Stephan Faris
@stephanfaris.bsky.social
Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
Reposted by Stephan Faris
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
Ermittler vermuten Russland hinter Bauschaum-Attacken auf Autos
Hunderte Autos wurden vor einem Jahr in mehreren Bundesländern mit Bauschaum beschädigt. Die Ermittler gehen derzeit davon aus, dass damit die Grünen vor der Wahl diskreditiert werden sollten.
www.n-tv.de
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
I don't understand the bit about the bamboo?
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I don't understand the bit about the bamboo?
Reposted by Stephan Faris
French energy giant TotalEnergies was formally accused yesterday of complicity in war crimes and torture — after a criminal complaint filed in Paris over a massacre at its Mozambique gas site, first exposed by a POLITICO investigation last year.
TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
French energy giant TotalEnergies was formally accused yesterday of complicity in war crimes and torture — after a criminal complaint filed in Paris over a massacre at its Mozambique gas site, first exposed by a POLITICO investigation last year.
Reposted by Stephan Faris
One of the biggest yet quietist trends we’re living through: the rapid death of overseas aid and diplomacy.
“For the first time in 30 years, France, Germany, the UK, and the US all cut their ODA in 2024.. the first time in history all 4 have cut aid simultaneously”
www.politico.eu/article/arms...
“For the first time in 30 years, France, Germany, the UK, and the US all cut their ODA in 2024.. the first time in history all 4 have cut aid simultaneously”
www.politico.eu/article/arms...
The West’s new arms race: Selling peace to buy war
Military spending is rising faster than at any time since the end of the Cold War, but the retreat from diplomacy and foreign aid will come at a price.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One of the biggest yet quietist trends we’re living through: the rapid death of overseas aid and diplomacy.
“For the first time in 30 years, France, Germany, the UK, and the US all cut their ODA in 2024.. the first time in history all 4 have cut aid simultaneously”
www.politico.eu/article/arms...
“For the first time in 30 years, France, Germany, the UK, and the US all cut their ODA in 2024.. the first time in history all 4 have cut aid simultaneously”
www.politico.eu/article/arms...
If you are fan of Patti Smith (and you should be!), this is well worth spending time with.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
If you are fan of Patti Smith (and you should be!), this is well worth spending time with.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Oooh, a Windows update! I can't wait to see what wonders they have in store for me...
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Oooh, a Windows update! I can't wait to see what wonders they have in store for me...
"To be clear: anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years must now face the possibility that their personal conversations will be handed over to The Times to sift through at will in a speculative fishing expedition," the company said.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"To be clear: anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past three years must now face the possibility that their personal conversations will be handed over to The Times to sift through at will in a speculative fishing expedition," the company said.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Nettles Bring Hives
Roses Give Scratches
AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives
and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Roses Give Scratches
AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives
and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Nettles Bring Hives
Roses Give Scratches
AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives
and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Roses Give Scratches
AI Toys Tell Kids to Find Knives
and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Perfect subhead (on the actual article page)
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Perfect subhead (on the actual article page)
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
futurism.com/artificial-i...
“Yes, my darling, I was thinking about you too… and how good you’d look leaning against my *Ford F-150*, sipping a *Miller Lite* under the *Visit Austin, Texas* city lights.”
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Google’s ad model profits when search fails – and vows ChatGPT will take a different approach to ads and commerce.
searchengineland.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Yes, my darling, I was thinking about you too… and how good you’d look leaning against my *Ford F-150*, sipping a *Miller Lite* under the *Visit Austin, Texas* city lights.”
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
ChatGPT ads are coming – and they won’t look like Google Ads searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ads-...
If my math is right, this article is claiming that French people ate on average more than 3.5 baguettes a day.
The good old days, indeed!
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
The good old days, indeed!
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
If my math is right, this article is claiming that French people ate on average more than 3.5 baguettes a day.
The good old days, indeed!
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
The good old days, indeed!
The baguette faces an uncertain future. How France is rethinking its iconic loaves
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/08/t...
Reposted by Stephan Faris
Great fame can be obtained
By routing an army
With oxen carrying
Burning straw on their horns.
But after all, it is
No more important than
The tracks of sandpipers
On a wave washed beach.
Days go by and become
A year and I am too
Lazy to notice.
—from "Autumn Thoughts" by Lu Yu
By routing an army
With oxen carrying
Burning straw on their horns.
But after all, it is
No more important than
The tracks of sandpipers
On a wave washed beach.
Days go by and become
A year and I am too
Lazy to notice.
—from "Autumn Thoughts" by Lu Yu
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Great fame can be obtained
By routing an army
With oxen carrying
Burning straw on their horns.
But after all, it is
No more important than
The tracks of sandpipers
On a wave washed beach.
Days go by and become
A year and I am too
Lazy to notice.
—from "Autumn Thoughts" by Lu Yu
By routing an army
With oxen carrying
Burning straw on their horns.
But after all, it is
No more important than
The tracks of sandpipers
On a wave washed beach.
Days go by and become
A year and I am too
Lazy to notice.
—from "Autumn Thoughts" by Lu Yu
Never travel without a fully stocked first aid kit
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Never travel without a fully stocked first aid kit
Reposted by Stephan Faris
France’s social, economic, cultural, religious and political divisions offer fertile ground for the Kremlin’s interference, several policymakers, academics and military officers told POLITICO. Story with @msolletty.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/red-...
www.politico.eu/article/red-...
Red hands and pig heads: Russia’s plan to destabilize France goes on trial
Paris has emerged as a top target of Moscow’s hybrid war.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
France’s social, economic, cultural, religious and political divisions offer fertile ground for the Kremlin’s interference, several policymakers, academics and military officers told POLITICO. Story with @msolletty.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/red-...
www.politico.eu/article/red-...
Reposted by Stephan Faris
When Clare Daly launched her re-election bid last year, Catherine Connolly sat at her right hand.
“I wish I could canvass every day for her on the streets,” Connolly said.
Will Connolly use the presidential platform in a similar way to how Daly used hers?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
“I wish I could canvass every day for her on the streets,” Connolly said.
Will Connolly use the presidential platform in a similar way to how Daly used hers?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
How is Catherine Connolly likely to approach foreign policy as president?
A precedent for outspokenness, set by Michael D Higgins, now seems to be a baseline minimum
www.irishtimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
When Clare Daly launched her re-election bid last year, Catherine Connolly sat at her right hand.
“I wish I could canvass every day for her on the streets,” Connolly said.
Will Connolly use the presidential platform in a similar way to how Daly used hers?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
“I wish I could canvass every day for her on the streets,” Connolly said.
Will Connolly use the presidential platform in a similar way to how Daly used hers?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Amazing that the use case being promoted by the largest AI companies is exactly the one for which the technology is least suited.
AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Amazing that the use case being promoted by the largest AI companies is exactly the one for which the technology is least suited.
AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Reposted by Stephan Faris
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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Less than a week from now the #Netherlands will elect a new government. Ahead in the polls is the far-right PVV — widely known for its anti-Islam rhetoric, less known for this: the party has only one formal member who makes all the decisions. Guess who. My story:
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
Geert Wilders’ one-man rule — and what that means for the Dutch
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
www.politico.eu
October 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Less than a week from now the #Netherlands will elect a new government. Ahead in the polls is the far-right PVV — widely known for its anti-Islam rhetoric, less known for this: the party has only one formal member who makes all the decisions. Guess who. My story:
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
Spotted in Sardinia 😢
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Spotted in Sardinia 😢
It's a what-if-we're-the-baddies tattoo
October 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's a what-if-we're-the-baddies tattoo
This is delightful.
“The comedians on that stage are performing in a gilded cage,” the exiled Saudi satirist Ghanem al-Masarir wrote before the festival, adding, “In MBS’s Saudi Arabia, the punchline is always prison.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“The comedians on that stage are performing in a gilded cage,” the exiled Saudi satirist Ghanem al-Masarir wrote before the festival, adding, “In MBS’s Saudi Arabia, the punchline is always prison.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia
What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This is delightful.
“The comedians on that stage are performing in a gilded cage,” the exiled Saudi satirist Ghanem al-Masarir wrote before the festival, adding, “In MBS’s Saudi Arabia, the punchline is always prison.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“The comedians on that stage are performing in a gilded cage,” the exiled Saudi satirist Ghanem al-Masarir wrote before the festival, adding, “In MBS’s Saudi Arabia, the punchline is always prison.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Geert Wilders’ one-man rule — and what that means for the Dutch
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
By @evahartog.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
By @evahartog.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
Geert Wilders’ one-man rule — and what that means for the Dutch
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
www.politico.eu
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Geert Wilders’ one-man rule — and what that means for the Dutch
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
By @evahartog.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
How Europe’s smallest party became the Netherlands’ largest political force.
By @evahartog.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/geer...
Just going to sit down, watch a movie, take my mind off of current events.
Oh.
youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...
Oh.
youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Just going to sit down, watch a movie, take my mind off of current events.
Oh.
youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...
Oh.
youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw...
