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TikTok starts court battle to save China ties The Irish case is a major test for Europe’s GDPR law.

Ireland: TikTok on Tuesday began a defense in court of how it handles Europeans' privacy and data

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CJEU: Advocate General Rantos: the bank cannot refuse to refund immediately the
amount of an unauthorised transaction on the ground of gross negligence on
the part of the customer

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Posts like this is why I follow @danschkade.bsky.social. Also the incredible art and comics. Like his David Lynch Superman, or his VVitch Batman.

Guy Garner is an asshole, the best, and a Green Lantern, in that order

Not Guy Gardner fans, they're a whole other thing. Guy fans rule. Trying to define Guy as being a Lantern is like defining Peter Parker as a dude who freelances for a newspaper

Green Lantern fans are incredibly annoying, and I know if you're a real Green Lantern fan you agree

Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.

1) News today:

Despite following @robin.berjon.com totally managed to miss that @eurosky.social had launched till today. Anyway, have gone and registered.

Sod this, I'm going to go watch Academy

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Someone will be doing it, because they will look at things like MLB’s response to Biogenesis (remember the current commissioner for baseball ran that investigation) and figure the risk is worth the reward.

We never think of the kind of set up Ferrari had with Armstrong’s team, where he was crunching data and matching different treatments to different riders to support the overall goals to win.

If the Astros tech bros could systematise sign stealing for victory at the margins, why not PEDs?

Time and again, baseball fans make jokes about PEDs not improving velocity or not improving homeruns. We were told that the value of PEDs to recovery was also important, but we never look at that now. Just make jokes about Bryce oxygenating his blood.

We never think of it as systemic.

I wish we did a better more consistent job of tracking PED violations as a fanbase, instead of laughing at how the guys who get caught clearly aren’t improving any.

When I followed cycling more attentively, if enough domestiques were regularly getting caught, you started asking questions.

How Steven Spielberg, a Pinhead bust, and Robert De Niro's sex appeal gave us the horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying The developers of cult classic horror shooter Clive Barker's Undying tell us how Steven Spielberg, Clive Barker, and Robert De Niro made the game happen.

Undying gave us many great things, including the best Irish accent in games ever.

Repeat after me: ‘stuck’ …

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Slide: We ended up in casinos Not by choice, but by design platforms built to extract attention, maximise engagement, and serve private profit above all else.

It's not just that we live under private government of the monopolies, but it's private government by casinos. #Rebuild

As platforms pull back moderation, Islamic State contents grows in reach Reduced platform moderation is fueling increased engagement with Islamic State content, including AI media and video game–based propaganda.

As platforms continue to deprioritize content moderation, engagement w/ Islamic State–linked content is rising. In @404media.co, Moustafa Ayad explains how IS is adapting through AI, but also using many of their legacy evasion tactics like blurring branding, all while expanding to games like Roblox.

YouTube video by Mixed Signals How a joke sound defined 90s rave

This video is a pretty short and very informative bit on the iconic 90s rave sound.

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Joe! Awww. That's awesome. I met Joe before he got into the pizza game and was lucky enough to be around when he was doing test pizzas for Pizzeria Beddia in his backyard. Super great guy and a true talent.

Did you know we’re planning to bring back Dan Dare, retooled for the 21st Century? A fab script from @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @marclaming.bsky.social art is just stonking. Won’t happen without your support so please sign up here … www.kickstarter.com/projects/798... #graphicnovels #scifi #space

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

A eucalyptus tree in a Southern European spring landscape, with, bafflingly, a metal door (painted white and scrawled with graffiti) just barely surrounded by a concrete frame, standing right next to it. Lycabettus, Athens.

@simonguy.bsky.social Portal?

Everyone sighs, then goes and reads @mariafarrell.eurosky.social’s return of the prodigal tech bro.

Again.

Sit down to breakfast and coffee. See news. Swear. Tell kids. Make sure everyone is good for the day. Kids leave. Sit down. Grind coffee. Look at social media. Sigh and swear.

Go watch Lower Decks instead.

Solid choice. I may return to Mass Effect 2, and have fun time with pals amidst the conflict.

Limited supplies of critical defensive munitions to protect US forces and allies from Tehran’s missiles are likely to shape the military offensive against Iran, according to officials and analysts.

Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/LxjUIBu

cover image of the spring 2026 edition of Archaeology Ireland, featuring the sun setting in the background with a grass field and hill in the foreground.

Spring 2026, Archaeology Ireland (Vol 40 No 1, Issue 155) is published on 6 March.

From revisiting the 1930 Sheebeg excavation to new insights into megalithic art & Great War training sites, this issue highlights the vitality of archaeology in Ireland today.

Available nationwide & to subscribers.

The rare claws stuck in scratching post blep!

David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’