More extensive report on Hungary's spying inside EU www.direkt36.hu/en/sulyos-ug...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I'm sure we'll now get 6 months of pearl clutching roundtables about how the voters are sacrosanct angels above any criticism the way we did after Hillary Clinton accurately diagnosed a certain basket of deplorables.

All the people convinced that this time it was different should bear this in mind in 3-6 weeks when the White House starts up the "Trump's finally fed up with Putin and willing to do something" circus yet again.

He first threatened sanctions on Jan 19 if Russia didn’t cease fire. He has threatened to impose them many times since then. It is now Oct 17. He has done nothing.

Probably worth noting that both Vance and Trump have been “joking” about murdering fishermen in these strikes.

Le parlement néerlandais voulait les interroger sur les élections roumaines et des rapports du renseignement néerlandais selon lesquels « la radicalisation sous toutes ses formes » est alimentée en ligne, peut-être par les effets des « algorithmes de recommandation ».

- Preserving Syria’s position as one of only two countries on earth that recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory, alongside North Korea. Yet another slap in the face to the Ukrainian people and their ongoing struggle. 6/10

Whether one supports or opposes restoring ties under these terms, the reality is: this move legitimizes a war criminal, Putin is directly complicit in the destruction & mass murder of Syria and Syrians. Call it idealism all you want, but after years of Syrian lives being cast as worthless.. 8/10

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

The list of russian crimes is endless. There can be no lasting peace without justice. #MakeRussiaPay

Strong statement from the UN rep in Ukraine: "Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town (..)" 1/ ukraine.un.org/en/303211-un...

Israel is responsible for 95% of journalist and media worker killings in the Middle East since October 7, 2023, according to CPJ data. More than three in every four journalists and media workers killed worldwide over the past two years were Palestinians in Gaza. cpj.org/issue/israel...

Sam Altman one of a number of powerful men who have essentially risen to prominence because they’ve never been asked a single follow-up question

Lisez, il faut le voir pour le croire. Et tous les leaders qui s'inclinent devant lui. À vomir. L'interférence dans les élections européennes en parlant de Orban : "Je l'ai soutenu lors de la dernière élection et il a gagné avec 28 points d'avance. Tu vas faire encore mieux cette fois-ci."

probably less "unhinged" and more "will lose me some friends" but I think the contemporary lit fic trend of very short pared down sentences is meant to seem clever and pretentious when it just makes people with no attention span/will to properly pay attention feel like they're reading Real Books

🎬 - Really enjoyed Jafar Panahi's last movie "Un simple accident" ! The topic -how to deal with collaborators of the iranian regime- is really tough (especially on the subject of torture, imprisonment, hangings) but Panahi manages to treat it in a joyful, absurd & beckettian way. Highly recommend !

As any article about Poland increases in length, the probability of it containing a mad detail tends towards 1

New - Europe’s 3-body problem: collapsing global order sparks hunt for new trajectory I got to write about one of my favourite Chinese sci-fi novels. Europe, realising it can’t fix systemic chaos, is instead trying to shift its own orbit.

🤔Here’s Viktor Orbán bowing to Ilham Aliyev in Egypt. Their close ties date back to 2012 when Orbán sent home Ramil Safarov, who murdered an Armenian officer with an axe, to Azerbaijan—where Safarov got a hero’s welcome. Meanwhile, $7 million was wired from an Azeri fund to a Hungarian bank.

Un sédatif algorithmique, produit dans des empires postnationaux et acheminé à travers le monde, est en train d’endormir l’Europe. C’est un cauchemar — mais il n’est pas trop tard pour se réveiller. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/10/1...

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

Signal of the kind of "rights" Palestinians will enjoy in the post-genocide

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Dans Le Monde,un reportage en #Moldavie sur les prêtres qui quittent l'église orthodoxe russe pour l'église orthodoxe roumaine.

Pavel Durov tweeted this from UAE after making an immense fortune in Putin's Russia

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Taken together, I am seeing a French political class which is not only uploading its internal political crisis to the EU level, but also transposing its anger at Macron to an anger at the EU level pro-European centre. Not a good combination.

Foreigner: How is your family? Polish person: Glad you asked, my parents are divorcing, my sister hates me, my brother is dying of cancer, and my aunt was just jailed for posting death threats to gay people on Facebook. Foreigner: Jesus Christ, why Polish person: You're welcome, now shut up.

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza - two years of hell on earth for Palestinians - could have ended at any time with pressure from the US president. There is no safe and peaceful future without justice, without accountability, without freedom for Palestinians

🎬&📖 🧵- Continuing to catch-up on Palestinian stories and narratives that I've been ignorant about all this time: went to see the extraordinary movie "All That's Left of You", followed by a Q&A with its director Cherien Dabis. The movie tells the story of a Palestinian family on three generations 1/

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies. For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes to this. 7/

The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted (or after! or during!) negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/

With all the many problems facing Europe, glad to see these MEPs are keeping their eye on the big picture 🙄

I am so grateful to contribute a guest post on Taiwan to @barrymalone.bsky.social's fantastic newsletter, Proximities, which aims to highlight non-Western news stories. I've been a reader from day one and I highly recommend you hit subscribe:

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Merci à la régulation européenne 😇

When I become America's benevolent dictator, I'm going to impose a tax on every [mis]use of the word "defiant" in news articles and give the money to independent journalism outlets.

Le train de nuit direct Bucarest-Kyiv reprend le 10 octobre, en passant par la Moldavie Durée: 24 heures. C'est toujours plus pratique que le bus ou le train + bus + train en passant par Suceava et Tchernivtsi. www.cfrcalatori.ro/comunicate/d...

Just two examples from the last days: When Russian drones approached Poland, 🇺🇦 warned NATO partners in real time before they had seen the threat. When drones disrupted Danish airspace, 🇺🇦 offered help and sent instructors to Denmark. 5/6

I appreciate the kind of news @voxeurop.bsky.social puts forward, shining a light on undercovered subjects. I found their summer series on the precariousness of European journalists and the impact it has on the diversity of "voices" in publications very interesting! voxeurop.eu/en/freelance...

Reuters reports that up to 5,000 Cubans are fighting in Ukraine on the side of Russia. Citing an internal U.S. State Department cable, the agency writes that Cuba is the second-largest source of foreign troops in the Russian army after North Korea. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

1/2 Les témoignages sont glaçants. Des ressortissants européens pacifistes traités en terroristes, arrêtés et détenus illégalement dans des conditions de détention inhumaines et dégradantes. Et que font nos gouvernements ? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...