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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 7h

Neptune missiles compared

New article on Ukraine’s home grown land attack cruise missile at www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Ne...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

Holding off the Russians means “finding ways to compensate for Ukraine’s desperate shortage of manpower,” Robert F. Worth writes. Kyiv has found ingenious methods of staying in the fight:

Ukraine Might Be Winning Its War of Attrition

Russia assumed time was on its side, but a new Ukrainian strategy is yielding surprising results.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1d

💥🔎🇷🇺 Our analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: in 3 weeks, 9,900 TikTok videos were published and generated over 93 million views, created with artificial intelligence. Yet despite Moscow’s efforts, the pro-European PAS secured 50.2% in the Sept 28 election.

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org

Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) w...

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 1d

@financialtimes.com had him a few days ago as well.

I prefer the Brazilian solution: make social media companies liable for the content on their platforms

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Enshittification by Cory Doctorow — a manifesto for fixing the internet

The writer-activist argues that online platforms are getting worse, fast — and proposes radical regulation as the cure

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

Its also instructive to look at their kinetic interception options feeding sky fortress and radar data to truck mounted machine guns and Gepard crews.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🦅🇺🇦 FT: Ukraine is shifting to mass-produced interceptor drones to counter Russia’s swarming Shahed and Gerbera drones.

“The Sting” — A bullet-shaped, $2,100 “drone killer” by Wild Hornets, capable of speeds over 315 km/h. Claimed to have downed 600 Russian drones so far, with ~70% effectiveness.

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes spoofing is a real art. Probably though nowadays with these capable LLMs it's not as much of a challenge as it was.

Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

Would be interesting to measure signal strength of the jammer. Perhaps someone smuggled a few of them on land to test. They don't need much power to overwhelm the gnss constellations because that signal is very weak

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't it simply that they blast orders of magnitude more watts into the receiver than the constellation (that's -130 dBm roughly). Afaik, shielding a GPS receiver from below and the side helps a little against jamming depending of the strength of the signal.

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 2d

Ambulances on south Sweden island Öland are reporting daily issues with their navigation systems, including spoofing and software that hangs.

These nowadays widespread sea level effects are puzzling. From known jammer locations one can not reach this far via line of sight. Space? Ship?

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

And Germany has to take the lead in this because nobody else will

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 2d

Trump seems to mistake 1984 for a manual

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 3d

And so Brazil did this

www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

Brazil's Supreme Court makes social media directly liable for illegal content

Platforms will now be required to remove content promoting anti-democratic actions, terrorism, hate speech, child pornography and other serious crimes 'immediately.'

www.lemonde.fr

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 3d

Denmark is remarkably resilient. Trump's antics towards Greenland do great damage to allied deterrence because only through a strong NATO alliance can Greenland remain inviolate.

Denmark has a population of only 6 million. Its strength derives from allies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVSe...

Inside the Danish Military’s Largest-Ever Greenland Defense Drill | WSJ

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Caturday from Artemis' little sister

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 3d

New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested.

If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs | TechCrunch

New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested.

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 4d

And Denmark isn't going to do this by itself. For all its leverage, one can easily forget that Denmark is a country of only 6 million population.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4d

🇪🇺 EU plans to block Russian "shadow fleet" tankers in the Baltic Sea, - OP

According to EUObserver, there are at least 16 vessels without a flag that can be detained in accordance with Article 110 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 4d

The upside is that Ukraine and with it Europe is gaining autonomic military capabilities independent from the US.

Jake Sullivan & Biden "could have". So in fact could Trump & Obama. This war started in 2014.

Oliver Alexander @oalexanderdk.bsky.social · 4d

Russia’s refining capacity is collapsing at an unprecedented rate, deepening its soaring government deficit and making the war in Ukraine increasingly unsustainable.

This pressure could have been applied years ago if not for one person and his fear of “escalation”.

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 4d

He'll soon find out that U2 wrote a song about it!

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 5d

Ukraine seems more dangerous thanks to the US not delivering because it means it has to develop its own capabilities instead.

Fastest and safest path for Europe towards autonomy is to invest in and scale up Ukrain's highly agile defense companies.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 5d

All those pro Trump supporters who were saying Trump would send Ukraine Tomahawks were probably fooling themselves about what Trump will actually do for Ukraine (once again). www.reuters.com/business/aer...