TJ McIntyre

One of the many incredible things Pedro shared was how Meta's AI bot within WhatsApp refused users' asks to make a poster for Lula but granted it for Flavio and when asked to make mock poster for, say, a dog they added Flavio's electoral number - as in vote for #22. In Brazil, vote is by #.

I'm quoted in this Irish Times piece on pervert glasses. TL;DR, I'm agin 'em.

Repost with your favorite Brazilian song.

this is very "oh my god, he admit it" re the gendered dynamics around AI

"What, according to Jim O’Callaghan, is supposed to happen when a child expresses discomfort about hugging an older relative? Their parents should make them do it anyway?" Here's a Surrealing in the Years Bank Holiday Special. The commenters absolutely love this one, I'm sure you can imagine.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

What’s wrong with DHH is that he’s a racist but tech bros also HATE the way GDPR sets even the tiniest limits on how much data they can scrape And my dude, look up French power stations

Indeed, controllers should not forget that EDPB's guidelines on the technical scope of Article 5(3) ePrivacy Directive state that collecting data entered by the user on the device is still subject to consent. Looking at all you news outlets collecting email addresses for server-side tracking!

I'm quoted in this story about the British celebrity - you probably know who - seeking an injunction preventing the press from reporting further details of his sexual harassment and crime. Quite incredible chutzpah to argue that he should be shielded from the consequences of his own wrongdoing.

Really feels like the larger issue here is that our politicians are still taking their cues from discourse on "x," a website largely built around the interests of racists and csam enthusiasts, and from which all normal people have long since fled.

No TDs should be allowed on the Internet until they can pass basic social media stress tests. I'm being 100% serious. We can't afford ministers making decisions after getting piled on on social media cause theyve rotted their brains and connection with real people by spending too much time on twittr

The criticism the DRCC has faced this week is unwarranted and harmful. If you can, consider donating at DRCC.ie. You can also write to your TDs, as I have, expressing your concern that a government would censor a campaign that raises awareness of the bodily autonomy of children. contactyourtd.ie

In fact, Minister Jim O'Callaghan posted his statement criticising the DRCC campaign to X. He has not posted anything there about the sexual abuse imagery scandal that the platform has been embroiled in.

This government, who moved with rapidity to remove this campaign from circulation, targeting a charity with attacks on their credibility, responded earlier this year to the mass production of non-consensual sexual imagery on X with little more than a shrug.

If you choose to silence a campaign put forth by that organisation you would want to have better reasons for it than angry online commentary. Every government representative who has come against this campaign should be asked what evidence they are bringing to the table.

If you're coming up against the evidence-based policy of the DRCC you would want to come to the table with more than the angry opinions of those not interested in doing the work of dismantling a culture of sexual violence.

The DRCC's campaign was informed by consent workshops and designed to reflect the real-life experiences of participants. The government's response was informed by the discomfort of those who took the messaging in bad faith.

If your response is to silence the people who do that work, and have a longstanding reputation of doing it very well, you are part of the problem.

The DRCC's campaign gently pushes us to confront hard truths. If your response to that is retaliation, you are not prepared to do the hard work of facing up to the root causes of widespread sexual violence.

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.

what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

I’ve slept on it now and when I woke up, I was still still mad about it. This morning, I’m going to ring the constituent office of my local FF TD and tell him just how mad it made me. Then I’m going to call the constituency office of my local SF TD, and ask if Matt Carthy’s support is their view.

Found in some old documents and scanned- @ucddublin.bsky.social campus as it appeared in 1991.

the Taoiseach actually posted photos of schoolchildren on X during this, right after he publicly acknowledged it was being used to produce CSAM. that sounds made up because it's so crazy, but no, he really did that

The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

Full text of the amendments to GDPR etc agreed yesterday by Member States here - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

"Allowing untrammelled access to messages as proposed by the minister is surely a mistake [...] such a step brings us further along a slippery slope to the complete absence of privacy, however one understands that term in the 21st century." - Irish Examiner www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourv...

EU Member States agree on "simplifying" GDPR and other EU data laws - must still be negotiated with the European Parliament www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

We brought our Global Encryption Day message to Leinster House today: Tell Jim O'Callaghan & Brussels to scrap their plans to break encryption & protect our privacy & security online. @cdt.org @cdteu.org @nujofficial.bsky.social @nwc.bsky.social @digitalrightsirl.bsky.social @brianhonan.bsky.social

The first Irish opinion poll on encryption is clear: - 93% say we have a right to private online conversations - 66% say government should not get power to access encrypted messages It comes as Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan plans new Garda interception powers - including for encrypted messages.

Today we launch a new @cdt.org poll which finds that the Irish public has “significant and clear distrust” of the State accessing private phone messages. This comes as Minister Jim O'Callaghan plans to give gardai powers to intercept encrypted communications. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

just the purest form of private power superseding public power, like a fever dream of the kind of thing that the anti-corporate globalization movement warned about in the 1990s. i think i saw puppets foretell this future at an IMF/World Bank protest.

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains, suspends sales of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns (Toby Sterling/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Here’s a boat on the Grand Canal.

The tech bros are all making a very big bet on Trump and the GOP.

Not now, orbital warfare.

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

I believe someone can manage a fractional Scaramucci this term, it's gonna happen

"Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine," The Telegraph reports. “He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it. The reality is that they were both in it.” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

fun fact — france keeps trying to pass laws to ban this watching-the-watchers tech