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Men. Let's talk prostate cancer.
Reflections on my own diagnosis. I’m lucky. My cancer was caught early because I arranged a simple blood test.
Read on. www.linkedin.com/m/pulse/lets...
Reflections on my own diagnosis. I’m lucky. My cancer was caught early because I arranged a simple blood test.
Read on. www.linkedin.com/m/pulse/lets...
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Moscow’s new Rubikon team has gained the upper hand in the ever-evolving drone war by operating beyond the front lines, locating, tracking and killing Ukrainian drone operators before they can launch their drones on.ft.com/3JBkXBn
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Moscow’s new Rubikon team has gained the upper hand in the ever-evolving drone war by operating beyond the front lines, locating, tracking and killing Ukrainian drone operators before they can launch their drones on.ft.com/3JBkXBn
A sweeping new report by Earth Insight and the Global Alliance of Territorial Custodians (GATC) exposes mounting industrial pressures on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) who collectively safeguard nearly one billion hectares of tropical forest.
icmagazine.org/indigenous-l...
icmagazine.org/indigenous-l...
Indigenous-led Stewardship Under Siege Across the Tropics – Intercontinental Cry
A sweeping new report by Earth Insight and the Global Alliance of Territorial Custodians (GATC) exposes mounting industrial pressures on Indigenous Peoples and
icmagazine.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A sweeping new report by Earth Insight and the Global Alliance of Territorial Custodians (GATC) exposes mounting industrial pressures on Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) who collectively safeguard nearly one billion hectares of tropical forest.
icmagazine.org/indigenous-l...
icmagazine.org/indigenous-l...
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
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EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens investigation into potential Digital Markets Act breach by Google in demoting media publishers\' content in search results
Today, the European Commission has formally launched proceedings to assess whether Google applies fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions of access to publishers\' websites on Google Search...
ec.europa.eu
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
@support.bsky.team I reported an account for targeted harassment (of me). What happens next? Do you notify those reporting an account of your decision? Thank you
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@support.bsky.team I reported an account for targeted harassment (of me). What happens next? Do you notify those reporting an account of your decision? Thank you
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CRUSHING BLOW TO NSO: 🇺🇸Court permanently bans Pegasus spyware-maker from targeting WhatsApp
🚫Must destroy tools exploiting WhatsApp
🚫Stop future development of WA targeting
Foreign gov customers exempt from data deletion but...
🚫NSO is barred from helping them hack WA. 1/
🚫Must destroy tools exploiting WhatsApp
🚫Stop future development of WA targeting
Foreign gov customers exempt from data deletion but...
🚫NSO is barred from helping them hack WA. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
CRUSHING BLOW TO NSO: 🇺🇸Court permanently bans Pegasus spyware-maker from targeting WhatsApp
🚫Must destroy tools exploiting WhatsApp
🚫Stop future development of WA targeting
Foreign gov customers exempt from data deletion but...
🚫NSO is barred from helping them hack WA. 1/
🚫Must destroy tools exploiting WhatsApp
🚫Stop future development of WA targeting
Foreign gov customers exempt from data deletion but...
🚫NSO is barred from helping them hack WA. 1/
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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I like how this article about Ofcom's research into VPN usage* while not being transparent about what it's using/doing** has been utterly surrounded by VPN ads
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
* a reasonable thing for regulator to do
** an unreasonable thing
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
* a reasonable thing for regulator to do
** an unreasonable thing
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I like how this article about Ofcom's research into VPN usage* while not being transparent about what it's using/doing** has been utterly surrounded by VPN ads
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
* a reasonable thing for regulator to do
** an unreasonable thing
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
* a reasonable thing for regulator to do
** an unreasonable thing
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims
Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"
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“Trump has managed to cow huge swathes of America’s institutional media, despite the supposed protections the First Amendment offers. Thanks to his friendly relationship with tech CEOs, he has huge sway over online media, too. The bully pulpit has never been more powerful than under Trump.”
Win or lose, Trump's $1bn lawsuit would be a disaster for the BBC
Trump does not want fair and independent media. He wants cheerleaders
inews.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
“Trump has managed to cow huge swathes of America’s institutional media, despite the supposed protections the First Amendment offers. Thanks to his friendly relationship with tech CEOs, he has huge sway over online media, too. The bully pulpit has never been more powerful than under Trump.”
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The key question I had for Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who provides his powerful tech to ICE and Israeli military: at what point does misuse of your product make you end such relationships? Hear his answers on this and much more www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
Alex Karp Goes to War
Palantir’s CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The key question I had for Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who provides his powerful tech to ICE and Israeli military: at what point does misuse of your product make you end such relationships? Hear his answers on this and much more www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
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"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Looking for recommendations for an external portable ssd drive for photos (including raw format), music, personal files …
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Looking for recommendations for an external portable ssd drive for photos (including raw format), music, personal files …
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Just shameful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just shameful.
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Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires
Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires
1/ It's remembrance weekend. As Elon Musk continues to sow hate & division in the UK & support the far right, I'm reflecting not just on the sacrifices & bravery of men & women from the 'shires' in WWI & WW2, but also of the millions of men & women from the Indian subcontinent &
Forgotten Muslim soldiers of World War One 'silence' far right
Historians say highlighting the Muslim contribution during the Great War 'silences' far-right groups.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
1/ It's remembrance weekend. As Elon Musk continues to sow hate & division in the UK & support the far right, I'm reflecting not just on the sacrifices & bravery of men & women from the 'shires' in WWI & WW2, but also of the millions of men & women from the Indian subcontinent &
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"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
The Body as a Password: The Cost of Face ID
Convenience is costing people their freedom. Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities, writes Afsaneh Rigot.
the-decenter.ghost.io
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
Special Musk ‘blue plaque’ put up at Tesla’s flagship London dealership after $1tn pay deal
It reads: “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk.
“Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” 👏
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...
It reads: “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk.
“Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” 👏
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Special Musk ‘blue plaque’ put up at Tesla’s flagship London dealership after $1tn pay deal
It reads: “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk.
“Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” 👏
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...
It reads: “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk.
“Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” 👏
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...
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The Commission is set to introduce the Digital Omnibus on November 19.
Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq.
Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.
Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq.
Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Commission is set to introduce the Digital Omnibus on November 19.
Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq.
Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.
Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq.
Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.
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The Narwhal, @thenarwhal.ca, has extended the deadline to apply for their new one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C. to Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. PT.
Please help spread the word!
Please help spread the word!
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The Narwhal, @thenarwhal.ca, has extended the deadline to apply for their new one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C. to Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. PT.
Please help spread the word!
Please help spread the word!
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Threatening us with a good time
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Threatening us with a good time
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In January 2025 Djibouti in the Horn of Africa became the 174th country to enact a data privacy law: the Digital Code / Code Numerique covers data privacy as well as other e-commerce & cybersecurity topics www.journalofficiel.dj/texte-juridi... Thanks Dave Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social
Loi n° 019/AN/23/9ème L Portant Code Numérique - eJO
Article 1 : Le Code du Numérique est adopté. Article 2 : La présente Loi sera publiée au Journal Officiel dès sa signature. Fait à Djibouti, le 06 Juillet 2025
www.journalofficiel.dj
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In January 2025 Djibouti in the Horn of Africa became the 174th country to enact a data privacy law: the Digital Code / Code Numerique covers data privacy as well as other e-commerce & cybersecurity topics www.journalofficiel.dj/texte-juridi... Thanks Dave Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social