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New here. Builder. Currently working on starstack.eu, pixelharbor.io, modelalert.ai. Based in Munich (coffee?). 🇪🇺♥️

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
All five UK nuclear-powered attack submarines are now in maintenance. Not a single one can put to sea.
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Former sub captain says problems run deep – unlike Astute boats, as all five remain in dock
Ryan Ramsey said that past assumptions that the Royal Navy's current nuclear fleet was sufficient to be a world-leading anti-submarine warfare player were wrong
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ECFR @ecfr.eu · 10/06/2026
✍️New public opinion polling Like little Kevin in the film, European citizens have woken up to an uncomfortable truth: they've been left Home Alone - by an America on whom many thought they could depend, write bsky.app/profile/jkob... & @pawelzerka.bsky.social ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Home alone: Europeans are ready to defend themselves – European Council on Foreign Relations
A major ECFR poll finds the European public, in a time of rupture, thinking differently and questioning old assumptions. It reveals new political space availabl
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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 08/06/2026
Growth in Chinese installations of solar panels is falling • In 2026 installations could fall by ~33% from 2025, denting global demand for first time in two decades • Chinese grids require huge investments in batteries and power lines to accomodate more solar panels www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🇩🇰 Mette Frederiksen has clinched a third term as prime minister after forming a centre-left coalition. She will lead a minority government backed by her Social Democrats, the Social Liberals, the Left Greens and the centrist Moderates.
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Sebastian Meineck @sebmeineck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Scoop: In mindestens zwei Bundesländern hat sich die Polizei Daten aus der Werbe-Industrie beschafft, wie unsere Recherchen mit @brkommunikation.bsky.social erstmals zeigen. Mit solchen Daten könnten sich Handys metergenau orten lassen. #DatabrokerFiles netzpolitik.org/2026/daten-s... 1/4
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Deutsche Polizei nutzt offenbar rechtswidrig Databroker
In mindestens zwei Bundesländern hat sich die Polizei Daten aus der Werbe-Industrie beschafft, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR erstmals zeigen. Mit solchen Daten könnten sich Handys metergen...
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Arguably the most important chart in Europe. French and German debt levels were identical 20 years ago, now French debt is well over 100% of GDP, Germany is near 60%. I am guessing any gap in that chart over 20% makes joint borrowing—the precondition to deeper EU integration—all but impossible 🧵
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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fantastic new OECD data comparing international subsidies in key sectors. "For Chinese firms, almost 60% of their global market share gains can be explained by the subsidies received." Worth keeping in mind when people insist Europe’s competitiveness problem is mainly about overregulation.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 02/06/2026
With the US reportedly in talks to deploy nuclear weapons in additional European NATO countries, our 2025 poll found Western Europeans were opposed to hosting American nukes 🇩🇪 59% opposed 🇬🇧 61% 🇫🇷 61% 🇮🇹 63% 🇩🇰 63% 🇸🇪 73% 🇪🇸 76% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 04/05/2026
🇨🇦's #BillC22 is entering committee study this week - and we're hearing it may become law by end of the month. We never say this: but this is the worst, most privacy-breaking bill we've seen. It MUST be stopped. Speak up against it and read on to learn more: www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky 1/
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Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in...
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
As EU commissioners debate China, a new threat, via the CCTV-linked Yuyuan Tantian Weibo account If EU moves on overcapacity instrument "China could initiate anti-discrimination investigations and supply chain security probes in response to the EU's relevant actions"
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The group of E6 finance ministers - representing the six largest economies - have made a first substantial compromise, reaching a deal yesterday on oversight of EU financial markets. This could become an important impulse:
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EU’s big six reach deal on key markets package
The agreement is an important step in the decade-old plan to turn the EU into a U.S.-style investment powerhouse.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
She brings out the short vs long term trade-offs clearly. The 2000s China shock was primarily a concern about (devastating) local labour market disruptions There was still a plausible view the lost sectors weren’t essential and China was still importing. Today, there more reasons to worry. 3/
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
'What Europe lacks in terms of combat power is not numbers of aircraft (or even tanks or ships). What it lacks are munitions stocks of sufficient depth and types for combating Russia’s most significant capabilities for a NATO self-defence scenario' writes Justin Bronk in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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Order Missiles and Bombs to Increase European Combat Air Mass, Not Drones
The acquisition of glide bombs for the F-35B is a welcome and overdue way to efficiently increase practical UK combat air mass in a NATO context.
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monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Russian "Green" offensive started on May 13, but May gains are lowest in 2 years.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I think people don't realize why Gemini Omni is different than other video AIs. It is fully multimodal, so it can edit video natively, too I took the famous "train " movie from 1896 & made it a bullet train, LEGO, added a time traveler, a centipede, muppets... (note the reflections and shadows?)
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monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Kupiansk No more red paint
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Netherlands has decided to ban trade of goods with Israeli settlements. It comes as more countries ask the European Commission to put forward an EU-wide ban. But no proposal yet.
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Kabinet werkt aan sancties om goederen uit onrechtmatige Israëlische nederzettingen te weren van de Nederlandse markt
Het kabinet werkt aan een verbod op handel in goederen afkomstig uit onrechtmatige Israëlische nederzettingen. Hiervoor heeft het kabinet op 22 mei 2026 besloten een sanctiebesluit voor te leggen aan ...
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As there is increased nervousness about the availability of jet fuels in Europe the German government makes flying cheaper by lowering aviation taxes.
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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A Ukrainian ground robot defended a position from Russian assault for six weeks www.defenseone.com/technology/2...
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A Ukrainian ground robot defended a position from Russian assault for six weeks
UGVs are beginning to replace infantry on Ukraine’s front lines.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨 The UK — yes, the UK — has quietly issued sanctions waiver for Russia. One permits imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil in third counties, is indefinite and me revoked at any time. The other covers the maritime transport of Russian LNG and lasts until January 2027.
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UK quietly issues sanctions waivers on Russian oil products
The first license permits imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil if
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Iran is considering introducing fees for the use of undersea internet cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which carry part of the world’s digital traffic between Europe&Asia Iranian media also warned of possible disruptions to the cables if major tech companies,including Google, Microsoft,
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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Never before [...] have we seen a presidency so hell-bent on degrading the "infrastructure" of US power", I think this is still being overlooked in Europe, and it’s so important to understand this, because it means that the effects of Trump 2.0 will continue to be felt long after he leaves office.
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
No relevant military or law enforcement units seen, just a Finnish patrol home bound 2 hours ahead. It is quite common that Germany let illegal vessels through at this spot.
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Alicia Garcia Herrero 艾西亞 @aligarciaherrero.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
China April data: economy is clearly splitting in two: Domestic demand dying: Retail sales +0.2% YoY (down sharply from 1.7%), goods sales worse -0.1%, fixed asset investment -1.6%. Exports only bright spot (net exports hit $85B in April. Unsustainable dual track. No real rebalancing is happening.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Instead of a thousand words. Ukrainian Defender before and after Russian captivity. 📷: wwsof/Threads
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The Second Scaling Law of AI remains undefeated. If you want better hacking (or math, or science, or crossword puzzle solving) out of an LLM, just let it use more tokens. There doesn't seem to be any plateau so far in the new study by the UK's governmental AI Security Institute.
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Japan is in a debt crisis. 10y10y forward yield is back to January levels, when Takaichi caused the JGB market to blow up with talk of ending "excessive" austerity. This is happening even as the BoJ buys ¥3 tn JGBs every month. This is really, really bad. robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japan-in-c...
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Karlspreis @karlspreisac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Congratulations to Prof. Dr Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank and former Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, for being awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2026. #Karlspreis2026 📸 Karlspreis / Christian van't Hoen
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The US has cleared about 10 Chinese firms to purchase Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, Reuters reports Companies approved include Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and JD.com www.scmp.com/news/ch...
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JD.com, Inc.
JD.com is the largest retailer in China, a member of the NASDAQ100 and a Fortune Global 500 company.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"The buildup indicates that China is flush with missiles just as US stockpiles have been depleted by President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, raising concerns for Taiwan and American allies in the region." Fantastic grand strategizing. Well done, everyone.
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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
An interesting lesson here about the advance & limits of battlefield transparency. In 1991 the US failed to hit a single Iraqi Scud missile, despite huge air/ground efforts. This time it hit a lot—but still only a fraction of the total. Sensing *over large areas* remains hard. From NYT report:
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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 23/04/2026
Heute verteidigt SPD-Justizministerin Stefanie Hubig ihr Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Grund sind Fake-Shops und digitale Gewalt. Abfragen bei allen Straftaten ganz ohne Richtervorbehalt. Zugriff für alle Geheimdienste und andere berechtigte Stellen. netzpolitik.org/2026/dritter...
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Dritter Versuch: Bundesregierung beschließt anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Die Bundesregierung nimmt einen dritten Anlauf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Internet-Zugangs-Anbieter sollen IP-Adressen aller Nutzer speichern - anlasslos und massenhaft. Internet-Dienste wie E-Mails...
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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 12/05/2026
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Auch Messenger sollen anlasslos Nutzer-Daten speichern. Drei Staaten nennen explizit Signal. Das geht aus einem Rats-Dokument hervor. data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document... Hintergrund: netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...
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EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie Messenger
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem EU-Dokument hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Praktisch alle Internet...
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 12/05/2026
Chinese firms operate or have financial stake in 129 ports outside China • Chinese companies have spent >US$80bn on global port projects • More than third of China’s overseas ports are near maritime chokepoints like Suez Canal or straits of Malacca and Hormuz www.economist.com/internationa...
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
For the first time in 16 years, Hungary is not governed by Viktor Orbán. His era has ended. Péter Magyar has been sworn in as prime minister under the promise of what he called "regime change". Coincidentally, it's Europe Day.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Lawyers for Pete Hegseth argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military, and that if they didn’t like those restrictions, retirees could forfeit their pension and benefits. Let that sink in. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Hegseth Is Sending Us a Warning
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
🇭🇺 Péter Magyar will be elected Prime Minister of Hungary today at ~2:30pm, after MPs take their oath and the new parliament convenes. 👋 Viktor Orbán is no longer PM or MP. 🇪🇺 For the first time in over a decade, the EU flag will fly on the Parliament building in Budapest.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Perhaps there is a narrow pathway for China to revalue the yuan in exchange for the EU not going for broader tariffs. Only viable if the stick is real. An EUCO statement in June, threatening to deploy a broader safeguard, could give credibility. 1/ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Urges France to Help Keep EU Markets Open Through Dialogue
China said it hopes France will play an active role in encouraging the European Union to keep its markets open as well as resolve economic and trade disputes through dialogue.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026
European Commission has updated its follow buttons. ✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in; ⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out. (Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.) commission.europa.eu/index_en
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
81% support a common security and defence policy among EU member states. That is four out of five citizens.
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Newest Eurobarometer is out, and numbers are mind-blowing: 73% of EU citizens see the EU as a “pillar for peace and security in a troubled world”. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
And yes, Europe is a lived reality of many citizens: three out of four say they feel they are a citizen of the EU.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Journalist Caolan Robertson confronted the Russian ambassador at the Venice Biennale: "Your country killed 30 civilians in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Why are you using art to whitewash your crimes?" @caolanrob.bsky.social,2 thank you for supporting the Ukrainian people!
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In Sept 2024 a majority of EU (51%) said the US was the closest ally, now just 31% Striking even in Poland - the most Atlanticist of those polled - only 42% of those surveyed said the US was the top ally. Full survey from Bertelsmann Stiftung: www.bertelsmann-stif...
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Striking new survey showing eroding trust in US among Europeans Across the EU, nearly 3/4 (73%) said it's "time for Europe to go its own way" 58% of people in the EU think the US is untrustworthy as a partner. It's most pronounced in Germany, where 73% say its untrustworthy
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Bloomberg editorial board, a bastion of good sense, also seems to agree.
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
👀 "Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing Project Freedom. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies
Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.
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