Hugh Linehan: The inconvenient truth about artificial intelligence Incurious scepticism is not an adequate response to the questions AI raises

www.irishtimes.com/media/2026/0...

Nighttime views of the Pantheon at the Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

The Unspeakable, Enabled This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.

“We are now facing an urgent choice as to whether we submit to the entrenched hatred and abuse of women as a technological and cultural norm, or whether we fight for an alternative way forward,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues.

Breathtaking Gdańsk.

Sunset on the North Donegal coast on the Wild Atlantic Way.

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

US aid cuts to have deep impact on vulnerable people, Irish Ministers hear Trump to withhold funding for 15 programs, including several overseen by State Department and USAid

US aid cuts to have deep impact on vulnerable people, Irish Ministers hear.

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

‘Completely indefensible’: International anger grows over Israel hospital attack IDF says preliminary investigation into Nasser hospital attack determined that Hamas had installed surveillance camera at site

‘Completely indefensible’: International anger grows over Israel hospital attack

The scale of the rabbit hole we are plunging into is very unsettling

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

Al Jazeera Media Network urgently calls upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza.

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, Ulysses. My favourite quote, revisited on Bloomsday.

Image: his grave in Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich, captured in recent years. #Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce #Ulysses

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content

“The entire content production staff at climate dot gov (including me) were let go from our government contract on 31 May." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump has wanted a police state with himself sitting at the top as its undisputed boss since his first administration.

The standoff in L.A. shows how truly eager he is to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on his domestic foes and critics.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did.
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This evening’s view.

One problem with podcasts with huge audiences having these guys on is they’re not equipped to push back on the lies

When will we realize that Israel is not our friend; not a true democracy; not our int’l partner. Does not share our values. Does not respect the rule of law. Routinely abuses human rights. Has betrayed its founding values. Has lost its moral bearings. Has become the oppressor. If not now, when?

DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace ‘unlawful.’

NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

Sea thrift season.

Day’s end. Breathe …

Elizabeth Shackelford: President Donald Trump’s war on due process should terrify us all As the White House flouts the Supreme Court, we have reached a constitutional crisis whose consequences put our most basic freedoms at risk.

Commentary: As the executive branch brazenly flouts the Supreme Court, we have reached the constitutional crisis so many have feared, and its consequences put our most basic freedoms at risk.

Sunday morning.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Zelensky bristled at his berating by Trump and Vance. After three years of war, what did they expect? | CNN Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it. They seem to have felt Zelensky, soaked in war’s horror for three years, needed a lecture about the peace anyone who had se...

‘Moneyed ignorance loudly lectured exhausted experience.’
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/e...

Spot on.

Sunday morning on the northern Irish coast.

Rare planet parade to light up sky tonight A rare planetary alignment which will see six planets line up in a row across the night sky is due to take place from tonight for the first time since 2018.

A rare planetary alignment which will see six planets line up in a row across the night sky is due to take place from tonight for the first time since 2018