How any more days of this can we withstand before we just vanish into the sea?

oh great

But can I focus long enough to read any of it?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The Black & Tan hodgepodge uniforms are a little on the nose

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This headline should read: "World's richest man decides to start charging for his CSAM factory" He did NOT turn it off, he realised it is profitable

I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.

This insistence on appeasement - this cowardice - is debasing, embarrassing - & - IT WILL NOT WORK Look at Maria Machado, she bent over backwards to praise and appease these guys, and what did she get? Passed over They got what they wanted from her & saw no obligation to return the favour

Real subtle, Jeff. Real subtle

“It’s not an ideal situation for international law” Irish Minister right now 🫠

"in our hemisphere" 😐

US disclosed that Cyber Command conducted cyber operations to suppress Venezuelan defenses during th strike on Caracas. Non-kinetic cyber effects from US Cyber Command were deployed before kinetic strikes began, playing a major role in neutralizing air defense systems. No details

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

By pure coincidence- a piece I wrote for @irishexaminer.bsky.social was published this morning www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

It means absolutely nothing to anyone concerned right now but here's what the United Nations says about kidnapping Heads of State. legal.un.org/ilc/texts/in...

Maduro is awful but this is a bad move. No clear objective, likely to induce rally-around-the-flag in Venezuela (not the U.S. as Trump hopes), and some of the dumbest people available leading the effort.

A note that just because the President of the United States used the word 'captured' doesn't mean news organisations should just use it without attribution... or maybe at all really?

It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone. An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor: "Thank you, friends. We are home. This is not a protocol. It is a feeling. In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution... www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...

Asshole www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Amazon secures permission to build three data centres in North Dublin

I've a piece in the paper today

AI is doing to words - literature, journalism, entertainment - what polyester did our clothing There used to be natural fabrics and clothes meant something; now we are drowning in shitty, toxically & exploitatively produced crap, and yes most is cheap but even high end stuff is also now mostly sh!t

‘The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year… Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade’ on.ft.com/4pTQ3US

I honestly don’t know why we buy children toys 📦

Adopt far-right policies to stop the far right gaining influence - continues to be the stupidest idea in European politics today. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

📻 I’m going to be on @rteone.rte.ie shortly to talk MAGA madness Will try my hardest not to say “batshit” live on air 🦇

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

The European Commission is now digging deeper in to our complaint against Ireland’s process by which Ireland appointed ex-Meta lobbyist as its Data Protection Commissioner www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

If gave you €1 every second since you were born: You would have €1 million within a week and a half. You would have €1 billion by 32. You would never have €1 trillion. Generations upon generations after you would not reach €1 trillion. Because it would take over 31,700 years to reach €1 trillion.

Always nice to see our work picked up and amplified by other, bigger media. These survey results have been on RTÉ radio, Newstalk, FM104, and others are planning to cover it too.

The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom

Don't get your hopes up yet, but it looks like Geert Wilders is on track for a pretty bad performance in the Netherlands election this week. If this poll is right, it looks like making a non-Wilders coalition will be pretty easy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Connolly was advised to avoid her hobby of rollerblading down Galway’s prom for fear of injury." 🤌 Jack Horgan-Jones piece inside the successful Catherine Connolly campaign: From gaining cross-party support to digital dexterity www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I realise this isn't the point but if I'm reading this right, we're about to get ourselves President CMAC #áras25 #spéirgorm

Make that the highest absolute number AND highest percentage in the history of that state Newsletter in inboxes: www.thebriefing.ie/highest-perc...

It’s official - highest percentage AND highest absolute number of votes in the history of the presidency More than Dev, more than Michael D. #Aras25

With 3 constituencies left to count - Catherine Connolly has received the highest number of votes of any candidate for presidency in the history of the state According to @womenforelection.bsky.social data - MDH in 2018 had 822k #Aras25

First few official results now coming in for #aras25: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

CC’s win was so evident, so early, that I fear we’ve jumped right over it to debating the meaning of spoilt votes The reasons will be as diverse as voters -who put 10 parties & 10% indies in the Dái— are But that won’t stop the fight to own the narrative #Aras25 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Tally in Rathdown with 62% of boxes opened This is the heart of the leafy blue suburbs #Aras25

Two women who were canvassing in support of Catherine Connolly in north Dublin have allegedly been assaulted.

I did a roundup post of what turned out to be a very weird #Aras25 In 12 newsletters, 3 newspaper articles, & a fair few media bits, my goal has been to get on the record the ephemera of the digital campaign Reviewing it, its striking how much is already erased www.thebriefing.ie/aras25-campa...

I did a roundup post of what turned out to be a very weird #Aras25 In 12 newsletters, 3 newspaper articles, & a fair few media bits, my goal has been to get on the record the ephemera of the digital campaign Reviewing it, its striking how much is already erased www.thebriefing.ie/aras25-campa...

I've a piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social today about the #Aras25 "election cancelled" deepfake I look at 4 potential motivations for going to the lengths they went to Including my current pet theory is that it was a marketing push by a deepfake tech vendor www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

In the @irishtimes.com today I highlight 3 moments that won Catherine Connolly the online campaign in #Aras25 I also sneak in my big picture take: she won the internet because influencers talked about her; which they did because left unity made coming out viable www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

🗣️ "The technology, for the moment, has outpaced the legitimate requirement for us to be educated in that regard. And that's where this problem emerges.” - Technology Editor, Irish Independent Adrian Weckler #TonightVMTV

We've a new piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the decision by Meta and Google to ban political, social and issue-based ads in the European Union. It's a seismic shift for European campaigning, but there won't be any winners: www.techpolicy.press/meta-and-goo...