FBI currently investigating the theft of agricultural drones that can aerosolize 31 gallons in 7 minutes. This was quite the caper to say the least. New story from @seandnaylor.bsky.social and I at @thehighside.bsky.social thehighside.substack.com/p/fbi-spooke...

The WSJ had an article on the market response (gift link)...fittingly right beneath the headline "Iran Fires on Three Ships" and the ticker showing markets up half a point. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Cory Doctorow’s concept of “enshittification,” originally developed to explain platform decay, can also be applied as an analytic lens to terrorism: extremist violence increasingly adapts to the degraded, algorithm‑driven logic of platforms and attention economies.

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad. Coming soon: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed. Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Since that day in November, I feel like the world no longer makes any sense. youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB... #FSTL

Member of European Parliament, @alexandrageese.eurosky.social, discusses how social media algorithms set the political and popular agenda and censor speech. Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 9 April 2026 youtu.be/gwh8kcI286Q

Check this out, #eurosky launched a portal/dashboard for all your ATproto stuff:

"the strait of hormuz is open" "the strait of hormuz is closed" "wait they're opening it again" "the strait of hormuz is actually closed this time" europeans having no idea just enjoying the weekend: x.com/MadsPosting/...

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

Truth

✅️ La Freccia del Brabante delivered. Again ! What a race and surely, what a sprint finish.

2020 called. It wants its Four Seasons Total Landscaping energy back

a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict

Far from all Israelis are Kahanists, ofc, but Hecht points here to fundamental corrosive changes in Israeli society/psychology that extend well beyond one particular far-right government: Kahanism "marches forward without a significant countervailing force emerging." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This is what a "downspiral" looks like folks !

Amai, 10 man die in Vlaanderen staakt en ik wacht al +10dagen op mijn pakjes. Wat een impact !

#phishing | 🎣 ⚠️ @safeonweb-be.bsky.social waarschuwt voor phishingberichten in het kader van een veiligheidslek bij Basic-Fit en Booking. 💡 Oplichters kunnen u geloofwaardige phishingberichten sturen die van deze bedrijven lijken te komen.

Lebanon is severely impacted by the conflict in the Middle East and requests assistance. Belgium, through the #BFAST emergency mechanism, continues to support Lebanon by delivering additional emergency relief supplies for the affected population. [1/3]

HOWLING

Authoritarians are, at their core, narcissists, and all narcissists crave adoration. Reverence is their lifeblood, accolades the air they breathe... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-meme-...

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

Ze zijn daar weer, hoor. De n-va’ertjes die dit gretig delen, toe jeugd door hun trolletjes en andere children of a lesser God. Draadje 👇

De verkiezingsoverwinning van #Magyar geeft de EU de kans om intern orde op zaken te stellen, zoals een strategie voor lidstaten die de rechtstaat aan banden leggen. Maar het zal snel moeten gaan want er komen nieuwe verkiezingen aan zoals in Frankrijk in 2027 die dit momentum kunnen neutraliseren..

Waard om te lezen !

‘The Ambivalent Internet’ and ‘The Shadow Gospel’ author Whitney Phillips on how online got so bad.

ProPublica dropped a bombshell on how Trump dismantled every guardrail that stopped him in 2020 — and replaced them with election deniers. Just in time for the midterms. 🧵 #SheShed

NOW, only JUST NOW these depraved wanna-be Christians are mad, after 47 depicted himself as Jesus. What a bunch of hypocrites and CINO's.

Frankrijk stapt op overheidscomputers over naar Linux

Orban is gone !

D-day !! #Hungary

I will note I find this particularly repulsive because these scammers are channeling money away from genuine people in Gaza (and elsewhere) genuinely in need by manipulating the emotions of well-meaning people.

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis. The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover: - The rise of Orbán - Orbán’s weakening - The emergence of Péter Magyar - The election battle - The JD Vance visit - What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

How the GOP Mainstreamed White Nationalist and Neo-Nazi Talking Points From fringe extremists to White House advisors, white nationalist talking points & conspiracies now shape US policy and continue to poison and divide American communities. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-go...

This is some solid work 🔥

Cross fingers ! Sunday is poised to be a day of significant historical importance for Europe, possibly the most crucial in decades.

Unless the algorithmic architecture of such social media platforms changes : excellent

Professor in "technologie" dan nog!

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Vladimir Putin during a phone call in October that he was willing to go to great lengths to assist the Russian president “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”

Following the discovery of explosives in Serbia near a pipeline that transports Russian gas to Hungary, Director of Serbia’s Military Intelligence Agency Đuro Jovanić stated that his agency had been warning Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić of such a development for months. 1/5

It's a start, but there's much more effort and pressure needed.

Dat wordt lastig.

Excellent, depressing analysis which mirrors everything which I wrote here - NATO, US standing and influence, Pax Americana, nuclear taboo, liberalism, global cooperation on world threats, all being shredded by this rogue President. How to survive 3 more years of this bylinetimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

Bisschop Bonny had zijn kerk en samenleving beter gediend als ook hij had gereageerd met een welgemeend ‘Et alors?’ www.demorgen.be/meningen/bis...

While Trump has railed against drugs coming into the U.S., his DOJ has declined to prosecute nearly 5,000 federal drug cases, including trafficking and money laundering — 45% higher than the average of the prior three new administrations.

Disappointing to say the least. I don't think it has much to do with here being a kind of an exclusionary space though.