Nigel Farage once became the butt of jokes about "losing to a dolphin". Now Count Binface has become the unexpected face of the Clacton campaign. Here are 20 memes charting the story. 👇

AI is good now youtu.be/iNp16EPj1Us?...

For the North Sea island of Sylt, the high number of tourists is becoming an increasing burden. Randomly selected residents are working together with other stakeholders to develop a tourism strategy for the future. #CitizensAssembly

*finger on earpiece* sorry to interrupt you, Brian, but we're getting surprising reports that tomorrow the Internationale will be the human race. www.ft.com/content/d6b1...

Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: [email protected]

150 citizens from across the EU have spent the past three months working on how Europe can be better prepared for future crises.

"The flagship piece of secondary legislation under the EU’s flagship AI law made human rights (the thing the EU spent the entire ‘Brussels Effect’-era selling itself on) into a tickbox companies could choose to ignore. Go simplification!" euobserver.com/217590/simpl...

V unusual for a govt party candidate to win a by-election when vacancy was caused by departure of an opposition TD, as Seán Kyne (FG) has done in Galway W today. Prior to today, previous was Oct 2011 (Patrick Nulty in Dublin W), & before that June 1976 (Brendan Halligan in Dublin SW), both Labour.

After Switzerland and Germany, London City Council next in line to ditch #Palantir?

Just spent time at the cpdp conference in Brusells. Interesting mix of people trying to avoid a techno fascist future and those distracted by the games and frames invented by the bros….

The documentation "Goodbye Elections. Hello Democracy." asks a radical question: What if we replaced politicians and elections with ordinary people - chosen by lottery? ​ Learn more about the film in a sneak peek with director Adam Cronkright on May 27. #CitizensAssembly

Making policy on difficult issues Join Lord (Charlie) Falconer of Thoroton, @ruthfox.bsky.social and @janesuit.bsky.social to discuss changing the law on issues like 'assisted dying' and digital ID, at our free, online conference on 24 June. Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

Only 14% of Brits support the Far Right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - who hides behind the name Tommy Robinson - mostly men, a new poll for The Economist reveals. The backbone of his support, and funding, is America.

📝Don't miss this article from #BJPIR's current issue! 'Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories' by Beatriz Lopes Buarque & Nick Lewis 🔗 ⬇️

Humans invented arithmetic circa 3000 BC. And yet here we are.

In Ireland many kids still identify as a Microsoft or a Google school…

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

A vital piece from @margareteward.bsky.social

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

How do we balance ministerial accountability with the essential autonomy of our news media? In a recent opinion piece for @irishtimes.com, DCU’s Dr Eileen Culloty examines the recent controversy surrounding Minister Patrick O’Donovan’s comments on RTÉ and media "balance." Read: launch.dcu.ie/4tkXDsX

I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech. archive.ph/AOVHC

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

No mention of any research to back this up. It is also surely possible that teachers who continue to foster critical and creative thinking and communication skills will in fact be the most valuable? #speirgorm

We can use this crisis for good. 🚲 Roll out temporary cycle lanes 🚋 Make public transport free for a time ⚽ Car free days in cities 🚘 30 km/h speed limit in urban areas We do not have to double down on fossil fuels. We can choose a different path. My piece in the Journal this week.

How do different climate camps persuade their audiences when you stop forcing the data into predefined categories? Our paper, Reading the Climate Room, just published in Nature Scientific Reports, reveals stark differences in how advocates and skeptics communicate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Largely empty, constantly windy island battered by Atlantic waves can only think of importing famously contested and expensive goo as means of generating power, heating homes

Man, I had a long layover in Dublin this weekend; who knew?

The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.

18 years in the making. "It is brilliant - the best thing I'll do in my working life," says Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fun evening Peter’s a great speaker. Recommend catching him if you can in London this evening or Brussels on Wednesday .

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

🇺🇸 Statue of Trump and Epstein in 'Titanic' pose appears on DC National Mall A statue depicting US President Donald Trump and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as Jack and Rose in a "Titanic" scene is on display on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

European (and NATO) leaders must stop with the pious fraud and provide unequivocal support for Sánchez’s truth-telling

Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad

The British people appear ahead of their politicians. Watched this last night. Really interesting that the vast majority of the public were anti war and pro Monbiot. Only a handful literally supported the Tory/ Telegraph speakers on pro war stance.

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

A Swedish investigation finds very serious questions about Meta data processing from its smart glasses including intimate and financial data ending up in Kenya. This appears to the responsibility of Irish regulators to investigate? www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

This is NUTS “The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use [smart] glasses in their everyday lives.” www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

"Often we spend so much time considering the Great Man theory of history to the detriment of the Big Tech theory of history." This - from Nick Bryant - is one of the most thoughtful pieces I've read about this weekend's momentous world events. historyneverended.substack.com/p/a-weekend-...

Israel said it launched a pre-emptive attack against Iran, pushing the Middle East into a renewed military confrontation and further dimming hopes for a diplomatic solution to Tehran's long-running nuclear dispute with the West reut.rs/3N9KHGD

New Best of Fact-Checking Map out now! 🌍🧠 EDMO’s interactive map showcases the best fact-checking content from across Europe. See how fact-checkers are tackling misinformation across different countries and issues.  👉 edmo.eu/publications... #EDMO #FactChecking #Disinfo #MediaLiteracy

European politicians and mothers should take note

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning. I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

“.. a mega, anti-Trump trade alliance ..” #TheWorldIsMovingOn @politico.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...

“While Rubio’s tone was politer than the diatribe delivered by US vice-president JD Vance on the same stage the previous year….the substance of the US message was little changed.” So glad to see clear reporting from my colleagues. www.ft.com/content/9463...