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Gillian🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪

@gilliancarrin.bsky.social

Brit in Berlin, law.

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Bob Lord
@boblord.bsky.social

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation 2024/2847) is the first EU-wide law imposing binding product security requirements on software and connected hardware, regardless of where the manufacturer is based.

Gillian🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪
@gilliancarrin.bsky.social

Counterpoint. No, it hasn't.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Admit it: the English love affair with European food has grown stale – we need a native cuisine we can be proud of | Lewis Bassett

theguardian.comAdmit it: the English love affair with European food has grown stale – we need a native cuisine we can be proud of | Lewis BassettIt’s boring to see aioli, burrata and fresh pasta on menus everywhere. Especially when we have salad cream, custard tarts and stuffed chine, says chef Lewis Bassett

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Florian Schlund
@florianschlund.bsky.social

Hier mit mehr Hintergrund:

Janosch Dahmen@janoschdahmenmdb.de

1/ Zwei Berater Netanjahus, gegen die in Israel strafrechtlich ermittelt wird, betreiben politische Einflusskampagnen für Rechtsextreme und pro-russische Positionen in Europa. Nun führen Spuren zur CDU und zu BILD.

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Vassili Golod
@golod.bsky.social

Wir sind zurück! Im Mai 2026 wurde unser ARD-Studio Kyjiw infolge eines russischen Angriffs in Teilen zerstört. Pünktlich zu unserem dritten Geburtstag sind die Reparaturarbeiten vollständig abgeschlossen. Danke an unser engagiertes Kyjiw-Team und für den Rückhalt aus Köln! ❤️ 1/10

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com

Israelis from Tel Aviv and West Bank settlements, from Jerusalem and overseas, poured into polling booths Tuesday for its first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights for political survival.

washingtonpost.comIsraelis head to the polls, with nation’s future and Netanyahu’s fate on the lineIsrael is holding its first national election since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights for political survival.

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European Movement UK
@europeanmovement.co.uk

“I don't think it is good enough for Britain. I think we can make it better.” Andy Burnham says Britain needs an honest conversation about its relationship with the EU, arguing that the current arrangements aren't delivering what was promised. Britain deserves a better relationship with Europe.

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@gilliancarrin.bsky.social

Mandy Rice Davis mode activated

Agence France-Presse@afp.com

🇷🇺 Vladimir Poutine a estimé, lors d'un appel avec le président finlandais Alexander Stubb et le Premier ministre norvégien Jonas Gahr Støre, que la "politique de confrontation" de l'Union européenne et de l'Otan entraînait un "prolongement" des combats en Ukraine.

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Sean Jones KC
@seanjones.org

When I think about Brexit harms I think about @gailmyerscough.co.uk and the damage it did to her ability to sell to customers in Europe. She has exactly the sort of small business politicians all love to say they support.

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David Henig
@davidheniguk.bsky.social

More to come on this, but those Labour MPs opposing talking about freedom of movement need to be aware that they are also condemning UK manufacturing to more barriers and probably further decline. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comCabinet ministers back Burnham’s call for debate on return to free movement with EUPM’s plea supported by Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband and business leaders, while some ‘red wall’ MPs voice concern
Gillian🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪
@gilliancarrin.bsky.social

Whole thread😃

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

Don't suppose anyone out there know where I can find a photo of Badenoch's current Shadow Cabinet - for a lecture slide. Lots out their of the previous iterations (eg see below) but can't find one for the current one. It's for a lecture slide.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri)
@wartranslated.bsky.social

The Finnish President’s Office has reported that the leaders of Finland and Norway held a telephone conversation with Putin regarding an end to the war in Ukraine.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social

Sweden will switch from mRNA COVID vaccines to Novavax (protein-based vaccine) in 2027/28. According to Sanofi, Sweden will be the first country in the world to make this exclusive switch. Officials also plan to lift restrictions for under-30s after reassessing concerns about heart inflammation.

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Someone want to tell Bobby where algebra comes from?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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EUwatch 🇪🇺
@euwatch.live

AI training platform Outlier illegally surveils European platform workers

noyb.euAI training platform Outlier illegally surveils European platform workersOnline & Mobile tracking Today, noyb (in collaboration with  Intérêt à Agir ,  DIPLab and  Reversing.Works ) has filed 5 complaints against Scale AI in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. The US-based company operates an AI training platform named Outlier, which employs more than 900,000 “freelance” workers. Among its customers: Meta, OpenAI, Google – and the US government. However, it's not just the workers' extensive knowledge and experience that Scale AI is farming: The company collects huge amounts of personal data and forces workers to go through an invasive biometric verification to earn money. In Europe, this far-reaching workplace surveillance clearly violates the workers’ fundamental right to data protection. Complaint in France Complaint in Italy Complaint in the Netherlands Complaint in Austria #1 ; Complaint in Austria #2 Report by DiPLab on workplace surveillance by AI training platforms What is platform work – and what does it have to do with AI? From courier services like Uber and food delivery services, all the way to data annotation:  more than 40 million people already  have their work organised by platforms. This puts people in a vulnerable position: Among other things, companies try to circumvent labour laws by (wrongly) claiming that their workers are self-employed. This often excludes them from social benefits  and affects their wages . Unsurprisingly, the AI industry heavily relies on this new type of work. Popular AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok are also trained by actual people who manually review or annotate their output. Scale AI – almost 1 million workers. One of the  biggest players in this field is the US company Scale AI, which operates the data annotation platform Outlier AI. Outlier employs more than 900,000 “freelance” platform workers who train AI systems by solving tasks (e.g. writing prompts, ranking answers, etc.), effectively giving their expert knowledge to US Big Tech companies. Its  best-known customers are  corporations such as Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Google, Anthropic,  and the US government . Thomas Le Bonniec, sociology researcher at DIPLab: “Platform work seems to be fertile ground for a whole new type of workplace surveillance. This would be seen as unacceptable in any other form of employment in the European Union. This system only thrives because of its deliberate lack of transparency.” Invasive tracking. However, questionable employment practices are not the only issue: Outlier is subjecting its workers to invasive tracking. Our technical analysis showed that while workers are on the Outlier platform, trackers from companies such as TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, the survey platform Sprig and the data analysis company Datadog are placed on their devices. Every few seconds, these trackers send the workers’ personal data to third parties. This includes IP addresses, contact details, unique identifiers and information about the visited page. Among other things, this data can then be used for targeted advertising and profiling. Lisa Steinfeld Leiser, Data Protection Lawyer at noyb : “Such constant and extensive trackingwhile working really goes against all reasonable expectations. Why should LinkedIn or Facebook know which tasks you're working on?” Forced biometric identification. As if that weren’t enough, Scale AI also forces workers to repeatedly go through a biometric verification process carried out by a company called Persona. This includes video recordings of their face and uploading their ID. Scale AI claims that this is done to prevent identity fraud and to “verify the workers’ skills” . In reality, this not only goes far beyond what would be necessary, but Persona also has a questionable history when it comes to data security. In October 2025, approximately 70,000 photos of government issued IDs stored with Persona  were exposed by hackers . On top of that, Persona grants itself the right to collect heaps of personal data, including IP addresses, device information, geolocation data, addresses, and consumer credit data of users. Baptiste Delmas, project coordinator at Intérêt à Agir: “The violations highlighted in the complaints against Scale AI clearly show that the AI boom relies on a vast workforce whose privacy is at stake. Data protection authorities must now take these issues seriously and impose strict enforcement measures.“ Complaints filed in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria.  noyb has now filed a total of 5 GDPR complaints against Scale AI. Not only does the company lack a valid legal basis to place trackers on the complainants’ devices without consent, it also violates the GDPR’s principle of data minimisation. The same goes fo the processing of biometric data. Last but not least, Scale AI didn’t even bother to respond to the complainant’s access requests, thereby violating their right of access under the GDPR. noyb requests a full investigation of the violations and suggests that the competent authorities impose an administrative fine to prevent similar violations in the future. These 5 noyb complaints are part of an interdisciplinary initiative on working conditions across AI value chains (AI-WORLD), led by Intérêt à Agir in partnership with DipLab and supported by the European AI & Society Fund and the Digital Freedom Fund To find out more about the working conditions of platform workers, please take a look at this report by DiPLab .

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TraceyT
@traceytaylor.bsky.social

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morgfairsdogs.bsky.social@morgfairsdogs.bsky.social

Superstar 260871 Kill Command #NYCACC #RescueOnly He is a cute 6 yr old terrier mix Adopted & returned due to bite from resource guarding Walks well on leash Social with staff Help save Superstar! #Pledge4Rescue #foster #adopt

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Colin
@colin-fraser.net

I had my AI agent create an app called “Lunch” to help me with decision fatigue and boost my productivity. It has a few pictures of things I might like to eat. Tapping one spawns a subagent to order that item on Uber Eats and 60-90 minutes later I’m eating. It’s 600 thousand lines of JavaScript.

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🦋Cosmo the Shaggy Dog🦋
@cosmotheshaggydog.bsky.social

Replying to @muellershewrote.com

I do not like this JD Vance I do not like his arrogant stance I do not like his manky beard It makes his eyeliner look really weird I do not like his fancy ties He lies and lies and lies and lies He’s a hollow man in a suit and pants I do not like this JD Vance

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Edward Luce
@edwardluce.bsky.social

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

theatlantic.comWhat the U.S. Is Really Doing in VenezuelaSuppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

This is true, obvious and notably unremarked upon in US corporate media. bsky.app/profile/theb...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

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Lorenz Meyer
@thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social

Lieber BW-Innenminister Hagel (CDU), „mit aller Härte des Rechtsstaats" gibt es nicht. Das Stichwort lautet Verhältnismäßigkeit, und das heißt: das mildeste Mittel, das wirkt. Wer vor einer Demo schon vom „Zurückschlagen" redet, verwechselt das Grundgesetz mit einer Kneipenschlägerei.

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Chris Scott
@iamchrisscott.bsky.social

Why did Barack Obama say “Everyone who’s ever eaten at or enjoyed a Cheesecake Factory is a dumb hick redneck loser and I hope they all die.” Why did he say this

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Bob White
@rwdwhite.bsky.social

The NHS, under both Labour and the Tories, is becoming a cash machine for the wealthy.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

thebusinessdesk.comManchester Fertility Services sold to private equity-backed international care groupTFP Fertility Group is backed by US private equity firm Amulet Capital Partners

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Dmitry Grozoubinski
@explaintrade.com

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

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Ian Boudreau
@ianboudreau.com

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

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@gilliancarrin.bsky.social

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Alistair Davidson@moh-kohn.eurosky.social

Honestly I think that people looking back 100 years from now will think about pre-AI computing the same way we think about valve computers or punch cards, or the kids think about non-networked computers - a quirky precursor to the "real thing". I very much did not think that a year ago.

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Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

#academicsky Click through.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org

Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r

goodlaw.socialStop the far right targeting Black people at universitiesTell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate.