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Music and some other things Stone Club 3929 Pondie
#leavethefoxesalone
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Reeko - Segmento 5
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segmento 5, by Reeko
from the album Ella (episodio III)
https://reeko-mdisorder.bandcamp.com/track/segmento-5
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Kameron Hurley
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"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers."
www.positive.news/society/revo...
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Revolutionary therapy treats ‘untreatable’ blood cancer
Gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers
https://www.positive.news/society/revolutionary-therapy-treats-untreatable-blood-cancer/
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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones
about 18 hours ago
Kildromalive: Standing stone in a field on the Beara Way above Adrigole, north of the Drumlave stone row, Co. Cork.
#StandingStoneSunday
A lovely setting with Mount Mass rising behind and sweeping views over the hills. It's about 1.8m (6ft) high, square-ended and chunky.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
about 20 hours ago
Journalists: Want your investigations to reach younger audiences & have a greater impact? Submit your story to the Investigative Journalism Game Jam, where journalists collaborate with world-class indie developers to transform reporting into in-browser games.
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Ireland against Fascism
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A thousand times this 👇👇👇
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TJ McIntyre
1 day ago
You could support your local digital rights group fighting biometric surveillance :)
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Digital Rights Ireland welcomes €550,000 fine for illegal PSC Biometric data gathering - Digital Rights Ireland
Today’s decision leaves the government in a very serious situation. It has spent hundreds of millions of euro on an illegal PSC project.
https://www.digitalrights.ie/digital-rights-ireland-welcomes-e550000-fine-for-illegal-psc-biometric-data-gathering/
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Simon McGarr
2 days ago
This article is a very useful reframing of the tired “Europe falling behind in tech” whinge. Europe has actually build the foundations for socially useful tech, for decades. What it has not done is attempt to create Empires by extracting cash from that work.
ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...
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Why there’s no European Google?
Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html
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Riana
2 days ago
This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025. Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.
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Philip O'Connor
3 days ago
Folks involved in youth work in Dublin city: A friend of mine who is a youth worker here in Stockholm is coming to Dublin for a few days to take part in an EU project, and he and his colleagues would LOVE to visit any youth centres there while in town. Hit me up with your best suggestions!
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Oppa Reacts - #NAFO #FELLA
17 days ago
How To Make A Palaeolithic Hand Axe: Flint Knapping with Phil Harding
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#stone
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#prepper
#history
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#handaxe
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How To Make A Palaeolithic Hand Axe: Flint Knapping with Phil Harding
YouTube video by wessexarchaeology
https://youtu.be/9KEMHzWORCY?si=MHBF2eBeqAZYW09n
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Neon Genesis Ewangelion
3 days ago
OH BOY, AM I EVER
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Volunteers wanted to to live on Skomer Island and count puffins
Successful applicants will spend several months helping conservation efforts on Skomer Island.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdexjz58e3zo
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Joe Noonan
3 days ago
“After being hit by US sanctions, the International Criminal Court is moving away from Microsoft Office to an open source office suite and a Swiss-based email platform to reduce its exposure to foreign political decisions.” - Brian Honan
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Why a gradual move away from US tech is a good idea
For a small business in Cork or a family in Galway, digital sovereignty means not waking up one day to find that your email, documents, or photos are suddenly inaccessible because a foreign leader thr...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41783894.html
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The Register
3 days ago
ICYMI: Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google
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Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google
Researchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people The mobile app emperors have no clothes. Apple and Google have made millions of dollars from AI apps that let users undress people even as both companies claim to ban such software from their stores, according to a new study.…
http://dlvr.it/TQd3X9
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Arcas De Disco
4 days ago
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Futurism
4 days ago
"Humanity needs to wake up."
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Anthropic CEO Warns That the AI Tech He's Creating Could Ravage Human Civilization
Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei is back with a 19,000-word essay posted to his blog, warning that "humanity needs to wake up."
https://trib.al/8R4wfXX
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NPR
4 days ago
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
n.pr/4c3cdzs
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To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
https://n.pr/4c3cdzs
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The Ditch
4 days ago
Claiming antisemitism is a serious problem in Ireland, Martin and Harris cited an organisation accused of major factual distortions – and whose vice president, an ex-IDF general, had to cancel a trip to South Africa for fear of a war crimes arrest.
www.ontheditch.com/martin-and-h...
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Martin cites organisation accused of academic failures
Its vice president recently had to cancel a trip to South Africa for fear of being arrested for war crimes.
https://www.ontheditch.com/martin-and-harris-cite-organisation/
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Massimo
4 days ago
Wales is set to criminalize political lies during elections—should the world follow its lead? The Welsh Labour government is pushing forward with a groundbreaking bill hailed as "globally pioneering," aimed at rebuilding public confidence and improving the quality of democratic debate. If enacted...
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InfoSec
4 days ago
AI Is Rewriting Compliance Controls and CISOs Must Take Notice
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AI Is Rewriting Compliance Controls and CISOs Must Take Notice
AI agents are now executing regulated actions, reshaping how compliance controls actually work. Token Security explains why CISOs must rethink identity, access, and auditability as AI becomes a digital employee.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-is-rewriting-compliance-controls-and-cisos-must-take-notice/
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Nature Portfolio
5 days ago
Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool technology in Asia lagged behind Europe and Africa during this period. 🏺 🧪
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Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago - Nature Communications
Stone tools illustrate behavioural complexities in Middle Pleistocene hominin populations. Here, the authors present small dimensional flakes and hafted tools from Xigou, central China, dated to ~160–72 thousand years ago that demonstrate early, complex technological advancements.
https://go.nature.com/4q8av3n
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The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (2024)
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Perpetual Dawn (2024 Version), by The Orb
from the album Orboretum: The Orb Collection
https://theorb.bandcamp.com/track/perpetual-dawn-2024-version
5 days ago
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DREAMFEEL art, video games & stories
5 days ago
Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel! A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats. Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
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George Hahn
5 days ago
My name is George, and it’s been 475 days since my last purchase from Amazon.
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Hypervisible
5 days ago
A review of the app stores “found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store…”
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Apple, Google host dozens of AI ‘nudify’ apps like Grok, report finds
A tech watchdog organization found 55 nudify apps on Google Play and 47 in the Apple App Store.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/27/apple-google-host-dozens-of-ai-nudify-apps-like-grok-report-finds.html
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Peter Kirn
5 days ago
Unfortunately, this is confirmed news. Not remotely what you want to see. Wishing everyone at NI the best in a tough time, and hoping that in the restructuring process, the tools find a good home. Details:
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Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...
https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
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This is crap, hope a solution is found.
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5 days ago
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Ulster Archaeological Society
5 days ago
Our thanks to Dr Paddy Gleeson for his amazing talk on the landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland last night. Watch it here:
www.youtube.com/live/qc6r49z...
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#IrishArchaeology
#UlsterArchaeology
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Rossa McMahon
5 days ago
Once again the Government demonstrates remarkable ability to achieve things that nobody wanted and many are actively against.
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Foggy Notions
5 days ago
Agnes Obel @ National Concert Hall Dublin Saturday July 25th. Tickets on sale Friday 9am
www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
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Agnes Obel | National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.
https://www.nch.ie/all-events-listing/agnes-obel-jul26/
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Una Mullally
6 days ago
The doctors and therapists treating people experiencing A.I. delusions and suffering from A.I. chatbot-induced psychosis.
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How Bad Are A.I. Delusions? We Asked People Treating Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/chatgpt-delusions-psychosis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVA.GcHy.iTLlfhuXo3zW&smid=url-share
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Kneecap
6 days ago
This Wednesday our new single ‘Liars Tale’ will world premiere on Jack Saunders BBC Radio 1 new music show. 🔥 🔴Artwork by Gianni Clifford ⚫️Photo by Tom Beard Pre-save link:
kneecap.lnk.to/LiarsTale
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Liars Tale
Listen to content by KNEECAP.
https://kneecap.lnk.to/LiarsTale
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Elizabeth Lopatto
6 days ago
wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
“The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok
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Olga Nesterova
6 days ago
France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.
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The Register
6 days ago
AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup
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AI adoption at work flatlined in Q4, says Gallup
Points to a use-case problem AI adoption in the workplace stalled in the fourth quarter of 2025, but those who have already started using it are making increased use of it, according to a survey by pollster Gallup. Don't let that fool you into thinking AI is taking over work, though: frequent AI users are still a tiny minority of overall workers.…
http://dlvr.it/TQZT1b
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Steve Peers
6 days ago
Confirmed - EU Commission opens investigation into X as regards Grok nudifications - and also widens its earlier investigation into X to include recommender systems -
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Background in context of the previous fine against X here:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
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Commission investigates Grok and X\'s recommender systems under the Digital Services Act
The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_203
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Investigator515
7 days ago
Microsoft is Not Your Friend, They Never Were…
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Microsoft is Not Your Friend, They Never Were…
The company has quite a long history of duping customers into thinking it looks out for your best interests with fake security features…
https://radiohackers.com/microsoft-is-not-your-friend-they-never-were-0d37e1b2d11e?source=rss----8946e9a3c7a6---4
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Vintage Obscura Radio
7 days ago
Naked City - The Bitter And The Sweet (Avant Garde/Jazz) [1993]
https://redd.it/cw8ldh
https://youtu.be/3TjuxW7Knfw
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Naked City - The Bitter And The Sweet (Avant Garde/Jazz) [1993]
https://youtu.be/3TjuxW7Knfw
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET
7 days ago
In other news ... The Buddhist Monks Still going strong Just left Raleigh North Carolina enroute to Washington DC WALK FOR PEACE 🕊 They Ask for Nothing They Walk for Peace May this clip bring you PEACE
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚
8 days ago
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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From scorpions to peacocks: the species thriving in London’s hidden microclimates
An extraordinary mosaic of wildlife has made Britain’s urban jungle its home
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/24/from-scorpions-to-peacocks-species-thriving-london-hidden-microclimates-britain-urban-jungle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Lady Tina Murphy
7 days ago
The Irish people are familiar with how Ireland is run. Other people are becoming familiar now...
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LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸
7 days ago
#StandingStoneSunday
The ‘Crawstane’ class I Pictish symbol stone from the Rhynie royal complex, circa 4-6 centuries CE. Tap o’ Noth Iron Age hill fort (also re-used by the Picts) in the background.
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7 days ago
Dry Tree Menhir on Goonhilly Downs
#cornwall
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Mark S. Williamson
7 days ago
Menhir du Champ de Caesar, Vendée, France. Photo from around 2003/4. It’s a big one.
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A standing stone (of sorts) in Church Of Ireland Graveyard, Kells, Co Meath. You can see the sundial, suspected sword sharpening marks and top left some carvings.
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Aidan O'Sullivan
9 days ago
Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from Archaeological excavations Only €9.99 as an ebook from
@ria.ie
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Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100
How did people create and live in their own worlds in early medieval Ireland? What did they actually do? And to what end did they do it? This book investigates and reconstructs from archaeological evi...
https://shop.ria.ie/products/early-medieval-ireland-ad-400-1100-the-evidence-from-archaeological-excavations
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Every day listen to Crass
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The Feeding Of The 5000, by Crass
18 track album
https://crass.bandcamp.com/album/the-feeding-of-the-5000
9 days ago
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Tuatha
9 days ago
Jadeitite Axehead • Donegal This beautiful axe tells a story of trade, travel, and value in Neolithic Ireland. Analysis revealed that it came from the Italian Alps, over 1500km away from where it was found in Donegal. On display in
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes
9 days ago
🏺 Some gorgeous lithics from Orozmani, Georgia, just 20km from Dmanisi, also c. 1.8 Ma. (good to remember when dealing with claims of unexpectedly old sites in other places, that even extremely ancient hominins were producing unambiguous artefact assemblages)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Taryn de Vere
9 days ago
Excellent result for all of us pushing for this.
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Kneecap
9 days ago
The Paddies are back...
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