herald · Afternoon edition · Sunday 18 October

French protests spiral into riots as Limoges town hall burns down

The image that travelled furthest was Limoges. @koshercockney posted the moment "The tower roof of the 143-year-old Limoges Town Hall collapses." Al Arabiya's account, passed on by @zerohedge, put the cause as riots over the cost of living and the state of education in France.

The rest of the night came in clips. @confrontfr, from Marseille: "JE NE PEUX PAS DÉCRIRE CE QUE JE VIENS DE VIVRE À MARSEILLE." @disclosetv had a rioter climbing the Joan of Arc statue at Place des Pyramides. Looting of the Galeries Lafayette was posted from Bordeaux @gtylgrn2 and, by @visegrad24, from Paris. @visegrad24 also had rioters trying to storm Opéra Garnier and Dior bringing its own security @AutismCapital. @AutismCapital's captions were "The warmth of collectivism." and "Dior army doing more resistance than the French police." @AutismCapital

@Anglo_Futurist's "What a photo" showed flares and Palestinian flags with the Eiffel Tower behind. @zerohedge ran "Has France Fallen?" The other thread was Macron at a Celine Dion concert, which @AutismCapital called "You couldn't have written this better."

Kosher@koshercockney Sun 6:23am

Wow. There it goes. The tower roof of the 143-year-old Limoges Town Hall collapses.

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confrontation française@confrontfr Sun 12:34am

⚠️🔴 À REGARDER JUSQU'À LA FIN JE NE PEUX PAS DÉCRIRE CE QUE JE VIENS DE VIVRE À MARSEILLE. #17octobre

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Disclose.tv@disclosetv Sun 6:11am

NOW - A rioter climbs onto the statue of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France, at the Place des Pyramides in Paris.

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Océane@gtylgrn2 Sun 4:51am

Pillage des Galeries Lafayette de Bordeaux, venant tout juste d’être rénové #17octobre

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Visegrád 24@visegrad24 Sun 7:48am

Galeries Lafayette in Paris is being looted tonight. It’s the French equivalent of Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in NYC

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Visegrád 24@visegrad24 Sun 10:43am

BREAKING: Rioters are trying to storm Opéra Garnier in Paris. The historic opera house was built 1861- 1875 at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III

The image shows the ornate interior grand staircase of the Opéra Garnier in Paris, featuring elaborate marble columns, arched balconies, and chandeliers. The scene depicts an empty, pristine hall with no signs of the rioters mentioned in the post.

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The Anglofuturist 🇬🇧🐿️@Anglo_Futurist Sun 7:55am

What a photo

The image shows a crowd of people in a plaza filled with smoke and flares, with the Eiffel Tower visible in the background. Several individuals are carrying Palestinian flags, and one person in the foreground is running while holding a sparking flare.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 11:59am

It's true. He really was at a Celine Dion concert. You couldn't have written this better. He doesn't give a single damn. When Rome was burning what does folklore say Nero was doing? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra Sun 10:33am

Macron at a Celine Dion concert as France burns to the ground.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 10:54am

Another beautiful day in Paris

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 10:39am

The warmth of collectivism.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 11:17am

Dior army doing more resistance than the French police.

Visegrád 24@visegrad24 Sun 10:53am

Dior had no faith in the French police to protect their store so they brought in their own security team to protect the flagship store in Paris tonight

A line of men dressed in dark suits stands guard along the sidewalk in front of an illuminated luxury storefront at dusk. The building features classic Parisian architecture with ornate stone facades and glowing display windows.

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zerohedge@zerohedge Sun 12:35pm

Al Arabiya on the social chaos in France

التلفزيون العربي@AlarabyTV Sun 12:34pm

لحظات احتراق مبنى بلدية ليموج التاريخي وانهيار أجزاء منه، خلال أعمال شغب احتجاجا على غلاء المعيشة وتردي التعليم في فرنسا

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zerohedge@zerohedge Sun 9:16am

Has France Fallen? Far-Left Rioters Torch Buildings, Loot Luxury Stores As Macron Loses Control zerohedge.com/political/yellow-vests-return-fren

www.zerohedge.com

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron's Crisis Deepens

Pay attention to France's five-year sovereign credit default swap ...

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Feed splits over whether French riots are fiscal or immigration-driven

The mainstream line is that students are protesting school underfunding. @shellenberger rejected it with a chart: France spends "between two and 200 times more per student" than the countries its migrants come from. He blames a "Left-Islamist" alliance. @AvidCommentator had the same instinct, minus the chart: "you can really see how this is about students having air conditioning in school..."

@nic_carter came at it from the budget side. France is "maxed out", with public spending at 57.2% of GDP and a 10-year bond yielding more than Italy's or Greece's, so "it's not about public spending." His later take was that two postwar pillars are colliding, immigration and protecting pensions. Young natives and immigrants are being asked to feed "boomer luxury communism", and the newcomers aren't "bought in" to the French social contract. He attached a table of net fiscal contributions by origin. @nic_carter

@JohnPapola put both sides in one post: the French "didn't want barbarian hordes" but do want "a progressive welfare state that is completely unsustainable." @dhh went with immigration alone: "Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe."

Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger Mon 5:25am

Students are rioting because the French government spends too little to educate the children of migrants, say the media. But France spends between two and 200 times more per student than the nations from which its migrants come. The media refuses to report basic facts.

A horizontal bar chart compares government spending per secondary student in France against twelve non-European countries of origin for French immigrants, showing France's expenditure is significantly higher. The graphic includes a column on the right listing the number of immigrants from each count — text in image
France spends far more per student than the main non-European countries its immigrants come from. Government funding per secondary student, constant purchasing-power dollars, latest year available. Gray figures: immigrants living in France who were born in each country (2019 census). France $14,204 (2022). Tunisia $7,158 (2015) 299,800. Algeria $6,643 (2024) 848,900. China $5,146 (2023) 112,200. Türkiye $3,630 (2022) 251,900. Morocco $2,834 (2012) 807,600. Senegal $1,490 (2022) 120,100. Côte d'Ivoire $927 (2024) 104,200. Cameroon $808 (2012) 90,600. Mali $712 (2017) 87,900. Comoros $274 (2014) 130,100. DR Congo $72 (2013) 91,800. Spending: UNESCO Institute for Statistics... PUBLIC

Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger Sat 4:42am

Students are protesting in France because schools don’t have enough money, say mainstream journalists. In truth, they have more money than ever. What’s really behind the riots is a decades-old Left-Islamist political alliance that much of the media supports.

This is a screenshot of a web article from a site called Public, featuring a video thumbnail of a bleeding protester being escorted by riot police. The headline claims that media are spreading false claims about the causes of the French riots while ignoring a left-Islamist alliance. — text in image
PUBLIC Home Podcast Credits Archive About Media Spread False Claims About Causes Of French Riots And Dismiss Left-Islamist Alliance Behind Them Right-wing populists who condemn the violence, not instigators of violence, remain targets of government censorship 8 MINS AGO • MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER

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nic carter@nic_carter Sun 8:22am

the news will tell you that the left are protesting because "of insufficient school funding" This is questionable at best. France has a massive welfare state. Gigantic. They do not lack for public sector expenditure. - French public spending accounts for an almost incomprehensible 57.2% of GDP - the French deficit is 5.1% of GDP and the debt to GDP ratio is 115% - France spends more on education on both a relative and absolute basis than the EU average France can't meaningfully increase public spending. they are maxed out. Their

10-year bond trades at a higher yield than Italy or Greece, historical basket cases. so, it's not about public spending. France is an insanely lavish welfare state to the point of serious dysfunction. what's it about then?

to give you a sense of what they claim to want, here's 30 placards that I found in coverage from today only, translated. very wide range of stated desires.

The image displays a numbered table listing 15 protest slogans in French alongside their English translations and categorized political sentiments. It serves as a summary document organizing the diverse demands found in recent coverage. — text in image
# Original French English translation Political sentiment / demand 1 Je paye pas ta retraite si tu payes pas mon école I'm not paying for your pension if you won't pay for my schooling. Education funding over pensions 2 Une démocratie qui tue ses enfants ? A democracy that kills its own children? Anti-police violence / state repression 3 Violences sur mineurs, déni majeur Violence against minors, denial on a major scale. Anti-police violence 4 Pas de futur sans culture No future without culture. Cultural funding 5 Lancez des profs, pas des lacrymos Send teachers, not tear gas. Education funding / anti-police 6 Très fâchés, jamais fachos Very angry, never fascists. Antifascism 7 Recyclez les déchets, n'en faites pas des ministres Recycle the rubbish; don't appoint it to the cabinet. Anti-government / political establishment 8 Éteignez vos télés, regardez par la fenêtre Turn off your TVs. Look out the window. Distrust of mainstream media 9 Ton avenir dépend d'un algorithme codé par un stagiaire sous pression Your future depends on an algorithm coded by an overworked intern. Opposition to algorithmic admissions 10 Les élèves visent le bac, la BAC vise la tête Students are aiming for their baccalauréat; the anti-crime police are aiming for their heads. Anti-police violence 11 Désolé de vous déranger, on veut juste un avenir Sorry to disturb you. We just want a future. Youth economic insecurity 12 Pensez à la santé mentale des jeunes Think about young people's mental health. Youth mental health 13 Nos rêves ne rentrent pas dans une case Parcoursup Our dreams don't fit into a box on Parcoursup, the university admissions platform. Opposition to selective university admissions 14 Ça charge les étudiants, ça protège les violeurs They charge at students while protecting rapists. Anti-police / institutional injustice 15 Y a plus de flics devant nos élèves que de profs There are more cops in front of our students than teachers. Education funding / anti-police

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this is my outsider's conclusion of what is driving the protests:

Inevitable West@Inevitablewest Sun 6:09am

🚨BREAKING: The historic Limoges town hall has just completely collapsed after far-left rioters set it on fire It was built in 1876. It survived World Wars. It did not survive modern France.

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nic carter@nic_carter Sun 1:24pm

having tried my best to intuit the motives of the protesters in France today, I am struck by the fact that two of the most treasured pillars of the European postwar order are colliding: 1. unfettered immigration, especially from former colonies, justified by historical obligation and postcolonial guilt 2. protecting pensions and the elderly at all costs, even to the point of extreme fiscal strain now you have first and second generation immigrants, as well as young native french people, taking to the streets because the french state is hell-bent on

extracting whatever it can and feeding it into the maw of boomer luxury communism. the younger generation is being asked to accept a deteriorating deal: pay more, receive less, and abandon the expectation of matching the living standard of their parents or grandparents. the young immigrant newcomers have even less incentive to accept any kind this bargain. they are not bought in to the french social contract. they have no common identity with the french boomers they are being asked to sustain. they resent the fact that the entire machinery of the state is designed to exploit the young to serve the old. the old do not care about the immigrants enough to trade away any of their entitlements for them. they have the advantage as they wield the franchise reliably and their share of the electorate is only growing, so they won't accept a decline in their own standard of living to fund a future they will never live to see. now these two groups are on a collision course. ironically, immigration was intended to ameliorate the worsening fiscal picture brought about by a demographic transition. but this did not happen. studies have repeatedly shown that immigrants do increase aggregate GDP (by simple brute force, by adding to population), but not the fiscal picture [1]. the most comprehensive paper using real-world data [2] segments immigrant types to France and finds non-EU immigrants to be persistently fiscally negative. EU immigrants by contrast are the most fiscally positive group, meaning that studies that consider immigrants as a whole are masking the negative impact of non-western immigrants (and Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia rank #1 and #2 and #4. Africa accounts for 50% of the 8 million immigrants living in France today.) immigration has not caused France's fiscal crisis. but it hasn't bettered the economic picture at all – it has deteriorated it somewhat – and it has created a combustible demographic that has little allegiance to the French nation. far from helping France deal with its aging workforce, immigration has added fiscal burden and created a permanent, non-assimilated disenfranchised underclass. the original justifications for immigration – labor scarcity, postcolonial obligation, and more recently workforce aging – have largely failed to manifest the promised results. the pro-immigrationist policy has been defended in Brussels as necessary to defend the welfare state, but it has expanded the population making claims on the state, without eliminating the need for fiscal adjustments. France now has an aging electorate aiming to preserve the benefits it was promised, mingled with a younger more diverse population that questions whether it will ever receive a similar deal. the young are vastly outmatched at the ballot box and so they take to the streets. the french establishment is now trying to preserve a tenuous status quo: unlimited intergenerational obligations alongside a neverending immigration regime that continually changes the composition of the society intended to honor those obligations. the immigration regime also actively worsens the fiscal picture while creating these cultural fractures and inculcating a society more prone to sectarian violence. the french state will have to renegotiate its social contract and disempower one of these groups. electoral gravity suggests that the old will continue to win until France finally reaches default and creditors renegotiate the welfare state for them. the major contenders in 27 take different approaches to this tradeoff: - the right in Le Pen looks to reduce immigration-related expenditure and focus public spending on French citizens, while resisting retirement age increases - Macron in the center aims to control immigration somewhat and reform pensions by raising retirement age - Melenchon's left, largely behind the protests this week, denies the tradeoff and aims to keep funding pensions and retirement at 60 while increasing immigration. as France has very little fiscal space it's unclear how this would be paid for whether the french social contract can be peacefully renegotiated remains to be seen. [1] For France, immigrants' net fiscal contribution averaged -0.85% of GDP over 2006-2018 when all public expenditure was allocated (and this includes ALL categories of immigrants including European, American and Asian) See: oecd.org/en/publications/international-migration [2] See table 4 (translated below) shs.cairn.info/revue-economique-2022-4-page-529?

A data table titled 'Annual net fiscal contribution per person in France, by immigrant origin' showing a shift from positive to negative fiscal values between 2001 and 2011 for all listed population groups. The source is cited at the bottom as Chojnicki, Ragot & Sokhna (2022). — text in image
Annual net fiscal contribution per person in France, by immigrant origin Euros, adjusted to 2005 prices Population 2001 2006 2011 Native-born French +€314 +€28 –€738 All immigrants –€92 –€278 –€1,618 EU immigrants +€1,705 +€308 –€1,843 Non-EU immigrants –€1,185 –€594 –€1,508 Source: Chojnicki, Ragot & Sokhna (2022), The Fiscal Impact of 30 Years of Immigration in France, Revue économique. Figures represent estimated annual taxes and contributions minus attributed public expenditure per person, not lifetime fiscal balances. Non-EU includes immigrants from former French colonies and other non-EU countries.

www.oecd.org

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/international-migration-outlook-2021_29f23e

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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺@AvidCommentator Sun 9:36am

Looting and defacing statues of French historical heroes and Saints, you can really see how this is about students having air conditioning in school...

Océane@gtylgrn2 Sun 4:51am

Pillage des Galeries Lafayette de Bordeaux, venant tout juste d’être rénové #17octobre

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John Papola@JohnPapola Sun 12:00pm

France is being burned to the ground by islamo-communist revolutionaries. And yet here in the US we have a mass of negative-information voters here gearing up to vote for these monsters domestic (terror) allies next month. "But gas is too high!" will never ever been a coherent reason to vote for team climate-crisis-just-stop-oil-ban-fracking-I'm-a-commie-liar-child-mutilator. We live in the age of HL Mencken: where democracy is indeed the theory that the public knows what it wants and deserves to get it good and hard. Of course, the French didn't want barbarian hordes to be

invited into their country. Their elite did it against their objections. But that's cold populist comfort since the French DO want a progressive welfare state that is completely unsustainable. So, it's not just "the elite" that did this to France. Being burned to the ground is the natural end state of progressivism.

Visegrád 24@visegrad24 Sun 9:03am

Rioters with Palestinian flags burnt down this building in Limoges, France tonight. It was built in 1873 by a generation of French men born just after the Napoleonic wars.

The image shows the exterior of a grand, classical-style building with a clock tower and ornate stonework, likely a city hall, viewed from across a plaza. In the foreground, an elaborate bronze fountain stands to the right, while a few pedestrians walk near the base of the building under a clear blu

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DHH@dhh Sun 1:00pm

Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe. There is no issue more urgent before the continent than to correct this mistake.

Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital Sun 5:06am

There is no magic soil. A nation is simply it's people.

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DHH@dhh Sun 1:06pm

Europe doesn't have to continue like this. Every day is a new chance to say "enough". Then act as if the continent's future depended on it. Because it does.

Steven Barrett@SBarrettBar Sun 7:31am

The rioting migrants destroyed this today They hate beauty

The image shows an ornate ceiling fresco depicting mythological figures flying through clouds, framed by elaborate gilded stucco work. A small signature at the bottom of the painting reads "P. BAUDRY. 1883." — text in image
P. BAUDRY. 1883.

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Shellenberger and Australian right pile onto Anika Wells over censorship bill

Michael Shellenberger's fight with Communications Minister Anika Wells is the loudest version of a week-long argument about Labor's Digital Duty of Care bill. He told his followers that Wells and @AlboMP "hate the public doing the fact-checking through @CommunityNotes" and want Labor ideologues to decide the truth for the whole internet "like Big Brother". @shellenberger The thread was a reply to @ellymelly's post taking apart Wells's National Press Club line about a billionaire stripping a platform of moderation. @shellenberger

News24 ran the story that Shellenberger told a Labor-staff meeting that left him feeling like he "was in Soviet Russia". @News24Aust

@ausvstheagenda set Wells's 2019 complaints about restricted free speech against her "Fuck your free speech." of 15 October 2026. @goodfoodgal: "We are paying this corrupt, grifting politician to take away our freedom of speech." Pauline Hanson called the bill unfixable, with her chief of staff explaining why, in a clip that has the government set to back down on ministerial discretion. @PaulineHansonOz

Alexandra Marshall@ellymelly Sat 10:26pm

Let's talk about MISINFORMATION and FAKE NEWS, Anika Wells - Minister for Communication. You said at the National Press Club - and stated as a position of fact: "...where a billionaire can buy a platform and strip it of moderation." This is very clearly a reference to @elonmusk purchasing Twitter. You are a government minister proposing some of the largest fines in the history of social media - and yet you are beginning your objective from a position of untruth. Twitter - now X - was

NOT 'stripped of moderation'. X has - and has always had - one of the stricter and more responsive systems of automatic and user-reported community safety guidelines in the industry. X responds faster to complaints than the government - that's for sure. None of these systems disappeared. None of them vanished. To imply that X has been 'stripped of moderation' is to spread misinformation about an individual, their intent, and the company activity for the purpose of justifying a new law with severe financial consequences. What did Elon Musk do that upset the Australian government so much? He made public the previously secret 'takedown orders' made during the Covid pandemic which robbed victims of government policy of their voice. The Australian government - quite literally - tried to silence the injured and bereaved. The government tried to silence information and scientists who disagreed with a political policy that cost lives, broke privacy laws, broke human rights norms, and forever crippled the economy. The government leaned on social media - threatened social media - and made social media complicit in HIDING the serious consequences of their Covid and Climate Change policies. A relationship they obviously want to re-establish via the coercive force of fines. In other words, Elon Musk embarrassed the government and exposed censorial demands that go against public expectation. And the government want it stopped. Elon Musk also removed OVERT POLITICAL CENSORSHIP that had been silencing conservatives online and removing criticism of progressive and left-wing policy and narratives. That is - and in particular - he removed Covid, Climate Change, and biological censorship that was corrupting the truth with political propaganda. Musk REMOVED a layer of political influence from X and in doing so left-wing governments around the world immediately had an angry public on their hands and the consequences are being felt at elections. Anika Wells should be forced to RETRACT and APOLOGISE for her comments and the untruth that she said in front of the National Press Gallery while speaking from a position of power. And if not, let's hope Elon Musk can use this against the Australian government in the future.

Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger Sun 9:43am

@ellymelly .@AnikaWells and @AlboMP hate the public doing the fact-checking through @CommunityNotes and want Labor Party ideologues to decide the truth for the entire Internet like Big Brother. They’ve made their hatred of the Australian people abundantly clear

@ellymelly @AnikaWells @AlboMP @CommunityNotes *hatred and fear

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Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺@PaulineHansonOz Sun 10:04am

Labor’s Digital Duty of Care censorship bill can’t be fixed. Here’s One Nation’s chief of staff explaining why.

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Anthony Khallouf@ausvstheagenda Sat 1:43pm

Anika Wells on 5 December 2019: Complaining that the Morrison Government is restricting her freedom of speech, right to protest and debate in Parliament. Anika Wells on 15 October 2026: Fuck your free speech.

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Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸@goodfoodgal Fri 8:33am

We are paying this corrupt, grifting politician to take away our freedom of speech. Wake up Australia! This is NOT OK.

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News24 Australia@News24Aust Sun 6:22am

A high-profile academic captured the chaos over Labor's Digital Duty of Care bill perfectly as he recalled a meeting with two Labor employees that left him feeling like he “was in Soviet Russia”, writes Louise Roberts. news24.com.au/opinion/us-author-michael-shellenb

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Author skewers Labor's 'censorship' bill after wild clash with Labor reps

There is a blindingly obvious difference between stopping a revolting predator from grooming a child online and deciding which opinions are too dangerous to be heard.

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Oracle's CDS hits 300bps as a weekend MU crash spooks markets

@zerohedge says Oracle was "the first domino to fall" in the AI-trade unwind. Its CDS hit 300bps, up from 75bps last November. "This is just the start." The linked piece says Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt to sell, arguing it "would run out of cash by the November 2026 quarter." @zerohedge Elsewhere @zerohedge pointed to Goldman seeing AI capitulation as hedge fund gains evaporate.

Then the weekend. @HandsomeBear: "$MU hyperliquid just went through the floor". His chart shows MU at $826.97, down 5.62%. @ThinkingUSD saw the same drop: "They're so nervous they're raping it on the weekend". @dgt10011 said the xyz pairs were signalling something: "Might be an ugly Monday" and "Wall Street totally unaware".

On the sentiment side, @fejau_inc shared a clip of Brad Gerstner talking bullish on AI while his exposure was at its lowest in three years, with "Welcome to the thunderdome baby".

zerohedge@zerohedge Sun 11:27am

One year later, Oracle was indeed the first domino to fall: it's by far the biggest credit smashed by the unwind of the AI trade, and its CDS just hit 300bps, up from 75bps last November. This is just the start.

A line chart displays the upward trajectory of Oracle's credit default swap (CDS) rate, titled "ORCL CDS hits record 300bps." The red line graph shows a significant spike in the final period, reaching a last price of 300.575 as indicated in the legend and on the y-axis. — text in image
ORCL CDS hits record 300bps ORCLCP CDS USD 5Y D14 - Last Price 300.575 Oct 2025 Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May 2026 Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct 50 100 150 200 250 300.575

zerohedge@zerohedge Wed 3:34am

Oracle Is First AI Domino To Drop After Barclays Downgrades Its Debt To Sell zerohedge.com/markets/oracle-first-ai-domino-dro

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Oracle Is First AI Domino To Fall After Barclays Downgrades Its Debt To Sell

"ORCL would run out of cash by the November 2026 quarter, implying substantial funding needs."

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🐻@HandsomeBear Sun 8:28am

$MU hyperliquid just went through the floor

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Flood@ThinkingUSD Sun 9:07am

They're so nervous they're raping it on the weekend Hyperliquid

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zerohedge@zerohedge Sun 7:30am

"The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far": Goldman Sees AI Capitulation As Hedge Fund Gains Evaporate zerohedge.com/markets/pendulum-has-swung-too-far

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"The Pendulum Has Swung Too Far": Goldman Sees AI Capitulation As Hedge Fund Gains Evaporate

..."absurd narrative volatility" hides the real AI trade...

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fejau@fejau_inc Sun 6:05am

Welcome to the thunderdome baby

Joseph Carlson@joecarlsonshow Sun 4:47am

Brad Gerstner went onto TV, said how bullish he is on AI, painted a super positive picture, and it only became apparent to the viewer that he has been selling after the host pointed out that he’s taken his exposure down. Then Brad goes on to explain his exposure has been taken down to “medium small” and is the lowest it’s been in 3 years. All of this was only discussed after the host pointed it out. @altcap do you think that’s fair to the viewer? You tried to paint

some artificial dichotomy of the hedge fund being different. Do you believe that viewers aren’t smart enough to understand short term vs long term or is that type of commentary only reserved for the sophisticated hedge funds? I think you should reconsider how you communicate to investors on TV. If you led by saying “I’m bullish on AI long term but I’m concerned about valuations today so I’ve taken exposure down” that would be completely fine. But just saying you’re long term bullish without mentioning you’re currently selling is really lame.

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Jeff Park@dgt10011 Sun 9:40am

Stock xyz pairs telling you something is up this wknd Might be an ugly Monday Wall Street totally unaware

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2 posts from @CBHeresy

Frank McCormick@CBHeresy Sat 2:54pm

Would this make you feel better?

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McCormick ASSIGNED DILL AT BIRTH DILL WEED NET WT 0.5 OZ (14 g)

🌹🏳️‍⚧️🫪@BaileePolitics Fri 5:19am

Note to boycott McCormick for its weird racist beliefs

Frank McCormick@CBHeresy Wed 6:25am

@SenWarren My grandfather built McCormick Spices from nothing after your ancestors tomahawked his wife and kids. I'll be damned if you take another scalp from my family fortune!

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Bit Paine ⚡️@BitPaine Sun 6:12am

10/10 no notes

Frank McCormick@CBHeresy Sat 2:54pm

Would this make you feel better?

🌹🏳️‍⚧️🫪@BaileePolitics Fri 5:19am

Note to boycott McCormick for its weird racist beliefs

Frank McCormick@CBHeresy Wed 6:25am

@SenWarren My grandfather built McCormick Spices from nothing after your ancestors tomahawked his wife and kids. I'll be damned if you take another scalp from my family fortune!

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Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele Sun 9:32am

Controlled demolition.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 10:23am

Shot and chaser.

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Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum This didn’t age well. Husband went for a run today and got a face full of tear gas. Rioters and very intense police presence everywhere. Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum · Oct 16 Reminder x1000 Twitter isn’t real life. Whatever “riots” there are in Paris must be siloed to one side street. Been here for days and it’s been peace quiet and sunshine.

Beautiful

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Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum In all seriousness someone should get the art out of the louvre

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 6:23am

We interviewed renowned Parisian chef Remy, commonly referred to as "Little Chef," and asked for his thoughts on the riots in Paris. He claims "This isn't the Paris I grew up in," and then squeaked and ran away.

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THIS ISN'T THE PARIS I GREW UP IN

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 11:23am

NEW: Rioters in France have destroyed another major cultural landmark. Just like that history gone! 😭

The image shows the Cinderella Castle at a Disney theme park, decorated with blue and gold accents for a 50th anniversary celebration. It is presented as a visual punchline to a post falsely claiming rioters in France destroyed a cultural landmark.

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This is a shitpost. They did not burn down the Disney Castle.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 11:52am

CBS deleted the "scuffles" post.

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Wouldn't be surprised if they reposted it and took a "BOYS WILL BE BOYS!" angle

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Sat 5:53am

The reduction in homicide experienced by El Salvador is the most extreme fall ever recorded.

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No Homicide Spike Since 1990 Has Unwound Like El Salvador's. Homicide rate after each of 31 national peaks (≥20 per 100,000, countries >1M people), indexed to the peak year. 200%, 100%, Median Peak, 30%, 10%, Albania 1997 (Next Lowest), 3%, 1%, El Salvador (2015 Peak). Homicide Rate (% of Peak, Log Scale). Years Since Peak. Chart by Crémieux Recueil, @cremieuxrecueil. Source: World Bank WDI (UNODC); El Salvador Security Cabinet 2023-2025; author calculations.

Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Thu 5:09am

My latest article is about El Salvador. The country has become safe--I've rigorously documented that and shown that every objection falls flat--but will that lead to growth? Will El Salvador become rich? Link: cremieux.xyz/p/will-el-salvador-grow

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Will El Salvador Grow? They banished the gangs and cut crime, but is that going to bring flourishing? Cremieux Recueil WWW.CREMIEUX.XYZ

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Matthias Schmidt@eurofounder Sat 4:38am

BREAKING: Volkswagen announces a European rival to Tesla’s “flying” Roadster Some insane confirmed features: 1. Top speed limited to 110 km/h 2. Automatically reports speeding to authorities 3. Automatically turns off the AC if outside temperature is below 35°C 4. Car will not start when public transport option exists on your route 5. Built-in system reminds you how much CO₂ your trip produced Launch expected after EU regulatory approval in 2068 It is truly completely over for Tesla

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𝒮𝓊𝑒 𝑀𝒶𝒸@GreatBig_Sea Sun 5:19am

The jokes write themselves. 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

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Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD X.com Boycott Elon Musk products. 11:24 AM · 2026-10-17 · 17K Views 881 138 927 7 Relevant View quotes

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pagliacci the hated 🌝@Slatzism Sun 7:11am

sincerely, what was he was even attempting to do here? what did he actually think would happen when he tied ropes around his neck and then had four motorcycles pull the ropes? did he think he could stop the motorcycles through sheer force of izzat or something?

Daily Front@Daily__Front Sat 8:34pm

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 🇮🇳 Indian magician dies during a live performance after a dangerous stunt goes horribly wrong.

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Dr -ck@ckpooldev Sun 7:30am

Saturn captured in colour on 2026-10-14.

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Saturn, Tethys, Rhea, & Mimas 30min derotation. Moons shown brighter than captured 2026-10-14, 11:31:36 UTC CM1:57.3" CM2:26.2" CM3:41.1" LS:198° Alt:42° Dia:19.7" Mag:0.4 Con Kolivas, Melbourne Australia +145°03' :-37°40' Meade LX200 EMC18, Siebert barlow, ZWO ADC, Player One Uranus-C

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Ovrnundr@Ovrnundr Sun 5:26am

Satoshi Nakamoto FW26

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$$ I Broke the Bank $$ AT THE SATOSHI TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT. I [heart] YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN SATOSHI SERIE SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SATOSHI NAKAMOTO

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SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SATOSHI

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SITOS NAKAMOTO

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SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SATOSHI Satoshi SATOSHI NAKAMOTO SATOSHI NAKAMOTO

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The Babylon Bee@TheBabylonBee Sun 6:00am

Palestinians Finally Granted Own Country buff.ly/Zq9nMcT

babylonbee.com

Palestinians Finally Granted Own Country

PARIS — At long last, the Palestinian people finally have a land to truly call their own.

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DHH@dhh Sun 12:17pm

"[Linux] is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be." — Linus lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3t

lore.kernel.org

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmE

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hungrybox@LiquidHbox Sun 11:57am

Can I be honest for a sec? Regarding LLMs in gaming, I feel more confused than ever. And I would like my peers and other people who are familiar in this field to chime in. It’s barely been a week since I made my post about distancing myself from a vibe coded project made by my friend in Smash. I even said “AI has no place in gaming”. After I made that post, I was reached out to by multiple colleagues in the space and people hired full time in software development.

They educated me severely on the topic and I feel dumb now for my earlier sentiments. I was informed by my colleagues that it is now the norm to do 90% (and this is low estimate apparently) of all your coding with AI assistance or vibe coding. 75% of all new code at Google is made by AI and engineer approved. The vast majority of all the apps we use now are updated or maintained with AI coding - I imagine that also goes for Twitter, the very app you’re reading this on. So I figured okay - it’s here to stay in all software development - but where does that leave video games? I saw the posts from Epic Games, XBOX, and other publishers that seem to embrace the new era instead of rejecting it. In the last week I’ve been sent about a dozen different projects like this one that dissect and reintegrate Melee in multitudes of creative ways. One of them is even a build of Melee that runs natively at 120FPS and one of them simulates the feeling of a CRT almost perfectly. Some of them feel silly and useless, like low effort projects someone probably gave a single prompt and an ISO of Melee to build. Actual slop. And yet some feel like legitimately useful things that the community or people practicing could benefit from. I’m doing my best to navigate what is clearly a rapidly changing sector, especially when we regard the question of “Are Video Games Art?” And since they clearly are art, does that render AI in its development a bastardized amalgamation of what’s been “learned” from people with actual original ideas? Or is it strictly optimal to use AI in game development because games ARE software and therefore a necessary tool to wield in this day and age? I am making this post because I need more guidance on this topic and I feel open discussion on it might be the best way to do that.

walz@walz_dev Sun 5:30am

Check the disc... Super Smash Bros. Melee is now an arena fighter! Fight it out on familiar stages reimagined for a 3D world. Welcome to the third dimension!

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Theo - t3.gg@theo Sun 8:08am

This is the 2nd most common and I like it much more 🙏

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Ege Today 14:05 T3 code is too good, like how the fuck did you guys make a better remote and better subagent system than the native harnesses holy fuck I’m impressed Lmk if we can improve anything! Seen

To be fair there’s been a lot more of these lately 🫡

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Message Requests Other Asiri Senaratne 14m G'day Theo, I wanted to reach out, and ch... Charlie Grant 16m T3 is great! Jacob White 18m Hi Theo, big fan of t3 code and use the iPh... Mason Dudley 30m Please give in and make a Grok bot/perso... Regarding Data Centers 32m Can you guys create a single agent that se... Karim 37m I fucking love t3 code. Just please make th... Daniel Zambrano 42m The orchestrator V2 low-key made me thi... Sebastian Koning 51m I love t3codes, amazing product thank you...

Theo - t3.gg@theo Sat 5:23am

Most common format of DMs I get: “Hey Theo, I’ve been a fan for a long time [3-8 paragraph life story] So, which $20 plan is better, Claude or Codex?”

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Sun 10:03am

I've had this confirmed by several home offices: there are *way* more billionaires than are documented. And, if we look at the (somewhat less meritocratic than them) Forbes 400, we see that most are now self-made!

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Where The Forbes 400 Fortunes Come From As of 2025, Most Billionaires on the Forbes 400 List are Self-Made Inheritance / inherited business | Other / score 6-10 | Score 6: hired hand or investor Main Industry of Current Wealth Finance & Investments 113 (28.2%) Technology 82 (20.5%) Food & Beverage 38 (9.5%) Fashion & Retail 26 (6.5%) Energy 23 (5.8%) Media & Entertainment 20 (5.0%) Real Estate 18 (4.5%) Sports 16 (4.0%) Manufacturing 14 (3.5%) Healthcare 13 (3.2%) Service 12 (3.0%) Diversified 8 (2.0%) Automotive 7 (1.8%) Gambling & Casinos 3 (0.8%) Logistics 3 (0.8%) Telecom 2 (0.5%) Construction & Engineering 2 (0.5%) Origin Route Inherited fortune (passive/managed) 50 (12.5%) Inherited fortune grown by heir 43 (10.8%) Inherited business scaled to billions 25 (6.2%) Executive/investor; not founder 11 (2.8%) Self-made with wealthy head start 40 (10.0%) Self-made from middle/upper-middle class 155 (38.8%) Self-made from little or adversity 76 (19.0%) Chart by Crémieux Recueil, @cremieuxrecueil Source: Forbes 400 2025 API; Forbes Self-Made Score Methodology

Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil Tue 4:53am

I believe there are easily more than twice as many billionaires as Forbes records. ~3,000 is far too low a number, and I know it's too low because (1) everyone on the list *is* a billionaire, and (2) I know many who are not listed. Surely there are more, especially in China.

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Regions | Forbes Legible | Predicted by GDP | Predicted - Actual / Billionaire deficit SE Asia | 64 | 123 | 59 Latin America | 94 | 273 | 179 East Asia | 691 | 1774 | 1083 Russia | 140 | 129 | -11 MENA | 72 | 220 | 148 SS Africa | 14 | 32 | 18 South Asia | 207 | 129 | -78 Central Asia and Eastern Europe | 41 | 98 | 57 USA | 902 | 1094 | 192 West minus USA | 764 | 1427 | 663 | 2,989 | 5,298 | 2,309 | | 200 - 400 | Drugs | | 1000 | Middle East | | 5 | Crypto - excluding the ~6 known crypto billionaires and ~17 platform billionaires | | 100 - 250 | Trusts and Foundations | | 200 | Kleptocrats | | 6,978 | Total | | 4.6k - 8k | Catch and Release Panama / Pandora Papers estimate

seb@jensenjeans Sat 12:11pm

Most billionaires aren't known to Forbes performativebafflement.substack.com/p/3k-it-is-t

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 12:14pm

Wait, what?

The Hormuz Letter@HormuzLetter Sun 11:23am

BREAKING: The UK will deliver a speech to the British people asking them to be prepared for war and to make major sacrifices, per Army chief Roly Walker. Every citizen will be asked to make sacrifices, Walker says. The UK needs to "take the fight to the enemy," he says.

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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital Sun 8:32am

You have no choice but to save the United States. There is literally nowhere left to go. This is it. The last bastion. The Alamo. Last stop Saloon. If the US completely falls, it's checkmate Earth. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you can't opt out. There is no Shire.

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