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Juurd Eijsvoogel @juurd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The report, generated with AI, was according to one of the sources “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/09/2026

As Europe races to rearm, governments are increasingly turning to Israel for sensors, interceptors and surveillance technology. That dependence is deepening even as the continent's political relationship with the country grows more strained.

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How ‘Made in Israel’ is powering European security

The EU’s sovereignty push is colliding with growing reliance on Israeli defense firms.

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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Inmiddels is volledig duidelijk dat extreemrechtse groeperingen in Europa gecoördineerd meededen aan een Russische destabilisatiecampagne iver Ceuta. De berichten waarmee Brekelmans actief en enthousiast zijn steentje bijdroeg aan deze desinformatie van een statelijk actor staan nog steeds online.

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Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds

Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Opvallend dat dit artikel als onweersproken uitgangspunt neemt dat het nu eenmaal zo is dat chatbots al die (starters)functies al succesvol volledig automatiseren. Daardoor verschuift het frame volledig naar 'maar is het wel sympathiek als we deze generatie starters geen kans bieden?'.

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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

De 'onderzoekers' van grote techbedrijven kregen 'opvallend' veel bijval van grote bedrijven voor de suggestie dat er velen miljarden in diezelfde bedrijven gepompt moeten worden.

Bakker, Van Baarsen en hun co-auteurs kregen deze week onder Europese technologie-ondernemers opvallend veel bijval. Ze vinden dat er feitelijk geen andere keuze is dan meedoen met de AI-wedloop zoals de Amerikanen die nu aan het winnen zijn: Europa moet volgens hen net als de Amerikanen investeringen van honderden miljarden euro’s doen in start-ups, bestaande bedrijven en de bouw van reusachtige datacenters, ook als die aanvankelijk nog zeer vervuilend zijn.

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Arnout Brouwers @abrouwers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

En nog dit: Defensie wil software Palantir - gebruikt in de Navo intensief gebruikt in de verdediging van Oekraïne- ‘binnen twee jaar’ vervangen door Europees alternatief www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/def...

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Defensie wil software Palantir ‘binnen twee jaar’ vervangen door Europees alternatief

Defensie gaat het gebruik van software van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Palantir ‘zo snel mogelijk’ vervangen door een Europees alternatief. Dat heeft staatssecretaris van Defensie Derk Boswijk dinsdag gez...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

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Franky and Coen @frankyandcoen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

youtu.be/HHM1_Z9EluA We gingen met Alexander naar een van de grootste militaire begraafplaatsen van Oekraïne. Meer dan 10.000 graven van vooral jonge mannen. Allemaal gestorven in de afgelopen paar jaren. Vrijheid is nooit vanzelfsprekend.

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Tussen 10.000 graven: het verhaal van Evgen

YouTube video by Franky And Coen into the breach

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It’s astounding that Zelensky survived a full-scale war without ever having a ballroom.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The brutality of the Israeli regime knows no boundaries. They kill almost at random and make life impossible for those that survive the killings. While the U.S. is the most important protector of this rogue state, most European countries have done nothing to hold it accountable either.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service

For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/04/2026

This is Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen He just called on Trump to assassinate the Iranian delegation. 1. This is a war crime 2. Wash Post is now state media and promoting war crimes 3. Why are you still subscribed to them? Yes, inviting you to my platform: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 10/04/2026

Trump's son-in-law, his business buddy and JD Vance are going to negotiate an end to the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran. We need to talk about how fucked up this is. 🧵

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Trump sending Vance, Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with Iran

The engagement comes as the fragile two-week ceasefire agreed to Tuesday evening is already being tested.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The only president stupid enough to do it.

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods" "In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The president of the United States is now threatening to commit genocide.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

JD Vance flies to Hungary to interfere with the election, while complaining that people who haven't flown to Hungary to interfere with the election are interfering with the election. I doubt he'd know where to feed himself if it wasn't for his mouth flapping all day long. www.theguardian.com/uk

Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children. Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026

real life or a leak of tonight SNL's cold open? You decide

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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Welke argumenten en propaganda ook gebruikt worden in deze oorlog, dit beeld zal niet vergeten worden.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Een minister van Buitenlandse Zaken die in de eerste week van zijn ambtstermijn doodleuk zegt dat "het internationale recht niet enige kader om de situatie te beoordelen is." Als het dat niet altijd wél is, is er geen internationaal recht meer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026

Hegseth: "Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force ... no stupid rules of engagement."

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Pieterjan Huyghebaert (VRT NWS) @pjhuyghebaert.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Niet onbelangrijk, maar dreigt door Iran ondergesneeuwd te geraken: OpenAI (bedrijf achter ChatGPT) heeft akkoord gesloten met VS ministerie Defensie over gebruik van zijn AI-modellen. Concurrent Anthropic weigerde eerder om zijn AI-tools zonder beperkingen beschikbaar te stellen aan leger. 1/4🧵

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Foreign Minister Sikorski: Contrary to what Russian propaganda says, NATO did not expand into Central European countries. It was us - our countries, the countries of our region, including Poland - that sought membership.

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Tom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Good to highlight this. I always wonder how it is that this long piece in Wired from 2017, on how Palantir takes over institutions, has not found its way into the minds of public procurement decision makers around the world. www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel

An investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt Palantir’s data-scooping software.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 17/02/2026

Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was expected to do. Ellison, Bezos, and other oligarchs are not trying to make their media properties profitable. They are turning them into regime media--to make their other properties more profitable.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/02/2026

We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society. We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.

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De Morgen @demorgen.be · 16/02/2026

Het Israëlische leger heeft de grensgebieden van Libanon en Syrië besproeid met grote hoeveelheden landbouwgif. Op die manier probeert de Israëlische regering vermoedelijk semipermanente, onbegroeide bufferzones te creëren waar boeren zich niet langer kunnen begeven.

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Israël sproeit landbouwgif in grensgebied Libanon en Syrië, rampzalige gevolgen voor de grond

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/02/2026

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/02/2026

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Gillian de Nooijer @gilliandn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Dit opiniestuk van in NRC van Floris Burgers, Adriaan Duiveman en Lotte Hogeweg citeert tot 4x toe Musa al-Gharbi als bron (ook het boek dat ze citeren doet dat). Maar Al-Gharbi is helemaal geen betrouwbare bron. Al-Gharbi was jaren onderdirecteur van Heterodox Academy, de anti-woke lobbygroep van

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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

ICYMI: The Epstein files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-p...

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Palantir, Peter Thiel and the Epstein files

The files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight

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Kirsten Verdel @locuta.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

‘Alleen illegalen worden aangepakt’. Nope. En de overheid LIEGT er over. Keer op keer. Dit is van weer alleen gísteren bijvoorbeeld:

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