Nostr notes by Frédéric Jacobs

As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at ...

2026-06-04T08:22:16Z

As Mastodon adoption grows, attackers are also looking at leveraging it for hostile activities.

Sekoia explains how Russian malware used Mastodon encrypted post updates as a dead drop resolver to tell the malware where to exfiltrate data:

"[Mastodon] posts were consistently updated four times per day at uniform intervals with a variance of only a few minutes”

https://blog.sekoia.io/fsbs-matryoshka-3-3-gamaredons-gifts-that-keeps-unpacking-gammasteel/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/112094627257441050 ...

2026-05-06T06:26:33Z

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/112094627257441050

Prof. Sam Lawler (npub1dgc…cla4) I was thinking about some sort of de-orbit tax too given the pollution build-up in the stratosphere.
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Hello, I really want to date you. But can you please go scan your ...

2026-04-27T12:32:23Z

Hello, I really want to date you. But can you please go scan your Iris first on Sam Altman's Orb so I can know you're real?

"On April 17, World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics, announced strategic partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign. The three companies will use World’s digital identification to verify users, aiming to reduce deepfakes, scams, and other fraudulent activity.”

https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/

💗 Schengen “Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more ...

2026-04-22T09:12:58Z

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

I really like this ad campaign in Paris. “Another addiction is ...

2026-04-12T11:31:32Z

I really like this ad campaign in Paris.

“Another addiction is possible"

Less screens, more reading.

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️ "US ...

2026-04-08T08:19:04Z

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

"US carmakers have accused Brussels of keeping their largest pick-up trucks, including the Ford F-150, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram 1500, off European roads”

https://www.ft.com/content/3eb796fd-bcdb-4a9f-89b7-f7d5e692a3cd

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/renault-twingo-1998-3-door-hatchback-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116356685045709934 ...

2026-04-06T13:26:46Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116356685045709934

Featuring my beloved ISP: 🫶 Init7
https://www.init7.net/en/init7/company/

quoting
note1y7n…ndjd

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't https://lobste.rs/s/qzvvbv #networking
https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

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2026-03-30T08:19:25Z

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116316847500488516

“Oh, we murdered 100 kids? Oh, that's unfortunate.

We just had some stale data in our Palantir Project Maven data lake that was used by our ‘highly accelerated, software-supported targeting process’. We'll clear the cache sometimes.”

quoting
note1rp7…8e8a

Alleged US attack on school in Iran: Palantir system in focus

Following the fatal airstrike on an Iranian school, Palantir's Maven is facing criticism.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Alleged-US-attack-on-school-in-Iran-Palantir-system-in-focus-11229159.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Wirtschaft #news

Enough is enough. It's time to pull the plug. After the F-35 ...

2026-03-28T13:16:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…mlp8
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Enough is enough. It's time to pull the plug.

After the F-35 drama, the tariff insults, public mockery by Trump of the Swiss president, the technical inferiority of the Patriot missiles compared to the SAMP/T, the Pentagon's theft of European paid weapons destined to Ukraine to make up for the failures in Iran, and now the theft of money from the F-35 payments towards to patriot restocking…

Switzerland should no longer be buying American weapons.
Join the petition ✍️: https://gssa.ch/57766/#formular

A lot of LLM experimentation is mostly hype, and unlocks very ...

2026-03-25T12:03:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…yjut
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A lot of LLM experimentation is mostly hype, and unlocks very little practical value. And then there's stuff like this.

At a time where chip production is experiencing throughput issues, the Mistral x ASML partnership is delivering with an AI-powered diagnostic tool that identifies lithography EUV scanner issues 120x faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbn-7wqtaew

Somewhere at the French-Swiss border. 🛃 French border agent: ...

2026-03-24T13:51:13Z

Somewhere at the French-Swiss border.

🛃 French border agent:
Excuse me sir, what is in the truck? Do you have anything to declare?

🚚 Truck driver: Just a cloud of 92 #antiprotons in an innovative portable cryogenic Penning trap.

🛃 French border agent: 🫠 🫠 🫠 I'm sorry, I think I owe you some money or something. I don't have the right form to deal with antimatter.

https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experiment-cern-succeeds-transporting-antimatter

Earthquake! Was only 2 on the Richter scale in Taipei but at the ...

2026-03-12T12:36:11Z

Earthquake!

Was only 2 on the Richter scale in Taipei but at the 14th floor you feel it in your guts

https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/index.html

#Taipei #Taiwan

“Our work demonstrates that 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is ...

2026-03-11T03:50:06Z

“Our work demonstrates that 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)”

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/486

Good statement by the @npub1m24…d9a3 on the Anthropic case that ...

2026-03-11T03:30:17Z

Good statement by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (npub1m24…d9a3) on the Anthropic case that deserves our support.

"Anthropic is asking courts to block the designation, arguing that the First Amendment does not permit the government to coerce a private actor to rewrite its code to serve government ends.”

Regardless of how you feel about AI, this case is about much more than that and could pose a huge risk to cryptography and privacy software in the future if won by the US Department of War.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/government-must-not-force-companies-participate-ai-powered-surveillance

Excellente interview avec Héloïse Fayet, chercheuse au centre ...

2026-02-27T13:47:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…5gvx
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Excellente interview avec Héloïse Fayet, chercheuse au centre des études de sécurité de l’Ifri pour contextualiser ce discours et donner une vue d'ensemble sur la dissuasion française.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWlY9dT3Hg

Good background reading ahead of Macron's speech on Monday ...

2026-02-27T13:34:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…t7my
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Good background reading ahead of Macron's speech on Monday regarding Europe’s Nuclear Deterrence Options.

"Europe’s traditional reliance on US extended nuclear deterrence appears politically more fragile than at any point since the Cold War. Together, these developments require Europeans to think about their nuclear options.”

https://www.ifri.org/en/external-book-chapters/external-publications/mind-deterrence-gap-assessing-europes-nuclear-options

Magnifique dossier préparatoire au discours du Président de la ...

2026-02-27T13:32:07Z

Magnifique dossier préparatoire au discours du Président de la République de lundi prochain (2 Mars à l’Ile Longue)

👉 Contrairement à ce que le RN prétend, seul le PR (élu au suffrage universel direct) peut donner des ordres d'engagement des forces nucléaires, et cela ne va pas changer.
👉 Cela dit, cela n'empêche pas la dissuasion française d'avoir une dimension européenne
👉 Les alliances européennes complémentent l'alliance de l’OTAN et ne la remplacent pas.

https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/ministere-armees/dossier-preparatoire-discours-PR-2-mars-2026-dissuasion-nucleaire-francaise.pdf

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again. They are ...

2026-02-27T06:45:50Z

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.

They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

How would that be even remotely acceptable?! "Under the ...

2026-02-25T08:57:00Z

How would that be even remotely acceptable?!

"Under the proposed EU-US EBSP framework, the DHS[/ICE] would gain access to national biometric databases for the purposes of immigration screening and vetting [...] The draft agreement seen by Euractiv also allows for the transfer of “special categories” of personal data – for example on political opinions, trade union memberships, information about a person’s sex life or their biometric data.”

https://www.euractiv.com/news/exclusive-us-algorithms-judging-eu-travellers-not-fully-excluded-in-draft-data-deal/

There's only one way out of the conflict ... Slava Ukraini ...

2026-02-25T08:20:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…f070
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There's only one way out of the conflict ...

Slava Ukraini

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution titled ...

2026-02-25T08:03:27Z

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution titled "Support for Lasting Peace in Ukraine," initiated by Ukraine.

The US abstained to support Ukraine, in line with Orban.

The European Union surpassed the United States as the first ...

2026-02-13T09:21:16Z

The European Union surpassed the United States as the first source of pushes to public Git repositories on GitHub, and that doesn't count the alternatives like Gitlab and Codeberg where I assume there's an even larger fraction of European contributions.

https://innovationgraph.github.com/global-metrics/git-pushes

#OpenSource #OSS #FOSS

RE: https://piaille.fr/@davidchavalarias/115971938005446299 ...

2026-01-28T09:23:35Z

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RE: https://piaille.fr/@davidchavalarias/115971938005446299

🧑‍⚖️ Incredible testimony by Judge Nicolas Guillou about the weaponization of US sanctions against him & 10 other magistrates.

👉 Cancelled hotel booking, even in France.
👉 Packages not delivered because French site used UPS.
👉 No bank card because Visa/Mastercard dominance.

For years, we've worried mostly about confidentiality of our data, but availability is being increasingly challenged with unhinged sanctions by the US that can one day affect us all for standing for our principes

quoting
note1teg…da6f

🚨"Nous devons trouver le chemin de la #souveraineté numérique, c'est aujourd'hui une condition de l'État de droit au niveau national et au niveau international."

Rediffusion de la soirée du #20Janvier 2026 avec le témoignage essentiel du Juge Nicolas Guillou, de la Cour Pénale Internationale
#CPI

➡️ https://vimeo.com/1158584868

Il n'y a pas meilleur exemple de notre vassalisation numérique et de l'urgence d'une émancipation de #EU que les mesures de #Trump contre les membres de cette indispensable institution au motif qu'elle faisait son travail.

Jamais plus qu'aujourd'hui nous aurons les moyens de notre émancipation. C'est donc maintenant qu'il faut agir.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115931876758940601 In ...

2026-01-21T09:43:29Z

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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115931876758940601

In line with the US National Strategy to "Cultivate resistance" by pressuring our judges who preserve the Rule of Law.

🙅The US wants to get Nationalists elected to weaken Europe, and have obedient vassal states.

💪But we won't be divided, we'll remain strong

🇪🇺 United in Diversity

quoting
note1yjy…ud6q

US official lobbied French magistrate over Le Pen's election ban

The magistrate, Magali Lafourcade, said she was sufficiently concerned by the encounter to notify the foreign ministry.

✍️ Marion Solletty

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-state-department-marine-le-pen-election-ban-far-right-france

Europeans, Japanese, Koreans, Canadians … do have more leverage ...

2026-01-20T10:10:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…ymcg
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Europeans, Japanese, Koreans, Canadians … do have more leverage that they think on this madness.
Because we've been financing it.

"How Europe Could ‘Weaponize’ $10 Trillion of US Assets Over Greenland”

Do you want your pension fund to continue funding these threats on our territorial integrity?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/-weaponizing-10-trillion-of-us-assets-is-tough-ask-for-europe

The Toddler in Chief thinks everything can be bought or bullied ...

2026-01-19T08:01:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…hu6s
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The Toddler in Chief thinks everything can be bought or bullied into submission:
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace. [...] The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/trump-links-greenland-threats-to-nobel-peace-prize-snub

“In 2025, the US attempted […] to collect knowledge about ...

2026-01-18T14:38:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…x6t2
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“In 2025, the US attempted […] to collect knowledge about infrastructure, including critical military infrastructure, in Greenland, and thus potentially information that could be important in planning an American attack on or invasion”
https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/usa-soegte-i-fortrolighed-viden-om-militaere-installationer-i-groenland

"Trump has asked JSOC to prepare the [Greenland] invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15452323/Donald-Trump-orders-army-chiefs-plan-invade-Greenland-President.html

I'm sure Greenlandic Inuit are looking at how ICE is treating ...

2026-01-17T18:24:04Z

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I'm sure Greenlandic Inuit are looking at how ICE is treating native Americans and are like "sure, let's welcome those here so they can arrest us and threaten to deport us from our own land”
#ICE #Greenland #NuDetNuUK

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130 Think of the ...

2026-01-16T08:30:23Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130

Think of the folks at Palantir who built this.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

quoting
note10ec…wa6u

Reading recommendation for everyone working in tech right now for no reason whatsoever

IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

https://bookwyrm.social/book/13323/s/ibm-and-the-holocaust
https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/114024300854186610

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115896762629929197 ...

2026-01-15T05:25:32Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115896762629929197

“#Meta met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.

#Google has also not shied away from meeting far-right MEPs. A few days after the launch of the digital omnibus, the Head of Public Affairs of Google France joined a dinner party in Strasbourg hosted by six French MEPs from the far right Rassemblement National.”
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🇫🇷 ❤️ 🇬🇱 The French military published some ...

2026-01-06T08:41:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…gu4l
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🇫🇷 ❤️ 🇬🇱 The French military published some images of its Extreme Cold training exercises that took place last month in the Alps with the caption “Besoin de renforts?", an explicit call that they are ready to help boost Greenland's defenses.

This follows the operational readiness training from the French Air Force in Canada and Greenland last year to improve polar capabilities.

🇪🇺🛫 See the A400M shine in the extreme cold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sAOjR3WL_k

#Ceres25 #EUNuclearDeterrence

The words are an encoding of bits derived using a hash function ...

2026-01-05T09:20:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…5tjf
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The words are an encoding of bits derived using a hash function from the ZRTP confirmation which contained the call's shared key.

The words used for SAS strings were cleverly chosen with the help of computational linguist Patrick Juola to maximize the phonetic distance between them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
https://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/papers.d/icslp96.pdf

🧵 Short Authentication Strings (SAS) in the Age of Generative ...

2026-01-05T09:12:49Z

🧵 Short Authentication Strings (SAS) in the Age of Generative AI

When ZRTP was released by Phil Zimmermann and team in the mid-2000s, one of it's main innovations was to use SAS in order to verbally authenticate the other party on the call and rule out person-in-the-middle attacks. This worked by reading aloud a SAS value over the voice connection and ensure that it matched the value on the other side.

When we shipped Signal 1.0 with ZRTP, those were the words on the display during calls.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115830256203421976 If you ...

2026-01-03T11:13:29Z

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115830256203421976

If you don't take the Canadian and Greenland annexation threats from the US seriously, you're not paying enough attention.

These happen next if there are no consequences for the Venezuela coup.

quoting
note1r83…8ap4

I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

Really enjoyed this interview with ...

2026-01-02T22:12:25Z

Really enjoyed this interview with [@yannlecun](https://threads.net/@yannlecun/ ) in the FT.

Meta really had a single success in LLMs and that was Llama 2 which was built by the team that became Mistral. The rest was downwards from there. LeCun warns that the people left are “LLM-pilled” kids trying to reach super intelligence, which is foolish. At least he has the scientific integrity to say it publicly and left to pursue a more promising and laudable endeavor

🎁🔗 https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/13ee86f5-2a75-457b-8898-27e4d2e40a1b

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/111056972814149014 Breton is so ...

2025-12-26T11:14:19Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/111056972814149014

Breton is so ready for what's coming.

His career as a science-fiction author gave him a lot of foresight.

In his book "Netwar" published in 1987, he described wealthy billionaires controlling means of communication to create a new world order.
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And of course, what #NerdReich CEOs are celebrating this? Tesla ...

2025-12-24T09:26:15Z

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And of course, what #NerdReich CEOs are celebrating this?

Tesla CEO and Palantir co-founders are cheering on sanctions on public officials.

Vote with your wallets

The US is sanctioning Thierry Breton and Trusted Flaggers that ...

2025-12-24T09:10:05Z

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The US is sanctioning Thierry Breton and Trusted Flaggers that are critical for the application and enforcement of the #DSA.

Full solidarity with the unjustly sanctioned individuals. As Breton called out, 90% of the European Parliament and all 27 Member States unanimously voted the DSA.

This bullying into vassalisation of Europe is unacceptable.

The US National Security Strategy goes much further in private ...

2025-12-12T13:06:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…xfky
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The US National Security Strategy goes much further in private than it does in public.

Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the European Union”, becoming MAGA vassal states.

“And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures who seek sovereignty and preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life…while remaining pro-American”

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story

Trump said the quiet part out loud. The US National Security ...

2025-12-11T09:02:14Z

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Trump said the quiet part out loud.

The US National Security Strategy is designed to weaken Europe by undermining the European Union in a way that pleases both Washington and Moscow.

This US administration doing its best to dig up European Fascism ...

2025-12-07T09:42:23Z

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This US administration doing its best to dig up European Fascism in a quest for allies.

🇪🇺🦅🇺🇸 The US National Security Strategy says it ...

2025-12-05T10:20:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…vw2y
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🇪🇺🦅🇺🇸 The US National Security Strategy says it plain and clear, MAGA is at war with the European Union and its values.

They want to push a nationalist, nativist, anti-climate action ... future on Europe.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby ...

2025-11-30T19:37:04Z

There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports

Theo Moudakis in the Toronto Star ...

2025-11-27T13:00:48Z

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Theo Moudakis in the Toronto Star

Should have called it a Stroopwafer 🤭 ...

2025-11-20T12:02:17Z

Should have called it a Stroopwafer 🤭

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2025-11-17T09:48:21Z

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115536964253893646

🇪🇺🛡️ The European Democracy Shield might be the nail in the coffin for X monetization in Europe.

"the Commission will work with signatories to strengthen their efforts as regards the transparency of recommender systems and to demonetise disinformation, including to remove financial incentives for disinformation via advertising revenues"

https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/2539eb53-9485-4199-bfdc-97166893ff45_en
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The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about ...

2025-11-11T16:28:02Z

The UK has suspended sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes they are illegal

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us

Here's the ad that Trump doesn't want the American public ...

2025-10-24T05:32:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…hw3v
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Here's the ad that Trump doesn't want the American public to see and caused him to back out of trade talks with Canada.

Today is "reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1" day. ...

2025-10-20T08:05:35Z

Today is "reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1" day.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Glad to see the University of Zurich trying to fix the trade ...

2025-10-11T12:25:44Z

Glad to see the University of Zurich trying to fix the trade balance issue with Trump by importing more US talent.

The Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join the University of Zurich (leaving MIT) in July 2026 to establish a new center for development economics, education and public policy.

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/Duflo-and-Banerjee-to-Join-UZH.html

When you’re shopping for security defenses without threat ...

2025-10-10T21:18:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…2uts
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When you’re shopping for security defenses without threat modeling first

“ Denmark is investing $8.5 billion in defense capabilities, including a stronger presence in Greenland and 16 new F-35 fighter jets.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/denmark-buys-16-new-fighter-jets-invests-billions-in-the-arctic

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise ...

2025-10-10T09:12:15Z

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination. Maria Corina Machado meets all three criteria 🇻🇪👏 [whereas Trump did not]”

https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nobels-fredspris-2025-1

📡🛰️ Given the recent takeover threats, it's smart for ...

2025-10-07T09:10:12Z

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📡🛰️ Given the recent takeover threats, it's smart for Greenland to choose French Eutelsat over US-based SpaceX for low-earth orbit connectivity.

> Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellites operate in a polar orbit, enabling seamless high-latitude coverage and ensuring low latency, high-speed connectivity in Arctic conditions.

https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eutelsat/pressreleases/eutelsat-and-tusass-expand-strategic-partnership-to-bring-resilient-leo-connectivity-to-greenland-3407832

Swatch mocks the US tariffs on Swiss goods, quickly selling out a ...

2025-09-27T07:19:28Z

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Swatch mocks the US tariffs on Swiss goods, quickly selling out a 1*39* CHF “What if ... Tariffs?” watch

https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/what-if-tariffs-so34z106/SO34Z106.html

Swiss Population a few days ago: 67% deems the cost increase in ...

2025-09-22T09:28:15Z

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Swiss Population a few days ago:
67% deems the cost increase in the procurement of 36 F-35A fighter jets unacceptable. Amid rising costs, 45% of respondents would prefer to withdraw from the F-35 agreement
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ch/swiss-against-spending-more-f-35-deal

Government today:
"Switzerland is offering to buy more American weapons”

https://www.ft.com/content/a470c79c-9d38-453e-b3d1-3a743d7d3c9c

Why did you become an academic? Ah, yeah, the great academic ...

2025-09-19T07:56:31Z

Why did you become an academic?

Ah, yeah, the great academic freedom of shutting up, locking down your social media, and “keeping things positive".
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/union-warns-professors-about-posting-in-the-current-climate/

The ASML and Mistral partnership is going to cover topics like ...

2025-09-14T01:59:26Z

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The ASML and Mistral partnership is going to cover topics like using AI to better control the plasmas used for EUV.
I hope they will publish some details about these efforts 🤞
https://www.tf1.fr/tmc/quotidien-avec-yann-barthes/videos/invite-arthur-mensch-le-francais-qui-fait-trembler-les-geants-americains-de-lia-73247323.html

👏 “ASML and Mistral announced a strategic partnership based ...

2025-09-09T12:30:34Z

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👏 “ASML and Mistral announced a strategic partnership based on a long-term collaboration agreement to explore the use of AI models across ASML’s product portfolio as well as research, development and operations, to benefit ASML customers with faster time to market and higher performance holistic lithography systems.”

https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership

ASML rumored to be investing €1.3bn into Mistral's €1.7bn ...

2025-09-08T21:26:17Z

ASML rumored to be investing €1.3bn into Mistral's €1.7bn Series C.

Really curious about the long game here. Bring computational lithography aspects, currently provided by NVIDIA in-house/in partnership with Mistral?

https://sifted.eu/articles/asml-leads-mistral-series-c

When the only tool you have is an LLM … everything looks like a ...

2025-09-05T18:10:04Z

When the only tool you have is an LLM …
everything looks like a linguistic pattern problem…

Seems like people are jumping to LLMs to solve any task now, when simple ML models or linear regression just do the job at a fraction of the power cost and better precision.

Two thirds of the Swiss population support the government in not ...

2025-08-13T10:17:01Z

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Two thirds of the Swiss population support the government in not giving in on US extortion to lower the arbitrary 39% of tariffs on Swiss goods.

https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/article/suisse-usa-2-3-des-suisses-contre-des-concessions-malgre-les-droits-de-douane-28966641.html

Reinforcement learning makes LLM bullshit more. ...

2025-08-10T19:23:39Z

Reinforcement learning makes LLM bullshit more.
https://machine-bullshit.github.io

Swiss politicians across parties are seeking to cancel an order ...

2025-08-10T19:13:52Z

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Swiss politicians across parties are seeking to cancel an order of three dozen F-35A fighter jets after President Donald Trump imposed some of the world’s harshest levies on the country.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/swiss-politicians-push-to-cancel-f-35-fighter-jet-deal-after-us-tariffs

Americans will be paying a 39% surtax on Swiss products. ...

2025-08-01T05:04:42Z

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Americans will be paying a 39% surtax on Swiss products.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-slammed-with-39%25-tariff-rate-in-trump-trade-blitz/89768316

Other tariff rates: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/further-modifying-the-reciprocal-tariff-rates/

40-year-old Tae Heung "Will" Kim was detained by ...

2025-07-30T07:25:58Z

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40-year-old Tae Heung "Will" Kim was detained by immigration officials at the San Francisco International Airport on July 21 after returning from attending his brother's wedding in Korea. In the week since his detention, he has still not been released despite being a green-card holder who has lived in the United States since the age of five.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/29/korean-scientist-green-card-detained/

Thomas, father of three from Ireland, overstayed 3 days on his ...

2025-07-23T05:25:18Z

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Thomas, father of three from Ireland, overstayed 3 days on his ESTA because of being unable to fly due to a health issue. He obtained paperwork from his physician and contacted the Irish and US embassies and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to seek an extension, but it was short notice and he did not hear back.

He was detained for **3 MONTHS*** in inhumane conditions as a punishment before being deported back home.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention

"A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. ...

2025-07-23T05:19:37Z

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"A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she ended up in a notorious prison in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that what she experienced could happen to any Swiss citizen.”
https://www.nzz.ch/english/you-have-no-right-to-be-here-a-swiss-womans-harrowing-tale-of-arrest-and-detention-at-the-us-border-ld.1889535

Been happily using Ollama (https://ollama.com) for running ...

2025-07-18T09:08:32Z

Been happily using Ollama (https://ollama.com) for running open-source LLM models locally.

But I haven't found anything similar for voice models that runs on arm64. vLLM is what Mistral recommends to run Voxtral voice models with, but it seems to be x86+CUDA only.

Any recommendations?

Ursula von der Leyen is not pulling any punches in these times of ...

2025-07-14T12:29:45Z

Ursula von der Leyen is not pulling any punches in these times of unprecedented assaults, from Project 2025 / MAGA to Putin, on the foundational values of the European Union.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/2025-04/ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-usa-donald-trump-english

#Europarl Multimedia Feature Request: Have the ability to tick ...

2025-07-11T08:59:44Z

#Europarl Multimedia Feature Request:
Have the ability to tick multiple language boxes to hear that audio in original language.

More than half of the EU citizens are multilingual, it would be nice to hear more positions in the debates in original language and not have to use a single language when following debates.

We're in 2025, this should be manageable technically.

The amount of accepted bigotry in Silicon Valley VC circles, ...

2025-07-06T13:51:10Z

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The amount of accepted bigotry in Silicon Valley VC circles, especially around a16z and Sequoia partners, is quite remarkable. I'm honestly quite stunned that some European pension and sovereign funds are still investing with them.

📸 ETH Zürich & Empa researchers have developed an image ...

2025-06-25T19:02:16Z

📸 ETH Zürich & Empa researchers have developed an image sensor using stacked perovskite layers, capturing full-color images with higher efficiency and accuracy and without the need for traditional color filters.

Goodbye demosaicing, two-thirds more light in the same surface!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09062-3

Remember that “bald head guy” says Europe has no free speech ...

2025-06-24T15:20:25Z

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Remember that “bald head guy” says Europe has no free speech

“Norwegian tourist, 21, is barred from entering the US after ICE guards find meme showing JD Vance with a bald head on his phone”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html

Coercing EU Citizens to make social media profiles public must be ...

2025-06-24T08:22:37Z

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Coercing EU Citizens to make social media profiles public must be some violation of the data protection rights.

“all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”

cc [@edps](https://tube.network.europa.eu/accounts/edps ) noyb.eu (npub1ezr…2hxu)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-screening

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you. "No ...

2025-06-18T07:45:10Z

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you.

"No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.”

"Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.“

~ WhatsApp Blog, June 18th 2012
https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

🇳🇱🚲🌷& 🍪 A trip to the Netherlands is never a ...

2025-06-17T14:16:10Z

🇳🇱🚲🌷& 🍪 A trip to the Netherlands is never a wasted opportunity to nerd out on semiconductor technology. A thesis defence brought me to TU Delft, but this time I was not gonna miss the opportunity to see the Mapper machine!

🎬 Story time!

Crypto: Sponsoring military parades for the Great Leader’s ...

2025-06-15T05:18:41Z

Crypto: Sponsoring military parades for the Great Leader’s birthday

Just like Satoshi envisioned it.

“Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians ...

2025-06-11T08:15:36Z

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“Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians and 170 Russians — are being considered for a transfer to Guantanamo”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-plans-migrants-guantanamo-bay-00396673

"The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries. They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, but also other parts of the world, including many from Haiti."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/10/trump-guantanamo-deportations/

A Tesla under FSD killed Johna Story. Johna would still have been ...

2025-06-04T11:09:08Z

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A Tesla under FSD killed Johna Story.

Johna would still have been alive if it were any driver using another car with an adaptive cruise control that uses a radar.
But Musk's greed convinced him it wasn’t needed on Teslas.

The vehicle's footage demonstrates that sun glare make today's vision-only based systems very dangerous and that Tesla's AI is failing to pick up cues to brake like a human driver would have when it sees stopped cars on the highway.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-full-self-driving-crash/

#FSDKills

Did you know that Moore's Law would likely have stalled after ...

2025-05-31T08:21:49Z

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Did you know that Moore's Law would likely have stalled after 2012 if it were not because of the European Southern Observatory?

When EUV feasibility was evaluated, the optics design was considered a potential showstopper given the complexities of manufacturing such smooth mirrors. It's only because of a manufacturing breakthrough for ESO’s telescope M2 mirrors that EUV was considered feasible by 2001.

Yet another example of why defunding science is going to hurt your industrial competitiveness

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to ...

2025-05-27T17:15:55Z

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants’ social-media profiles.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-27/us-orders-pause-in-student-visa-interviews-ahead-of-new-vetting

Harvard International Students speak up about being “caught in ...

2025-05-23T20:16:51Z

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Harvard International Students speak up about being “caught in a battle between the White House and Harvard”

"In Trump’s world, there is no such thing as an independent institution. To this end, he is using us international students as poker chips in this authoritarian game. He is trying to pressure Harvard by putting our futures at risk.”

https://archive.ph/U9RuU

Google quantum researcher Craig Gidney published yesterday a ...

2025-05-23T12:19:43Z

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Google quantum researcher Craig Gidney published yesterday a preprint demonstrating that 2048-bit RSA encryption could theoretically be broken by a #quantum computer with 1 million noisy qubits running for one week.

This 20x decrease in estimated required ressources for quantum factoring comes from better algorithms and better error correction.

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/tracking-cost-of-quantum-factori.html

No big surprises here: "rogue communication devices not ...

2025-05-19T08:57:22Z

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No big surprises here:
"rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

Jeff Bezos rewarded MBS for killing and dismembering his ...

2025-05-19T06:05:19Z

Jeff Bezos rewarded MBS for killing and dismembering his Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by committing to build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia.

"it takes five years for Bezos to go from posting his photo op with the headstone of a murdered reporter to making billion-dollar deals with his killer.”

https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi

The EGNSS MATE project, led by Swiss Federal Railways, is ...

2025-05-13T07:31:22Z

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The EGNSS MATE project, led by Swiss Federal Railways, is experimenting with map-assisted sensor fusion algorithms to include GNSS into the signaling scheme of the European Rail Traffic Management System.

Nice to see Navigation Message Authentication #OSNMA used for this:
> “IABG analyzed the use of new Galileo services OSNMA and HAS within the ERTMS, and tested the performance of the new algorithms against jamming and spoofing attacks, as simulated in the laboratory.”

https://insidegnss.com/esa-funded-project-enables-moving-block-operations-in-european-rail/

“Despite Trump’s talk of annexing Canada, some US locals ...

2025-05-09T16:00:26Z

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“Despite Trump’s talk of annexing Canada, some US locals would prefer the opposite. “There’s a lot of people that are saying, ‘Why don’t we just give Point Roberts to Canada?’” Hayton says.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-05/canada-s-us-boycott-is-ravaging-american-border-towns

The Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol was ...

2025-05-08T16:14:25Z

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The Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol was accepted at the USENIX Security Symposium
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/linker

I’ve always considered it to be super rude to upload pictures ...

2025-05-07T17:29:49Z

I’ve always considered it to be super rude to upload pictures of people to Meta platforms. I’ve repeatedly asked friends to keep me out when posting photos of events or in groups.
It gets even worse from here:
> Meta Platforms, is once again actively working on facial recognition: Earlier this year, the company discussed adding software that could identify people by name to its smart glasses and other devices, such as artificial intelligence-powered earphones with cameras
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-renews-work-facial-recognition-tech-privacy-worries-fade

It's very sad to see the cuts to so many important US ...

2025-05-05T07:57:09Z

It's very sad to see the cuts to so many important US institutions in this list of recommendation of funding levels by the Trump administration.

But one that I did not see coming are investments in rail safety and infrastructure.

Genuine interest in strengthening freight and passenger transport?
Or a way to reduce the costs of mass deportations?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

☀️⚡️ Everyone in Switzerland agrees we need more solar. ...

2025-04-24T16:25:48Z

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☀️⚡️ Everyone in Switzerland agrees we need more solar. But often, there's disagreement about where to put the panels without impacting the landscapes too much.

🛤️ Looking back, this one is a no-brainer, why not lay them down between train rails: there's already a strong connection to the grid, and it's infrastructure that's already ‘built’.

🇨🇭 First segment of the tracks got inaugurated today in canton Neuchâtel.

https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/neuchatel/2025/article/la-premiere-centrale-solaire-sur-rails-a-ete-inauguree-dans-le-canton-de-neuchatel-28863275.html

#Solar #Trains #Railways

"International scholars can now be handcuffed, deported, and ...

2025-04-24T12:24:00Z

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"International scholars can now be handcuffed, deported, and even placed in indefinite confinement for pretty much any reason—including long-ago speeding tickets—or no reason at all. The resulting fear has paralyzed, in a matter of months, an American scientific juggernaut that took a century to build.”
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8820

Poor people of Mastodon, you're missing out on the chance to ...

2025-04-16T06:26:52Z

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Poor people of Mastodon, you're missing out on the chance to have Musk slide into your X DMs and offer you to have some of his babies.

“Musk often interacts with lesser-known users. He replies to them and sometimes interacts through DMs, some of whom he eventually solicits to have his babies,”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c

“During St. Clair’s pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring ...

2025-04-16T06:23:31Z

“During St. Clair’s pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates."
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c

With Hyper-NA getting Zeiss greenlight, it's insane to think ...

2025-04-14T09:48:07Z

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With Hyper-NA getting Zeiss greenlight, it's insane to think that they are going to make world's smoothest mirrors even smoother.

Has anyone run the math yet to know how to update this analogy?

"If you were to extend the mirror over the size of Germany, the imperfection would be at most 20 micrometer, thinner than hair."

How long would the polishing take? Robots polishing them for nearly a year?

Authoritarian Intelligence™️ "Trump administration ...

2025-04-08T11:59:26Z

Authoritarian Intelligence™️

"Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/musks-doge-using-ai-snoop-us-federal-workers-sources-say-2025-04-08/

Google: “You are captive in a self-driving car, what a great ...

2025-04-08T07:27:23Z

Google: “You are captive in a self-driving car, what a great opportunity to show you ads and record you to produce GenAI training data”

Waymo One’s privacy page asks users if they accept that “interior camera data” may be used to personalize ads
https://x.com/wongmjane/status/1908629210123677901

Spectrum completed its fueling at Andøya. T-0:30 for opening of ...

2025-03-30T10:05:06Z

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Spectrum completed its fueling at Andøya. T-0:30 for opening of launch window

Live: https://youtube.com/live/IKLQxe2MvpQ

#GoingFullSpectrum

Swiss population has turned against the F-35, the “ejectable ...

2025-03-28T08:02:32Z

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Swiss population has turned against the F-35, the “ejectable seat demonstrator”

https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirtschaft/356208607-f-35-kauf-wird-von-schweizer-bevoelkerung-laut-umfrage-deutlich-abgelehnt

It’s working. Bully is not happy that the bullied are teaming ...

2025-03-27T07:55:41Z

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It’s working.

Bully is not happy that the bullied are teaming up to reduce his leverage

“President Donald Trump suggested further tariffs would be imposed on the European Union and Canada if they worked together to do economic harm to the US. “

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-27/trump-floats-more-tariffs-on-eu-canada-if-they-work-against-us-m8qy96vv