So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social. (Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Record wind speed recorded at Magilligan in Co. Derry

Check your pumps! Looks like practically every tucson pump installed over the last few years in Ireland could be deadly. www.ccpc.ie/consumers/20...

Sunday world is champion of inappropriate photos. Here Simon looks like he just won the lottery. www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts...

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Estate agent with no attention to detail shocker. www.daft.ie/for-sale/apa...

That's a sweet pastry. #f1

Aldi have started selling vegan steak.

Salesforce paid 27. 7 billion dollars for slack. There will be lots more of this. skyfall.dev/posts/slack

What hell in the sky is this crap? www.reflectorbital.com

The fia managed to make a wet spa more boring than a dry monaco. #f1

The pinnacle of motor racing. #f1

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

Wonder what terminal looks like? www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3_0...

This is not about porn. This is about building a system of tracking Internet use of everyone, adults or children.

Another disapproving post

This is bleak reading

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

How the UK works. Johnson attempts Indian trade deal, fails, personally brings in COVID Delta Variant as part of the negotiations. Thousands die. UK Press - Boris the hero. Starmer succeeds in a historic deal. No one dies. UK Press - Starmer gives scandalous concessionary gifts to Evil Browns.

India at war with Pakistan? If you ever doubted that #OriginStory was your go-to source for everything that matters today, may we present…  1] #Partition – What you need to know – Part One

No idea...

The next #HOMER 11 is coming along nicely and for the first time ever its fully independent, cloud native and serverless friendly. Powered by DuckDB and Parquet it decouples compute and storage before they even hit a DB - only used for reading and compacting. I can't wait to present the final H11 🔥

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

On revenues of $348 billion annually they probably won't lose any sleep. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Tube Carriage (around 1950) Edward Bainbridge Copnall.

So if you've been sitting back watching Americans constantly phoning and emailing their representatives to stop the daily Trumping, this might be a good time for you to contact your local TDs and let them know you'd prefer we didn't import that nonsense here. www.thejournal.ie/revocation-o...

US Trump regime media

‘Well Done, Old Man!’ Russian State TV Revels in Trump Having ‘Destroyed Trust’ in the Economy — Calls for a Monument to Be Built in His Honor www.mediaite.com/news/well-do...

I guess putting someone capable of bankrupting casinos in charge of the largest economy in the world wasn't a good idea.

That's an expensive lawnmower 😂 #f1 never change Max.

At least in the UK the Conservatives gave Liz her p45 when she 'liberated' the UK economy. No sign of any grown ups in the Republican party at all.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

I’ve seen a lot of revolutions over the decades, and many have started off with overconfident actions like Erdoğan’s arrest of his main opponent, the Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Erdoğan is in trouble, and he’ll have to be really careful now.

"We wanted to see Hayes electrical substation which is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world"

All he had to do was stay quiet and not do nazi salutes on global TV events. electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...

Happy anniversary to Ireland accidentally legalising drugs to all those who observe

Nice tech book bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/comput...

Step 1 - set free militants loyal to you Step 2 - demonize marginalized segments of society Step 3 - purge civil servants and oversight <—— you are here Step 4 - claim authority to rule by decree Step 5 - fascism

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Darkly enjoyable (from the new Private Eye)

I spoke with AP reporters about how Israel uses Microsoft's AI systems to pick targets in Gaza and Lebanon angryplanetpod.com/p/how-israel...