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Pelicomic noted that some had linked the artifacts shown at the NY Comic Con to the idea that Doctor Doom had gathered Ultron, Thanos, and Venom's symbiote, but stated that they belonged to Fortnite and not to Avengers Doomsday. https://t.co/iqz7QWXhlb #Fortnite #ComicCon #DoctorDoom (translated)

The Return to Feudalism in 21st Century Garb A simple observer's viewpoint, with no claim to hold any absolute truth. The Veneer Cracks There is something strangely archaic about the world unfolding before our eyes, despite its satellites, artificial intelligence, and promises of infinite progress. Here and there, we witness heads of state behaving like feudal lords of another age, patiently nibbling away at the neighboring territory, redrawing borders through force rather than law, as if governing a nation mattered less than expanding one's fiefdom. No names need be mentioned here: current events provide plenty of illustration, and each reader will recognize, according to their own geography and moment of reading, the faces that embody this observation. But this return to the archaic is not confined to grand geopolitical stages. It also permeates the most ordinary daily life—that of social media, where anyone can pour out venom against another without filter, without form, and often without the slightest argument. The verbal jousting of yesteryear, with its codes, its rhetoric, its tacit limits, has given way to raw invective, snap judgment, instant condemnation. We no longer debate: we execute, verbally—and sometimes it doesn't stop at words. The Vanished Inhibition What strikes one, in this dual observation—macro-political and micro-social—is the lifting of an inhibition we thought firmly anchored. Centuries of cultural construction, education, philosophy, sometimes religion, had patiently shaped mechanisms of restraint: politeness as social ritual, argumentation as a mode of resolving disagreement, respect for one's opponent as the very foundation of democratic debate. This civilizational veneer, however fragile it always was, seemed to hold. Today it is cracking, and the question—which for me remains a simple hypothesis, not a certainty—is why. A convenient explanation would blame social media: anonymity, the distance of the screen, the instantaneousness of publication would favor verbal acting-out without the usual mediation of reflection. This is probably true, but likely insufficient. For technology here is only an accelerant, an amplifier—not necessarily a root cause. A Poorly Formatted Neocortex? The more unsettling hypothesis—and I frame it explicitly as hypothesis, not scientifically established fact—is that of a failure in the formation of moral judgment and tolerance toward otherness. The human brain possesses the neural structures enabling empathy, the distancing of impulsive reaction, the acceptance of difference—but these capacities are not innate in their full exercise: they must be built, educated, cultivated, like a muscle that needs patient training from childhood onward. If this education in otherness, nuance, and tolerance of disagreement erodes—for multiple and undoubtedly complex reasons that are not mine to settle here—then older reflexes resurface: instinctive distrust of the stranger outside the clan, the law of the strongest, the logic of territorial or symbolic predation. The other ceases to be a possible interlocutor and becomes once again a potential threat, unless they belong to my tribe, my clan, my party, my digital bubble. Two Scales, One Logic What is striking, in this deliberately provocative reading, is the structural similarity between these two scales. The leader who invades a neighbor in the name of a rediscovered greatness or a reinvented historical right, and the anonymous internet user who insults a stranger in the name of an unnegotiable conviction, may obey the same underlying grammar: that of territory to defend, clan to protect, the other to subdue or exclude rather than understand. The form has changed—satellites instead of horses, tweets instead of heralds—but the substance, in this reading that remains mine alone and commits no one else, seems strangely identical to that of feudal rivalries: the absence of a recognized third party, of an accepted common rule, of a respected arbitrating authority. Everyone becomes judge and party, lord of their own digital or territorial fiefdom. A Civilization on a Knife's Edge Norbert Elias, in his Civilizing Process, showed how Western societies had historically built, with remarkable slowness, an increasing control over impulses and direct violence, in favor of more sublimated forms of social regulation. What we may be observing today—and I stress again the conditional—is a form of regression in this process, or at least a fragilization of the veneer it had patiently laid down. Should we see this as an effect of great technological accelerations, which shake up our cognitive rhythms without leaving education time to adapt? A deeper crisis of the institutions tasked with transmitting these values of tolerance—school, family, religion, the rule of law? Or simply a cyclical movement of human history, where phases of policed civilization alternate with darker backlashes? I have no certain answer, and I would be wary of anyone claiming to hold one. In Conclusion, a Shared Concern This text is only a viewpoint, necessarily partial and subjective, on a world that sometimes seems to replay ancient logics in new clothing. Perhaps I am wrong to perceive a continuity between the feudal lord and the contemporary dictator, between the anonymous online insult and the absence of education in nuance. Perhaps these phenomena are unrelated, or too complex to be thus summarized. But if this reading, even partially, hits the mark, then the question that arises is less one of technological regulation—though necessary—than the far more arduous question of how to rebuild, generation after generation, this capacity to accept the other in their difference, to debate without destroying, to coexist without necessarily dominating. This undertaking, if it exists, will not be resolved by an algorithm nor by an international treaty. It plays out, patiently, in the most elementary education—the one that teaches a child that the other is not a threat, but a possibility. Bibliography Elias, N. (1939). Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process]. Oxford: Blackwell (Eng. trans. 1978-1982). Lorenz, K. (1963). Das sogenannte Böse [On Aggression]. London: Methuen (Eng. trans. 1966). Arendt, H. (1970). On Violence. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Han, B.-C. (2013). Im Schwarm [In the Swarm: Digital Prospects]. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Eng. trans. 2017).

That REDACTED Guy afirma que Peter conservará los poderes de Anti-Venom tanto en Venom como en Spider-Man 3. En teoría, Venom tendría 3 personajes jugables: Peter, Miles y el propio Venom. Además, el traje de Anti-Venom recibiría un rediseño. https://t.co/PffXn3DnsI #Venom #SpiderMan #AntiVenom

🚨💣 AHORA: @MIBR ANUNCIÓ LA CONTRATACIÓN DE @tomaszincs 🇦🇷 PARA SU ROSTER DE CS2. El jugador argentino pasa a formar parte del equipo brasilero y ya tiene fecha de debut: 2/9 en el closed de IEM Beijing. MIBR: 🇦🇷 tomaszin 🇧🇷 insani 🇧🇷 venomzera 🇧🇷 nqz 🇸🇪 LNZ Equipazo. https://t.co/uXl9qX2SJE #CS2 #MIBR #eSports

Mein neues Buch: Der letzte Notruf. Deutschland, wir müssen reden. Dieses Buch ist mehr als ein Buch. Es ist eine Einladung, hinzusehen, nachzudenken und mitzudiskutieren. Ich habe jede Seite mit der Überzeugung geschrieben, dass Schweigen keine Lösung ist und wir die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit offen ansprechen müssen. Ab sofort ist mein neues Buch vorbestellbar. Ab Januar findet ihr es im Buchhandel. Ich danke euch für eure Unterstützung und freue mich auf alles, was jetzt kommt. https://t.co/7MaYieDmjO Video: @venompictures #Buchneuheit #Lesen #Diskussion

Po tragické nehodě vrtulníku UH-1Y Venom, při které zahynula vojákyně, zůstávají všech jedenáct strojů H-1 na zemi, což výrazně komplikuje provoz a výcvik českého letectva, které je nyní odkázáno pouze na starší techniku a čeká na vyšetření příčin pádu. #vrtulník #tragédie #armáda

Vojáci zranění při nehodě vrtulníku Venom v Náměšti nad Oslavou jsou stabilizovaní a mimo ohrožení života, zatímco armáda pozastavila provoz všech vrtulníků této značky do doby vyšetřování, po tragédii, při které zemřela jedna vojákyně a čtyři další byli zraněni. #vrtulník #nehoda #armáda

Vojáci zranění při nehodě vrtulníku na základně v Náměšti nad Oslavou jsou stabilizovaní a mimo ohrožení života, přičemž armáda pozastavila provoz všech vrtulníků Venom a Viper do ukončení vyšetřování, zatímco zraněným a jejich rodinám poskytuje maximální podporu. #vrtulník #Náměšť #zranění

Článek informuje o tragické nehodě vrtulníku UH-1Y Venom české armády, který se zřítil během přistávacího manévru a vedl k úmrtí jedné vojákyně a zranění dalších čtyř osob, přičemž vyšetřovatelé se zabývají příčinami incidentu, zřejmě způsobeného ztrátou účinnosti ocasního rotoru, a armáda kvůli tomuto tragickému incidentu pozastavila provoz všech zbývajících strojů tohoto typu. #vrtulník #nehoda #armáda

👉https://t.co/kDwpAVTYE3 👈 ‼️V Náměšti nad Oslavou se zřítil nejmodernější armádní vrtulník Venom s pěti vojáky na palubě. ‼️ Pád nastal během přistání asi 50 metrů nad zemí. Jedna vojákyně bohužel zemřela. Jde o naše nejmodernější vrtulníky, dodané z USA. Osm těchto strojů https://t.co/s0DRk07F1N #Vrtulník #Náměšť #Armáda #CZ #US