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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 10h

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 11h

I mean the appalling grammar alone..

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 11h

Some nerve when some of the population's spoken English is subpar

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 14h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 15h

it appears at least three different structures sustained significant damage, consistent with the claim in the first video that a strike might have discharged two payloads

Left: Maxar image, October 8, right: Maxar image, October 12

High-resolution Maxar satellite image dated Oct 8, 2025 of the displacement centre

High-resolution Maxar satellite image dated Oct 12, 2025 of the displacement centre showing significant damage of at least 3 different buildings

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

The horrific footage coming out shows a makeshift centre for the internally-displaced. In 1 video, a woman cries over the pregnant women who were killed. ''After the first drone strike at 3 am, another hit the neighbouring building where surviving civilians took cover, just before or around 4 am."

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

22 women & 17 children were amongst 60 people killed this Sat when the RSF struck Dar al-Arqam displacement centre in El Fasher N. Darfur
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
In this vid x.com/SudanTrends/..., you can C the impact of 2 reported drone strikes on a vulnerable pop 📌13.639069, 25.333148

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 15h

it appears at least three different structures sustained significant damage, consistent with the claim in the first video that a strike might have discharged two payloads

Left: Maxar image, October 8, right: Maxar image, October 12

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

The laughable claim by this pro-RSF media outlet that a piece of clothing looks ''military'' but shows absolutely nothing worthy of verification around it makes you think twice, doesn't it? Eff off already.

Link: rmc-sudan.net/32952/

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

The horrific footage coming out shows a makeshift centre for the internally-displaced. In 1 video, a woman cries over the pregnant women who were killed. ''After the first drone strike at 3 am, another hit the neighbouring building where surviving civilians took cover, just before or around 4 am."

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 18h

22 women & 17 children were amongst 60 people killed this Sat when the RSF struck Dar al-Arqam displacement centre in El Fasher N. Darfur
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
In this vid x.com/SudanTrends/..., you can C the impact of 2 reported drone strikes on a vulnerable pop 📌13.639069, 25.333148

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 2d

It appears his body was also retrieved from Sabra neighbourhood

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 2d

He'd been reported missing for a few hours prior to being found dead of several gunshot wounds, according to journalists on the ground.

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple Gaza-based journalists have reported the killing of journalist Saleh Aljafarawi while he was covering the destruction in Tal al Hawa. This was his last Instagram post www.instagram.com/reel/DPtSnNb...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3d

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 2d

Orange Jordan just sent its customers 2,000 free minutes to Oeredoo Palestine till Oct 16 so people can reach their loved ones in Gaza. Today started off poorly, but there are ways it gets made better.

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 4d

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds.

The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to what Mike says the op ed is deeply dishonest insofar as it omits the most troubling parts of the pact, which require universities to “abolish” departments that “belittle” “conservative ideas,” or face a clawback of all funding - with all of this determined unreviewably 1/

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 4d

This is an op-ed from one of the framers of the Trump administration’s compact with universities. Regardless of whether one believes the litany of accusations the beginning, the idea of the compact and its mechanics are completely bad faith: [1/2]

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 4d

Love after Love. Derek Walcott.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 4d

appreciate a Palestinian sense of humour

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Eman El-Sherbiny @emansh.bsky.social · 4d

From Jabal Amman

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 4d

Even if one believes conjectures about Trump’s ego, Epstein files, Nobel Prize, UAE jet planes etc remember it is conditions on the ground that makes such self serving actions of leaders possible: growing pariah status of Israel, arrest warrants for leaders and soldiers, arms embargoes etc

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