NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Maccarthysme : cédant à la pression du ministre de la recherche, lui-même cédant à la pression des soutiens de Nétanyahou, le Collège de France, jusqu’ici lieu de liberté académique, annule un colloque sur la Palestine conçu par l’historien Henry Laurens. www.lemonde.fr/education/ar...

All we need to do to solve the housing crisis is to deport ::checks notes:: one out of every three people living in this country.

Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

BBC really burying the lede there

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

There are no words for how evil this is

Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.

This surge in applications from the US comes at a time where the grant and job market in Europe is already *very* competitive. Unless Europe invests more in science and higher education this influx of talent will put a squeeze on an already fragile system. www.ft.com/content/cd80...

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We have a whole academic article on strategic silence that you might find fascinating: drive.google.com/file/d/1SXOS...

Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai

BIRN journalists obtained access to private Telegram groups where recruiters lure Serb mercenaries from Bosnia and Serbia to join Russian forces in Ukraine with promises of lucrative contracts and veterans’ benefits detektor.ba/2025/10/30/m...

Longread (gratis gedeeld) Wordt dit soort katholieke radicalisering wel gedoogd? apache.be/2025/10/29/e...

🚨The Latvian parliament will vote today on a proposal to leave the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty protecting women & girls from violence. Such a move would put safety & lives risk. @amnesty.org calls on Latvia to uphold the convention & work towards its full implementation.

What a load of utter bollocks.

As Elon Musk programs his "Grokipedia" to say that Russia under Putin is an example of "civilizational renewal", am asking, again, why so many people associated with Peter Thiel spread Russian propaganda. It's not random and it's not just a fad. They are committed to Putin's talking points. 1/

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Russia’s list of “terrorists and extremists” increasingly includes not militants or separatists but ordinary opposition politicians, journalists, and public figures. meduza.io/en/cards/rus...

"Sir we're concerned that the chaotic damage you're doing to the economy, country and populace may be too abstract for the average American to fully grasp, do you have any ideas for a compelling visual metaphor?"

Le nouveau bras droit du président du RN, Jordan Bardella, fut l’un des poissons-pilotes du parti d’extrême droite en Russie. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Far-right AfD lawmakers in Germany accused of using their positions to spy for Russia u.afp.com/Ssub

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

"Even the most advanced systems make small mistakes or slightly misunderstand directions, requiring a human to carefully review their work and make changes where needed." Sounds a lot like working with student assistants... www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.

Klimaat is impopulair door vrouwenhaat, we hebben een ruige Charlie Kirk-achtige figuur nodig die zegt Safety First! Fijn dat er iemand op zulk hoog niveau voor ons denkt!

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

Vučić now calls student protestors “satanists” obviously in an attempt to pit them against the religious people. The regime seems to be running out of labels to discredit the movement, as all the others have worn out: terrorists, foreign agents, self-haters, traitors etc vreme.com/vesti/vucic-...

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó: "We are waiting for President Putin with respect, of course. We will ensure that he can enter Hungary, hold successful talks,& return home safely. There is no need to consult with anyone. We are a sovereign country. And we will welcome Putin with respect,host him⤵️

Student*innen aus Novi Pazar werden zu einem 16! Tage (für 16 Leben) langen Marsch aufbrechen. Insgesamt werden mehrere Tausend Student*innen aus ganz #Serbien zu Fuß aufbrechen. Auch zahlreiche Bürger*innen werden sich ihnen anschließen, um am 01.11. gemeinsam der Opfer in Novi Sad zu gedenken. 1/x

Fort Worth, Texas. #WeAreEverywhere

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden. 👉 buff.ly/MFNFcU3

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

“one tenet he’s steadfastly maintained over the years is that the unification of the world under one global state is essentially identical to the antichrist” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russian fascist propaganda is not unlike “gender-critical” propaganda. Can’t imagine why…

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building “network states”—cities where they make the rules. “This is a colonial project, aimed at tech empire ... Colonization 2.0,“ I told @telliotter.bsky.social via @wired.com www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

The second secret flight landed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Mali, according to pilot communications we obtained. ICE, DHS, Air Force and the governments of those countries did not answer questions about whether that flight carried third-country nationals. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society

Russian colonialism. A long 🧵 Some didn´t get the memo but Russia was - and is - a colonial power. Let´s take a tour around this marvelous empire: (I merged two threads here. That´s why the Balts are more thoroughly pictured) 1/x

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Kan iemand het aan JM Dedecker laten weten?

Good step that Chevening scholars from Gaza will be supported in getting to the UK, and hopefully this can be extended to others with university offers and scholarships www.thetimes.com/article/bf52...