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HOT OFF THE PRESSES. CHAOS INC. is growing. Who is behind the protests in France and Europe?
I was just on @FoxBusiness to talk to the amazing @dagenmcdowell about the findings of my new reporting at @FoxNews Digital:
🔴🟢 101 organizations in the "red-green" alliance across 9 counties are fomenting and amplifying the protests in France and Europe (up from 54 orgs yesterday)
🔴🟢 Only 1 in 3 student or youth; the rest are adults
🔴🟢 They plan “Acte II” on Saturday OCTOBER 24 with protests across France
🔴🟢 The protests are being amplified by the network in the US funded by Neville Roy Singham, the American communist tycoon living in Shanghai supporting the Chinese Communist Party.
READ HERE:
foxnews.com/world/global-cha…
For this reporting, I name names so that the myth of "student protests" can be pierced. Let me know of any organizations that I missed. Of course, I will reveal any ties, if any, of these organizations to governments from Russia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and China -- wherever the reporting takes us.
WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPANDING GLOBAL 'CHAOS INC.' NETWORK (101)
ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14)
🔴 Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-France — Île-de-France Regional "Block Everything" Coordination – PROTEST COORDINATION: Regional "Block Everything" organization behind the platform promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Peuple RÉVOLTÉ – People in Revolt — PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Organization helping operate the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Maintenant! – Now! — PROTEST MOVEMENT: Civic movement participating in the "Acte II" platform.
🔴 Indignons-nous, Bloquons tout – Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything — DIRECT ACTION: Protest collective promoting "Acte II."
🔴 Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination — STUDENT/YOUTH: New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for "Acte II."
Angoulême, France
🔴 NPA Charente – New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II.
🔴 Action Antifasciste 16 — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement.
🔴 Maison des Peuples et de la Paix – House of Peoples and Peace — ACTIVIST: Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call.
🔴 Fanfare en lutte d'Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle — ACTIVIST: Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
🔴 Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – ACTIVIST / SOLIDARITY: Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator.
Caen, France
🔴 Caen Antifa Squad — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on an "ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE" announcement.
🔴 Caen en Lutte — Caen in Struggle – PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Local organization collaborating on Acte II.
🔴 Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – STUDENT: Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
Belgium (3)
🔴 Comac — MARXIST/SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers' Party.
🔴 RedFox — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian socialist youth organization.
🔴 Vrede — ANTI-WAR: Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto.
France (1)
🔴 Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition.
Germany (6)
🔴 Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht — STUDENT/"ANTI-CONSCRIPTION": German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20.
🔴 Die Falken — SOCIALIST YOUTH: German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process.
🔴 Linksjugend ['solid] — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Youth organization associated with Die Linke.
🔴 DIE LINKE.SDS — SOCIALIST STUDENT: German socialist university organization.
🔴 Socialist German Workers Youth, (SDAJ) — COMMUNIST YOUTH: Socialist German Workers Youth.
Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität — SOCIALIST: German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20.
Ireland (1)
🔴 Militant Left — SOCIALIST: Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization.
Italy (4)
🔴 Rete della Conoscenza — LEFT-WING STUDENT: Italian student network helping build the international strike.
🔴 Unione degli Studenti — STUDENT: Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20.
🔴 Coordinamento Universitario — STUDENT: Italian university network promoting the strike.
🔴 CGIL — LABOR: Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization.
Spain (1)
🔴 Sindicato de Estudiantes — SOCIALIST STUDENT: Spanish student organization identified in the international network.
United Kingdom (9)
🔴 Counterfire — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST / ANTI-WAR: Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike.
🔴 Left Unity — SOCIALIST: Promoting the wider European mobilization.
🔴 International Youth Strike — INTERNATIONAL YOUTH / ANTI-CAPITALIST COALITION: The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the "essence of capitalism," calls NATO an instrument of "imperial interests" that "should be dissolved," and demands "radical system change."
🔴 North West Pensioners Association — ACTIVIST: Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions.
🔴 Socialist Party — TROTSKYIST: Socialist party promoting the international strike.
🔴 Socialist Students — SOCIALIST STUDENT: British organizer advocating a "socialist future."
🔴 Stop the War Coalition — ANTI-WAR: Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization.
🔴 Universities and Colleges Union @ucunion — The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK "Further Education" and "Higher Education."
🔴 Young Greens — YOUTH / GREEN: British youth organization identified among supporters.
Amplifiers (8)
🔴 CODEPINK — U.S. ANTI-WAR / ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. "From France to the United States, the message is clear," CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 "Taxpayer Uprising" demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military.
🔴 Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) — TROTSKYIST / SOCIALIST: An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain's Socialist Party and Ireland's Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan "Fight for our future not their wars."
🔴 International Socialist Alternative (ISA) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: The international socialist organization says "Capitalism means war" and that it "wholeheartedly" supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany's anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the "highest stage of capitalism."
🔴 Party for Socialism and Liberation–Houston — MARXIST-LENINIST / U.S. CHAPTER: The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement.
🔴 Progressive International — TRANSNATIONAL LEFT NETWORK: The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said: "These are the forces that the Progressive International is working to support and connect."
🔴 Stop ReArm Europe — ANTI-WAR / ANTI-MILITARIZATION COALITION: A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan "Welfare, not Warfare." It says it supports students "refusing" militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike.
🔴 teleSUR English — INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AMPLIFIER: The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of international amplification.
🔴 World BEYOND War — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR: A global organization that describes itself as a movement to "end war" and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to "join this resistance."
FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54)
🔴 Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests.
🔴 Parti communiste français — COMMUNIST: French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations.
🔴 Parti des Indigènes de la République — DECOLONIAL: Political organization that defends the student revolt.
🔴 Parti de l'égalité socialiste — TROTSKYIST: Socialist organization advocating workers' action committees.
🔴 Revolutionary Communist Group — COMMUNIST: British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine.
🔴 Révolution Permanente — TROTSKYIST: Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization.
🔴 World Socialist Web Site — TROTSKYIST MEDIA: Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization.
Palestine-solidarity organizations
🔴 Union juive française pour la paix — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students.
🔴 Urgence Palestine — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material.
Labor and professional organizations
🔴 CGT Éduc'action — LABOR: CGT's education-sector organization.
🔴 CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement.
🔴 CGT — LABOR: Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations.
🔴 CNT — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST: Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were "right to revolt."
🔴 Confédération paysanne — FARMERS' UNION: Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization.
🔴 FSU — LABOR: Education and public-sector union federation.
🔴 FNEC FP-FO — LABOR: Force Ouvrière's education federation.
🔴 Force Ouvrière — LABOR: National labor confederation.
🔴 SUD éducation — LABOR: Left-wing education union.
🔴 SNES-FSU — LABOR: Secondary-school personnel union.
🔴 Union syndicale Solidaires — LABOR: Left-wing labor federation.
🔴 UNSA — LABOR: National autonomous trade-union federation.
Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations
🔴 Amnesty International France — HUMAN RIGHTS: Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations.
🔴 ATTAC France — ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy.
Coordination nationale du mouvement du 26 septembre — PROTEST NETWORK: Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17.
🔴 Extinction Rebellion — ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem.
🔴 FCPE — PARENTS: National parents' federation that called members to demonstrate.
🔴 Gilets jaunes — Yellow Vests: Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students.
🔴 Intersyndicale nationale VTC — PROFESSIONAL / LABOR: Private-hire drivers' coalition promoting participation.
🔴 Les Soulèvements de la Terre — RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL: Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization.
🔴 Ligue des droits de l'Homme — HUMAN RIGHTS: Supported students and criticized police repression.
🔴 Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP) — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition.
🔴 SOS Racisme — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement.
International amplifiers
🔴 BreakThrough News — SINGHAM NETWORK / MEDIA: New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally.
🔴 Indian Alliance Paris — INTERNATIONAL / DIASPORA: France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People's Forum in Manhattan.
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
"On October 21st at 07:41 UTC, more than six hours before the coordinated release, Chainguard unilaterally broke the embargo and published built images containing the fix. Like other distributors, Chainguard had received the patch in advance so its users could update the moment the vulnerabilities were disclosed. Any attacker could now study the fix in binary form while every other PHP user was still waiting for the release. This disregarded weeks of work by many parties toward a coordinated disclosure."
thephp.foundation/blog/2026/…
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The @WSJ got 71 economists together. (Link in replies). Their collective forecast, which sounds like the opening of Reagan’s “Morning in America” which followed a rough 1981-1982:
“One reason for the higher bond yield forecast is oil. Economists forecast that the U.S. oil-price benchmark will end 2027 at about $75 a barrel, down from $101 at the close on Friday but up from $67 before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February. In turn, their forecasts for inflation as measured by the consumer-price index fall to 2.3% by the end of 2027. The panelists provided forecasts before the release of the September CPI report.
Meanwhile, economists expect the economy to add 56,000 jobs a month on average over the next year.
The panel sharply revised its forecast for growth in inflation-adjusted annualized gross domestic product to 3.1% for the third quarter, up from 2% in the July survey. Of 64 economists who provided forecasts in both surveys, 60 saw growth for the quarter moving higher.”
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
If you live in one of the gray states, your governor has blocked scholarships from the new Trump federal scholarship program from being given to kids in your state.
And I would recommend upgrading to a better governor.
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
The media doesn't want you to know this, but if you're a guilt-ridden rich guy who thinks the rich should pay more in taxes...you can just send all your money to the government!
Yes, really.
The Bureau of Fiscal Service has a voluntary account since 1843, and you can hand over all your earthly belongings to Uncle Sam if you feel they can do more with your money than you can.
Think we should all pay more taxes? Then you get to go first.
(Scott Kirby is worth ~$100M).
fiscal.treasury.gov/financin…
We need more positive news about how AI is solving big problems and here's one: New AI framework bridges a critical gap in mid-range weather forecasts - Microsoft Research - microsoft.com/en-us/research…
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In 1942, an American Navy officer watched Japanese guards beat a fellow prisoner until he was nearly dead.
More than 2,000 Allied prisoners were watching. Nobody could stop it.
Then one American stepped forward.
He offered to take the rest of the punishment himself.
The Japanese guards were so stunned that they stopped.
This is the story of Richard N. Antrim, the man who earned the Medal of Honor inside a Japanese prison camp..🧵1/6
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
story time! 🐉
this is the tale of a lazily crafted one-shot cron job prompt that resulted in autonomous solutions for uncracked codebreaking challenges, more efficient ways of multiplying matrices, and a new computer-verified bound on a number theory problem that's been open since 1932.
so last week, i had a $200 claude account sitting around that had just gotten a full weekly reset. i hate wasting tokens.
the labs have been knocking out unsolved problems left and right lately, and i caught myself thinking… why not give it a shot?
so i sent claude this prompt, typos and all:
"can you wraite a promtp for a cron job that can run every day thajt will try to find solutions to unsolved ciphers or transltions or math problems or theormes or things of that nature!! every day a new attempt as hard as possible all day without giving ujp and with maximum ceraitvityy, resourcesleflses, andpersticense! dont worry about token spend! and dont forget a bit all caps lots of emojis celebration to notify the uers if we get any intersting or sucsfful confirmd reulsts!!"
yes, admittedly not my best work 😆
but Opus-5.5 ran with the ball and turned that one sloppy sentence into "THE DAILY ORACLE 🔮"
it's a swarm of Fable + Opus agents that clocks in every morning at 4:20 (obviously), builds and maintains its own hit list of well over a hundred of humanity's unsolved problems, and then goes full send on a handful of them every shift. ciphers nobody has broken, scripts nobody can read, conjectures nobody has proven, record tables nobody has beaten.
and there's one rule above all the others: nothing counts until skeptic agents, each starting from a fresh context and writing their own code, rebuild the result from scratch and sign off on it. if any of them can't reproduce it, can't confirm it's new, or thinks we stretched the definition of "solved," it doesn't count.
day 1, the legion picked its own target: J.-F. Bouchaudy's cipher-machine challenges. these are simulations of real vintage machines (Hebern rotor machines, the Kryha, Lorenz, SIGABA), with problems that had been sitting on his solver tables with no solver for months or years.
on the morning of day 2, i was half asleep when my laptop suddenly says, in a robot voice:
"Breakthrough. The Daily Oracle has a confirmed solution."
👁️👄👁️
i was startled.
then the ALL CAPS emoji flood hits my screen. Hebern 5-rotor Problem 8 🔓 then Kryha v2 Problem 5 🔓
i emailed the author, Jean-François Bouchaudy, a French cryptography enthusiast who builds these machine simulators and challenges as a labor of love (he told me he started out programming on punch cards 🥹). he checked both solutions and put my name on his solver tables as the first and only solver 🫡
for context: his tables are a who's who of serious classical codebreakers. they'd cleared the sibling problems on these same machines, but nobody had cracked these two. in his words:
"two of my most complex problems—ones that no other expert had managed to solve… I knew AI would eventually be applied to classical cryptography, but I thought I would have to wait years to see it happen."
he ended his email with: "I offer my congratulations in the Japanese manner: with a deep, respectful bow." 🙇 honestly one of the most wholesome emails i've ever received
and then, over the next few days, more started landing 🧮
📐 graph theory: 7 explicit graphs bigger than the current entries in the degree-diameter table, which asks how big a network can get when every node has limited connections and every pair is only a few hops apart. the biggest jump is 13,365 vertices vs the table's 11,785, a +13.4% improvement.
🔢 number theory: Lehmer's totient problem has been open since 1932. we pushed the bound so that any counterexample now has to be bigger than 10^50. the previous certified bound was 10^26. the problem itself is still open, but the lower bound just jumped 24 orders of magnitude.
⚡ matrix multiplication: this is the operation underneath basically all of modern AI compute. the legion found schemes that use fewer multiplications than the public catalogues we checked for several matrix shapes, like ⟨15,16,16⟩ in 2,180 multiplications vs the best known 2,223. these build on LITA's square schemes, and we credit them by name.
📡 coding theory: 30 error-correcting codes bigger than the best known entries in A. E. Brouwer's tables.
🛡️ AI safety benchmarks: we found counterexamples for 2 neural-network verification instances from VNN-COMP 2026 that no participating tool resolved within the competition time limit, and pushed a defended RobustBench model below its listed robustness score. small dents, but real ones.
the bloopers are part of the story too:
— at one point, some agents snuck past a website's bot filter to check a record table. we retracted every result that depended on it. no evasion, no celebration.
— two of our records got beaten by a human contributor before we could even publish them. the frontier moves FAST.
now as is customary around here, time to share the magic!
so… without further ado…
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
🚨 U.S. authorities dismantled over 40 laptop farms and charged 14 people in a North Korean IT worker fraud case.
The scheme affected 70+ U.S. companies and generated about $3 million. Employer laptops were hosted in U.S. homes to disguise overseas workers.
Read: thehackernews.com/2026/10/us…
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
In 1943, an American Marine pilot climbed into his Corsair and went hunting Japanese Zeros over the Pacific.
He shot down six enemy aircraft and became a fighter ace.
Ten years later, he was back in the sky, fighting an entirely different enemy.
This time, he was hunting Soviet built MiG jets.
And somehow, he became an ace all over again.
This is the extraordinary story of John F. Bolt..🧵1/6
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
In 1967, an American helicopter pilot had just escaped a landing zone surrounded by enemy troops.
Then he learned eight soldiers had been left behind.
He turned around and flew back into the gunfire. His was the only helicopter returning.
Nearly 50 years later, President Obama would award him the Medal of Honor.
This is the story of Charles Kettles..🧵1/6
Jonathan Jesse retweeted
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.
According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours.
Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted.
Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear.
The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated.
The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros.
Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists.
Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established.
Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
I hate it when @NFL wide receivers automatically start whining about the lack of a penalty every time the ball isn't caught.
