Over the short or long term, what’s the economy growing for. The super rich, hate, discrimination, climate breakdown and nature’s collapse. The economy certainly isn’t growing for our children, or future generations. #ClimateAction is systems change. #WellbeingEconomy

“…where geoblocked”

We're getting ready for our open day on Saturday 17th January! If you want to learn more about studying Geography @unioflimerick.bsky.social, come chat with us in EGO-010 or join a subject talk at 11am or 1pm in C1-059. We're looking forward to meeting you! #LoveUL #StudyAtUL

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

This is the best and only viable future for solving NZ’s energy cost and resilience issues. Not LNG imports, not Onslow, nor any other massive centralised capital works. Distributed, intelligent, affordable, scalable, adaptable- more genius from @volts.wtf www.volts.wtf/p/making-the...

For the first time, a Russian BM‑35 drone has reportedly been operated using Starlink, according to Flash. Experts warn it’s only a matter of time before Shahed drones follow. These systems bypass electronic warfare and strike with precision, raising urgent questions about Starlink’s safeguards.

🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com

'Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address.' www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

This was always coming. This was always the plan. This is what Trump, through intermediaries, was discussing with the January 6 insurrectionists. It was only a question of timing.

Considering recent events, we're incredulous as to why the only place you can access real time updates on delays/issues/cancellations for Irish Rail is on X. We'll be writing to them next week calling for them to move this service off X & on to their website where it's more accessible for all users.

I would have referenced it above, but I ran out of space What I’m saying here is that the cabinet have been given a legal opinion to justify them explicitly acting against the interest of individuals or groups of citizens The effects of this impunity would be stark. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-exe...

Again, I refer to my post where I write about the Attorney General’s paper where he defined the “public interest” as meaning what the Government wants to spend money on. This is the return of the Royal Prerogative to Irish law, not seen since the Irish Supreme Court killed it in the 1960s.

The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

“So now you have the Gardaí, the AI Minister and multiple legal experts including @iccl.bsky.social saying the legislation is all there already - it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the Government not to take a position on this”.

Ultimately the story itself is irrelevant… So, why do you think this 8 year old story was posted this week? Have you questioned who you blamed when you saw the headline? Do you still feel angry now you know the context? Do you feel manipulated? All good questions to sit with👍🏼 12/12

meanwhile, in direct violation of its own policies, GoFundMe has raised three-quarters of a mil to help the ICE officer who killed Renee Good.

🚨 Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots for Europe, and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group. In the week of 8 December alone, representatives met with four far-right lawmakers, with the majority of meetings referencing the Digital Omnibus.

I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.

The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

People in Ireland or connected to Ireland - please support this petition calling on Irish institutions to leave X and replace X icons with Mastodon icons ! my.uplift.ie/petitions/ta...

Over the past six years, Ireland's Data Protection Commission has levied €4.04 billion in fines, mostly on Big Tech. Just €20 million has been collected, with most cases still tied up in legal appeals. www.thestory.ie/2026/01/13/b...

Cabinet to sign-off on major plan to build data centres today. Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.

Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…

See, this is how you get everyone fired and replaced by ai.

People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.

Quick reminder: Money invested in climate protection yields many times its value. 1€ = 4,80€ (see link). So if there are conservative (and even worse) parties that actively prevent this, the logical conclusion is that these parties are destroying prosperity. taz.de/Studie-von-O...

[IE is already deep, deep into Faustian Bargain territory in our embrace of global corporate power. And there is still virtually no discussion of this deliberate, long standing, policy...]

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

You should leave X if you are a company because if you don't your social media staff will definitely end up encountering CSAM and then you and/or they may be held criminally liable.

Notable comment there from @[email protected]: "... Great! You've replaced engineering with roulette and the monkeys are controlling your pacemaker. Best of luck with that."

Fact that he is still getting paid for churning out this mundane guff is impressive

can’t wait for them to invade Greenland 😂😂

A good day for renewable electricity generation in Ireland today. From Eirgrid dashboard:

Wet and windy afternoon with winds gusting over 80kmh in a few spots now and heavy rain moving Northeast. A few go arounds for planes landing at Cork airport.

'Uruguay’s shift to renewables...demonstrated that clean energy can be cheaper, more stable, and create more jobs than fossil fuels' www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

Labelling non-violent proterters as terrorists, and charging them with a "crime" which is only a crime because of what they say and think is where the UK is now. Well done to the hunger strickers for sticking by their principles. news.sky.com/story/palest...

Pacific Ocean hits the reset button. La Niña’s icy grip collapses, signaling a rapid pivot to El Niño by fall. It’s a total atmospheric vibe shift: trade winds flip and winter gets inverted. We’re swapping predictable chills for a chaotic, warm-water driven bizarro weather map.

It’s no good Governments being slow-footed in response to this. You can’t sit back and wait for the real life consequences. It’s OK to stand powerful against such rotten conduct. And swiftly and fiercely.

So that’s how it’s going to be.

Idk I just feel we should be making a bigger deal about members of the Oireachtas speaking at an event run by anti-semitic conspiracy loon Eddie Hobbs

Researchers have spearheaded interdisciplinary research across Music Therapy, midwifery, psychiatry, and obstetrics with a specific focus on adult and perinatal mental health and a strong emphasis on Public and Patient Involvement Triona McCaffrey discusses music therapy's role

Some reading for your Sunday morning, especially if you are insisting on remaining on a platform that monetises CSAM. Staying on Twitter doesn't make you special - let that sink in philipoconnor.com/staying-on-t...

Yer son virulently hates people with pronouns but has also specifically gendered his computer chatbot so he can pretend some Python code is a cis girl.

Accurate enough to violate copyright but not accurate enough to avoid hallucinations. Approximate retrieval is tricky

This is a key point. People say it’s OK to use AI in fields they don’t value, or don’t think involve skill or art. I know a scientist who thinks it’s fine for writing, but not for research, for example - as though the writing wasn’t an intrinsic part of the research.

Legit tho ‘I think that you know as well as I do that five years from now, things are going to be five years worse, unless action is taken at both a civil society and legislative level to constrain the wanton behaviour of those with money and power and vast technological resources.’

Naomi Wolf is living proof that the profoundest stupidity can masquerade as cleverness for a surpisingly long time, given propitious conditions and sufficient privilege.

Auto brewery syndrome. Handy when you fancy another pint after closing time. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/disea...