Thora Borg Agustsdottir
@thorlaug.bsky.social
Cyber-PoliSci PhD researcher: Techno-Capitalism & the erosion of Democracy 💎 Change agent ♾️ curious mind 💎
Knowledge and science are under attack
The New Dark Age
The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Knowledge and science are under attack
Democracy means the state serves the people. Dictatorship means people serve the state.
Reclaim your power:
Reclaim your power:
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
commonslibrary.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Democracy means the state serves the people. Dictatorship means people serve the state.
Reclaim your power:
Reclaim your power:
THIS IS HUGE
www.narativ.org/p/whistle-bl...
www.narativ.org/p/whistle-bl...
Whistle Blower: Russian Breach of US Data Through DOGE Was Carried Out Over Starlink "Directly to Russia"
Daniel Berulis appeared on Rachel Maddow's news show with his attorney Andrew Bakaj
www.narativ.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
THIS IS HUGE
www.narativ.org/p/whistle-bl...
www.narativ.org/p/whistle-bl...
Audit the auditors. And the fools.
Transparency, oversight and accountability are key democratic values.
www.wired.com/story/gao-au...
Transparency, oversight and accountability are key democratic values.
www.wired.com/story/gao-au...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited
The Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Audit the auditors. And the fools.
Transparency, oversight and accountability are key democratic values.
www.wired.com/story/gao-au...
Transparency, oversight and accountability are key democratic values.
www.wired.com/story/gao-au...
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April 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Cory Booker is still live on the floor! Give him your stream count by watching him here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Cory Booker is still live on the floor! Give him your stream count by watching him here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...
Europe understands the threat of Russia
Germany launches permanent troop deployment on NATO’s eastern flank
Berlin formally activates brigade in Lithuania, signaling a major shift in defense posture.
www.politico.eu
April 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Europe understands the threat of Russia
I'll be presenting my PhD research (so far) tomorrow and discussing Iceland's soft-cybersecurity w. focus on techno-capitalism and the decline of democracy.
Harborhouse Reykjavík at 6:30pm
Harborhouse Reykjavík at 6:30pm
March 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'll be presenting my PhD research (so far) tomorrow and discussing Iceland's soft-cybersecurity w. focus on techno-capitalism and the decline of democracy.
Harborhouse Reykjavík at 6:30pm
Harborhouse Reykjavík at 6:30pm
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France creates a safe heaven for scientists.
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
France creates a safe heaven for scientists.
This is serious for academics. A brain-dump from the USA is on its way. Canada's gain for sure - and hopefully a way for Europe to recoup some of the excellence that left because of WWII.
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This is serious for academics. A brain-dump from the USA is on its way. Canada's gain for sure - and hopefully a way for Europe to recoup some of the excellence that left because of WWII.
Reposted by Thora Borg Agustsdottir
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
This is beyond scary - you can't even trust that the people in your zoom meeting are the people you know in real life.
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ | CNN
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, ac...
edition.cnn.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is beyond scary - you can't even trust that the people in your zoom meeting are the people you know in real life.
Það sést sífellt betur að Trump vinnur fyrir Pútín og hefur gert lengi. Það væri óskandi að Ísland tæki eigin varnir alvarlega, við gætum lent í þeirri stöðu að hernaðaraðgerðir gegn Grænlandi séu reknar héðan frá bandarískum beis.
Bandaríkin hafa lokað tímabundið á hernaðaraðstoð til Úkraínu til að þrýsta á um vopnahlésviðræður við Rússland. Formaður utanríkismálnefndar úkraínska þingsins segir að með þessu sé verið að þrýsta á um að gefa eftir kröfum Rússa.
March 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Það sést sífellt betur að Trump vinnur fyrir Pútín og hefur gert lengi. Það væri óskandi að Ísland tæki eigin varnir alvarlega, við gætum lent í þeirri stöðu að hernaðaraðgerðir gegn Grænlandi séu reknar héðan frá bandarískum beis.
France creates a safe heaven for scientists.
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
France creates a safe heaven for scientists.
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
Symbolic exchange. Bald eagle attacks Canada goose and gets told to fuck off.
March 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Symbolic exchange. Bald eagle attacks Canada goose and gets told to fuck off.
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Great work here.
'For the record...': Rachel Maddow sets the record straight on Trump address falsehoods
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Great work here.
I cannot express the gravity of this order. This is the end of US supremacy in Cyberspace. The doors are wide-open for Russia now.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered US Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia, according to a current official and two former officials briefed on the secret instructions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I cannot express the gravity of this order. This is the end of US supremacy in Cyberspace. The doors are wide-open for Russia now.
Trump speaks about his followers being stupid people.
February 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Trump speaks about his followers being stupid people.
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Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis
Why Trump clings to Putin.
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The insanity!
February 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The insanity!
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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
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In 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
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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...
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...
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Explanation of what is happening in Germany from a Zeit correspondent:
A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany
Jörg Lau
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany
Jörg Lau
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany | Jörg Lau
The CDU’s Friedrich Merz has shattered the taboo that had underpinned German politics since the war. The unthinkable is now more possible says Die Zeit writer, Jörg Lau
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Explanation of what is happening in Germany from a Zeit correspondent:
A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany
Jörg Lau
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A political gamble backfired spectacularly – bringing the far right closer to power in Germany
Jörg Lau
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I can’t shake the feeling that something bad is looming.
My feed on other platforms has been changing, I fear that techno-fascism is already here.
My feed on other platforms has been changing, I fear that techno-fascism is already here.
January 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I can’t shake the feeling that something bad is looming.
My feed on other platforms has been changing, I fear that techno-fascism is already here.
My feed on other platforms has been changing, I fear that techno-fascism is already here.