James Flint

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Putin is urgently hiding his yacht — no more cruises for Kabaeva

According to The Telegraph, the 82-meter Graceful, a yacht repeatedly used by the Kremlin leader — including during a Black Sea trip with Alexander Lukashenko — is now heading to Murmansk along the Norwegian coast under the escort of the Severomorsk anti-submarine warfare ship and the rescue vessel Voevoda.

The yacht's deck has been covered with special anti-drone nets. And the purpose of the voyage is apparently not to evacuate Alina Kabaeva but, according to the newspaper, to move the vessel out of reach of Ukraine's long-range strike capabilities.

[Андрей Мальгин @andrey_malgin]

Я понимаю, что это красиво, но зачем декорировать штаб камуфляжем не снаружи, а внутри?

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡️ Zelensky: “Russia will get a response for today’s strike on Kyiv — that is beyond doubt”

“We are for a just peace, a just end to the war, and until there is none — for just responses,” Zelensky said when asked whether there would now be a response targeting Moscow.

He added that if partners had fulfilled their promises on time, Ukraine would not have so many casualties today.

It is likely that this refers to deliveries of air defense systems, which Ukraine is still experiencing shortages of.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Middle East wars are now scheduled from 9pm Friday to 10.30pm Sunday (GMT). That’s it. Fighting outside designed non-market hours isn’t allowed.

[Важные истории @istories_media]

Пока депутат Госдумы Бекхан Агаев оказывает помощь российским военным, его брат Батыр получил паспорт Бельгии и участвует в инвестфондах, которые уже вложили в европейскую недвижимость ≈€100 млн.

Расследование @istories_media в рамках международного проекта #OpenLux 🔽

https://t.co/b3epPVP96f

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump: The order I'm signing directs federal agencies to transition to what is called quantum... crypto graphy. Does anybody know what that is?

[Lars Andersen @LarsAnders1620]

Police go directly for the circuit breaker panel to avoid being filmed

This post will be in English, because there apparently is a lot of interest in what happened to me yesterday.

I'm a libertarian danish privacy activist and former police officer and I have been doing activism for about 15 years.

I have had a bit of time to think about my arrest and the actions of the masked police that broke down my door - with no prior warning.

The prefece to the story is, that I in a kind of roundabout and (I think) humorous way published "my two favorite numbers" by spelling out a 10 diget and a 8 diget number with letters. I didn't tell what they ment, but they where prime minister Mette Frederiksen's social security and phone number.

I also published a screenshot of me trying to interview Mette Frederiksen on what app, asking her about her wanting to ban encryption (CSA) and introducing mass surveillance via granting the police intelligence services access to all sorts of information (medical journals, social media posts, DNA registers ment for research and so on).

That resulted in me being arrested by armed and masked police breaking down my door without me having any chance of opening it for them.

When the two civilian dressed masked men entered the apparentment one of them immediately went for the circuit breaker panel to shut off the power to my router. They then removed my Google Nest cameras - because they knew that the cameras contains local storage.

That way they could avoid having video of the (in my view) illegal arrest. Only the few moments before the power is cut was filmed. There is video of me asking them for the charges - and them refusing to tell me (which is illegal). But I can't access it, because they took the cameras.

I'm not even sure if that is legal. In Denmark it is (nominally) totally legal to film the police. That way it is possible to know what happened and it's not just your word against there's.

Denmark and the West are moving in the wrong direction, and it makes me sad.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

I’m watching how quickly age verification is becoming a part of every policy proposal. None of this is about age, it’s all ultimately about identity.

[The Moscow Times (RU) @MoscowTimes_ru]

Украинские чиновники начали отказываться от польских наград после решения Варшавы лишить Зеленского ордена
https://t.co/HBb1EvOhJw

[James Flint @c__Flint]

Он также напомнил, что орден Белого орла до сих пор не отобран у итальянского диктатора Бенито Муссолини, союзника Гитлера

[The Insider @the_ins_ru]

Глава офиса президента Украины Буданов отказался от польской награды после лишения Зеленского ордена Белого Орла https://t.co/5XFy3bQynq

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Let him cook.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

💰 Australia has been searching for a lottery winner for an entire year — and they still haven’t come forward to claim their prize of AUD 100 million

The winning ticket was purchased at a small newsagent and internet café in a Sydney suburb. When the jackpot was announced, the shop owners even decorated the store with balloons, expecting to welcome the country’s newest multimillionaire.

But days turned into weeks, weeks into months, and eventually a full year passed. No one showed up.

Now Australians are left wondering what happened. Did the winner forget to check the ticket? Lose it? Or perhaps it belonged to a tourist who has long since left the country?

The lottery operator has kept the ticket details secret and is still waiting for the winner to come forward. There’s still time: under Australian law, lottery prizes can be claimed for up to seven years after the draw.

For comparison, the odds of winning a jackpot like this are roughly 1 in 134 million.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Bulgaria threatens to block the EU’s new sanctions package against Russia

Rumen Radev said Sofia could veto the EU’s 21st sanctions package unless Patriarch Kirill and several measures that could harm Bulgaria’s economy are removed.

According to Radev, the restrictions could affect Lukoil’s refinery operations, spare parts supplies for the Sofia metro, and fertilizer imports.

It seems the EU has once again found a country willing to argue that Russian interests deserve special consideration.

[The Verge @verge]

SanDisk’s new PlayStation 5 SSD will cost you more than three PS5 Pros https://t.co/G3iBOniINw

[Build Canada @build_canada]

You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media.

Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals.

But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians have ever seen.

These bills hand one unelected commission power over what Canadians can say, what stays private, and who the state can watch.

As of today, the Federal Government is rushing to enact massive Internet Surveillance Reform into law without proper debate.

[James Flint @c__Flint]

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.

[iFixit @iFixit]

For everyone asking how close the Trump Phone is to the HTC U24 Pro, here’s the inside view.

The answer is: very.

The internals line up almost part for part, down to the board layout, cameras, shields, cables, and battery placement. This is what a rebrand looks like when the back cover comes off.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 BREAKING: Russian strike hits the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a world-famous Orthodox monastery and UNESCO site, igniting fire on the roof of the Dormition Cathedral.

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

In Kharkiv, Russians killed five firefighters who responded to a fire following a missile strike.

They were targeted for a second strike.