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Foreign students will be required to unlock their social media profiles
to allow US diplomats to review their online activity
before receiving educational and exchange visas, the state department has announced.
Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding that activity from US officials.
The new guidance, unveiled by the state department on Wednesday, directs US diplomats to conduct an online presence review to look for
“any indications of hostility towa…

“The EU’s most senior diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the bloc would keep ‘options on the table’ to pressure Israel’s government if there was no improvement in the ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian situation in Gaza. According to several diplomatic sources she did not endorse any one of 10 sanctions options drawn up by her team, after an earlier EU review found ‘indications’ Israel was in breach of human rights commitments.”

Mit Israels Schlag gegen den Iran hadere ich auch. Und ja, ich kann mich dem Kommentator anschließen.
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Doppelmoral-Deutschland-unterstuetzt-Israels-Voelkerrechtsbruch-10446832.html

Doppelmoral? Deutschland unterstützt Israels Völkerrechtsbruch
Israels Angriff auf Iran verstößt laut Experten klar gegen Völkerrecht. Doch Deutschland stellt sich hinter die Aktion. Ein Kommentar.

2,000 more National Guard troops on duty in L.A. as legal battle over deployment continues (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2000-national-guard-troops-duty-l-legal-battle-deployment-continues-rcna213678
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p64#a250618p64

'We are doubling the Ukraine Facility' — EU proposes 100 billion euros for Ukraine aid fund in 2028–2034 budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/we-are-doubling-the-ukraine.html

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...

"Die Versuche, den CO2-Fußabdruck von KI zu quantifizieren, werfen jedoch eine noch grundlegendere Frage auf, mit der sich Aktivist:innen aus globalisierungskritischen, ökologischen, feministischen und antirassistischen Bewegungen seit Jahrzehnten auseinandersetzen: Wie wirksam sind Zahlen, um der Öffentlichkeit das Ausmaß eines Problems bewusst zu machen?"

Stromfresser KI
Wie misst man den Fußabdruck von ChatGPT?

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

Lessons Learned from FPF “Deploying AI Systems” Workshop
https://fpf.org/blog/lessons-learned-from-fpf-deploying-ai-systems-workshop/
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The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles.
In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself,
deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/la-immigr…

Donald Trump Manufactured the Crisis in Los Angeles
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.