Katerina Stavroula
@katerinastv.bsky.social
Operations Specialist | previously @ Lighthouse Reports, @ UNHCR Greece | cat lover, book hoarder, info junkie, antifa | 🦋 in 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇫🇷🇪🇸 | views, obviously, my own | 🍉
People often ask what it's like behind the scenes at the world's top spy tech trade fair, ISS World. Turns out it's like this bsky.app/profile/ligh...
Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 10mo ago🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out
Satellite imagery analysis corroborates whistleblowers' testimony exposing widespread greenwashing across the Philippines’ national reforestation program. Davao Today, @thibico.bsky.social and Lighthouse prove instead of restoring forests, it’s often fueling deforestation. 🧵
#NoOtherLand Palaistinian co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and injured by a group of Israeli settlers, then abducted by IDF from the ambulance he'scalled to get medical treatment. Co-director Yuval Abraham says there has been no sign of Hamdan since. Another reminder of what #apartheid is.
Μ Ε Τ Α Ν Ο Ε Ι Τ Ε (ήρθε το τέλος του κόσμου)
Μετά από πολλά χρόνια βλέπω ξανά στα social media feed μου οδηγίες και νομικές συμβουλές για εργαζόμενους που θέλουν να απεργήσουν την Παρασκευή. Άλλο ένα δείγμα πως θα έχουμε τεράστια συμμετοχή και στην απεργία, πέρα από τις διαδηλώσεις.
Με αγάπη για την #Παλαιστίνη ❤️🔥 For the Love of #Palestine Αγάπη είναι αντίσταση, αφοσίωση, αγώνας για ελευθερία. Ένα 3ήμερο στο Τριανόν γεμάτο ταινίες, ιστορίες, εξαιρετικούς καλεσμένους από την ομάδα του Athens Palestine Film Festival. 🔻 13-15 Φεβρουαρίου – Τρεις μέρες θαρραλέου κινηματογράφου
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boban@boban4.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
The #shipwreck near #Gavdos #Crete #Greece last Saturday 14/12 is becoming one of the most tragic and deadly ones. The death toll has risen to 7, with 36 people still missing (!), according to the Deputy Mayor of Chania. Search efforts continue. www.zarpanews.gr/nayagio-sti-...
Ναυάγιο στη Γαύδο: Φόβοι για δραματική αύξηση των νεκρών – Ταυτοποιήθηκαν πέντε σοροί, αναφορές για 36 αγνοούμενους | zarpanews.gr
Επτά νεκροί και 36 αγνοούμενοι είναι ο μέχρι στιγμής απολογισμός από το ναυάγιο στη Γαύδο ενώ οι έρευνες συνεχίζονται. Οι διασωθέντες (33 άτομα) φιλοξενού
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Over a year, we collected & analyzed data on drowning deaths along Texas' stretch of the US/Mexico border on the Rio Grande Yesterday our collaborative investigation went out on the front covers of @washingtonpost.com + @eluniversalmx.bsky.social @lhreports.bsky.social
Lighthouse Reports, in partnership with The Washington Post & El Universal, spent a year collecting data from every Texas county & Mexican state along the Rio Grande. We found at least 1,107 people drowned crossing the river from 2017 to 2023, a figure significantly higher than previously reported.
Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 2y agoTexas has become the blueprint for the militarization of the US-Mexico border. This politically-driven show of force has sent the Rio Grande death toll soaring. We reveal for first time the true human cost of this
Γιόρτασα με τον Χιλιανό πρόσφυγα φίλο μου τη μέρα που πέθανε ο Πινοτσέτ. Δεν θα ξεχάσω το χαμόγελό του. Σήμερα γιορτάζω με τον Σύρο φίλο μου την κατάρρευση του Άσαντ. Και σκέφτομαι τους Σύρους πρόσφυγες που έχω συναντήσει, που μου μίλησαν για τα τραύματα και την πατρίδα τους. Θα χαμογελάνε σήμερα.
Thinking today of Syrian friends & so many other amazing Syrians met over the last decade on the reporting trail. Hard to comprehend the scale of damage wrought by the despicable and belatedly deposed Assads
New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends. I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives. They would be advised to read up on history. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms (Gift Article)
It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.
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Steve Linberg@slinberg.net · 2y agoWhen @zey.bsky.social has something to say, stop what you’re doing and listen. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
"Why does playing by the rules render someone innocent, even when the rules produce a stream of death and devastation?" @jphillll.bsky.social raises some valid points here: www.jphilll.com/p/whats-a-li...
What's a life worth?
On the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
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Same question, different government.
Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 2y agoAmnesty says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Human Rights Watch says crimes against humanity, the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu (and Hamas leaders), the ICJ is hearing South Africa's genocide case. What is our government doing? www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Serious impact in Sweden where the welfare agency has been called before parliament to answer questions over discriminatory algorithms used to profile benefits recipients www.svd.se/a/63VOxo/eft...
Efter SvD:s granskning – MP kräver AI-garantier
Miljöpartiet kritiserar Försäkringskassan efter att SvD avslöjat om hur myndigheten använt AI för att hitta misstänkta fuskare. Partiets tidigare språkrör Märta Stenevi (MP) vill nu kalla myndighetens...
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📣 Syrian journalists, artists, architects and activists residing in Europe, this is a chance to attend a free 4 days extensive training in digital investigations techniques with @lhreports.bsky.social in Berlin forms.gle/hwn7S8tXtBx2...
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"Hey Anders", I hope you're still keeping a diary. Someone has to keep a record of the publications 🤣
Gabriel Geiger@gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 2y agoI do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”
Women, migrants, low-income earners, people without university education are more likely to be wrongly flagged as suspicious by Sweden’s welfare surveillance algorithms.After 3 years of FOI & legal battles, Lighthouse Reports (@lhreports.bsky.social) reveals www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Sweden’s Suspicion Machine
Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
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I know you already know, but tbh I just wanted to share this in my feed www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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I read about the umpteenth overblown research results on chatbots being better than doctors (just irresponsible from publications like the NYT) This very useful starter pack came my way right after, so there’s that at least.
Virginia Dignum@vdignum.bsky.social · 2y agoA starterpack on important, critical voices on #AI #ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance #AIpolicy #AIethics More suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/ECWQzUA
The Taliban has demolished over 1.5 million sqm in Kabul, displacing 1000s & hitting marginalised communities hardest. @lhreports.bsky.social new investigation w/Afghan Witness, Centre 4 Information Resilience,Zan Times,Etilaat Roz & @theguardian.com reveals www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Inside the Taliban's demolition campaign in Kabul
Mapping the Taliban’s demolitions: the darker side of their development drive
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This is happening now in Beirut. X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
Leila Molana-Allen@leilama.bsky.social · 2y ago#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
THE LATE DAVID GRAEBER was one of the few people in the English-speaking world of the early 21st century who could rightly be described as a public intellectual. lareviewofbooks.org/article/anar...
Anarchism and Principle of Play | Los Angeles Review of Books
Steven Shaviro reviews David Graeber’s posthumous essay collection “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …”
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November 17th is the day we commemorate the 1973 uni students' uprising against the 1967 dictatorship (lasted 7 years till 1974) with a huge demonstration in Athens. Today I'm in Barcelona (for work) and won't be able to join, still there's an antifascist legacy here that makes me feel right at home
Nick Lloyd@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2y agoBarricade in Plaça Sant Jaume, centre of political power in Barcelona, during the 1937 May Days, leftist infighting. To the right, Barcelona city council. Behind, outside the picture, the Catalan government (Generalitat)
Πολύ χρήσιμο για τους νέους χρήστες 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
diakoptis 🦄@diakoptis.bsky.social · 2y agoΟδηγίες και tips για τους νεοεισερχόμενους. Το thread θα ανανεώνεται με το τον καιρό με νέα πράγματα που κ εγώ τωρα μαθαίνω. 📅 2019: To @bsky.app ξεκινά ως ερευνητικό έργο από τον τότε CEO του Twitter, Jack Dorsey, με στόχο τη δημιουργία ενός ανοιχτού κ αποκεντρωμένου προτύπου για κοινωνικά δίκτυα.
Ταξιδεύω για δουλειά. Στο περιοδικό της Aegean βλέπω φωτογράφιση μόδας στα Τζουμέρκα. Απελπίζομαι. Η απληστία σας θα διαλύσει κι αυτό το οικοσύστημα, αχόρταγοι άνθρωποι. ❄️Τουλάχιστον χιόνισε στις κορυφές 🏔️
Created a starter kit for newskies interested in the trans-national far right or far-right movements beyond the US. Includes accounts covering US, CA, UK, FR, PT, IT, NL, DE, CHE, AU, SE, NL, HUN, UKR, RU, BR, ASTL and comparativists + more to come. 👍 go.bsky.app/4WrP94d
Last lineup of #Athens #Palestine Film Festival starts tonight. An unexpected and moving experience for me: so many powerful films and documentaries these three weekends of the festival, all sold out. Here’s to a future when free Palestinians will create art without the dark shadow of the genocide.
