Kevin Donoghue

It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.

A group of white vigilantes pose in front of the wrecked "Record" building in Wilmington, N.C., 1898. Photo credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, reproduction from Collier’s Weekly, Nov. 26, 1898.

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Today in history, 1898: After voters elect a biracial city council in Wilmington, N.C., a mob of white supremacists overthrows the local government in a coup d’état. The mob also killed as many as 300 black residents in what is known as the Wilmington Massacre. /1

I am amazed by the bandwidth the BBC - Trump fued is taking up on the BBC. Someone plainly needs to state that the President of the United States and his role in stirring up an insurrection on January 6th is defamation proof. Not every incident of journalistic malpractice is equally consequential.

My post yesterday on the $Ibn Trump legal threat against the BBC has been picked up by newspapers around the world. It would appear few had gone through the letter and spotted that, well, it contained no evidence in support of its claims of damage.

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This has the potential to be the funniest litigation in a very long time. Knock yourself out, POTUS!

Donald Trump’s demand for a billion dollars from the BBC comes from a local Florida law firm. It was sent to the wrong address, and the writer didn’t know what ‘salacious’ really means: ‘Due to their salacious nature, the fabricated statements that were aired by the BBC…’

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

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I take this as a quite harsh rebuke by the ICC judges of how past and present ICC prosecutors have handled applications for arrest warrants (I.e. timing of making the applications public).

Al-Qaeda in Syria's Ex-Commander Enlists in The War on Terror They always said al-Qaeda would one day make its way to the White House. Turns out it's not for a suicide bombing but a handshake

If the War on Terror were Orwell's Animal Farm, today we come to the last page.

A white flag isn't much of a weapon Chuck.

Private Eye Magazine Cartoon- A GB News presenter announcing " Coming up on GB News - a Tory MP interviews three other Tory MPs about BBC bias."

Private Eye cartoon of mine from early 2024.

"From Wodehouse to Wittgenstein", eh? I do hope he endorses the view of Jeeves, that Nietzsche is fundamentally unsound.

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 7, Annals of the Four Masters. Two full sets of the annals of Irish history from A.M. 2242 - A.D. 1616 were completed by Franciscan scholars, now known as the Four Masters.

57 of the 100 US Senators, including 7 Republicans, including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, voted to convict Donald Trump of "incitement to insurrection" for these events.

#otd in 1989, Günter Schabowski of the East German Socialist Unity Party (SED) held a press conference where he appeared to say that citizens could now travel more freely outside of the GDR. By the end of the day, the Berlin Wall had been opened and the stage set for the end of SED rule.

Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.

On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS

If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!

Time was, you had to be a world-class rocket scientist to pull off that move.

I'm pretty sure it isn't. I will be amazed if anything like this survives a legal challenge.

Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.

No they won’t because this is unlawful in about five different ways

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Tea cosies, tote bags and Bernese mountain dogs: the branding of Michael D Higgins The ‘Miggeldy’ presidency has inspired many best-selling designs over his two terms

Tea cosies, tote bags and Bernese mountain dogs: the branding of Michael D Higgins

A young man sweeps glass and debris from the street in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. Wiener Holocaust Library collections

Firefighters and SS men stand outside the burning synagogue at Baden-Baden.

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the November Pogrom or the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of violent antisemitic attacks which took place across Germany on the 9-10 November 1938.

The name refers to the broken glass lining the streets after the pogroms.

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My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

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Sure they make most of their profits in Ireland! ;)

The companies could of course just stop doing business in the EU, which plenty of people in the EU might be pretty happy about.

New Yorker cartoon, captioned "Despite all warnings, Pandora opened the comments section.

Always a mistake.

Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

As we remember the discover of the double helix, it is worthwhile to read nature‘s article on Rosalind Franklin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So. Is it naked teenage boys? Or Melania whacking Trump's butt with a riding crop?