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Currently trying as best I can to understand what is going on in the world. Book tips appreciated. Starting up a startup, industrialising results from my PhD on Knowledge Graphs.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Tory Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartlidge on Vance: “NATO Article 5 has been invoked once — on 12/9/01 by the USA, after 9/11. Britain & France came to their aid deploying 1,000s of personnel to Afghanistan… It’s deeply disrespectful to ignore such service & sacrifice.”

We have got to stop kidding ourselves that appeasing Trump & trying to please him gains us any leverage, any guarantees, any reliable favour. Trump has chosen Putin and the oligarchy. We must cancel his state visit. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

Autonomy or servitude, Europe - make your choice.

And this is not some small cute problem!! Nammo produces 25% of the artillery grenades needed by Ukraine and Europe! You all need to put pressure on Norway. Defense > cat videos #NAFO

1.Det här är Andrey Romanov. Sedan maj 2024 har han varit chef för en sjv. enhet i en av bat. i 80th Air Assault Brigade. Jag har hjälpt dem med sjvmtrl m.m. sedan maj 2022. Brigaden har under hela kriget varit där striderna varit som hårdast. I lördags skulle jag träffa honom norr om Sumy.

Oh my

🇵🇱🇪🇺 "The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans for help to protect them from 140 million Russians," — Tusk ❗️"We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our own potential and believing that we are a world power," he said.

Told you. amzn.to/4cFI1b6

Sea ice is missing along the entire Arctic ice edge, both in the Atlantic and Pacific sectors, causing a record-low ice extent in February 2025. Source: @osisaf.bsky.social data.

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

It’s interesting how so many commenters have no idea who this tweet is about. If you don’t want to listen to us, listen to Slavoj Žižek. Is he leftist enough for you?

Have a careful think about what these people would be saying about a NATO ally deemed ungrateful. ‘Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville posted on X on Saturday: "The best thing President Trump has done so far is kick that Ukrainian weasel out of the WH."’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Me har to parti i Noreg som er uttalt for å ta ein EU-debatt no, og dei har til saman 6,6 prosent oppslutning på snittet. Norske politikarar er grovt uførebudd på den situasjonen me befinn oss i no, trass i at både handelskrig og eit Putin-underkasta USA har vore varsla katastrofer.

@carlsbj.bsky.social takk for tips om Prima Facie!! Suverent bra!

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

“There may not be a deep cause here. Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person….But however shallow their motives, the consequences are profound.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

This is mindblowing disruption. This new US executive order orders an immediate review of all *existing* federal grants & contracts & also freezes all federal credit cards. The federal gov funds a huge amount of science & it will all stop while this plays out. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I'm hearing from experts around the world about the "global health massacre" caused by the Trump/Musk destruction of USAID. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Babies with neural tube defects. Surveillance against bird flu set back.All this kills children just as wonderful as our own.

Oslos busser skal evakuere byen ved en krise. Sikkerhetsekspert mener Kina kan skru dem av med en av/på-knapp. www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/gw1ag...

Richest 🇳🇴 is last on the list among Nordic-Baltic friends. High time for Oslo to contribute much more✌️

"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc.bsky.social 🎯

dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

If you think this is cool, I can't help you.

“A former senior Soviet KGB spy chief has claimed that Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by Russian intelligence as early as 38 years ago by his department, and given the codename ‘Krasnov’.”

The best thing about the idea of the DOGE dividend is that it'll force a certain transparency on the process. Look at the size of your dividend check and you'll quickly understand how little Elon is getting done.

Strømstøtte som fordeling av grunnrente Les vårt forslag til strømstøtteordning (med Diderik Lund) Vi mener det er bedre enn dagens ordning og Norgespris ➡️ Oppmuntrer bedre til strømsparing ➡️ Bedre inntektsfordelingseffekt 1/2 www.klimastiftelsen.no/publikasjone...

this four-frame comic is like a modern loss dot jpg. it transcends race, religion, creed and culture.

– Det å øke støtten raskt nå er ikke bare en viktig moralsk forpliktelse, men også avgjørende for vår egen sikkerhet, sier @arildher.bsky.social

No more bullshit - vi trenger lederskap og resolutte beslutninger. 🧵1/19

Musk hired a bunch of volunteer interns to dismantle the government and they immediately offloaded the task to a chatbot. It’s a ouroboros of enshitification.

The two largest nuclear-weapon states of the world announce to the planet's other nations: GET A.S.A.P. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION unless you want your territory and sovereignty to be one day on the menu too.

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

Just as it was once unthinkable that russia would bomb homes and hospitals, it is now just as hard to fathom the madness of these negotiations — where an ally shakes hands with your enemy behind your back.

Molotov desperately seeking Ribbentrop

My Norwegian government can easily finance the Ukrainian defense industry. A rounding error in our oil fund. But instead we give less than Slovakia. The people want a huge increase. Please help us to put pressure on them to give much more. #NAFO

I think that's correct. “This is a military headquarters for a populist revolt...you’re going to go to war with the existing administrative state and the Praetorian Guard deep state…It’ll be a hostile takeover of the apparatus...Trump is a revolution" www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/o...

A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

- Trumps makt bygger på vold – den svake og rådville responsen er farlig. – Kilden til Kongressens passivitet er ikke bare feighet, lojalitet eller ideologisk fanatisme. Det er frykten for vold, skriver @eivindtraedal.bsky.social på @filternyheter.no

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.