Marco Almada
@marcoalmada.com
I have always depended on the kindness of otters. Postdoc in cyber policy @ Uni of Luxembourg. Skeets about work (public & EU law, regulation & AI, academia), hobbies (Warhammer 40k, sci-fi more generally, football), life, and bad puns.
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Spain: Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants
By @billgoodwin.bsky.social
By @billgoodwin.bsky.social
Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision | Computer Weekly
A Spanish court has raised questions about the validity and reliability of intercepted phone data, acquitting multiple defendants of drug trafficking charges in a case that relied solely on intercepte...
www.computerweekly.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Spain: Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants
By @billgoodwin.bsky.social
By @billgoodwin.bsky.social
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I think MAGA writ large is slowly realizing that successfully convincing a majority of the country to passionately hate you is not nearly as fun as they thought it was gonna be.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I think MAGA writ large is slowly realizing that successfully convincing a majority of the country to passionately hate you is not nearly as fun as they thought it was gonna be.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
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Bovino learning the inevitable fate of every Trump subcontractor.
Leavitt throws Bovino under the bus: "Mr Bovino is a wonderful man and he's a great professional. He is very much going to continue CBP throughout and across the country. Mr Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis"
January 26, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Bovino learning the inevitable fate of every Trump subcontractor.
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Germany will strike back against cyberattackers, including abroad, enabling countermeasures with a low threshold for activation. A new defense center against hybrid threats will consolidate intelligence along with defense strategies. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Innenminister Dobrindt im Interview: „Wir werden zurückschlagen“
Deutschland ist das Ziel vieler hybrider Angriffe – und Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt verrät, was er dagegen tun will. Auch für die AfD und den Umgang mit Trump hat er einen Plan.
www.sueddeutsche.de
January 26, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Germany will strike back against cyberattackers, including abroad, enabling countermeasures with a low threshold for activation. A new defense center against hybrid threats will consolidate intelligence along with defense strategies. www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
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None of those words are in the Bible and I'm praying for forgiveness because I understood over half of it.
in other tpot news, the sankey chart enthusiast is earnest-posting anti-regime content today
i rewrote this post four times to try to tone it down because i earnestly do not want to say anything derogatory about anyone while they are doing that
i rewrote this post four times to try to tone it down because i earnestly do not want to say anything derogatory about anyone while they are doing that
January 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM
None of those words are in the Bible and I'm praying for forgiveness because I understood over half of it.
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"Have I told you the story of the chicken in the vault?"
Lula conversa com Trump por telefone por quase uma hora.
➡️ Assista à #GloboNews: glo.bo/2Mxn1fC #Estudioi
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January 26, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"Have I told you the story of the chicken in the vault?"
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ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo
January 26, 2026 at 3:39 PM
ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo
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when Gisele finally divorces Fetterman, Elon may at long last have a competitor for Most Divorced Man in America
January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
when Gisele finally divorces Fetterman, Elon may at long last have a competitor for Most Divorced Man in America
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Im going to tell everyone “arbitrage” is from German Arbeit (work) + rage
File under "etymologies that make me irrationally upset"
The word ‘outrage’ consists of neither ‘out’ nor ‘rage’.
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.
‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.
Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:
January 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Im going to tell everyone “arbitrage” is from German Arbeit (work) + rage
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I take back anything mean I ever said about the Dutch language
commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about
January 26, 2026 at 8:54 AM
I take back anything mean I ever said about the Dutch language
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The car accident that makes you a Nazi and the subreddit that teaches you to love again
January 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The car accident that makes you a Nazi and the subreddit that teaches you to love again
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Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:
“I lost touch with reality”
“I lost touch with reality”
January 26, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:
“I lost touch with reality”
“I lost touch with reality”
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2 referrals have now been made by a Bulgarian court regarding AI Act interpretation.
CJEU, tech law
Request from a national court to interpret the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, for the first time AFAIK - concerns use of AI re an expert court report eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Request from a national court to interpret the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, for the first time AFAIK - concerns use of AI re an expert court report eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 AM
2 referrals have now been made by a Bulgarian court regarding AI Act interpretation.
The writers room is getting lazier and lazier
Eighty-nine people were injured by lightning at a rally supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, as the demonstrators gathered to demand Bolsonaro's release from prison.
Lightning strike at Brasilia rally injures 89 Bolsonaro supporters
Eighty-nine people were injured by lightning at a rally supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, as the demonstrators gathered to demand Bolsonaro's release from prison.
l.euronews.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:57 AM
The writers room is getting lazier and lazier
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Eighty-nine people were injured by lightning at a rally supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, as the demonstrators gathered to demand Bolsonaro's release from prison.
Lightning strike at Brasilia rally injures 89 Bolsonaro supporters
Eighty-nine people were injured by lightning at a rally supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, as the demonstrators gathered to demand Bolsonaro's release from prison.
l.euronews.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Eighty-nine people were injured by lightning at a rally supporting former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, as the demonstrators gathered to demand Bolsonaro's release from prison.
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CJEU - text of the request for the court to rule on whether the latest attempt at EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
January 26, 2026 at 8:37 AM
CJEU - text of the request for the court to rule on whether the latest attempt at EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
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I would point out it was the liberals, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris who ran for President on "Trump is a scary authoritarian" while leftists derided them for not reaching out to his supporters and claimed there'd be no big difference between them and Trump.
This whole thread is kind of fascinating to me, because it's predicated on an insurmountable ideological distinction between "liberalism" and "leftism", and then all of the examples he gives are purely arguments about aesthetics, style, emotion, association, rhetoric, etc.
January 26, 2026 at 4:41 AM
I would point out it was the liberals, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris who ran for President on "Trump is a scary authoritarian" while leftists derided them for not reaching out to his supporters and claimed there'd be no big difference between them and Trump.
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This is 20 years of COIN manifesting in ways that only we have eyes to see.
BREAKING: The Minnesota National Guard is handing out coffee and donuts to Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, after governor Tim Walz called them in to help out.
The good guys!
The good guys!
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
This is 20 years of COIN manifesting in ways that only we have eyes to see.
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look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what