Jonathan Buck

Jonathan Buck

@jonathanbuck.bsky.social

Enjoying the conversation. I try and keep the world communicating. Based in Switzerland, my home for the last 35 years.

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Jonathan Buck
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I’ve reflected long about posting. the constant proof of atrocities in Gaza means I have to call this abomination out. I have Israeli friends, friends from Islamic countries. It has to stop now and those who have perpetrated these crimes have to be held to account. #israel #gaza

Jonathan Buck
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I’ve always totally condemned the October 7 attacks on Israel as heinous but what Israel has been and is doing to the Palestinians is abhorrent. We cannot allow ourselves to normalize what is happening for the sake of our future generations.

Jonathan Buck
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Really insightful commentary on what could be happening #musk

Adrian Monck@amonck.bsky.social

1/ MUSK’S CYBERNETIC REVOLUTION: Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t just about cutting waste – it’s the blueprint for a “cybernetic state.” In Musk’s words: “This is a revolution... potentially the biggest revolution in government since the original revolution.” www.foxnews.com/video/637065...

foxnews.comElon Musk and DOGE team sit down with Bret Baier in 'Special Report' exclusive | Fox News VideoElon Musk and members of his DOGE team discuss efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from government and address their critics and more.
Jonathan Buck
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x.comElon Musk on X: "@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at" / X@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at
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Jonathan Buck
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And when your guests leave, they have to leave their clubs, balls and clothes. And they are not allowed to play the new golf in their own country... unless they pay a US company to build and maintain and administer a golf club in your country. Although only the US can admit members to your new club.

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Jonathan Buck
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Indeed, you’ve now decided to invent a new kind of golf game. You set the rules and make everyone pay extremely high fees if they want to play. You’ve also changed the rules so that you can only use golf clubs, balls and clothes made in the USA. And you can only have lessons with US coaches…

Jonathan Buck
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You even served as club president, and decided on who could join. You have been paying your membership for around 70 years. Then in 2023, you kept on playing and enjoying the course, clubhouse and networking…

Jonathan Buck
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It’s mega about maga. Poland thinking about nuclear weapons, UK stupidly dependent on UK for Trident. France offering nuclear umbrella. Trust in US is broken for good. If Americans voted for Trump you have to start to change your opinions of the US.

Jonathan Buck
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Well done Mr Branson. Europe and the US need to meet their obligations.

Richard Branson@richardbranson.bsky.social

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Adrian Monck
@amonck.bsky.social

🧵 REVEALED: Major intelligence report shows a transforming Russia in 2025 - more dangerous yet surprisingly vulnerable. Here's what we learned... (1/13)

Jonathan Buck
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Will Vance’s speech go down as the end of US leadership. Kind of think so. And the moment that Europe got its act together.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

open.substack.comWe need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
Jonathan Buck
@jonathanbuck.bsky.social

Based on the actions over the last two weeks, one has to ask whether the world can ever trust the USA again. Broken international agreements, critical domestic and international funding stopped, the loss of rights. What do you think folks?

Jonathan Buck
@jonathanbuck.bsky.social

#counterhate This guy is the rockstar trying to protect us all from the unraveling of social media. Look him up - he has quite a track record against you know who! #elon

Center for Countering Digital Harm@counterharm.com

“It relies on the goodwill of users… of course the behavior of some of the people running these platforms show that quite often there isn’t goodwill...” Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social on how Community Notes fall short in fighting online misinformation in Yahoo News 👇

buff.lyIn times of crisis, states have few tools to fight misinformationAs deadly wildfires raged in Los Angeles this month, local officials were forced to address a slew of lies and falsehoods spreading quickly online. From artificial intelligence-generated images of…
Jonathan Buck
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Is history repeating itself, or at least an updated version of it? @amonck.bsky.social I need to get Tim Marshall and Adrian in the same room.

Adrian Monck@amonck.bsky.social

🧵 IS NOW THE 1930s? I’ve been poring over a fascinating 1938 British atlas that reveals the hidden forces reshaping the pre-war world. “An Atlas of Current Affairs” shows how eerily similar the geopolitical drivers of the 1930s were to today’s...

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The New York Times
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President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria under the cover of night and a fake political address. Here is an examination of his final days in power, based on secret reports reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with officials, diplomats, his associates and rebels who participated in his ouster.

nytimes.comInside the Final Days of the Assad Regime in SyriaPresident Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.

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Adrian Monck
@amonck.bsky.social

1/ 🧵FUTURE DIPLOMACY: After intense 7-hour talks in Ankara, Turkey just achieved what months of international mediation couldn’t. An object lesson from East Africa in how deep relationships trump traditional power politics in today’s world.

Jonathan Buck
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#syria #assad Adrian offers some real perspectives.

Adrian Monck@amonck.bsky.social

1/ 🧵 HOW DO DICTATORS SURVIVE? In 1990, I was visiting Damascus. I’d been tasked with delivering – among other things – a case of whisky. Back then as the USSR crumbled, Syria’s leader – Bashar al-Assad’s father – pulled off a masterful pivot – trading support in Kuwait for control of Lebanon…

Jonathan Buck
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It will be fascinating to see what happens in Romania this weekend. Geogescu came from nowhere and his push has been on TikTok. If people are losing trust in media, how can they ever trust social media?

Jonathan Buck
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Looking for community feedback. What can the institutions that were set up after World War II to never let it happen again do to regain the confidence of the world? As #Harari says in his latest book, those institutions are what distinguishes us from the monkeys!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
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Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

More than 61,000 dead in Khartoum state alone, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group finds: 26,000 of them killed as a direct result of the violence. Leading cause of death across Sudan is preventable disease and starvation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comSudan war: Death toll far higher than previously reported - studyMore than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, researchers say.

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Reuters Institute
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🚨 Big news today at the Institute We are seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.ukThe Reuters Institute is seeking a new lead author for the Digital News ReportNext year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply.

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Carole Cadwalladr
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comHow to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole CadwalladrIn the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance