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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 17h

Elon's European headquarters is less than 15 minutes walk from Dáil Éireann. Government ministers and departments declined to shut down their accounts when he turned the company into a manufacturer of child sexual abuse images earlier this year

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s pretty important to note that one of the few Persons of Colour on the Irish squad stood up for Palestine.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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pseudomorph @pseudomorph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or, alternatively, your social media ban ain't gonna do squat.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The point isn't "people can't be harmed by LLMs." It's, "the harm it does was explicitly chosen by other people, who can and should be held accountable."

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We in the chipmunk community are increasingly concerned - we believe there is a 10% chance that rogue squirrels in disguise could wipe out humanity in the next decade.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"AI companies did not frontload this narrative" says @theverge.com chief AI reporter... who also failed to mention that the tweet that started it came from an otherwise idle account & was v likely amplified with coordination. *Please* talk to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app about real, current harms...

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Viral AI Dommer Tweet: Engineered Panic?

Potentially orchestrated headlines and regulatory capture attempts are clouding AI investor sentiment.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

The doomsday eugenicist cult has "highly specialized minds" that allows them to see these things he says. No matter how much documentation we provide journalists they choose not to see this.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't resist saluting the absolute pitch perfect con that's been perpetrated on us last week or so. Net effect: Open AI and Anthropic get to delay their IPOs again cos they can't show their investors they're almost at AGI -- by - warning us they're almost at AGI. 💯 would con again.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/09/2026

From the social media playbook. “Pleeeease, won’t you please regulate us?!” 😭😭😭

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

But guess what? THEY are the right guys to create the kind of "AI" that will bring us utopia, so you should regulate all the other ones out of existence but don't touch them. Also, data centers and all that? Well you should know that's not the REAL risk according to them.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵

Alex Turner
@Turn_Trout
False

1. I literally quit my Google DeepMind job & lost >>$300k to call out harms regarding autonomous weapons... and extinction risk is still more important, which is why I'm speaking out + working to solve it

2. GDM does NOT want to stoke fears about extinction risks lol

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

OpenAI did not "lose control", the agents did not go "rogue" and there is no "swarm" that "escaped". all control and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of these "frontier" labs. most importantly this "rogue" narrative is an intentional and strategic marketing PR

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Age Verification = Identity Verification. This won't protect anyone, and will actually more harm than you think.

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Face/ID verification requirements for internet websites is just Flock cameras but for the internet. Take off your social media panic goggles and face it. #savespeech #censorship #masssurveillance #privacy

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

Huge Bee Worries Wicklow

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Aidan Curran @aidancurran17.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Literally the same government on the same day:

Collage of newspaper articles:
Government cannot 'fund everything together': Bus and rail fare hikes of up to 35% confirmed
Ryder Cup spectator transport ‘could cost €1m a day’

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Srikumar @sriku.org · 28/08/2026

EFF - "Under this settlement, young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play." We can make our roads safer for cyclists by disallowing them on the roads.

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pondering the Meta settlement and how they have undertaken to invest in more age verification tech. The purpose of the system is what it does. What this does is require tech to collect data either directly or indirectly to verify or infer age. From everyone. Not just kids.

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Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

arguably there would have been no need for #DollyParton to pay for children's books anywhere in Ireland had the school libraries fund not been cut in 2008 (and not restored since) - something you won't hear Mícheal Martin or anynother govt minister mentioning in their tributes #speirgorm

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Goodbye Dolly. Thank you so so much. ❤️

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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks

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missusvee.bsky.social @missusvee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Irish Times is in good form today.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 31/07/2026

This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago

A stone carving on a plaque, it features a cat playing the bagpipes.

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Gold Medal" by The Donnas is criminally underappreciated -- perfect driving music, great balance of riffs and lyrics. youtu.be/ZfUM7h2SgpA?...

youtu.be

The Donnas - Fall Behind Me (Official Video)

YouTube video by Atlantic Records

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/07/2026

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Cray Y-MP supercomputer they’re sitting on could do about 2.7 Gigaflops. By comparison, a cheapo Raspberry Pi they give to kids for fun throwaway projects that can fit in your hand benchmarks at 25 GFLOPS for a reasonable $50.

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"Strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.” ― Michelle Obama

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orla 🪩🌼 @orlatv.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🚨ALERT🚨

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

‘Oh no, our software is so powerful it’s going to take over the world! Oh stop us, we’re too powerful, our products are so much smarter than humans oh what shall we do? The world is in so much danger!’ ‘Please contact our sales team to learn more.’

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Tim Hunter @trjh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

David McWilliams with the most obvious and least-insightful takes on AI there on @news.rte.ie

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A thread of short essays going back to 2021 reflecting on the gap between Ireland’s stated housing policy ( “we must do something about housing”) and its actual one. (“We must make the price of housing always go up”) Prompted by news that rents are now 81% higher than 10 years ago.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

it’s funny how for American Generation Xers, U2 was our first window into the history of The Troubles and now they’re a window into offshore tax havens

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Instead of buying your kid a smartphone encourage them to build their own device! There are so many amazing creative examples rn

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Zex Rat @zexapu.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

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