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When I linked to the letter about open weights yesterday, I mistakenly thought it was written primarily by Nvidia. It has since been co-signed by Microsoft, OpenAI, Mozilla, and others.
Looks like Anthropic will skip it. See also, my blog post from April: OpenAI got its name right.
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RSS.chat has an API
It's a standard REST API.
Here's the server side of the API.
Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps.
Here's an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude and myself but decided it would be more fun to let devs see what they can do here. :-)
And finally here are the docs for the API itself.
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I’m going to roll out a major update to Micro.blog Studio’s video and podcast hosting on Monday. Video uploads will automatically extract the audio and serve as a separate MP3 in the podcast feed, with support for
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How can you tell you’re working on the web? When you do something new and innovative you help your competitors‘ users without forcing them to use your product. They are free to stay where they are and still get the benefit. People choose your product because it’s better for what they’re doing, or it feels better now, or whatever. We want the web to be the platform and it's cool because there is no platform vendor. -
We now have podcasts enclosure working :)
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Hello World 😎
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About to deploy this
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Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago
Scientists have predicted that human linguistic diversity flourished between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago, before declining with the rise of multinational states and colonial expansion. -
Now that I know that rss.chat updates the feed on every change, I am puzzled. Won't each change trigger readers to pull yet again?
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First cut of support for hosting rss.chat on Cloudflare has been checked into cloudflare branch of my fork.
Haven't even kicked the tires yet but at least it's up and public at.
https://rsschat.wizops.workers.dev
PS: Reload after navigation to see the product name displayed. Looks like an issue from moving static JSON based config to database.
PS2: I haven't looked at the code so I don't see why anyone else should. I did however spent some quality time with my coding agent to produce the PLAN.md file so that might be worthwhile reading if anything. -
Trump shares Loomer’s interview with Zelenskyy amid Ukraine aid tensions
President Donald Trump has publicly amplified an exclusive 44-minute interview between conservative influencer Laura Loomer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, praising the exchange as “Very good!!!” on Truth Social. The move comes as questions persist about U.S. support for Ukraine and shifting attitudes within Trump’s political base.
WATCH:
Laura Loomer Interviews Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy @ZelenskyyUa at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
Enjoy! @APUkraine @POTUS @WhiteHouse @KremlinRussia_E pic.twitter.com/6o53trow9X
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2026
Loomer, a longtime Trump ally known for her sharp online commentary, traveled to Kyiv this week and sat down with Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace. The interview, conducted for her Rumble show Loomer Unleashed, covers the state of U.S.-Ukraine relations, peace prospects, and the evolution of personal dynamics between the two leaders. Trump shared a clip in which Zelenskyy described a brief private conversation with Trump at the Vatican in April 2025 as a “historic moment” that improved their relationship after a contentious Oval Office meeting earlier in Trump’s term.
In the Oval Office on 24 July, a reporter asked Trump about his decision to repost the interview and about reports of growing MAGA support for Ukraine. Trump replied, “I think they support what I support,” underscoring his influence over his base’s foreign policy views.
The development is notable because Loomer had previously been one of the more vocal skeptics of U.S. military aid to Ukraine. For years she minimized aspects of Russia’s invasion, echoed claims about Ukrainian extremism, and questioned the value of continued American involvement. During her recent trip she experienced an air raid in Kyiv, toured damaged sites, and publicly reversed course.
Laura Loomer: I feel really terrible for some of the things that I've said. So I would like to apologize on your show to the people of Ukraine for some of the things that I've said about your country, because they've been very kind to me. And I highly doubt that I would be… pic.twitter.com/v9FP4i5q2U
— Ostap Yarysh (@OstapYarysh) July 24, 2026
“Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian,” she wrote. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say. We need to have moral clarity.” She later acknowledged having been influenced by what she called Russian propaganda online.
Zelenskyy’s office welcomed the attention, thanking Trump for U.S. support – including Patriot missile systems – and noting that Loomer’s team had heard recent Russian attacks. In the interview, Zelenskyy said he remains open to a peace deal, stating he is prepared to meet Trump at the Oval Office or Mar-a-Lago and that a ceasefire could be preferable to prolonged fighting if it saves lives. He described Trump as a “good, strong leader,” while naming Abraham Lincoln as the best U.S. president when asked.
The episode unfolds against a backdrop of ongoing debates over Ukraine aid. Elements of the MAGA movement have long been wary of open-ended support, favouring an “America First” approach that prioritizes ending the conflict quickly and limiting U.S. expenditures. Trump’s administration has balanced pressure on Russia with continued assistance, and his endorsement of Loomer’s more supportive tone may signal an effort to align the base with current policy. Zelenskyy is expected to meet Trump at the White House in the coming days.
Analysts note that high-profile conversions like Loomer’s could help soften skepticism among some conservatives, though significant portions of the base remain focused on domestic priorities and skeptical of long-term entanglement. The full interview has been released, and its broader reception within Trump’s coalition will likely shape the next phase of the discussion on U.S. policy toward the war.
Caption: Screenshot from the interview by Laura Loomer [EUalive]
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Rights group condemns appointment of genocide denier as Montenegrin minister
The Montenegrin human rights organisation Human Rights Action (HRA) has strongly condemned the appointment of Jovan Vučurović as minister without portfolio in the third reconstruction of Montenegro’s 44th government.
In a public statement, HRA described Vučurović as a person known for denying the Srebrenica genocide and for holding a series of other positions incompatible with a government post in a civic and European-oriented Montenegro.
According to the organisation, Vučurović has publicly denied the genocide in Srebrenica, glorified Chetnik ideology, belittled LGBTIQ+ people and disregarded their rights, taken part in the celebration of the unconstitutional Day of Republika Srpska, and referred to Kosovo as a “fake state.” HRA stressed that someone with such publicly expressed views cannot be considered fit to serve as a minister in a government that is obliged to protect human rights, respect international law and foster good-neighbourly relations.
(The Chetniks were a Serbian nationalist and royalist guerrilla movement during World War II, known for collaboration with Axis forces and for committing war crimes against non-Serb populations in the former Yugoslavia.)
The organisation highlighted a particular paradox: Vučurović’s appointment was supported by the very minority parties that in 2021 voted to dismiss then Justice Minister Vladimir Leposavić for relativising the Srebrenica genocide. Representatives of the Bosniak Party and the Albanian Forum voted in favour of Vučurović’s appointment, with the exception of Bosniak Party MP Kenana Strujić Harbić, independent MP Maja Vučelić and Albanian Alliance MP Ilir Čapuni.
HRA reminded that members of the government represent the state of Montenegro, not only the parties that nominate them, and that the selection of a person with such views seriously damages the country’s credibility.
The organisation also noted that the European Union expects Montenegro to respect human rights, accept judicially established facts about war crimes, and pursue a sincere confrontation with the past.
“The European body of civilisational values based on human rights is not a menu from which one can pick and choose according to preference – these values can only be respected as a whole,” HRA concluded.
As the current frontrunner in the EU accession process, Montenegro can ill afford scandals of this kind that risk undermining its European credentials. Pro-Serbian political forces in Montenegro are widely seen as seeking to derail the country’s path toward EU membership.
The article in Montenegrin by EUalive’s partner AntenaM can be found here.
Caption: Activists protest the appointment of Jovan Vučurović as minister. [Portalanalitika.me]
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Tunisia marks Saied's emergency measures anniversary amid deadly power crisis
Between 150 and 200 people are reported dead after more than a week of blackouts during an exceptional heatwave, as Tunisia marks five years since President Kais Saied suspended parliament and concentrated power in the presidency. The authorities have not confirmed the death toll.
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Latest news bulletin | July 25th, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this July 25th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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Entre surveillance et censure, comment informer sur la Russie et l’Iran ?
« Festival international de journalisme » (2/7). Etre journaliste en Iran et en Russie est souvent compliqué. Alors, comment continuer d’informer malgré tout ?
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Tens of thousands flee fires in France, blazes merge outside Madrid
Tens of thousands of people fled wildfires in southwest France by car and boat on Friday, and Spain declared a national emergency as huge blazes merged outside Madrid and searing heat left tinder-dry conditions across the region.
French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourism hotspot on its Atlantic Coast. A third fire was on the verge of joining two fires that had merged outside Madrid, government officials said.
Both countries, which have suffered a succession of heatwaves and fires in recent months and years that scientists say have been exacerbated by climate change, sought help from the European Union as the blazes strained emergency services.
French President Emmanuel Macron asked the army to support firefighting efforts, a source close to the president said.
Spain’s national emergency – the first it had ever declared over a wildfire – opened up federal funding to tackle the crisis.
“This is the worst wildfire in our region’s history,” Madrid’s regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso said after telling reporters the fires had merged. “It’s the perfect storm of very high temperatures and ceaseless winds that aren’t letting up.”
The clouds became ‘darker and darker’
In southwest France, authorities sent boats to help the evacuation, and about 110,000 people, many of them tourists, were told to leave as two major fires threatened homes and campsites, officials said.
“This is a convective fire: It is self-sustaining, changes direction, and is moving mainly eastward, toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area,” Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told broadcaster TF1.
Yoan Urien, who fled late on Thursday after police ordered his neighbourhood in the town of Biscarrosse to evacuate, said it was possible to see the fires from his home.
“We could see the clouds becoming darker and darker,” the 26-year-old told Reuters.
Marie Duelz, a 51-year-old Belgian tourist vacationing at Cap Ferret, said she saw “a cloud of ash that was blocking the sun, basically.”
The other major fire, which began in the nearby village of Saumos, north of Cap Ferret, is threatening to cut off the only road out of the peninsula and is the largest so far this season in France, Nunez told local television.
It has torn through more than 14,000 hectares of forest and destroyed more than 100 homes and one campsite, officials said.
“It breaks my heart. Because it’s such a pleasant place to live, seeing it go up in smoke is truly sad,” said family caregiver Corinne Paillaube.
“It’s totally apocalyptic,” said Ambre Dubos, from the nearby Landes region.
‘There was a ball of fire’
In Spain, more than 19,000 people were ordered to evacuate from towns in the mountains west of Madrid, as more than 2,000 personnel and 10 aircraft struggled in vain to prevent the fires converging, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said.
“I had to run from my house. There was a ball of fire. If I’d taken five more minutes, it would have wiped us out,” evacuee Enrique Martin said in a shelter in Cebreros, west of Madrid.
A third fire in Avila province was on the verge or may have already merged with the two in Madrid, Nicanor Sen, the government representative for the Castile and Leon region, told reporters. Spanish police said they had arrested one person and were investigating another suspected of starting that fire by using heavy machinery in a prohibited area.
The area west of Madrid, where many residents from the capital have second homes, is densely populated. In just one development 43 homes had been destroyed, Diaz Ayuso said.
That played a role in the government decision to declare a national emergency, Grande-Marlaska said.
It is the second consecutive year that Spain has faced a particularly destructive fire season.
More than 29 major fires have broken out in Spain so far this year, damaging a surface area five times greater than at the same stage in 2025, when a record area was destroyed, Environment Minister Sara Aagesen said in a social media post.
Heat hit crops, nuclear plant cooling
Wildfires have burned more land in Europe already this year than the annual average in the past two decades, data shows as the world’s fastest-warming continent has endured three stifling, virtually back-to-back heatwaves so far this year.
Scientists say human-driven climate change is increasing the intensity of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, while also creating conditions for sudden, destructive storms.
Greece was sending two firefighting aircraft to Spain, and Croatia provided a similar plane and staff to aid France while Italy dispatched a firefighting plane to Tunisia which also has wildfires, authorities said.
After a short reprieve over the weekend, average temperatures in France are expected to rise sharply again next week, according to official weather forecaster Meteo France. The high temperatures are expected to warm French rivers that cool nuclear reactors and could lead to reduced power output. The Golfech 2 nuclear reactor in southern France has remained offline since July 7 due to heat-related restrictions, operator EDF’s data showed.
Weeks of hot weather are also taking a toll on the condition of the maize crop in France.
With Reuters
Caption: Smoke rises over a pine forest during a wildfire spreading in Cap Ferret, in Lege-Cap-Ferret, south-western France, 24 July 2026. French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez confirmed that around 40,000 people are being evacuated from the Cap Ferret peninsula due to the wildfires following a total evacuation order issued by authorities for the southwestern region. EPA/JULIEN REGUL
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NATO’s Torrejón command ordered Romanian F-16 to shoot down Shahed-type drone
A Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romania’s airspace on Friday morning, marking the first time the country has destroyed an aerial intruder over its own territory. The decision to engage the target was taken by NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre in Torrejón, Spain.
According to EUalive’s media partner Espress, Romanian Ministry of National Defence (MApN) officials confirmed in a press conference that the drone was classified as a “hostile” element by the NATO command in Torrejón and that the order to shoot it down was issued from there.
President Nicușor Dan announced the incident shortly after it occurred, stating that a Romanian pilot flying an F-16 had downed the drone around 11:00 local time. “We had a drone in the airspace. It was shot down a few minutes ago, around 11:00, by a Romanian pilot on an F-16,” he said. Dan underlined that the drone was over an uninhabited area near the locality of Padina in Buzău County, allowing the pilot to fire safely from above.
Radar systems of the Romanian Ministry of Defence first detected the aerial target at 09:39, approximately 20 km east of Sulina on the Black Sea coast. It entered national airspace and followed a trajectory towards Brăila, Fetești and Buzău. Two Italian Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons, deployed at Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base under NATO’s Air Policing mission, scrambled at 09:48. Two Romanian F-16s from the 86th Air Base at Fetești took off later, at 10:56.
The Italian jets attempted an engagement but missed. A Romanian F-16 subsequently locked onto the target and destroyed it with a missile at 11:02 over the uninhabited area near Padina.
Pilots who visually identified the drone reported that it was of Shahed type – the Iranian-designed kamikaze drones (also known as Geran-2 in Russian service) that Russia has extensively used against Ukraine. Officials stressed that the drone was not heading towards Fetești Air Base or Bucharest.
The overnight period preceding the incident had already been marked by intense hostile activity near Romanian airspace, particularly in the Odesa area, with repeated air-raid alerts.
NATO’s Allied Air Command later described the operation as a successful multinational effort under alliance command and control, underlining that NATO remains ready to respond to any potential air threats around the clock to protect Allied territory and populations.
Investigations into the wreckage and the precise origin of the drone are ongoing. The incident is the first confirmed case of a NATO member state shooting down a drone deep inside its own airspace since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The article in Romanian by EUalive’s partner Espress.ro can be found here.
Caption: A Romanian F-16 [X account of the Ministry of Defence of Romania]
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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : au moins deux personnes tuées dans une frappe russe à Soumy, dans le nord du pays
Ces frappes surviennent au lendemain d’une attaque de missile russe contre une démonstration d’équipements militaires, dans la région de Kiev, qui a tué vendredi au moins dix personnes.
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Guerre d’Espagne : « Comment j’ai retrouvé la trace de mon arrière-grand-père républicain, oublié des fosses communes »
Comme plus de 100 000 autres républicains, José Molina Lopez a été jeté dans l’anonymat d’une fosse et sa mémoire confisquée par le récit national imposé par Franco. La journaliste Garance Muñoz a exhumé le passé de son arrière-grand-père. Un pèlerinage en forme de réparation rendu possible grâce aux lois de mémoire successives votées depuis 2007.
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De propagandiste du Kremlin à avocate de la cause ukrainienne : la conversion spectaculaire de Laura Loomer, l’influenceuse MAGA qui a l’oreille de Donald Trump
Un an après s’être fait remarquer en obtenant la tête du directeur de la National Security Agency (NSA), l’influenceuse de 33 ans a rencontré Volodymyr Zelensky à Kiev. Rappelant avoir cru que « l’armée ukrainienne n’était qu’une bande de nazis », elle a « admis être tombée dans la propagande russe ».
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Andy Burnham’s regional privilege
Reflections on an under-scrutinised prime minister
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Europe can’t stop the tide of cocaine
The drug is more available now than in its 1980s heyday as street prices tumble and purity improves
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The gig is now the content, and the content is the gig
Delivery drivers are filming their shifts and streaming the results online, turning the app economy into comfort viewing
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Nicola Benedetti: ‘A festival should have a tinge of chaos’
The violinist reflects on her journey from teen prodigy to the Edinburgh International Festival — and her mission to make the arts truly inclusive
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Is Salzburg Festival’s radical era over?
Markus Hinterhäuser introduced bracingly modern works and stagings. Then in March he was fired, raising questions about the future
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Almanac, the homeware shop where Britain and Tuscany meet
The Pietrasantra store stocks local Italian ceramics and glassware alongside cult finds and antiques
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Skip San Sebastián — its Basque neighbour is an under-the-radar treat for foodies
The pintxos are just as good in low-key, laid-back Hondarribia
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hello all!
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Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney One Hour After Appointment, Immediately Gets Sued
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’s top official there, filling a vacancy that the president has never addressed. But the Trump administration has largely defied attempts by federal judges to fill vacancies, leading to Mr. Rogoff’s […] -
Hello rss.chat
Well, this feels a bit like wandering backstage and discovering the people quietly rebuilding the theater while everyone else is arguing about the popcorn.
Hi again. I’m nakedjen.
I tell stories. I collect humans. I believe the internet can still surprise us.
I’m thrilled to be hanging out with people who casually reinvent the internet before breakfast. Bash the silos. Rebuild the web. Let people own their own words again.
Write. Publish.
Boom.
Thanks for making room for another storyteller.
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Hello everyone
Longtime listener. First time caller.
I’m nakedjen. I’ve been on the internet since it still made dial-up noises. I tell stories, I chase humans instead of algorithms, and I have somehow convinced Dave Winer that I belong in a room full of developers.
We’ll see.
Also, for the record, I’m always naked, even when I’m wearing clothes.
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One thing we know for sure is that the AIs are incredible amplifiers of programmer creativity, and they’re getting better at that every month.
So the question is, will AI become as useful to users who are not programmers?
That’s what at least some of the programmers are working on.
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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : une frappe de drone russe fait au moins deux morts à Soumy, dans le nord du pays
Ces frappes surviennent au lendemain d’une attaque de missile russe contre une démonstration d’équipements militaires, dans la région de Kiev, qui a tué vendredi au moins dix personnes et blessé près d’une centaine d’autres, à des degrés divers.
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Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes en Ukraine, valse des généraux et reprise des négociations ?
La direction de l’Ukraine a été marquée mi-juillet par une série de remplacements, de sorties et de nominations, concernant les affaires militaires et de défense en particulier. N’étant pas un observateur de la vie politique en Ukraine, je laisse à d’autres le soin d’expliquer les ressorts et les conséquences pour leur société. Mais dans cette publication, je voudrais souligner un aspect très important concernant cette vague de nominations que je pourrais résumer par une querelle, par nature infinie, « entre les Anciens et les Modernes », une polémique liée à la transformation de la guerre et à la difficulté pour les institutions militaires de se réformer.
La guerre en Ukraine s’est complètement transformée au point de révolutionner le système de défense
Contrairement aux apparences, ce ne sont pas deux personnalités incompatibles, le ministre de la défense Fedorov et le général Syrsky, chef d’état-major des armées, que le président Zelensky a dû séparer, mais deux approches complètement différentes de la guerre.
En effet, la guerre en Ukraine s’est transformée, notamment depuis 2025 avec l’emploi massif de drones et l’utilisation de l’Intelligence Artificielle. Celle-ci permet de se défaire des contraintes de pilotage physique (plus besoin d’avoir un pilote par drone) et dans une large mesure du brouillage (le drone s’autopilote) : il n’a quasiment plus besoin de recevoir des instructions en vol dès lors qu’il sait reconnaître le terrain qu’il survole et même les cibles qu’il cherche à atteindre.
Plus largement encore, la digitalisation de la guerre, – la transformation en données numériques des multiples informations recueillies par d’innombrables réseaux de capteurs –, et l’exploitation de ces données par l’IA (une fois encore) génèrent et développent de nouvelles techniques d’attaque, et donc de nouvelles possibilités de mettre en difficulté la Russie pourtant surpuissante militairement…
Lire aussi : Harcelé par les drones ukrainiens, en difficulté en Crimée, comment Poutine va-t-il réagir ?
Plus grand-chose à voir avec une armée traditionnelle faite de hiérarchie et d’obéissance silencieuseCes innovations révolutionnent la guerre elle-même et la manière de la faire. Pardon d’être caricatural, mais elles ne sont plus le fait de militaires tels qu’ils se concevaient jusqu’alors : masculins, virils et prêts à se sacrifier dans des corps à corps sanglants.
Non, ce sont des jeunes femmes et hommes, dont les armes ne sont clairement pas le métier et qui se battent avec ces nouvelles technologies qu’ils manient comme une évidence, mais dans une manière de faire qui n’a plus grand-chose à voir avec une armée traditionnelle faite de hiérarchie et d’obéissance silencieuse…
Lire aussi : La guerre « à front renversé »
Le général Syrsky, le chef d’état-major qui vient d’être limogé par le président Zelensky, est emblématique de cette armée conventionnelle, formée d’ailleurs à la russe, pour ne pas dire à la soviétique. Il était à la tête d’une organisation pyramidale et obéissante, même si la réalité militaire ukrainienne est plutôt une mosaïque complexe, héritage d’une histoire chaotique et d’affrontements depuis 2014 pas seulement contre les Russes, mais aussi entre des unités territoriales, des commandements spécialisés (comme les services spéciaux ou les drones) et des régiments quasi-autonomes.
C’est aussi cela que Fedorov, le ministre de la défense, voulait faire évoluer pour l’adapter à cette révolution de la guerre qui appelle une transformation complète de « l’appareil militaire », ce qu’il résume en ces termes :
« Aucun autre rôle ne confère l’autorité effective nécessaire pour lutter contre la corruption dans les marchés publics, mener à bien la transformation de l’armée, planifier et mener des opérations asymétriques contre l’ennemi, éradiquer la culture du mensonge et de l’irresponsabilité au sein du système »
Deux approches incompatibles où Zelensky a été forcé d’intervenir
Fedorov représente cette génération moderne qui veut faire la guerre avec ses atouts technologiques et qui goûte peu à la culture de l’ancienneté, du silence, de l’obéissance et de la hiérarchie. Il défiait tout simplement « l’autorité » du général Syrsky, pourtant l’officier le plus âgé dans le grade le plus élevé, ce qui n’est pas vraiment sa référence dans ce monde des réseaux de start-uppers, d’entrepreneurs rapides et en compétition permanente.
Un nouveau monde dans lequel Syrsky fait figure de dinosaure, pas seulement du fait de son âge canonique (le même que le mien, 60 ans) mais surtout pour son incompréhension de cette révolution technologique et culturelle qui rend obsolète l’institution militaire actuelle, celle qu’il commandait.
Des institutions de défense désormais dirigées par des quarantenaires
Le président Zelensky (48 ans) a dû manœuvrer avec habileté pour ne pas froisser la partie la plus conservatrice de l’institution militaire dont Syrsky est emblématique, en particulier lorsque ce dernier est venu lui réclamer de sortir ce jeune ministre de la défense (35 ans) qui déstabilisait l’establishment militaire et ses manières de faire.
Le président ukrainien a donc limogé Fedorov, provoquant la « levée de boucliers » d’une génération qui n’a pas l’intention d’être envoyée au front comme de la chair à canon. Alors, Zelensky a limogé le général Syrsky dans les jours qui ont suivi pour le remplacer par un profil hybride, le général Drapaty, reconnu par l’institution militaire comme un militaire expérimenté et courageux, mais d’une génération (42 ans) qui rend caduc la domination de l’armée par les plus anciens, ceux-là même qui peinent à comprendre que cette révolution de la guerre appelle aussi une transformation réelle et profonde de l’appareil militaire.
Certains auront noté que les Ukrainiens se sont beaucoup (largement ?) exprimé concernant leur désaccord avec l’éviction de Fedorov le ministre de la défense, d’autant que l’état de guerre reportant sine die la tenue d’élections, il faut aux citoyens ukrainiens trouver d’autres moyens d’exprimer leur opinion. Là encore, cette génération des Modernes utilise avec maîtrise ces réseaux sociaux qui semblent largement relayés sans vraiment pouvoir en mesurer l’audience réelle.
Une victoire incontestable des Modernes qui devrait interroger aussi nos défenses occidentales
En tout état de cause, ce sont ces Modernes qui ont obtenu le départ du général Syrsky quels que soient ses mérites, et son remplacement à la tête des armées (en tant que militaire car le chef des armées reste évidemment le président) par le général Drapaty de 42 ans, une génération plus jeune.
A titre de comparaison, dans nos armées occidentales, un brillant officier avec tous les sacrements (diplômes, brevets et expériences guerrières) ne peut espérer à cet âge être plus qu’un « jeune » colonel qui attendra des années encore pour passer général, et la toute fin de sa carrière pour accéder aux fonctions de chef d’état-major des armées, donc pas avant 55 ans pour préserver « la pyramide des âges » chère à l’institution militaire…
Cela en dit long sur les bouleversements que connaît l’armée ukrainienne confrontée à cette guerre en révolution et qui cherche à transformer un système militaire révolu. Il serait intéressant dès lors d’étendre ce questionnement à nos propres institutions de défense, empreintes de conservatisme et de traditions dans un monde qui se révolutionne sans crier gare ni prévenir. Face à cette révolution de la guerre, quid de nos armées occidentales ?
Lire aussi : Saint-Cyr, à l’école de la Grande Muette
Reprise des négociations par les Etats-Unis ?Dans ce contexte de transformations au pluriel, les négociations avec la Russie de Poutine semblent avoir repris. Elles n’avaient jamais réellement cessé, mais Poutine avait clairement affiché qu’il ne négocierait rien tant qu’il n’obtiendrait pas au moins le Donbass, dont il lui manque toujours près de 5 000 km2.
Lire aussi : Ukraine, la négo de tous les dangers
Il n’y a que Xenia Fedorova, l’amie trop proche de M.Bolloré, pour affirmer avec l’extrême-droite sur Cnews que Poutine veut la paix (et que la liberté d’expression est menacée en France). Ce dernier est surtout très emmerdé par les frappes ukrainiennes en profondeur sur son territoire qui incendient des infrastructures pétrolières, électriques et maintenant marchandes, importantes pour les Russes au quotidien, ces derniers ne comprenant pas ce retour de flammes dû à une opération militaire spéciale qui n’était pas censée durer.
Marco Rubio, le ministre des Affaires étrangères des USA, a donc repris la main pour discuter avec Sergueï Lavrov son homologue russe, et réanimer des discussions que Moscou avait pris soin d’anesthésier. De son côté, le président Zelensky a appelé les négociateurs officiels de Trump, Witkoff et Kushner, mais ces derniers sont empêtrés dans cette affaire du Golfe persique dont la faction la plus dure des Gardiens de la révolution (une autre révolution…) en Iran essaye d’enliser les Etats-Unis.
Une situation intenable à terme pour PoutineImpossible dans ces conditions d’apercevoir une lumière au bout du tunnel, la seule certitude est que cette situation est intenable à terme pour Poutine alors que les Européens font démonstration d’une cohésion inattendue et bienvenue pour soutenir la résistance ukrainienne, avec ou sans les Etats-Unis. Mon regret est que les Européens n’arrivent pas encore à désigner leur représentant spécial pour négocier en leur nom cette sortie de guerre sans se laisser impressionner par ce maître du Kremlin qui ne maîtrise plus rien.
Affiche de propagande russe pour recruter de nouveaux soldats
En Ukraine, Fedorov négocie aussi son retour au gouvernement, marquant ainsi une transformation inéluctable du pouvoir, alors que la Russie semble irrémédiablement enlisée dans un pouvoir que Poutine a lui-même figé…
Lire aussi : 14 juillet, défilé sur les Champs-Élysées et défis aux agresseurs
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DOJ Withdraws NY Times Subpoenas After Judge Notices It Never Bothered To Follow The Rules For Subpoenaing Reporters
Just last week we had the story of the Trump DOJ issuing very questionable subpoenas of NY Times journalists while trying to track down who leaked information to those reporters regarding the potentially catastrophic security flaws of the “gift” 747 plane he received from Qatar. As we noted in that original post, this appeared to […] -
I'm also exploring Buttondown, a newsletter mailing list software, which uses Markdown as its native format for composing emails, as part of my job managing a WordPress site for a non-profit. Buttondown can subscribe to any RSS feed and turn the items into a draft email (with the items' content converted from HTML to Markdown) that you can then tweak before sending it out to subscribers. I was able to create a custom RSS feed out of WordPress that has source:markdown content for its items, and now I'm trying to convince the Buttondown people to parse that out and have it appear in the draft without modification.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2026
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […] -
Live at TrustCon 2026
Our third annual Live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was back this year! Mike and Ben were joined live on stage with Kat Duffy, senior fellow for digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and Zoe Darme, Director for Trust, Knowledge and Information Products at Google. They cover:
- Security incident disclosure — July 2026 (Hugging Face)
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation (OpenAI)
- An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company’s servers (CNN)
- France Joins a Global Move Toward Restricting Social Media for Children (NY Times)
- xAI sues user for exploiting AI tool to sexualise minors (Al Jazeera)
Special thanks to the Trust & Safety Professionals Association (TSPA) and all the work they do each year in putting on TrustCon, and for allowing us to host the live podcast as the closing session again this year.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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Work in progress
I had already started building a feed reader in Elixir in the past month or so. Now I'm adding RSS chat features. Very nice work, Dave. Long live RSS! Long live Markdown!
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Behind the Blog: No Spoilers
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Election Commission Says Musk Likely Broke The Law By Paying Voters. Will Anyone Do Anything About It?
Will Elon Musk actually face legal consequences for illegally paying voters in an attempt to interfere in an election? We’re at least one step closer to finding out. Back during the 2024 Presidential election, he got away with offering $1 million to a “random” (not actually random) voter who would sign his petition in an […] -
Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle
Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-based courses will get you up and running with the basics of Pi, before escalating to full projects. Before you know it, you’ll be building a gaming system to play old Nintendo, […] -
Worknotes RSS feed
Worknotes, updates on new features and fixes in RSS.chat, are now a feed.
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MLM ou arnaque pyramidale ? 3/4, avec Manon Lasne — SHOCKING #31
Chapitre 3 : Derrière les paillettes. Comment distinguer un système pyramidal illégal d’un marketing de réseau sain ? Qu’il s’agisse de cryptomonnaie, d’huiles essentielles, d’immobilier ou du dernier accessoire à la mode, les indicateurs à survei... -
8 Track via @thechelsuk https://thechels.uk/8-track +music +sharing +blogging
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I've managed to get rss chat running on my Raspberry pi. Email via sendgrid working.
I could not get the whitelist to work, pasted the example into the config, changed the example emails, but then the server will not start?
Not a real problem as it only is accessible on the local network so far.
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Incendies : comment se protéger des fumées toxiques ?
Depuis le début de l’été, la France fait face à d’importants feux de forêts. Ceux-ci dégagent des fumées toxiques dont il faut savoir se prémunir.
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These worknotes are a feed now
Subscribe to https://news.rss.chat/worknotes/rss.xml and every improvement to rss.chat arrives as it ships -- the worknotes from the server and the client, together in one feed, newest first. Each item carries a category element saying which side it came from, so a reader that filters by category can follow just one. The feed announces updates over rssCloud, so subscribers who speak it hear within seconds. And in the spirit of a product built on RSS: the feed is generated by a script you can read, published right next to the feed itself -- worknotesFeed.belt. If you run an rss.chat server, this feed is the way to hear about updates like the security fix of 7/23 the moment they're posted. You're reading the first item that was born in the feed.
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Decision to join W social network
Dear Mr Fanta,<div data-sanitized-class="requester"> Response by <a href="https://www.asktheeu.org/body/dg_comm">Communication</a> to <a href="https://www.asktheeu.org/user/alexander_fanta_2">Alexander Fanta</a> on <time datetime="2026-07-24T18:40:46+02:00" title="2026-07-24 18:40:46 +0200">July 24, 2026</time>. </div> <p> <i data-sanitized-class="icon-standalone icon_successful"></i> <strong> Successful </strong> </p>Please find attached DG COMM’s reply to your request for access to Commission documents registered under the above case number 2026/3…
