Never mind the fact that malign state and non-state actors will find various techniques to deliberately feed disinformation into LLMs

Big one for phones — you can now ‘Airdrop’ (‘Quick Share’) instantly between iPhones and some Androids. Neither Apple nor Google admits it, but this is likely the result of the EU’s much-slagged DMA regulation, requiring more common standards from tech giants.

Ireland gave Ukraine 5 of its 7 air defense radars – depleting most of its own early warning capability. The Giraffe Mark IV systems detect low-flying targets at 50km, part of $76 mn in military aid from a country with minimal defense inventory euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/21/i...

There are a LOT more Nathan Gills around, including some in Ireland. Let this stern sentence be a warning to them that if you take Putin’s money you run the risk of a stern sentence like this one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Huge WhatsApp data breach. Fun fact: if the (based on the leaked one, yes I know that what's being released tomorrow is already modified) proposal to modify #GDPR passes, maybe it would not be a breach because then today's personal data no longer are personal data?? www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

Proof that the United States would be better off with a real chimp for President.

Urgent health warning before Keir Starmer does his sums for the autumn budget Wealth hoarding is a pandemic. Can someone please stop the parasites sucking us dry? 💋 📍 Brixton

The fascist alliance. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/inte...

Today's 🇪🇺Parliament vote has transformed the government of the EU. 🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy. A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:

A third man, aged in his thirties, arrested by Gardaí in Co Laois in connection with cross-border investigation into far right terror cell.

Everything is Connected.

Things gradually slotting into place.

Ireland's media regulator has launched an investigation into X It has good reasons to suspect X is not meeting its legal obligations to run a legally compliant complaints system in Ireland. It is not giving users who report unlawful content the chance to appeal www.cnam.ie/coimisiun-na...

Musk is very confused - the EU Commission president is nominated by leaders of (elected) govts and approved by the (elected) European Parliament, not 'appointed by a committee'.

A Commission official has admitted to Euractiv that President von der Leyen's office "softened" the #DemocracyShield text published today "so as not to upset the US". Our leaders only want to talk about Russia. When it comes to disinformation, the EU's biggest threat is the one who cannot be named.

Well, this is quite a serious allegation. I do hope the BBC shows true impartiality and investigate whether or not some of its Board members are systemically biased. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I’m going to start a running thread to catalogue the examples of the Government refusing to use power to safeguard itself, and British democracy from the obvious right wing populist threat. Call it #WeimarStarmer 1/n

There are no nationalists left in Europe, only the local branches of Trump International

Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage. GB News:

A question for certain people on the left: how exactly did you think rehabilitating that bald shitstain just because he was on the flotilla would end? Like, what was the expected outcome here?

Things are fine.

The RTÉ Archive is a 50 year, publicly owned and controlled repository of video, audio and documentation. Making it freely available online would create a deep well of trusted high quality info about our distant and recent past. It is a unique public resource to counteract lies or error.

If you're an angry BBC journalist with information that can wreck the careers of people you don't like, there is now a situation where it might make sense to leak it to media outlets or activists rather than run it through the BBC editorial process

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

That clip of Bannon circulating rn where he admits he's going to prison if Dems ever regain power should actually be DEEPLY ALARMING bc it outlines stakes & desperation that will likely *escalate* regime lawlessness & violence. Taking action now could help prevent that.

Three teenage boys have been arrested as part of an investigation into the riot that took place outside an Ipas centre in Saggart, Co Dublin on 21 October. jrnl.ie/6868049

Right-wing extremist terror group planned destruction of Galway Mosque, court hears. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

BYD, not fully invested in 🇪🇺, turns to Italy and is ready to ingest local component producers that used to supply ex-Fiat/Stellantis. 85 specialized firms in Turin alone have already signed contracts with BYD. Clearly a transition that could have been home-made is happening via Chinese leadership.

There are twice as many referrals to Prevent for far right extremists than there are for Islamist extremists. I'm sure GB News will be all over this... Just you wait... ...

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

There have been 4 million articles written about the alienation of young men by "the left," but I've never seen one article about the alienation of women from the right. It apparently doesn't matter to the press that women are regularly voting for Dems by huge margins because the GOP is so hostile.

The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.

An Post has asked those with family and friends in the United States not to send them certain foodstuffs, as they are not allowed under current rules. They also warned of the impact of new tariffs on packages. jrnl.ie/6867108

[Uilleann Pipes Blaring]

Just hours after Czech Parliament Speaker Tomio Okamura boasted about removing the Ukrainian flag, three new blue-and-yellow flags appeared on the building. Parties including ODS, STAN, and Piráti raised them from their office windows in defiance.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

In the last few days they've blamed the housing crisis on immigrants, the EU, and on building standards not being low enough, which will come as news to people in Donegal. Do they really think people are stupid enough to be fooled by this stuff?

I remember just a few short weeks ago when people were banging on and on about how the Orange Order is just a friendly social club that doesn't have a sectarian bone in its body. The Irish Times even got Patsy McGarry out of whatever home for the bewildered he's been retired to to say as much.

Oh this sucks.

I'm not remotely religious and this is probably more targeted at the US, but maybe FF, FG and Sinn Féin should pay some heed to this not to mention that craw thumpers in Aontú

Labour's Alan Kelly has hit out at the three largest political parties in the State, arguing that they have been "trying to ride both horses" in relation to immigration. He also called for a public awareness campaign about the benefits of immigration. jrnl.ie/6865679t

TDs should not be allowed be landlords. This has should never have been a controversial idea, but it's always treated like an outrageous suggestion. My guess is more people are finding it less outrageous by the day.

My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This month, European Commission is to propose rules relaxing privacy/data protection. On the table: letting easy AI training on user data without consent, relax tracking consent. (Though reducing consent fatigue is a good goal)