Bjørn Ihler
Founder & CEO of Revontulet & The Khalifa Ihler Institute - preventing terrorism and keeping people safe by rendering extremists incapable of abusing tech to recruit, organize and coordinate attacks. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
- Why did people switch from Medium to Substack? What’s the pros/cons/alts of either?
- Reposted by Bjørn Ihler"Across Europe, news media companies increasingly depend on cloud services run by a handful of powerful tech actors. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google provide the digital infrastructure that underpins the functioning of newsrooms" By @ccs.bsky.social for @article19.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerBreaking News: A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing 31 people and injuring dozens, according to the police and hospital officials.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerWith alt text. But also gloating over a war you won 180 years ago makes you seem loser. Real, "I peaked in high school," energy
- Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin! Gratulerer med samenes nasjonaldag! Happy national day of the Sami people!
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerIt is with deep sadness that I have to report the passing of Chip Berlet. He was one of the few people to consistently research and organize against the U.S. Far Right from the 1970s through the '00s. His co-authored 2000 book "Right-Wing Populism in America" unfortunately remains all-to-relevant.
- Big loss =/
- So sad. I remember when I was in an honors seminar at Marquette, on dictatorships, and we all had to use it as one of our key sources. (My country: Belarus. Sad thing is that the president then is still the president there now.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Bjørn Ihler“Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM’s Claim Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner” 2/4/26 … 1/
- This is a problem across fields - we're now lacking vital data on everything from electricity grid outages to global terrorism due to funding cuts by the US administration (and nobody being ready to step in to fill the funding-gap).
- American scientists have historically been leaders in the collection and analysis of data on climate change. Trump is now trying to gag anyone reporting data that confirms climate change. www.economist.com/science-and-...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerTrump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerThe risks surrounding Greenland are not limited to the Arctic. They extend directly to NATO’s foundation. (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerOh damn. This must be playing havoc with the ransom economy.
- Calling it a day and cooking lasagna.
- Reposted by Bjørn Ihler🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
- Et spørsmål de og andre sikkert lyver om svaret på er jo hva som ligger i alle dokumentene som fortsatt ikke har blitt frigitt - det vi har sett så langt er jo bare toppen av isfjellet.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerThis cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
- Dog in a blanket
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerTwo HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerPatriot Front attempts to sue an antifascist who infiltrated and doxxed them. Suit was dismissed on something of a technicality. www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
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- It came as no shock to anyone that this didn't pass
- There's a vote in parliament tomorrow on making Norway a republic - the law was proposed by the previous parliament, but the timing of the vote is striking, with the Epstein crisis, and the trial against the son of the crown-princess on 40ish counts...may parliament vote to finally end the insanity.
- Can some other Vivaldi nerds on OSX explain to me why it randomly decides to stack tabs on a 2nd display? Getting kinda annoying...
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- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerIf Congress doesn’t act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.
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- While the step-son of the crown prince is the only one on trial I think it's also significant that it resolves who in the family knew and did what what when - and then we have to decide to what extent these are the kind of royals we want to be above the law and serve for decades to come.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerYou can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
- There's a vote in parliament tomorrow on making Norway a republic - the law was proposed by the previous parliament, but the timing of the vote is striking, with the Epstein crisis, and the trial against the son of the crown-princess on 40ish counts...may parliament vote to finally end the insanity.
- The not-quite-royal boy is already going on trial tomorrow for 38 counts of pretty serious crimes ranging from violence and rape to drug offenses - so ofc he spent last night getting arrested for threatening someone with a knife... www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/0p4l...
- Leser man dagens aftenposten kan man fort begynne ålure på hva i alle dager en 6cm erigert gorillapenis er laget av for å kunne veie mer enn dobbelt så mye som et menneske, imponerende...
- Er dette uken nok folk spør seg selv “Hva er nå egentlig poenget med kongefamilie i et moderne demokrati, annet enn å holde sladrepressen sysselsatt seff?” til at Norge omsider kan bli republik?
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- Greit når enkelte partier en mandag morgen stikker huet frem og minner oss alle om at det igrunnen altid handla om 14 ord og "etnisk renhet," og ikke om religion og kultur slik de av og til hevder...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerAs Putin wages war on Europe and deploys sabotage operations across the continent, this debate among French Conservatives is insane: "Le Pen vs. Bardella: France's far right fractures over whether Putin is the enemy" www.politico.eu/article/fran...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerMore than 120 dead after multiple suicide and gun attacks in Pakistan, officials say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerI’m sorry this is still relevant 😬 but thanks for reading & sharing
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerWhat's most amazing about this is the fact that the WSJ needed a “study” to figure it out.
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- Why does billionaire bros keep acting like incel assholes?
- Everyone knows a pear is best eaten with a pear fork and pear knife...
- Når de kjipe konformitetskidsa fra studiespesialisering får for mye makt går ting riktig galt…Mvh, tidligere IB-elev www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/ExwL...
- It’s great that the son of the crown princess soon is going on trial for *a lot* of stuff, including drug and rape offenses…it will surely distract from how heavily featured his mom is in the Epstein docs…can Norway become a Finland-style republic now plz?
- I see the yanks are doodlin' again
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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- RIP Queen
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- Stop Carrying Out Your Intentions
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- Just saw the american version of Ghosts show up in my Netflix recs and am seriously wondering; Why do americans seem to always feel the urge to make very weird and annoying knock offs of good British TV Shows?
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerThe coverage and response from the commentariat and our political leadership to the pipe bomb attack at the Invasion Day rally was so muted, that even I didn’t find out about until the next day. But I know about it now and what it says about us a country, so I’ve written about it here for Crikey.
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- How is today not Friday? Yesterday was epically Thursday-like...weird week
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerGamifying abuse - The sadistic online groups where children trade harmful content for status
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- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerIt's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerTerrorist financing is shifting from large transfers to AI-driven micro-transactions. Pattern evasion, not anonymity, is now the core problem for AML systems GNET gnet-research.org/2026/01/28/a...
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- Reposted by Bjørn Ihlergot a shoutout on a techcrunch piece about europeans getting off US tech 🫡 article: techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a... my guide: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
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- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerThe UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerBREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- "Then Arianne turned to the camera, radiant and feral, and said the words that permanently altered the course of protest history: “I’m going to hand out big dicks to little-dick ICE agents.”"
- "That is how fragile federal masculinity is in 2026." www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerImportant: Kash Patel’s egregiously anti-first-amendment statements here and Cam Higby’s claim to have “infiltrated” huge ICE-monitoring chats do NOT mean Signal is somehow “compromised.” “An asshole manages to get added to some massive + intentionally minimally-screened chats” is not surprising.
- Reposted by Bjørn IhlerThis isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.
- May he soon be in a prison he built himself.
