David Meyer

Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Covers digital sovereignty quite a lot these days. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66

Alexander Martin

@alexmartin.bsky.social

15h

Scoop: Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.

Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementi...

therecord.media

UK weakens proposed telecoms defenses against Chinese hackers after industry pushback

Molly McKew

@mollymckew.bsky.social

12h

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Seth Cotlar

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

12h

The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social

The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said.

The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes.

Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

bbc.co.uk

Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live

Jonn Elledge

@jonnelledge.bsky.social

11h

theory: Billie agreed to do that scene because she knew that with a day's work she'd be opening the door to a million Big Finish box sets with the Piper Doctor as a pension plan

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social

BREAKING: "After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC

bbc.co.uk

Update on plans for the future of Doctor Who

Eurosky Social

@eurosky.social

15h

10.06.2026 – release 2 of 3

Today we’re switching on a high-reliability relay: relay1.eurosky.network

The firehose of the Atmosphere, running on European infrastructure.

relay1.eurosky.network

Ian Dunt

@iandunt.bsky.social

12h

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

Hari Kunzru

@harikunzru.bsky.social

19h

The UK Government has to sanction Musk. Sever ties, ban him from entry. It can’t be acceptable to do this

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net

This is a pogrom, incited and instigated by Elon Musk.

This is now the second set of pogroms incited by Elon in the UK in 2 years.

Brittany Page

@brittanyepage.bsky.social

There really is a tweet for everything

Newsmax tweet from June 24th, 2025: "A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse" with a link reading: "Lawmakers Seek Sterilized Fly Facility to Repel Invasive Screwworm."

David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social

A simple explainer for anyone wondering why Apple isn't bringing Siri AI to Europe youtu.be/dZZQQm9QwmM

youtu.be

Why Apple won't bring Siri AI to Europe

Edmund Edgar

@goat.navy

I can see their point on this one because I have a BYD Seal (the AWD version with the extra motor at the front) and it takes off like a fucking rocket

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social

The U.S. Pentagon has expanded its list of Chinese companies it believes are linked to or support China's military, adding major firms such as Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Nio.

While inclusion on the list does not amount to sanctions, it carries significant consequences.

Joe Mulhall

@joemulhall.bsky.social

Can't be absolutely certain but it very much looks like Tommy Robinson is in the Shalyapin Bar of the Hotel Metropol in Moscow with Errol Musk.

David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social

God this a depressing, infuriating read

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

The details about the Tate brothers in this incredible @newyorker.com profile of them are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and are also protected by the "conservative" MAGA movement
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

newyorker.com

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

David Meyer

@superglaze.eurosky.social

Why Temu why

David Henig

@davidheniguk.bsky.social

Genuinely astonishing to me how little discussion there is of the impact of the societal and economic change of the last 30 years, like the famous frog boiling happened, only it started eating the other frogs, and we blamed rising prices. bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social

Pleased and relieved to present my new paper on the "WhatsApp world order", on how an inter-connected world was created by technology and politics failed to keep up. There is a lot in here and I'll post some key findings to follow. ecipe.org/publications...

An inter-connectivity and technology revolution transformed the world over the last 30 years - with AI being the latest instalment. Multiple, interlocking, instant networks now cover the world like an

ecipe.org

The WhatsApp World Order: Learning to Live with the New Global Political Economy

Omar Sakr

@omarsakr.bsky.social

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

OpenAl's ChatGPT has been the subject of a study called Fake Friend, run by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
"We created fake profiles as young people. We then went and asked it a series of structured questions, with a child who is thinking about killing themselves. Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely," CEO Imran Ahmed said.
"Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.
"We call these things artificially intelligent. Can you think of any human being that would behave in such a craven, malignant, stupid, evil way and still be called intelligent? I can't."

jae holzman

@jael.bsky.social

energy and climate bluesky should really be rallying around e&e rn

PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications.

A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.”

Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer.

This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today.

This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later.

Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May?

This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.

Dhruv Mehrotra

@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.

www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

wired.com

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

evacide

@evacide.bsky.social

NSO Group is under a permanent injunction to stop targeting WhatsApp and its users with their spyware. Meta says they've continued to do so anyway: about.fb.com/news/2026/06...