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Holger Hestermeyer
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Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 18h
The press release in the CJEU same sex wedding case curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 3d
I am sorry to say: even if it is not accepted. The mere fact that Trump & Vance put a deal on the table in which the US is conceived as a) benefiting financially from a deal akin to capitulation and b) the US is the neutral party mediating between Russia and Nato destroys us leadership.
grahamelucas.bsky.social Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social · 3d
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

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Grahame Lucas @grahamelucas.bsky.social · 3d
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
If you want to have a good evening, I strongly advise you not to read
- the Ukraine "peace plan"
- the UN Security Council Resolution on Gaza
- the UN Security Council Resolution on Western Sahara.
I instead recommend reading Dr. No by Percival Everett...

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
Make non-scientific non-sense sound sexy again.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
And just in case you were wondering: usually the mediator is a neutral third party. Sometimes the mediator is chosen because he's not neutral, but has particular sway over one of the parties. But the mediator is a third party, not one of the two parties to the dispute.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
Source www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Trump’s 28-point Ukraine plan in full: What it means, could it work?
The US-brokered proposal requires Kyiv to make territorial concessions to Russia and to stay out of NATO.
www.aljazeera.com

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
The US peace plan is breathtaking. And among all the breathtaking things this para. characterizes how Trump sees the US: as the mediator between NATO and Russia. (And, yes, there's also a paragraph of the US profiting financially from the deal)

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
That would be great - indeed it would be interesting to see as well what the court does to become more resilient. Beyond changing its software.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
3) And even if you try to be good - the fact that it is trained with tons of data stemming from times where a lot of unacceptable prejudice was touted as "facts" means it perpetuates existing biases anyways.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
2) trying to consciously influence their dataset, "grooming". By pushing tons of biased information onto data that you know is used for training (or "the internet").

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
1) consciously programming them to be biased. That is what Musk does with his programs, which apparently are now explaining why he is physically more fit than LeBron James.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 4d
Another similarity of LLMs to humans: if you expose them to a lot of disinformation, they will believe it. Which you can exploit, apparently called "LLM grooming". So LLMs fail at three levels: /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
www.theguardian.com

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
The press secretary of Potus clarified that Potus does not want democratic members of Congress to be executed.

Oh the times we live in.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
US foreign policy continues to amaze. After proposing capitulation and turning 180° to offering support we are back to proposing capitulation. It is difficult to explain this. But my assumption is that we are back to numerous politicians working the phone.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
Reference to the Western Sahara Resolution of the Security Council, very weirdly I only get error messages when trying to get the text itself press.un.org/en/2025/sc16...
With 11 Members Voting in Favour, 3 Abstaining, Security Council Adopts Resolution 2797 (2025), Renewing Mandate of UN Mission in Western Sahara for One Year | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
The Security Council today renewed for one year the mandate of the long-standing United Nations peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara, referencing Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal presented i...
press.un.org

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
The Palestine resolution of the Security Coucil docs.un.org/en/s/res/280...
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
Source www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 5d
So… the Epstein File Transparency Act has this exception. What can go wrong….

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 6d
Germany's new space security strategy www.bmvg.de/resource/blo...
www.bmvg.de

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 10d
(I assume that Trump would sue in the US, though)

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 10d
Interesting. Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers [1993] AC 534.

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 10d
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 11d
More about the DoJ OLC memo on the legality of US strikes on alleged ‘drug boats’ theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 11d
Besides the blatantly partisan abuse of DoJ - Trump ordering the DoJ to investigate Epstein’s links to Democrats raises the question what the f*** the FBI has done since 2019 if it needs to be ordered to do something now…

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 11d
Source: wikipedia