KJ Garnett
@kjgarnett.bsky.social
Researching innovation, technology and environmental risk.
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Elon Musk appointed 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the grandson of a KGB lieutenant colonel to DOGE. He was instrumental in cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development, which directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of poor people overseas.
December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Elon Musk appointed 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the grandson of a KGB lieutenant colonel to DOGE. He was instrumental in cutting funding for the United States Agency for International Development, which directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of poor people overseas.
Of course META does not want to face scrutiny ... amazing how this story has gone pretty much under the radar.
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Of course META does not want to face scrutiny ... amazing how this story has gone pretty much under the radar.
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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An initial analysis of the Trump-class battleships from @MarkCancian at @CSIS.
www.csis.org/analysis/gol...
www.csis.org/analysis/gol...
The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail
The recently announced “Trump” class of battleships is cast as the world’s largest and most powerful ships. But these ships will take years to design, cost $9 billion each, and run counter to the Navy...
www.csis.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
An initial analysis of the Trump-class battleships from @MarkCancian at @CSIS.
www.csis.org/analysis/gol...
www.csis.org/analysis/gol...
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Wes wants it. 80% of Labour voters want it. What about Keir?
Whoever's in No10 in 2026, Lib Dems welcome Govt support for our call for a new customs union.
Let's grow the economy, create jobs and cut prices by slashing the red-tape from the bad Brexit deal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Whoever's in No10 in 2026, Lib Dems welcome Govt support for our call for a new customs union.
Let's grow the economy, create jobs and cut prices by slashing the red-tape from the bad Brexit deal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Wes Streeting: Britain needs to join customs union with EU
The health secretary’s remarks are being seen as a direct challenge to Sir Keir Starmer, who has repeatedly ruled out a policy favoured by many Labour voters
www.thetimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Wes wants it. 80% of Labour voters want it. What about Keir?
Whoever's in No10 in 2026, Lib Dems welcome Govt support for our call for a new customs union.
Let's grow the economy, create jobs and cut prices by slashing the red-tape from the bad Brexit deal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Whoever's in No10 in 2026, Lib Dems welcome Govt support for our call for a new customs union.
Let's grow the economy, create jobs and cut prices by slashing the red-tape from the bad Brexit deal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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"When we ask people whether #Brexit has been a success or a failure, 62% to 11% say failure. And that really rockets up - when you ask people who did vote Labour last year and people who are still intending to vote Labour - that figure goes north of 85%." ~AA @pimlicat.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"When we ask people whether #Brexit has been a success or a failure, 62% to 11% say failure. And that really rockets up - when you ask people who did vote Labour last year and people who are still intending to vote Labour - that figure goes north of 85%." ~AA @pimlicat.bsky.social
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A new Gallup poll finds that only 35% of Americans believe Donald Trump puts the country’s interests ahead of his own political interests.
Just 30% view him as honest and trustworthy.
Just 30% view him as honest and trustworthy.
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A new Gallup poll finds that only 35% of Americans believe Donald Trump puts the country’s interests ahead of his own political interests.
Just 30% view him as honest and trustworthy.
Just 30% view him as honest and trustworthy.
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The Telegraph is the last place I'd trust to tackle misinformation. Via Private Eye
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Telegraph is the last place I'd trust to tackle misinformation. Via Private Eye
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James Talarico has been doing something really interesting: Preaching the actual teachings of Jesus and showcasing how Christian Nationalism distorts and contradicts the core tenets of Christianity. It’s a worthy, important endeavor I don’t see many politicians willing to do.
What would Jesus do if he visited the United States Senate?
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
James Talarico has been doing something really interesting: Preaching the actual teachings of Jesus and showcasing how Christian Nationalism distorts and contradicts the core tenets of Christianity. It’s a worthy, important endeavor I don’t see many politicians willing to do.
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"Right now, I think it's 41 percent Americans trust AI. It's got a very low approval rating. It's not as low as Donald Trump's, yet, but it's close." The opportunities could be amazing too. We need trust.
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It:
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It:
December 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Right now, I think it's 41 percent Americans trust AI. It's got a very low approval rating. It's not as low as Donald Trump's, yet, but it's close." The opportunities could be amazing too. We need trust.
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It:
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social on How To Fix It:
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One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.
December 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
One thing about mad shit like this is, the Telegraph Ukraine podcast is reminding its listeners each day that the EU is the organisation keeping Ukraine's lights on, financially and increasingly militarily, while the US has casually thrown it under the bus.
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That's not how the EU works - and it isn't how this worked. Whatever you think of the German back and forth on the issue (I personally hate it) - Germany cannot and did not decide this on its own. As always there were countries for and countries against this.
The European Union’s 2035 ban on gasoline-powered cars is dead.
Its killer: Germany.
🔗 politi.co/48KLiXu
Its killer: Germany.
🔗 politi.co/48KLiXu
December 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
That's not how the EU works - and it isn't how this worked. Whatever you think of the German back and forth on the issue (I personally hate it) - Germany cannot and did not decide this on its own. As always there were countries for and countries against this.
Has AI killed peer review? Discuss
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Has AI killed peer review? Discuss
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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2024's word of the year was 'enshittification' was and 2025's is 'slop'. Either next year the word is something like 'encrusted' or we figure out a way to bury the garbage or use it as fuel for something more productive
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
2024's word of the year was 'enshittification' was and 2025's is 'slop'. Either next year the word is something like 'encrusted' or we figure out a way to bury the garbage or use it as fuel for something more productive
Interesting to see the MAGA movement implode and turn on each other. FT had an interesting article at the beginning of 2025 wondering how Trump can keep all of the very different factions in MAGA in line ... increasingly looks like he can't.
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Interesting to see the MAGA movement implode and turn on each other. FT had an interesting article at the beginning of 2025 wondering how Trump can keep all of the very different factions in MAGA in line ... increasingly looks like he can't.
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A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
🚨 The latest conclusions say the EU will trigger Article 20 of enhanced cooperation to ensure that any mobilisation of EU resources to guarantee joint debt "will not have an impact on the financial obligations of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia," as previously reported by Euronews.
🚨 Bombshell at #EUCO at almost 2 am: António Costa has proposed to use common borrowing to meet Ukraine's most immediate financial needs while technical work on the reparations loan continues in the coming months.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
Messy mix-match solution. Leaders are still discussing.
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A quick explanation of how this borrowing to assist Ukraine will work. "Enhanced cooperation" means EU law is being used, but some Member States opt out. The process has been applied a few times before, but never before re the EU budget. 1/
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The families of two teenage boys who died by suicide file a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the tech company has ignored the rising danger of sexual blackmail schemes targeting teens on Instagram.
Two families sue Meta over teens' deaths by suicide, citing ‘sextortion’ scams
One boy joined Instagram on Sunday and was dead by Tuesday afternoon. His mother says the app is to blame.
nbcnews.to
December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The families of two teenage boys who died by suicide file a lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the tech company has ignored the rising danger of sexual blackmail schemes targeting teens on Instagram.
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Blogged.
Locatrans. The CJEU overpromotes the escape clause for employment contracts under Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation.
gavclaw.com/2025/12/17/l...
Locatrans. The CJEU overpromotes the escape clause for employment contracts under Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation.
gavclaw.com/2025/12/17/l...
Locatrans. The CJEU overpromotes the escape clause for employment contracts under Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation.
[If you do use the blog for research, practice submission or database purposes, citation would be appreciated, to the blog as a whole and /or to specific blog posts. Many have suggested I should tu…
gavclaw.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Blogged.
Locatrans. The CJEU overpromotes the escape clause for employment contracts under Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation.
gavclaw.com/2025/12/17/l...
Locatrans. The CJEU overpromotes the escape clause for employment contracts under Rome Convention /Rome I Regulation.
gavclaw.com/2025/12/17/l...
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Wrong about, everything.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrong about, everything.
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"To Putin, he is a tempting mark & full of weaknesses that are easily exploited.
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
A very smart take on Trump's alliance with Putin by a veteran of CIA's Russia House, @johnsipher.bsky.social
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"To Putin, he is a tempting mark & full of weaknesses that are easily exploited.
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
He is narcissistic, greedy, morally loose, not especially loyal to his country, & fuzzy on the difference bt right & wrong.
For a competent intel service, it would be malpractice not to notice his mental blind spots,"
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Two legal opinions prepared by international lawyers contradict Belgium's claim it could be on the hook to pay substantial damages if the EU moves ahead with plans to use Russia's frozen assets to help Ukraine.
Legal opinions contradict Belgium’s claims over Russian assets
Belgium would not be on the hook to pay damages to Moscow as it would be near impossible for Russia to find a jurisdiction that would hear and enforce the case, the lawyers argue.
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Two legal opinions prepared by international lawyers contradict Belgium's claim it could be on the hook to pay substantial damages if the EU moves ahead with plans to use Russia's frozen assets to help Ukraine.
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The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
British government backs the BBC as Trump sues it for billions
Stephen Kinnock said the public service broadcaster is “right to stick by their guns.”
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The BBC is not just any other institution. It's a core part of this country's identity. It's ours to criticise, ours to get cross with, ours to love and ours to the end.
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
By attacking it Trump may actually be doing us all a favour as we are obliged to remember that.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
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The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Reform’s Russian bribe case prompts election interference inquiry
The PM has ordered an investigation into foreign influence in politics after the ex-leader of Reform in Wales was jailed for taking cash to parrot Kremlin lines
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...