Key graph. IMO the main story here is the dramatic decline in the incidence of far right terrorism in 2024-25, not the slight increase in far left attacks (from ~3 to ~7 a year)

Er du over 35 og i ferd med å bli gradvis mer interessert i lokalhistorie? Nasjonalbiblioteket trenger hjelp med å plassere sin samling av historiske flyfoto på kartet. bibliotekutvikling.no/nyheter/flyf...

OK, but it should be 30 and the maximum should be 50.

Vil tre norske oljefelt ta livet av 100 000 mennesker? Det er påstanden i rettssaken om Yggdrasil. Men tallet er meningsløst. At akademikere i praksis stiller seg bak, er alvorlig for deres troverdighet. @oysteinsjolie.bsky.social tegner og forklarer: www.minerva.no/gass-global-...

Poland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA

Tirsdag 4. november er det akkurat ett år siden Trump ble gjenvalgt. I den anledning utkommer min nye bok, "USA: En nekrolog?" Der tar jeg for meg *waves at everything*. Den kan allerede nå forhåndsbestilles (signert versjon, if that's your jam) hos Norli: www.norli.no/978828282293...

The President of the #Syrian Arab Republic, Mr. Ahmad Al-Sharaa, arrives in #NewYork on a historic visit to participate in the #UnitedNations General Assembly meetings the first #Syrian president to do so since 1967.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Egypt deploys Chinese HQ-9B missiles in Sinai, heightening Israeli fears

Just comparing estimated deaths in the Siege of Aleppo with Gaza. Gaza has resulted in nearly twice as many deaths in less than three years for a comparable population. The photo on the left is from Aleppo; that on the right is from Gaza.

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10th, marks the deadliest global attack in 16 years and the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

This was very informative

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

The case exposed a gap in British law for people accused of plotting murder If planning is done alone, conspiracy to murder charges cannot apply. If there is no ideological aim, the offence of preparing an act of terrorism cannot be used But recent mass killings haven't had an ideological motive

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

"[T]o nye sakkyndige [har] konkludert med at 28-åringen var utilregnelig i gjerningsøyeblikket da han drepte stesøsteren sin og deretter angrep Al-Noor-moskeen i Bærum." www.nrk.no/norge/overle...

Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline

this is not ok

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Britain to pay Palantir £750m in defence contract as Trump visits www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

We are hiring at The Economist. This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Why have the lecturer upload the essay to an AI assessment tool when the student can just do it herself? If we're going to go down this path, better to take the human out of the marking loop entirely and spend the researcher's time on tutorials and the like

“The Danish government on Thursday chose the Franco-Italian SAMP-T long-range surface-to-air weapon system over the US Patriot alternative, and said it would choose a Norwegian, German or French medium-range option for a total of DKr58bn ($9.1bn) — its biggest single investment in defence”

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Fun stuff here

ASML and Mistral agree €1.3bn blockbuster European AI deal on.ft.com/3IbzeUu

So uh there's a lot going on today. But I wrote this icct.nl/publication/... Did you know the US has added 12 *criminal groups* to the Foreign Terrorist Organization list this year? There were zero such FTOs last year. For decades, US allies have copied US terrorist designations. Not this year.

Does anyone here have experience using GitHub from Iraq? Running a workshop for scholars in the region and some Iraq-based users are reporting problems setting up GitHub Codespaces

I asked Bluesky how it's moderating graphic videos of the Charlie Kirk assassination, as well as responses that glorify violence or call for retribution. From a Bluesky spokesperson: "We're suspending accounts that are encouraging violence; we are taking down close-up videos of the event."

Part of this website is the 4chan of far leftism

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

My interview with ABC News about what’s left of Hamas after two years of warfare: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete

In the past 36 hours, Israel has bombed: • Palestine (Gaza) • Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra) • Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa) • Tunisia (aid flotilla) • Qatar (Doha) • Yemen (Sanaa)

The Oseberg ship, the prize exhibit in the Norwegian Viking Ship Museum, is being moved for the first time in 99 years. Watch it being transported 100 meters -- at a speed of 25cm/hour due to its extreme fragility -- in real time here: www.nrk.no/video/oseber... #engineering

Hello everyone, I have a team of videographers, fixers and translators working in Syria. If any foreign journalists wish to work in Syria, our team is ready to work with you. Please DM me for more details.

Sumud Flotilla for Gaza struck by drone off Tunisia coast - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-flotilla-gaza-struck-drone-tunisia-coast

Oh wow, a HUGE majority of Europeans (and not just the French) say it has negative consequences for Europe to buy US military equipment. Source: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/0...

Ole Asbjørn Ness og Petter Frølich slapper av etter lang podcast

Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester

Norwegian 🇳🇴 votes nearly counted. Looks like reelection for the Labour Party and the red block. Remarkable comeback. The populist Progress Party has a great result and has overtaken the Conservative Party (remind you of anything?) @jonasgahrstore will be back as PM #valg2025

I was wondering why I am getting slightly less vitriol every time I post here and found out that I am pre-emptively blocked by 146,000 people subscribed to various BlueSky blocklists about AI (and a whole range of other topics). BlueSky is becoming a collection of non-overlapping spaces, I guess.

Arrests at rally against Palestine Action ban rise to 890

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

"Siden selskapene nærmest har monopol, fungerer dette som en ren skattlegging. Vi står ikke med føttene og hele kroppen inne i Microsoft, men det er jo litt sånn at hvis du gir dem lillefingeren, tar de hele hånda." www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/prof...

Wild story of how Trump ordered a SEAL raid into North Korea in 2019 to plant a listening device. The SEALs killed everyone on a board a boat that they thought had spotted them, sunk the boat & bodies, and aborted. And Congress was told of none of this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Personlig mener jeg at ingenting hverken kan eller bør uttrykkes gjennom dans.

Can anyone point me to crowdsourcing/forecasting projects being by governments? I’m familiar with Sweden’s Glimt (www.foi.se/en/foi/resea...) which is in co-operation with Ukraine, but keen to learn about any other efforts under way.