Reposted by Liz CarolanColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Looking forward to this event at The MAC on Thursday evening, depending on how the place looks at that juncture given how the week is shaping up... 032
Reposted by Liz CarolanSam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it 11511223
Reposted by Liz CarolanIrish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Attacks on elected representatives have no place in our democracy. We wish Michael Healy-Rae well and a swift recovery. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.ieMichael Healy-Rae returns home to Kerry after assaultIndependent TD Michael Healy-Rae has returned home to Kilgarvan in Co Kerry, after he was injured during an assault in Dublin yesterday. 1114
Reposted by Liz CarolanEnda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Online people talk about the imminenent threat of mankind’s extinction by the most powerful technology ever conceived. In Dublin four men operate traffic lights at every second crossing 161
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 10/09/2026Did @rteradio1.bsky.social just go off the air for anyone else? #speirgorm 101
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 09/09/2026This is a first - an article I wrote for the @irishtimes.com about my love of kids clubs has been translated for a French publication; The new header points out that in Ireland, "the Anglo-Saxon concept of “parenthood as total self-sacrifice” prevails" www.courrierinternational.com/article/vu-d...courrierinternational.comJ’ai découvert le plaisir coupable de s’accorder du temps sans enfant, à la manière des parents françaisEn vacances dans l’Hexagone, cette journaliste du “Irish Times” s’étonne de constater que les parents français laissent volontiers leur progéniture dans les “cl... 150
Reposted by Liz CarolanMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human. 28975202
Reposted by Liz CarolanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The urge became too strong. 39706174
Reposted by Liz CarolanJeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Polls have closed in Saxony-Anhalt and exit polls put result on a knife edge (AfD 41 seats, others 42). First projections based on actual results due out soon. But if exit polls are right this is a rupture in the history of the federal republic. 2014377
Reposted by Liz CarolanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join. 519376
Reposted by Liz CarolanLiz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 28/08/2026Trying to get my head around AI‘s “circular financing” & it’s so 2008 coded it reminded me of The Big Short line; if you feel bored & stupid, start worrying I’m concerned our Govs aren’t worried enough; in the @irishtimes.com today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 43612
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 28/08/2026Trying to get my head around AI‘s “circular financing” & it’s so 2008 coded it reminded me of The Big Short line; if you feel bored & stupid, start worrying I’m concerned our Govs aren’t worried enough; in the @irishtimes.com today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 43612
Reposted by Liz CarolanMike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/08/2026In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have. 121537642
Reposted by Liz CarolanCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wrote about Meta's ludicrous effort to position itself as a leader in child safety after today's $17 billion settlement with state AGs www.platformer.news/meta-child-s... 28626
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 26/08/2026This is some bullshit Meta settles its case for $17billion But that is not the $200 billion sought And its over 10 years, so $1.7billion And its spread across 52 states / territories, is that $35m? And its a grant for "online safety initiatives" And no judgement of liability Its a <1% tax 414982
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 25/08/2026Myself and @elaineburke.bsky.social were talking today about Substacks downward slide into being just another social media platform... and then I get this email 051
Reposted by Liz CarolanEDMO Ireland @edmoireland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026While algorithms reward dangerous content, regulations focus on enforcing community guidelines instead of punishing harmful design choices. Key read by @lizcarolan.com for anyone tracking platform liability: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comM9 crash exposes limits of rules on social media giants when it comes to online harmsDeaths of five teenagers linked to popularity of high risk-taking for ‘likes’ and affirmation 012
Reposted by Liz CarolanClare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In hopes of proving my credentials in both the jock & dweeb spaces, I've a piece on sporting bodies in the IT today and spoke about competitive Scrabble on Newstalk on Fri. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... newstalk.com/podcasts/highlights-from-the-hard-shoulder/are-board-games-beneficial-to-youirishtimes.comThe discourse around super-thin is fraught: Could we replace it?On SkinnyTok, a TikTok subsection devoted to ‘thinspiration’, people claim extreme caloric restriction is the new mindfulness 012
Reposted by Liz CarolanRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Covering the smart glasses backlash this week - anyone got any stories or know places in Ireland where they’ve been barred or had difficulties? 51115
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 24/08/2026This comment on a LinkedIn post about my piece on Friday about the horrific M9 crash really bothered me - I know better than to reply but I didn’t want to leave it unanswered and I thought to myself “hey, this isn’t Twitter“… 390
Reposted by Liz CarolanLiz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 21/08/202610 years into building the EU’s tech regulation infrastructure and we still can’t actually hold companies accountable for harms Maybe American litigiousness will beat us to me Me in the @irishtimes.com today www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comM9 crash exposes limits of rules on social media giants when it comes to online harmsDeaths of five teenagers linked to popularity of high risk-taking for ‘likes’ and affirmation 1125
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 21/08/202610 years into building the EU’s tech regulation infrastructure and we still can’t actually hold companies accountable for harms Maybe American litigiousness will beat us to me Me in the @irishtimes.com today www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comM9 crash exposes limits of rules on social media giants when it comes to online harmsDeaths of five teenagers linked to popularity of high risk-taking for ‘likes’ and affirmation 1125
Reposted by Liz CarolanDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026do we know of any universities/higher ed institutions that have explicitly stated resistance/refusal of genai as their official policy 3325177
Reposted by Liz CarolanSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The Oireachtas has been leaning into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US tech. Switching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty.dublininquirer.comThe Oireachtas leans into Microsoft for its comms, even as other European governments abandon US techSwitching to the US big tech provider, for phone systems and more, comes at a time of fierce debate about tech sovereignty. 23721
Reposted by Liz CarolanDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The actions in early 2025 of one unelected man, Elon Musk, have reversed 25 years of monumental progress in child health writes Dr Suzanne Crowe in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comElon Musk’s USAID cuts will cause 4.5m child deaths‘The Lancet’ report shows that the US DOGE defunding of foreign aid has reversed decades of progress in child health worldwide, writes Dr Suzanne Crowe 11911
Reposted by Liz CarolanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres. 22271120
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 14/08/2026The “scan and pulp” story hit a nerve this week, but it’s only scratching the surface of what the AI industry is doing; which is fundamentally transforming the economics of human creativity and destroying the legal infrastructure - in place since the 1700s - that makes it a viable profession 11312
Reposted by Liz CarolanThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14/08/2026Liz Carolan: Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it’s cheaper than paying writersirishtimes.comLiz Carolan: Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because it’s cheaper than paying writersIn an internal memo, an executive at AI firm Anthropic wrote that ‘Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world’ 022
Reposted by Liz CarolanHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Grateful if you could spread the word on this one 01213
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 07/08/2026i just made my annual 3 min phone call to Eir that saves me €180 per year ”My deal is expiring, can you put me on the best plan?” And it’s €15/ month for unlimited everything 040
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 07/08/2026When I heard that a 4 ton piece of SpaceX junk put a massive crater on the moon, I imagined whatever species that will replace us in millions of years trying to fathom what could have done that Little will they know how much the recklessness was even worse on earth 110
Reposted by Liz CarolanThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 07/08/2026Liz Carolan: An 18 crater on the Moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problemsirishtimes.comLiz Carolan: An 18 crater on the Moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problemsSpaceX incident felt like a parable for the move-fast-and-break-things leadership style espoused by the Tesla founder 021
Reposted by Liz CarolanProf David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026That’s an important read by @lizcarolan.com 021
Reposted by Liz CarolanDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comLiz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disasterAll the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan 35029
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 05/08/2026We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen 25131
Reposted by Liz CarolanDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comBessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min 03831
Reposted by Liz CarolanSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Using the recently updated collisiontracker.ie - which now includes RSA data and a tool to analyse by time period - I had a look at this transport corridor, in an article that unexpectedly veered into the debate on judicial reviews. There's a cool visualisation by Brian Rogers too. 186
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 01/08/2026An ode to getting a break from your children on holidays: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comLiz Carolan: We need to stop guilt-tripping parents for wanting a few hours’ break from their kidsI felt guilty for using the kids’ club, but I shouldn’t have 111
Reposted by Liz CarolanDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Cindi Bonny was just 16 but she had already experienced homelessness, drug addiction and an abusive relationship when she first entered Bessborough in 1993, pregnant with her son Kevin. Her second baby Zoie was the last one to die there. www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...irishexaminer.comThe Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994Cindi Bonny was just 16 but she had already experienced homelessness, drug addiction and an abusive relationship when she first entered Bessborough in 1993, pregnant with her son Kevin 065
Reposted by Liz CarolanRyan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 30/07/2026the guts it takes to do something like this. props to the goat @davephilipps.bsky.social, who always tells these stories of vets and their families with such care. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... 16913
Reposted by Liz CarolanHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is an important role - National Data Guardian. Advises the health and care system so people’s information is kept safe and confidential, and is shared when appropriate to achieve better outcomes for patients. £63k for 3.5 days a week apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9039apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk Appointment details – National Data Guardian – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK 3916
Reposted by Liz CarolanSam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026There seems to be a very good (and increasing) chance that the US approach to AI has been the wrong one. 052
Reposted by Liz CarolanDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026They will do literally anything except hold tech companies responsible for their products and what they publish 29728
Reposted by Liz CarolanTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Major platforms sold political ads in Cyprus despite saying they had banned the practice, according to new research. Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan on the gaps in EU rules ahead of major European elections.buff.lyEU Political Ad Rules Leave Elections Open to Foreign ManipulationCyprus election study exposes major gaps in Meta, TikTok and Google’s enforcement of the EU's political ad rules, writes Liz Carolan. 056
Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 13/07/2026A decade later, we’re all bored to bloody tears talking about online political ads BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED Exhibit 7000: Meta, TikTok and Google repeatedly sold political ads in Cyprus - thousands of them in a tiny place - despite bans, despite laws, despite risks of malign foreign influence 166
Reposted by Liz CarolanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The push towards ubiquitous police-accessible facial recognition video surveillance of our public spaces is just starting here, with the passage of Jim O’Callaghan’s EU-Law busting Bill. Elsewhere, they already tried it and even *the LAPD* has dropped it because of its privacy implications. 36930
Reposted by Liz CarolanAsvatha @asvatha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Coming out of hibernation to plug this piece I wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on why we need to pay attention to the steady expansion of surveillance infrastructure in India. www.techpolicy.press/india-is-bui...techpolicy.pressIndia is Building Surveillance Infrastructure on Broken Data and Bad PolicingEach layer of the stack amplifies the errors of the layer beneath it, writes Dr. Asvatha Babu. 11211
Reposted by Liz CarolanSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The next six months is just going to be Irish Ministers enthusiastically signing the worst set of EU legislation in history. 34016