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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bird brained fools. Mind you, did Anthropic ban users or did Claude?

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The moral bankruptcy of these people. And to think so many liberals held up Tom Watson as some kind of moral paragon un the Corbyn years...

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Broadcast online, it was the barbarism of Al Qaeda.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Irish Water’s alert sign-up system is helpful as ever. An email at midnight for a water cut off at 6 am. A text hours after the water has come back.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me at the Empty City (£) emptycity.substack.com/p/the-manche...

The club is now not in a happy place legally.

Not only has it been found to be in breach of various regulations, the commission ruling uses terms like “sham”, “disguise” and “conceal” in respect of those breaches, on the basis of “strong, cogent evidence”.

But this post is not about that evidence. This post is about what the club did once it knew it faced an investigation about those matters.

It made a decision not to cooperate.

It made a decision to put forward witnesses to provide evidence on key points which was found by the commission to be dishonest.

Those were aggressive decisions the club made once it know it knew it was in regulatory and legal peril.

And it would have done so knowing the likely consequences of those decisions in the findings of the commission.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An interesting exchange on how to react to Slop-as-evidence at the Oireachtas. Oireachtas committees hear from people with all sorts of views, and by definition, many of them diverge from each other. But they are actually their views. The people who come in expressed them.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you get IP aggressive and it backfires. www2.courts.ie/view/judgmen...

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Judgments | The Courts Service of Ireland

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very funny however that Tom Watson now works for Palantir.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every village must have an annual matchmaking festival.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a United Ireland everyone must consume a daily blaa. (And must pretend that it’s a thing, different from other bread rolls.)

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 28/09/2026

Irish plans to exempt processing of your data for AI from the GDPR are "not in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights"; they amount to an "illegal change of primary law"; they "exempt AI from the guarantees in the Treaties and render them largely meaningless". Damning, from the leading expert.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sidebar: remarkable how bad RTE’s apps still are at sharing links.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see we’re calling it a price “update” now.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My point here is that the world is literally begging someone to run the Rylands & Fletcher strict liability case against “rogue AI” hackings.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Current electricity prices in this country are not sustainable - for businesses or homes.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Switch electricity supplier, shop around and save money they say. Let me tell you in this economy you can do so but will not be saved the experience of fainting when you see your first bill.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Citizenship is not a privilege. The State’s existence is a privilege it owes to its people.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why don’t any of these companies get prosecuted for hacking? The models didn’t “spontaneously break out”. They broke out in carrying out the instructions they were given. www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

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OpenAI reveals six new cases of AI misbehavior

US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI promised to more systemically report instances of its models going off track, while also publishing six new reports on previously undisclosed incidents of AI mi...

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Try getting a court order for them and getting them to comply.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Where are the “nothing to fear” brigade when stories like this emerge?

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Ricardo 🇵🇸 @thoughtcat.com · 16/09/2026

“Sheeran loves to dabble in the music of other cultures to present a toothless pan-global vision of togetherness lifted from the latter-day Coldplay playbook. But you can’t … without also being willing to engage in the lived reality of those cultures” www.theguardian.com/music/commen...

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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality

By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin...

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Slate @slate.com · 12/09/2026

It's old. It's dense. It has some of the most ardent fans in the game. What is it about Band of Brothers? slate.trib.al/BIodVo2

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It’s Old. It’s Dense. It Has Some of the Most Ardent Fans in the Game. What Is It About Band of Brothers?

It's been 25 years of the boys of Easy Company.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Often the outcome of an injunction application resolves proceedings one way or the other but not where the plaintiff self-represents.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Scrolling past, at first glance, I thought this was Sam Kirk and La’an and wondered when they were filming in the Burren.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Very good commemoration events this weekend. My parents were both North Kerry but I remember my grandfather talking about it - he was on the train home from the All Ireland final (Kerry v. Kildare) and they could see the smoke and glow as the train went through West Limerick.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve been using protonmail for a few years and it’s good. Haven’t really gotten into docs

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 03/09/2026

Today’s stories from Ireland

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/09/2026

just saw a story about the second season of Three-Body Problem coming soon and I mean surely we can come up with a better TV system than "hey remember that thing you watched eight episodes of two and a half years ago? no? you don't? you can't remember the plot or characters at all? well we're back!"

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There’s been a chorus locally here in response to anti-social behaviour of “AI”. What’s AI going to do?

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Mr. Bean Waiting in a Field

ALT: Mr. Bean Waiting in a Field

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s depressingly predictable all the same.

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Oliver Moran 🌻🇮🇪🇪🇺 @oliver.ie · 29/08/2026

30km/h defaults in towns and cities. Traffic cameras at junctions and main roads. Regulation of social media companies. That's what we want. What we get is AI and high-viz vests.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know that this is a multi-state case by AGs, so kind of regulators (in a US-workaround way) but very much a Big US Lawsuit thing. If anything like it were done in the EU it might achieve something (but there is no chance, so hobbled has tort become).

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lawyers get a lot of stick; as do class actions (not possible in IE). But when there were no regulators, compo claims got things done. Now, regulators do nothing about the excesses of social media companies; governments dilly-dally: compo claims get things done. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $17bn

US tech giant agrees to establish further protections for teens such as daily usage limits and blocks on nighttime use

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Conor O'Carroll @conorocarroll.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tonight, we reveal how water use from data centres almost doubled during the summer, peaking in July when the hosepipe ban was introduced for households. The figures show data centres used over 514 million litres of water between May and July this year. Read on thejournal.ie just after midnight 🔜

A screenshot of an upcoming article on The Journal. The headline reads 'Data centre water use almost doubled during Ireland's long, hot summer months'

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I would love some of that gnocchi!

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are now used to judgments and sentencing remarks listing a person’s ill-advised Google searches. We will soon see judgments and sentencing remarks listing a person’s ill-advised AI/LLM prompts. You may as well email the prompts directly to the police station.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That’s the one. It is very humiliating.

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Rossa McMahon @rossamcmahon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There was a recent civil case in the UK involving AI use by a party solicitor where the judge was provided with the transcripts (I can’t recall whether they were voluntarily furnished or ordered).

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 21/08/2026

There is someone on my timeline attempting to tell a lawyer that LLMs are good for providing legal advice in criminal matters. That same person is blissfully unaware that AI prompts are not privileged and are readily available on discovery/by subpoena/by warrant.

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