@audreycarville.bsky.social excellent questions being asked of @progressireland.bsky.social this morning. We can't turn out back on the past when looking to the future. A lot more work needs to be done before convincing me that Meta and Amazon's interests aligns with the Irish people
Come see our new work(s)
(Against) Transience opens this Thursday
Encore!
#Breaking The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined video-sharing app TikTok €530 million over the transfer of the personal data of European users to China
REVEALED: only 5% of Forestry Commission grants for woodland creation have been spent on the natural regeneration of trees, while the remaining 95% is spent on tree planting.
The government needs to change the rules.
My FOI request & comment in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Communications Workers' Union has announced its decision to formally close its account with X, formerly Twitter, accusing the platform of being anti-worker, anti-union, and anti-democratic
Mad stuff
Guess who's back on the "news"...
The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
"This is crazy stuff that's happening"
How do the OPW get to the island?
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A Paul Voerhoven clip with an Irish voice over. Almost as insane as the concept of an Irish person in space (my absolute favourite comedy premise). "I *feel* we are made of stardust" is the most American thing ever. We are just a ridiculous species. Incredible.
Patrick Collison, who co-founded the payments company Stripe with his brother John, is to join the board of Facebook parent company Meta
There needs to be an international debate on AI. It just feels like it's all going to happen no matter what. The environmental cost is huge
Is it actually worth the cost? Are there provable ways it has made life better? Beyond the gimmicks, snake oil and blather?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Great to see ESRI calling out Teagasc and the politicisation of climate science in Irish farming.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
US immigration authorities said they will look at social media accounts and deny visas or residence permits to people who post content considered anti-Semitic by President Donald Trump's administration
The literal point of a state infrastructural apparatus is to create, administrate and ensure work in the public sector for those who need it.
Generative AI is a betrayal of makers and doers; this council and other shitehawks should be ashamed.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
What began as a misquoted Fox News interview led to a flood of false and misleading posts on X. Before it was corrected, stock markets rallied then plummeted again. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social
I wrote about the Enghiblification and what it means for how we read images @irishtimes.com! Briefly mention @nathanjurgenson.bsky.social’s great book The Social Photo which has been v helpful in thinking about how the web changes how we think about pictures…
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