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Christian Knapp
@cknapp.bsky.social
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Bioimage Analyst, Microscopist, Molecular Biologist, venturing into Machine Learning
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On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”
Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.
www.semafor.com
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A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a 29,000 m² warehouse of “Optima-Pharm” in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s largest pharmaceutical distributors. Damage is estimated at over $100 million.
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Our European leaders are talking vaguely about a need for independence but they don't have the courage to say publicly *from whom* the independence is needed.

🇨🇦 #Canada's PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has the courage. Why don't we have any leader like this here?

Why have our leaders been cowards?
We need a European Carney
"Our economic strengths based on close ties to America have now become our vulnerabilities," the Canadian PM told his citizens as he braced them for a fundamentally transformed world.
davekeating.substack.com
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The U.S. isn’t just chasing drug cartels. With carrier groups, bombers, and tanker planes massing in the Caribbean, this looks far bigger... more like prep for a major regional operation than a narcotics mission, or even just to oust Venezuela’s president.
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How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of ‘foreign interference’ than other countries in Europe.
My latest analysis for
@blaetter

(#German, but there always is Deepl)
Regimechange leicht gemacht
Zur Zeit des „Empire“ veranstaltete die britische Kolonialregierung in Indien regelmäßig prachtvolle Zeremonien, bei denen die Thronbesteigung eines britischen Monarchen mit großem Prunk und aufwändig...
www.blaetter.de
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🤯 Russian intelligence services may have used the wreck of the MS Estonia ferry in the Baltic Sea as a covert site for underwater surveillance operations targeting NATO naval activity, new investigation finds.
Russia Reportedly Turned Estonia Ferry Wreck Into Secret NATO Spy Site, Investigation Reveals
An investigation suggests Russian spy units may have used the MS Estonia site in the Baltic for listening to NATO vessel activities undetected.
united24media.com
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A British judge sentences five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence as part of a wider campaign of sabotage and disruption.
U.K. judge sentences 5 men for roles in Russia-linked arson attack in London
British prosecutors said that the arson — organized on behalf of the Wagner paramilitary group — was intimately connected to the Russian state
nbcnews.to
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Two people have been confirmed dead and 12 injured in Kyiv following last night’s Russian attack. Fires broke out across the city, and aviation units were deployed to assist with firefighting efforts.
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A Chinese LNG tanker owned by Pacific Gas was spotted receiving fuel from a sanctioned Russian vessel off Malaysia, the first documented case of a Chinese ship assisting blacklisted Russian LNG transport, Bloomberg reported.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
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Russia attacked Kyiv overnight, killing one person and wounding 10. Helicopters were deployed to fight fires as heavy smoke filled the city.
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A surveillance camera captured the moment a Russian strike hit a Kyiv resident’s apartment on Oct. 22. The strike killed two and injured 29 in the city, and several fires broke out.

Video: Tetyana Kotelenets
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Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."
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Last night, Russia hit my district in #Kyiv —Podil —3 times. Too close to home.
My heart aches for everyone whose homes were damaged, for the injured, and for those who lost loved ones.
It’s horrifying that this is still happening nearly 4 years into the full-scale invasion.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
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“The likelihood that Trump will weaponise the US cloud services may not be huge, but the costs if he does are potentially catastrophic. If the EU wants to Trump-proof its economy and become a strategic power, it needs to act more like one.”

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Amazon outage shows EU heads are still in the cloud
Europe and others must insulate their economies from Trump weaponising US tech
on.ft.com
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First moments after the Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv.

Kids crying for their moms, rescuers and civilians rushing to get them out of the building...
Heartbreaking.
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China's grip over rare-earths mining keeps growing
• US was world’s top producer until 1980s, but it fell away after China began to scale up its efforts
• Chinese firms mined 270,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2024, about twice more than five years earlier
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Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
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🕯️Antonina
🕯️Adelina, 6 months
🕯️Anastasiia, 12 years

Killed by russia this morning.
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“Chinese shipments of fiber-optic cables to Russia grew almost tenfold between July& August, after hitting record highs in May and then again in June, according to the data from China’s customs office. Exports of lithium-ion batteries, probably used to power the drones, also shot up over the summer”
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Anthropic launched Claude for Life Sciences to support the entire life sciences process from early discovery through translation and commercialization
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⚠️More than 30,000 households were left with no electricity this morning after Russia attacked energy system in Chernihiv region, Ukraine

Since early morning energy workers have been working to restore power.