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this will be as effective as the Maginot Line.
BREAKING:
The first rioters and looters have been sentenced in France.
The judges practically refuse to hand out prison sentences:
🔴 Toulouse – Ylan, 18 years old. Throwing a Molotov cocktail at police officer
- Sentence: 12 months suspended + 140 hours of community service + deprivation of voting rights for 3 years.
- Max. sentence: 10 years in prison
🔴 Lille – 3 men, including 2 illegal migrants. Arrested with bags filled with loot from Micromania and Calzedonia stores.
- Sentence: 10 months in prison with custody warrant + 2-year territorial ban (for the 2 undocumented migrants).
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Lille – Father of a family with a crowbar, attempted break-in at a store.
- Sentence: 10 months in prison with custody warrant + 3-year ban on demonstrations.
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Lille – 23-year-old man, launching fireworks at police
- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring + 140 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Reims – Sahel W., 19 years old. Looting a Carrefour
- Sentence: 105 hours of community service.
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Reims – Hugo M., 20 years old. Looting a Caviar boutique.
- Sentence: 4 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 7 years.
🔴 Rouen – Tunisian delivery driver, looting of a gold buyback shop (16,000€ worth of jewelry in his pockets). Repeat offender.
- Sentence: 8 months in prison with custody warrant + revocation of 6 months suspended from a previous conviction.
- Max. sentence: 14 years
🔴 Rouen – Anthony, homeless. Looting of the Courir boutique. Repeat offender.
- Sentence: 6 months in prison + 6 suspended.
- Max. sentence: 14 years
🔴 Rouen – 26-year-old unemployed man. Looting of Micromania. Repeat offender.
- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 14 years
🔴 Rouen – Nicolas, garbage collector, and Zakaria. Throwing projectiles at police and insults.
- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Lyon – Mohamed, illegal migrant. Looting of Louis Vuitton boutique (6 wallets, 2 pairs of glasses, one pair of pants, one leather bag, and one fabric bag).
- Sentence: 6 months in prison with custody warrant
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Lyon – Cheima, 30-year-old woman. Looting of JD Sports store
- Sentence: 8 months suspended.
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Lyon – Sophia, 27 years old. Already 9 convictions including thefts. Looting of JD Sports store.
- Sentence: 12 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 14 years
🔴 Lyon – Adam, 19-y-old Swiss national. "Black bloc" from abroad. Arrested leaving a looted Monoprix + resistance
- Sentence: 12 months suspended.
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Perpignan – 20-y-old man, throwing a construction barrier at 2 police officers.
- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Perpignan – 21-y-old man. Throwing objects at police and vandalizing the city. Ski goggles, t-shirt as balaclava, and reinforced gloves.
- Sentence: 10 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 7 years
🔴 Perpignan – 22-y-old Amazon delivery driver, already one prior conviction. Scooter theft after demonstration with face concealment, in a group and break-in
- Sentence: 8 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 10 years
🔴 Limoges – 20-y-old woman. Looting in stores and at City Hall (later destroyed by fire)
- Sentence: 6 months in prison with custody warrant + 18 suspended prob.
- Max. sentence: 12 years
🔴 Pau – 43-y-old man. Throwing objects at police
- Sentence: 6 months under electronic monitoring.
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Nîmes – 24-y-old PE teacher. Throwing objects that injured a police man (3 days of leave).
- Sentence: 18 months suspended prob.
- Max. sentence: 5 years
🔴 Grenoble – 10 people. Looting
Sentences: from 4 months suspended to 8 months served (served for 1 individual already convicted to suspended in June).
Max. sentence: 7 years
there’s only 2 explanations for this position.
1. head in the sand
or
2. complicit
completely dismissing to possibility that there may be issues in California is not an objectively rational position to take.
especially when the laws in CA have removed safeguards to voter verification.
If the regime truly believed California had an illegal voting problem — no such problem exists — they would have taken this action a long time ago, not as Californians are literally casting votes.
This is all a political stunt to trick people into voting for Prop 39 (which will make it harder for citizens to vote) and to lay groundwork for a coup on January 3 by refusing to seat House Democrats based on bogus “voter fraud” claims.
Begun, the Agent War has
notice..
> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.
the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us
the vibe within Anthropic ATM.
I’m not sure if this is just me, but I’ve been unable to shake this clip from my mind for the past four days.
I’m still just as shocked as @arrington was to hear that the researcher wasn’t joking when he made that statement…
Ron Palmeri retweeted
The team got @evernorthxrp across the finish line today and we all rang the bell at nasdaq. I have a long blog post coming up, but this is a great step forward for the XRP ecosystem and a way for normies to buy XRP exposure without dealing with wallets. Thanks @bgarlinghouse
sounds like T-mobile is making a pitch to be acquired by SpaceX.
an all stock deal would be a huge win for T-mobile shareholders and would smoke AT&T and Verzion in the bargain.
stocks.apple.com/ABDMbfC_LT1…
its all about Physics.
the comments in this thread are 🔥
😂
You are correct.
Even the most advanced space-based Internet system is not competitive with fiber or cellular wireless in medium to high population density areas.
However, systems like Starlink are far more efficient for low density areas like rural farmland and moving objects like cars traveling cross-country, aircraft or ships.
feels like Anthropic is try to train mental illness into its models.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
the coolest heads,m and most mature leaders in AI like Satya and Jensen are treating the challenges and risks of impending Super Intelligence as an engineering and business risk exercise, not a religious one.
the is the way forward.
congrats to @Arrington_Cap and team for making this happen.
THE BLOCK: Evernorth has completed its SPAC merger with Armada II, bringing approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds into the public markets.
The $XRP treasury company expects to begin trading on Nasdaq on Monday under XRPN.
Ron Palmeri retweeted
We are about to witness one of the biggest disruptions in the history of the telecom and internet industry.
For decades, telecom and internet giants have dominated the industry with limited competition, slow innovation, and increasingly mediocre service.
SpaceX, $SPCX, is about to change that.
This is a clear wake up call to the current giants of the industry.
Evolve or you will be left behind.
the world is only going to weirder as AI unlocks things we can’t even imagine yet.
A week ago, I saw this graph and I couldn't sleep after. I realized that we've covered a huge swath of this investment wise already, so I decided to take this graph backwards and then forward.
Two words appeared in my mind:
MATTER COMPILERS
On Monday, on a random call, I was pitched a company doing just that and we invested. Yesterday they launched in the New York Times.
nytimes.com/2026/10/07/scien…
The world works in mysterious ways and stuff is about to get wildly fantastic.
the soul of the creator always shows up in their design decisions.
Out of nowhere Muse suggests I may want to pay an arborist $1225 , with one click, just because they sent me a proposal
I didn’t ask for ANY of this , I’ve barely used muse, and I’m one button away from sending money …it’s a wild design decision.
Absolutely reckless
Ron Palmeri retweeted
Ripple “has emerged as a serious player in providing swap financing to leveraged ETFs”…
Explosive growth of leveraged & highly concentrated ETFs, which rely on swaps for exposure, is bringing new counterparties into the fold.
Like Ripple.
Lucrative business if you’re properly setup to manage it (& its associated risks).
Expect more “alternative” swap counterparties as balance sheets get tapped out on traditional options.
That’s how fast this corner of ETFs is growing.
via @Vlajournaliste
where does Adobe go from here?
@elonmusk talked about purely digital companies being simulatable via AI.
what happens when all of a software company’s products are cleanly copied and open sourced all at once.
