redderedder.bsky.social

Turning off social media algorithms for users by default is a key way we can tackle the spread of harmful content. It was originally in Coimisiún na Meáin's online safety code, and it makes perfect sense. The government are once again dragging their heels. We need to see action.

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Again, to be clear, the “Online safety for children” policy Ireland is advancing is just the Meta proposal to evade regulation and increase surveillance.

Hey, now doesn't that sound awfully familiar to some of the guff said at a few of the protests?

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

During the Great Famine, John Milton Niles of Connecticut declared in the U.S. Senate that “Charity begins at home" as he argued against the U.S. Government sending direct aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. The ignorance and selfishness of this ‘protest’ is beyond belief.

Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest. The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment Please read and take action 👇

I 100% endorse this message. The spoiled votes are a 3rd or 4th order story in this election and disproportionate attention and airtime is a measure of the level of editorial discomfort with talking about Connolly’s success and FF/FG failure.

Going to be wonderful in open plan offices.

Seeing as it was a puff piece for an AI event he is sponsoring. I would say no, they could not ask a question.

Would it have killed the IT to ask one fucking question.

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics. How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We have learned nothing. Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design. Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?

Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.

By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵

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So not only are their ideas blatant libertarian / randian shite. They also either a) believe everyone is a gullible idiot or are b) gullible idiots themselves

you could not pay me to give a shit about what other people do if it doesn't endanger anyone else and i just can't understand people who feel differently