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Jasper
@jasperius.bsky.social
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Concierge/Theater technician 🎭🛠️
Photography and fountain pen enthusiast 📷🖋️, casual gamer 🎮
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kottke.org
Planning to Visit the US? Take It From This American Citizen – Don’t. “If I were a tourist, though, I’d pick a less totalitarian place to travel.” [theguardian.com]
Planning to visit the US? Take it from this American citizen – don’t | Eleanor Limprecht
I love many things about the land of my birth but Donald Trump’s America has become an unwelcoming country of deep divisions and waning trust
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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fightchatcontrol.bsky.social
What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Death Star
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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jsrailton.bsky.social
NEW: turns out the EU helped finance a bunch of spyware companies with..public money.

Extremely bad look.

Group of MEPs calls for action.👇

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October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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thelouvreof.bsky.social
marmel.bsky.social Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · Sep 29
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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kennethdee.be
Chat Control is back, in een viérde open brief waarschuwen honderden wetenschappers voor de gevaren:

www.hln.be/tech/europee...
Europees chatplan is cadeau voor criminelen en bedreiging voor uw privacy, waarschuwen experts
Europa overlegt deze week opnieuw over een ‘digitale waakhond’ die kinderen moet beschermen tegen misbruik. Het wil álle foto’s die je verstuurt via apps zoals WhatsApp en Telegram laten scannen. Maar...
www.hln.be
September 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
jasperius.bsky.social
What the hell....
EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US…
Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are at increased risk as the rapid rise in monster US pick-up trucks on Europe’s roads is set to accelerate after the…
www.transportenvironment.org
August 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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jbaert.bsky.social
How to not build the Torment Nexus
How to not build the Torment Nexus
This is No Gods No Masters, 2024, painted by me, in wax. 65x78” Join the $2 Lunch Club! This week’s question comes to us from Will Hopkins: When your job and...
buttondown.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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rutgerdequay.nl
Gewoon, een vrijdagochtend in augustus 2025, je bent net wakker, scrollt even door je timeline en scant de nieuwskoppen.
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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jbaert.bsky.social
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

(Lees je mee, Caroline Gennez?)
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
www.techdirt.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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fakeplasticruby.bsky.social
Dokters, journalisten, hulpverleners, vaders, moeders, kinderen, babies, mensen die gewoon een kruimel eten willen voor zichzelf of hun geliefden. Ze worden uitgehongerd, opgejaagd, gebruikt als schietschijf, afgeslacht en meedogenloos genegeerd. Welke code vergoelijkt dit? Welk bedrag? FUCKING ZOOI
July 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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jjholtland.bsky.social
Zo gruwelijk.
Zo gruwelijk.

Mijn collega’s van persbureau AFP in Gaza kunnen ieder moment omkomen - als het niet door een bom is, dan door de honger
July 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jbaert.bsky.social
"het debat moet eerlijk gevoerd worden" - gaat vervolgens verder met DENK AAN DE KINDEREN, met een voorbeeld van fenomeen dat overigens niet gestart gestart is op een geencrypteerd netwerk.
July 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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jbaert.bsky.social
Weet je nog hoe we vorig jaar twee maanden hebben liggen bakkeleien over hoe "Israël toch geen ZIEKENHUIS zou durven bombarderen"? Was vorige week 1 bijzin in het nieuws. Registreert amper.
nadiabouras.bsky.social Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · Jul 3
‘Israël heeft woensdag 111 mensen gedood in de Gazastrook.’

Het moorden gaat ongestoord door. En de wereld haalt haar schouders op. De cijfers glijden voorbij, alsof het verkeersupdates zijn. Massamoord is achtergrondruis geworden.
July 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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fakeplasticruby.bsky.social
Ik heb één keer oog in oog gestaan met oproerpolitie op paarden (vooraleer ik verblind werd door traangas 🫡) en beelden kunnen nooit weergeven hoe waanzinnig angstaanjagend dat is. Dit is echt misselijkmakende poeha op steroïden.
mensie.bsky.social mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · Jun 9
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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kottke.org
Say the Words: American Concentration Camp. “What is happening now is not a deviation. It is an expansion. The tools were always there. The tools were always sharpened on Black bodies. They are merely being used more broadly now, and with less pretense.” [davidgate.substack.com]
SAY THE WORDS: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP
We are sending people there and they are not coming back.
davidgate.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jbaert.bsky.social
Terug van weggeweest: #ChatControl, nu verpakt als #ProtectEU.

Bottom line blijft hetzelfde: meelezen in geencrypteerd verkeer.

Zucht, here we go again.

Commission unveils ProtectEU – a new European Internal Security Strategy ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission unveils ProtectEU – a new European Internal Security Strategy
Today, the European Commission is presenting ProtectEU – a European Internal Security Strategy to support Member States and bolster the EU's ability to guarantee security for its citizens. The strateg...
ec.europa.eu
April 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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kottke.org
M. Gessen: Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. “The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” [nytimes.com]
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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marijntriovrt.bsky.social
Trump legt bijna alle landen vd wereld minstens 10% invoertarieven op, maar een opmerkelijke afwezige op de lijst is #Rusland. Vlgs het Witte Huis is dat omdat er amper handel is met Rusland door eerdere sancties, maar dit lijkt toch een voorkeursbehandeling www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Who is hit hardest by proposed US tariffs?
Reuters charts, maps and graphics
www.reuters.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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adamkeiper.com
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
Screenshot of three tweets from @JamesSurowiecki dated 2 April 2025. (1) "It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff." (2) "Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is." (3) "Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive."
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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vrtnws.be
Turkse doctoraatsstudente in VS meegenomen door onherkenbare agenten immigratiedienst vrtnws.be/p.kQ306xZ61?t=174... @vrtnws.be
Turkse doctoraatsstudente in VS meegenomen door onherkenbare agenten immigratiedienst
vrtnws.be
March 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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devosve.bsky.social
Het soort beelden dat je associeert met dictatoriale regimes: mensen die op straat worden opgepakt door gemaskerde mannen en dan dagen of maandenlang ‘verdwijnen’. Dit is de VS in 2025 😦.
gravelinfluencer.bsky.social Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Mar 26
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM