Hartel Shipping & Chartering BV has taken its website offline after declining to comment on The Ditch’s story yesterday that its Rijnvliet cargo ship is en route to Israel with containers of bomb shells and ammunition
The troubles
My version had more of a frothing at the mouth trash metal in its cadence though.
Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI
Found out last week that I got to go help my mama for a long stretch, so I need to freshen up my skills
I can't say I'm eager to head Stateside at the mo, but at least we'll eat well in fine weather 🤷♂️
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The Irish Independent's (and some others) approach to this ICE detention story is appalling.
There's clear public interest in the impact of ICE on Irish emigrants regardless of who they are. But whether we should have sympathy for Culleton is not and undermines the actual public interest issue.
Kathy Sheridan: Double standards in evidence over the Seamus Culleton case are hard to take
Even from space everything will be so washed it will look like that arena fight scene in Dune.
I see they've installed the new floodlights at Oriel Park. #SpeirGorm #Dundalk #Louth
Up to 144,000 Irish GPS chips were shipped in a single year. That is enough to make 36,000 Geran-2 kamikaze drones, a weapon that has become a central part of Russia’s strategy to wear down Ukraine’s will to fight by attacking civilian infrastructure
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
Sunday Times splashing today with story about Labour Together paying for a smear campaign against journalists investigating its undeclared funding
Democracy for Sale broke story 10 days ago and we’ve been reporting on it ever since😊
Now we need proper accountability!
democracyforsale.substack.com
Well
That fired a synapse, so here's another @niamhkirk.bsky.social
Item 35
The Mills Brothers, calmly crushing it in 1944
Till Then
youtu.be/8HchQqMxKGI
A photo of gallup
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
Thank goodness someone is looking at their wider activities and how they can be reconcile with their comments here today.
They are actively lobbying for less regulation and using US political actors to apply pressure on the EU.
Now can someone look at their promotional material to advertisers.
Again good question.
But again TikTok is big....so someone's gotta get hurt for us to stay this big. Obvious measures like more staff, more investment not even addressed. Such a lack of problem solving capacity.
Boom I am glad someone got to this point - It is a question of who should be responsible - the platforms want users to be primarily responsible for verifying content, risk assessments, for their own policy compliance.
Given they are in the best position to take responsibility why don't they?
It can be a good idea - to challenge these guys on the basis of what they are advertising and how they are promoting what they do.
The objection to the under 16 ban would impact the collection of that which is fundamental to their profit model.
For anyone following - the transparency reports are insufficient for any meaningful research into systemic problems on social media. #speirgorm
Nudification is not the only way AI us used to abuse and humiliate - they need to address a much wider range of harms. Saying that the programs are prohibited from responding to requests like this is far too narrow.
#speirgorm
Moss is there telling everyone what the law is, what ethics are, and that TikTok is a big company. Meade and O'Brion are waffling and deflecting.
Can we get someone in the room who can interrogate them please. #speirgorm
www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.
Political ad of the year...
Although IMO its not just a failure of leadership at the top levels, it is far more pervasive than that.
Cover image of book entitled "Colonised by Wankers: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction" by Jessica Homberg-Schramm. Downloadable from https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30609
Most academic books have boring descriptive titles but occasionally...
Look what I just saw over @unioflimerick.bsky.social #speirgorm
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
My line of work is rather uncommon: I'm an editor specialized in comms and editorial in the IGO/security sector – specifically disarmament issues
I've done such work since '03, though I've worked with words since waxboards and scissors.
I regret that such work is still necessary.
Nonetheless
