ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election
WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking
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We stand with Senator Eileen Flynn ✊️
Women face massive barriers to entering & staying in politics, including online & offline abuse. The abuse is compounded for Traveller women & women from other minority groups
❤️ Sending you our love and solidarity, Eileen
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Addicted to giving public money away to big businesses/corporations, at much financial loss to taxpayers...
Exactly. And they are some wtf statements
Fully agree
In case you haven't yet read this 🤯 piece on FBI director Kash Patel in The Atlantic. "On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated." (Patel is suing) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
Hungary’s April election ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year run. Zsófia Fülöp & Szilárd Teczár write that disinformation isn’t a magic trick that reliably sways voters. The takeaway is to dial down election-only focus and support information integrity year-round.
Online safety enforcement klaxon: Ofcom has opened an investigation into Telegram, alleging the service has failed to adequately manage the risk of CSAM being shared among users.
Note that unlike the DSA, there is no carve-out in the UK rules for messaging apps.
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My review of Do You Come From Gomorrah? at the Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin.
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Huge relief here but there are plenty of other ways they’re undermining women’s rights in the US. More on this tomorrow…
Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable
In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived
Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power
The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.
I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment
Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.
Grifters --> "Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification ...and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms..." www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Tweet JennyCohn A o @jennycohn1 X.com Elon Musk's X just suspended author Gil Duran for characterizing the recent Palantir manifesto as "fascism". So much for this platform's supposed protection of "free speech". 1/ & Gil Durán•@gilduran.com • 4h The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist— which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Never believe Elon Musk when he promises you free speech.
“A company that has such naked ideological motivations and lack of respect for democratic rule of law should be nowhere near our public services.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
so are we going to have a world where half the software runs on code that no one alive ever learned, and the other half is vibe coded and we'll also just be dodging drones because we're not sure if they're dropping pizzas or bombs.
Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?
Amazon's price predicting algorithm, "Nessie", was paused
during the holiday shopping season and Prime Day, when it feared customers or journalists might notice the price increases, then turned back on once attention died
down.
“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”
This is why we should fund science. 🧪
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
And New Music Dublin 2026 is off and running! Check out the schedule for something that intrigues, challenges, or sounds just plain what the hell IS that, because we do the musically new and wild and unexpected every year 🎶🎉 www.newmusicdublin.ie
There are just six hours left to apply for an AI Expert role with ICCL.
Come work with us and help to ensure supervision and enforcement of human rights in the context of AI and automated decision-making systems.
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When your past comes back, full of opinions 😏 and I couldn't have imagined these sorts of applications utilising those views 20 years later
