This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.

Also - everyone with a Facebook account knew there was going to be a huge spoiled vote, but the vast majority of Ireland's "leaders" did ... the sum total of absolutely fuck all to avert it. The spoiled votes and the turnout are not Catherine Connolly's fault - they are firmly the fault of FF/FG.

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Silicon Valley is worthless. They used to make shit now every company is some AI grift. Every fucking one. No talent there anymore. Just huckster losers remaking the same scam over and over.

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

Click here to read his name.

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Same energy

This sign @glopan.bsky.social spotted made me laugh

Started watching Columbo. This may be the greatest show ever made. My prior Columbo experience outside of pop culture osmosis is Peter Falk in Wings Of Desire. Wenders told us the truth: he was an angel.

NO ONE WANTS AI VIDEOS MADE OF THEM WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Yup. The thing that endangers officers isn't that people say "fascism." It's that people can see them doing the fascism, whether or not anybody uses the term.

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Nice argument. However, I have already depicted myself as a smoking velocipede queen and you as a flopping fop.

Yeah...

Always encouraged us to respect other people and think for ourselves.

And now, the German Child Protection Association comes out against EU digital chat control brusselssignal.eu/2025/10/germ... And also EU Diplomats could not agree today & have called off the planned vote next week. orf.at/stories/3407...

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic). But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

Foone is awesome and has shared so many cool things over the years. Throw them a few bucks if you can spare it!

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

That Cat can ball!

I asked her what she would have thought if the gov. opened all her correspondence with surgeons about their patients to take copies for future use, just in case. She was horrified. That's #ChatControl. 2/2

Happy invincibles day to all who celebrate! #Arsenal

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

#Sumud Thomas McCune: “I'm an Irish citizen, and if you're watching this video, I have been illegally abducted by Israeli occupation forces and taken against my will. “Please contact Simon Harris and the Department of Foreign Affairs to demand my immediate release.

I've witnessed this at work with HR people tbh.

"i just use it to generate ideas"

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives *For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

Sinclair is caving and bringing back Kimmel. Money, folks. Public pressure. They dont have the numbers. Remember this and increase the efforts.

"Un-buh-leavable!" The compulsive urge to yell out Leeloo Dallas Multipass as I behold this polygonal Ruby Rhod

There's a reason they seem to be mostly targeting women to beat up, and we all know what it is.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

This is literally it. OpenAI is fucking burning money!

it's easy to get bogged down in the arguments transphobes pretend to be making but in the end they are just people who spend more time thinking about kid genitals than pediatric urologists

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

This is brilliant.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

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From ‘selfie cruise’ to ‘Hamas flotilla’ – Israel smears humanitarian convoy as prelude to attack David Adler—The logic is clear: To set the stage for a violent interception. The flotilla is backed by sixteen governments, who have warned Israel against attacking #GSF www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...