Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
Heleen Touquet
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Researcher. Gender & violence, feminism, conflict, masculinities, former Yugoslavia. Runner. Biker. Queer stuff. 🏳️🌈
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
We are within a hairs-breadth of a gov't council on physical fitness summit about the benefits of rape for men.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d agoRussell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is 100% accurate and it’s why I’d never go to Bavaria
A Thiel-Altman-&-Andreessen backed “network state” called Praxis is planning a tech colony in Uruguay & has a nonbinding deal w/ a development led by a former advisor to Javier Milei. Located a short ferry ride from Argentina, the move aligns w/ the “Tech Bros”’ increasing interest in the region. 1/
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.
““any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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In the final text for our Hidden Cannon series, I wrote about dissident Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, who perished in a Russian penal colony in 1985. My latest for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/vasyl-stus/
How a dissident poet became Ukraine’s moral compass
Editor's Note: This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported b...
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It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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For a few seconds I thought Kernel Panic was a Bosnian name.
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoKernel Panic by @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social ! Your guide to the changing worlds of digital security and privacy. Exclusive news, expert analysis and what’s coming next. Delivered every Saturday. Find out more 👇 www.wired.com/newsletter/e...
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
brutusdavis99.bsky.social@brutusdavis99.bsky.social · 2w agoDid you ever meet Bob Kraft?
Unglaublich: Diese Stange wurde vor einem Jahr in das Eis des größten Gletschers der Alpen gebohrt, dem Aletschgletscher. 🇨🇭 Allein in den letzten 3 Monaten sind hier fast 6 Meter Eis geschmolzen. Der Rekordsommer 2026 hinterlässt tiefe Spuren. 📸 A. Linsbauer via @matthias_huss
Comment la Russie est devenue « l’Etat-FSB » : « On leur a donné le pays »
Comment la Russie est devenue « l’Etat-FSB » : « On leur a donné le pays »
« Le système Poutine » (2/3). Les élections législatives russes, prévues du 18 au 20 septembre, se dérouleront sans enjeu dans un pays muselé par le service fédéral de sécurité, dont les pouvoirs ne cessent de s’étendre, hors de tout contrôle, depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine.
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An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Our new volume on Global Platform Governance is now available for pre-orders, gathering perspectives from academics and practitioners all over the world on key debates around regulating platforms so that folks are not just engaging what works for the US or the EU. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/global-pl...
Global Platform Governance
This is a field-defining open access playbook for identifying and responding to the global regulatory challenges created by large digital platforms.Here Nanjala…
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Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
“What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.” My 2025 testimony in Democracy Shield hearings at European Parliament. youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y?...
Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrency
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2w agoReform UK has insisted its two crypto-billionaire donors want 'nothing' in exchange for their combined £72m gifts to the party rte.ie/b/1591329
I'm tracking anti-trans ad spending live via Meta and Google's political ad libraries. There's an absolute tsunami of it that started in September.
The entire US apparatus to monitor for election interference from abroad has been dismantlesmd and what was left has been repurpose to work on rounding up the undocumented. bsky.app/profile/soci...
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2y ago"The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit established in 2016, shuttered on Monday at a time when officials and experts tracking propaganda have been warning of the risk of disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China." www.france24.com/en/live-news...
this reminds me of documentaries of Mussolini‘s speeches — the script writers here must have watched them on repeat
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in history that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't Here's the full sequence:
This was built over decades: The creation of a far-right media and dark money messaging ecosystem outside legacy media; a judiciary stacked with far-right judges; right-wing beach heads and professors at colleges; right-wing takeover of traditional media… We’ve been hollowed out by the businessmen.
"Dass die Nazis unsere Feinde sind. Mein Gott! Wir brauchten doch bitteschön nicht Hitlers Machtergreifung, um das zu wissen. Das war doch seit mindestens vier Jahren jedem Menschen, der nicht schwachsinnig war, völlig evident."
Huckabee is obviously completely clueless and merely parroting Dodik’s talking points (if this tweet is even accurate), but this will further inflame the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (and is probably intended to do so).
Tory MP demands formal inquiry into the Tate brothers relationship with the Kremlin and their pre-arrest activities with the Russian military in August. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/04/t...
The Tate Brothers Have a Russia Problem. They Could Be in Big Trouble. - The Moscow Times
Opinion | The manosphere darlings Andrew and Tristan Tate have been a menace on our feeds for years, earning their scandalous reputation over years of hard work spouting misogyny, trafficking women, h...
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Es wurde auf eine antifaschistische Demonstration in #Halle geschossen. Eine Person wurde verletzt. Willkommen in AfD-Land. Das ist erst der Beginn.
Schon wieder Schüsse am Bebel: Linke Demo mit 1.000 Teilnehmern im Visier
Schüsse aus einem Luftgewehr haben am Montagabend eine Demonstration linker Gruppen nach der Landtagswahl mit etwa 1.000 Teilnehmern in den Straßen von Halle überschattet. Einmal mehr Tatort war der B...
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