Julf Helsingius

"The dangers of the new government shadow conglomerate that the Trump administration has created are not just rampant market distortions, lower productivity, reduced growth, and abundant cronyism." www.cato.org/restoring-fr...

Not something I would have expected to see from a United States District Judge: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." "And yet, here we are." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

@quad9dns.bsky.social is leaving France. @cloudflare.social is challenging European blocking orders. In the name of protecting sports rights, Europe Is Turning Internet Infrastructure Into a Weapon. kkomaitis.substack.com/p/europe-is-...

"The findings reveal that 1 in 4 incoming pull requests are low-quality "AI slop," driving maintainer burnout to the #1 concern for large projects." www.linuxfoundation.org/research/oss...

Day 1700 of my 3 day war. Donald is my last hope. I remain a master strategist.

More than 30 countries have called for stronger controls on frontier AI and a possible new international institution. Konstantinos Komaitis argues the controls are essential, but AI governance needs an Internet-style network of distributed expertise, not a global overseer.

"I don't have a clue about what is going on, but it must be immigrants" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted the agency that protects election systems to get and hack a voting machine, which shocked staffers." www.propublica.org/article/cisa...

Factcheck of Trump’s (Putin’s???) lies about Ukraine.

“Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive…to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities. We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.”

"here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for eighty years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-18...

Note: increased competition is a goal of ICANN's new gTLD program "Africa accounted for 16 of 1,615 submissions worldwide [...] Innovation Service, a Seychelles company controlled by Lu Heng, submitted 10 of those African applications. A single company therefore supplies 62.5% of regional total"

"Russia is poisoning AI chatbots with millions of fake articles so they repeat Kremlin narratives as fact" euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/17/h...

Yes, this is on X, but worth a read. x.com/gothburz/sta...

“The username is admin and the password changes every day automatically to… the current date. www.cyberdaily.au/security/142...

General Eisenhower ordered Nazi death camps to remain standing for a reason.

On this day 15 years ago we lost Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language and co-creator of UNIX. I will never forget how kind and supportive he was even towards an arrogant, clueless young geek like me back in the day, and I am still rather proud of introducing Linus Torvalds to him.

Today both the largest Dutch supermarket chain (Albert Hein) and the largest French supermarket chains (Intermarche and Cooperative U) got hit by cybersecurity attacks. www.afp.com/en/french-su...

"For intelligence agencies, and for corporations like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon – giving you convenience and security is likely not their primary goal. I think they have an entirely ulterior motive." nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-a...

🤷‍♂️The Russian Federation does not know anything about the energy truce with Ukraine, - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy. "We all know that Trump often says something so that oil prices do not rise."

⚡️'To keep oil prices from rising' — Russian lawmaker questions Trump’s energy ceasefire claim. "We all know that Trump often says things to keep oil prices from rising," Igor Ananskikh, first deputy chair of the energy committee, told Russian outlet Ostorozhno Novosti.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

Interestingly, since Ukraine took out a bunch of Yandex data centers in Russia, people are reporting much less pro-Trump and AfD social media activity.

So US is threatening to hold back arms that Europe has already paid for? I am sure this will be great promotion for the US arms industry... www.ft.com/content/68fd...

1. Not clear how much is being supplied under PURL anyway. 2. This threat is a great way to ruin US defence sales prospects in Europe.

⚡️Russia struck Kharkiv's power plant shortly after Trump announced 'energy ceasefire.’ Ukraine's Presidential Office confirmed that the attack occurred after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

"Following the decline in the activity of russian bot farms, I expect Trump to accuse Ukraine of interfering in the American elections" radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/co...

⚡️Trump claims Ukraine, Russia agreed to energy ceasefire — Kyiv has no information about it. Ukraine has no information about an energy ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 11, a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.

If you want to know what Donald will say today, read what the Kremlin said yesterday.

Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.

"The AI assistants had the same underlying technology but the female bots were paid roughly 10 per cent less than the male bots for completing the same work." www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-gend...

The Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act of 2022 Section 3 requires the president to certify to Congress that Russia has reached an agreement to withdraw its forces and end hostilities, accepted by Ukraine's independent government. www.congress.gov/117/plaws/pu...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

"Washington joins only Russia and Belarus in its decision to exclude OSCE observers." www.ms.now/news/trump-m...

Wow, @cnn.com is really timely with this "analysis". The rest of us have known this for years.

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

"Some 70 percent of Dutch people consider social media harmful to democracy, and 93 percent believe that social media platforms manipulate their users" nltimes.nl/2026/10/02/d...

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"In this paper, we show how malicious super-apps have undeniable capabilities to silently undermine the security and privacy of mini-apps and users without leaving any trace." arxiv.org/html/2609.11...

The "AI changes everything" people rhyme remarkably well with the "blockchain changes everything" people.

"This group is made up of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. While all three are distinct, these dark traits share features such as egotism and a willingness to lie and cheat to achieve a goal." theconversation.com/members-of-r...

"Voters and members of Congress, allies and adversaries, CEOs and investors alike have had to try to figure out how to read a man whose words are so frequently not true." edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...