Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.

Russian propagandists and their geopolitical ambitions. This clip is from earlier this week. "And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada." "And Ireland." "He didn't ask for it." "It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day." "Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?" "How? Again?”

A survey-anyone site ranks cities. A gambling site uses that output directly in a press release. Media pick up the release, run headlines like 'Dublin among most dangerous cities in Europe.' Twitter users add their spice - it ends up in the White House. 2025 infocycle. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Man *CDC PLANS STUDY INTO VACCINES AND AUTISM: REUTERS *CDC PLANS STUDY ON POTENTIAL AUTISIM-VACCINES CONNECTION: RTRS

I had the privilege of talking to @apnews.com about WIRED's Elon Musk and politics coverage. Most important thing: We're not slowing down, we're not stopping, and we're going to cover this story, relentlessly, for as long as we need to. apnews.com/article/elon...

He is not the law. He is the president. In the United States that means he is supposed to execute laws passed by Congress, while supporting and defending the Constitution.

'Stand up for us!' Republican shouted down as he defends DOGE cuts at town hall www.rawstory.com/rich-mccormi...

"A lot of secrecy has surrounded DOGE despite Mr. Musk’s attempts to position it as 'maximally transparent.' The White House’s unwillingness to state who its administrator is only adds to that sense of opacity." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

"R1 1776 is a DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model that has been post-trained by Perplexity AI to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship. The model provides unbiased, accurate, and factual information while maintaining high reasoning capabilities"? huggingface.co/perplexity-a...

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

"This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

I have a question. What is the foreign policy of the U.S. government? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

At this point, there are only two options: A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points B) Elon really is this stupid

AI image generation is... really good. Like, really good. This was AI generated after being trained on about 10 pictures of me. I would recognise it as me, but it is not a photo that has ever been taken of me.

This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

An increasing number of Jan. 6 defendants who were pardoned by Trump have gone on the attack on social media, lashing out at the agents and prosecutors who worked on their criminal cases. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Let’s see now…

Latest work here… analysing the remarkable scale of Musk’s tweets during his first two weeks in government. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

The head of “60 Minutes” told the show’s staff on Monday that he would not apologize as part of any prospective settlement in a lawsuit brought by President Trump against CBS, according to people with knowledge of the remarks.

“We are crushing it! Palantir is here to disrupt and… to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we hope you're enjoying being a partner.” (Earnings call. Alex Karl, CEO of (Peter Thiel backed) Palantir, weaponry and software.) Is it me or do tech CEOs seem to love the new language climate?

CSPAN cut the feed after the press conference but the members of Congress and Senators have entered the main lobby where USAID HQ is located. The door is being blocked by law enforcement. Photo provided to me:

What happened with DeepSeek this week? And what does it all say about our future? Trying to figure it out here: www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Summarise all this in one word… anyone?

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

UN pledges to share document with family of killed peacekeeper @markcoughlan.bsky.social | @yvonnemurray.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Notable Bellingcat's Blue Sky account is getting 4 times the engagement with 4 times less followers than Twitter.

Multiple requests for the annulment of the vote have been lodged with the Court, some of them invoking the declassified security briefing indicating mass disinformation campaigns benefiting far-right candidate Călin Georgescu launched on TikTok and other social media platforms. 2/

Initial visualisation of the transfer patterns of the big three parties 2011 v 2024. To be honest this one is too much data for a generalist audience, but some here might be interested. (@davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social was wondering about similar.) public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

More sankey visualisations. Once the last Fine Gael candidate is eliminated, almost 60% of their transfers are going to directly Fianna Fáil. The comparable figure for Fianna Fáil to Fine Gael is 46%. The Green are getting - almost literally - none. 2% or below. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Fun fact: Sankey diagrams were invented in 1898 by an Irish engineer, Matthew Phineas Sankey. Your average Irish toddler can understand one of these quicker than Nate Silver can grok a two-party polling chart. It's in their blood. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

This is the beauty of PR-STV. The chaotic spaghetti of liberty! The electoral math of our fragmented souls!

My graph. In fairness - to me, now into hour 26 - the subhead on the graph is key here.

Election heads, get your nerd on. Irishelection.com 2.0 at this link. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

So many wrong takes here. To start, what makes the F-35 or the B-21 expensive is the software and the electronics, not the pilot per se (of course, having the pilot makes it more expensive, but the primary source of cost overrun and time delays was the software).

Shout out to Rathmines Glass, Dublin City Council cleaning crews, and all who worked to calm, protect, and pick up the pieces afterwards.

A year ago myself and Kate McDonald compiled hours of footage for scores of sources, to try to get a granular understanding of how the Dublin riots developed. In recent days we’ve returned to hear how people reflect on what happened. t.co/o3SWRJ3QCj

This is really getting quite remarkable • BlueSky user numbers have doubled in the past week and now total 3.5 million across US & UK 🚀 • Number of people deleting their X/Twitter account remains way up And the next chart is particularly notable...

New from @markcoughlan.bsky.social and myself: Russian spy ship confirmed to be operating off Dublin near cables www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

New from myself and @markcoughlan.bsky.social: "The Irish Defence Forces dispatched a specialist observation plane twice in recent days to an area of the Atlantic south of Cork where Russian naval vessels... are understood to have been traversing." www.rte.ie/news/primeti...