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Paul Ward (IRL/EU)

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Unelected bureaucrat. Brussels, Dublin, The Hague.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its layoffs of about 150 staffers. NBC and parent Comcast have come under federal scrutiny for their diversity-focused efforts. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay... #DEI #NBC
thewrap.com
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Guts Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/10/2025
When it comes to AI, ignore what Sam Altman says and instead listen to @abeba.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For no reason at all I’m thinking of an AI bro on here who sneered at Timnit Gebru, saying her only claim to fame was being fired, all because Dr Gebru pointed to the deep roots of eugenics in tech, and the problematic ways Blueskys own engineers talked about eugenics in relation to AI.
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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 15/10/2025
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Three images showing photographers in a studio, standing around a black curtained area with a projector and a 'Windows' logo etched onto a glass pane. The lower image shows a version of the iconic blue windows background, with blue lasers outlining and passing through an angled Windows logos against a dark background.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The “get em while they’re young” plan worked for Big Tobacco and… other institutions
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One of the key British actors promoting rampant Islamophobia (Gove) together with child of aristocrats who writes for Spectator/Telegraph. That sounds promising 🙄 Watch out for discussions about existential threat to the West. Key NatCon (& ARC) talking point. This kind is everywhere.
Tim Bouverie
Michael Gove
1Q?
Part 1
13 October • S1 E3,306 • 32 min.
Can the West Hold Together? Lessons from WWIl with Tim Bouverie and Michael Gove (Part One)
intelligence:
Intelligence Squared
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Almost no media coverage and very little political attention paid to the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli jails. So much focus only on the Israeli hostages. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
theguardian.com
‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/10/2025
You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @ughbunnii.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
!!!
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week vetoed a bill to restrict children's access to AI companions and signed a narrower measure imposing transparency requirements on such products, largely siding with tech industry groups who lobbied aggressively on the bills, reports Cristiano Lima-Strong.
techpolicy.press
Newsom Sides with Tech Lobby in AI Companion Standoff | TechPolicy.Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed an AI companion bill backed by consumer advocates and signed one embraced by the tech industry.
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VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🔎🇷🇺 Our new analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: 134 activists managing 30 Telegram channels, receiving €2.8M until the first half of 2025. 9,900 AI-generated TikTok videos with over 93 million views.
vsquare.org
24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org
Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won 50.2% of the vote, while the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc managed only 24.2%, despite well-documented foreign interference, mainly from Russia and pro Kremlin actors.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
apparently a lot of people need to hear this: harmful practices that violate fundamental rights are not a matter of ethics or morality. please don’t frame it as “unethical”. the “ethics” lens undermines the fact that is it unacceptable under any condition. not a matter of debate
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Today officials from both Tripoli & Benghazi are visiting Frontex in Warsaw and then tomorrow the European Commission in Brussels. These people are funded by the EU to imprison and torture migrants, extort money from them and then shoot at them and throw them into the sea when they attempt to cross.
irpimedia.irpi.eu
Missione riservata in Europa: Frontex riceve per la prima volta funzionari libici di Haftar
La delegazione sarà composta da uomini di Tripoli e Bengasi, insieme. La Libia divisa si mostra unita con l’Europa, che vuole più controlli alle frontiere e più rimpatri. Dopo Varsavia (quartier gener...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2025
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
politico.com
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/10/2025
With more than 1,000 settler attacks in the first eight months, 2025 is on track to become the most violent year yet.
bit.ly
Mapping the rise in Israeli settler attacks across the occupied West Bank
With more than 1,000 settler attacks in the first eight months, 2025 is on track to become the most violent year yet.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 14/10/2025
There are 6,000 children trapped in illegal schools in England – many hidden behind claims of ‘part-time’ education. In reality, they’re confined to cramped rooms, forced to study scripture for hours each day. Donate today to stop this.
'Every child deserves the chance to explore the world through evidence and reason, not to be confined by dogma. Education should open minds, not close them.
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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Another hallmark of a stock bubble is that its participants largely give up on conventional valuation measures and buy in simply because prices are rising and everybody else is doing it: fomo rules the day." From shoeshines in 1929 to Robinhood...My latest piece: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
newyorker.com
The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929
As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In the US, families - including kids - are dragged out their homes, sometimes naked, by unidentified goons & kidnapped for being not White & detained without trial, with the country's own military invading cities targeting civilians. It's not hyperbole to label this fascism, it's descriptive.
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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
postmodern finance theory
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marjtroyer.bsky.social @marjtroyer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/10/2025
yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018. bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 28/08/2025
Teach your friends how to punch NYAMちゃんに腰の入ったパンチを教えてあげましたっ☆
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Ghost of Lepa Radić @ghostofdonknotts.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When you can get people to believe there is a wish granting ghost who can make everything better (but simply chooses not to, I guess) you can get them to do just about anything...
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/cardiol...
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Cardiologist Peter MacDonald Can’t Save Lives as the Zionist Lobby Has Seen Him Suspended
Renowned Sydney cardiologist Peter MacDonald has been suspended over making a remark about Mossad potentially being behind two local arson attacks.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025
Gave a talk on AI hype Friday, but one of the things I learned during was that Sora 2 collects biometric data on its participants to generate videos. You basically scan your face. OpenAI has been hungry for biometric data for a while, or at least Sam Altman has. why? 1/
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/10/2025
Because TikTok is an incredible place, every time we open the app now, we are shown that fake video of a reporter being arrested. Simultaneously, a bunch of commenters are convinced our video of state troopers in Broadview from yesterday evening is AI. Perfect, no notes
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/10/2025
A Dutch newspaper is literally holding a poll on if a colleague, another professor should be fired because he's pro Palestine. Academic freedom is dying many deaths here. www.gelderlander.nl/home/ontslag...
PollPoll results, 84% in favour of firing him
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Antifa_Ultras @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Derry City FC, Ireland There is an ultras group in Derry City with anti-fascist and anti-Zionist views.
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Rashad Alhindi @ralhindi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#Berlin 2025 #Staatsräson
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
So much talk of economics and far right radicalisation but my increasingly view is we are all - myself included - underestimating the impact of both internet culture and (more importantly) the economics of the internet/social media on politics and radicalisation
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The alt-right won. Steven Miller is in the White House, the administration is making segregation great again, their “intellectuals” are hanging out with Atlantic authors, and secret police are kidnapping brown kids. This is the future they hoped for.
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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important. The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
💥In Prague, Andrej Babis’s coalition talks hit turbulence as racist, Nazi-sympathizing, and misogynistic posts by Motorists party leader Filip Turek resurface. He almost became foreign minister. Notably, Turek has been welcomed in the Patriots for Europe group as MEP since 2024 despite his remarks.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."
construction-physics.com
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 11/10/2025
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News
OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...
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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Indigenous Peoples have been resisting at ICE since it was created. Pleaae stop erasing us in Portland, Oregon.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.”
wsj.com
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2025
Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you? www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
nj.com
Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons
Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 11/10/2025
I'm not the target group here, but I nevertheless volunteer to dump my piss on anyone at Trump's EPA pursuing this initiative. By the bucket.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/10/2025
I mean I'm glad Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize but I am not super excited that the person who did win it has been going "Mr Trump please murder more Venezuelan fishermen with American missiles" since it was announced
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