“We’ve heard nothing from the Minister for Justice about it. I’m quite disappointed that he hasn’t said anything at all. He’s responsible for crime and safety, and he’s said nothing.” — Me www.thejournal.ie/indian-attac...

professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:

Clamp down on the far-right agitators spreading hatred online. Implement the National Action Plan against Racism. Implement hate speech laws instead of defending our failure to comply with EU laws in the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The silence from the Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan on this issue that he is directly responsible for for three weeks is sickening.

Heartbroken to see a sign saying "I'm leaving this country" at the protest against racist violence outside Government Buildings. That's exactly what they wanted.

Have you been on holiday in Italy and stayed in a hotel there? I hope you had a great time — but your data may have been stolen. It’s unclear, however, which hotels are involved www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/...

Journalists - if you are going to report or repeat Israel's statement that one of the Al Jazeera journalists it murdered overnight was a Hamas leader, please outline for readers, viewers and listeners how you verified their claim before presenting it to your audience.

Joining @ipsc.bsky.social demo today. Stop supporting genocide @centralbankireland.bsky.social #FreePalestine #stopsupportinggenocide #genocidebonds

ITV News film Gaza from an aid drop flight Emma Murphy, "Building by building, Gaza is being erased" Since Dec 2023 the UK's RAF has flown 500+ flights over Gaza gathering intelligence, photographing, and filming, they literally have a record of the destruction of Gaza and have said nothing

We’re going to hell in a handcart, but some 2500 years ago someone in what is now modern eastern Italy made this kyathos to mix wine in and it’s still an object of deep joy

Bike investment vs. car investment.

Me, whenever I go on Facebook

Question: would you be a passenger on an aircraft that has been programmed with code produced entirely by an AI system, with no human oversight? #AI #ML #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence

It is my opinion that introducing age verification now is irresponsible, mainly because we have now reached the point where Western governments *are* using "the database state" and exploiting online surveillance to be repressive - just as privacy activists warned for decades. This applies to UK & US

This, and it doesn't work. Now, it is possible to address the harms of mass engagement-driven platforms. But doing so requires pushing back on the core biz models of the platforms, not tinkering on the edges w surveillant 'solutions' that increase surveillance w/o addressing the root cause.

Paging Ireland: #AgeVerification

Is anyone joining the Cycle for Palestine on 16 August?

As the French say, "Bon chancery!"

I thought 'consent or pay' was effectively unlawful in the EU? I keep seeing it cropping up on websites. Meta is certainly at it (again). #GDPR #DataProtection #ConsentOrPay #PayOrOkay

* the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition wanted

Who's going on the Cycle for Palestine on 16 August? mastodon.ie/@clickhere/1...

Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people

If there is one person in the world today who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, it is Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. #FrancescaAlbanese #NobelPeacePrize

"He was a boy She was a girl Can I make it any more obvious" Luke 23:7

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

Look at the moon!

thankfully @meredithmeredith.bsky.social was also there and joined the conversation casually mentioning how I might interview with the New York Times, which i presumed meant I deliver my keynote (after so many compromises) or they risk cancelling me and blowing the whole thing up 3/

and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk. 2/

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

"AI for Good," when you live in an inverted reality.

They have had the misfortune to elect a Prime Minister so devoid of understanding of the place of imagination and storytelling in leadership that he denies ever having dreams. A man who applied for the job as Regional Manager of the United Kingdom.

Nothing I'm aware of has happened :) All seems normal here, I guess maybe bluesky was glitching?

Anyone know what's happened to @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social ? His account doesn't seem visible to me. Last posts were about Kneecap at Glastonbury.

How did Dublin Dyke March go? #DublinPride #DykeMarch #DublinDykeMarch

Trans women are women. Pass it on.

Trans women are women. Pass it on.

Yes. Four judges plus the Chief Prosecutor, so far. www.icc-cpi.int/news/interna...

Targetted for sanctions over Netanyahu arrest warrant. ICC Judge Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou.

Me, to anyone else: Allow your first draft to be bad. You're just telling the story to yourself. Getting the ideas out and seeing what they look like in the light. Me, reading my own first draft: He walked "upwards, up the stairs"? Did he, Richy? You're a hack and a fraud.

Depraved, indefensible.

"Our form of communication is gunfire."

Mise ag an obair ar an Déardaoin ⏳

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

Not my Muriel, not my wedding.

Not my hanging rock, not my picnic

Crowd sourcing for an immigration expert in Ireland who might be able to give advice about an unconvetional family reunification case, pretty please 🙏 #speirgorm

Dubliners - has anyone else lost tv signal around D7, or just us? (Virgin Media provider.) 📺 #SpéirGorm