🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

The Irish Navy had a ship present, but 'made the decision not to shoot down the drones', though the article also notes it the vessel did not have the capacity to disable the drones. A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Weeks of negotiations and diplomacy, rewritten peace deals and a visit by President Trump’s negotiating team to the Kremlin have failed to bring closer the end of the war in Ukraine, - The Times ❗️Ukraine peace plan has only led to Putin losing his fear of Trump

Everyone should boycott Eurovision. Make it a one-person show. Israel in an empty room

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

🛳️ Besiktas Shipping, the Turkish owner of an oil tanker that was damaged near Senegal's coast last week after being hit by four external explosions, said on Tuesday that it was ceasing all shipping operations involving Russian interests, - Reuters

The commander of the German Army, Christian Freuding, said in an interview with The Atlantic that the Pentagon has cut off communication with the German Defense Ministry, including coordination of military aid to Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Honestly, this is it right here. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: yes, my job is 87% vibes and 0% consequences Managers: yes, I spend half my time managing up and never got proper training to manage down Workers: only the 27% of the time I waste justifying my job to my boss GenAI is TPS reports.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest

The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable

“I would never do it in a hurtful or insulting way", said Nigel Farage. "As the victim of his verbal abuse, I can assure you that I do recall it all vividly", writes Peter Ettedgui of "the emotional impact – degrading, humiliating" of antisemitic abuse www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yep. I've been waiting for EU spooks to start reminding Trump that they've got their own capabilities.

The Metro is yet again delayed. Public transport is vital to tackling the ongoing Climate Crisis and our Housing Crisis. The Greens were the only party to make any serious headway on the project when we were in Gov. We must continue to push to ensure we have a sustainable public transport system!

No metro, but...

This is like the opening montage of the film, Up.

Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are: ‘You fucking idiots.’

A new joint investigation into the Russian Red Cross’s activities in occupied Ukraine reveals that the organization's international funding is growing even as it deepens its ties to pro-Kremlin patriotic youth groups. meduza.io/en/brief/202...

‘People have realised that there is little to gain, & a huge amount to lose, by creating free content for a billionaire's online platform. All those monolithic platforms now have the air of deserted out-of-town malls built during a boom’ @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/7e46...

Europe makes 7% of the world's batteries, vs 6% for the US

When we launched Global Gateway for Africa, we aimed to invest €150 billion in the continent. 4 years on, we’re well on track to exceed that goal. With 120 billion of investments for Africa. And more coming. For good, local jobs ↓ link.europa.eu/HkG3xq

what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you." Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."

The Polish prime minister reacts

I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia

So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't? How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?

"We've always been at war with Putinplannia"

We now have leaders of allied nations unable to trust a word the US tells them. We are witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic and foreign relations blunders of our lifetimes.

"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

US diplomacy: We got ChatGPT to cook up a 28 point plan. 27 of them are how we screw you over. EU diplomacy: Hey, you like Lego, right?

elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL elon pauses location feature

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Merz: I want to say very clearly: the end of this war is only possible with the full consent of Ukraine. Wars cannot be ended in a way that great powers decide over the heads of those directly affected by the aggression. This war can only be stopped with the consent of Ukraine and Europe.

Trump backs down.

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is an insane abuse of power. The United States acting against a European judge to protect their genocidal protégé in the Middle East, and Europe is doing nothing anout it. www.thenational.scot/news/2563997...

This a huge injustice. Why would they let this temporary petty dictator to single out and punished judges in other countries. Take a lesson from Brazil. Trump tried to punish them to save his buddy Bolsonaro, but they stood up to him and he had to back off. That's how you deal with bullies.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe. It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness. It’s the end of post WWII American power. www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...

I literally think Mamdani went “you know, there was actually a President so popular that people kept electing him more than two terms” and Trump was like no way tell me how he did it

When the *Financial Times* calls someone 'money-grabbing'...

Time to set the Tr*mp whisperers to one side.

Ex Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis "If you're a European leader asking your team to book you the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of cameras at the Oval office"

This is insane. All of Europe and America's explosives comes from one factory in Poland. Much of it's output goes not to defend either country, but instead does to Israel to kill Gazans. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.