It's fascinating and disturbing to see how the British media are going out of their way to placate the Trump admin on this. I'm not sure if they're feeling cowed or they're serving a primarily US audience now

Pretty wild that in police killings, question always becomes “did the victim do anything that could possibly make a cop worried for a sec?” That’s the litmus test for if the govt can take your life, and most people casually agree: the govt can initiate an encounter, and kill you for getting scared.

RIP The Young Scientist Exhibition (1965- 2025), long live what now seems to be CollisonCon.

Pat Leahy was championing O'Donovan for "making enemies" a few weeks back. I wonder if there will be a follow up article.

Musk did this only under pressure and only after days of gleefully mocking critics.

It's a small thing but I'm incredibly heartened to see the response from the Minister labeled as factually incorrect. It's a better calibre of reporting than just verbatim repeating what the government are saying and leaving it up to the public to figure out if they're incorrect. #spéirgorm

There's a good few Irish journalists reporting on the Grok issues but also, and more strangely, not as many as you might think.

This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

the day today tier paragraph

They are going to Epstein Files a murder

This is the same guy who said the Spicebag Garda eviction painting 'sent a shiver down his spine' #speirgorm

Less than 4 days ago, this same Minister said that child protection and online safety are more important than Irish citizens' human rights. Now he's saying, "Child Sexual Abuse Material what are you going to do, amrite?"

Had replayed Broken Sword a few days ago. Came out in 1996, references the Irish Punt and the line about "The Government are giving corporations more respect than their own citizens" is more true.

This of course fits his recent comments about banning social media for U16, because he and the Government can't regulate social media companies and it has to be the users.

Many of them also only criticise him when they're potenially impacted. Immigrants? Not their concern. Likewise with the Grok stuff quite honestly. If a Government TD was impacted they'd be a tad more bullish about it.

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

How else is Martin going to retweet that guy that says Ireland is doing great according to the latest happiness index

Does the Dept of Justice rush off to the AGs office to enquire if the Offences Against the Person Act is “sufficiently robust” when muggers being using the KoshOMatic 9000 to whack people on the head and take their cash instead of letting AGS investigate and prosecute?

I was in a call with Dell reps with a bunch of people working in my sector. They were pushing AI which didn't generate much discussion. They also were dropping an Ethernet port on one laptop model because everyone uses Wifi or a docking station apparently, which prompted howls of outrage.

Insane get out clause for the Government here.

The Department lists out a bunch of things that X dot com’s Grok is doing and says that each of them is illegal. So asking the AG to see if there are more ways it could be illegal just seems like a delaying tactic to actually doing something.

Jim O'Callaghan always thinks the problem is that people have too many rights and his solution is always to restrict or remove people's rights. it doesn't matter what the situation is, that's the problem and that's his solution

There we go. That there’s a headline.

The legislation is mad. All immigration Judicial Review will now be sent to Dublin Circuit Court? But just immigration, nothing else? A duty on Court Presidents to try and reduce the number of cases taken against the Minister whenever he asks them? It's like it's Jim's personal fiefdom.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

It will be like that bit in Friends when Joey puts on all of Chandler's clothes.

Not entirely sure any of these guys would even lift a finger if the Americans start renditioning Europeans straight off the streets here

To show how quickly this is developing, the only reference to X here is that it advertises these apps. Not that X itself can do this.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

"In relation to a proposal for a graduated points system that was shelved by previous ministers due to being too complicated to implement, he said they will be looking at what can be done that is not complicated" No stone will be left unturned, but maybe not if it's a big stone

Has the Minister for Keeping Children Safe on the Internet commented on X/Grok yet? Was he asked?

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

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This combined with that recent foreign policy document where they stated they’d support far right ascendancy in Europe should be a serious wake up for everyone here

"She really doesn't have a choice" but to cooperate with the US, says President Trump of Venezuela's interim leader, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

👏👏👏

It's easy to condemn Russia. Russia is already the enemy, that's why they all did it with such gusto, even a bit of relish, it's like having a go at the Devil, easy pickings. Justified, but easy. Much trickier with the USA, it requires a tiny bit of courage which may be beyond them

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Ireland is two for two in not naming America in recent statements.

at least you're not this person

Oh they're for it

Updating that Stephen Collins article to just be : What if US troops just left Shannon Airport and took over Ireland

Suspect the future of Greenland is not for Greenland to decide after all either.

“I don’t understand what it means but whatever it means, it’s not about me”

incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children.

one thing i've noted a few times is reactionary centrists have never, ever, ever understood the criticism of them to the point that when they hear someone say what they find objectionable about them, they literally have no idea what they're talking about

Can we also address that the xAI team is both deflecting blame and perpetuating a fraud here? Grok is not sentient. It cannot regret anything. It is not sorry. The safeguards that failed are the sole responsibility of the xAI team. Period.

Notably OpenAI didn’t sign up to the sixth commitment in this Charter: the one about sustainability. “Scorpion signs water transport agreement with Frog” is an equally applicable headline in that context.

Speeding discourse is one of the quickest ways to see that many, many folks on the left also have a bit of a libertarian in them There is no coherent argument against aggressive and heavily enforced vehicular safety regulations that doesn’t boil down to “nuh-uh, you can’t tell me what to do”

One trillion of AI investment is riding on this being legal