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Joe Galvin

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Journalist, RTÉ Investigates

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Iain Martin @iainmartin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TikTok quietly gutted the rules it used to police advertisers last year. That's meant scammers who would once have been permanently banned from the app were allowed to continue targeting TikTok users. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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How TikTok’s Weakened Ad Rules Allowed Fake E-Commerce Sites To Scam Tens Of Thousands
Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbe...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 07/10/2026
"Even if we have to work on paper, the work of the Court will continue." — Kimberley Prost, sanctioned judge of the ICC. #Disinfo2026
Diana Wallis and Kimberley Prost on stage
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Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Two ways to support Eoghan’s family: www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend... Set up by @gavinsblog.bsky.social and @joegalvin.bsky.social whydonate.com/fundraising/... Set up by Sara Badilini
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There was never a day when he wasn’t generously giving his skills and knowledge, mentoring and supporting anyone he was working with." Lovely tribute from @ebu.ch to Eoghan Sweeney. Eoghan will be much missed by all who knew him. www.ebu.ch/news/2026/10...
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The EBU and wider global journalism community mourn the loss of our colleague and friend, Eoghan Sweeney
The EBU and wider global journalism community is mourning the loss of our colleague and friend, Eoghan Sweeney, who has died.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We talk so often about the - as yet uncertain - productivity gains of AI. What is the productivity lost by a society where everything real is presumed fake, everyone honest is presumed dishonest, where we can no longer believe what we see and hear? www.ft.com/content/7e34...
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Students turn to lawyers to fight AI misconduct accusations
Legal cases rise as universities struggle with approach to technology
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Five years after the Huawei debate, Europe still has no unified approach to managing 'high-risk' tech vendors. Our new report compares how Germany, Spain and the UK handle Chinese vendors in critical infrastructure - three different approaches, no EU standard.
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High-Risk ICT Vendors and Critical Infrastructure: European Approaches
This paper compares the strategies used by Germany, Spain and the UK to manage risks from high-risk ICT vendors in critical national infrastructure.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It is worth noting that by far the largest corporate customer of Indeed is Amazon, also the largest data centre company in the world. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
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5% of Ireland job postings mention data centres - Indeed
Just under 5% of all job postings on the Indeed hiring platform now mention data centres, according to hiring platform Indeed.
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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you can, please donate to this fund supporting the family of our beloved friend, and Storyful legend, @eoghan.eurosky.social Eoghan taught a whole generation of journalists OSINT -- and did it all with the very best sense of humor and purpose. www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026
Scoop: Data allegedly stolen from the FBI provides sensitive assignment descriptions for named employees, exposing members of the "China criminal enterprise unit” & “Russia Operations Section" among others. One ex-employee described it as a foreign intel "goldmine." www.reuters.com/world/hacked...
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EXCLUSIVE: Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees’ intelligence roles
FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work ‌against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you can, please donate to our dear friend Eoghan and his family: www.gofundme.com/f/our-friend...
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
My time in this world is very likely to come to an end in the coming days - although I'll keep trying to push it out a bit. Huge thanks to my old friend @gavinsblog.bsky.social for these kind words and appeal on behalf of my family. Love each other. Be kind
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eoghan is a treasured member of our Storyful family. Never has any family neeeded our support as much as Eoghan's. gofund.me/efee8afbf
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Donate to Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney, organized by Joseph Galvin
Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Chinese mining giant flooded a Congolese city with toxic red wastewater, poisoning crops, sickening children, and ruining market stalls, yet officials only "suspended" the site after residents caught the company dumping under cover of rain. chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/chi...
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In Congo’s Cobalt Belt, a Chinese Miner’s Waste Leaves Villages Poisoned and Furious
By Camille Lafont Carrying her sore-pocked daughter across her decaying field, Helene Mvubu says she is one of thousands to have fallen victim to the toxic waste defiling the Democratic Republic of…
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It also raises for me the question: what is a "top" company? In the talk of European sovereignty, it is primarily defined by revenue - but Raspberry Pi offers a different way of looking at it. Impact, education, empowerment.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Enjoyed this interview with @raspberrypi.com founder Eben Upton. An antidote to the tech messiahs/naughty boys. His feelings on brute force LLMs match my own: "simultaneously amazing and disappointing...brutally limited in terms of the quality of their output." www.ft.com/content/07ac...
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Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton: ‘I’m an omni-geek’
The British tech leader on coding as the modern form of literacy, his scepticism of AI evangelists — and why ‘the p(doom) is probably Russia’
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of course Irregular is involved here again www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
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Exclusive | Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it did not consider it an instance of model misalignment.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FT: "China has implemented sweeping new controls on overseas travel for Chinese citizens as President Xi Jinping steps up efforts to secure state secrets, advanced technology and highly skilled workers." www.ft.com/content/3f2b...
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China tightens control of overseas travel in sweeping new law
President Xi Jinping steps up efforts to secure state secrets, advanced technology and highly skilled workers
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 14/09/2026
🇨🇾 Cyprus: The Attorney General has killed off an investigation into the “black van” surveillance scandal, the Anti-Corruption Authority says - because he refused to approve it. www.philenews.com/kipros/koino...
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Υπόθεση «μαύρου βαν»: Τερμάτισε την έρευνα ο Γενικός Εισαγγελέας
Τερμάτισε εν τη γενέσει της την έρευνα για το «μαύρο βαν» και τις παρακολουθήσεις ο Γενικός Εισαγγελέας. Αυτό αναφέρει με ανακοίνωσή της η Ανεξάρτητη Αρχή
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please give us more money so we can slow down faster. www.ft.com/content/4564...
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Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter
Claude maker seeks to ease cash burn concerns before blockbuster IPO amid fears over pace of AI development
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don't miss this.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 11/09/2026
Gardaí suspected that a pump-action shotgun seized from criminals in 2023 was stolen from Kildare gardaí
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Secret report says gun could have been stolen from Kildare gardaí
Gardaí suspected that a pump-action shotgun seized from criminals in 2023 was stolen from Kildare gardaí.
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Jonathan Keane @jonathankeane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
TikTok informed the Central Bank of Ireland that it is investigating a potential sanctions compliance issue. thecurrency.news/articles/238...
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A new headache for TikTok lands on the Central Bank’s desk - The Currency
TikTok has notified the Central Bank of Ireland of potential non-compliance with sanctions. The Chinese social media giant informed the Central Bank, as well as UK authorities, on a voluntary basis in...
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For those who want more information on how we got to this point, please consider reading 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned', on the impact of EU policies in the Central Mediterranean: www.orwellfoundation.com/political-wr...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We get there in the end
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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"The El Hishri case should only mark the beginning of a more serious reckoning with Europe’s responsibility for international crimes against people on the move in Libya and the Mediterranean, and with the wider impunity that has so far sustained this system", writes @allisonrwest.bsky.social.
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Landmark ICC trial on Libya migrant abuses must lead to more scrutiny of EU complicity
Testimony from migrant and refugee victims in the El Hishri case exposes the links between detention crimes in Libya and European migration policy.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Jacob Burns said it is the "fastest moving Ebola epidemic that we've seen".
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo 'out of control', warns MSF
More than 2,500 people have ⁠died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, which is spreading "out of control", MSF has warned.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The difference in utility between the use of ML to tackle big data problems that would otherwise be intractable & the use of LLMs to produce pointless slop is so large they cannot both be usefully described as “AI“. The first is making real progress, the second is dragging us towards the abyss.
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
yikes
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NPR @npr.org · 18/08/2026
The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers traveled to his property on Monday to join other family members who have been defending it. n.pr/45ScWzz
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Palestinian American returns to his West Bank home, under siege by Israeli settlers
The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers traveled to his property on Monday to join other family members who have been defending it.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The "externalisation" of "migration management" - paying authoritarian and failed states to commit abuses up to and including crimes against humanity against those seeking to reach Europe - has been EU policy for about a decade. It has been totally normalised with seemingly no prospect for change.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 17/08/2026
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco's operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
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Battles at Ceuta’s borders increasingly normalise externalisation brutality, says migration expert
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco's operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It is partly on the media. Not on the initial reporting by the TES, but by the subsequent coverage which gave it a level of prominence that was unmerited. A domestic industry issue was made an international scandal. Unfortunately, discourse on X continues to hugely influence editorial judgment.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This will be looked back on as an archetypal example of the malign influence of Twitter on the news agenda. Too many journalists are still active and engaged on the platform, and, for some of them, it is completely warping their sense of what is relevant to the general public.
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Apple is reportedly sending a new batch of notifications alerting targets of spyware. If you have received one, we wrote a post on what to do next, and how to get help. You can also contact me directly on Signal at +1 917 257 1382. techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/y...
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Status @status.news · 12/08/2026
The White House Correspondents’ Association confronted the Trump administration, we have learned, after reporters aboard Air Force One learned they were unwitting decoys during Trump’s secret departure from Turkey. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/donald-tru...
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Trump’s Secret Jet Blowback
The White House Correspondents’ Association confronted the Trump administration, Status has learned, after reporters aboard Air Force One learned they were unwitting decoys during Trump’s secret depar...
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Navy Times @navytimes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Reporters on the older plane were... unwitting participants in the ruse and leaving them, along with some White House staff members, to serve as unknowing decoys."
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is enjoyable.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The "rogue AI" reporting is sensational - as you correctly say, these are doing as asked - but the idea that the basic online activities we've come to rely on can now be undermined through the use of AI agents does pose substantial risks - low-level chaos, not world-ending disaster, but still...
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 07/08/2026
As reported on @virginmedianews.bsky.social at 12:30: Donald Trump is expected to be in and out of Dublin in just a few hours next month - he's scheduled to meet the President at the Aras, the Taoiseach at Farmleigh, and make a quick stop to the new Embassy in Ballsbridge, then head away to Doonbeg
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International Transport Workers' Federation @itfglobalunion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Forced labour in fisheries is not an isolated problem — it is a systemic one. A new report highlights the vulnerabilities faced by migrant fishers. It calls for for stronger protections, better enforcement and greater accountability across supply chains. labor.washington.edu/rights-on-th...
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Rights on the Line: Policy and Regulatory Gaps Affecting Migrant Fishers in Washington State Ports | Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies - UW College of Arts and Sciences
The Bridges Center research team is proud to present “Rights on the Line: Policy and Regulatory Gaps Affecting Migrant Fishers in Washington State Ports.” This project examines the working experiences...
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news
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Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Def Minister Katz instructed the IDF "to build outposts as if we were staying there 50 years." He boasted of destroying 24 Shiite villages. "We destroyed all the buildings, not house by house, 15-20 thousand homes" Here: Bint Jbeil www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
These latest sanctions aren't just about forced labour, of course. It's a way for the Trump administration to exert power over China. But there is no denying that the solar industry in China has a forced labour problem.
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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Several companies connected to the solar industry in China were today added to the US sanctions list for their use of forced labour. I reported on the deep ties between China's solar industry and Xinjiang forced labour late last year: youtu.be/IcjaaYm2M6I?...
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Solar brands used in Ireland tied to forced labour in China | RTÉ Investigates
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/07/2026
A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran. www.wired.com/story/a-leak...
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A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran
A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Am told sentiment from Concacaf meeting was that vast majority of members have lost confidence or are losing confidence in Infantino as Fifa president
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Strongest possible statement from UEFA as they threaten boycott if Infantino presses ahead with his plan
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