An attack planned on a mosque in Galway was “imminent”, gardaí have told a court in Co Laois. jrnl.ie/6873973

Didn’t expect to see Dave Fanning’s name pop up in this article! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

This is a hell of a statement on the massive cost of #AI infrastructure from JPMorgan. For comparison, the entire German economy is ~$5tn, which is about 1/5 of the entire Euro economy. on.ft.com/3JwN1pw

This headline beggars belief… until you read the HSE response: “… the waiting time has now been reduced to 10 years”. These are not timelines that any well funded health service should be working with.

💯 “Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility” 💯

The @dublininquirer.com dug a bit deeper into this Progress Ireland in this great piece by Lois Kapila @samtranum.bsky.social

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 is now live. The report finds that of 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion are multidimensionally poor. Poverty is our greatest global challenge - and one compounded by the climate crisis. Read the full report, published with UNDP: bit.ly/globalMPI2025

Today is a good day to read some contemporary accounts of Columbus's voyages to the Americas & their consequences, such as those of Bartolomé de Las Casas & Fray Ramón Pané, who both condemned the treatment of Indigenous peoples. www.dukeupress.edu/another-face... www.dukeupress.edu/an-account-o...

Portugal’s far-right Chega party “hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three”. Glorious 😂. Let’s hope it’s none next time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🔴 Libération des otages : «Personne sur cette planète n’en a fait plus que vous pour apporter la paix», a dit le président de la Knesset, Amir Ohana, à Donald Trump, lui lançant pléthore de compliments Suivre notre direct : bit.ly/48KoJ5F

Dunno if it's helpful to anyone, but I offer this in the spirit of academics not talking enough about rejection & students sometimes not getting mentoring on the point. A student (primary author) & I just had a paper rejected from a journal, & I wrote this reply to them sharing the news with me.

The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.

Of course as a former Meta grifter he privileges might over right.

👏👏The Board of Deputies of British Jews & the Jewish Leadership Council said: “In our darkest hour, [Chikli] has ignored the views of the vast majority of British Jews, who utterly and consistently reject Robinson and everything he stands for.”

A Paris, la Maison des mondes africains ouvre enfin ses portes L’institution culturelle promise par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 inaugure samedi son point de chute pour deux ans, un atelier de 800 m² du Xe arrondissement, et annonce une programmation résolument pluridisciplinaire. Lire 👇

Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli (Hebrew: עמיחי שיקלי) using the horrific Manchester attack as the context by which to welcome “courageous leader” Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) to Israel because of their “shared values”.

The fund's ethics watchdog at the time said there was no doubt that Caterpillar's products were being used by Israeli authorities in the "widespread unlawful destruction of Palestinian property", and that the company had made no effort to prevent this. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

In memoriam...

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

45 vessels continuing on to #Gaza. @freedomflotilla.bsky.social 📍 globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Have been using #ios26 for a week or so now and it feels like a really step back in terms of #UX. Primary culprit is the hiding of functionality behind multiple clicks. What has happened to #Apple? A sad state of affairs.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Well done @atsukocomedy.bsky.social for highlighting how the “you can’t say anything anymore!”comedians (as she rightly terms them) agreed to being censored in order to perform in Riyadh. (She turned it down when asked 👏👏). #shillinforsaudi

I’m struck by the fact that the gov spent €10m to have the #NFL in Dublin but wouldn’t grant visas to Palestinian kids to come and play #GAA here for a few days.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Worker groups like @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and No Azure For Apartheid have been pressuring Microsoft for months or years on issues like these. Microsoft tries to silence dissent and make workers feel powerless--but they aren't. Every employee who was fired for standing up is saving lives.

Apparently #AWS are taking over from #Microsoft. “… intelligence sources said [Azure] had been used in Gaza [to prep] airstrikes… highlight[ing] how Israel has relied on … major US technology companies to support its bombardment of #Gaza” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world go.nature.com/46jJHGK

Movie recommendation: Columbus (2017)

“Début septembre 2025, Deezer déclarait que 28 % des titres qui arrivent chaque jour sur sa plateforme étaient générés à 100 % par des IA.” 😱

I’ve been doing a cultural competency paper and this is clearly the frontier task. One time a Persian gym buddy insisted so hard that they actually preferred sleeping on the floor that, rather than heading home post-workout, I took their bed. Every Persian I tell this to laughs at me.

Phrase of the day: “You’ve been workslopped” meaning someone sent you “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work”. #workslop hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g... (via @tante.cc)

Have I got this right? #Nvidia is investing in #OpenAI so OpenAI can use the cash to buy - you guessed it - … more Nvidia chips. No hype cycle here at all! Nope, absolutely not!!

On Windows 10 and want to keep your computer running securely after October 2025? @therestartproject.org has got you covered: therestartproject.org/end-of-windo... #EndOf10 #windows10

“[O]ne tangible consequence of Trump’s presidency [shutting USAID] is child-size graves being dug around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

“Humanity in the Intelligent Age” is such a timely theme. Looking forward to hearing everyone’s perspectives 👍. #OEB25

To know more about Real Time Bidding and mass surveillance, see: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Lacemakers, Brittany, France, 1920

As Klein “leans in” on the rise of authoritarianism (🤮), its time to re-up Larry David: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o... #nyt

“At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich. Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures. Program & Registration:

If you want to deepen your knowledge of the history of Auschwitz, listen to our "On Auschwitz" podcast. Visit podcast.auschwitz.org to find all episodes, access transcripts, and find links to podcast platforms. If the podcast resonates with you, leave a review, comment, or share it with others.

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

Arrests at Palestine Action ban protest in London but article notes that “police forces in Edinburgh, Totnes, Derry and Kendall had all decided not to arrest sign-holders.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined today’s protest against the Palestine Action ban after being arrested at the last. He, and over 1000 others, risk arrest as a “terrorist” & up to 14 years in prison for displaying seven words: I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION

Just discovered #Artle thanks to @afroartnerd.bsky.social ! www.nga.gov/Artle