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“Les dynamiques anti-genre dépassent très largement le cadre de l’extrême droite” :

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https://gendercover.substack.com/p/les-dynamiques-anti-genre-extreme-droite

Interview de la chercheuse Marianne Blidon sur le projet RESIST, qui analyse les impacts des mobilisations anti-genre à travers plusieurs études de cas, dont une en France.

#ExtremeDroite #lgtbqia #feminisme #transgenre #antigenre #MarianneBlidon #projetRESIST

Menacée par l’extrême droite, une radio de Besançon victime d’une tentative d’intrusion

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https://www.liberation.fr/politique/menacee-par-lextreme-droite-une-radio-de-besancon-victime-dune-tentative-dintrusion-20241022_6KGVSSGUOJABFCV4ILLNBUF6TM/

Lundi 21 octobre dans la soirée, un groupe d’hommes masqués ont forcé l’entrée des locaux de Radio Bip, une radio associative bisontine. Les locaux du média avaient déjà fait l’objet de dégradations par le passé.

#ExtremeDroite #RadioBip #Besançon

VSS : « Pour une loi intégrale ! », revivez la soirée Politis/Fondation des femmes

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https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/10/vss-pour-une-loi-integrale-revivez-la-soiree-politis-fondation-des-femmes/

Vendredi 18 octobre, Politis et la Fondation des femmes ont organisé une soirée féministe au Carreau du Temple, à Paris. Un événement consacré à l’écoute des victimes de violences sexistes et sexuelles.

La vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npa7PqIxlLg

#feminisme #ViolenceSexiste #ViolenceSexuelle

« À tribord toute » : On a retrouvé le compte Twitter personnel de Paul Godefrood

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https://www.politis.fr/articles/2024/10/politique-paul-godefrood-le-tres-droitier-conseiller-du-secretaire-detat-contre-les-discriminations/

Le conseiller d’Othman Nasrou, secrétaire d’État chargé de la Citoyenneté et de la Lutte contre les discriminations, a supprimé son ancien compte X (ex-Twitter) et fait retirer ses nombreux écrits dans des médias d’extrême droite. Les archives révèlent des positions très conservatrices, en parfaite contradiction avec le portefeuille de son patron.

#ExtremeDroite #PaulGodefrood

Lequel d'entre vous ?

The "whale" placing big bets on Polymarket in favor of Donald Trump winning the November election is a French national with extensive trading and financial services experience.

Polymarket confirmed to DealBook that some speculation about the whale was correct: A single trader controls the four accounts that have been placing the bets.

The accounts on Polymarket — Fredi9999, Theo4, PrincessCaro, and Michie — had $45 million in open positions as of Thursday morning, per data from the crypto-based betting website.

Most of those bets favor Trump winning the presidential election and the popular vote next month, along with some bets favoring Republican wins in closely contested swing states.

Polymarket said it launched an investigation into the four accounts with the help of outside experts and made contact with the trader.

The betting site told DealBook that it had found no evidence of attempted market manipulation and said that the trader was "taking a directional position based on personal views of the election." Related stories

An analysis by BI found that one of the accounts, Theo4, had made as many as 71 bets a minute earlier this week, and two accounts, Theo4 and Fredi9999, had made as many as 2,500 bets in a 24-hour period.

The flurry of bets ranged from as little as a dollar to tens of thousands of dollars. Given the French national's trading experience, they were likely intended to prevent the price of the betting contracts from rising too much.

Polymarket said that the trader had agreed "not to open further accounts without notice," DealBook reported.

The betting website also said that its current contract odds for a Trump win in November were pretty close to those of other betting websites.

As of Thursday morning, Polymarket's betting odds for Trump winning the presidential election stand at 62% versus 38% for Harris. Kalshi's betting odds favor Trump at 59% compared to 41% for Harris, while the betting website PredictIt has Trump at 58 cents and Harris at 47 cents.

While the odds across the major betting websites favor a Trump win next month, the polls tell a different story.

Harris slightly outperformed Trump on Thursday in the latest national polling average compiled by RealClearPolitics, with Harris at 48.7% and Trump at 48.5%.

Via : https://piaille.fr/@josquindebaz/113362883489750030

Incapables de gérer une carrière au niveau européen, incapables de transparence; faudra pas venir pleurer si on colle ces pieds nickelés au pouvoir.

Pour ceux qui n’avaient pas encore compris que ceux qui nous gouvernent s’intéressent qu’aux recettes et en aucun cas au bien être de ses administrés. Déjà que l’autorisation des paris en ligne étaient une catastrophe, il n’y a que l’argent qui compte.

Le livre commence par la fin : son départ de Matignon, le 9 janvier, alors qu’elle vient de faire voter avec succès la loi sur l’immigration. « Le pire est derrière moi », croit Elisabeth Borne, fin 2023, persuadée qu’elle poursuivra sa « mission » jusqu’aux élections européennes de juin. Le 31 décembre, lors de ses vœux télévisés, Emmanuel Macron « remercie » sa première ministre. Une attention inhabituelle qui inquiète l’intéressée, plutôt que de la rassurer.

Difficile de contenir mon indifférence.

This may come as a shock for people who are stuck with the past century image of Japan being a technical leader with high-tech hardware, video games, robots and high speed trains.

They didn't really succeed with the internet industry, their tech giants never managed to scale to the world internet and compete with the USA. A lot of their tech industry is still from Japan, in Japan, for Japanese only. For example, countless fintech products only running in Japan, hyper specialized to the Japanese habits and regulations.

It seems there's also no craze in the youth to become IT engineers, like in most of the rest of the world. Apparently most engineering students prefer heavy industries like buildings and transportation. Eventually, it's not enough to cover the IT development needs in Japan, in addition to the low birthrate. So I'm part of these foreign engineers who got visas to fill this need.

My team is 50% Chinese, 30% Indian (mostly in India), 10% Japanese and 10% European.

My manager is Chinese, and I have noticed a similar tendency as what I have seen described with some Indian managers in the USA tech companies: he more easily hires short-term contractors of the same origin. Maybe because he is more confident in his ability to control them. It's a bit problematic for the atmosphere of the team, as they tend to stick together and speak in their native language, even during meetings. I was expecting to not understand meetings because they were going to be in Japanese, I was definitely not expecting that they would be in Chinese.

Nonetheless, I sometimes consumed some social mana to try to get to know my Chinese colleagues better, with more or less success as some speak very little English.

I was especially curious to learn about their work conditions, life conditions, and their political opinions, if any. Here is the list of random anecdotal pieces of information I received during those talks with different colleagues.

Work conditions are pretty bad in China, even for IT engineers:

1. Most of the companies ask their employees to do the infamous 996 (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week), some even 997 for specific periods of the year.
2. There's an expiry age for IT engineers in China, which is 35. If you haven't become a manager by this age, companies will consider that you are failing your career, let you go or not hire you. At least two colleagues are in Japan to escape this.
3. Chinese IT giants like Baidu, Tencent and Byte Dance have this kind of policies, but they may also offer salaries higher than EU and getting closer to the USA. Considering the lower cost of life, people are motivated to work there 100% of their awake time, with no social life, during 10/15 years in order to be able to retire at 40.

Life:

4. Cities develop at such a crazy pace that when they go back home after just 1 or 2 years, they sometimes have issues to recognize their home cities.
5. The technical ecosystem evolves really fast, with zero concerns allowed for privacy. I was complaining to my colleague that I hated how we were asked to connect to a company chat app with our private phones because of privacy concerns. She laughed at it and said last time she went home, people had started to pay with their faces.

Politics:

6. At least one of my Chinese colleague is completely aware of the crimes of his government, Tiananmen, Tibet, Uyghurs etc. I think most educated people are aware thanks to VPNs and traveling. I find it reassuring that the censorship and propaganda are still unable to fully control opinions.
7. There is a lot of resentment against the Chinese government for how they managed the COVID crisis with extremely strict and long confinements compared to other countries. "The officials were scared to get sick, so they made our lives a nightmare to protect themselves from any risk."
8. They mostly avoid to publically talk/write about their political opinions to avoid troubles.
9. I heard a potential conspiracy theory that sometimes children disappear after school-wide blood tests, that it may be related to organs harvesting for the use of members of the oligarchy/state/party, and that parents are later asked to get the ashes of their kids with no explanation. Something related to these: https://theconversation.com/killing-prisoners-for-transplants-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-161999, https://thediplomat.com/2024/08/first-known-survivor-of-chinas-forced-organ-harvesting-speaks-out/.

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