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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, quite aside from the barbarism of live-streaming this, I actually can't think of anything more stupid from a counterterrorism perspective. Showing this online - where it will likely be replayed for many years - has no deterrent value and would be useful only as anti-US recruitment tool.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 15h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · 23h

Seriously though. Imagine enduring two years of "51st state" provocations, stating on the record in the NYT that you contemplated possible US military action in Canada, and seeing the US openly support extremist separatist movements. And then you reach for the smelling salts for a conference panel.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026

Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.

theguardian.com

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22h

This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 06/10/2026

Politicians in Norway are planning a law to ban smart glasses in certain places with the government concerned people could be photographed without their knowledge www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...

rte.ie

AI glasses used as harassment tool - Digital Rights Chair

The Chair of Digital Rights Ireland and Associate Professor at UCD's Sutherland School of Law, Professor TJ McIntyre, has said the main risks associated with AI glasses so far involve "quasi-sexual ab...

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More and more people are saying this www.ft.com/content/a5ca...

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another fun fact for you: the video game industry adds £6bn to the UK economy each year. That’s more than double the contribution of fishing (£1.16bn) and steel (£1.7bn) combined BEFORE the year of our lord Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These days, they'll arrest you and put you in jail, just for saying you're English (and engaging in domestic terrorism).

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the most interesting debates in current international security is the degree to which we’re reliant on undersea cables and the degree to which these aren’t at all protected! I spoke to @katjabego.bsky.social about her excellent new book on the subject. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

podcasts.apple.com

Deep Connections: Kaja Bego on the undersea cables that underpin the global economy.

Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 5 October · 53min

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fairly huge if true.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Letter printed in The Times today

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

Screenshot of article with same text as post. Photo of Copenhagen bike-lane filled with people riding bikes.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once again - the problem isn't "ooo AI models are too scary and powerful". It's that the developers of these products are irresponsible dolts, who have absolutely no intention of changing how they behave. Stop making excuses, use existing laws and make them responsible for their own actions.

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David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a point of reference, the perpetrator of the last ISIS-inspired bombing in the UK - the Parsons Green attack in 2017, which also had zero fatalities - received a life sentence (with a minimum 34 years in prison)

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Over 1,400 people have been killed (in Gaza) in the year since the ceasefire.” - The Economist. I wonder how many have to be killed for it not to be called a ceasefire?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the story about the ULEZ bomber, a white bloke in his 60s, still isn’t on the front page of the BBC News when it feels like quite a big story about online radicalisation & violence

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe has been charged with preparing acts of terror including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

bbc.co.uk

Widdecombe suspect charged with planning acts of terror against Farage

Counter terror police say the further charge comes after a "hugely intensive and complex investigation".

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026

If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When two-thirds of your advisory board dealing with counter-terrorism issues resign, it says plenty about how seriously you take digital safety. Spoiler alert: you clearly don’t.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A satellite image of southern Gaza shows an apocalyptic scene—not a single building appears to be left standing.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 30/09/2026

I resigned from the GIFCT Independent Advisory Committee in 2022, before it was cool. The only difference now is that they're not even bothering to pretend badly that GIFCT is independent or that it does anything meaningful. www.wired.com/story/indepe...

wired.com

Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SIX OF THE nine independent experts on the advisory board of the Meta led Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism—a consortium run by several of the biggest US tech companies—resigned on Monday, according to a letter seen by WIRED & interviews with four of the people www.wired.com/story/indepe...

wired.com

Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we're in this preposterous place where a stupid spatt involving 12 people woth no power, halway around the world negatively defines progressives but the horrific consequences (& political failures) of government policy are not felt to invalidate their approach of appeasing the far-right

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Israel engaged in the demolition of a city with families still inside the buildings. Real life horror.

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