It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

From Paris with love. #LeChat One AI developed in the EU is closely competing with US and Chinese models. It’s still not enough but at least it seems that AI Act and “rules” are not the real blocking point here. Real issue is the European capital market to support 28th state tech startups (Draghi)

France’s jobseekers’ agency is partnering with generative artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Mistral AI to unveil a series of tools to help the agency’s advisers.

Le Chat de Mistral AI est enfin disponible sur l’Apple Store et le Play Store. L’alternative française aux géants américains et chinois mérite un peu de publicité. D’autant qu’elle est plutôt réputée. 🇫🇷 ⚔️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳

golden thread on Broligarchy, decoding our times 👇

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

In summary: The broligarchs' agenda, supported by Trump, means an end to US democratic traditions & global econ/political leadership. Broligarchs want to create this power vacuum so they can step into it themselves, the better to rule the rest of us. For more, see @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

NEW: Hannah is my ex-step daughter. And when I was in middle of my Cambridge Analytica investigation, she had a stalker. Stalkers. For years. A whole cast of characters making her life hell. In 2021, I approached the BBC: could we try & nail the perpetrator(s)? 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

just imagine if all the countries targeted by Trump’s tariffs reciprocate with a 100% tariff on Tesla cars

Ah yes, Zuck going back to his made up "free speech roots" by... blocking links to a decentralized competitor.

Zuckerberg’s statement is clumsy, inaccurate and opportunistic. It makes look Musk as transparent and coherent, in comparison.

Deepfakes are crazy good these days. I just saw a video of Zuckerberg claiming: - he's "getting rid of fact-checkers" because they "censor" debate - he's "restoring free speech" on Facebook/Instagram - that "Europe is institutionalising censorship" Oh, wait...

Immaginate di voler ignorare la legge di un altro Stato e farla franca facendovi aiutare dal vostro governo, di cui siete amico. Lo terreste per voi o lo raccontereste al mondo in un video?

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

“AI-generated content can be used in dangerously aspirational ways, for example, to help #radicalize audiences by visualizing potential targets for destruction.”

This image, which has gone viral online, is AI-generated and fake. There are far too many inconsistencies pointing to this being AI: The Israeli soldiers and their equipment, the fire, the rubble and the unlikely nature of the image.

Award-winning Italian reporter and podcaster Cecilia Sala was arrested in Tehran earlier this month. Our colleague @marinaadami.bsky.social profiled this pioneering and fearless journalist in this piece we published back in 2022 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pio...

Italian journalist #CeciliaSala was arrested in Tehran last week while on a journalistic visa and is being held in isolation in Evin prison — charges are still unknown. Talk about her! #FreeCecilia

Che Elon Musk stia cercando di pilotare le elezioni in Germania è ormai un dato di fatto. Die Welt pubblica un testo spassionato di Musk in favore di AfD, considerato come l'unica salvezza economica e culturale per il Paese. La redattrice Eva Marie Kogel si dimette. E scoppia il dibattito.

Die Chefin der Meinungsredaktion der Zeitung Welt, Eva Marie Kogel, wirft hin, weil das Blatt Elon Musk Raum für AfD-Wahlwerbung gibt. Das bleibt nicht unkommentiert.

The AfD/Musk-supporting terrorist who attacked the German Christmas market planned his atrocity in full view on TwitterX over the course of a year. He was reported multiple times, but TwitterX did nothing to take him down or report him to authorities.

Leggo che su X scriveva "«la Germania vuole islamizzare l’Europa. Abbiamo bisogno dell’Afd per proteggere la polizia da se stessa»" E poi penso a quello che ha scritto il Chetaminico proprietario di X ieri, prima dell'attentato: "Solo l'AfD può salvare la Germania" www.lastampa.it/esteri/2024/...

La conferma ce l'avevamo già da tempo ormai, ma credo sia la prima volta di una netta ammissione. Gli hashtag non funzionano più su X, anzi. Nello smantellamento di quello che era prima, si è scelto di eliminare quello che era diventato nel tempo un carattere distintivo

Elon Musk has a political megaphone unmatched in modern society. He got a total of 133 billion views since July, and ~1/3 of his posts are about politics. His typical tweet gets more than 2.4 million views in just one hour, according to our novel view-count time-series dataset. 🎁: wapo.st/3VLjlI6

🚨 Russian tanker Volgoneft-212 with 4,300 tons of fuel oil split in half and sank near the Kerch Bridge in the Black Sea.

Bashar Assad è fuggito in Russia fingendo, dopo una giornata di lavoro alla Difesa, che stava tornando a casa a Damasco. Non ha avvisato nemmeno familiari stretti (i fratelli). È scappato ingannando a tradendo anche i suoi www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I accidentally bought expensive parmesan cheese and the problem is now I know how the other half lives.

The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted and recorded telephone calls of "very senior" American political figures, a White House official said on Saturday reut.rs/3ZqtvPp

La cacciata di Assad, fuggito di notte dalla Siria, dimostra che sul piano militare la Russia non è una potenza globale e non è in grado di proteggere nemmeno uno dei suoi alleati più strategici Un disastro per Putin, perché ci dice la verità sulla forza reale della Russia

💥 Syria: Israeli Air Force is bombing Russia's Tartus naval base.

Migliaia di siriani in piazza a Hama festeggiano la caduta di Assad. Chiunque siano i ribelli anti-Assad, è chiaro perché questi siriani esultano: cade un regime che ha fatto esecuzioni di massa e torture, ha usato il gas sui civili e bombardato ospedali Nessuno lo rimpiangerà

I festeggiamenti in strada, i simboli della dittatura abbattuti e distrutti, il palazzo presidenziale saccheggiato: il racconto di un momento storico www.ilpost.it/2024/12/08/f...

Non dimentichiamo che appena poche settimane fa l’Italia era diventata il primo paese del G7 a riaprire un’ambasciata nella Siria assadista, dopo più di 10 anni. Lungimirante.

2/ The Syrian Electronic Army was one of the first groups to show up targeting the opposition in #Syria in support of #Assad. They taught us a lot about how pro-government groups & cyber militias worked to keep autocrats in power.

First worked on Syrian Electronic Army hacking >12 years ago. Remember them? They hacked dissidents & opposition figures. Sideline in extortion. People like Ahmad Al Agha ("Th3 Pr0") & Firas Dardar ("The Shadow" ). I wonder what they are up to these days? Let's revisit 1/

⚡️BREAKING: Syria's Assad, his family have arrived in Moscow after being granted asylum, sources tell Russian news agencies. Russian news agencies reported on Dec. 8 that Syria's Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Russia, where they have been granted asylum on "humanitarian grounds."

Democracy fights back, finally. #Romania

Following discussion here earlier, MI5 has now shifted its focus to tackling interference in the UK from Russia, China and Iran. That’s a big strategic change.

"Nearly 100 former national security officials signed a letter criticizing President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and called for closed-door Senate hearings to review any government information about her."

Il club antifascista di Amburgo è un modello alternativo e unico, con la sua estetica punk, le lotte per i diritti e il ruolo centrale che hanno i tifosi

Accurate.

A student beaten by riot police at the #Georgiaprotests in Tbilisi.

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.” search.app?link=https%3...

Sapete qual è la differenza tra la Corte penale internazionale e la Corte internazionale di giustizia? (Lo so, lo so, a volte mi confondo pure io) 🧵 @ilpost.it

Alright…I’m here.