Lukas Barbier

🇱🇹 Lithuanian MOD: "Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia have announced their withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines."

Bypassing State app censorship or blockades with PWAs The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is a significant moment for both technology and geopolitics. Beginning January 19, 20...

I consider what TikTok could do to bypass a U.S. blockade on distribution of the app. Modern web technologies offer a way to ensure accessibility, resilience, and independence from central controls. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/bypassing-st...

David Lynch donning sunglasses indoors and a nice beard: "No matter what the weather is, I wish for all of you blue skies and golden sunshine internally all along the way."

Tough January kick-off...

Twitter now feels like a pitch-black cavern which echoes back gruesome screams in its vast emptiness and mediocrity.

Maybe Biden was right, we've entered a new phase of the techno-industrial complex.

Nothing's worse than watching powerful losers burn down the world.

I can confirm that "chat"bots have unfortunately found their way to BlueSky

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

Best of Further Reading 2024: FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year Playing the links

Looking for some reading material over the holidays? Why not try this disparate assortment of recommendations by FT staff of the best articles (and one podcast) that our competitors published this year …

www.ft.com/content/7849...

Why is Israel striking Syria now?

Top secret and urgent” classified documents found after Assad’s fall provide interesting insights about the “mechanism” overseen by Russia to manage Israeli-Syrian-Iranian dynamics, and Israeli military actions against Iranian & Hezbollah buildup.

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Since then, he has been sending intel through complex encrypted radio channels.

Due to the complexity of the communication method, he must have been trained prior, probably when he lived in Russia.

Manovas follows the scheme of "deep-root" agents.

During Soviet occupation, he had been deported to Russia and came back to Lithuania in 1997, becoming a member of the TS-LKD and of an association for exiled Lithuanians.

It is believed that he was activated by the GRU sometime in 2018...

Lithuanian Politician Arrested, Suspected of Spying for Russia - The Moscow Times Lithuanian prosecutors said Monday the Baltic state had arrested a member of the opposition Conservative party this year on charges of spying for Russia.

Member of the Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and dual citizen of Lithuania and Russia, Eduardas Manovas has been arrested and is suspected of spying for Russia.

Collecting unclassified information since 2018, he has been communicating details about defence...

www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/09/l...

Can't say anyone is surprised...

The first morning of a new era in Damascus.

Celebrating 🥳 YA HALA

Seeing Syrian friends rejoice with Assad finally leaving and seeing their families return from Saydnaya...

Years of following the Middle East (and part of the reason why I do what I do today), the future is uncertain, but right now: we can celebrate

مبروك !

Damascus has fallen. Assad has fled. The Army surrenders. 4AM wisdom provides...

Je n'ai malheureusement pas la réponse.

Quelles seront les retombées ? Probablement peu positives... Un bel exemple de désaccords internes dans le journalisme

C'est donc intéressant d'essayer de comprendre pourquoi ça ne passe pas.

Faute de forme ? Mauvais timing ? Conclusion hâtive ? Récupération de l'enquête par des acteurs tiers malveillants ?

Pour moi, ça va au-delà d'un corporatisme aveugle, mais alors pourquoi ?

J'ai toujours vécu à cheval entre le monde du journalisme anglo-saxon et le journalisme à la française. Et c'est assez fascinant de voir les réactions à l'enquête de @mediapart.fr sur l'OCCRP.

D'un côté, l'enquête se tient dans sa nuance.
De l'autre, elle est perçue comme une attaque frontale...

Six months ago I handed back my body armour after 30+ years covering conflict for the BBC. How have our ways of surviving on the battlefield evolve over those decades? Here’s a bumper 🧵of hard won personal experience

A night of rageposting and corny memes incoming

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Inside the Taliban's demolition campaign in Kabul Mapping the Taliban’s demolitions: the darker side of their development drive

🔗 Read the reporting by @lhreports.bsky.social:

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

C'est peut-être aussi moi qui m'intéresse davantage aux médias français, mais j'ai quand même l'impression que l'économie des médias était moins turbulente ne serait-ce qu'en regardant 2 ans en arrière

Homme blanc barbu qui sourit sur la plage : "Le 6 janvier 2025 France Bleu change de nom : ici" flotte dans le ciel

L'espace médiatique français se redessine. Achats, ventes, fusions : fini la courte période où le paysage médiatique s'était figé.

Ça ne fait que montrer la profondeur de la crise des médias en France.

Et par les temps qui courent, croisons les doigts que le journalisme reste à la hauteur...

Carnets de correspondante (1/6) : En direct de Ramallah Etre journaliste au Proche-Orient, c’est le Graal de la profession. Quand le poste de correspondant en Palestine s’est libéré en 2016, Marine Vlahovic a sauté sur...

Triste nouvelle. Marine Valhovic nous a quittés. Elle avait notamment créé le podcast Carnets de correspondante où elle racontait son quotidien de journaliste basée à Ramallah
www.arteradio.com/son/61666800...
Elle travaillait à la tâche pour RFI, le Soir, la RTS, National Geographic…

Vietnamese café owners face deportation from Lithuania Two Vietnamese women who have been running a small business in Lithuania for almost six years are now facing deportation...

Deportation over not employing locals at a café...

Lithuania has always had problems with how it treats migrants, especially from the Middle East or Africa. Absolutely bleak.

www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

Petite expérimentation avec l'IA.

Géolocaliser et visualiser 2000 sujets du JT de 20 heures de France 2 - entre avril et novembre 2024.

J'explique l'idée, la démarche et les biais ici www.linkedin.com/posts/jeanab...

Fourth-world country speedrun

As I transfer to new social media, the age old question arises: in French or not in French?

I think I'll stick to English for international topics and French for national policies. But what if it's not related to journalism? No clue.

Will switch languages all over the place, so be warned...

Росія оновила рекорд запущених дронів: атакувала Україну 188 безпілотниками В ніч на вівторок 26 листопада Росія випусила рекордну кількість дронів – 188, протиповітряна оборона збила 76 безпілотників, 95 БпЛА —локаційно втрачені через дію РЕБ.

An interrupted night for most in Ukraine. Russia actually launched a record 188 drones. Oh, and 4 Iskander-Ms tactical ballistic missiles into the mix too. Which, just to remind all the tabloid writers out there are ***NUCLEAR-CAPABLE***. www.pravda.com.ua/news/2024/11...

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