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Karlin Lillington

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Retired (mostly...) Irish Times tech columnist. Chair, New Music Dublin. Privacy/infosec/human&digital rights. Likes ๐Ÿฆ‡. Lots of 4-legged talls/smalls ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿซ๐Ÿด. Talkative. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช www.newmusicdublin.ie

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Agree

08.03.2026 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"you can't go get a new face" -me

07.03.2026 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is the final one a pro or a con

07.03.2026 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They apparently made these bets at Christmas as to who would still be around after Christmas and told detainees about it

07.03.2026 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The cats really like climbing in that particular bag too ๐Ÿ˜น

07.03.2026 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes female though it isnโ€™t totally clear from the name. And yes the relationships are all very confusing!!

07.03.2026 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was told this as well

07.03.2026 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Incidental product placement

07.03.2026 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sign of a much less troubled mind I think! ๐Ÿ˜„

07.03.2026 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes I thought of Bourgeois too!!

07.03.2026 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers An investigation by Swedish and Kenyan journalists prompted the lawsuit.

When you use Metaโ€™s glasses, will anything you see โ€” from documents you review to those super sexy hookups where you keep your stupid glasses on โ€” potentially be reviewed by underpaid workers in Kenya?
๐Ÿคท

07.03.2026 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me too, itโ€™s quite disconcerting

07.03.2026 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m so glad itโ€™s NOT just my twisted mind ๐Ÿ˜

07.03.2026 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maybe itโ€™s just me but every time I see this ad in the @theguardian.com my brain processes it as an 8-fingered long-clawed disembodied horror hand and I have to stop yet again and think what the hell is that thing and why is it in the Saturday Feast food magazine

07.03.2026 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

06.03.2026 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2977    ๐Ÿ” 442    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

*cough* crypto *cough*. Also: satire is so dead

06.03.2026 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SimpsonS

06.03.2026 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And would autocorrect stop the feckinโ€™ autocorrecting in the moment before I hit the post button ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

06.03.2026 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Headlines that would only have been imaginable in a Simpson episode prior to 2016. We are in the Official Timeline of Stupid โ„ข๏ธยฎ๏ธ

06.03.2026 21:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tommy Sutton getting in the spuds in snow

vs.

Tommy Sutton Harvesting the Potatoes in the Snow

06.03.2026 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lol how did autocorrect turn ole into olรฉ

06.03.2026 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes I think often about what Ireland was like when I came here in the 80s and where it is now esp vs the UK and US ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ. The olรฉโ€™ clowns to the left of me, jokers to the rightโ€™ refrain comes to mind

06.03.2026 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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im not sure how its possible but every new rendering from the administration of the ballroom is bigger and uglier than the last. the latest one looks like the stapled a goddamn amazon fulfillment center onto the white house.

06.03.2026 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 777    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 59

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.

Just another day/reminder of how โ€œthe richest and most powerful nation in the worldโ€ cannot do mass transit.

We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

05.03.2026 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6870    ๐Ÿ” 1406    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 224    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58
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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz โ€œIn announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

"Does your leader view the lives of armed services personnel as disposable by mocking their service or saying things like 'thatโ€™s the way it is' whenever they are killed?"

06.03.2026 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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U.S. national security offices, weakened by firings, confront Mideast war The U.S. military operation in Iran is testing a depleted Justice Department and FBI. Firings of experienced agents and prosecutors have diminished expertise to counter threats.

FBI Director Kash Patel fired roughly a dozen agents and staff members who once had ties to an investigation into Donald Trump, including agents who specialized in Iran and its proxies.

Three days after the firings began, the U.S. was bombarding Iran.

06.03.2026 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 176    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

06.03.2026 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2092    ๐Ÿ” 431    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 145    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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Wanna lead Iran?

06.03.2026 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh so *now* it's the Defense Department

06.03.2026 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 342    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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His opera career stalled. Now heโ€™s a car salesman, and his ads are viral. Andrew Hiers, a classically trained opera singer, turned to selling cars after struggling to find singing gigs. Then he decided to merge the two.

THE FREE BIRD OF OPERA ๐Ÿ˜‚ . I'm so there for this:

'Hiers first posted a video about a used Corvette on Feb. 21, set to the music of an aria he called โ€œthe Free Bird of operaโ€ โ€” โ€œNessun Dorma," from Giacomo Pucciniโ€™s Turandot.' wapo.st/4ub5kmm

06.03.2026 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0