If you’re confused about what’s happening in #SouthKorea…

I think binging season 1 of Squid Game lasted longer than the South Korea martial law/"coup"/legislative tussle

French outfit Cypheme's Vrai AI can identify counterfeit consumer goods by checking tiny details against its learned library -- Lacoste can quickly see if its crocodile logo has too many teeth or kooky eyes:

retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2024/11...

www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

This in-depth, heavily researched investigation by The Guardian points to Israel targeting and killing identified journalists in what experts said could be qualified as a war crime - which should run afoul of conditions attached to the US supplying weapons:

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Russian ruble slides to lowest point against USD since March 2022
(Missile escalations in Ukraine war; increased US sanctions; and the Russian Central Bank deputy governor in charge of digital payments leaves)

www.cbr.ru/eng/press/PR...

After years of being blocked by Austria, Bulgaria and Romania finally get membership to the Schengen area allowing passport-free movement in most EU countries (and a few associated ones)

In a Paris McDonald's today: a man in his 60s enters, fires several shots into a customer's head and chest, killing him, and hangs around for police to arrest him without resistance.

www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/par...

A head's up that the European Commission is willing to pay for around 40 journalists *and content creators* from EU countries to go to Brussels for 2 days to learn about EU institutions and policies (esp. Cohesion policy)...

www.euinmyregion-mediatrips.eu

CJEU, asylum law

Advocate General's opinion: Taliban treatment of Afghan women and girls amounts to persecution on grounds of gender, ie qualification for refugee status

Hound at the gate

#EUCO sensible à Bruxelles. Divisés par le conflit Israël-Hamas et l'exode forcé des Palestiniens de Gaza, les 27 sont à la peine pour l'Ukraine car les finances sont à sec. "Insatiable", @vonderleyen a demandé d'abonder le budget de 66 mds. Les 27 disent non et vont tailler de moitié (diplo)

Why I registered the account name @vonderleyen.bsky.social and why institutions need to take Bluesky domain verification seriously - explained in a blog post euroblog.jonworth.eu/ursula-von-d...

Autumn's the mellow time

MOBILE JOURNALISM AWARDS: Call for entries for the #MojoAwards is out

www.visualeditors.com/mobile-journ...

Enter today. Great competition. Spread the word!

Starting to see activity pick up on Bluesky now. Maybe it'll reach critical mass? (Certainly X/Twitter is tumbleweeds these days....)

X-Twitter publishes new ToS. Previously, users posting content granted licence to Twitter to reuse for "sole purpose" of benefiting from Twitter's service.
New one: users grant X worlwide licence to reuse, transform content for just about any use, *without payment*.
(Quid neighbouring rights?)

After surviving (yet again) a 12-minute wait in line for coffee in the shadow of the European Commission in Brussels I really, really think it's time for a couple of Melburnians to open up a café and tap into a market extremely thirsty for top-notch caffeine

So I'm on here now, and had no idea what to post first.
Then @marcburleigh.bsky.social suggested I bung up some of some of my photos.
Here's some that made the AFP wire

Colleagues tell me my first Bluesky post should be momentous. I thought about that. I'll get back to you.