Marie Boran

Fame as a weapon: The deepfakes behind #HollywoodAgainstZelenskyy - TechCentral.ie If you saw #HollywoodAgainstZelenskyy trending and felt a flicker of “wait, when did celebrities start dictating European foreign policy?”, good. That discomfort is your threat model working. The post...

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I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Memories!

sandy6music This is the content I came to see on this website old-manrupee They're learning how to open .rar files under an image of a bunch of people in inflatable t-rex suits in a computer lab

I am once again feeling like this mash up is incredibly prescient.

Thanks!

we never publish a column without making sure it answers the five W's

if/when?
why?
what?
how much have you got?
have you got it, do you get it, if so how often?
which do you choose, the hard or soft option?

Oh my lords! Stunning!

How does that happen?

I hope the guy from Crash Test Dummies doesn’t mind if I sing his song an octave higher

Your phone is about to become your ID. Ireland isn’t ready for the identity attack surface - TechCentral.ie Somewhere in the next year or two, a very boring interaction is going to change: proving who you are. Not in the ‘upload a scan of your passport and wait three days’ way, but in the ‘tap-to-verify and...

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Walk into the woods and decompress. Then emerge reenergised knowing you’ll do great! You’re already an established author. Give yourself props!

The whole "we'll do progressive patriotism to defeat the fascists" thing is so funny because it's literally exactly what everyone from the social democrats to the communists did in Germany during the 20's and 30's and look how that went for them

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Side bar: it’s annoying that the women in these episodes are either wives or secretaries when we know women played such an important role in scientific research at that time but I guess this is a fantasy world where they want to make out that men do all the good stuff.

The original Outer Limits is great. Watching season 2. The one with William Shatner as an astronaut who has gone to Venus is pretty good. Now watching one where an optometrist’s glasses allow people to see into another dimension.

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

If you see this, post a character that starts with D.

What does a research fellow actually do #AtCERN? 🤔

Meet Mia, a research fellow in the Systems department, contributing to ISOLDE, where scientists study the properties of atomic nuclei, with further applications in fundamental studies, astrophysics, and material and life sciences.

#WomenInScience

Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views

The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Residents urged to prepare as Burren River approaches record levels - News - Carlow Nationalist Residents urged to prepare as Burren River approaches record levels - News - Carlow Nationalist

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Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and X the Everything App have been merged into a new company called I Can Keep Doing This Forever And No One Can Stop Me

Tweet from Eric Berger on Jan 29, 2026: The reported merger talks between SpaceX and xAI should not come as a huge surprise. If you believe AI is the future; and that compute is the major problem to solve; and orbital data centers are feasible—then the combined company would be a vertically integrated AI colossus.

hi folks, serious journalist here, it's important to understand that this all makes perfect sense if you've completely cooked your brain on Elon fanboy bullshit for the last decade

Never thought about this before but leaving the US out of it, Ireland and Egypt were the first countries to achieve independence. Unless my eyesight is getting worse.

Thousands of lion’s mane jellyfish have washed into the shallows and on to the sand across Port Phillip Bay, from Altona in the west to Blairgowrie on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia. Photographer and ocean swimmer Rodney Dekker captured video of the incredible sight. 🪼

One man paid himself £500m last year—in what world is that morally okay? The obscene riches being accrued by hedge fund execs show a financial system in crisis

The obscene riches being accrued by hedge fund execs show a financial system in crisis, writes Alan Rusbridger

#TongueOutTuesday hello from outdoor neighbor catto Cookie. Hope you're able to find some joy, some beauty in this day. Love you all. My family sends extra hugs 🩷

Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies

Thanks @conorom.bsky.social for writing this piece for us setting out the legal position on X and CSAM… in short, yes, they could be prosecuted.

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Here’s the text from the image: Sir, – Sheila Wayman’s article profiles five senior professional women on Nollaig na mBan (“Women in stressful jobs on how they manage nutrition, exercise and more,” January 6th). I applaud the idea of highlighting women who are so successful in their chosen careers, but unfortunately the piece undermines that good work by referring to these women’s careers as “their second job, outside the home”. This is offensive phrasing. It frames women’s paid, professional labour as secondary to an assumed primary duty of domestic care. This language naturalises women’s unpaid work and renders men’s domestic absence invisible, reinforcing gendered hierarchies of responsibility. This attitude echoes Article 41.2: “by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved”. As Fintan O’Toole pointed out in these pages in 2024, this wording had very real negative consequences for generations of women’s professional lives. Article 41.2 is blatant sexism, and so too is describing women’s careers as “their second job”. As a newspaper that prides itself on liberal values, rigorous journalism and a stated commitment to equality under its current editorship, The Irish Times should recognise that language matters – and should lead, not lag, in rejecting framings that reproduce the very gender hierarchies it has so often and rightly criticised. – yours etc. LAURA NOLAN, Co Kildare.

Some of you may have read and not been impressed by the recent Irish Times article “Women in stressful jobs on how they manage nutrition, exercise and more: ‘I never know what each day might bring’”. My good friend Laura wrote an incisive letter to the editor on this. See below.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences