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Giada
@dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
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Librarian, poet, gardener, not necessarily in that order. Winner of Seán Dunne Poetry Award 2024. Seeds are not numbers. https://open.substack.com/pub/dreoilinbeag/p/seeds-are-not-numbers?r=2q4kt8&utm_medium=ios
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Giada @dreoilinbeag.bsky.social · May 29
One day, everyone will have always been against this.

But today?
Have you looked at images of Gaza on Google Maps? You should | Arwa Mahdawi
If you don’t trust Palestinians, maybe you’ll trust Google Maps. Satellite imagery shows the extent of the devastation
www.theguardian.com
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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tg4.bsky.social
Manchán Magan 1970 - 2025 💔

Craoltóir, scríbhneoir agus Gael. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.

Thar na blianta, chruthaigh sé & chuir sé i láthair an t-uafás cláracha do TnaG & TG4. Tá oidhreacht shaibhir fágtha aige dúinn a thabharfaidh inspioráid don chéad ghlúin eile 🕯️
🔗 www.tg4.ie
October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Carole Cadwalladr investigates the Tony Blair Institute and its Israeli billionaire funders -

www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
www.thenerve.news
October 2, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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velocity69.bsky.social
Israel has KIDNAPPED 497 PEOPLE from 46 COUNTRIES from the Global Sumud Flotilla

This is a HUMANITARIAN MISSION, now it has become a global kidnapping by #Israel
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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longcovidkids.bsky.social
“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air.

www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
September 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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eldiario.es
Sally Rooney reafirma su apoyo a un grupo activista propalestino pese a su prohibición en Reino Unido: “Si esto me hace partidaria del terrorismo, que así sea” www.eldiario.es/cultura/libr...
August 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Irish President

“I cannot really stand in a public venue & give a public speech & speak about our language when I see such incredible destruction of an entire people being taking place. Are we to watch children starving, women dehydrated who are trying to feed their children?..”
August 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
Best analysis I have read of Starmer’s ‘generous’ offer of recognition of Palestine as a state. On point. Those who initiated the erasure of Palestine (British Mandate - Balfour Declaration) can only pretend to be helpful 77 years later.

#spéirgorm #speirgorm
August 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘The EU must finally decide to sanction Israel without further delay. This is the only language that can bring Israeli leaders to stop committing crimes against humanity’

Suspending the association agreement and enacting the occupied territories bill is a long overdue start.

#spéirgorm #speirgorm
By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now | Josep Borrell
Europe’s silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked – undermining all it stands for, says Josep Borrell, a former EU high representative
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘Our moral and human obligation is to amplify the voices of the victims. Our political and historical responsibility is also to turn our gaze to the perpetrators, and to testify, in real time, to how a society transforms into one capable of committing genocide.’
#spéirgorm #speirgorm
Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide - Yuli Novak https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/israeli-human-rights-group-genocide
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August 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘Karen Hao is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She was the first journalist to profile OpenAI and wrote a book, Empire of AI, about the company and its global implications’

#spéirgorm #speirgorm
Going live: interviewing Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI about OpenAI at 12pm BST
...& 7am ET (with apols!) but will send out the recording later
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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freedomflotilla.bsky.social
Update on current status of the 21 civilians on board the 'Handala', which was illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli forces at 23:43 EEST, 26 July 2025.
Video at: t.me/FFC_official...
Visit freedomflotilla.org for further information and ways to help #BreakTheSiege of Gaza!
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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zeteo.com
“Nothing can protect you from this reality… a brutal, brutal occupation that targets everyone.”

The National’s Jihan Abdalla, who knew Shireen Abu Akleh personally, reflects on what her killing meant to the community at a screening of ‘Who Killed Shireen?’

Watch: zeteo.com/p/combat-pro...
July 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘Meanwhile political discourse has reduced Palestine to a humanitarian crisis to manage in perpetuity rather than a political issue demanding principled and firm resolution: end permanent occupation, apartheid and today genocide.’ Francesca Albanese, Hague Group, Bogotá

#spéirgorm #Irishsky
“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”
The Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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wereontheditch.bsky.social
Reported with @dropsitenews.com

Palestinian scholarship students with places at Irish universities and processed visas remain trapped in Gaza as the Irish government refuses to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on 'official government scholarships'.

www.ontheditch.com/government-w...
Palestinian accepted to Irish universities stranded in Gaza
It's government policy to refuse to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on “official government scholarships”.
www.ontheditch.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘It really illuminates the original sin of AI systems built off public data—it’s extractive, misleading, and dangerous to people who have been using the internet with one framework of risk, never assuming it would all be hoovered up by a group trying to create an image generator’ #spéirgorm #AI
eileenguo.bsky.social Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social · Jul 18
NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models.

It's a major privacy violation.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
www.technologyreview.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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melissamllr.bsky.social
Had the honour to talk to Francesca Albanese about her new report on private profteering from the Gaza genocide. Check it out on my Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/melissam...
"Palestine is a revealer of the world we live in"
Francesca Albanese on how companies profit from the Gaza genocide
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
dreoilinbeag.bsky.social
‘The consequential nature of journals,and potential threats to the quality and reliability of the work they publish,have prompted leading scientists to sound the alarm. Many argue that scientific publishing is broken,unsustainable and churning out too many papers that border on worthless’ #spéirgorm
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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freedomflotilla.bsky.social
We are setting sail again. On July 13, 2025 our boat #Handala will depart from Siracusa, Italy to break Israel’s illegal blockade. This mission is for the children of Gaza.

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Photo of Handala boat with Palestine flags. Quoted text: The Freedom Flotilla is setting sail again. Handala to break the blockade for the children of Gaza. Read more on next four tiles. Siracusa, Italy - On July 13, 2025, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will launch 'Handala' - a civilian boat setting out to challenge Israel's illegal, deadly blockade of Gaza. The vessel will carry life-saving humanitarian aid and a message of solidarity from people around the world refusing to stay silent as Gaza is starved, bombed, and buried under rubble. This mission comes just weeks after Israel's illegal attack on the 'Madleen', another Freedom Flotilla boat illegally seized by Israel in international waters. Twelve unarmed civilians - including a Member of the European Parliament, a doctor, journalists, and human rights defenders - were abducted by Israeli commandos and taken against their will to Israel, where they were interrogated, abused, then deported. Their "crime"? Attempting to bring food, medicine, and solidarity to Palestinians under siege. We are not backing down. The 'Handala' launches in the shadow of ongoing mass atrocities. Since March 18, 2025 - when Israel broke the ceasefire and resumed attacks on Gaza - at least 6,572 Palestinians have been killed and over 23,000 injured, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Among them, over 700 gunned down as they waited for food at distribution points controlled by the U.S. - and Israel-backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) - a death trap masquerading as an aid scheme; a structure of control and cruelty serving Israel's genocide. The 'Handala' is part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, a grassroots international network that has been sailing against the blockade since 2010. On board will be volunteer medics, lawyers, social justice activists, journalists, and community organizers. We are not governments. We are people, taking action where institutions have failed. For the children of Gaza. Named after the Palestinian cartoon figure 'Handala' - a barefoot refugee child who turned his back on injustice and vowed not to turn around until Palestine is free - this boat carries his spirit, and that of every child in Gaza who has been denied safety, dignity, and joy. In 2023 and 2024, 'Handala' sailed to ports across northern Europe and the UK, breaking through the media blockade, engaging the public, and building solidarity through press events, art installations, and political education in every port it visited.
July 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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nisreenalwan.bsky.social
The letter, signed by 111 BBC journalists, says:
“Much of the BBC’s coverage in this area is defined by anti-Palestinian racism.”
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
BBC workers revolt, slamming bosses for 'performing PR for the Israeli government'
Over 100 BBC workers joined other media professionals in calling out pro-Israel boss Robbie Gibb over the broadcaster's clear bias
www.thecanary.co
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM