As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well

yeah I like that RFK Jr.'s first instinct is to flee, and Trump's first instinct is to stand there like a useless loaf

AI boosters are beginning to crash out

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

The International Federation of Journalists and European Federation of Journalists have called for the reinstatement of the journalist who was fired for asking an EU Commission spokesperson if Israel should pay for Gaza's reconstruction

The D.C. man accused of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a Subway sandwich was found not guilty by a jury

Like I said, I don’t think it’s a coincidence all of these guys are talking like this now. All of a sudden, bailouts, handouts, and direct state intervention is an unalloyed good that shouldn’t be questioned, neither in contingency nor in principle.

"Wonderfully stylish" BBC ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jean-Jacques Beineix's debut DIVA has been restored in 4K and screens at Light House from November 9 🎟 https://www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/diva

HACKERS celebrates its 30th Anniversary back on the big screen at Light House on November 29. 🎟️ https://www.lighthousecinema.ie/film/hackers-30th-anniversary

@lighthousecinema.bsky.social Any chance of extra showings of Diva? It's one of my favorite movies but I can't make the two advertised showings. :/

Reminder this all started off when someone quoted her book on Goodreads and she threatened to sue them. For quoting words that she wrote. In her book. That she wrote.

This seems very bad

I've been trying to find concrete proof that Peter Thiel funded the "Comedy Unleashed" movement for a while now, if anyone can help. It's been known for years that Thiel inspired and funded the "Free Speech" Union in order to normalise race science and transphobia, but culture needs more attention.

Had no idea about Logan Paul until my son. asked about Prime, a toxic drink being talking about in school that was being sold in the local shop for 10 quid a bottle. That fad lasted about a month so it's funny seeing Cuomo being used to sell it.

And bear in mind this is what the Israelis _want_ the BBC to show:

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Inspiring campaign messages of our time

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

lol

It's awesome when libs on here are also like "I am an insane fascist"

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

This plays on repeat in hell

Devastated to see Mamdani plummet to victory with a result that shows his critics were right all along. Now is the time for the left to move towards the centre. It's time to reach across the aisle, to swing your partner, do-si-do and really lay into trans people for no reason.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

The Collisons are classic tech bros. Smart people but gloriously ignorant and convinced they can work things out from first (libertarian) principles. Here's Patrick asking why France was so innovative in 70/80s. He does not like the answer (state monopolies with a mandate beyond profit making).

The Collison brothers were early investors in 'California Forever', a tech-utopian city project. When the democratic process blocked the development, they threw millions of dollars into subverting it. That's the Ireland James Collison envisages. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

I see Progress Ireland have another article licking the gov's arse: "EU Environmental Directives are too strict". 3 points made in it: 1) Env Impact Assessments go too far, like being needed for water treatment of 10k+ rather than EU's 150k. Tell that to people with no water in North Cork City 1/

If you live in Britain, your experience of 21st century government has been relentless escalating calamities by ruling parties: disastrous wars, financial catastrophe, destructive austerity, plummeting living standards, soaring prices, unaffordable housing, constant lying and comical incompetence.

“At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.”

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

I think this comprehensively destroys the pretence that the anti-antisemitism discourse of 2015 onward re: Corbyn's Labour was anything other than Islamophobia-by-proxy

New statement from Chuck Schumer: “Despite not doing anything useful, and in fact being actively harmful to the process in a number of ways, I am here to take credit for other people’s hard work and risks.”

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been found not guilty of terrorist offences. But hundreds of pensioners standing peacefully with Palestine Action placards are. What terrible standards!

That might be his biggest commonality with Obama, who also was a regular guy, but a President being black drove the right insane. Difference now might be that the right is starting from a place that is way more openly insane

The truth about the Maccabi 'fans'

Graham Linehan moving to Phoenix is yet another grim chapter in the weird history of Maricopa County, Arizona, secretly one of the US's most cursed municipalities

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Mamdanigrad (formerly New York City), will stand as a shining example to the world of what is possible when the workers unite, and crush the bourgeois class with an iron fist (mild increase in minimum wage, free buses, etc).

The Government lurching to the right was 100% inevitable after the presidential election; this is how they deal with failure rather than any form of reflection. But I'm fairly shocked at the speed and vigour with which they've done it, not letting the attempted murder of refugees get in their way

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

seeing this irl was so cool, i hope they figure out how to bring it back www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief 1. It's Inconcievable 2. It Can't Happen 3. It Won't Happen 4. It's Unlikely To Happen 5. It Must Not Happen 6. *%&&*Q$#!! 7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened