War or peace? Dictatorship or democracy? Europe’s future is on the line - Timothy Garton Ash makes the case that there are two europes. On the one hand there’s a coalition of liberal democracies seeking to peacefully agree and solve their differences, and on the other there is the emergence of more autocratic, dictatorial in nature, far right groups. It's a very cohesive piece, looking at recent history. Ukraine war, Russian aggression, central and northern Europe adapting, immigration issues and more. It paints a high level view of what's going on in the melting pot that is Europe. www.theguardian.com #
2023/12/14 #
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Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub - Great to hear this is actually going ahead, especially since many doubted it would actually happen. I’m not able to read the article because now that I’m offline, the Pocket app has decided that 80% of the articles I saved to read later, still need to be downloaded. This happens almost daily. Anyway, maybe I’ll be able to read it at some point. techcrunch.com #
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Ukraine’s intelligence claims cyberattack on Russia’s state tax service - I tend not to link to hacking stories very often. Mostly I don’t find them that interesting. I’m a builder, I’m more interested in building rather than demolition. However this is interesting because of the scale, but also it’s the first example I’ve seen of cyberwar activities that directly impact one of the main sources of funding of a nation state. therecord.media #
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Argentina peso: Milei begins ‘shock therapy’ by devaluing currency - Another article that Pocket is today blocking me from reading. Oh well. It occurred to me yesterday that Milei looks a bit like old Bilbo Baggins from the Lord Of the Rings. Seems like he’s got a similar sized challenge. It would be very cool if like Bilbo he suddenly started non-chalently disappearing and re-appearing in totally different places. www.bbc.com #
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Uk allows remote working on tourist visa - It was happening anyway, but it’s good to have this clarification. Hopefully other countries will follow suit. smithstonewalters.com #
