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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 11h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 14h

Sobering words from the German intelligence services - “We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack would come in 2029 at the earliest. We are already under fire today.”

For deterrence now we must take the necessary decisions now.
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

German spy chief says Russia won't shy from military confrontation | Euractiv

Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jaeger, warned on Monday that Russia posed a direct threat and the current “icy peace” with the EU could erupt at any moment into “heated confrontation”. J...

www.euractiv.com

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 12h

www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=20...

Dr Manhattan meme, with text about Irish failure to drift cybercrime convention.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 17h

This is actually really good reporting on Farage

Unpaywalled:

web.archive.org/web/20251013...

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 20h

1/ Who are the globalists? Right wing, Christian group from US seeks to transform UK politics. The latest in a string of transnational moves by the far right to shift the global political debate. Welcome to the nationalist international.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Gateklons @gateklons.bsky.social · 23h

One person's spam campaign is another person's democratic engagement. In any case, they know how to make it stop 😁

But a wonderful example of how just one person's wit and skill can make a big difference. Bravo!

www.politico.eu/article/one-...

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘Chat Control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

www.politico.eu

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 1d

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.

www.computerweekly.com

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 2d

A lot of people are going to be relying on an octegenarian president with major health problems to pardon them. I mean, I wouldn't make that bet. Statistically, it's a pretty bad one.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 2d

In the same vein, from the same book.

May 2019 as Xi Jinping touted a rare earths processing plant in Jiangxi following Huawei’s addition to the entity list.

People's Daily: "Don't say you were not warned"

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 4d

It's not news that Europe is slow

But to read that - 35 articles in a state newspaper (public!) assessing China's chokepoints - 7 years before the policy discussion properly started here, is tragic

US & China are going for the jugular. EU sharpens its quill for another roadmap

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday, 6 days after that story, Beijing upped controls on rare earths, also lesser-known things like superhard materials (synthetic diamonds), lithium-battery & graphite anode materials

In all cases, China dominates 80%+ of global supply. European industry will be hit hard

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 4d

Seven years ago.

The next year, under US pressure, ASML announced it would stop selling EUV machines to China.

Six years after that, we now are now starting to hear discussions in Europe about "becoming indispensable", finding chokepoints & deterrents

Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise in a new age of economic warfare

Bureaucrats look for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington but what would it take for Brussels to act?

www.scmp.com

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 4d

Been thinking about this all week. On the train to the Hague I was reading Edward Fishman's 'Chokepoints'

In 2018, when Trump cut ZTE off from US kit, a newspaper run by China’s Ministry of Science & Technology published a series of 35 articles titled “What Are Our Chokepoints?”

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 2d

Not the first time…there was the bugging of the EU Council building in 2003, “Operation socialist” in 2013 when UK secret services hacked Belgacom, more recently MEPs, EU Commissioners and staff targeted with spyware. Whenever a member state is behind it, the EU goes 🤐🙊🙉🙈

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 3d

I'm just wondering: if the European Commission is unable to deal with Hungarian spying and infiltration in Brussels, how are they expected to handle the more powerful and threatening Russian or Chinese espionage?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 3d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Michele Neylon @mneylon.social · 3d

Undermining encryption puts us all at risk. A robust digital economy needs assurances that E2EE is promoted, not broken #security #privacy

www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/ope...

Open Letter: Irish Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill – Global Encryption Coalition

Ireland’s Minister for Justice stated that they wish to introduce domestic legislation that would give Irish police (An Garda Síochána) access to encrypted messaging services. As the minister has indicated a review of Ireland’s existing interception legislation, the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, is under way, drafting of the new […]

www.globalencryption.org

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

All my comics have happy endings!

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 4d

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 4d

another day in very normal times

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 4d

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 4d

@radleybalko.bsky.social You might be interested in a ‘creative’ use of forfeiture by an English local authority.

Jacob Hatton @jacobhashishaton.bsky.social · 4d

www.the-londoner.co.uk/one-of-south...

One of South London's oldest Turkish restaurants is facing a £2.5m fine over a misplaced vent

Plus, the future of McGlynn's, trader evictions in Elephant and Castle and horses on Tooting Common

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4d

💥🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: We reveal how, under now-Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, Hungarian intelligence spied in Brussels against the EU, attempting to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions.

@direkt36.bsky.social @papertrailmedia.de @spiegel.de @tijd.be @larsbove.bsky.social @hmnzngr.bsky.social

Inside the Fall of Viktor Orbán’s Secret Brussels Spy Network - Direkt36

In the 2010s, Hungarian intelligence began spying in Brussels against the EU and tried to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions for this purpose. However, Hungarian intelligence carried it out...

www.direkt36.hu

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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