Frederic Jacobs

Awesome to see so many new faces here, leaving the Muskosphere. I will try to cross-post here more, but my main channel is on Mastodon for now: mastodon.social/@fj

Together with @saskiabricmont.bsky.social and 33 other MEPs from 5 political groups, we urge @europarl.europa.eu, @ec.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu to investigate their exposure to zero-click spyware. More in our letter: 1/2

Excitement is in the air following Aleksandar Vučić’s defeat in Serbia, reports Ivan Vejvoda. To build a truly democratic state, the movement that unseated the former president must learn from the mistakes of the past. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

🛡️ | European countries are being asked to take primary responsibility for their defense. @rmomtaz.bsky.social, Hans-Dieter Lucas, and Pierre Vimont discuss why Europe needs capabilities that are separable—not separate—from NATO. Listen: europe-inside-out.simplecast.com/episodes/is-...

Unacceptable. Meta took down the No Kings Instagram today and kept it offline for well over an hour. Censoring free speech to appease Donald Trump? We the people deserve answers, but regardless, we will not be silenced.

The French electorate has been pushed to the political extremes and the country’s diplomatic capacity has been compromised. The culprit? How long it is taking to end the war in Ukraine, writes @rmomtaz.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time Hand over your HSM for some time, and we can forge signatures for its key. Arbitrary signatures. Forever. github.com/ucsd-hacc/NS...

🎥 | The speech Ursula von der Leyen can’t give. The hype around today’s state of 🇪🇺 speech has been building, but there are some things the commission president won’t be able to say. Helpfully, @rmomtaz.bsky.social has listed them on #StrategicEurope ➡️ carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

🎉 🎉 @esa.int’s #FLEX and #Copernicus #Sentinel-3C are in space and healthy: we don’t just have one mission, we have two! 🚀🛰️🛰️ 👏 Congratulations to the engineers, operators, flight dynamics experts, ground station teams and partners who made this remarkable dual-spacecraft launch a success.

💡Key takeaways from the new ESA 2026 Space Environment Report: long-term projections worsen drastically. Read the bite-size summary of the yearly status report on space debris and the impact of mitigation measures 👉 esa.int/Space_Safety...

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

Europe seems to have accepted its sidelining in the Middle East. The EU must reassert its support for the international rules-based order and step up engagement, says @rmomtaz.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

I've been using bunny.net (CDN service) for a few projects and I decided to extract the code into a client library. Wrote a few words about it #ElixirLang jola.dev/posts/bunnyx...

The full list of humiliations Europe has endured since Donald Trump returned to the White House makes for grim reading. But Washington’s adversarial approach to its allies undermines its own power base, argues @rmomtaz.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

🆕 A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto Learn more about the formal verification methods used for ensuring the mathematical correctness of corecrypto's post-quantum ML-KEM and ML-DSA implementations. security.apple.com/blog/formal-... #FormalMethods #PostQuantum #Security

European leaders have now not only lost faith in Donald Trump’s U.S. presidency, but also in America’s hegemony as a whole. But short-term challenges make an immediate divorce unwise, says @rmomtaz.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

"The US Supreme Court..has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160...cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." A British King just rightly checked the entire Republican Party on the Floor of the House.

Oof. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

New research by Dr Sidharth Kaushal argues Europe must use conventional prompt strike to degrade Moscow’s missile defences or risk the credibility of Britain and France’s nuclear deterrents.

I always assumed that #passwordmanagers were simple objects -- create a database, encrypt it, send it to the server, done. I could not have been more wrong! At zkae.io, we take a look at all the hidden complexity in cloud password managers, and the #attacks that result from that. (ia.cr/2026/058)

Europe, too, can use economic leverage to its advantage. What changed the U.S. calculus on Greenland was the threat of retaliatory measures worth up to $93bn, making the markets jittery & Trump fold, writes @rosabalfour.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

EU prime ministers and presidents are about to arrive at the emergency 🇪🇺 #EUCO summit on transatlantic relations. Europe's three camps - the hawks, appeasers and collaborators - are each trying to claim victory for Trump's retreat. Only one camp is right. My curtain-raiser:

This is a must-read piece by Casey Michel on the underlying reasons for the Greenland nonsense and it should be getting more attention newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Our generation is going to realize Monnet's dream: United States of Europe, now! 🇪🇺

Aller-retour à #Caracas - © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève 👉 chappatte.com/fr/images/al... #Venezuela #Trump #Maduro

Can Europe Ever Trust the United States Again? In Trump's second term, the transatlantic relationship that shaped postwar Europe appears broken. @nathalietocci.bsky.social & @jantechau.bsky.social discuss whether it is time for the EU to chart its own path 👇 carnegieendowment.org/posts/2026/0...

The White House doesn’t care about environment, health or suffer of people. Peace, justice, cooperation or prosperity are not among its priorities. Not even the great legacy of US to global governance. And they spell it out. HTTPS://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-un-climate-treaty.html

International rules are only as strong as the democratic states supporting them. In the wake of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, Europeans have a vested interest in upholding international law but shy away from doing so, says @rosabalfour.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

🧵 Short Authentication Strings (SAS) are dead in the Age of Generative AI mastodon.social/@fj/11584171...

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

decided to go smell the rotten milk in the back of the Washington Post fridge... I don't even know what to say about this

And… TRO granted! A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team. A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation

The 🇺🇸 Deputy Secretary of State has today made your choice as a European very clear: 1️⃣Live in a vassal state of either America or Russia 2️⃣Live in a united federal EU Which do you choose? www.TheOwnedContinent.eu

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

En librairies 👇

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

I wrote (but didn't proofread at all) open.substack.com/pub/foxchape... a post about why the semiconductor firm that's been all over the news is, actually, a fraud. Lots of stuff the media didn't spot: - The founder is a Kickstarter scammer - He is apparently also solving nuclear fusion - Nepotism

To give an example of what I mean, here's a paragraph from the Grokipedia "article" on ICE. The three citations are to The Heritage Foundation, testimony from the Executive Director of FAIR, and a report from the Center for Immigration Studies. No dissenting voices allowed on Grokipedia.

Europe is paralyzed, crippled by a lack of strategic vision, the rise of the far right, & the multiplication of caretaker governments. To achieve the EU's geopolitical ambitions, member states must address their citizens' concerns, says @rmomtaz.bsky.social. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

continues to be insane that we're letting a 12-year-old run a major car company

Rather than ramping up their own weapons production, European countries are giving in to Trump's demand that they pay simply to transfer American weapons to Ukraine (since the US is stopping direct military aid). Is 🇺🇸 profiting off 🇺🇦 suffering?