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free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
anonymous police claims of electoral fraud in borlänge get two weeks of feverish, deeply racist newspaper, tv and radio coverage. follow up reports with actual evidence showing those claims to be groundless get covered by local dalarna radio www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/inga...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t believe companies expect software development to durably exist as a profession in a decade or two. So this question is like asking who will be the senior milkmen and telephone switchboard operators?
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is pathetic. Obviously political parties must allow journalists to attend their conferences, including journalists from outlets that have strong ideological disagreements with them.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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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...
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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The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol let's talk about how tradwives were a scam to begin with, since they performed financial dependence even though they were financially independent. 🙃
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Tom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good thread, and nice layering of the elements to tell the story. Just a heads up though, none of this matters with crack spreads at $100bbl, but the pictures are pretty.
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 29/09/2026
Mainstream narrative of China shock decimating EU industry may be overblown • Over past decade, China accounted for just one quarter of growth in bloc's extra-EU imports • China's share of EU’s imports has barely moved over past decade, rising from 20.5% to 22.3% www.economist.com/business/202...
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026
Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI models independently uploaded user photos that had been shared with ChatGPT to the public internet. This seems a lot worse than hacking. Images you’ve shared with ChatGPT being randomly remembered by an AI agent from its training data then posted to the internet is wild.
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Craig Dawson @dossa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminded of this - India and Pakistan fans at the cricket watching the England football team in a penalty shootout against the Swiss in the last Euros. youtube.com/shorts/vbdYn...
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India & Pakistan cricket fans unite for England at Euros
YouTube video by Brown Town Rising
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’
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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 24/09/2026
You can now pick up the Meta/Blue Owl Project Beignet bonds (secured, rated A+) at a 7.3% yield, or about the same as Mexico’s (unsecured, BBB-rated) US dollar bonds at a similar maturity.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guess this think tank doesn't care about Reform's appeal to pensioners. Brave.
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Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ Turkey is anticipating a major war with Russia, according to Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin. The jailed former FSB officer warns that Turkey is "preparing feverishly" to fight some time around 2027-29 to reclaim lost Ottoman territories from a disintegrating Russia. ⬇️
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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 22/09/2026
“Sara Chouraqui, Elizabeth Collery and Victoria Jacobson all moved from the UK’s Serious Fraud Office to Betancourt’s North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) in March.” At the time, their counterparts in Zurich were still requesting Betancourt’s [UK] extradition…” www.ft.com/content/f2f3...
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Top UK graft prosecutors joined Trump’s Venezuela oil baron during Swiss probe
Alejandro Betancourt was previously wanted by authorities in Switzerland as part of a money-laundering investigation
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New post out: England's schools are now the second highest performing in the world outside the far east, according to the OECD's PISA study. Is this because of policy? Attitude to technology? Cultural factors like immigration? And where can we still improve? samf.substack.com/p/why-englan...
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Why England’s schools are doing so well
And what we need to focus on next
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Center for Strategic Politics @stratpolitics.org · 21/09/2026
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not too long after the first completely unmanned naval duel, we have our first unmanned air assault
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Women are having kids later in life. That means women are becoming grandmothers later. Average "healthy years with grandchildren" has fallen fro 28 years to 15 years since the 1960s www.nber.org/papers/w35773
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Compound Delay: The Causes and Consequences of Later Grandmotherhood
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What issues most concerned voters in Mecklenbur-Vorpommern, where the AfD finished first? Exit polls find the top 5 were: prices and wages; education; the economy; jobs; infrastructure; (stopping) right-wing extremism. Immigration, Islam, Europe? Not in the top 5. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you vote for the wrong candidate.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"in order to be a net fiscal contributor over their lifetime, the average couple arriving in the UK at age 30 needs the primary earner to have a salary at the 55th percentile of the overall earnings distribution, compared to the 45th in France and 28th in Germany" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Unpacking the real fiscal costs of immigration
Low taxes on low earners mean the same immigrants cost the UK more than they would elsewhere
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 18/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING - Macron orders plan to protect France critical infrastructure against 'Russian hybrid attacks'
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Macron orders plan to protect France's critical infrastructure against 'Russian hybrid attacks'
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said he had ordered measures to protect France's critical infrastructure and defence industry sites from "Russian hybrid attacks", adding that the threat from…
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Toxicologist here. If you have a working liver and kidneys then you are already “detoxing.” Supplement use is one of the leading causes of liver and kidney failure. The only thing you’re getting rid of when you fall for these predatory wellness grifts is your money.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 17/09/2026
As European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen said: “The question is not whether kids should have access to social media. The question is whether social media platforms should have access to our children.”
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/09/2026
FBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
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The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards
FBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russian fascists tried to kill former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt as their train left the station near the Polish border in Ukraine.
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One odd consequence of this is that while America is richer than Europe these days, European elites think the gap is *wildly* wider than it is, because they're comparing themselves to their equivalents. You know what the actually difference in GDP *per hour worked* between France and the USA is? 5%
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have a research anecdote about a Junior Officer from Trinidad, who had grown up in a part of the world known as "The Empire's Slum" being so appalled by the rural poverty of Italy in late 1944 he was still mad about it at the end of his own life
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/09/2026
I'd misclassified Rupert Lowe as a Twitter thing. But he's now *really* gaming Facebook's new algorithm with a mixture of 'remigration' and 'who remembers' memes. Crazy levels of engagement and he's all over the feed of every boomer I know regardless of their politics. www.facebook.com/rupertlowemep
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nearly half of Canadians say they would support Canada becoming a member state of the European Union. Another 30% are opposed and 21% are unsure. Support is up slightly from February and from 2025. abacusdata.ca/as-carney-h...
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 14/09/2026
🚨 NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland say the future of their nations "belongs in the European Union" as they call for independence from the UK
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Terrorism is always evil. #RussiaisATerroistState
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Putting the scale of those losses into historical context, the General Staff estimated that Russia’s losses in Ukraine are around 100 times higher than those suffered by the Soviet Union during its decade-long war in Afghanistan.“
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
It's a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn't accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it, resulting in it doing something both foreseeable and bad.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last weekend Kent police described a far-right protest in Dover as "spontaneous". They've now admitted they were warned the night before - likely by a resident of the small village were several hundred men dumped their cars, camped out then boarded vans to Dover: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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How balaclava-clad activists swarmed a quiet Kentish village
Police failed to follow up on a tip-off before hundreds descended on Preston, using it as a staging post for anti-immigration protests across the south
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So triage services like OpenRouter that optimise each query for cost vs quality, increasingly send stuff to open models.
Stacked bar chart showing the share of query traffic sent to open and closed weight models.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 11/09/2026
>the houthis were trying to use claude to build their rocket guidance system just get me off the fucking ride www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
GTG-87001: Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell using Claude to develop guidance software
Summary

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.

The actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers to develop the guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle. For example, they used Claude to integrate an open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing the control and position estimation software, tuning the control settings, running a firmware build pipeline, and performing a flight simulation. The actors managed several Claude instances at once, assigning each one a role, much as a lead would delegate work on a small engineering team: the actors tasked one instance with writing the code, another with research, and a third with reviewing the code the first instance produced.

Our safeguards blocked many of their requests, but not all of them. The actors used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards, including hiding their goals and the products the software was meant for, and they split their work across multiple sessions so no single session revealed their full intent.

These actors carried out a sustained effort to develop guided weapons, including using Claude to design guidance software. We do not have evidence the actors succeeded in fielding an operational device; but they did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed.

We identified this activity as part of our internal investigations into suspected weapons development. We banne…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 10/09/2026
☕ We don't record anything. ☕ The recordings we don't make are put in a Special Box™ the device can't access. ☕ The device processes the recordings we haven't made and that it can't access. ☕ The device reproduces these inaccessable recordings we didn't make in complicated context-dependent ways
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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