completed by 2027, with the first demonstration of electricity generation from controlled fusion planned for around 2030.

[William Marx @william_marx]

On a beaucoup trop peu parlé du vol du torque en or de la Dame de Vix, il y a trois jours, au musée de Châtillon-sur-Seine. La perte de ce chef-d’œuvre de l’art celte m’a personnellement bien plus ému que celle du diadème de l’impératrice Eugénie lors du cambriolage du Louvre, car le torque a tellement plus de valeur esthétique et historique. Créé au Ve siècle av. J.-C. pour une princesse gauloise, il témoigne de la sophistication d’une orfèvrerie jonglant avec virtuosité entre les traditions grecque, étrusque et celte. On y admire en particulier le petit cheval ailé posé sur un entrelacs de fils d’or, lui-même soutenu par une patte de lion. Ces 480 grammes d’or, par la cupidité qu’ils suscitent, auront peut-être eu raison de la forme artistique dont ils n’étaient que le support. Tout cela risque en effet de finir en lingot. Pour nous consoler, il ne nous restera que des photographies et des reproductions. Où sont les barbares, au Ve siècle av. J.-C. ou au XXIe siècle ?

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Paul Walczak took $10.9M out of his nursing home employees' paychecks: their Social Security, their Medicare, their taxes, and bought a $2 million yacht.

Sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution.

His mother attended a $1M-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner.

Twelve days later: full pardon. He never spent a night in prison.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is having a mental health episode on social media right now. He’s been posting nonstop all day:

11:16 AM - AI photo of Kaitlan Collins as Dylan Mulvaney
11:43 AM - AI image attacking Bruce Springsteen
3:22 PM - An AI art installation of Trump throwing a ‘Trump 2028’ hat
3:23 PM - Photo of him standing next to a TV with Biden’s final Oval Office address playing
3:23 PM - AI art of him giving his speech at the WHCD
3:23 PM - AI photo of Chris Christie fighting Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler
3:23 PM - AI image attacking Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert
3:24 PM - Trump 2028 poster that says “give the enemy nightmares.” Nobody is scared of him
3:24 PM - AI image attacking Rosie O’Donnell
3:25 PM - Fake movie poster of him in Star Trek
3:25 PM - Another Trump 2028 poster
3:31 PM - AI poster of the U.S. attacking Kharg Island in Iran
3:31 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker
3:32 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x2
3:33 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x3
3:47 PM - Posts an AI image of an Iranian ship being blown up
4:36 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x4
4:36 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x5
4:37 PM - AI image of him taking over an Iranian oil tanker x6
4:39 PM - AI image of him cosplaying as a Navy Commander
4:39 PM - AI image of him smoking a cigar wearing a Trump 2028 hat
4:40 PM - AI poster of him with founding fathers
4:41 PM - Poster of himself saying “the man who saved America” which couldn’t be further from the truth
4:41 PM - Weird photo of him standing behind a pillar
4:45 PM - AI image of himself saying “Guardians of the world”
4:47 PM - AI image of American jets saying “Guardian Angels of the world”
4:48 PM - Another AI photo of an Iranian ship being blown up
4:49 PM - AI image of himself saying “Guardians of the world” x2
4:52 PM - AI photo of lightning over the Capitol building saying “panic in DC”
4:53 PM - A photo of himself saying “plan trusted”
4:54 PM - AI image of an eagle and a jet saying “America is back” which certainly isn’t true
4:54 PM - AI photo of a beach saying “Trump’s America” which is ironic given that the image is fake lol
4:55 PM - Photo of him giving a speech
4:56 PM - Photo of himself pointing at members of his cabinet
4:57 PM - AI photo of himself and JFK
4:58 PM - Fake photo of himself wearing a pink Trump 2028 hat
4:59 PM - AI photo of a Trump 2028 mug surrounded by crying people
4:59 PM - Photo of him putting on his Trump 2028 hat at the WHCD
5:00 PM - Posts graph downplaying American casualties in Iran
5:01 PM - AI photo of an air filter between the United States and Canada
5:04 PM - Attacks Republican Senator John Thune
5:04 PM - AI image of him as a doctor
5:16 PM - Fake movie poster of him and George Washington in a time travel movie

He’s insane. 25th Amendment NOW.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡️ PLOT TWIST OF THE DAY

Donald Trump said he plans to run for U.S. president for a fourth time — then put on a MAGA hat reading "Trump 2028."

Thank you for your attention! 😄

‼️Under the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, no person can be elected president more than twice. Since Trump has already been elected in 2016 and 2024, he is constitutionally barred from running for another term in 2028.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source.

Obama's wealth grew from royalties on books written before office — and Bush's mostly from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior.

Most of Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi: I was surprised to hear I had a conflict with Fedorov. I saw hard questions and different views as normal work in a major war.

Fedorov, if I offended you, I apologize. I can be tough, –– Militarnyi.

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[CBS News @CBSNews]

President Trump claimed "mail-In ballots are inherently corrupt," while advocating for his SAVE America Act, which would ban mail-in voting, except in certain cases.

FACT CHECK RATING: False.

There is no evidence of widespread mail-in ballot fraud or corruption in states where no-excuse absentee or universal vote-by-mail is offered. The Brookings Institute found an “average total mail voting fraud percentage across the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections of only 0.000043%, or about four cases of mail voting fraud out of every 10 million mail votes.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russia is trying to blind the AI on Ukrainian drones.

Across the front, military trucks now carry vivid black-and-white stripes to fool machine vision.

The software may stop recognising a truck as a truck. The trick works until the model learns the pattern — The Economist. 1/

[Sam Stein @samstein]

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

[Gilles Babinet @babgi]

Les étatsuniens sont ils vraiment plus riches que les Européens ? C'est la question à laquelle à cherché à répondre Paul Grugman et son équipe. Lorsque l'on effectue cette comparaison en PPP (parité de pouvoir d'achat) on s'aperçoit que ce n'est pas exact, que cela croit plus vite en Europe qu'aux USA. Et sur de nombreux facteurs structurants les USA sont plus proches d'un pays en voie de développement (part de la population en prison, coût de la santé, durée de vie...) que d'un pays riche.
Deux points ou cependant l'Europe est en situation de fragilité : le financement de la défense où là les.prix sont mondiaux, et les gains de productivité qui sont presque deux fois supérieurs là bas, ce qui rend la situation de l'Europe périlleuse à terme.
Is the US or Europe better off? - https://t.co/vkFEbuZTkW via @FT

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump’s holding company took a $2 million payment last year from a top investor in a South Korean aluminum firm as the company was fighting a trade case before Trump’s Commerce Department, raising new conflict-of-interest questions. https://t.co/fuiHQMxfSe

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Ukraine is writing the manual every military on earth will read for the next twenty years.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Ukraine has done something no army has done before. A naval drone carried a combat robot to an occupied shoreline on the Kinburn Spit and put it on the beach. The machine – armed with a machine gun – went to work against russian positions, run remotely by operators of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade. No one had to swim to that beach. No one had to die on it.

Ground robots are not new. Naval drones are not new. What is new is the chain: an unmanned boat delivering an armed unmanned vehicle onto a defended shore and conducting an assault, with human beings nowhere near the fire.

The Kinburn Spit is a sandbar. No cover, no easy resupply. The kind of place where a landing means paying in blood before you have accomplished anything at all. And Ukraine’s scarcest resource has never been courage or ammunition. It has been people.

That is the point. Russia’s whole theory of victory rests on one arithmetic – that it can spend lives faster than Ukraine can. Every technology that substitutes machines for men attacks that assumption directly. The drone did it in the air. The naval drone did it at sea. Now it has come ashore.

Innovation under pressure is not a luxury. It is the only thing a smaller nation has. Ukraine built this because it had neither resources nor time – and necessity is the most honest engineer there is.
Everyone will copy it. Ukraine is not only fighting a war. It is writing the manual every military on earth will read for the next twenty years.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Isn't it funny how the mainstream media suddenly loses interest when the truth destroys one of its favorite anti-Biden narratives.

Yes, you read that right: @HunterBiden won a defamation case over bullshit claims that he was corrupt.

And remember the FBI informant who claimed Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from Burisma? He pleaded guilty to lying. But you probably didn't know that because it only made it to the back page headlines at the time.

The press gave the accusations endless headlines and wall-to-wall coverage. But when the stories collapse, the accusers are exposed, and the Bidens are vindicated?
Crickets.

Because the lie was profitable. The truth was inconvenient.

The lie gets the headline. The Bidens get smeared. The truth gets buried.

[Fabien @Fabien_Mikol]

Très bonne interview.
Jeffrey Ladish (ex-Anthropic) évoque la + grande crainte de ses amis restés au sein de ces entreprises: le recursive self-improvement imminent.
"Les gens pensent que l'IA reste confinée au niveau humain par ses données d'entraînement, mais c'est déjà faux !"

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Summer 2015. Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

Lindsey Graham, running for president, says this about Joe Biden. The same summer he said Trump would “kill” the GOP with his hateful comments.

Several lifetimes ago. A different America.

[Thomas Dechamps @ThomDech]

@DM_Vincenzo Hello, thanks for all your tweets about the history of Belgium. I am myself passionate about it and for example made an entire video about the Archdukes Albert and Isabelle. I would love to have your feeling about it : https://t.co/RB4VZplWih

[Thomas Dechamps @ThomDech]

Si même Fox News le dit 🙄

[Fox News @FoxNews]

President Donald Trump personally intervened in Folarin Balogun's World Cup red card controversy.

A source confirmed to Fox News that Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to request a review of the USMNT striker's suspension.

FIFA later cleared Balogun to play against Belgium, while Belgium's soccer federation said it is exploring its options following the decision.

[Thomas Dechamps @ThomDech]

On dit souvent que la Belgique a été « le champ de bataille de l’Europe »… Ce n’est pas faux mais et si l’Europe avait aussi été le champ de bataille des Belges ?? 😱⚔️🧨

https://t.co/LflOahaHE8

[Jean Louis @JL7508]

- "Do you think president Zelensky is winning right now?"
- "He's doing pretty well... You have to say he's courageous. He's got great equipment. He's got great men. He's got fighters."
Extrait à écouter de l'échange de Donald Trump avec la presse hier.