BREAKING: Netherlands to ban 'addictive, polarising & anti-democratic algorithms' Govt wants 'enforceable EU minimum age of 15 for social media with privacy-friendly age verification as long as social media are not sufficiently secure.' #coalitieakkoord www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/documenten/2...

A decent piece on far right links in Ireland with Australian neo nazis

Check it out. An Clogán website is now live.

A deep dive on two key figures in the Irish far right. hopeandcourage.ie/plastic-pay-...

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

Solid journalism

Sídhe is the most amazingly talented linocut print maker I've seen in Ireland. Check them out www.instagram.com/possoms8?igs...

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.

This speaker at yesterdays Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.' The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him. McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland

The National Party, Blighe and Steenson marched in Cork at the weekend under a 'WWG1WGA' banner. Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory. These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.

Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

Warning From the shithole But Good work from @soundmigration.bsky.social x.com/soundmigrati...

This is class

Need to be extremely clear that the technical justifications offered in this piece are fucking jibberish. You do not make the WiFi better by adding more APs from another network that is effectively unmanaged in the same spectrum.

From Hope and Courage Collective 'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically. Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'

UPDATE ON MY LATEST PODCAST: Oregon’s Dept of Justice agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the man wrongly convicted of Michael Francke’s murder—he served 29 years in prison before his release. This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer? Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧

Preliminary thoughts: astonishment. The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions. Gov't showed up and refused.

The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.

The Trump regime invited a washed up organized crime linked rapist to give a speech about Ireland on St Paddy’s day because of course they did.

On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia about the Paris AI Action Summit, whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and what an embrace of AI security means for AI governance.

Some boy @johnnyryan.bsky.social. class stuff

We will start seeing people fleeing the US seeking international protection before Trump's presidency ends.

This is great and you should read it:

2/2 #Project2025 training video: “It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek" @propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social

Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days... The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

If you’ve been an involved participant whom they’ve found useful (which I don’t know if Coristine was) and then try to leave, groups like this will threaten to do things like firebomb your home, hire a person to rape a woman you love, or put a hit out on you. These connections compromise Coristine.

🚨 Coristine was involved with “The Com” (likely where he came to law enforcement attention, as reported by Bloomberg upthread): krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... “The Com” is a CYBERCRIME network with connections to child sexual exploitation: cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-... h/t @dell.bsky.social

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.

Beef Plan Movement calls for a repeal of Ireland's Climate Act based on disinformation on compliance costs and the role of methane as a greenhouse gas - and this article uncritically repeats the disinformation. The Irish farming press has a lot to answer for. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

The NYPD overtime-to-pension scheme is one of the most insane legal hustles I have ever seen. It has cost the city billions already. It makes absolutely no sense!

I cannot emphasize enough how stupid it is to publicly threaten DOGE employees with violence. You might think it's fun to blow off steam, but trust me: the FBI raiding your home at 5am is not fun. A federal criminal case will bankrupt you and ruin your life and career.

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men, all between the ages of 19-24, who have negligible experience but are now playing critical roles in Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. government. From @telliotter.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

Mass demonstrations in Los Angeles, more that 10,000 people showed up to protest against Trump's ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. They gathered to protect the immigrant community which is being hunted down by ICE. #3E #USprotests #ICE "we shout for those who can't."

Exactly what her job is.

Cracking research www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

'Stepping in to replace Bokkerink in the interim is Doug Gurr, a former Amazon executive and veteran of clashes with the regulator he will now chair. No wonder large tech firms are feeling hopeful.' www.politico.eu/article/uk-a...

A right wing government supported by a right wing Ceann Comhairle - installed by the right government - is pushing for right wing TDs - who negotiated the creation of the right wing government - to take time from a left wing opposition? Obvious attempt to capture the Dail.

Rogan interview with Zuckerberg that dropped this morning is something to behold. basically him dumping years of anger at the media, the government, social discussion clearly all pent up for years and now allowing himself to do it because of Trump coming to power www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1e...