460 former EU political figures have called on the EU to take tougher action against Israel. Incl. former Irish leaders Leo Varadkar and Eamon Gilmore, as well as former EP President Pat Cox and former PMs Italy’s Massimo d’Alema and Romano Prodi, Slovenia’s Robert Golob and Sweden’s Stefan Lofven

Education News: University College Cork this week hosts the Israel-supporting EU's College of Commissioners.

This week, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social talks to researchers Hal Triedman and Tingwei Zhang about how marketing companies are poisoning AI search results by manipulating Reddit. And yeah, it's really just that simple. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED, AND THANK YOU,WARREN BUFFETT....

This is something I highlight in convos. The content & the work is human but packaged as a shiny thing that lives in the cloud. The extractivism & exploitation is real. Please watch @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social; as workers we must show solidarity with annotators & labellers. #ResistAI

I made a dumb mistake in this piece: When I said I calculated that drinking a cup of coffee every morning is the emissions equivalent of driving 100 miles in a gas car, I meant every morning FOR A YEAR. I think it's my first correction for @canarymedia.com. I'm sorry, I'm super-anal about accuracy.

For more, here's our investigation with @drilledmedia.bsky.social:

New horticulture degree course. kclr96fm.com/setu-launche...

people gotta stop taking Tesla's settlements... we already have a >$200m settlement on the books, nobody should be settling for under nine figures, visit www dot get his ass dot com for more information

Just think of the productivity gains here. They’re good, but there’s simply no way humans can outpace ai at sending useless emails

The think pieces on how nuclear (and gas for that matter) can’t be relied upon will be along any second now, right?

Thread 🧵 🔥 It's Friday, early morning and it's 23C outside. We’re right at the end of another record breaking heatwave. Until the next one that is. #passivhaus #summer #comfort

A Tunis court has sentenced Sihem Bensedrine, a prominent human rights defender and former president of the Truth and Dignity Commission, to a total of 25 years in prison and a heavy fine, apparently in retaliation for her work.

I like it.

Trying something a little different at Blood in the Machine this week, something that no one has ever attempted or thought of before: A podcast. The idea is to document the vital and widening resistance to big tech and AI, and give the mic to the voices behind it.

Spoiler alert: CCS will never work at the scale necessary (and assumed in many models!) to blunt the climate crisis. The great @katieworth.bsky.social has well and truly put this myth to rest (with an assist from me and @themadstone.bsky.social at @drilledmedia.bsky.social)

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

Thank you to @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social for publishing the results of our M50 survey this morning. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

'I don’t understand a world where the consequences of speaking out against a genocide seem worse than the consequences for the people actually enacting a genocide' - Ciara Mageean www.irishexaminer.com/sport/others...

A livable planet or shitty pictures, what a tough choice.

Up last night. Bless this family for this unbelievable loss over a disputed allegation of diaper theft. And bless the detailed and very human coverage by the @mississippifreepress.org reporting team. THIS is what we mean by people-centered journalism. It’s not less hard-hitting, it’s more.

I wrote this 7 years ago In it I called for cities to better embrace greenery, reflective coatings, water and shading to tackle urban heat. More relevant than ever…. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

So it seems if a planning inspector uses LLM's ("ai") in writing a report, that the high court will consider that grounds to overturn the inspectors report. Aughinish Alumina waste dump. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

There should be no new planning permission given if more than 20% of the houses in an area are empty. That might at least put some community pressure on people sitting on empty houses

I grew up with Alan Greenspan being treated as a sage voice of economic reason. Then I discovered he spent his early career as a fully paid-up Ayn Rand cultist (part of the 'collective' who read Atlas Shrugged in manuscript) and I realized that he was just another libertarian loon.

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

Well this sucks. Ridiculous how little support night and sleeper trains EU gives Vs welfare queens like Ryanair

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

Andy Burnham sworn in to cheers of ‘Rome is saved’ and a heckle of ‘he’s not the messiah.’ A man chosen by 25,000 voters in one town, greeted as a deliverance by colleagues who will shortly crown him without troubling anyone else. The comedy writes itself, and they know it. #Spéirghorm

Team Iran is definitely taking the high road in the World Cup games.

Americans still don't seem to realize what this says about our auto safety regulation system

so sick and burnt out last week I missed my own Irish Examiner op-ed on how communities have organised to resist the far right and repair the damage left behind once politicians have lost interest and the press have moved on to the next story www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

Welcome to the Center for Intellectual Freedom, our new campus initiative to diversify—uh, broaden—course offerings! We want to open conversations and have more inclusive—uh, wide-ranging—topics! You are required to take our courses.

So that'll be, what, 7 PMs in the last ten years in the UK? Thank god for the stability first past the post voting creates in political systems, eh

UK Met Office have now issued a rare red warning for heat for Wednesday and Thursday. Temperatures possibly rising to 40c there.

"The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled." Good to see research back up something I've been saying for years.

An interesting study from Italy that chimes with what I was told in university over 30 years ago. Having visited the study area years ago, I learned that the Stradivarius violins, made using Sitka Spruce, owe their unmatched tonal quality to the little ice age. m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

The alleged trillionaire promised to end hunger for 6 billion and never delivered. Just like the self driving technology

We’re like ten years away from ads on cop cars.

It is really this easy. Take any *cognitive capacity* X. For instance, X = reasoning, learning, communicating, summarizing, reading, writing, etc. If any one asks: Can an LLM do X? You can answer: “No, LLMs cannot do X, because X is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none” LLMs are decoys.

Just say you’re not returning to the table, lads. It’s simpler.

China: Li Wang (King plum). Japan: Riou (李王 / りおう) Hybrid Oishi Wase x Soldam. Fruit weighs 90 to 120g. The skin from a light crimson to deep red-purple as it ripens, flesh is pale yellow. Harvested mainly in early July. foodslink.jp/syokuzaihyak... www.kudamononavi.com/zukan/plum/r...

If you’re new here, hi!! I’m Meg. A scientist, artist, and science communicator.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

BBC: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being bombed in her home by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran. The National Institutes of Health,… accounts for a fraction of 1 percent of all federal spending” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

“A slow, heavy desert lizard called the Gila monster can go months between meals. In the early 1990s, a physician-scientist named John Eng grew curious about how it keeps its blood sugar steady across those long fasts… Years later, a synthetic version of that molecule became the first GLP-1 drugs”

So the world’s only trillionaire, who hates taxes, opposes wealth redistribution, wants to cut public spending, and barely gives to charity, wants you to think he will lead the world to abundance for all if you buy his robots? How has that worked so far?