my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

So Google will not longer let you even search for political ads on their platform in the EU Where has the archive of ads from the last 7 years gone?

"Lend me ten pounds, and I'll buy you a drink" The Pogues, Boys from the County Hell

Someone has been partying

I have no evidence for this so take it with a thousand grains of salt, but we know prominent online influencers are frequently radicalized by their own audience and if that audience is largely bot networks, we need to consider which is the cart and which is the horse.

The left doesn't "hate success". It hates fascists and wolves in sheep's clothing.

Stalker, 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky "The Zone wants to be respected. Otherwise it will punish." #filmsky #moviesky

lmao purple-ass comment

That Ireland's solar generation record was broken yesterday, in September, says great things about the exponential growth of PV.

Overheated housing markets are clearly a risk factor in the rise of the far-right:

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

*Right-wing Americans pretending to be Irish on Twitter explode in a cloud of psycho-sexual rage*

So the Independent Iona TDs decided to support her. How surprising. Two things, journalists - the first is to ask her where the money funding her and the "institute" comes from. The second is to remember those who will soon (again) targeted by her extremism. Their safety is paramount.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

Well I certainly didn't expect solar output record to be broken on September Equinox in Ireland!

Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are the last two fragments left of the internet that we were promised in the 1990s.

Verona Murphy speaking about the need to tackle anonymous social media accounts is such a quaint, 2014-level understanding of digital platforms. The people who own the platforms want us all dead, man.

What I’ve come to hate about a lot of reviews is the part at the end where they say sure these are a profoundly anti-social tech that’s likely to make society worse, but what are ya gonna do? 🤷🏿‍♂️ www.theverge.com/tech/779566/...

Quite spectacular victim blaming from the Taoiseach when asked about the clearly illegal large scale commercial abuse of mobile phone location data. Reflective of institutional cluelessness about privacy throughout the Irish state. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

The issue is not that people don't read terms and conditions. 1. The massive data free-for-all in online ads ("RTB") makes it impossible to obtain lawful consent. (See industry admission that RTB is incompatible with consent) 2. The DPC knew all of this since 2017 and refused to act.

Rocco apparently going to simply torture us in a real Devil Wears Prada kind of situation

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

I do not believe in false flags and I don’t subscribe to any of the ideas put forward that Kirk’s murderer is either left or right. I do have a bothersome question about big tech and content moderation. Why was his death broadcast and recommended so widely across the media ecosystem?

Now ask yourself who they are funding in Ireland. 👍

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... : "The big advantage of an AI-powered toy that talks back is that, in the early years, you’re just developing a sense of what a conversation looks like" -- but it's not! LLMs like these are obsequious, always attentive, never bored. That's not real conversation

I feel like the small print should be a bit bigger in www.climatecouncil.ie/councilpubli...

it's honestly crazy to see fairly right-leaning sites like Hacker News posting historical articles about the Reichstag Fire over the past few weeks. They tend to get "flagged" and taken down fairly quickly though

Jack B Yeats should’ve got an Olympic rings tattoo

Yaxley Lennon is funded by US billionaire Robert Shillman who also backs James O’Keefe, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer and other far right figures. The apparent grassroots racist renaissance is astroturfed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Scott Lucas from the UCD Clinton Institute not holding back on RTE ATM. Great stuff 👏

at the 2022 an post book awards John Boyne won an award and gave a speech in which he immediately complained about how many years it took for them to give him the award and then he spent 10 minutes reading bad internet reviews of his work. my reaction was captured.

Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive.

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

if i write another book this probably needs to be the cover (Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press)

Guilty as charged, m'lud

sometimes that tiny project in Nebraska is screaming at people not to depend on it or even come anywhere near it

Stupid: politicians and the public do not like McGregor; parties don't support rivals Dangerous: Musk is attacking a man with small children who had to evacuate their home due to death threats about 24 hours ago www.thebriefing.ie/musks-profou...

Did anyone ever end up moving forward on that Wolfenstein movie, cause it feels like it’s time for The New Colossus to get on the big screen.

Social media firms need regulation. It is absurd that a video of a child with additional needs out on a walk with their carers, taken without consent and mislabelled as an abduction, can be monetised by media platform without taking any responsibility for its truthfulness.

Very disappointed in @jenoconnell.bsky.social There are many ways to look at this case and "many of the concerns he raises are shared by reasonable people" is a reductive throwing of trans people under the bus while failing to engage in the reality of the constructed war against trans people

Cycled the Royal Canal from the M50 to the Liffey ✅ -- the latest bit of the Greenway is grand? Flat I guess? Did the job anyway

Sooo many hops

Changes in American policy driven by the pseudoscientific, eugenicist beliefs of Robert F Kennedy Jr are going to cause people to get sick & die of diseases we barely remember. The American immunization program is being systematically destroyed. This will not be limited to the USA.

US Department of *theatrical pause for kerning* War

I guess collecting corpus in open data doesn’t look that expensive now.