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Breaking Down the 31 UN Agencies Impacted by U.S. Withdrawal Better World Campaign, 8 January 2026

UN’s ‘responsibility to deliver’ will not waver, after US announces withdrawal from dozens of international organizations United Nations, 8 January 2026

What the US withdrawal from UN bodies could mean for climate, trade and development United Nations, 9 January 2026

Bert Hubert took time to answer substantially to Miguel De Bruyker.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/

Thanks. I doubt it is that simple for most people.

So, Mastodon is structurally libertarian, but de facto culturally pluralistic?

When it comes to privacy, Bluesky (owned by Bluesky Social, PBC or public benefit corporation) is not Signal (owned and operated by the Signal Foundation). Direct messages on Bluesky are unencrypted, and they collect quite a lot of personal data (see section 8B in their privacy policy), they use these data for marketing and "other purposes" (section 10), and share them with "third-party services" and "business partners" (section 11). Mastodon should get its act together.

I agree. The argument that the approach is not so different from choosing an email provider to be able to send email to anyone has been too little made.

I have seen it pointed out that some of these 66 agencies are really platforms, treaties and commissions, not organisations. Is there an analysis of this?

I posted it to make people aware of the European dimension to this decision, which is sofar not mentioned by policy makers or media. Perhaps someone reads it and will take it up in a discourse outside Lemmy.

When I arrived at the man from a small nation like Austria, I realised you were sarcastic. Well done.

Believe what exactly?

I posted it to understand how it was affecting the rest of the world, and Europe in particular, not to make a reflection on wider US policy. So far I haven't heard reactions from the UN, from the EU, from the governments of EU member states, or from the mayors of the cities that host these organisations.

That's a bit of a polemic comment. Nothing of this will happen. We are talking about 66 small organisations all over the world.

I know, but my intention was not to have a debate on Stephen Miller (on which I have much to say but this is not the forum), but on the implications in Europe for this Europe-based international organisations. Nobody has written about this so far.

Is there any discussion (anywhere!) on what this might imply for these Europe-based international organisations (funding, staffing, projects)?

Many of these organisations, also funded by the EU or EU member states (17 are EU-based), are now suddenly in serious financial disarray. I doubt that the EU will react and these organisations are too small and too institutional to react much themselves. I know a couple of them (besides the IPCC, which we all know) and can confirm that they do great work.

17 are EU-based.

Handbook on cognitive biases "that are particularly common and relevant to intelligence work" (67 pages) published by the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) https://www.vbs.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/K489QrrPSDvt/vbs-ddps-ndb-handbuch-kognitive-%20verzerrung-en.pdf

Here it is: https://www.vbs.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/K489QrrPSDvt/vbs-ddps-ndb-handbuch-kognitive-%20verzerrung-en.pdf

Here is the handbook on cognitive biases https://www.vbs.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/K489QrrPSDvt/vbs-ddps-ndb-handbuch-kognitive-%20verzerrung-en.pdf