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With the clear evidence of Meta interfering with Brazil, I want everyone to understand that these algorithms are not simply the product of some neutral 'marketplace of ideas' but an active choice in the part of tech capitalists (and their executives.)

I've always believed Oxford Street could be so much more than a road. Today we begin a new chapter as the nation’s high street goes traffic free, creating a place where people can spend time, enjoy the atmosphere and experience the very best of our city.

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The planet sighs with relief.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Far right protesters can walk into libraries to threaten people with a police escort and block roads asking brown skinned people for ID while the Gardai look on. The same Gardai will happily put a dozen leftie students in A+E for a week during an eviction protest. I hope this helps your analysis

Tom Flood nails this fundamentally faulty reasoning @tomflood.bsky.social

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Biggest strike in Ireland in over a decade and our Taoiseach is giving a speech about how AI is going to transform the economy. It’s humans vs robots, a chairde.

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

They should also take up meth.

Sally Rooney and Jack Chambers are the same age, give or take a few months. Two children of the Tiger who became adults the moment it all came crashing down. Today, History has invited these two voices of a generation to mark its pages. Which of them will rise to the moment?

I feel like this is a great example of how adding tech features you don't need actually can create new problems that never existed and you never had to worry about for no reason.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Yeah = well I suggest whoever classifies a country as “safe” goes there first with their family.

Another word for "migrants" is "people".

oh no! my AI agent went rogue and bought a bunch of weird stuff online using credentials and task parameters I gave it! oh shit, my AI agent went rogue and hacked the state department after I gave it a series of exploits to hack the state department! oh fuck my AI agent went rogue and shit my pa

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

This is extra offensive for 2 reasons: 1) Students at my campus are organizing like crazy to stand up to ICE. It is inspiring. 2) The last time they protested a war the NYPD stormed the campus, beat a bunch of them up, and then the city installed perimeter fencing that has been up for 2 years…

There are no "rogue AI agents" that are spoiling the reputation of all the GOOD AI agents. Anthropic created a bad and dangerous product; the bad and dangerous product did this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Another person killed has been while riding a bike on the roads. Twelve so far this year. www.garda.ie/en/roads-pol...

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

"There is something revealing in the gap between the masculine fantasy of protection and its reality: the fantasy requires a stranger, an obvious villain, a moment of uncomplicated heroism. Reality asks a man to believe a woman over his friend."

The climate crisis has reached the stage where only radically left-wing solutions have any hope of working. We've been trying to coax polluters to change their ways under capitalism for decades and it hasn't worked. Environmental politics ARE left-wing politics.

Catherine Martin introduced a guaranteed income scheme for artists. Patrick O'Donovan couldn't get your 16-year-old a cinema ticket.

If you think Trump’s “musings” and “jokes” are not worth headlines, no matter how shocking or offensive they may be, then you haven’t been paying attention. The past decade and past week show they're too dangerous too ignore. My new piece at @contrariannews.org www.contrariannews.org/p/dont-dismi...

Yet again, for those at the back - RTE should be entirely funded from the public purse and removed from the advertising market, with a primary focus on quality journalism, culture, the Irish language and providing a platform to Irish writers and artists, and not two-bit entertainment "concepts".

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Don't be confused, this is just a public grant to gambling companies

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Some positive news about positive attitudes www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

The cut to Carbon Taxes shows how fundamentally unserious this government is about climate action. The defining challenge of our time isn’t placating angry tight-wing men, it’s trying to keep this planet habitable.

No shingles vaccine? #Budget2027

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️