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15 years in prison minimum for this psychopath who aimed for a woman's face to burn it. Observe the coldness of the act, he does it without any remorse. If we don't punish them in proportion to their crimes, there will be an epidemic of senseless barbarism, and it has already begun. It is becoming urgent to lock up these bastards. (translated)

Generation⋅s has also chosen Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the upcoming presidential elections! A clear, coherent, and courageous political decision by Generation⋅s. By choosing to start negotiations with La France Insoumise to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s candidacy, Generation⋅s has opted not to confine itself to a socialist primary and to face the political reality of the moment. This decision comes in a context where the far right continues to progress and strengthen its political and institutional foothold. In the face of this risk, the division of the left cannot become fatality. It must not also lead to a dilution of the convictions of those who advocate for a profound transformation of our social, ecological, and democratic model. This is also why this decision by Generation⋅s can be considered coherent: it prioritizes the unification of the left willing to break from liberal policies around a clearly identified project, rather than the multiplication of candidacies and competing approaches. In this configuration, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s candidacy appears, for those who defend this political line, as the only one today able to widely unify the left of rupture and offer an alternative to both liberalism and the far right. The danger would be to allow the divisions of the left to further open space for the far right, even as some convergences can be observed between certain right-wing forces and the far right. In light of this situation, building a solid, independent, and popular left alternative is more necessary than ever. So let us commend the decision of Generation⋅s. It marks a choice of political coherence: uniting the left forces that want to break from liberal policies, defend social and ecological gains, and construct a true alternative against the far right. The question is no longer about how to organize yet another primary. It is about how to build, right now, the popular unity capable of carrying a transformative left. (translated)

BFMTV 3h

Alain Bauer, emeritus professor of criminology, emphasizes that the violence observed during the high school blockades in France is a reflection of deep rage among the youth. (translated)

Blocages de lycées: "Derrière toute cette violence, il y a une rage", pointe Alain Bauer, professeur émérite de criminologie

Me, a Jew, I trust you much more than Mediapart or the left. The left is trying to hide its obsessive anti-Semitism today behind possible remarks from 15 years ago made by a minor. (translated)

🚨 Thierry Henry 🇫🇷 on the Cristiano Ronaldo 🇵🇹 case: " I HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE HOW IT ENDS. ❌ I’m talking about the player, what he has done and what he represents. I like to highlight his way of being, his obsession with football and records. Without his obsessions, we wouldn’t have known this player. We have experienced extraordinary things with him. I HAVE ENORMOUS RESPECT FOR HIM. Just as I do for Messi." (translated)

A few days ago, the collection of proposals for the Youth Word of the Year 2026 started. Theoretically, the jury chooses them from all the proposals. After publishing this map in August, I received hundreds of comments like "now everyone says that" from young people outside my bubble of followers. (translated)

In August, according to data from the European Alternative Fuels Observatory, 182,548 new battery cars were registered in the European Union - 50.8% more than the previous year. Their market share reached 31%. Almost one in three new cars sold in the EU was therefore... (translated)

Paula 6h

Huge thanks @MJureka ♥️ for asking the Plenary @snemovna the Commissioner for Human Rights @TatanaMala about the colonoscopic disgust of Prime Minister @AndrejBabis and the obsessive @KarelHavlicek_ Not surprised... didn't see it! 🤡 Btw if you think that the informant's defender Malá is a bit wild, then know that in #PS the MPs from the rotten yes had a collective hysterical attack, the biggest Aluna, because the opposition pointed out that the oligarch is NOT WORKING 🤪 #chucpe #fuckano #toothrowup (translated)

SHEINBAUM DENIES NARCOTICS MONEY IN HER CAMPAIGN... EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T ASK HER THAT Journalist Reyna Haydee Ramírez asked Claudia Sheinbaum how she had shielded her campaigns to avoid resources from organized crime. Reyna did not claim that she received money from narcos. But Sheinbaum interpreted the question as an accusation. "No, now you've gone too far, Reyna," she replied, annoyed. She later described the intervention as disrespectful. And she stated that all the financing of her campaign was documented before the INE, with not a single observation. Reyna tried to clarify her question. But Sheinbaum accused her again of making baseless claims and ended the exchange with a "let's move on to the next colleague." The original question was about what mechanisms she used to prevent criminal money from entering her campaign. However, the President ended up responding to an accusation that the journalist had not made. (translated)

Iran’s cognitive warfare – when AI becomes the operating layer of state propaganda Iranian state-linked influence operators were not using artificial intelligence simply to write faster social-media posts. According to Anthropic’s September 2026 threat intelligence report, three separate operations connected to Iranian propaganda institutions were using Claude to help construct the machinery behind what the operators themselves called “soft war” and “cognitive warfare” – non-military efforts intended to shape public opinion inside Iran and abroad. Anthropic linked the activity to the Islamic Culture and Communications Organization (ICCO), which operates under Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi; and the Bina Cultural Observatory, part of the Islamic Propaganda Organization. The company said each operation was run by someone working within or on behalf of the named institution. The attribution was based on a combination of account telemetry, institutional references disclosed during conversations, branded documents and open-source corroboration. Anthropic subsequently removed the accounts. AI as an operational headquarters The most significant feature of the operation was the role assigned to AI. Claude was used to develop campaign plans, doctrine manuals, coded project portfolios, persona systems, target databases, early-warning protocols, amplification schedules and ministerial planning documents. Anthropic described the model as the principal administrative and operational layer supporting the three campaigns, allowing relatively small groups of operators to create organisational structures and planning material that would otherwise have required a much larger staff. This distinction matters. The reported use of AI went considerably beyond content generation. Operators were using the model to help organise how influence activity should function: which audiences to target, which identities should deliver particular narratives, how official material should be repackaged and when amplification should take place. Human operators still determined objectives and supplied the underlying political doctrine; AI helped translate those decisions into an operational system. Anthropic found that all three operations explicitly connected their activity to Jihad al-Tabyin, often translated as “explanatory jihad”, a concept used within the Iranian state system to frame information activity as both a strategic and ideological responsibility. In internal planning material examined by the company, this doctrine was not merely rhetorical: it informed manuals and campaign structures used by the operators. ‘Not the narrator, but the director’ One sentence contained in the ICCO material captures the model particularly clearly. According to Anthropic, an operator described the role of Iranian cultural attachés as being “not to be the narrator, but the director” of the narrative. The distinction reveals the logic of attribution laundering. Instead of publishing an overt state message and asking foreign audiences to believe it, the operator attempts to create the appearance that the same narrative emerged independently from journalists, activists, foreign writers or ordinary citizens. Anthropic found that Claude was used specifically to make content appear to come from foreign authors or independent media organisations and to design hashtag campaigns that looked grassroots rather than centrally organised. The ICCO operation reportedly used the organisation’s international cultural network as part of this structure. Anthropic found ministerial-level documents carrying official ICCO branding, including a nine-part international influence portfolio. This makes the operation particularly significant because the infrastructure was not limited to anonymous social-media accounts; it intersected with formal state institutions and an existing network of cultural representation abroad. A multilingual content factory A second operation was associated with the Islamic Propaganda Office of Khorasan Razavi and what Anthropic described as a “cognitive warfare command room” operating from a seminary in Mashhad. Its organisers ran a multi-province content production system known internally as Manjanegh, or “Catapult”. According to Anthropic, dozens of activists were involved in repackaging publicly available reporting from Iranian security institutions under different personas so that the material no longer appeared directly connected to those institutions. The network used Claude to transform official government intelligence bulletins into customised material in Farsi, Arabic, Urdu, Malay, Spanish and English, while planning expansion into a total of 20 languages. Distribution extended across Iranian platforms such as Eitaa, Bale and Rubika and international services including X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok and YouTube. Anthropic also documented paid amplification across more than 100 Iranian channels, including channels associated with IRGC narratives. The scale should nevertheless be interpreted carefully. Anthropic documented production infrastructure and some real-world dissemination, but it did not demonstrate that all planned campaigns were fully deployed or that they meaningfully changed public opinion. The company placed the operation in Category Three of its Breakout Scale, indicating multi-platform activity with content observed in external distribution channels, rather than evidence of strategic impact on entire populations. From security bulletins to apparently independent voices The Bina Cultural Observatory operation provides another example of the same architecture. Anthropic linked a director-level official at Bina to activity in which Claude generated messaging in the voice of an IRGC spokesperson. During the 2026 US–Israel–Iran war, the network also attributed false claims to Western institutions including CSIS, Brookings and RAND. The apparent objective was to make Iranian state-aligned claims look as though they had been independently validated by respected foreign research organisations. That technique is more sophisticated than simply publishing propaganda under a false name. It attempts to manufacture a chain of external validation: official information is transformed into apparently independent commentary, which can then be recirculated as evidence that outside observers have reached the same conclusion. Anthropic also found target databases naming international officials and Iranian opposition figures, as well as aggressive counter-narrative material directed against the Bahá’í community. These findings show that the infrastructure was designed not only for broad messaging but also for targeted influence activity against specific groups and individuals. What AI changed The Iranian operations described by Anthropic did not create a new doctrine of influence. Iran has used cultural institutions, official media, aligned organisations and covert or semi-covert online networks for years. What AI changed was the economics and organisational capacity of that model. A relatively small team could use the system to draft doctrine, create personas, translate material, structure target databases, produce campaign calendars and generate multiple versions of the same message for different audiences. The operator remained responsible for intent, political direction and selection of targets. AI reduced the amount of human labour required to turn those decisions into a functioning influence operation. The most revealing part of the case is therefore not that an Iranian propaganda network used a chatbot. It is that AI was being treated as part of the back office of information warfare – a system for converting state doctrine into apparently decentralised, multilingual and plausibly independent voices. Sources Anthropic — Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 Iran International — Iran state-aligned accounts used Claude to push IRGC narratives https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609105561 BNE IntelliNews — Yemen missile cell used AI to write guidance software, Anthropic says https://new.intellinews.com/articles/yemen-missile-cell-used-ai-to-write-guidance-software-anthropic-says-467296 This is Beirut — Anthropic report details Iranian propaganda operations https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/news/politics/anthropic-report-details-iranian-propaganda-operations-and-yemen-missile-development-using-claude Anthropic report — PDF mirror https://static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.com/content/uploads/2026/09/anthropic-detecting-and-countering-091026-1.pdf Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode11 #Iran #IranianInfluence #IranianPropaganda #CognitiveWarfare #SoftWar #JihadAlTabyin #Disinformation #InformationWarfare #InfluenceOperations #ForeignInterference #FIMI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIPropaganda #GenerativeAI #ClaudeAI #Anthropic #SyntheticMedia #NarrativeManipulation #NarrativeLaundering #AttributionLaundering #PersonaNetworks #Astroturfing #SocialMediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #StatePropaganda #IslamicCultureAndCommunicationsOrganization #ICCO #IslamicPropagandaOrganization #KhorasanRazavi #IRGC #MultilingualInfluence #Targeting #Amplification #OSINT #WRLD

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

The rental market in Spain has seen the withdrawal of 4,290 homes in just three days due to fears of new government decrees that will affect rentals, according to the Rental Observatory. (translated)

El mercado del alquiler pierde 4.290 viviendas en tres días por temor a los decretos del Gobierno

The surgery of midfielder Giorgian De Arrascaeta, held this Thursday (1st) to correct a fracture in his left wrist, was successfully completed without complications. The athlete will remain in the hospital for observation during the afternoon, with a discharge expected later tonight, if he maintains good clinical progression. The procedure was performed by doctors Roberto Feres, Edson Roderjan, and Fernando Sassaki, head of the Medical Department of Flamengo. The player will continue to be monitored by the club throughout the entire recovery process. (translated)

SURGERY ON ARRASCAETA CONCLUDED SUCCESSFULLY The surgery of midfielder Giorgian De Arrascaeta, performed this Thursday (1st) to correct a fracture in his left wrist, was completed successfully and without complications. The athlete will remain in the hospital for observation during the afternoon, with the expectation of being discharged later tonight, provided he continues to show good clinical progress. The procedure was performed by doctors Roberto Feres, Edson Roderjan, and Fernando Sassaki, head of the Medical Department of Flamengo. The player will continue to be monitored by the club throughout the entire recovery process. (translated)

‘LOST IN LUST’ is a journey through desire, excess, intimacy, and the indefinite space between pleasure and obsession. The album explores the many forms of lust: what we want, what we imagine, what consumes us, and what remains after desire disappears. (translated)

This is very serious: US$ 1 MILLION AGAINST THE STF Revealed campaign from the Trump government. The government of Donald Trump allocated US$ 1 million to finance a campaign against the STF in Brazil. The revelations were published this Thursday by the British newspaper The Guardian, which points out how resources originally intended by the US for the global human rights agenda were redirected to the interests of the American far right. According to the report, a US$ 1 million grant titled "Combating Lawfare and Censorship in Brazil" would finance civil society groups that oppose what is described as excessive judicial action and censorship by the Supreme Court of Brazil. "The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Brazilian minister Alexandre de Moraes last year, following pressure from Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the former president," the article recalled. According to the newspaper, a Democratic congressional aide stated that a senator from the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, had maintained the blockage of ten disbursements totaling US$ 22 million, intended for projects in Brazil, South Africa, and Nigeria, as well as for promoting a right-wing ideology in the UK and Europe. This week, Shaheen sent a letter to the Trump administration to denounce interference in the Brazilian election and demand the White House recognize the election results in the country. "Throughout President Trump's second term, we observed US authorities engaged in a campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil," the senator said in the document. "This effort intensified dramatically during the summer of 2025, when the Administration imposed targeted tariffs and sanctions in an attempt to influence the verdict of the Brazilian Supreme Court in the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, accused of attempting to foment a military coup to remain in power," she stated. According to the aide consulted by the newspaper, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had personally signed a memorandum to ignore the senator's blockages and authorize the allocation of funds. Destabilizing the STF For observers and diplomats, destabilizing the STF has become a priority for the Brazilian and foreign far right. The movement sees the institution as a brake on implementing an ultra-conservative project in the country and regaining freedom of action on all fronts. The money comes from the Fund for Human Rights and Democracy, created to finance Trump's conservative agenda around the world and, according to its critics, to attack any form of opposition. "The largest disbursement, totaling US$ 40 million, was allocated to a consortium led by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) — a non-profit anti-communist organization that, in the past, had received much lower amounts in grants," the report indicated. A background check document from the Department of State, consulted by The Guardian, records previous contracts between the foundation and the agency totaling US$ 96,997 in the last five years — all in the fiscal year 2022 — and notes that the organization underwent a check in 2019 related to tickets for the foundation's gala event. The document also identifies Andrew Bremberg — former domestic policy advisor to the White House during the Trump administration and former US ambassador to the UN office in Europe — as a "senior leader" of the foundation. Via ICL COUP NEVER AGAIN (translated)

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I have previously disregarded the obsessive attacks from Mr. @tvn24 in silence, even silencing him, seeing no sense in further discussions. However, now I see that this has gone too far. A call to imprison me or send me to the front (by the way, my husband is a reservist, and he would actually go to the front if necessary) just because I expressed an opinion about government policy that someone dislikes is pure madness! 🤯 I hope not everyone at @tvn24 thinks it's normal to send journalists to prison for their views?! (translated)

"Je crois que c'est inédit dans l'Éducation nationale"119 élèves et membres du personnel blessés depuis vendredi: "Je crois que c'est inédit dans l'Éducation nationale", observe Édouard Geffray, ministre de l'Éducation nationale 2:15 #Lycées #Manifestation #Protestation

Marseille: un bus détourné et incendié par des manifestants en marge du blocages des lycées
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ALERT - The Prime Minister FEARS THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL CRISIS MAY PERSIST for SEVERAL MONTHS, possibly until the presidential election. His advisors, including several former prefects, are observing an unprecedented "CONVERGENCE OF STRUGGLES" between young people from the suburbs and the city center, coming from very different social backgrounds. (Loïc Besson - BFMTV) (translated)

35 billion PLN from the Recovery Plan has just entered Poland. By the end of the year, another 55 billion will flow in. We will execute the Recovery Plan by 100%! I am attaching the report. See where the money went: ENERGY: - construction of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, from which electricity will flow for 7 million Poles, - we are replacing 15% of the electricity network with new ones. This allows people to connect photovoltaics and ensures safe electricity supply for businesses across Poland. HEALTH: - investments for 470 oncology and cardiology departments - 1300 pieces of new equipment (ultrasounds, MRIs, angiographs); - 3267 new places in long-term care; PUBLIC TRANSPORT: - 1908 new buses and trams, - 525 pieces of rolling stock (trains, cars, and locomotives) - all produced in Poland, - modernization of 1400 km of railway lines; - 15 bypasses around cities; - 305 eliminated dangerous points on the roads; SECURITY: - we created a Security and Defense Fund (23 billion PLN) - for the construction of shelters or dual-use infrastructure - investment in 4 Polish satellite observation systems for military needs and crisis management (e.g., floods, fires); DIGITALISATION: - over 540 thousand households connected to high-speed internet; - 12 thousand schools equipped with AI laboratories; - over 254 thousand people trained in digital skills; LOCAL POLAND AND SOCIAL SERVICES: - we built 1876 apartments under the SIM with support from the Recovery Plan; - we created 35 thousand places in nurseries; - 120 vocational education centers were established, training over 33 thousand workers in skills needed in the local job market; - over 1000 supported social economy entities - several thousand jobs for people with disabilities; - we carried out 635 water and sewage investments in rural areas. Thank you to the ministry employees for the model process. We already know that 1.5% of Poland's GDP growth this year is due to the National Recovery Plan. ;) (translated)

Digi24 12h

American officials believe that an invasion of Taiwan by China before 2028 is becoming less likely, despite preparations ordered by Chinese President Xi Jinping, due to delays in the anti-corruption campaign and Beijing's desire to observe the results of the elections in Taiwan. (translated)

SUA dezvăluie detalii despre o posibilă o invazie a Chinei în Taiwan. Oficial american: „Situaţia devine complicată”