Ciaran Irwin
@k1i1.bsky.social
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It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.
"This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit."
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit."
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
What's infuriating about this interview is that Beddoes is asking Bannon about constitutional barriers to Trump staying in office in 2028, and tries to cleverly point out his logical inconsistencies.
Zanny. He just told you that Trump "is an instrument of divine will."
Don't reason with fascists.
Zanny. He just told you that Trump "is an instrument of divine will."
Don't reason with fascists.
Steve Bannon: Trump will have a third term
YouTube video by The Economist
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October 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
What's infuriating about this interview is that Beddoes is asking Bannon about constitutional barriers to Trump staying in office in 2028, and tries to cleverly point out his logical inconsistencies.
Zanny. He just told you that Trump "is an instrument of divine will."
Don't reason with fascists.
Zanny. He just told you that Trump "is an instrument of divine will."
Don't reason with fascists.
Empire and colonialism have always used religion as a means of justifying its actions, and fascism is just colonialism turned inward.
‼️ Christian nationalism has become increasingly visible within the far right in the UK, with Tommy Robinson’s September rally in London being a prime example 👇
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/25/t...
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/25/t...
The Book of Revel-hate-ions: How Christianity is being co-opted by the far right – HOPE not hate
Scattered amongst the crowd at Tommy Robinson AKA Stephen Lennon’s September rally were wooden crosses. They were flanked by flags which read ‘Jesus is King’...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Empire and colonialism have always used religion as a means of justifying its actions, and fascism is just colonialism turned inward.
You might be wondering why RFK Jr. was weighing in on a dispute over a BC Ostrich Farm: this is why. When public health matters become politicized in an ecosystem where different issues become algorithmically bundled based on audience engagement, you get discourse and decisions based on vibes.
More in the enshittification of public health: Universal Ostrich Farms was granted an interim stay order by the Federal Court of Appeal, with CFIA to respond by Tuesday.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. ostrich farm wins interim stay of order to cull birds over bird flu | CBC News
A B.C. ostrich farm fighting to stop a cull of its 400-strong flock over an avian flu outbreak has been granted an interim stay order by the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa, delaying the execution o...
www.cbc.ca
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You might be wondering why RFK Jr. was weighing in on a dispute over a BC Ostrich Farm: this is why. When public health matters become politicized in an ecosystem where different issues become algorithmically bundled based on audience engagement, you get discourse and decisions based on vibes.
While pointing out hypocrisy is important in mobilising resistance, remember: the far-right doesn't care.
Violent people only care about ideology and narratives of "protecting women/children" to the extent that it lets them justify more violence. Language and values are means to an end.
Violent people only care about ideology and narratives of "protecting women/children" to the extent that it lets them justify more violence. Language and values are means to an end.
August 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
While pointing out hypocrisy is important in mobilising resistance, remember: the far-right doesn't care.
Violent people only care about ideology and narratives of "protecting women/children" to the extent that it lets them justify more violence. Language and values are means to an end.
Violent people only care about ideology and narratives of "protecting women/children" to the extent that it lets them justify more violence. Language and values are means to an end.
Irish citizens attack an immigrant, in an ongoing trend of falsely claiming that the victim had been targeting women and children.
While doing so, they proudly profess Catholic views- the same organisation that systematically destroyed our culture and abused our women and children.
Hypocrites.
While doing so, they proudly profess Catholic views- the same organisation that systematically destroyed our culture and abused our women and children.
Hypocrites.
Another video of what appears to be an unprovoked attack on another Indian man in Dublin. They accuse him of 'approaching people' ask him if he's a 'paedo'. All the while filming themselves assaulting him several times. This is truly horrifying and must be stopped.
August 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Irish citizens attack an immigrant, in an ongoing trend of falsely claiming that the victim had been targeting women and children.
While doing so, they proudly profess Catholic views- the same organisation that systematically destroyed our culture and abused our women and children.
Hypocrites.
While doing so, they proudly profess Catholic views- the same organisation that systematically destroyed our culture and abused our women and children.
Hypocrites.
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Another video of what appears to be an unprovoked attack on another Indian man in Dublin. They accuse him of 'approaching people' ask him if he's a 'paedo'. All the while filming themselves assaulting him several times. This is truly horrifying and must be stopped.
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Another video of what appears to be an unprovoked attack on another Indian man in Dublin. They accuse him of 'approaching people' ask him if he's a 'paedo'. All the while filming themselves assaulting him several times. This is truly horrifying and must be stopped.
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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots - on.ft.com/46hV6qW via @FT
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models
on.ft.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots - on.ft.com/46hV6qW via @FT
Selling this book to a male audience who might otherwise avoid it by focusing on its size and length is condescending, reductive pandering of the highest order, and it's going to be very effective.
I am eager to read this lengthy, girthy book. If slightly intimidated.
I am eager to read this lengthy, girthy book. If slightly intimidated.
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
July 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Selling this book to a male audience who might otherwise avoid it by focusing on its size and length is condescending, reductive pandering of the highest order, and it's going to be very effective.
I am eager to read this lengthy, girthy book. If slightly intimidated.
I am eager to read this lengthy, girthy book. If slightly intimidated.
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Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
July 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
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Naomi Klein, Madeleine Thien, Deborah Cowen and Kyo Maclear call out the Canadian government's "special" program to help evacuate Palestinians in Gaza as a "cruel taunt."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
July 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Naomi Klein, Madeleine Thien, Deborah Cowen and Kyo Maclear call out the Canadian government's "special" program to help evacuate Palestinians in Gaza as a "cruel taunt."
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The most reliable consumers are addicts- ask the Sacklers. Predatory business models prey on those most left most lonely and vulnerable by the conditions our systems have been created. These people also provide a good source of free labour in training the AI models for future use. Efficient.
Tech Won't Save Us - Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha Tiku
Listen to Tech Won't Save Us - Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha Tiku by Paris Marx on Podcast Addict. Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wid
podcastaddict.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The most reliable consumers are addicts- ask the Sacklers. Predatory business models prey on those most left most lonely and vulnerable by the conditions our systems have been created. These people also provide a good source of free labour in training the AI models for future use. Efficient.
In 1940, Bertolt Brecht wrote:
"When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out."
I suppose all-caps tweeting still counts.
"When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out."
I suppose all-caps tweeting still counts.
Objectively one of the most insane things he has ever posted
June 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
In 1940, Bertolt Brecht wrote:
"When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out."
I suppose all-caps tweeting still counts.
"When the leaders speak of peace
The common folk know
That war is coming.
When the leaders curse war
The mobilization order is already written out."
I suppose all-caps tweeting still counts.
Happy birthday, Alan Turing. You would have hated just, so much of each aspect of all of this.
June 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy birthday, Alan Turing. You would have hated just, so much of each aspect of all of this.
Khan and Hidalgo call on schools to 'ensure that media literacy and climate science are taught hand in hand'.
Human attention and natural resources are the most valuable commodities to be fracked and plundered, so expect a fresh wave of "indoctrination" content directed at the authors in 3,2...
Human attention and natural resources are the most valuable commodities to be fracked and plundered, so expect a fresh wave of "indoctrination" content directed at the authors in 3,2...
In London and Paris, we’ve experienced vicious backlash to climate action. But we’re not backing down | Sadiq Khan and Anne Hidalgo
Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step up, say London mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris mayor Anne Hid...
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Khan and Hidalgo call on schools to 'ensure that media literacy and climate science are taught hand in hand'.
Human attention and natural resources are the most valuable commodities to be fracked and plundered, so expect a fresh wave of "indoctrination" content directed at the authors in 3,2...
Human attention and natural resources are the most valuable commodities to be fracked and plundered, so expect a fresh wave of "indoctrination" content directed at the authors in 3,2...
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It's like all the predictions of tech dystopia are coming true, just with much shitter versions of the technology. Like humanities bar for being captured by tech is much lower than the writers imagined.
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It's like all the predictions of tech dystopia are coming true, just with much shitter versions of the technology. Like humanities bar for being captured by tech is much lower than the writers imagined.
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Remembering Jo Cox 💔
Murdered on this day in 2016.
Murdered on this day in 2016.
June 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Remembering Jo Cox 💔
Murdered on this day in 2016.
Murdered on this day in 2016.
'Right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Walz on a pile of lies.
In a different, saner world, they would be humiliated and slink away. But the smart money is that during the next moment of national crisis and mourning, they will again lie for profit.'
In a different, saner world, they would be humiliated and slink away. But the smart money is that during the next moment of national crisis and mourning, they will again lie for profit.'
A Democratic legislator was assassinated; right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation • Minnesota Reformer
Right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Walz on a pile of lies.
minnesotareformer.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
'Right-wing influencers marred Hortman’s death and smeared Walz on a pile of lies.
In a different, saner world, they would be humiliated and slink away. But the smart money is that during the next moment of national crisis and mourning, they will again lie for profit.'
In a different, saner world, they would be humiliated and slink away. But the smart money is that during the next moment of national crisis and mourning, they will again lie for profit.'
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LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society.
RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp.
YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice
RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp.
YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice
May 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society.
RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp.
YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice
RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp.
YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice
Ever since the raw high that Yaxley-Lennon got from cyberbullying a 15-year old Syrian boy in 2018, he knew he was destined for greater things.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
May 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Ever since the raw high that Yaxley-Lennon got from cyberbullying a 15-year old Syrian boy in 2018, he knew he was destined for greater things.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
Keynes and Graeber were right- most of our modern jobs have no productive purpose besided justifying our right to participate in the economy.
As that economy grows increasingly abstract, it becomes clear that corporate hierarchies are not about the creation and delivery of value- it's about power.
As that economy grows increasingly abstract, it becomes clear that corporate hierarchies are not about the creation and delivery of value- it's about power.
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
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Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Keynes and Graeber were right- most of our modern jobs have no productive purpose besided justifying our right to participate in the economy.
As that economy grows increasingly abstract, it becomes clear that corporate hierarchies are not about the creation and delivery of value- it's about power.
As that economy grows increasingly abstract, it becomes clear that corporate hierarchies are not about the creation and delivery of value- it's about power.
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Large language models make me think of cargo cults. The belief is that by creating strings of words that superficially look like those created by intelligence, intelligence will later magically appear
Or, in Chomsky terms, it's the belief that by aping surface structure, deep structure will appear
Or, in Chomsky terms, it's the belief that by aping surface structure, deep structure will appear
May 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Large language models make me think of cargo cults. The belief is that by creating strings of words that superficially look like those created by intelligence, intelligence will later magically appear
Or, in Chomsky terms, it's the belief that by aping surface structure, deep structure will appear
Or, in Chomsky terms, it's the belief that by aping surface structure, deep structure will appear