Marcos Moschovidis

going everywhere but Vienna! Do come by sometime!

Databroker Files: Neuer Datensatz enthüllt 40.000 Apps hinter Standort-Tracking 380 Millionen Standortdaten aus 137 Ländern: Ein bislang unbekannter Datensatz zeigt so umfangreich wie nie zuvor Gefahren des globalen Datenhandels. 40.000 Apps sind betroffen, darunter queere Dating...

380 Millionen Standortdaten aus 137 Ländern: Ein neuer Datensatz zeigt die Gefahren des globalen Datenhandels. 40.000 Apps sind betroffen, mit alarmierender Genauigkeit geortet wurden Nutzer von Wetter Online, Focus Online und Kleinanzeigen #databrokerfiles

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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

memes by Bosnian grandfather does not understand

Los Angeles officials say wildfire death toll has risen to 16 Strong winds have been largely blamed for turning the wildfires into infernos that destroyed entire neighbourhoods around a city which has seen no significant rainfall in more than eight months.

LA officials say wildfire death toll stands at 16 as firefighters race to contain blazes

Grand Synagogue, Tunis - Happy Hannukah to all who celebrate !

Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.

alma mater

Poland prepares to succeed Hungary at the helm of the EU

Japan’s Cabinet approved a record $55 billion defense budget for 2025, marking the 13th consecutive increase.

The spending aligns with plans to strengthen the Self-Defense Forces and reach 2% of GDP by 2027.

iz Beča druže!

going through this thread whilst on a train to Munich - trainception!

on a personal level 2023 was the hardest and most difficult year of my life and then 2024 came and turbocharged it in the totally opposite direction, turning many, many things around in such an unbelievably positive way. Hoping the same for anyone who had a terrible 2024, too. May 2025 be great ❤️

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Greece's only miniature therapy horses bring joy to many, but their charity is struggling Specially trained miniature horses visit hospital wards and residential care homes in the Greek capital, providing pet therapy to sick and disabled children and adults.

Kicking off my Bluesky presence with one of my favourite recent stories from Athens - on miniature horses. Because we all need a bit of joy sometimes.

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Romanian convicted of spying for Russia gets five-year prison term

Romanian convicted of spying for Russia gets five-year prison term

“In the years since 1982, developing countries have transferred an estimated $4200 billion in interest payments to their creditors in Europe and North America, far outstripping the official-sector development aid these countries received during the same period.“

Refugee shipwreck 12 miles southwest of Gavdos. 1 dead, 37 rescued, around 40 missing.

FOTO Prvi je dan primjene pravilnika o zabrani pušenja, kako to izgleda u praksi N1

CRAZY change in at least half of #BosniaHerzegovina as smoking ban in public places enters into force today in the #FBiH

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Syria: 'How can you tell a story to a child who doesn't know what the sky and the birds are?' OP-ED. Al-Assad's regime sought to shatter national unity by filling prisons and sectarianizing the conflict. French-Syrian human rights activist Firas Kontar calls for Syria to be rebuilt on the prin...

“There are children in Syria who grew up in Bashar al-Assad's prisons without ever seeing the sky.” www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Russia has built only 7 out of 108 planned airliners since 2022, BBC reports Russia's Comprehensive Program for the Development of the Air Transport Industry until 2030 envisioned producing 1,032 passenger aircraft between 2022 and the end of the decade.

⚡️ Russia has built only 7 out of 108 planned airliners since 2022, BBC reports.

Russia's United Aircraft Corporation managed to build only seven of the 108 passenger planes it planned to produce since 2022, the BBC reported on Dec. 12.

Survey on the most popular prime minister of the Third Hellenic Republic shows the duality of greek political dynasties:

Andreas Papandreaou +64/-35
George Papandreaou +12/-87

Konstaninos Karamanlis +59/-38
Kostas Karamanlis +30/-69

Konstaninos Mitsotakis +40/-58
Kyriakos Mitsotakis +33/-66

Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus

The body of Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada, whose suffering became a symbol of Assad's brutality, has been found in Sednaya prison. Granted asylum in the Netherlands after his 2014 release, he disappeared in 2020 after reportedly returning to Syria.

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Turkish mafia settling scores on Greek soil | eKathimerini.com A brutal daylight ambush on Monday in the suburb of Glyfada in southern Athens marked the latest chapter in the violent turf war among Turkish organized crime factions operating in Greece.

A brutal daylight ambush on Monday in the suburb of Glyfada in southern Athens marked the latest chapter in the violent turf war among Turkish organized crime factions operating in Greece.
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Metro Thessaloniki.
This is so very Greek.

Syrians Search Notorious Prison for Thousands of Missing The regime’s downfall has given hope to families of Syrians who disappeared in recent decades.

Saydnaya prison. "The Syrian Civil Defense, an independent rescue organization also known as the White Helmets, deployed wall-breaching specialists, iron door-opening crews and trained dog units to search for any secret chambers." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ Exclusive: The Guardian gains access to Sednaya jail, where prisoners are rumoured to be trapped underground – as desperate relatives wait for news

Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

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Every one of my Syrian and non-Syrian colleagues is aware of the huge risks surrounding the post-revolutionary order in Syria.

But if everyone pre-emptively abandons hope then the world flees into paralysis that fails to encourage many hopeful trends that can be found too.