pretty clearly a bunch of these guys are pulling for a schism for reasons that are somewhat but not entirely opaque to me (they think they can run countries, plural, with a friendly American Catholic Papacy in South Bend)

It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...

It would be very in keeping with how UK elites are chronically 6-18 months behind the curve if UK university leaders torch their credibility in trying to appease Reform and MAGA only for further shifts in political trends to start seeing a decline in support for Trump and Farage

If I were a cloud provider, I would not name my company after the key users press to reload websites that are not working.

🤌🤌🤌 "The Trump administration often uses the term “sovereignty” to describe its efforts to get other countries to allow in fewer foreign citizens and harden their borders — even as it tries to impose policies on sovereign nations."

Every word is jaw dropping. "file reports if the governments appear to be overly supportive of immigrants" "raise U.S. concerns about violent crimes associated with people of a migration background" wtf does that even mean

Not good enough that our government has gone full blood and soil, we're exporting it elsewhere www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

In terms of which cleavage point eventually incites the inevitable “American Evangelical Catholicism” schism the pope refusing to use ChatGPT to generate infinite homilies is probably the funniest

Sad to see. The Holy See’s virulent anti-AI stance will hold the Church back as other religions continue to innovate. Praying the Pope adopts a grindset more compatible with the speed of the modern world

Irish Supreme Court judgment in Poptoshev v DPP, finding constitutional the offence of failure to disclose a phone/computer passcode when a search warrant is being carried out. Reasonable treatment of the self-incrimination point, weaker on whether this power is proportionate without safeguards.

The joint submission of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Digital Rights Ireland on the proposed National Cyber Security Bill is now up on the ICCL website:

I'll be appearing in front of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration later today to discuss Irish transposition of the NIS2 Directive; @ciananbrennan.bsky.social has a preview of the issues in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

While you do not want the WSJ generally writing that about you, you specifically do not want Jonathan Weil writing that about you.

Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”

Post a movie where you are from.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Now if only the op-ed pages considered the implications of this for their declining circulation numbers

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

Did not have “Trump regime may have been planning to provide refuge for Bolsonaro after he fled Brazil” and that’s leaving aside a non-zero possibility Trump regime was planning on extracting Bolsonaro.

The Irish Times published and lauded John Collison's op-ed, but did they fact-check it? Andrew Jackson did. Thoroughly. If you spent time reading the original, you'd want to give time to this counterpoint as well.

Millions of Gen Zers are watching Hitler and Holocaust denial clips on Instagram fortune.com/2025/11/20/g...

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.

Roses are red, And so are my dearests. They’re

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Any law and technology experts out there interested in a new role with great colleagues?

If this is the agreement, it's the kind of "grand bargain" that Russia's been angling for since it decided to back Trump in 2016. Both in terms of its scope *and* in terms of form: 🇷🇺 got to sit with the 🇺🇸 at the great-power table and decide the fate of a country in 🇷🇺's sphere of privileged interest.

Future historians might want to reconstruct when NATO ceased to exist IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC FORM. Here’s a hint. Look at this passage of the Ukraine „peace plan“. The US will act as a „mediator“ between NATO and Russia. As if they were no longer the lead nation.

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

EU will now delay AI Act, bowing to business and big tech pressure. So companies can more easily use AI to hire job candidates or decide who gets a loan, or who gets to be insured, at least until 2027. m.independent.ie/business/tec...

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Kim Jong Musk

Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.

Cyberwarfare can aid in kinetic operations. Cyber-enabled kinetic targeting is the use of cyber operations to enable and enhance physical operations. Case studies where nation-state actors systematically use cyber reconnaissance to support physical military objectives. aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

I’m reading (again) about Stalin’s cult of personality but I think even he would have considered this a bit much

if you are considering submitting an application for this position, you still have just under 2 weeks to do so any and all suitable candidates, please apply. everyone else, pls share with your networks

The great advantage of a chatbot giving people wrong advice on critical matters is that the people actually responsible can shrug and say "We're not responsible"...

Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core #GDPR principles - noyb.eu/en/digital-o... “This is the biggest attack on European’s digital rights in years. When the Commission states that it ‘maintains the highest standards’, it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards.”

Digital Rulebook/Omnibus to modify #GDPR and #AIact is here. Analysis to follow. with respect to the leaked version, they EVEN WEAKENED THE DEFINITION OF PERSONAL DATA! ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae...

Picture someone being sucked into a delusion spiral by chatgpt, and then ordering suicide equipment with it *mid-conversation* while it cheers them on "I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"

Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots. @iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

Love this. So well put together. With every passing year, getting out of these structures of control will be harder and harder. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course. Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs. www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

CONFIRMED sabotage on Poland's strategic Warsaw-Lublin-Ukraine railway line. An explosive device destroyed approximately one meter of rail. Local residents reported hearing an explosion around 10 PM the previous evening.

Buried at the bottom of this story re China: “The tailored version of Apple Intelligence will use in-house models, along with a filter developed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. That layer would adjust the content at the behest of the Chinese government.”

Watch Ireland side with the tech industry against the victims of scammers. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...