In the 60s, the impetus to deal with slums was so great that families were being moved out of places like this into new council houses outside town before the electricity was connected up. Now, our leaders and managers having forgotten shame, there is no impetus left.

The European Commission literally copy-pasted Microsoft's proposed confidentiality clause word-for-word into EU law, blocking public access to data centre environmental impact data. Legal experts say it violates the Aarhus Convention on environmental transparency.

If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?

no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

Listening to arguably the biggest weekend radio show on the national broadcaster, and the tsunami of abuse suffered by an elected representative was not mentioned during the panel discussion.
I'll repeat: Irish media/politics has no idea about the far right, and that is a danger for democracy.

From the article: "“The misogyny that female gardaí, in particular, were singled out for was on a scale never witnessed before by An Garda Síochána,” said a source."

Misogyny is one of the bedrocks of the far right. It's alao the bedrock of fascism.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

On the one hand human progress is such that we're flying around the moon and worrying about creating a digital god. On the other hand we're doing a second Golden Age Of Piracy.

Bowls club booze bid sparks neighbour backlash over noise fears - Devon Today Plans to introduce alcohol sales at a local bowls club have sparked concern among nearby residents, with objections focusing on fears of late-night noise and anti-social behaviour. A licensing sub-com...

1980s football hooligans are now reaching retirement age, and as this genuine photograph shows, regret to report that they’re switching sports.

Ivana Bacik would not have made Viktor Orbán jibe ‘if I was a woman’, says Patrick O’Donovan Labour leader had criticised Minister over his comments on media coverage of fuel protest

“If I was Patricia O’Donovan, a woman, I don’t think she’d have said it" is a direct quote from the minister for communications in this story.

A man who has never found himself in a hole he dug which he didn't think needed a few days more digging.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

It is actually remarkable that we had two weeks of serious social unrest about energy and fuel prices and yet, I don’t think I saw or heard anything about “Data Centres” from any protest organiser or in their demands to the government.

Looking forward to tomorrow's papers, when exactly none of Ireland's columnists, who are usually so keen to tone-police every single aspect of civil discourse, will stand up for Eileen.
When people tell you who they are. believe them.

Look at the leading role played by Ben Scallan of Gript in this. Remember journalists flouncing off in protest when Ruth Coppinger refused to answer a question from him. In the name of Free Speech.
Nothing damages Free Speech like hate campaigns against someone just for speaking their mind.
Shame.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Indeed. In my more cynical moments I wonder if there isn't a sizeable group within those circles who don't regard any of our post-1990 presidents as 'proper' presidents.

I've said it before and will no doubt say it again but it is truly remarkable how the political and media classes in this country have normalised barrages of anonymous briefing against *the head of state* for doing perfectly normal head of state things.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

the storm of hate directed at Eileen Ní Fhloinn has come not only from the Irish far right, but the massive international networks of far right influencers on social media. even Libs of TikTok got involved. this is what people risk every time they dare to criticise the far right anywhere

Surely it wouldn't be too hard for Starmer to say something like 'Look, it was clear DC was going to be the epicentre of corruption for the foreseeable so it simply made good practical sense to send our corruption sommelier over there as emissary.'

Aren't we in Ireland lucky to have the sensible lads who've been running things for the last century in charge now, because they'd never give in to a temptation like this.

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You'd almost be nostalgic for Irish political statements where a string of abstractions are held together with inscrutable prepositional phrases designed to cloud the very nature of causality and bring into question the validity of human speech itself

Woman stranded in Dusseldorf after return UK flight blocked over Home Office admin error Liza Tobay, who lives in UK, was told her settled status had been ‘red flagged’ after trying to make a connecting flight from Munich to Edinburgh

Why EU citizens in the UK need physical proof of their rights and why a digital-only system is insufficient and error-prone.

Exhibit #32308 @the3million.bsky.social @settled.bsky.social

"The complainant submitted a considerable quantity of published and broadcast material to support his complaint" presumably translates as 'Here's dozens and dozens of hours of video of John Waters and Niall Boylan agreeing with me, and also me agreeing with me.'

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

Jennifer Horgan: We have set a new standard for what angry men can achieve. It's terrifying Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on

"Can you even imagine the uproar and outrage if other suffering groups blockaded fuel supplies? If parents of children with unmet needs in our schools blocked all children from entering classrooms, as a form of ‘peaceful’ protest?"

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation.

Data centre operators successfully lobbied the European Commission to amend legislation intended to bring transparency to the continent’s booming data centre industry, a new investigation from @investigate-europe.eu and @investigates.thejournal.ie has revealed.

jrnl.ie/7013368

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A screenshot from The Blue Report showing the top link posted on Bluesky in the last hour is to status.bsky.app.

I see.

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots