Turn off the toxic algorithms! Turn off the toxic algorithms!Today I introduced the "Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill 2025".Numerous studies have shown that social media 'recomm...

Turn off the toxic algorithms!

Today I introduced the "Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill 2025".

This is what the public wants, what Coimisiún na Meán have previously recommended, what the Oireachtas AI Committee currently recommends... but will the government actually do it?
#SpéirGhorm

NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history." 4:08 PM Jan 22, 2026 223.8K Views

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?

The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

So we have figures now.

Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X.

Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images — 41% were sexualised images of women

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

The democrats are currently trying to reward big tech and permanently entrench its power by pushing horrific mass surveillance and censorship laws under the guise of “cracking down on big tech” and “kids online safety.” DO NOT LET THEM TRICK YOU!!

Happy Disco 2000 and 26

Screenshot of an Irish Independent article. The headline reads: ‘Eoin O’Malley: When politicians have to plead with European Court of Human Rights judges, democracy is in danger.’ A subheading below states that elected governments are being constrained by judges ideologically committed to progressive utopianism."

Ah we've reached the "sensible centre having issues with unelected judges" stage of Ireland slide rightwards.

Catherine Connolly: Becomes president in 2025 by winning the biggest single personal mandate in the history of the state.

@irishtimes.com : The politician of the year is absolutely the guy who keeps doing racisms.

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡

NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

US Media Rushes to Manufacture Legal Legitimacy for Trump’s Venezuela Oil Tanker Piracy Venezuela oil exports are not “black market” and US sanctions are not “international sanctions.” Why does our media keep saying otherwise?

One confusing thing about liberal media outlets like the NY Times and CNN is that they're extremely right-wing:

open.substack.com/pub/thecolum... by
@ahjohnson.bsky.social

Oh.

So the question now is how will the Campaign Against Antisemitism be sanctioned for an “abusive prosecution” and “using the criminal justice system for improper reasons”? Or would that be considered antisemitic?

Mulley wearing a Gerry Adams Christmas t-shirt

Gerry Christmas everyone

When he was 38 he was dating an 18 year old, after asking her agent to set him up on a date with her.
It has been known.

Finally some consequences.
Slimy racist sexist creepy pervert piece of shit. I've always hated him, it felt so wrong when he got involved in kids books.
& then there's this: "Walliams performed two Nazi salutes during the recording of the BBC's 2025 Christmas special episode of Would I Lie to You?"

Jack Skellington and Rumi shooting at each other

Jack Skellington and Rumi shooting at each other

Jack Skellington and Rumi shooting at each other

Jack Skellington vs. the KPop Demon Hunters. Fortnite is strange.

One should always be suspicious when the state resists disclosure of documents.

And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.

Man found dead in Phoenix Park was unidentified for a year, despite ID in pocket Body of James O’Neill remained in a Dublin morgue from November 2023 until December 2024, when documents were found in his coat

Absolutely mind-boggling

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...?

TV personality in court accused of flouting safety order A former television personality has appeared in court accused of flouting a safety order within ten days.

#notallmenbutenoughofthem

The neck of him.

It is easy to obey such orders, but some people think they are just bits of paper which won't be enforced.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...

#spéirgorm

Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to replace mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. We then assess the ability of LLMs to reproduce and adhere to these aspects of therapeutic relationships by conducting several experiments investigating the responses of current LLMs, such as gpt-4o. Contrary to best practices in the medical community, LLMs 1) express stigma toward those with mental health conditions and 2) respond inappropriately to certain common (and critical) conditions in naturalistic therapy settings—e.g., LLMs encourage clients’ delusional thinking, likely due to their sycophancy. This occurs even with larger and newer LLMs, indicating that current safety practices may not address these gaps. Furthermore, we note foundational and practical barriers to the adoption of LLMs as therapists, such as that a therapeutic alliance requires human characteristics (e.g., identity and stakes). For these reasons, we conclude that LLMs should not replace therapists, and we discuss alternative roles for LLMs in clinical therapy. Content warning: Contains content and examples related to sensitive mental health topics, including suicide.

anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

The Gaza Strip is less than one tenth the size of County Tipperary. There are about 2 million people crammed in there. Blockaded. With little food, shelter or medicine. Imagine a narrow strip of land from Thurles to Clonmel. That is the size of Gaza.

As always, the alt text is the best.

The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

TV Guide: From movies to docs, your Christmas viewing sorted Whether you’re into sport, music or classic Hollywood films, there’s loads for you to enjoy this Christmas on TG4 and TG4.ie.

🎄 This Christmas, TG4 and Seinnteoir TG4 have a brilliant line-up of shows 🎄

Here are some of the highlights:

Gene Kelly–Réalt an Rince

Scannán Cine4: Fidil Ghorm

George Best i gCorcaigh

Cartlann Christy Moore

www.thejournal.ie/tv-guide-what-to-watch-c...

David Walliams just the latest in a long line of predatory dangers where the British media have sat on or killed stories that were already open secrets to enable them.

All whilst inventing stories to smear minority groups as dangers themselves.

An absolutely rotten industry.

In case you have never seen this.

Abusing women is the canary.

(It obviously should be considered more than just that, but here we are.)

this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights