Jean-Marc Liotier
@liotier.bsky.social
Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank.
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
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Jean-Marc Liotier: Your Friendly Neighborhood Policy Nerd
Where EU politics meets tech rants and unexpected humor.
blueskyroast.com
You just discovered my Bluesky account and wonder what it is about ? Here is a fun summary:
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Russia bombing civilians last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Russia bombing civilians last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace
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“Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep.”
— White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Wednesday
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many, many years.”
— Trump, 2019
— White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Wednesday
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many, many years.”
— Trump, 2019
The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency
Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
“Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep.”
— White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Wednesday
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many, many years.”
— Trump, 2019
— White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Wednesday
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many, many years.”
— Trump, 2019
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welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles
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We explained to a chimpanzee the various factional struggles within the Right and he immediately hanged himself
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We explained to a chimpanzee the various factional struggles within the Right and he immediately hanged himself
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….she has a law degree 🙄
2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
….she has a law degree 🙄
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Seduce, confuse, isolate —
How RT establishes a relationship of dependence and emotional trust, following its Soviet predecessor’s logic of influence ⤵️
desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...
How RT establishes a relationship of dependence and emotional trust, following its Soviet predecessor’s logic of influence ⤵️
desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...
Anatomy of Media Influence, From Novosti to RT • russian desk
From 2017 until its ban in 2022, RT France transformed distrust of the media into a culture of mistrust, the effects of which still persist.
desk-russie.info
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Seduce, confuse, isolate —
How RT establishes a relationship of dependence and emotional trust, following its Soviet predecessor’s logic of influence ⤵️
desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...
How RT establishes a relationship of dependence and emotional trust, following its Soviet predecessor’s logic of influence ⤵️
desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...
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I know "you can just do things" isn't always the answer, but most research papers really just need to move to an open access "here's a .pdf on the university library's holdings" model. The review process really doesn't add much compared to the colossal drain on resources imposed by journals.
Our libraries are cutting staff so that Elsevier can have its 32% profit margin
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I know "you can just do things" isn't always the answer, but most research papers really just need to move to an open access "here's a .pdf on the university library's holdings" model. The review process really doesn't add much compared to the colossal drain on resources imposed by journals.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Every time you see “suspected gang member” I want you to think about the massacre in Rio. In its aftermath at least 90 of the 120 who have been identified, including a beheaded teenager, were found to have no connection to the target. Better headline: IL Cops shares database of brown people with ICE
Despite an Illinois law prohibiting data sharing agreements between state law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities, Illinois State Police is providing access to gang database info to DHS and has been doing so since 2024
✏️ @blairpaddock.bsky.social
✏️ @blairpaddock.bsky.social
Illinois State Police Keeps Data on Suspected Gang Members. ICE Has Access
According to agreements obtained by WTTW News, the Illinois State Police has shared data with ICE through its statewide computer system since 2008, including criminal history data and its gang member ...
news.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Every time you see “suspected gang member” I want you to think about the massacre in Rio. In its aftermath at least 90 of the 120 who have been identified, including a beheaded teenager, were found to have no connection to the target. Better headline: IL Cops shares database of brown people with ICE
From the Depths of Bluesky archives, Peter Hegseth's inspiration for "Southern Spear".
"C'mere.. Let's fill you up with some whelps."
My Roe, Southern Spear (get it? a 'southern spear' is a penis.)
(..actually it was a randomly generated name from the game. Thanks SE.)
My Roe, Southern Spear (get it? a 'southern spear' is a penis.)
(..actually it was a randomly generated name from the game. Thanks SE.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
From the Depths of Bluesky archives, Peter Hegseth's inspiration for "Southern Spear".
Either the random operation names generator got caught in the DOGE cuts, or the war stores of pre-generated operation names have been sold to private equity, or the fuckers thought the phallic name that abbreviates to SS was so irresistibly cool that they just had to recycle it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Either the random operation names generator got caught in the DOGE cuts, or the war stores of pre-generated operation names have been sold to private equity, or the fuckers thought the phallic name that abbreviates to SS was so irresistibly cool that they just had to recycle it.
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Previously Operation Southern Spear (a Navy program) was controlled by the long-standing counterdrug JIATF-South. Are we standing up a new, different JTF and expanding the mission? All I know is the tweet, so dunno.
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Previously Operation Southern Spear (a Navy program) was controlled by the long-standing counterdrug JIATF-South. Are we standing up a new, different JTF and expanding the mission? All I know is the tweet, so dunno.
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And calling an Operation "Southern Spear" doesn't exactly defuse claims that this is a war designed to distract from a US presidential administration drowning in its own masculine inadequacy.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And calling an Operation "Southern Spear" doesn't exactly defuse claims that this is a war designed to distract from a US presidential administration drowning in its own masculine inadequacy.
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This is MAGA media testing defenses of Trump for when the inevitable leak/release of the Epstein files reveals proof he's a child molester. Republicans will say he just raped teens, not toddlers, and insist that's better than having a Democratic administration. Obscene monsters, all.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is MAGA media testing defenses of Trump for when the inevitable leak/release of the Epstein files reveals proof he's a child molester. Republicans will say he just raped teens, not toddlers, and insist that's better than having a Democratic administration. Obscene monsters, all.
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So funny how the WSJ is the only paper of record doing actually investigative reporting on the administration
1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs
2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads
3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James
4) IG and ethics officials are all fired.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads
3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James
4) IG and ethics officials are all fired.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So funny how the WSJ is the only paper of record doing actually investigative reporting on the administration
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This is going to go down as the dumbest war in the Western Hemisphere since Napoleon III decided that only a Habsburg princeling could save Mexico
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is going to go down as the dumbest war in the Western Hemisphere since Napoleon III decided that only a Habsburg princeling could save Mexico
The cost-efficiency and plain efficiency of the "Claude Code on the web" research preview is stupefying compared to my very nice but inefficient coding within conversational Claude and my fumblings within Github Codespaces with conversational agents.
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The cost-efficiency and plain efficiency of the "Claude Code on the web" research preview is stupefying compared to my very nice but inefficient coding within conversational Claude and my fumblings within Github Codespaces with conversational agents.
"30 million illegal immigrants" is of course false in any legal definition: it only makes sense within an ethno-nationalist framework defining who gets to be a citizen... Nazi rhetoric - well understood and appreciated by the target audience: racists.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"30 million illegal immigrants" is of course false in any legal definition: it only makes sense within an ethno-nationalist framework defining who gets to be a citizen... Nazi rhetoric - well understood and appreciated by the target audience: racists.
Similarities between the AI bubble and the Internet bubble: their impact is transformative and, whatever the serious problems they create, the new technologies are fantastic progress - but not to the point of rendering good old price-earning-ratio obsolete.
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Similarities between the AI bubble and the Internet bubble: their impact is transformative and, whatever the serious problems they create, the new technologies are fantastic progress - but not to the point of rendering good old price-earning-ratio obsolete.
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
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GIMENEZ: If there was something in there that implicated President Trump, Biden would've shown it to us when he had control of the files
C: Then why is this White House fighting to not release them?
G: Uh, look, uh, like I said, I, I, you know, I don't know why there's, there's a fight but uhh uhh
C: Then why is this White House fighting to not release them?
G: Uh, look, uh, like I said, I, I, you know, I don't know why there's, there's a fight but uhh uhh
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
GIMENEZ: If there was something in there that implicated President Trump, Biden would've shown it to us when he had control of the files
C: Then why is this White House fighting to not release them?
G: Uh, look, uh, like I said, I, I, you know, I don't know why there's, there's a fight but uhh uhh
C: Then why is this White House fighting to not release them?
G: Uh, look, uh, like I said, I, I, you know, I don't know why there's, there's a fight but uhh uhh
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I think the US tech advantage is just extremely brittle, especially if US foreign policy remains this dumb
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think the US tech advantage is just extremely brittle, especially if US foreign policy remains this dumb
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Buried in here: UMC pastors in Chicago told me they were going to keep doing this for a wide spectrum of Methodists who have legal battles amid the ongoing mass deportation effort in the city — immigrant families, pastors who have been arrested, etc.
Some serious denominational solidarity here.
Some serious denominational solidarity here.
NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors.
Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw.
"If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...
Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw.
"If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...
Methodist pastors march into courtroom with 'boring suburban dad' indicted for protesting
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,’ said a Chicago area UMC pastor.
religionnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Buried in here: UMC pastors in Chicago told me they were going to keep doing this for a wide spectrum of Methodists who have legal battles amid the ongoing mass deportation effort in the city — immigrant families, pastors who have been arrested, etc.
Some serious denominational solidarity here.
Some serious denominational solidarity here.
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My favorite Donald Trump fact is that in 2016, there was a leak of a conversation during an Access Hollywood interview where what he said about his treatment of women was so egregious that the interviewer lost his job.
Then Donald Trump went on to be elected president. Twice.
Then Donald Trump went on to be elected president. Twice.
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My favorite Donald Trump fact is that in 2016, there was a leak of a conversation during an Access Hollywood interview where what he said about his treatment of women was so egregious that the interviewer lost his job.
Then Donald Trump went on to be elected president. Twice.
Then Donald Trump went on to be elected president. Twice.
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails