Jens Wiëchers
@j.wieche.rs
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🧑💻information security, data science
📚int'l relations, IHL/LOAC, statistics
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🗣️he/they
💼Herding Shibes
🧑💻information security, data science
📚int'l relations, IHL/LOAC, statistics
❤️ISO 8601 💜ISO 216 💛ISO 3166-1
My mother is watching odd XMas movies & I was having breakfast with her. Some woman at a party says "I'm studying [XMas decorations] at the Plaza" & people laugh at her.
& I'm immediately like: "That's an extremely interesting topic in terms of cultural & economic history?" :|
& I'm immediately like: "That's an extremely interesting topic in terms of cultural & economic history?" :|
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My mother is watching odd XMas movies & I was having breakfast with her. Some woman at a party says "I'm studying [XMas decorations] at the Plaza" & people laugh at her.
& I'm immediately like: "That's an extremely interesting topic in terms of cultural & economic history?" :|
& I'm immediately like: "That's an extremely interesting topic in terms of cultural & economic history?" :|
The audacity!
Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The audacity!
Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
It's really hard to get even a well-tailored suit to look "good" on me,¹ but this (kinda²) works? 🤔
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's really hard to get even a well-tailored suit to look "good" on me,¹ but this (kinda²) works? 🤔
A friend made a joke about Vaporeon.
I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme.
I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹
I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme.
I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A friend made a joke about Vaporeon.
I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme.
I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹
I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme.
I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹
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finally got to this today, and just so grateful for Kelly's words. I think a lot about how my own father might see me in this moment, and how I'd communicate my actions in this moment to him
I wrote a very personal essay about two conversations—one with my father decades ago and one with a stranger a few weeks ago amid the upheaval of Trump 2.0.
Remembering My Father and Talking to Strangers on Planes
"I believe we're good enough to do better."
organizingmythoughts.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
finally got to this today, and just so grateful for Kelly's words. I think a lot about how my own father might see me in this moment, and how I'd communicate my actions in this moment to him
Literally one of the few things AI is semi-decent for, if you don't obsess over little details like consistency in the placement of persons.
It is interesting, though, that it was virtually impossible to get Nethanyahu and Trump to switch places or make him look the proper way, despite reference.
It is interesting, though, that it was virtually impossible to get Nethanyahu and Trump to switch places or make him look the proper way, despite reference.
Two memes I felt compelled to make earlier today.
Presented without further comment. 🤷
Presented without further comment. 🤷
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Literally one of the few things AI is semi-decent for, if you don't obsess over little details like consistency in the placement of persons.
It is interesting, though, that it was virtually impossible to get Nethanyahu and Trump to switch places or make him look the proper way, despite reference.
It is interesting, though, that it was virtually impossible to get Nethanyahu and Trump to switch places or make him look the proper way, despite reference.
Two memes I felt compelled to make earlier today.
Presented without further comment. 🤷
Presented without further comment. 🤷
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Two memes I felt compelled to make earlier today.
Presented without further comment. 🤷
Presented without further comment. 🤷
I feel typecast, if in an entirely fair manner: sent a friend a photo from my father's wake and she replied with "You chose that watch and pen because they're matte black, didn't you?"
Well... yes. :S
Well... yes. :S
May 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I feel typecast, if in an entirely fair manner: sent a friend a photo from my father's wake and she replied with "You chose that watch and pen because they're matte black, didn't you?"
Well... yes. :S
Well... yes. :S
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The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...
Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials
Yesterday, I published an analysis of what I could publicly find about TM SGNL, the obscure and unofficial Signal app used by Mike Waltz, and presumably also by Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, ...
micahflee.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...
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I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...
micahflee.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...
Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Revenge of the Sith is kind of funny in a meta sense now because grown adults look at focus group tested slop and are like “this shit is too political, unlike the movies of my childhood where Darth Vader choked his wife then looked at the camera and directly quoted George W. Bush.”
May 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Revenge of the Sith is kind of funny in a meta sense now because grown adults look at focus group tested slop and are like “this shit is too political, unlike the movies of my childhood where Darth Vader choked his wife then looked at the camera and directly quoted George W. Bush.”
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I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...
April 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...
This is something I've also lamented. I understand perfectly why it turned out like this, but we genuinely, desperately, need more authoritative words on the questions of compliance and consequences for breach.
Emphasizes the narrow framing of the question (which to be fair I kind of agree with) and that there should be no opinion offered on any questions of compliance or consequences for breach
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is something I've also lamented. I understand perfectly why it turned out like this, but we genuinely, desperately, need more authoritative words on the questions of compliance and consequences for breach.
My father just passed away.
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My father just passed away.
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that single sentence is going to drive me insane
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
that single sentence is going to drive me insane
I feel like the very clear two word answer to this should be "posse comitatus"?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I feel like the very clear two word answer to this should be "posse comitatus"?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
A match made in idiot pundit hell.
April 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A match made in idiot pundit hell.
Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one... 😮💨
April 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one... 😮💨
This is such a good piece and such an interesting phenomenon. He looks healthy & happy in both pics, and it’s his body to wear how he likes. But it doesn’t surprise me at all that the male gaze and female gaze diverge so sharply on which photo is more appealing.
The latest batshit internet scandal is men accusing women of “lying” when stating a preference for Ollie Murs’ before pic.
So I unpacked all that
nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...
So I unpacked all that
nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...
April 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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That’s some really bad public relations work by the ICC. How is a laymen supposed to understand this press release on the Netanyahu/Gallant/Israel/Palestine issue? I meant, even I don’t really understand it without further research and I do this for a living.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Situation in the State of Palestine: Appeals Chamber reverses the Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision on Israel’s challenge to the jurisdiction of the Court and remands the matter to the Pre-Trial Chamber
Today, 24 April 2025, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (“Court”) issued its judgment on the appeal filed by the State of Israel (“Israel”) against the decision of Pre-Trial Cham...
www.icc-cpi.int
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
That’s some really bad public relations work by the ICC. How is a laymen supposed to understand this press release on the Netanyahu/Gallant/Israel/Palestine issue? I meant, even I don’t really understand it without further research and I do this for a living.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
It's rather interesting to see the Israeli nationalist PR playbook copied this closely by the Hindutva movement.
The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.
The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.
April 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's rather interesting to see the Israeli nationalist PR playbook copied this closely by the Hindutva movement.
The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.
The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.
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1/ Trump is basically ordering that the US government stop enforcing the Civil Rights Act anywhere it relies on disparate-impact.
In other words, anywhere the outcome of a policy is discriminatory, but you can't prove racist intent.
In other words, anywhere the outcome of a policy is discriminatory, but you can't prove racist intent.
April 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
1/ Trump is basically ordering that the US government stop enforcing the Civil Rights Act anywhere it relies on disparate-impact.
In other words, anywhere the outcome of a policy is discriminatory, but you can't prove racist intent.
In other words, anywhere the outcome of a policy is discriminatory, but you can't prove racist intent.
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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
April 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...