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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/02/2025
We’re in a bubble. When it pops it is going to be really ugly. Ilya Sutskever’s new company has no product and is raising $1 billion at a $30bn valuation. Mira Murati’s new company just announced a complete nothing burger. The longer this goes on the worse it will be. techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/s...
 Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B
Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago.
Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion dollars. Should the terms of the round not change, the fundraising would bring Safe Superintelligence’s total raised to roughly $2 billion.
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Cameron Thomas MP 🔶 @libdemcam.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is gripping, expertly laying out the evidence of Russian espionage and chemical warfare against Britain throughout the last decade. The case against Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party is devastating, as it is against the security services for inaction.
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A Meeting at the Carlton Club
Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · Episode
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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Wife: [kissing me] Let’s roleplay Me: ok Wife: Pretend you’re my daddy Me: ok Wife I’ve been a bad girl Me: why’d you marry that idiot
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A FOIA Files SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Targets #FOIA Requests at Agency Under its Purview DOGE also wants to be notified when there’s any attempt at oversight from Congress, inspectors general, even the Government Accountability Office. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Alice Echtermann @echt-alice.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The @nytimes.com sums up what we are dealing with in Germany at the moment, also citing our report on Storm-1516. This amount of foreign disinformation targeting an election in Germany is unprecedented. The world has changed a lot in 4 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...
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Between Russia and Elon Musk, German Voters Face a ‘Dual Front’ of Disinformation
In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.
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Incomplete Machine @incompletemachine.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hi. I'm British, with a modicum of history knowledge. the partition of India and the founding of Israel were both epochal mistakes that the former British empire made and we should, by rights, regret deeply. do not repeat them. it will not end well.
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Dr. Lisa Munro (she/her) @llmunro.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Some days I wish I was still teaching because I had this whole lecture about whether dictatorship was the logical endpoint of neoliberalism and it seems really relevant right now
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Conversations about social justice and conversations about the reality of white supremacist, patriarchal capitalism were so threatening to the wealth class that they spent unbelievable amounts of time using corporate organs of communication to undermine them while turning to fascism as the response.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The threat intelligence team at one of the department's agencies recommended that Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with access to the US Treasury Department’s payment systems for over a week be monitored as an “insider threat.”? www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025
"Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/02/2025
Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...
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UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted
In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Red Teaming risks in generative AI products. airedteamwhitepapers.blob.core.windows.net/lessonswhite...
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amarghuman.bsky.social @amarghuman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Sky’s the Limit – Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky alliance4europe.eu/doppelganger...
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Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe
This flash report describes the key behaviours of what is likely the Russian influence operation Doppelgänger’s expansion to Bluesky.
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Gosh, sounds like fair use to me. It's not like OpenAI / Microsoft cared one bit about licenses or copyright when they absorbed my entire legal blog into their LLMs via Common Crawl. Why should their probabilistic LLM outputs get better copyright protection than my original human work?
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report
The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots
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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 27/01/2025
The people behind deepseek are exactly saying this They were like hey, let’s try to do this more efficiently seems fun. They did And in an interview they said well that was fun, but if you ask me what commercial value it holds I would say barely nothing
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/01/2025
I should add "Masayoshi Son of SoftBank invests billions into company just before they're demolished by market conditions" is almost cliche at this point
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/01/2025
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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𝙽𝙴𝚃𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙴𝙲 @netresec.com · 27/01/2025
A TLS firewall is similar to a DNS firewall, except it blocks connections to unwanted websites even if the DNS traffic is encrypted. netresec.com?b=2515cf0
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Blocking Malicious sites with a TLS Firewall
Over 90 percent of all web traffic is encrypted nowadays, which is great of course. However, as HTTP and DNS traffic gets encrypted, defenders have a more difficult time blocking malicious network tra...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's why, like the Robber Barons, the techbro billionaire strategy always ultimately lands on: - Engineer a monopoly - Keep a monopoly Because they have no concept of how success can come any other way.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest. They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0. It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/01/2025
So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...
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Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Massive Chinese Phone System Hack
For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump administration has effectively kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious…
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Game-changer in AI. The Chinese have made a low-cost model that is on the level of OpenAI's GPT4o and o1 (‘chain of thought’). Anyone with a decent computer and a new smartphone can install this locally and use it without internet access? Data is not transferred anywhere. It's private AI.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Security flaws in a Subaru web portal let hackers unlock, start ignition or access a year of detailed location history for millions of cars. The flaws are now patched. But they revealed powerful tracking abilities that Subaru employees can still access. www.wired.com/story/subaru...
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Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars
Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still ca...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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amarghuman.bsky.social @amarghuman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Anticipating the Character of War: Looking Out to 2030 open.substack.com/pub/mickryan...
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Anticipating the Character of War: Looking Out to 2030
A new paper on the future security environment to 2030, a collaboration between Clint Hinote and myself, has just been released by the Special Competitive Studies Project.
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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥🌴🐦𝕊𝕜𝕪𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕕 ℍ𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟🦋 @margaretsiegien.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Spectacular Florida Sunrise Photography 🌅📷❤️🌴☀️ #photographer
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention www.404media.co/decentralize...
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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/01/2025
Wrote a longish post explaining why Bluesky is enshittification-resistant (not enshittification-proof, mind you, but resistant). I expect some people to get mad about this, but for folks who are concerned/trying to understand... The key: it has a tech poison pill. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...
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The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here's a framework for classifying data pipeline outcomes under algorithmic paradigms. This taxonomy examines input-output differentials, emergent properties, and systemic feedback loops. Insights for optimizing data integrity in enterprise-grade deployments. 🧐
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amarghuman.bsky.social @amarghuman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The End of the Male Feminist From Louis C.K. to Justin Baldoni to Neil Gaiman, it’s clearer than ever that an enlightened persona in public can mask heinous behavior in private. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Neil Gaiman, Justin Baldoni, and the End of the Male Feminist
This ignominious crew of famous men seemed to align with women against sexist oppression in public as they mistreated women in private.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If you expressed “negative sentiment” toward insurance companies on social media following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, the government was watching:
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Government Monitoring Those With "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies
New documents reveal flurry of intelligence activity following Luigi Mangione's arrest
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/01/2025
Okay, here it is. 7500ish words on how the narrative that Zuck spread on Rogan is bullshit, but partly it's because Rogan was too incurious to actually listen to what Zuck was saying, and Zuck didn't want to correct him. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...
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Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged
If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in …
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