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zekuzelalem.bsky.social
THREAD: on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would recognize Somaliland, an autonomous breakaway republic in northern Somalia, as an independent state.

This makes Israel the first state to officially recognize Somaliland, since it's 1991 declaration of independence.
Israel becomes first country to formally recognise Somaliland as independent state
Israel became the first country to formally recognise the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state on Friday - a decision that could reshape regional dynamics and tes...
www.reuters.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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zeets.bsky.social
LeMonde said, not on our watch
December 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
texastribune.org Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 4d
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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racc.skogsdjur.one
inte hackade utan skrapade, precis som alla AI-startups gjorde med internet
annas-archive.org/blog/backing...
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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canbackrasmus.bsky.social
Den svenske diplomaten som i våras greps misstänkt för spioneri, släpptes efter tre dagar i häkte och tog sitt liv dagen därpå. Nu kan Blankspot berätta att han med utrikesdepartementets hjälp sökte psykiatrisk akutvård efter frisläppandet.

blankspot.se/diplomaten-s...
Diplomaten sökte psykiatrisk vård, avvisades – tog senare sitt liv
Den svenske diplomaten som i våras greps misstänkt för spioneri, släpptes efter tre dagar i häkte och tog sitt liv dagen därpå. Nu kan Blankspot berätta att han med utrikesdepartementets hjälp sökt…
blankspot.se
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 8d
If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
aryazandvakili.bsky.social Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 8d
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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mrgodfrey.bsky.social
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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someforeignfield.bsky.social
RSF gets the Israel treatment in headlines now. Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers killed by completely independent drone that just did that on its own I guess
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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nickwhithorn.bsky.social
55 years ago today, one of the many occasions on which the Italian Republic survived by the skin of its teeth.
nickwhithorn.bsky.social Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · Dec 7
On the night of 7-8 December 1970 a far-right coup is staged in Italy, led by a deluded aristocrat. It has almost succeeded when it is inexplicably called off. The "Borghese Coup", named after its leader [Thread] >> 1
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
tstjern.bsky.social
(classic cartoon image of Batman slapping Robin) Robin: MOVE EAX,1 - Batman: XOR EAX, EAX; INC EAX
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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danielswedin.bsky.social
Vilken HELT EGENSINNIG fil på gubbhögerns zeitgeist-motorväg tar du?
Annons för Kvartal med rubriker Står du kvar när det blåser? Annons för Epoch Times med rubriken Tillfälligt avbrott? Annons för Fokus med rubriken Trött på att bli uppfostrad?
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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troutgirl.bsky.social
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
mattseybold.bsky.social Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Nov 22
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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robin.zachari.se
Tänk om samhällsdebatten handlade om hur vi rekryterar barnen till samhället.
niklasorrenius.bsky.social Niklas Orrenius @niklasorrenius.bsky.social · Nov 23
I gängkrigets Sundsvall får högstadiebarn riktiga jobb med 104 kr/tim – om de sköter skolan. De får in en fot på arbetsmarknaden och kan välja bort ”smutspengar” som gängen lockar med.

Det var en glädje att lära känna Warsame, Mahdi och Amir - läs om dem!

www.dn.se/sverige/har-...
Här får barnen jobb – för att slippa gängen
I gängkrigets Sundsvall erbjuds högstadiebarn riktiga jobb med 104 kr i timlön.
www.dn.se
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
"But then you'll never find out about dissenting views". Actually, it was finding out about their views that led me to block them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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annehelen.bsky.social
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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canbackrasmus.bsky.social
Hade för övrigt ett dunderavslöjande i Kaukasien i veckan. Genom läckta dokument kunde jag kartlägga Azerbajdzjans kampanj för territoriella anspråk på Armenien.

Stor sak i regionen - liten sak för en svensk publik, givetvis.

oc-media.org/exclusive-az...
EXCLUSIVE: Azerbaijan’s ‘Western Azerbaijan’ campaign exposed in leaked documents
OC Media has found the ‘Western Azerbaijan’ narrative is closely coordinated and supported by the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan.
oc-media.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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filippo.abyssdomain.expert
I got frustrated with how GitHub Actions lets workflows with read-only permissions poison the cache of read/write workflows (!!??!?), so yesterday night I put together an Action that runs commands in a gVisor sandbox.
GitHub - geomys/sandboxed-step: A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox
A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step
github.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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eprint.ing.bot
Germany Is Rolling Out Nation-Scale Key Escrow And Nobody Is Talking About It (Jan Sebastian Götte) ia.cr/2025/1963
Abstract. Germany is currently rolling out an opt-out, nation-scale database of the medical records of the majority of its population, with low-income people being disproportionally represented among its users. While there has been considerable criticism of the system coming from civil society, independent academic analysis of the system by the cryptography and information security community has been largely absent. In this paper, we aim to raise awareness of the system’s existence and, based on the system’s public specifications, highlight several concerning cryptographic engineering decisions. Our core observations is that the system’s most sensitive long-term user keys are derived by a rudimentary, home-grown centralized key escrow mechanism. This mechanism relies on a per-use salt and only 256 bit of entropy, shared globally across millions of users. Furthermore, the system’s specification mandates only level 3 compliance with the obsolete FIPS 140-2 security standard, which requires “hard, opaque potting”, but lacks active tamper sensing. As a result, the system remains vulnerable to attacks by nation states and other well-funded adversaries. Image showing part 2 of abstract.
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23
Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic. Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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thejournal.ie
On a visit to Camp Shamrock, we spoke to Fr Paul Murphy about his work, how he is the only unarmed non-combatant in the base, and how when he was stabbed in a terror attack at the gates of a military barracks it only reinforced his sense of duty.
http://jrnl.ie/6846276t
How Fr Paul Murphy helps Irish peacekeepers prepare for danger
Niall O’Connor is reporting this week from South Lebanon where he met Fr Paul Murphy who cares for the Irish soldiers.
jrnl.ie
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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nytimes.com
Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
nyti.ms
October 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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someforeignfield.bsky.social
UXO cleanup was not something USAID did, that was a State affair. In Gaza, we kept advocating for more UXO work, but it was always tied to the ceasefire negotiations and Israel's desired "humanitarian bubbles" - the project which became GHF. As a result, no meaningful US-funded UXO work occurred.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Oct 16
Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.

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October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM