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Gaza fishermen able to fish for first time thanks to sumud flotilla distraction

they STILL FED MY PEOPLE. 🥹

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!

That’s just me though.

Slurms McKenzie?

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

Irish artists/ supporters of the arts, please check out and fill in this short survey. The Gript/ far right dudes are already sharing it on X and I'd be worried it'll get brigaded.

If we want it to be retained and expanded we gotta drown them out.

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"They are criminal... I have never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

people who use AI as a replacement for thinking, learning and communicating should be shamed and punished. the same way we shame and punish drunk drivers, or people who negligently discharge firearms.

it is bad to misuse tools in a way that damages society

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.

No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.

Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.

But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?

No.

EU's indictment of Israel in Gaza: the hard work starts The review into whether Israel is in violation of its obligations under its trade relations with the European Union, due to its conduct of the war in Gaza, was shrouded in secrecy and hobbled by last ...

The EU’s searing indictment of Israel in Gaza: now for the hard part

www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Unless there are too many layers of this and all your wishes are used up before getting to X.

Ciaran Mullooly used AI to write letter to EU on Gaza aid, which quoted Swedish House Mafia The Independent Ireland MEP also included an emotional story from a “fictional” girl in Gaza in the letter.

*intake of breath*

Ciaran Mullooly used AI to write a letter to Ursula von der Leyen about EU aid to Gaza, quoting Swedish House Mafia and including a story about a fake girl.

*collapses*

www.thejournal.ie/ciaran-mullo...

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

KNEECAP STATEMENT 14,000 babies are about to die of starvation in Gaza, with food sent by the world sitting on the other side of a wall, and once again the British establishment is focused on us. We deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves. This is political policing. This is a carnival of distraction. We are not the story. Genocide is. As they profit from genocide, they use an ‘anti-terror law’ against us for displaying a flag thrown on stage. A charge not serious enough to even warrant their ‘crown court’, instead a court that doesn’t have a jury. What’s the objective?

To restrict our ability to travel. To prevent us speaking to young people across the world. To silence voices of compassion. To prosecute artists who dare speak out. Instead of defending innocent people, or the principles of international law they claim to uphold, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine in Gaza, just as they did in Ireland for centuries. Then, like now, they claim justification. The IDF units they arm and fly spy plane missions for are the real terrorists, the whole world can see it.

WE STAND PROUDLY WITH THE PEOPLE. YOU STAND COMPLICIT WITH THE WAR CRIMINALS. WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. YOU ARE NOT. WE WILL FIGHT YOU IN YOUR COURT. WE WILL WIN. FREE PALESTINE

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Table showing most shared media organisations per topic within the Irish mis- and disinformation ecosystem with Gript garnering more than double the shares than the next leading outlet (Irish Times)

Worth reminding people that our 2023 landscape mapping of the Irish mis/disinfo ecosystem found that Gript is (by far) the outlet of choice for conspiracy theorists, racists and science deniers. Do you think this is because they uphold the standards & ethics of journalism? (Spoiler:it is not)

Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers Public conversations in Ireland are fast entering a territory of total incoherence.

"It’s like if the national agenda was being set by 98FM’s Dublin Talks."

This week's Surrealing on... Conor McGregor, Garron Noone, Michael Lowry, Micheál Martin and the United States.

Danny back to talking about himself as being in government I see

1,500 in 15 days: What Musk's Trump-era tweets reveal about him Using a bespoke social media search tool Prime Time downloaded and analysed all his tweets from his first 15 full days working in the US government, to try to get an insight into his activity, mindset...

Analysing Elon Musk's online life: 1,500 tweets over 15 days show how Donald Trump's right-hand man revels in his new role

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things.”

- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

They're also far more deadly when they do hit a pedestrian because of the higher impact point.

mage depicting a cycle: 1. A Healy-Rae says something idiotic 2. Kerry people ridiculed in press and online 3. "Us Vs Them" attitude intensified 4. Healy-Rae tells people to vote for them as they're the only ones that represent the marginalised poor creature in Kerry against the uppity Dublin "Big Shots" 5. Healy-Rae voted into power. In the middle is a depiction of a man with a beard saying "Bejaysus!"

Don't make me tap the sign

I remember my parents telling me about dancehalls and how they all shut down. I remember thinking yeah, that's what happens to old-fashioned things. But that won't happen to nightclubs, they're here to stay!

Elon Musk, Europe and the battle for online truth Having helped re-elect Donald Trump with a $250 million donation and generous boosting on his X platform, Elon Musk has turned his gaze to Europe, notably the UK and Germany.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/01...

How the EU’s Digital Services Act has been caught in the crossfire between Elon Musk’s free speech warriors and EU leaders warning he is a danger to European democracy

Consideration should be given to setting up a State-run death notice website following the decision by RIP.ie to charge €100 for funeral listings, according to Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore.

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2

#jurassicpark #blender3d

todays my birthday.

it’s also the day 16 years ago I discovered that a customer for the data center I worked at had racked 3 full cabinets with over $200k of brand new server hardware on top of $80 of canned soda from our customer lounge vending machine to avoid spending $600 on mounting rails

This sea gull swooped down and swiped Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú’s wallet on the Dáil plinth just now, but he dropped after an energetic chase from the Louth TD.