Marc Burleigh

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

New AI tech can spot fake Lacoste products from a photo | Semafor The luxury clothing brand will use the AI model to detect fraudulent returns in its warehouses.

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...

Revealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be war crime, legal experts say after Guardian investigation

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

Summary of the opinion

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)

No surprise. But that's also an article from a year ago. I wonder what the content mix looks like today (degraded further, one suspects based on use)

Ursula von der Leyen on Bluesky - and how institutions need to think about verification on new socia... Yesterday a post popped up on my timeline on Twitter alternative Bluesky purporting to be from European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton. I was immediately sceptical – would a Com...

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

CALL FOR ENTRIES - Mobile Journalism Awards Prizes for mobile journalism stories in three categories: Documentary, Mobile Journalism, and Crisis Reporting.

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.