This is the classic starting point for understanding the issue: faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001...

Europeans when asked to help block the strait of hormuz

It's a logical application of the LED, but I didn't know whether we'd see judicial support for it. I suppose it's a parallel finding to the notification obligation in C-548/21 Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck.

I read that decision as significant mainly in that it grounded a right to be notified of access to telecoms data in the Law Enforcement Directive as well as the ePD/Charter. (I.e. could extend notification right to access to other types of data also.)

Is there more to it that I'm missing?

Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbán, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...

Balcony MIXTAPE YouTube video by Mind Enterprises

For those who don’t already have it bookmarked.

In brief, Orban and his backers identify, train, and connect far-right politicians around the world. They do this through direct government backing (the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, etc.), media expansion, etc. They have lost the public purse and the muscle to close private deals.

Orban's loss has financial and organizational consequences for the far right worldwide.

IMHO this is an example of a certain strand of leftism that adheres so rigidly to an abstract principle that it can’t abandon it even when the facts of a situation indicate that a different position should be taken

See also: Brexit, which the Socialist Party/PBP also supported

How the fuel protests brought the country to a standstill The seeds of this week’s disruption were sown in meetings in late March and fomented in online forums and WhatsApp groups

“There’s not one fucking oil truck moving in this country until we get what we want,” Duffy announced to cheers in Thursday night. “We have the country by the balls.”

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ciarán O'Connor: Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland? Recent analysis highlighted an Iranian information operation targeting Ireland, while accounts linked to Russia and China posted about the fuel protests

Ciarán O'Connor: Why are social media accounts linked to Iran, Russia and China posting about Ireland?

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says The European Union should focus on regulating large social media platforms instead of imposing bans for minors to use them, Estonia’s Education Minister Kristina Kallas said on Friday. Europe…

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia
>threaten the Pope himself with personal violence
>heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion
>misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy

Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

France is doubling down on its action regarding ditching US-based tech - All French ministries will be required to come up with a plan by fall how to reduce dependence on non-EU tech
numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Pity. The Taoiseach could have learned from Canadian handling of the truckers' protest in 2022.

This has nothing to do with law, but it should absolutely be read by every person interested in the application of AI to law.

Electing the man who is supposedly the channel through which an ineffable God communicates his will to humans would also, weirdly, make the US government far more grounded in reality than the present one.

The irony being that electing the Pontiff as President would make the US government less religiously fundamentalist, less socially controlling, and less disposed to cover-up for and protect child sex offenders than the current one.

One of the ways protests work is by sheer numbers. It takes a lot of people to block a city, ergo a lot of people feel strongly about an issue.

When 11 fascists with massive vehicles block a motorway it presents a disproportionate picture of the level of support.

So back in January the Pentagon was drawing up plans to invade Greenland whilst also threatening to appoint an antipope.

Right.

I feel like withdrawing from NATO and lobbing military threads at the Vatican is a two step that is going to create some really problematic alliances we are not prepared to deal with

Q: Is the US considering withdrawing from NATO?

LEAVITT: It's something the president has discussed and I think it's something the president will be discussing in a couple of hours with Secretary General Rutte

Interested in researching AI and judicial decision making? @brianbarryirl.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin has two funded PhD vacancies (one in law, one in social sciences).

In Jan 2024, Die „Letzte Generation“ staged a climate protest in Leipzig where they sat on toy tractors so they'd be treated the same as these other protestors

The police were not fooled

🇮🇪Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalise the use of #spyware by the police—a move critics warn could be a boon to surveillance abuse.
➡️I spoke with @niaolainf.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social @tjmcintyre.com @aajanovic.bsky.social to learn more.

www.techpolicy.press/irelands-new...

EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats—What's Next? The EU’s so-called Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately. The most controversial idea, the forced requirement to sc...

The EU’s Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning + other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately.

But it's too early to celebrate. This is a zombie proposal. It keeps coming back and must not be allowed to return through the back door.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

A man sitting at a working desk, in 1540 setting, with a drinking cup, a few books, a writing desk with paper sheets, and lots of more details.

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

A flowchart (see link)

At last someone had the balls to map the Kidron & 5Rights standards capture pipeline for the age verification lobby: “The result is a surveillance infrastructure built under the banner of child protection, shaped by overlapping networks, and accountable to nobody.”
tboteproject.com/globalfindin...