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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h

'“Our arresting officer was unable to articulate what caused the suspicion but it did instantly vanish when they got my name, address and date of birth.”'

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h

'“Multiple journalists including myself were arrested under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for going to work,” he wrote. “An officer told me that I would be de-arrested as soon as I gave my details despite identifying myself as a journalist with a press card.'

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h

"The journalists were detained for two hours last Thursday at a UAV Tactical Systems factory owned by Elbit Systems, which makes weapons that are used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza."

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13h

"Police in Leicester arrested at least five journalists under the Terrorism Act while they were reporting on a protest outside a drone factory owned by an Israeli arms company... Those arrested included two reporters for the Leicester Gazette and three freelance photojournalists."

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

US Jewish organizations who prioritize unyielding devotion to Israel over everything else will increasingly face the kind of ridicule and contempt that Muslims and Arabs have received for asking for way less. This sucks for them but also it makes the debate more easy to navigate.

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 9h

Streeting such a smug sociopathic weasel who’s never had a real job outside of politics. Mandelson 2.0

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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13h

A British state cover up of three decades of conflict & their role in it. 'Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said: “For too long, veterans have faced uncertainty over historic investigations, despite serving honourably during the Troubles.' And there we have it - Irish bloodshed has no consequence.

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Government unveils Troubles Bill overhaul promising ‘robust legal safeguards’ for veterans

The Government has claimed a new package of amendments to the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill will introduce “robust legal safeguards” for veterans of the Troubles.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20h

Quite the crashing change here from the first half of the decade, when the unified message was that Labour was 100% the party of ordinary working class people and racist pensioners who all unified in their seething contempt for the metrosexual blue-haired wokes

Labour is no longer a working class party: its vote share is highest among the professional and managerial class.
It does sometimes feel like it wants to return to being a working class party entirely by alienating its new base.
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Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social • 2h
At some point Labour and its supporters are going to come unstuck with the constant messaging that, above a certain income level, you should expect nothing from the state apart from an invoice.
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However, given those subsidies cover only just over half the cost of the median heat pump, much of that money has gone to better-off households.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?

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Jew-baiting Greens haven't peaked: they're just getting started

It's strange having a fully fledged, fully funded racist party in our political line-up. It does not comfort me that in Holborn & St Pancras the Greens "only" got nearly 9,000 votes. If the British National Party, another party defined by a racist lie, had won that many votes in any constituency, there would be pandemonium. There would be riots. There wouldn't be amused, jocular analyses in all the main papers. Its leader wouldn't be ushered on to the Today programme as a senior statesman for a light dressing-down by Nick Robinson.
He wouldn't be allowed to repeat propaganda as Polanski did (he sounded as if he was reading lines from a piece of paper). He wouldn't be greeted with a comical, indulgent shrug.
And if I were a Jew in Holborn, or anywhere, watching this, what would I now be thinking? I would be thinking: I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me. Is anyone doing anything to protect me from them?
Just look at the recent hate crime statistics. Jews are now almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the targets of a religious hate crime. So no one is stopping it. No one is even touching it. This is an unacceptable place for politics to have reached.

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 20h

I think some papers in AIES need to read this work.

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Dad 4 Ever @dad4ever.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

LLM is bad at generating realistic data. Even when using for "test data" many of them warn that their estimates are derivative and not realistic. Using AI to simulate data we do not have is like asking random people off the street their opinion on quantum physics, then taking the average.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/12/2025

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human
participation with synthetic data

author: Abeba Birhane

abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the
use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction
in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim
that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically
unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and
cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight,
and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations,
Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human
participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic
harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 20h

I had a very very minor bit part to play in this hugely impressive work by Derrick Muhecki as part of his PhD rescuing millions of meteorological records from the Congo Basin. Congrats to Derrick on the work. esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

esd.copernicus.org

From paper to proof: revealing Congo Basin warming through rescued climate archives

Abstract. The Congo Basin in Central Africa remains one of the few regions globally where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has neither assessed changes in hot extremes and extreme precipi...

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 20h

Not all of this can be attributed to successive governments' obsession with migration, but a huge chunk of it can. Is it worth it? Has it made us better off? Are we in sight of the sunlit uplands?

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 21h

US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/10/2026

Great to be at @cwuireland.bsky.social’s AI Counter Summit today!

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 21h

How did I not know this was on?

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Whoop, whoop, @parismarx.com in the house at the Workers' AI Counter Summit 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Paris Marx wearing a black shirt speaks at a large white podium in front of an Irish flag and the crest of the Communication Workers Union.

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 21h

We all know he’d just vote in his favour again. Spineless behaviour in the face of a demagogue

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 21h

‘Both are at somewhat of a disadvantage. Gluesenkamp Perez is the incumbent in an election cycle that is experiencing an anti-incumbency wave.’ What is this nonsense

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

Like, I do not think that motion was good, smart or helpful, but it is clarifying, in that we see where the actual red lines are. The Green Party can cross them but the IDF cannot, and nor can Jonathan. There are no red lines, for them.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

My point here being: there comes a point where we have to recognise the handwringing and pleas to be less brazenly genocidal are not about morality, law, human rights or justice. They are just… public relations.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

I again point out: Jonathan spends much of his time on this podcast explaining to absolutely crazed wingnuts that Israel cannot simply destroy the Palestinians and then call anyone who objects to it Hamas, without people getting quite upset about it.

"The Green Party of England and Wales has crossed a line for British Jews. The tie to the land of Israel and the yearning for Zion have been a core part of Judaism for two millennia" Jonathan on the Green Party's decision.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

abc7.com

ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO

Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 22h

Can't believe Zelensky cancelled Musk's Grok Lego order. What a scamp.

Elon Musk on nazi child abuse application "Twitter":

"Zelensky has gone too far"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 11/10/2026

His tradition of using the trappings of the presidency to reward loyalists continues unabated. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

dailykos.com

Trump debases science award by giving it to crackpot donor Musk

The president treats a top honor as a donor reward.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22h

don't see any 'REFORM'S SHAME' headlines, the lads don't care at all.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22h

Do you note how “we’re going to round up and mass deport a million people” is rarely received with either visceral disgust or screaming, puking fury? How it’s considered instead in terms of its potential appeal to the public.

Confirmation that a Reform UK government would mean Ice-style mass roundups and deportations. In fact, in one way the Reform plan would go further than Trump, in retrospectively stripping rights from people granted asylum as long as five years ago and tracking them down for removal. 1/2
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It's another policy which feels most likely to appeal solely to the 20% or so Reform core vote, and also to harden other voters' resolve to vote however is needed to keep out a Reform government - as do many of their recent announcements.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dorothea Lange died on this day in 1965. Her photographs captured the brutality of the Great Depression and the inhumanity of the Japanese internment.

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 22h

Also Ronan, there is no ‘Reform’ community in Dublin. There’s Orthodox and there’s Progressive

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🇩🇪🇵🇸 German police violently arrest Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin as they mark three years for Gaza genocide (Footage: Molitics)

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 22h

This event exactly the exercise in Israeli PR spin that was expected. No surprise to see Ronan McGreevy’s name on this either

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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social · 22h

One point worth noting here is that ‘undersea cable protection’ ships are also the perfect cable cutters, and presumably double in that role

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My takeaway from this is that constant fear mongering around subsea cables + Ireland's deepening integration with UK/EU naval operations in the Atlantic carries the real risk of sparking a conflict that Irish people have no interest in being involved in. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Workers' AI Counter Summit hosted by the Digital and Techworker Alliance (DATA) is taking place today and tomorrow in Dublin. An important convergence and hopefully the first of many. If you haven't read the excellent programme introduction you should: www.datacwu.ie/ai-counter-s...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Despite the loss of life, waste of resources & likelihood of terrible escalation, there is literally no one saying this at EU level. “We should recognize any peace is going to be bad. No one is going to like it. It’s still better than continuing the war." jacobin.com/2026/10/russ...

jacobin.com

The War in Ukraine Is Spiraling Out of Control

After years of warnings that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a full-on Russia-Europe conflagration, the conflict has reached a point where this is a real possibliity. It’s a prospect that threate...

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 22h

Microsoft, AWS, Google & Meta now account for 20% of Ireland's electricity & growing. These are some of the most powerful companies that have ever existed. We should not be locking our energy system into their operations. www.businesspost.ie/companies/ex...

businesspost.ie

Exclusive: These four tech giants now consume 20% of Ireland’s electricity

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