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"Israel bulldozes UNRWA buildings in occupied East Jerusalem"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
January 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM
"Israel bulldozes UNRWA buildings in occupied East Jerusalem"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 6:29 AM
I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud
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Paging the Least Surprising Development department / We Fucking Told You So section.
“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”
Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.
futurism.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Paging the Least Surprising Development department / We Fucking Told You So section.
"private company, with the blessings of idiot govts, risk thousands of innocent lives" seems to be the norm these days.
“We’re Too Close To The Debris”: Airplanes Dodge The Remains Of Exploding SpaceX Rockets
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. There are additional (exceptional!) imagery in the original. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas…
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. There are additional (exceptional!) imagery in the original. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas…
“We’re Too Close To The Debris”: Airplanes Dodge The Remains Of Exploding SpaceX Rockets
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. There are additional (exceptional!) imagery in the original. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry. Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed Super Heavy, the megarocket’s flight path would take it soaring over busy Caribbean airspace before it reached the relative safety of the open Atlantic Ocean.
www.techdirt.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:26 AM
"private company, with the blessings of idiot govts, risk thousands of innocent lives" seems to be the norm these days.
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"However, the officials are understood to have also said any attempt to block the app may be impractical for a number of reasons, including the fact it is used for other purposes"
True - the child abuse image app is also used to promote racism.
True - the child abuse image app is also used to promote racism.
Our entire regulatory framework has proved to be no more than a painted balsa wood front.
The AG here confirms it is illegal to generate CSAM.
We also gave CnaM the power to act on any material which was not illegal, but was offensive.
Turns out they don’t wanna.
www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...
The AG here confirms it is illegal to generate CSAM.
We also gave CnaM the power to act on any material which was not illegal, but was offensive.
Turns out they don’t wanna.
www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...
Coimisiún na Meán unlikely to seek Irish blocking of Grok
Media watchdog Coimisiún na Meán is unlikely to seek the banning or blocking of AI app Grok in Ireland by itself, and will instead wait until further talks with the European Commission before deciding...
www.rte.ie
January 20, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"However, the officials are understood to have also said any attempt to block the app may be impractical for a number of reasons, including the fact it is used for other purposes"
True - the child abuse image app is also used to promote racism.
True - the child abuse image app is also used to promote racism.
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If you are setting up a factory generating and distributing CSAM, be sure to also print some leaflets for politicians and have a notice board for journalists to post links to their stories.
Then it will be “impractical” to shut your factory down.
Then it will be “impractical” to shut your factory down.
January 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM
If you are setting up a factory generating and distributing CSAM, be sure to also print some leaflets for politicians and have a notice board for journalists to post links to their stories.
Then it will be “impractical” to shut your factory down.
Then it will be “impractical” to shut your factory down.
if insurance companies AND Meta/Googs agree on anything, ever, it's fair to say decent humans should be against it.
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
corporateeurope.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
if insurance companies AND Meta/Googs agree on anything, ever, it's fair to say decent humans should be against it.
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Big Tech's push for deregulation of EU digital laws is helped by the Trump administration and the European far right 🚨
New CEO report shows "Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group" during this parliamentary mandate.
Worrying!
New CEO report shows "Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group" during this parliamentary mandate.
Worrying!
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
corporateeurope.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Big Tech's push for deregulation of EU digital laws is helped by the Trump administration and the European far right 🚨
New CEO report shows "Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group" during this parliamentary mandate.
Worrying!
New CEO report shows "Meta has already met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group" during this parliamentary mandate.
Worrying!
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🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU’s roll-back of digital rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the ...
corporateeurope.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
🎁 Just before the holidays, the EU Commission granted Big Tech its Christmas wish-list: an unprecedented attack on our digital rights.
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
Together with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social we have mapped how the Digital Omnibus closely matches Big Tech lobby demands.
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
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As a historian of Manifest Destiny I should have some sort of witty response to this, but I cannot believe that the MAGAites are embracing a history of violence and dispossession so enthusiastically. Our history of "acquiring new lands" is littered with massacres of the prior inhabitants.
Cruz: "When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump for being single-mindedly focused on America first... I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland... the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories"
January 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
As a historian of Manifest Destiny I should have some sort of witty response to this, but I cannot believe that the MAGAites are embracing a history of violence and dispossession so enthusiastically. Our history of "acquiring new lands" is littered with massacres of the prior inhabitants.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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I think a very significant part of the headless chickening on what is the world’s most straightforward question (“CSAM factory- is it allowed?”) has been the crippling cognitive dissonance of journalists justifying their continued use of X to themselves.
They needed it to be a Q for debate.
They needed it to be a Q for debate.
January 16, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I think a very significant part of the headless chickening on what is the world’s most straightforward question (“CSAM factory- is it allowed?”) has been the crippling cognitive dissonance of journalists justifying their continued use of X to themselves.
They needed it to be a Q for debate.
They needed it to be a Q for debate.
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typical ai use case
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
typical ai use case
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Let’s check out what hsbc has said in the past!
January 14, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Let’s check out what hsbc has said in the past!
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There's something to be said about the way that the primary innovations coming out of the big 5 tech companies nowadays all seems to be primarily ways to be creepier towards women.
The funny thing is that you can see these exact same articles written about Google Glass in 2012. Casting them as inevitable is part of the hype cycle.
You Won’t Be Able to Escape Smart Glasses in 2026
Meta is betting big on AI eyewear, with production of its Ray-Ban collaboration expected to hit 10 million pairs annually by the end of the year. But will the tech-ified accessory ever actually be con...
www.gq.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM
There's something to be said about the way that the primary innovations coming out of the big 5 tech companies nowadays all seems to be primarily ways to be creepier towards women.
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At the Oireachtas hearing today the police also complained that the existence of encryption creates an "insurrmountable obstacle to prosecution".
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
Particularly unhappy with the attempt to move discussion off the X illegal abuse image factory to the pre-existing Garda wish to bring in age verification to allow surveillance of all adults and children’s access of *lawful* material.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
At the Oireachtas hearing today the police also complained that the existence of encryption creates an "insurrmountable obstacle to prosecution".
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
None of the x imagery or messages are encrypted.
Maybe they could show us how well they could prosecute on them first?
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Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
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The Trump era in a nutshell:
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The Trump era in a nutshell:
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
Ordinary citizens are holding ICE accountable, while large law firms are doing nothing.
Small businesses are speaking out, while large corporations remain silent.
Independent media show moral urgency, while legacy media reports "both sides."
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No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.
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“The abusive tool must be heavily regulated, which is why this government has authorised the construction of more of the environmental destructive infrastructure it needs”.
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
“The abusive tool must be heavily regulated, which is why this government has authorised the construction of more of the environmental destructive infrastructure it needs”.
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Cabinet to sign-off on major plan to build data centres today.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke will this morning bring a major plan to build more data centres across the country to Cabinet for sign off.
jrnl.ie/6924426t
jrnl.ie/6924426t
Cabinet to sign off on plan to build more data centres across country
Electricity demand from data centres has grown from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 22% in 2024.
jrnl.ie
January 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Cabinet to sign-off on major plan to build data centres today.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
Worth looking into the backlash (across the spectrum) in the US to the building of data centres due to high energy and water consumption, noise pollution and, of course, electricity bills.
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
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"Since when are our cabinet ministers so prepared to speak in defence of a company that is producing, and I cannot stress this enough, simulated images of child sex abuse on an unprecedented scale, with no sign of slowing down?"
'What is that supposed to mean? That the law is obsolete in the face of a white supremacist sexual exploitation material-generating machine?'
It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.
It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.
Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders
Am I going completely insane?
www.thejournal.ie
January 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM
"Since when are our cabinet ministers so prepared to speak in defence of a company that is producing, and I cannot stress this enough, simulated images of child sex abuse on an unprecedented scale, with no sign of slowing down?"
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"If CSAM isn’t a red line that can never be crossed, then one wonders what else ever could be."
- Conor O'Mahony, Professor, Child Law expert, former Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland.
- Conor O'Mahony, Professor, Child Law expert, former Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland.
I write in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes
The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies
www.irishexaminer.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:07 AM
"If CSAM isn’t a red line that can never be crossed, then one wonders what else ever could be."
- Conor O'Mahony, Professor, Child Law expert, former Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland.
- Conor O'Mahony, Professor, Child Law expert, former Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland.