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Séamas Kelly

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Ways of being human in a technosocial age...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Congrats to all who enabled this result; if the verdict stands, the floodgates are thrown open for more. Remember, these companies deliberately gambled that they could afford to keep harming their users, and society. So let’s put that belief to the test.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 17/03/2026
I think unfettered modern advertising, in retrospect, has been enormously damaging for the development of liberal societies, and i think it remains a challenge for liberalism in the modern context and moment.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank. The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered. Every. Day.
Mustafa Bani Odeh during his parents funeral, yesterday. Photo: Reuters, from Haaretz.
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
Between 2010 and 2013, I was on the ground capturing Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Few wanted to see it
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dozens killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says
The UN human rights chief said Israel's
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro
We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 30/03/2025
The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
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The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/02/2025
‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’ Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/p...
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How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology
The war has exposed post-World War II illusions of a common humanity.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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Andy Liddell @andyliddell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
“It’s easy to buy into the idea that A.I. will take away jobs.” Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Another important reflection on our techno-human becoming from @lmsacasas.bsky.social theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
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The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Neil Postman — 5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
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Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Can computers think? No. They can’t actually do anything | Aeon Essays
For all the promise and dangers of AI, computers plainly can’t think. To think is to resist – something no machine does
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Séamas Kelly @seamas6.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...
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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew
As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
BlueSky growing in popularity with people who now hate Twitter but still hate productivity
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