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From Data Centres to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking the true planetary impact of the AI supply chain. By Alistair Alexander
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Arístides Medina Rubio: 1 Historian Who Reclaimed Venezuela’s Local Memory
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‘… the CIA’s operations are now “much more aggressive” than they were during the Biden administration.
‘As the ODNI has declined in size and relevance, the CIA, with Ratcliffe in charge, has reclaimed its traditional role at the center of the intelligence community.
'And his relationship with Trump and low-profile manner have probably helped keep the president from attacking the agency.
‘The director was using a line of communication informally known as “the channel,” which allows Russian and American spies to talk candidly, away from the scrutiny of the press or the grandstanding of politicians. Putin, an ex-KGB officer, would understand that Ratcliffe had come not as a diplomatic envoy but as a fellow spy, with a message he felt was important for Putin to hear.
‘Broadly speaking, current and former officers told me, morale is highest in the operations directorate, among the officers who conduct the espionage that Ratcliffe wants to emphasize. Personnel in the Special Activities Center, which conducts covert and paramilitary activities, are particularly satisfied, recently retired officers told me, perhaps because they’re so busy, and not only in Ukraine.
‘Analysts strive for objectivity. But intelligence as a practice is not truly apolitical, because it’s an instrument of presidential power. The most successful CIA directors know how to tell their bosses the truth while also serving their interests’.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/10/ukraine-russia-trump-john-ratcliffe/689090/
25th October 2026
Hello,
I started this blog 22 years ago now (I don’t recommend going back to the start), and for the last 5 years I wrote a monthly “status update” post, aiming to mainly write about interesting stuff I might have done in the world of open source software, which I hoped in turn would motivate me to do more interesting stuff in open source software.
The world changed a lot in that time. If I started now this would probably be a podcast with 16 listeners, instead of being a WordPress blog with 16 subscribers.
I’ve spent a lot of time this year reading and thinking about the impact of large language models on the tech industry and open source. Its interesting because this feels like the moment, whether we like it or not, hacker culture goes mainstream. This week the world’s major news outlets had to figure out what PHP is.
That the BBC’s cyber correspondent didn’t know PHP existed has caused some joking and debate online.
24 years ago I was figuring out what PHP is. Jonathan Atkinson, who I met in a forum that was nominally about writing video games in QBASIC, asked me to make a wiki in PHP. So I did.
All I knew about wikis was that, it’s like a regular website except anyone can edit it. I named the project: Wiki! Here’s a quote from the README:
How do I install it? It's best run in its own directory. Create it one. You'll also want a directory for nodes, or you could keep them in the base wiki dir. Either way, the nodes directory has to be chmod'ed to 777. You might raise your eyebrows at that comment if you aren’t yourself a teenage hacker discovering web development.
Wiki! did have a login system, and the passwords were even stored as MD5 hashes rather than plain text, as I heard that was good practice. In hindsight, an attacker who knew how to set the HTTP Cookie header could impersonate anyone, like this: Cookie: wikiticket=admin.
Here is a snippet of the file edit.php. Note that $node and $title are inputs you can set via a POST request, or even via URL parameters like edit.php?title="/etc/passwd":
$t=$title; if ($node) { // Write new data // $file=fopen($nodedir.$t.".wiki", "w+"); $node=stripslashes(ereg_replace("(\r\n|\n|\r)","<br>", $node)); // Linebreak to <br> fputs($file, $node."\n"); Even if you just learned what PHP is today, you might see that this is not an entirely secure design.
Anyway, at the time I was proud of my work, and I needed somewhere to host it. So, as you would in 2002, I registered the name “wiki” on sourceforge.net and uploaded the project code.
Sourceforge, for those who haven’t yet reached middle age, was the 2000’s equivalent of Github. It allowed projects to have their own website, as long as they included the Sourceforge logo somewhere, and the website could use PHP. Perfect, I thought, the project’s website will be a wiki!
Looking back now through archive.org, I can see this code actually ran in public for many years.
Here it is around launch day in 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20021012080349/http://wiki.sourceforge.net/wiki
I have a local copy from around this time, which includes indexjon.wiki:
Sam, there are some serious bugs in this wiki. I keep on getting 'document contains no data' errors; get me on AIM.
Welcome to grove.swoo.net. You may or may not be interested in the [weblog].
JonathanA - 29/8/02 - 11:36 am
JonathanA - 29/8/02 - 07:36 amThose bugs went unfixed forever, and six months later, the front page text had been replaced with two poems, one in Italian and one in Russian: https://web.archive.org/web/20030420205758/http://wiki.sourceforge.net
One is “Non chiederci la parola che squadri da ogni lato” by Eugenio Montale, written in 1923, and presumably posted by a fan. Does anyone know what it’s about? A machine translation suggests it might discuss “the crisis of certainty faced by contemporary man”. The other is “Anecdote for Fathers” by William Wordsworth, in Russian via an unnamed translator.
Let’s just sit with that for a moment. Imagine what happens in 2026 if a trivially exploitable PHP website hosted by a US corporation goes online: it’ll be mining bitcoin, serving pornography and drowning in racist and antisemitic spam, probably all within the same day.
In 2003, over the course of six months, my naive implementation of a wiki was gifted with… two rather thoughtful poems.
Fast forward another year. I was about to turn 18 years old, was studying for A levels and mostly concerned with hanging out in the park drinking cheap cider and learning to play the guitar. I was certainly not thinking about this rather flawed chunk of PHP code that I’d written two years earlier, but via the magic of archive.org we can see that various people were genuinely trying to use it as a wiki: https://web.archive.org/web/20041121113508/http://wiki.sourceforge.net
In hindsight, perhaps it attracted so much attention because I’d literally taken the subdomain: http://wiki.sourceforge.net/, unintentionally boosting the SEO reach quite a bit. The site was still active right up until 2007.
I can’t find it now, but I do remember receiving an email at some point from sourceforge.net noting that they’d taken down the wiki! website after discovering it was a major security risk. And at some point they must have (quite reasonably) reclaimed the project name as well, since http://sourceforge.net/projects/wiki no longer exists. It will always live on in my heart, though, and for the moment at: https://web.archive.org/web/20021014172056/http://sourceforge.net/projects/wiki/
The world has changed significantly since I was a teenage hacker. Some of what I learned in those days is completely obsolete, such as the QBASIC programming language and VGA graphics. I am a world expert in these irrelevant topics.
Other stuff that I picked up in the early 2000s has become the foundation of my career as an operating systems developer: C programming, Linux distributions and an gradual induction into open source desktop world via Planet GNOME. And good old PHP, of course. Who knew that, a quarter way through the 21st century, PHP would be front page news?
Age 18, I didn’t tell anyone in the real world that I’d written a wiki because it’d be the first time they’d heard the word “wiki”. The word evoked exotic and mysterious feelings of Hawaii in 2002. Now it universally evokes Wikipedia. People are learning about password hygiene and PHP. The arrival of AI on the scene, to me, fits into this bigger picture that began in the last century: we, the Computer People, are becoming Mainstream.
#ai #openSource
RECLAIM Daily, 25 Oct: everyone becomes the checker.
QueerAF reports the UK MoD's own assessment warned its trans facilities rule could bring an "increased risk" of people being questioned and "policed". It went ahead anyway.
Washington's Yes on I-638 campaign counts 16 trans girls in school sports. Under Section 3(2), every girl who wants to play would need a provider's form.
#Reclame:
Man fietst heuvel op. Gaat op bankje zitten.
Het uitzicht is schitterend mooi.
De Man gaat dus:
Vance vs Rubio: Trump has two Republican soldiers ready to reclaim the White House in 2028. Who has edge?
US President Donald Trump has offered an early glimpse into the Republican Party’s political fut…
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Finished #reading this very human, very insightful rallying cry to reclaim the #humanright to #housing from the #profiteers and politicians who have turned this basic human need into a source of wealth and created a growing population the world over who will never have the #security and #dignity of home. https://www.leilanifarha.com/housing-inc
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Grenoble : Allan Brunon pose avec des casseurs, des sanctions réclamées
Clément Chappet réclame des sanctions contre Allan Brunon, représentant de La France insoumise à Grenoble, après la dif…
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/1267860/ Jet d’une grenade lacrymogène près d’enfants le 24 octobre : le maire de Rouen réclame une enquête #actu #Actualités #EU #europe #FR #France #News #Normandie #RépubliqueFrançaise #Rouen #Rouen(SeineMaritime)
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DES SURVIVANTS ET DES FAMILLES LANCENT UN APPEL DE DERNIERE MINUTE AUX ELECTEURS : « SOUVENEZ-VOUS DU 7 OCTOBRE »
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Des survivants et des familles lancent un appel de dernière minute aux électeurs : « Souvenez-vous du 7 octobre »
Plus de 700 survivants, proches d’ otages et familles endeuillées lancent un appel de dernière minute aux électeurs pour qu'ils « se souviennent du 7 octobre »
Le Conseil d'octobre, qui représente les familles des otages détenus dans la bande de Gaza, les familles endeuillées et les survivants, a réclamé avec force la création d'une commission d'enquête d'État et une enquête approfondie et indépendante sur l'attaque du 7 octobre. Un appel public a été lancé à la veille des élections israéliennes, exhortant les électeurs à « se souvenir du 7 octobre au moment de glisser leur bulletin dans l'urne ». «
Nous ne vous demandons pas de voter pour un parti en particulier, mais gardez à l'esprit que ces élections portent sur la nature même du pays : un pays qui dissimule ses défaillances, ou un pays courageux qui assume ses responsabilités et tire les leçons de ses erreurs. »
« Demain, lorsque vous vous rendrez aux urnes, souvenez-vous de la matinée du 7 octobre », peut-on lire dans cet appel. « Souvenez-vous de ceux que nous avons perdus, des familles déchirées, des communautés anéanties et des soldats tombés au combat. Depuis trois ans, nous vivons avec cette douleur et avec des questions qui restent sans réponse. Nous exigeons la vérité, des comptes et que des responsabilités soient établies. »
« Nous réclamons une commission d'enquête d'État, sans exception ni traitement de faveur pour quiconque, afin qu'une telle défaillance ne puisse plus jamais se reproduire », ajoute la lettre. Selon le « Conseil du 7 octobre » (October Council), ce texte constitue l'aboutissement de trois années de mobilisation menée par les familles touchées par les événements du 7 octobre — dans leur quête de vérité et de réponses de la part des décideurs — une démarche qui atteint son paroxysme au moment de l'ouverture des bureaux de vote.
« Allez voter. Votez en votre âme et conscience. Et souvenez-vous aussi d'eux. Pour eux. Pour nous. Pour notre avenir à tous. »
The fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere can hit 45 mph to outrun prehistoric predators—yet it gets stopped dead in its tracks by a simple wire fence. Discover how Montana’s misnamed "antelope" survived near-extinction, dramatic winter rescues, and human expansion to reclaim the open plains.
Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/institutions/antelope
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Lucie Bernardoni contrainte de quitter son dernier projet professionnel : après la Star Academy et Danse avec les Stars, les soucis s’enchaînent
🗞️ Midi Libre - 🕐 25/10 19:43
Une mauvaise nouvelle de plus pour Lucie Bernardoni. Après la médiatisation de sa nouvelle liaison avec Christophe Licata et le refus de contact réclamée par sa fille, l’ancienne finaliste et répétitrice de la Star Academy joue encore de malchance.
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Our newest issue: ACTIVISM = TERRORISM?
Around the world, #activists standing up for #ClimateJustice, racial #equality or against war and #genocide are being silenced, criminalized and, increasingly, targeted under ‘counter-terror’ legislation.
The negative impacts are profound. At a time when #grassroots movements are more vital than ever, states are shrinking the space for civil society and eroding basic freedoms. This issue asks: how did protest become equated with terrorism – and how can citizens reclaim the right to resist?
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Under The Radar – Versus
Less than 1,000 monthly listeners. More than 1,000 reasons to listen.
How did you come up with the bands name?
It came from being ‘Vs the system’ but we figured short & sweet would work.
Where are you from?
Leeds,UK.
What genre would you class your music as?
Post Hardcore.
For Fans Of?
Dayseeker, System of a Down, Enter Shikari.
Where can people connect with you?
Check out their website! https://theofficialversus.com/
What is your latest release?
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qskAfN39gqYIE0mVpIDze?si=4a2ba2cd3c37482d
This track explores the aftermath of a deeply toxic relationship, where prolonged gaslighting and manipulation suddenly become clear. That moment of clarity forces acceptance of the damage done, reshaping the entire mindset and driving the journey to confront the past, reclaim control, and move toward a more honest, self-defined future.
What are the songs you would recommend to new listeners?
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Svvl3XjtDKrSoP8KJCheP?si=ad3296915d154f96
A straight forward, no messing around, high energy classic with all the beefy riffs your ears could need
https://open.spotify.com/track/1WEdRBWxPaEIxGNHD5OUyg?si=687e460034494cbe
A real juxtaposition of a song that shows the breadth of the band and how eclectic we can be. It seamlessly blends multiple genres and leaves you lingering for more.
What is the song you’re most proud of as a band?
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eYqWTPV0o0Mi7YGaFwfQ5?si=f9fac40eaa884b81
This song came together really quickly, and at a particularly bad time. The band were starting to go through a busy period of gigs, in the throws of recording and production on the first album and still writing the last couple of tracks, so we were stretched thin. And this song just started coming to fruition literally a couple of hours before an important gig… and when creativity strike you’ve got to follow it. So it ended up feeling quite rushed when the bulk of it was being written and actually turned out to be one of our most complete and popular songs!
When can we expect some new music?
We are currently writing our second album for release in early 2027, with two standalone singles coming before the end of the year.
Who would be your dream collaboration?
Rou Reynolds and Enter Shikari would be high on the list. The energy and creativity that lives in the mans brain is nothing short of phenomenal.
Rory Rodriguez and Dayseeker would be another – they’re nailing the dark ‘baddiecore’ vibe that seem to be the rage at the minute, and Rory is at the pinnacle of what a voice can do.
Finally; Bring Me The Horizon – who wouldn’t want to a collab with that band right now. Those guys have single handedly re-written the rule book on what a live show can look like in the metal scene.
All rights to the songs used on this post are retained by the band in question. This site claims no rights over them. All images were provided by the band.
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Gadget Review: LiberNovo Omni - the USB-C powered office chair
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/gadget-review-libernovo-omni-chair/Whenever a company asks me to review their gadgets, I always ask if it is USB-C powered. If not, I'm not interested. So, welcome to the future where your chair is USC-C rechargeable!
WHAT?!
The LiberNovo Omni looks like a standard office chair - but has two secret features.
First, is that it is exceedingly comfortable. Full foam cushions, lovely headrest, and a recline which almost gets you horizontal.
Second, it is USB-C powered. There's a small battery pack which plugs in to the chair. Why? Read on!
OK, let's start at the beginning.
Assembly
Flat-pack chairs like this are normally notoriously hard to assemble. The LiberNovo bucks that trend - not only does it include a how-to video, it prints the instructions on a MASSIVE piece of cardboard.
I'm used to peering at tiny black-and-white diagrams in a flimsy paper booklet. IKEA could learn a thing or two from this.
The screws are all labelled and a hex-driver is included. What's an even nicer touch, however, is some safety gloves:
That's the sort of thing which doesn't cost much to the manufacturer, but is such a thoughtful gesture. There's nothing too sharp as you assemble, but who wants to cover their new chair in blood, eh?
The parts come in two large boxes, but there aren't that many separate bits.
Building it took about half an hour. It's easier with a friend to help - as are most things in life - but doesn't require much skill.
Go Back To The USB-C Part Again Please?
The battery pack is a 2200mAh unit with a USB-C port to recharge. It connects in to the chair with this slightly unusual connector:
The internals of the chair have a USB-C cable to connect everything up.
LOL!
YES BUT WHY DOES A CHAIR NEED A BATTERY PACK??!?!
On the side of the left arm-rest are three buttons.
Two of them move the lumbar-support up and down. Depending on how your back is feeling and how far you are reclined, you can adjust the the back-support position.
And the 3rd button?
That's the build-in back massager, silly!
Is that useful?
Yes. Being able to instantly adjust the back support without having to twist around is fantastic, especially for those of us reaching a certain age.
The "massage" feature essentially just moves the support up and down for five minutes before returning to its previous location. When sat upright, it feels great. But the real benefit is when you're laying down.
How flat does this thing go?
160° - not quite flat, but good enough when you're taking a break from Typing Real Hard. You don't want a photo of me sprawled out, so LiberNovo have helpfully provided some stock photos of much better looking folk.
It is incredibly stable. At no point did it tip over or feel like it was going to deposit me on the floor. What really helps is the included foot stall.
No Feets On Seats
Unsurprisingly, this is not USB-C powered. A sturdy plastic footrest with a deeply padded leg rest on top.
Again, assembly was a cinch - follow the large printed instructions and clip it together. It's rated for 40㎏, so you shouldn't stand on it but it is more than enough to rest your weary legs.
Price
I hope you're sitting down for this.
Direct from LiberNovo, you can expect to pay around £700 - although there are bundles with extra batteries, the footrest, and even an eye mask which will shoot that price up. You can get the full bundle on Amazon for around £1,000.
There's two ways to look at that price. Firstly, youch. But, alternatively, that's still cheaper than a Herman Miller Aeron. And Herm's doesn't come with a built-in lumbar massage.
(There is also an upgraded version which has a built in fan under the seat. Personally, I suggest eating a healthier diet.)
I can't deny that's a chunk of change. If you're anything like me, you probably spend most of your day sat down. You might as well sit on something comfortable.
Final Thoughts
Having the back-rest adjustable via arm-rest buttons is a genius touch. I just wish it went further. I'd love a control panel (or, dare I say it, app) which let me adjust the seat height, recline, headrest position etc. Who can be bothered with fiddly manual levers when electricity can do the work for us?
Building this chair was a breeze - and it was delightful to get a pair of safety gloves with it.
The chair is extraordinarily comfortable and the back massage, while not on the level of a "shiatsu" style heated massage pillow, is delightfully pleasant. Would I lie all the way back and sleep in it? Yeah! Certainly more comfortable than an economy airline seat.
If you spend a lot of time sitting at your computer, your arse deserves something supportive. Your back deserves some love too. Yes, the USB-C power-pack is a little bit of a gimmick - but it is a hell of a good one.
In my opinion, this is worth splashing out on.
#chair #furniture #gadget #Review #USBC
How to Use AI Agents for Personal Finance and Wealth Building: The Master of Coin Guide (2026)
Why Most People Use Artificial Intelligence Backwards (And How to Fix It)
Every day, millions of people open an AI chat window and ask the wrong question: "What stock should I buy today?" or "How do I get rich quickly with AI?" They treat artificial intelligence like a carnival oracle, hoping a single prompt will absolve them of the discipline required to build wealth. When the oracle gives them generic, recycled advice, they walk away convinced that AI is overhyped.
The divide between those who build sovereign wealth in the coming decade and those who remain trapped in financial noise comes down to a single shift: moving from passive AI chatbots to autonomous AI agents.
According to Backbase’s 2026 AI in Wealth Management analysis, while 95% of financial institutions have experimented with generative AI, only 27% report substantial impact because most remain stuck in passive chat pilots rather than deploying agentic workflows. Meanwhile, McKinsey’s 2035 Wealth Management Outlook projects that AI agents and intelligent automation will form the operational backbone of modern wealth management—delivering an estimated 30% to 40% productivity leap in portfolio intelligence and financial research.
You no longer need a Wall Street family office to command that same operational backbone. In the philosophical framework of The Philosopher King, your mind is the fifth-dimensional architect, and AI agents are four-dimensional force multipliers. Here is the step-by-step guide to building your own autonomous AI agent workflow to master your coin, reclaim your time, and eliminate emotional financial mistakes.
Step 1: Shift from Single Prompts to a Multi-Agent Financial Council
A chatbot waits for you to ask a question and gives you a single stream of text. An AI agent is given an objective, access to real-world tools (such as web search, financial data APIs, and spreadsheets), and the autonomy to break a complex goal into sequential steps.
When managing your personal treasury—what we call the discipline of the Master of Coin—relying on a single AI persona creates blind spots. Instead, structure your workflow as a three-agent council built on deliberate discipline (the meticulated kind):
Step 2: Choose Your AI Agent Stack and Connect Your Financial Data
Whether you are a non-technical sovereign investor or a developer building custom pipelines, the open-source and commercial ecosystem for AI agents has matured rapidly. As documented in McKinsey’s 2026 State of AI Global Survey, agentic orchestration is now one of the fastest-scaling capabilities worldwide. Depending on your technical comfort, consider these proven building blocks:
Step 3: Enforce the "Human-in-the-Loop" Sovereign Rule
One of the most common questions people ask when researching AI for investing is: "Should I connect an AI agent directly to my brokerage account and let it trade autonomously?"
For the vast majority of individual investors, the answer is an emphatic no. As highlighted in Forbes Finance Council’s analysis on AI agents in finance and McKinsey’s research on AI agent performance management, autonomous agents require strict governance boundaries, audit trails, and human oversight.
"An AI agent is your tireless chief of staff in the fourth dimension, but your consciousness remains the sovereign on the throne. Never abdicate final judgment to a machine."
To protect your capital while maximizing leverage, enforce these four iron rules:
Step 4: Copy This 15-Minute Daily "Master of Coin" AI Routine
You do not need a complex server cluster to start today. Begin with a simple, repeatable daily cadence using scheduled AI tasks:
Join the Conversation: How Are You Using AI Agents to Master Your Coin?
We are living through the greatest democratization of analytical leverage in human history. Those who pair ancient philosophical restraint with modern agentic intelligence will operate with the clarity of an institution and the agility of a sovereign individual.
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Jean-François Richet, Mesrine – L’instinct de mort + L’ennemi public n°1
Mesrine, héros de roman et de film, a vraiment existé de 1936 à 1979. Il est mort à 42 ans, tué par la police, après une série de crimes, de braquages et d’évasions spectaculaires. Jacques Mesrine (prononcez Mérine, il se met en colère si l’on vocalise le s) est un prédateur textuel. Non seulement il a alimenté la chronique des journalistes en scoops, mais il a écrit un livre, L’instinct de mort qui inspire le film, une autobiographie déformée et amplifiée pour se donner le beau rôle. Il récidivera avec un autre livre, moins connu.
Fils d’un dentellier de luxe parisien qui s’est couché selon lui durant l’Occupation, devançant l’appel pour partir en Algérie afin de répondre à son besoin d’action, Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) n’est pas un idéologue. Il est individualiste et anarchiste, se moquant de la politique et des intellos. Ce qui compte pour lui est le fric, afin de mener la belle vie. D’où ses cambriolages chez les riches, ses braquages de banques « voleuses », et son refus de travailler pour un « exploiteur ». Son pistolet 11.43, rapporté d’Algérie où il aurait participé à des tortures et assassinats de militants pour l’indépendance (ce qui n’est pas prouvé), est le prolongement de son sexe. Il en use contre les hommes qui se posent en rivaux, tandis qu’il use du second sur les femmes qu’il séduit.
De retour d’Algérie en 1959, à 23 ans, il récuse le petit boulot pépère que son père (Michel Duchaussoy) lui a trouvé, au profit du jeu et de la flambe de son ami Paul (Gilles Lellouche). Il est introduit dans le Milieu auprès de Guido (Gérard Depardieu) qui est un parrain, un père de substitution, et opère comme chauffeur ou porte-flingue. Il ne supporte pas que les Arabes viennent foutre le boxon (au sens propre) en devenant macs à Paris, alors qu’ils ont réclamé leur indépendance ; il ne supporte pas que ces « bougnoules » traitent les femmes comme des moins que rien, alors qu’elles ont aidé en Algérie autant que les hommes à porter les messages, les armes et les bombes terroristes. De fureur, il tabasse le mac arabe, avant de le blesser et de l’enterrer vivant tout nu et menotté dans la forêt, sous les yeux complices de Guido qui aime cette détermination.
Lors d’une virée en Espagne avec son copain Paul, pour flamber le fric, Mesrine tombe raide dingue d’une jeune espagnole, Sofia (Elena Anaya), avec qui il ne tarde pas à faire un enfant. Sabrina naît en 1961, conduisant au mariage, puis deux autres naîtront, Bruno (1964) et Boris (1966). Sofia divorce en 1965 lorsque Mesrine refusera de quitter le grand banditisme pour se ranger comme père et comme époux, après une expérience de petit boulot qui se termine au chômage. C’est alors qu’il se lâche. Il a rencontré une nouvelle compagne, l’intrépide Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), et est forcé de fuir au Canada avec elle en 1968. Ils veulent se faire oublier dans un travail honnête, majordomes chez un milliardaire handicapé, mais ne tardent pas, par orgueil à se faire virer. Ils kidnappent alors le vieux et réclament une rançon, mais il s’échappe et ils se retrouvent recherchés par la police. Fuyant en grosse bagnole péniche yankee jusqu’en Arizona, ils se font arrêter par une noria de voitures de police, débauche vaniteuse de moyens qui montre l’inefficacité des forces de l’ordre. Extradé au Canada avec Jeanne, Jacques frime devant les journalistes, n’hésitant pas à singer de Gaulle avec son « Vive le Québec libre ».
Il fera de même en prison, dans l’unité spécialisée de redressement où les prisonniers sont torturés pour les briser, à l’isolement, laissés nus, lumière nuit et jour ou obscurité illimitée, lavés au jet et nourris de restes jetés par terre. Il planifie son évasion, frimant une fois de plus devant ses codétenus. Il a juré de revenir les délivrer, et il le tente en effet, dans un rodéo de voitures et une débauche de coups de feu. Jeanne, effarée de cette dérive en démesure, refuse qu’il vienne la libérer et rompt avec lui par téléphone. Jacques s’entraîne au tir dans la forêt avec Jean-Paul Mercier (Roy Dupuis), Canadien rencontré sur un chantier, mais ils se font surprendre par deux gardes-chasse. Reconnus par leurs photos dans les journaux, ils tirent pour tuer. Mesrine rentre en France, Mercier est tué deux ans plus tard.
Fin du premier film, tout d’action.
Le second est moins noir et plus psychologique. Mesrine persiste dans la démesure, dérape dans ce qu’il ose, orgueilleux d’être désigné comme l’ennemi public n°1 en même temps que fidèle aux amis, et paranoïaque dès qu’un petit journaliste ose érafler son image. Il publie lui-même son autobiographie en 1977 pour mettre les points sur les i, après avoir été outré que le coup d’état chilien de Pinochet ait remplacé ses exploits à la Une des journaux. Il se pose en libertarien qui ne veut être contraint par aucune loi et se vante de 39 meurtres (c’est amplifié et déformé, comme d’habitude).
Le spectateur quitte les années 60 pour les années 70, et tout à changé. La société aspire à la liberté, mais dans l’ordre : les corps et les mœurs, oui ; la propriété et la sécurité, non. Prendre un juge en otage en plein tribunal, après s’être moqué de la police qui lui a vendu (dit-il) les clés de ses menottes, n’est plus romantique à la Robin des bois, mais dangereux à la façon Brigades rouges. Mesrine se fâche avec tous ses compagnons de braquage comme Michel Ardouin (Samuel Le Bihan) et François Besse (Mathieu Amalric). Il frime devant le commissaire Robert Broussard (Olivier Gourmet), chef de l’antigang, en négociant sa reddition dans son appartement cerné, puis en sablant le champagne avec lui. Il s’évadera en 1978 de la prison de la Santé avec Besse, grâce à la complicité de son avocate séduite et sensible aux thèses de Libération, et partiront braquer le casino de Deauville. La police, la pénitentiaire, les magistrats, sont nuls : ils laissent faire, contrôlent mal, se laissent corrompre. Les médias en rajoutent dans l’adulation héroïque, les intellos se passionnent (en chambre) pour l’intrépidité et la chance de ce fauve libertarien.
Mesrine réussit à fuir à Londres avec Sylvia Jeanjacquot (Ludivine Sagnier), une poule qui ne songe qu’à se tortiller devant les mâles, et qui sera sa dernière compagne. Il ne veut plus de caractère fort qui lui fasse de l’ombre. Il se politise et endosse devant une journaliste (Laure Marsac) un personnage révolutionnaire, réclamant la fermeture des quartiers de haute sécurité. La gauche iréniste et démago avec Badinter les fera fermer en 1982, parce que c’était la droite avec Lecanuet qui les avait ouverts en 1975, et que les gauchistes de Libération en avaient fait tout un plat. Ils seront rétablis en 2025 pour lutter contre les mafias arabes de la drogue. Mesrine renoue avec Charlie Bauer (Gérard Lanvin), un gangster au prétexte de révolution progressiste, rencontré en QHS. Besse ne le suit pas dans cette dérive terroriste.
Avec Charlie, Mesrine organise une interview avec Jacques Dallier (Alain Fromager), un minable journaliste de Minute, hebdo d’extrême droite, et indic à l’occasion. Il avait contesté son image de héros fidèle à ses camarades de tôle dans un article. Mesrine le fait mettre à poil et le tabasse, lui collant une balle dans la joue, dans le bras et dans la jambe, rejouant ainsi le tortionnaire en Algérie sur ce partisan de l’Algérie française qui méprise les bougnoules. Le laissant pour mort, Mesrine prend des photos et ne peut résister à frimer une fois de plus en les envoyant à la presse. Après les flics, les juges et les matons, qu’il a ridiculisés, il écorne l’aura des journalistes ; ce sera sa fin et il le sait. Il enregistre une cassette de mémoire pour sa compagne.
Broussard finira par l’avoir en 1979 près de la Porte de Clignancourt, dans sa BMW 528i dorée qu’il venait d’acheter, le must auto de sa génération. Après l’avoir logé via un indic donné par le journaliste rescapé Tillier, qui veut se venger, des flics surarmés planquent dans des soums pourtant bien visibles, et repèrent le couple qui se méfie en sortant de leur logement du 18e. Mesrine, par orgueil, ne se méfie pas assez des 404 bâchées et autres camionnettes à toile. Finalement, cachés dans un camion couvert, Les flices descendent le 2 novembre 1979 Mesrine, à 15 h 15, de plusieurs rafales (21 balles) et touchent sans la tuer sa compagne et son caniche.
Jacques Mesrine a pratiqué outrageusement dans ses dires et ses écrits la culture de l’excuse, très en vogue après 68. C’est pas moi : célafôta à la société, le Système, la Justice. Certes, il s’est dit peiné par son père inconsistant, traumatisé par les horreurs qu’on l’a forcé de voir ou de faire en Algérie, il s’est laissé entraîner par la mauvaise influence d’un copain flambeur et de son argent facile lorsqu’il est rentré, puis s’est fait licencier économique quand il a voulu exercer un travail honnête comme nouveau père de famille. Mais il est violent et orgueilleux, il ne supporte pas qu’on lui résiste, puis qu’on ne l’adule pas comme le meilleur. Ado déjà, il avait agressé son proviseur. Si la société française des années 50 à 70 méritait une critique au vitriol, les années 80 sous Mitterrand verront l’affairisme s’envoler, et les braquages en col blanc exploser. Pas de quoi rendre les humains comme des bêtes. Or, c’est ce qu’était devenu Mesrine, malgré deux moments humains du film, sa visite au chevet de son père mourant à l’hôpital et la visite de sa fille aînée adolescente en prison.
Au total, un bon double film avec de l’action et une réflexion sur la psychologie du personnage, excellemment joué par Vincent Cassel. Certes, c’est de la biographie résumée et condensée, mais le fil conducteur est clair et la fin prévue, en apothéose.
César 2009 du meilleur réalisateur pour Jean-François Richet
César 2009 du meilleur acteur pour Vincent Cassel
DVD Jean-François Richet, Mesrine – L’intégrale : L’instinct de mort + L’ennemi public n°1, 2008, avec Vincent Cassel, Gérard Lanvin, Mathieu Amalric, Olivier Gourmet, Samuel Le Bihan, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016, français, 3h54, €45,88, Blu-ray €80,77
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Des mauvaises femmes (Sébastien Brant)
Illustration: Albrecht Dürer Des mauvaises femmes J'ai dit dans mon Prologue tout à fait clairement que je ne voulais pas parler déplaisamment des femmes qui sont bonnes, mais qu'on m'en voudrait bien si je ne disais rien des épouses mauvaises. La femme qui écoute la voix de la sagesse n'est pas facilement induite en tentation pour se couvrir de honte. Une femme sensée incline à la douceur un mari courroucé. Assuérus avait*1 prononcé le verdict, mais […]https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/des-mauvaises-femmes-sebastien-brant/
Weekly Analysis, 19–25 Oct: where somebody had to check.
Barometer: Legislative 1, Disinformation 1, Media 3, Resilience 4 (up from 3), Overall 2.
Where someone read the record, the campaign lost: SCOTUS denied the Kingdom stay, NZ's High Court found the blocker ban unlawful, Navy and Marine Corps boards voted to retain in 9 of 12 cases.
Where nothing gets checked, it kept moving.
Pre-bunk: the clip before the vote.
Friday, Portland: a group in XX-XY shirts is removed from a Thorns match.
A group had already been removed there on 6 Sep. This was a return visit. A clip shows the end and lets you assume the start.
Spot it: has this happened there before? Does the footage start at the removal? Is a vote nine days off?
Don't share the clip.
