FT exclusive: “The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.” via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Moss is there telling everyone what the law is, what ethics are, and that TikTok is a big company. Meade and O'Brion are waffling and deflecting. Can we get someone in the room who can interrogate them please. #speirgorm www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

Political ad of the year... Although IMO its not just a failure of leadership at the top levels, it is far more pervasive than that.

Most academic books have boring descriptive titles but occasionally...

Look what I just saw over @unioflimerick.bsky.social #speirgorm

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

My line of work is rather uncommon: I'm an editor specialized in comms and editorial in the IGO/security sector – specifically disarmament issues I've done such work since '03, though I've worked with words since waxboards and scissors. I regret that such work is still necessary. Nonetheless

I'm chuffed to kick of my semicentennial year by hanging out my shingle in Ireland, all proper like: www jclarkpowers ie So, if you yourself would like to disarm, or know of someone who should, give me a shout – I can help you talk about it.

Follow along, kids! 😊

Oh my god this lady rules. I love this. Just make fun of these poseurs.

Micheal Martin

We always needed hard power in the regulation of social media. Years of work to regulate; codes of practice, legislation, Digital Services Act and in the end a platform can provide child abuse images for days without impediment. And sees it rocket to the top of app download charts. #speirgorm

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

Absolutely thrilled to see this in print. Looking forward to reading all the chapters over the break. Pleasure to work with both Deirdre and Mary.

Well @niamhkirk.bsky.social Would you look at that 😎 For once, dog did not eat post

EXCLUSIVE New research shows for first time the impact influencers have on politics. Key findings: • Creators are more impactful than traditional media • Apolitical influencers have more impact than political ones • Regular social media use pushes users to the right www.wired.com/story/the-mo...

My second post about researchers’ rights to scrape data under DSA Article 40.12 is up! This is dense with legal arguments for researchers to use if they get sued. Or to show their lawyers before that. www.techpolicy.press/how-the-mean... verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fine-x-r...

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Doing the bare minimum to meet regulation 🙄 Ireland's regulation needs teeth and updating. It's been nearly 15 years since the UK required newstitles to have a dedicated webpage for the corrections and clarifications. And still no systematic reviews to identify systematic problems.

Drummer says #foxhunting is disgusting and should be banned. #speirgorm

Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots. @iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...

Ivan just gave a solid argument for an investigation into Irish media for conflicts of interest. He just threw himself and every other Irish journalist under the bus. The public should know who else is double dealing. It's a question of the trustworthiness of Irish journalism

The Irish Times has a “think-piece” written by a registered Arms Industry lobbyist without mentioning that he’s an arms industry lobbyist. #BuyAPaper

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Irish media not being able to help themselves today!!! #Aras25 #speirgorm

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a national media, asking it to please please not hyperfocus on spoiled votes today. Spoiled votes, like their voters, should be ignored. At best a footnote.

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has cast her her vote in the presidential election before pedalling off from her Co Galway polling station. Get the latest polling day updates at The Journal.

For one, the whole smear that led to the broader 'cab rank' discussion... So, your point is that your opponent does the hard thing when required and right, setting aside personal issues. Fair play, guys. Gooaal 🥳

I dunno about Humphreys strategy of are having a go at the banking sector and the legal profession.

My advice to early career researchers: Don’t do stuff for free and don’t work with assholes.

Just like folks respectfully overlook editors and journalists married to politicians...because although it seems there is a conflict of interest...we give people the benefit of the doubt that they will perform their jobs well. 🧐 www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Spoiling a vote is not an act of protest. People might feel like it is but it's never treated as a unified message to government. When the count comes in, the X% of spoiled votes are understood as the folks who can't figure out order of preference. It comes to nothing in the end...

this is wild

It's not a great look, in all honesty. Given that Connolly opponents are worried she will burn bridges, it's a bit ironic. I guess we all have our weak spots and Heather's is the Left.

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists. Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

Belfast-based Irish News is restructuring around video, newsletters, and events, I read in @niemanlab.org, via @pressgazette.co.uk. While print isn’t going away, editor-in-chief Chris Sherrard says it’s going from 70% of the newsroom’s primary focus to 'nobody’s primary focus'."

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Item 10 youtu.be/Rdz6kH0eAOs

'A source of evil of the first magnitude': the Catholic Church's prolonged campign against the dance hall and for a licensing system for dancing led to the 1935 Public Dance Halls Act. Analysis by Daniel Carey @dublincityuni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

My article on the Catholic Standard's criticism of dance halls in the 1920s and 1930s, part of my @researchireland.ie funded research @dublincityuni.bsky.social is now available to read @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

Almost 100 pages masquerading as online Irish stores have attempted to scam shoppers using more than 50,000 Meta ads, according to a new investigation by ‪@investigates.thejournal.ie‬

Online Safety Act was botched from the start | The Times https://alecmuffett.com/article/114434 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn

This is one of the councillors who Gareth Sheridan has support from. #SpeirGorm

Another reason to rebrand this type of AI as scabtech @jclarkpowers.bsky.social

New from my colleague @disinfozo.bsky.social at @isdglobal.org examining the emerging alliances between Irish far-right groups (so called "nationalists") south of the border with Northern Irish loyalists and the British far-right: www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

The world's loosest shackles 🏠

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

There seems to an above average number of prominent Irish women in space given the the size of Ireland in proportion to the universe. There’s something curiously joyful about hearing an Irish accent in a galaxy far away or a fantasy realm. anharrier.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/f...