The Nation quoted our Inescapable AI report! AI in public programs can shape whether people get care, afford medicine, keep food on the table, or stay housed. Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-luxury-class-social-programs/ https://www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai

Happy #WorldBookDay! Did you know there are over 300 books to read and download for free in the Getty Publications Virtual Library? From books on antiquities to books on sculpture, there’s something for everyone. New books are added regularly! Start your art book collection: gty.art/443oqhx

Weather data from CDG “may have been caused by people tampering with the equipment to shape the outcome of wagers on Polymarket.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Priceless post from the official White House social media

@socket.dev I think your work is excellent and perhaps I'm missing something. But I've a question that I hope you can help with please. When I was looking at your data for express 5.2.1, a High CVE was highlighted: socket.dev/npm/package/... (1/3)

Will be interesting to see what emerges from this. Will their differing cultures (particularly wrt funding) scupper even well-intentioned collab? Good to keep an eye on this 👍.

If you had doubts about who Independent Ireland are and some of the fuel protest leaders - well they’re showing us. Protesters and those whose livelihoods are at stake should have nothing to do with the far right or bigotry. #fuelprotests

Perhaps the cynic in me is winning out here, but with an upcoming IPO, I think Anthropic could be over-hyping Mythos. For a reality check (via Heidy Khlaaf on X / heidyk.com), see: 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM7G... 2. x.com/heidykhlaaf/... (1/2)

I’m so sick of the Guardian whoring for the far-right.

Magnificent example of the pretence that Ireland is a liberal redoubt and that anything which would seem far right coded elsewhere is perfectly forgivable here. It's honestly becoming our new equivalent of pretending to the Yanks that we all wear green and believe in leprechauns.

Part II from @louthforever.bsky.social. Lots to digest here and again very much worth your time. The third point in particular leads to the need for further nuanced discussions.

Beyrouth : les vies en ruines de l'immeuble Hamad. C'est la une de Libé jeudi. Le 8 avril, les frappes israéliennes ont tué au moins 350 personnes au Liban. Arthur Sarradin est allé chaque jour à la rencontre des survivants d’un bâtiment du quartier de Ain Mreissi où 27 habitants sont morts.

Shortest talk ever on CSS layout. @kevinpowell.co at @smashingconf.com.

A jury could convict Palestine Action protestors of “criminal damage” leading the judge to sentence them as terrorists. The jury will not be told in advance that this is a possible outcome of their decision. The UK press has been court ordered not to report this story. x.com/defendourjur...

The sideshow of politicians of all stripes waffling instead of systematically addressing our energy issues. Tiny example: €400m would pay for a plug-in 800W balcony solar panel for *all* homes in the country (~2m dwellings).

Péter Magyar’s Tisza’s is still very rightwing but defeating Orbán is a necessary first step. *Chef’s kiss*! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

❌🦓❌ #HungarianElection

Hungary: National parliament election Turnout at 11:00 AM CEST 2010: 24.78% 2014: 23.23% 2018: 29.93% 2022: 25.77% 2026: 37.98% Source: Nemzeti Választási Iroda ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary #Hungary

Why does AI suck at front-end? 🗑️ trained on garbage 👀 it can't see ❓ it doesn't know why 🏞️ no environmental control there's no human v20.2.1 to target. we're a LLM combinatorial explosion ⤷ nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks...

The Cardinal of Washington Robert McElroy has called on Catholics to go beyond just prayer in their struggle to protect democracy and end the war in Iran. It's almost as if the Catholic Church has been reborn since Leo took over as Pope. I've seldom seen it so willing to stand up for what's right 🕊

Hungarian voters turn out in force for biggest test of Orbán era ft.trib.al/AVotRAP

Ireland listen up. Main point 👇👇but also “up to €100,000 per vehicle will ⁠also be ​available for electric utility vehicles and trucks”.

Clear and insightful piece on the blockades (note the point on language in the post!), amongst the best I’ve read. Solid critique of the position taken by @paulmurphy.pbp.ie / PBP and how they need to do better. Worth the 3mins of your time this AM!

Now not even letting people's medicines get through. "Yesterday, accompanied pharmaceutical freight was permitted through, but that has now stopped also since yesterday afternoon. "There is currently about a mile of a tail back of trucks.

I do hope so although the opposition aren’t a whole lot better. As the Guardian noted: "...the best case scenario for Hungary is a return to electoral democracy under a Magyar government. Liberal democracy, however, will probably remain out of reach for now." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There we go: co-ordinating delegitimisation of the state. Textbook MAGA(-adjacency) grifting. 👇

The irony! Also #aislop

About time but Gardaí shouldn’t be wearing face coverings.

0/6000 words: "I'll never finish this text 😭" 3000/6000 words: "Ha, this is going great actually 😊" 5500/6000 words: "I'll never finish this text 😭"

Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night. MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street. Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

This is such a good idea from @npmx.dev. Anything the reduces dependencies is 💯!

More on James Geoghegan. 👇

Caregivers not being able to visit vulnerable elderly clients because of the #fuelprotest. "Your carer has no petrol or diesel to come and care for you" - Carer interviewed on @rteradio1.bsky.social

A key spokesperson for the #fuelprotest movement owes tax of over €500k and has been convicted of animal cruelty and he's supposed to be taken seriously. Remember, this is in a country where a Presidential candidate had to withdraw for owing a former tenant €3k. www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

“If God would order a genocide in Deuteronomy 20,” Ingersoll said, citing a passage in which God instructs the Israelites to “destroy every living thing” in certain cities, “what makes you think he wouldn’t cause a girl’s school to be attacked?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Just to note, Cavalcanti et al in a Lancet paper predicted that the “dissolution of [USAID] could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... cc @tanitatikaram.bsky.social

Related: this very good thread from Dave It's one thing to warn of a *risk* (and every tonne of coal burned causes avoidable harm) but the wild directional extrapolations we see emerge in times like this are intensely frustrating

The front page of L'Orient-Le Jour tomorrow

Signs.

Note the support from Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. Lots more digging on who is organising and paying for the protests. First out of the traps is the story👇

Hall of fame FT correction

❌M50 Northbound ❌ Completely blocked at J6 (Blanchardstown) also. NO traffic being allowed to move north of the junction.

This otherwise good analysis fails to say that each of Netanyahu’s decisions to go to war were wildly popular. While there were huge protests against his plans for the judiciary, he is the *longest serving* Israeli PM ever, and not for no reason. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

🔐 7 out of 10 of #security reports for #Lodash and #Express are invalid. The current spike is LLM-generated noise eating volunteers' time that should go to releases, features, and real bugs.

Visits to Elmina Castle for all European UN Ambassadors after this vote. “…the global south treated the resolution as a simple moral proposition: the truth about one of history’s greatest engines of human theft, racial capitalism and underdevelopment.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Meta provides metadata to military to target mass murder. Meta promotes WhatsApp as a ‘private’ social network, including ‘end-to-end encryption' of messages but there is nothing private about WhatsApp-targetted assassinations of children and civilians. www.commondreams.org/news/meta-ai...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

It's absolutely unbelievable the levels of social engineering maintainers have to be alert to these days. Hopefully the general media pick up on @sarahgooding.bsky.social's story to raise awareness more widely. #npm #nodejs #security

UK electricity grid is very low carbon today (windy and a bit sunny). As a consequence very little gas fired power generation is active on the grid (probably just the "spinning reserve").