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UK Proposes Ransomware Payment Ban for Public Sector — A Step in the Right Direction

22 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The UK government has proposed banning public sector entities — including national healthcare, education institutions, libraries, and other government bodies — from making ransomware payments. This move addresses a core motivator for cybercriminals:...

Seeds Of Doubt - 21 JUL 2025

22 Jul 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Myxoplixx

It’s another one of those days where the world’s headlines read like coded signals, beneath the surface, something far more intricate (and frankly, suspicious) is unfolding. For those of us unafraid to question the official narrative, let’s dig into...

New ideas and proposals for governments regarding supporting democracy

21 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  📝 TLDR  The Carnegie Endowment’s July 2025 paper by Carothers, Kleinfeld, and Youngs presents a clear warning that international democracy support is in crisis. Major disruptions, especially under Trump in the U.S., have gutted funding and dismant...

Hayek’s Bastards: Misusing Liberalism For Anti-Liberal Development

20 Jul 2025 2 minute read 10 comments Vladan Lausevic

In a recent piece for Liberal Currents, Gary T. Gunnels reviews Quinn Slobodian’s provocative new book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (2025). The article, titled “The Bastards of Mont Pèlerin,” offers a disturb...

Genius Act Becomes Law in the US Following President Trump’s Signature

19 Jul 2025 1 minute read 5 comments Yugocean

Trump Enacts the Genius Act      US President Donald Trump has signed the Genius Act into law, aiming to establish clearer regulations for stablecoins. The presence of Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire at the signing suggests tha...

Psychopathy (Chat with AI)

18 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Lochard

Related to another post, Pathocracy (Chat with AI) This one is more about psychopathic traits. LLM: Claude Sonnet 4 chat link: https://claude.ai/share/fe846abf-3dd3-44d5-b96c-0ce0ed94e46d The other LLM I mentioned was Nomi AI. The conversation is los...

Fines for searching for extremist materials

18 Jul 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aHqheSdF-V1K0UVz From September 1, 2025, everything will become simpler. The fine is no longer for saying something, but for GOOGLE something. Yes, yes, Article 13.53 of the Code of Administrati...

Humor Against Dictatorship: The Otpor! Method

14 Jul 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR   In the late 1990s, the Serbian youth-led movement Otpor! used humor and satire to destabilize Slobodan Milosevic’s authoritarian regime. By creating absurd, symbolic actions such as placing a barrel with Milosevic’s face in public and in...

When the Silent Majority Refused to Stay Silent: The Illusion of Broken Consensus

12 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments @DominaCivitas

  🧭 The Dominant Narrative and the Apparent Silence Over the past few decades, Portuguese media have adopted an editorial stance rooted in ideological assumptions that shaped the public sphere in a nearly monolithic fashion. With few exceptions, maj...

Global peace and security crisis? The future of peacekeeping in a more divided world

12 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR   UN peacekeeping operations are having serious problems, according to recent analysis by Andreas Karlsson at the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute. The sudden end of the MINUSMA mission in Mali and the scaling down of other operations reveal...