He is incorrect: Ireland fined Meta €1.2B because it was forced to by EU peers. Ireland's DPC had actually proposed a fine of €0! See para 38 of EDPB Decision 1/2023.

Intriguing. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Some rando trying to sell AI grading systems made the mistake of cold emailing me at work and I had prosecco for dinner so I replied with a link to @danmcquillan.bsky.social's "the role of the university is to resist AI" 🤷‍♀️

Hoping he brings up Aughinish Alumina in Limerick and asks why the Irish government continue to allow it to export massive quantities of an essential component for armaments to Russia.

Hell CEO Lucifer the Devil criticised rivals like ICE and Netanyahu for lacking health protection for prisoner-clients.

University of Nottingham staff are facing cuts to more than 600 jobs and over 40 courses. This would be devastating for workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research.

People have always loved complaining about “kids these days”

❝ Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation ❞ — Jonathan Cook

2/2 We highly recommend this excellent study from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) @tue.nl www.tue.nl/en/our-unive... #AcademicResearch #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

poetrye ys a crucial resource for democracye

From nowe on, calle it not "Gen A.I." Calle it kakomancy, the which doth signifye "crappye magique."

Let’s chat about how Fortress Europe and genocidal Israel share a narrative about the ancient past. 🏺

We have reached new levels of hilarity in LLM-related research. #GenerativeAI www.ibm.com/think/news/m...

A post on the disruptive effects AI is having on knowledge. Reliable information is drowning under the deluge of AL slop. I cited blogs by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. Iris, they change my title and it is now closer to yours. 1/ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

The next three episodes of The Data Fix are with different community organizers and scholars working together against the AI buildout…

GenAI products are ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis-harassment-surveillance-radioactive waste products. And yes, I have a PhD.

Trans rights are human rights. Fuck anyone who says otherwise

McDonald’s CEO says potential customers cooking burger at home are on a very dangerous path.

Some rather disturbing stats.

‼️⚖️ The #US Supreme Court has declared all independent authorities unconsitutional – effectively blowing up the EU-US deal on data transfers. 👉Click the link below for noyb's full assessment of the situation, and prepare for a #Schrems III case! 🔗 noyb.eu/en/us-suprem...

The future of the EU-U.S. Data Protection Framework is now unclear.

Commodore claims that it uses AI "sparingly, responsibly, transparently, and only where it adds meaningful value without disenfranchising people." It is not possible to use GenAI responsibly.

▶️🗣️ Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle on today's publication of the DPC Annual Report for 2025. 🔵 The DPC received 16,160 new cases in 2025 🟠 Total valid breach notifications received was 6,521 🟡 The DPC finalised 4 large-scale inquiries and imposed fines totalling just over €530m

Oh no. No no no no. GenAI is absolutely NOT about access to information. It is about despoiling our information ecosystem. And the text extruded from chatbots is absolutely NOT expression, since no one is expressing themselves there.

“Show me where they are because I don’t see them” — Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Minister for Health, says she repeatedly asked to be shown the number of workers BAM said were on site at the National Children's Hospital 📺 #MondayGR on Virgin Media PLAY

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think this quote really demonstrates for me something that is quite weird and hard about watching reactions to sector redundancies while precarious - because I am expected to do exactly this next year. And no one seems to find it a problem. (1/2)

I was reminded today that this is a great read.

The preprint here (scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf) contains the text.

I appreciate that Robert Eggers makes Christmas movies.

I am there for anything this man does ever.

Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!

📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Or in other words… ✊🏻💛

Just a reminder that this project is partially funded by Elon Musk. Where money comes from matters. Remember that DOGE fired hundreds & cancelled grants for hundreds more. I just can’t care about a carbonized scroll when it’s funded by fascism. hyperallergic.com/why-is-there...

Remember:

Here is an #OpenAccess article in which I describe and explain a syllabus on women thinkers in ancient and medieval philosophy; this is based on a class I teach for King's College London: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The whole issue is on teaching women philosophers. #philsky #philosophy

I suppose there's a few possibilities: 1. Oxford is now managed by the stupidest people in the country. 2. It's all about money. 3. They've stopped giving a shit about education. 4. All of the above. www.ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

I can imagine how frustrating and infuriating this must be for many staff and students at Oxford, I suspect perhaps even the majority.

Genuinely this makes university management make so much more sense. They don’t understand which parts of our jobs we enjoy - talking to colleagues and students, teasing out problems in our sources, reading and thinking, random discovery. They think in outputs and we think in process.

Hungarians turn out in thousands for first Pride march since Viktor Orbán was voted out

Happy #Pride to all non-bigots!

Or were they EXCELLENT life choices???? Stop the #CryptidH8.

If you are unlawfully made homeless, and complain about your landlord to the Residential Tenancies Board, they will close your complaint because you can’t give them a permanent address you live at (because you were unlawfully made homeless).

#FossilFriday: Psiloceras planorbis from the Lower Lias of Watchet in Somerset. From the collection of geologist and surveyor William Smith (1769–1839), purchased by @nhm-london.bsky.social in 1816.