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Tenants of 36 households in Co #Wexford were told their landlord was delivering eviction notices because of the Govt’s new rental rules, according to a leaked video.

Residents heard the landlord would follow “radio shows and political debate” before making a “final decision” on their housing.

And this was in January 2024. The goal is lebensraum.

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🚨 Techno-optimism reduces willingness to address climate change 🚨

In a new preprint, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @fdabl.bsky.social, and I examined the causal effect of techno-optimist beliefs on the willingness to contribute to addressing climate change.

🔗 Read the paper: lnkd.in/eE847_jK

Ireland's biggest property developer says average age of first-time buyers has risen to 38 or 39 The CEO of the firm acknowledged that affordability continues to be a “significant challenge” for many of its customers.

The significance here is that a 30 year mortgage is built around a retirement age of 65; once you pass 35, a buyer cannot borrow as much and needs more salary, more inheritance, or a later retirement just to keep up.

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Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

The ripple effect of what the Americans and Israelis unleashed on the world is only starting to be felt.

And all of this because none of Israel's 'allies' cared enough to hold it accountable for genocide.

Our dead children are haunting this world.

email to me with a title: 2027 MSc in Artificial Intelligence Application – Research Interest in Trustworthy Generative AI & Multi-Agent Safety email body: I have been deeply inspired by your pioneering work on AI accountability, algorithmic harm governance, and ethical alignment of generative multi-modal systems. As Geoffrey Hinton has repeatedly warned the global community about the existential and structural risks of unregulated AI systems, I have long been searching for actionable, ethical frameworks to translate these high-level warnings into practical, safe AI design — and your research has been the definitive guide for me. In particular, your 2023 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence on the structural risks of large-scale generative models, as well as your AI Accountability Framework developed at the Mozilla Foundation, have fundamentally shaped my core belief: capable AI systems must be built on the premise of safety, transparency, and consistent alignment with human values, rather than pursuing functionality alone.

never published in Nature Machine Intelligence & neither do i have work on "AI Accountability Framework"

i know this is now normal but i want you all to stop & reflect on how much the future is fucked & the only way to mitigate this disaster is to ban/limit this dammed technology

I visited Carrifran Wildwood myself last summer, and the scale of what has been achieved there truly has to be seen to be believed.

At least 400,000 acres is now being rewilded in Scotland: an incredible 2.1% of the whole country, and rapidly increasing all the time.

Come ON, Ireland!!

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

I may repost this daily. Apparently the idea that it's possible to abstain from using the baby-eating machine is too radical. It's not even a Q of reclaiming the machine for "good" - if it helps to output more papers, faster, get more grants, etc then, sure what's a few babies? (not mine tho obv)

Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon."
RTÉ cut this part of his speech..

Humpback whale bubble net feeding with Common Dolphins in Donegal bay.
See more in our "Aillte" documentary.
Episodes 1 and 2 streaming on TG4 now.

www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...

More than 600 people have died trying to cross Mediterranean in 2026, UN says Deadliest start to a year in more than a decade, according to the International Organization for Migration

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Only small fraction of new homes in cities ending up on the open market for sale The gap between what’s built and what’s sold is most dramatic in Dublin and Cork.

Only 4% of newly-built homes in Dublin last year ended up on the open market for sale.

This is bonkers. The market is completely rigged in favour of "investors" (hoarders).

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post by Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com‬) reads: Absolutely brilliant piece about the Left's TOTAL blindness on AI. Their dismissal of AI risks mirrors how climate deniers treat CO2. Will probably get a lot of nastiness for this on Bluesky, but I guess that's part of the same problem.

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions

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Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe.

#Climate action, my eye.

This is a misreading that goes back to the Luddites. The left is not ”opposed” to any particular technology in and of itself, it just asks the question of who the technology is going to benefit; are the benefits going to be democratized or are they going to enrich and entrench the already powerful?

'Earth's Greatest Enemy' exposes the U.S. military as the world's largest polluter, linking war and ecological destruction. Showing in Ennis at the West County on 28th February at 7.30pm

The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

Reads: Most importantly, there is no AI without massive financial and ideological backing. It is therefore pointless to discuss its techniques or capabilities without asking who controls it, who benefits from it, who builds and deploys it, and what it is doing in the world. As Stafford Beer (2002) argued, the purpose of a system is what it does.

Reads: Though less explicit than Thiel’s call to replace politics with technology, major tech firms have effectively privatised core digital public goods. Platforms like Facebook, Google Search, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT operate at infrastructural scale in Ireland, shaping information, communication, and access to knowledge. Yet their algorithms remain opaque, their governance remains private, with minimal democratic accountability to the public who depend on them; effectively ceding aspects of democratic process to commercial interests. The monopolization of digital spaces has turned democracy into something the highest bidder can buy and is degrading the digital public goods themselves. As the AI industry, social media and search platforms grow more extractive and less trustworthy, they erode the foundations of democratic life: trust, dialogue, and accountability, blurring the line between truth and falsehood. An example is the deepfake video falsely showing President Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the presidential race last October, which amassed over 160,0001 Facebook views before being removed. GenAI’s non-deterministic, stochastic architecture produces plausible output without regard for accuracy or truth. This makes generative AI a societal disaster and a major threat to truth, democratic processes, information ecosystems, knowledge production, and the social fabric

Reads: For truth, democracy, and the rule of law to endure in the AI era, we need to cultivate an ecosystem of transparency and accountability. Yet governance by algorithms inherently places our digital public squares and democratic processes in the hands of those building these systems in line with their political and profit-seeking agendas. Without real mechanisms in place, talk of transparency and accountability are empty gestures. An internal Meta memo outlining plans to launch facial recognition in smart glasses “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns”5 illustrates how those advocating for accountability are under-resourced, retaliated against, and targeted. Large tech and AI companies, despite selling promises of innovation and societal benefit, monetize and undermine the very society they claim to serve. What is needed is not just regulation, but active enforcement. Given the track record of tech giants, stricter regulation and enforcement is not “anti–freedom of speech” or anti-competitiveness. It is one of the clearest ways governments can show they serve the public interest. After all, innovation that disregards truth and democratic processes risks undermining democracy itself.

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

The issue remains though. There should be no corporations given seaweed harvesting rights in Ireland my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK Supreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK

The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

What an incredible turnout for this month's Green Drinks! Thanks to all who joined us and especially to @hannahmul.bsky.social for teaching us all about turloughs.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

Use of Irish airport for ICE deportation flights of Palestinians ‘deeply disturbing’ Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by private jet en route to Israel, owned by Trump donor Gil Dezer

Ireland is being used to deport Palestinians to the state killing Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Israel told the UN to stay away from those areas for 9 hours while it kills all plant life. This is a war crime, and Israel is so comfortable committing war crimes that they announce them in advance.

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters Seals also among the animals killed as by-catch of growing crayfishing industry

Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters

"That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace"

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