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back now but was also affecting france germany, maybe was global

TIL france just changes extension, downdetector dot fr

but germany, Allestörungen dot de

Canada and the UK too

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...how the uninformed get informed, how misunderstandings propagate, and how debates unfold when knowledge is unevenly distributed and everyone is talking at once."

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Blind Spot Discord debates: The case of Greenland's independence Does Denmark have the right to block Greenland's independence if islanders votes to break free? And should armchair experts or self-appointed researchers have any influence over the debate?

from Izabella Kaminska, formerly with FT, Politico, about her post on substack on Greenland, which she says isn't really about Greenland but "about how social media structures public opinion:
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are rediscovered in public. But there’s a case that the exercise is still worthwhile. It raises baseline public understanding which improves democratic accountability, surfaces neglected assumptions, and occasionally exposes where long-standing technical frameworks strain"

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are rediscovered in public. But there’s a case that the exercise is still worthwhile. It raises baseline public understanding which improves democratic accountability, surfaces neglected assumptions, and occasionally exposes where long-standing technical frameworks strain"

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..the wider world is belatedly catching up on issues experts have long since internalised."

"And there’s a related question: can the experts themselves learn anything from this process?

The temptation, especially for specialists, is to roll their eyes as familiar “known knowns” are

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"The question is whether these amateur arguments — which often trip over technicalities, circle back, and gradually work their way through known complexities — are actually capable of producing insight in their own right. Or whether they’re mostly just noise, a sign that

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OSINTtechnical on X: "Ukrainian forces reportedly hit a Russian drone factory in the city of Taganrog tonight, setting it ablaze. Multiple explosions were reported at the Atlant drone company, manufacturer of the Molniya-series attack drones. https://t.co/yr3SA3b7gV" / X Ukrainian forces reportedly hit a Russian drone factory in the city of Taganrog tonight, setting it ablaze. Multiple explosions were reported at the Atlant drone company, manufacturer of the Molniya-series attack drones. https://t.co/yr3SA3b7gV

"Ukrainian forces reportedly hit a Russian drone factory in the city of Taganrog tonight, setting it ablaze.

Multiple explosions were reported at the Atlant drone company, manufacturer of the Molniya-series attack drones."

from osinttechnical

x.com/osinttechnic...

the people who care and could do something, with perserverence and determination, are instead resigning within days???

🟢 NEW | ICE has quietly bought access to a powerful surveillance system that can monitor entire neighborhoods by sweeping up cellphone location data and tracking people’s movements over time, according to documents obtained by 404 Media. The system, built by Penlink, consists of two tools called Webloc and Tangles. Webloc lets agents draw virtual perimeters around blocks or cities, identify phones present, and trace where devices travel over time, including likely homes and workplaces — all without a warrant. Tangles adds social media monitoring, including tracking and analysis of online activity. Civil liberties groups warn the system enables mass dragnet surveillance to help ICE’s deportation crackdown. ICE argues commercially sourced data is exempt from warrant requirements, a claim critics say exploits legal loopholes and poses serious risks to privacy, free speech, and immigrant communities. Full story in reply.

🟢 NEW | ICE has quietly bought access to a powerful surveillance system that can monitor entire neighborhoods by sweeping up cellphone location data & tracking people’s movements over time, according to docs obtained by 404 Media.

The system, built by Penlink, consists of...

Full story in reply.

"Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X."

- Evan Solomon, Canada's Minister for AI and Digital Innovation

(@ EvanLSolomon at the other site)

policy object permanence

"K shaped culture"

- @ moultano

ice-is

"The boarding and seizing of Centuries, unlike SKIPPER, will raise issues regarding the legality & authoriity for the U.S. boarding"

"Since the ship has valid registration, Art 110 (d) of UNCLOS does not apply"

"What we dont know is if the US obtained permission from Panama"
x.com/mercoglianos...

what a useful idiot - 'if only we all expected the best of each other all would be well 🥹'
good luck with that, hanna notte.

pic of John Reed, FT, caption "Explainers Editor"

A page on Destructoid, so loaded with ads that no actual text or content is visible

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

"For better or worse, the U.S. military won’t get more opportunities to fix, modify, or repair its purchased equipment.

Right to repair is out from the NDAA."

- @ CasualArtyFan on other site

and over-confidence in it among liberals grows

To counter China, the US must strengthen ammunition production - Breaking Defense In this op-ed, retired Maj. Gen. James Marks discusses the importance of domestic nitrocellulose production to keep up with America's needs.

anyone know if the Ammunition Supply Chain act is in the 2026 NDAA (site was winking out when i tried to search on the pdf)

(related article, breakingdefense.com/2024/05/to-c...

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Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025: AP photos that defined the year In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world’s news, and have won 36 of AP’s 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917.

In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world's news, and have won 36 of AP's 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917. See their most striking photos of 2025.

when i googled around it was the structure of the oyster shells not only any acidification that was so valuable

why eggshells - my google turned up a case where a community had mixed eggshells with concrete but many where oyster shells were used bc of their unique properties

what do you know/are you finding from search that would suggest eggshells are better

from @shashj.bsky.social

"Mr Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too"

long ways to go but 🥲 the look on witikoff's face, dw going in for the close up