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Two days of hot weather and Kildare residents are already being put on notice to use less water. And yet, Kildare CoCo has approved a €3 billion data centre for Naas, which at full build out will use between 4-9 million litres of water a day. www.kfmradio.com/news/localne...

“I hear very troubling accounts of algorithms that can block access to healthcare, employment and security on the basis of data tainted by prejudice and injustice,” says @pontifex, launching call for ethical oversight of AI in his first major work as pope www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Telling all my neighbours in our building's WhatsApp group that we are in a dangerous bubble and so I'm adding people from other buildings in other towns to the group

People who don't act to prevent avoidable deaths - is there a legal term? PH, medical & legal communities must mobilise. NCDs was a test case for how industry-caused deaths are framed as inevitable, and normalised. Now it's climate change. How many deaths are we being primed to deem acceptable?

🔥‘Lifestyle’ is a word confected and propagated by industries to obscure and deceive – to distract us from the harms they were generating. To keep the spotlight on the consumer, not the product or the practices behind it.' stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/its-not-on...

Sarah Clancy: what will it take for our government to act? www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

"Let’s make sure the labelling debacle is the last time a health harming industry is allowed to set the conditions of their own regulation."

I wrote about some interesting documents in the @nlireland.bsky.social that paint a picture of the history of women's roles/expected roles in Irish boycotting. All long before the amazing Mary Manning and the Dunnes boycott... some before Boycott himself.

Public health is shockingly quiet on AI health harms 💦draining local/nat. resources (water, energy) 🌡️contributing to climate breakdown from fossil fuel use 🥼health misinfo incl. Google summaries / GP substitute 💼 sudden mass job losses 🧠 impact on people's brains & mental health to mention a few

Queen Medb

€€ "is being transferred, program by program, subsidy by subsidy, cheque by cheque, from public to the private.. ..one of the largest sustained transfers of wealth from a general population to a concentrated asset-holding class anywhere in the developed world." www.butthistime.com/p/irelands-f...

For the Blindboy uninitiated, a glorious episode about brains and creative flow. shows.acast.com/blindboy/epi...

"More and more, I'm wondering if I'm a person. It would be useful to subscribe to a company that could continually remind me that I'm a person." Hilarious and dark. #AI #CognitiveSurrender

"When UNU lends its name to a company whose practices the UN has spent decades regulating against, the exchange is clear: the corporation gains legitimacy and access to the next generation of food and nutrition professionals."

Interesting piece on creating a more listening politics and society. We need the same in public health. Exchanges take place face-to-face in communities, of course, not tokenistic consultations or surveys or webinars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

"For progressives to be fiscally dependent upon the same economic enterprises whose existence displaces their constituency, whose owners contest their policy agenda & whose operations undermine private & public finances is ultimately self-defeating. Private gains at public cost cannot be tolerated”

"Language shapes world views. The world you see depends on the words you have. I came here today to give you words. The question now is what world will you build with them?"

Nice complexity framing... but what about the power Prevention underfunded, primary care deprioritised, integration constrainted: "These are not random fluctuations in a chaotic system. They are recurring features of how the system operates." habibbenzian.substack.com/p/the-comfor...

"Expecting clinicians to compensate for inadequately governed systems overlooks the opaque and probabilistic nature of many models, the well documented effects of automation bias, and the realities of clinical work."

A heart-lifting conversation about how to see and break free from the prisons of our thinking and resist ideas that are sold to us as cast in stone but are simply defined by people creating and profiting from crises. (That Rob found inspiration in the US prison abolition movement makes sense.)

Improving wellbeing + reducing energy consumption www.planetcritical.com/julia-steinb... - Our system is an inequality machine with inbuilt coercive consumption e.g. political economy of car dependence - No tension btwn human & ecological flourishing - Expansion of public services are the answer

Germany: Shane O'Brien acquitted of charges brought after Gaza-related protest after defence shows video evidence contradicting police testimony. Report by Derek Scally in @irishtimes.com

It's the confidence and arrogance of that last stride off the cliff that gets me.

What is the impact of IMF structural adjustment on social outcomes in the global South? Our analysis in the BMJ Global Health compiles evidence from existing empirical studies with advanced methods. The record is devastating. Buckle up:🧵 gh.bmj.com/content/bmjg...

Dear HRDs, my time as UN Special Rapporteur comes to an end today. You have been the beating heart of this mandate. Thank you for sharing your stories, struggles & victories with me over the past 6 years. Here’s a look back at the work of the mandate from 2020-2026. With hope and solidarity, Mary

I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

How many other heads of state would do this - and without any public statement or fanfare?

Let me tell you what the prick who hoards housing in your rural community is taking from you by forcing my family out. The guy who runs your kids' after school chess club. The couple who bring young people back into the local pub to play board games on your quiet nights. A yoga teacher.1/n

Important piece. Humans don't do so well with reality, and not just the broligarchs... one of the reasons I find a lot of the discourse on misinformation disingenuous. Caveat: AMOC is also a variable, one part of the whole.

This evening in Maynooth! #FreePalestine

🆕 Study says: 🛑 #AI industry expected to produce about $20 billion in #publichealth damages by 2028, equivalent to the entire car & truck emissions of California “ = double that of US coal-based steelmaking. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @timothypmurphy.bsky.social

“Our findings challenge the single-disease framework by which most health care, medical research, and medical education is configured.” Is this a legitimate cause of loss of trust in science & institutions, when they literally do not reflect or respond to reality? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The pressure is up. We are organising to push for our NHS' £330 million contract with Palantir to be scrapped. Will you join us? Join the FREE webinar next Tuesday 28 April 2026 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. REGISTER: amn.st/63325BBBjyh

"By definition, a billionaire owns more wealth than an average US household would spend in 10,000 years." Obscene. #WealthTax is a no-brainer. Just do it.

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/

There are renewable powered alternatives to much of this. But only if other heavy users like Data Centres aren’t prioritised. Production of bio-fuels from feedstuff will have to be re-examined too. We are burning the equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread a day in Europe.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Gen AI is developed and ran by eugenicist freaks and Epstein class creeps (and, yes, Anthropic is deeply enmeshed in Palantir and Peter Thiel's fuckery) Boycott. I cannot see how it is controversial.

“The biggest scandal is that the European Commission is open to this lobbying,” said @bramvranken.bsky.social in conversation with Carole Cadwalladr at #ijf26, following our @investigate-europe.eu revealing that Big Tech wrote the EU law article hiding their data centres' environmental footprint

President Catherine Connolly has warned that the world is drifting towards a “might is right” approach to global affairs, as she delivered her first address abroad at an international summit in Barcelona jrnl.ie/7016654

Here's the link to the #1926Census of #Ireland which just went live, in case anyone is looking for it. Happy searching! nationalarchives.ie/collections/... #IrishFamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy

T&E is joining 30 European NGOs, including Oxfam, WWF and CAN Europe, in calling on the EU to tax excess oil profits. Once again, drivers’ pain is Big Oil’s gain. Instead of governments putting the burden on taxpayers, it’s time that oil companies pay up. Read the full letter here ➡️ bit.ly/483cz6y

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought - Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas #AMOC #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lelia Doolan is a powerhouse. I’ve seen her energy in person in Galway and she is the real deal. We should all hope to have this much drive and dedication. She's a legend. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊 More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEW: Analysis from @globalwitness.org shows windfall global oil companies are likely to make if oil prices remain elevated for the rest of year $234bn Meanwhile it's reasonable to expect there'll be people struggling to afford to stay warm by end 2026 www.theguardian.com/environment/...