Ireland: The Data Protection Commission, responsible for enforcing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, has opened a probe into the creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualised images by Grok containing or involving the processing of EU user data. www.ft.com/content/3c72...

Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress. - Ciarán Brennan www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Spain to probe X, Meta, TikTok over AI-generated child sexual abuse material reut.rs/4tXMf7p

"Found/Acquired" is nice and vague.

Irish watchdog opens EU data probe into Grok sexual AI imagery

We should ask for our gold and stuff back. I’d let them keep their large collection of RDS entrance tokens, though.

Wow.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

One of my fave short stories I've ever created, this one in tandem with the illustrious and masterful @dustinweaver.bsky.social. It's... The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair.

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has opened an inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC).

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

The hooded monks who usually walk up and down this stairs were off that day.

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

"Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement. The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive" Sorry, what? www.axios.com/2026/02/16/a...

Let me stress: banning over-60s from social media is a terrible idea. It's just not as terrible an idea as banning under-16s.

The government has discovered regulating social media is Hard (it's good at passing Tough Laws and then useless at enforcing them), so it's now going for the much easier job of just restricting the freedom of teenagers.

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

“I asked ChatGPT what to do in my litigation and it didn’t agree with you.”

“what’s the quick way to learn this thing?” “you can’t, it’s an entire field of study, people spend years on it” “right, so just point me to an entry-level primer that gets me 80% there?” “there isn’t one, most people go to school for this” “sure, but just give me the shortcut”

RTE coming off wierdly suspicious of Robert Duvall's wife here.

Some time around the turn of the century the worst aspects of jock and nerd were fused, creating a new type of guy, who ruined everything

It just wouldn't occur to me to complain to Met Eireann if it rained when they said it wouldn't, like it's the weather - a moveable, changeable beast that can never really be fully predicted ahead of time.

We must, as a society, bully these nerds

I should also say, I fully expect the UK government to ban under 16s from social media, and to ban them from using VPNs. They'll do it, to get great headlines, but in the process ruin the lives of some marginalised teens and make most kids less safe.

A protest is planned against the Hoxton Hotel after it sought an injunction against the popular nightlife spot Yamamori Izakaya due to noise levels. On Friday, the hotel said the two sides have agreed to work on sound testing together over the weekend in order to come to a solution. jrnl.ie/6958261

“While the government recognises that there is a well known problem, it would like to solve for some other problem it is having. So it will now make a leap across the two issues and hope you do not notice.”

it's telling that they don't want to address the real cause of most social media problems: microtargeted ads based on constant tracking. better to attack the defenceless children...

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

Casio are selling a €500 tribble. www.theverge.com/gadgets/8778...

I have never seen the big concrete breeze block the IFSC replaced and suddenly I am filled with architectural appreciation for green glass pyramids.

This was one of the thickest acts in a veritable forest of them in the recent U.K. governance history.

We have found a use for Liz Truss.

It's my birthday weekend! Which has empowered me to be extremely cheeky now and say that if you enjoyed SISTER WAKE and feel like giving me a lil birthday present, getting to 50 reviews on Amazon is incredibly important for a book's reach and every one helps - even a rating and a couple of words!

This is both one of the reasons it was so hotly contested and one of the least discussed consequences.

There is a very well written little book called Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (if I recall correctly) about elements of being a habitual reader. One of the essays is on Gladstone’s monograph on how to optimise your home library space to hold the most books possible. He had tracks& shelves at 90o angles

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Vision Board.

The quality of thought here is somewhere between that of a stone and another, dumber, stone.

Learning that Platner covered his Nazi tattoo with some “norse-celtic” bullshit is not convincing me that he was ever getting any tattoos “accidentally”

Newspapers have two kinds of writers. They have “This thing happened” ones and they have “That’s what I think, anyway” ones. And, somehow, the That’s What I Think, Anyway ones have greater pay and prestige.

one day, my coworker called me at 10AM asking if i could pick him up from the hospital after a kidney stone and i was like “lmao oh boy you really don’t have anyone else to call do you” and that was also the day my odometer rolled over to BOOBS KM so anyway this is our 10th valentine’s day together

I had the opportunity to rise during Senate Question Period this week, to ask about the Canadian government's continued commitment to using X for official communications - and about their failure to use sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. What do you think? #cdnpoli #Canada #Grok #X #Bluesky

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

for all you map-porn loving nerds

Personally I'll be waiting until tomorrow for twice as many marshmallows

That is not the "Dublin Agreement" (which was actually called the Dublin III Regulation) in plain English. That's not what Dublin III says. It *really* isn't.

They should just release Casablanca in theaters every year. Free money

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9