Alexandra Jones I Alpha Juliet
@jonesatwork.bsky.social
This 🦋 account dormant I Organised crime & Security. Complexity, networks, systems.
Spawning Minnows! Among the great wonders of UK wildlife, unbeknownst to most of us, but to be found in our luckier rivers. My prize upon slipping into our local chalk stream, River Lark, Cavenham Heath, at start of Whitsun, suffering withdrawal from not having been in one since March. #MySwim 1/15
💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.
"The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth."
This animated map illustrates how four of the ancient world’s most important domesticated grain crops spread across the Old World between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago. Source: buff.ly/7GnMCQr
Uncertainty is the norm underwater. It's becoming the norm everywhere else too. warontherocks.com/2026/05/lead...
Leading in the Dark: How Submarine Commanders Think Under Uncertainty
We had been tracking the contact for six hours. The acoustic signature was ambiguous. The geometry was incomplete. The tactical picture had shifted twice
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How to make sense of what's happening in the UK? Why not join one of the most acute observers of British politics & society, the historian @helenebismarck.bsky.social, who'll be launching her new book "Fantastic Kingdom" at QMUL on 17 June? Free tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantastic-...
Fantastic Kingdom: A Stranger's Notes on a Contrary Country
Helene von Bismarck in Conversation! Join the Mile End Institute to launch Helene's new insightful portrait of the UK as seen by an outsider
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Attack against Sam Altman’s home may point to emerging AI-linked grievance dynamics. Just this week at West Point, I warned that rapid AI adoption could fuel new grievances and make tech leaders symbolic targets. Too early to conclude, but worth watching closely. www.wired.com/story/sam-al...
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Gedempte Burgwal, Chinatown, The Hague.
In agreeing plans for a new Chinese mega-embassy, our govt has prioritised economic expediency over national security, its primary duty. Whilst some sinologists doubt this was the right hill to fight on, the decision displays weakness and will lead to increased Chinese espionage in UK and Europe.
SOC ACE researcher Matthew Redhead interviewed by journalist Gordon Corera for BBC Radio4 documentary Playing Spies. Petty criminals and serious organised crime are now being used as tools of spycraft & state threats. Broadcast Sunday 30 November. Listen to it www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Currently - Playing Spies - BBC Sounds
Gordon Corera investigates Russia's new front line of amateur espionage.
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Classic. www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
Sneeuwvrije daken leiden politie naar hennepkwekerij en drugsvondst
Het sneeuwvrije dak van een woning in Almelo heeft de politie naar een hennepkwekerij geleid. Ook in Zeeland ging de politie een pand met een niet besneeuwd dak binnen. Daar werden drugs gevonden.
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open.spotify.com/track/4hAeEK... One of the best versions of this favourite. Ties with #16Horsepower for 1st spot. Link to 16Horsepower in the next post.
Wayfaring Stranger
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Surely a contender for 'photo of the year'
#VandaagGemaakt in de Drentse #natuur. De trek van veel soorten #vogels is volop aan de gang. Ik zag vanochtend heel wat boerenzwaluwen - Hirundo rustica - en huiszwaluwen - Delichon urbicum - even pauzeren. 🪶
“Cryptocurrency, once just a niche financial curiosity, is now at the forefront of economic warfare,” argue Adam Zarazinski and Bruno Faviero.
Swap Around and Find Out: The New Rules of International Digital Economic Warfare - War on the Rocks
On Feb. 21, 2025, North Korean state hackers linked to the Lazarus Group pulled off the largest digital theft in history, stealing around $1.5 billion
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A famous American university president once said that unis shouldn’t be engaged in making ideas safe for students, but in making students safe for ideas.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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‘Der Politikwissenschaftler Carlo Masala befürchtet verheerende Konsequenzen für die Ukraine, sollte Russland im Zuge von Friedensgesprächen auf einer Abtretung des gesamten Donbass im Osten des Landes bestehen’. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
Ukraine-Verhandlungen: Experte warnt – diese Region darf Putin nie bekommen
Beim Treffen zwischen Trump, Selenskyj und Europäern in Washington dürfte es auch um Gebietsabtretungen gehen. Eine Region sollte die Ukraine laut dem Experten nicht hergeben.
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Example: Former PM of Dagestan gets run over by a car and killed. Little to no information on who hit him or how it happened. Very specific information on the car that ran him over. ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%...
IT'S HAPPENING FOLKS! My Valleys book is being printed! Design by @seanrees.bsky.social Print by WithPrint Paper by GF Smith And a few photos by me! Can't to get these in the post to you all!
Op deze dag in 2005 overleed Marten Toonder, de geestelijk vader van Ollie B. Bommel en Tom Poes. Hij schreef prachtige verhalen waarin onze samenleving kritisch beschouwd wordt. Ook geniale neologismen die nog altijd gebruikt worden als denkraam, minkukel, bovenbaas en dorknoper
Worked with @lloydslisted.bsky.social to uncover a massive network of fraudulent ship registry websites, many listed as official flag state contacts in the IMO GISIS website:
Massive fraudulent flag operation linking over 20 separate fake sites uncovered
A Lloyd’s List investigation has revealed the connections between the rapidly growing number of fraudulent ship registries being used by hundreds of sanctioned ships globally
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