I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.

And because we've never addressed data brokers & the public purchase exemption to the 4th Amendment, we are now all at risk of being targeted by our own government as it turns its hungry, vicious eyes inward on all of us. This information will be weaponized against all of us. I fear for the future.

Good grief. Someone put my ugly mug on the interwebs. And they put my voice in a podcast talking about stuff. Thanks to @elaineburke.bsky.social for letting this @tupped.bsky.social budget covers band share some thoughts on terms and conditions and what people can do to nudge dial on things.

Hmm. I think it might be awkward for the Irish Govt to sell an ID card requirement for Irish citizens working in UK solely on the basis that the Brits are at it again. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41... (But history has shown that they will give the mandatory/not compulsory path a very good try)

OpenAI says it will "work with" those who want out, but I can't see how that will be any more than guardrails to prevent certain prompt requests (already proving to be flimsy). I don't think this will mean removal of a body of work from model's training by request.

I’m letting you all know right now that it’s legal for me to rob you unless you go online to fill out my form, to opt out of being robbed.

“You know MCP servers, right? Those handy tools that let your AI assistant send emails, run database queries, basically handle all the tedious stuff we don't want to do manually anymore. Well, here's the thing not enough people talk about: we're giving these tools god-mode permissions.” Point.

We found a link between SARS-CoV-2 reinfection & #longCOVID, & a post-pandemic rise in thrombotic events across all populations, regardless of vaccination or prior infection. Findings support continued COVID diagnosis in suspected cases & mask use by healthcare workers treating respiratory patients

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

The community note has it right.

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Ruin a book with a car: The Thursday Mazda Club.

Ruin a book with a car: The Hatchback: An Unexpected Journey.

Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack latest from the Financial Times 😬😬😬

The UN is a bit like the foundation of an old house. Expensive to maintain and costly to repair but WOW you do not want to break it. So much of our modern world is held together by the invisible work of multilateral diplomacy. I shudder to think what the world would be like without it

Things that depend on the UN quietly doing work, #42: The internet From undersea cables to satellite radio links to the entire ITU (including the X.509 standard that's part of security for most popular websites), the UN has put in place pieces we would struggle to manage without. Really struggle.

“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

LOL

For the record the replacement post to the deleted post adds bullshit context that ignores the simple explanation for increasing cases: improved testing and diagnostic criteria. @politico.com and @politico.eu need reflect further on the effort spent to make that post kinda worse.

RTE News colluding with the extreme right when they describe Maria Steen as a “family rights campaigner” I mean, which families would those be huh? #Áras25

Has been an absolutely game-changer for several friends...there are all sorts of books, art and other great things that wouldn't be out in the world without it.

Women's Aid, the Garda Representative Association (GRA) and the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO) have called for action to be taken to address the sale of smartphone location data by brokers in the #AdTech industry ➡️ www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Without an independent FTC, will it be credible enough to enforce the EU-US Data Privacy Framework? The US will lose its most effective federal regulator of privacy. My article about FTC privacy reg with @hartzog.bsky.social is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Contentious" is far too generous. Gonna be a clusterfuck when these soft, anti-science headlines are ingested by the LLMs btw.

If you have people you know starting college or already in college you should get them to take heed of this

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

Do you know a young reader (16-24) who could help us select the next Laureate na nÓg? Applications close next Friday - we'd particularly love to hear from young people from underrepresented backgrounds or communities. More information + application form childrenslaureate.ie/young-reader...

To put Brenda's remark in context: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both running candidates and the Terenure Pharma Bro won't be spotted reading Slavoj Žižek or Naomi Klein anytime soon. What she is asking for is a *far* right candidate.

Big announcement coming tomorrow regarding my presidential campaign. Stay tuned. #GameChanger

Listen, I’m going to let you in on a secret that not even the front page of the FT will tell you. This announcement is actually a Brexit consequence. Starmer announces his signature plan! But really, it’s just because the EU is bringing in a digital ID next March 2026 and the UK wants to keep up.

Here, take a look: Now, do we think the U.K. is going to fuck up implementation of a digital ID by getting weird about brown people (and, whooo boy, trans people?) You betcha! But is this a Starmer vision moment? Nope. Just more administrative running-behind commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

The DPC’s response (we might do something if the data broker is in Ireland) is pathetically weak. This is data culled from an app or app. Those app or apps are on the Irish App Stores. This data can be cut off at source, today. But their institutionally induced coma approach simply avoids action

JD Vance to Europe: you losers have a "free speech" problem Europe: eh....

So, let's not regulate *them*. Let's look at what put them into such positions of power. Take away their monopolies. Promote ecosystems that give us BlueSky and mastodon.ie; require interoperability and open standards; stop depending on individual companies for communication strategies. Etc. 4/4

They know 4 things about regulations: 1. Regulations will assume *they* are the companies that will be around forever; 2. *They* will be among the stakeholders in the negotiation process; so 3. The regulations will lock *them* in; and 4. The regulations will lock competitors *out*. 2/4

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

What.

CCTV of Eoin Hayes checking in at SocDems think-in.

If government department, Minister and official source put out statements on Mastodon an hour before anywhere else every journalist in the country would be on it in a hot second and you'd build an alternative distributed ecosystem in a few days

HSE staff have sought out help from Ryanair to tackle waiting lists. Apparently psychological services will now charge patients extra for excess baggage.

Funny, I thought that a guy using his social media platform to call for the overthrow of the UK government would be news

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

If we cannot, in principle, trust our students not to lie in their final year, we did something wrong as educators and they do not deserve university degrees. Do you also not, in principle, trust scientists not to fabricate data? Quality btw is typically worse if they do use LLMs.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

Making coddle. Slow cooker method. I fear I may be the only one in the house who will eat it. And by “fear” I mean “hope”.

It's an entirely meaningless award invented by Jarlath O'Regan when he was auditor of the society. They give it to pretty much any famous person who is prepared to show up and give a speech for free. I turned it down.

So, what would people say to a @castlebridge.bsky.social podcast/webinar where I tease through some of the FOI, National Archives Act, and #DataGovernance considerations for Irish public bodies using #GenAI like the free MS 365 CoPilot Chat bundled in Microsoft 365? Or would this gif be enough?