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Searching for the hidden ainu gold
Ireland he/him
Ireland he/him
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Tom Baker is 92 today
January 20, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Tom Baker is 92 today
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I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.
Particularly unhappy with the attempt to move discussion off the X illegal abuse image factory to the pre-existing Garda wish to bring in age verification to allow surveillance of all adults and children’s access of *lawful* material.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
January 14, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.
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I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.
It’s a feature.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
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Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
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Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
High asylum seeker numbers are a threat to ‘social cohesion’, says Jim O’Callaghan
Minister ‘not setting any numbers’, but says population growth is too high, putting services under pressure
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Our GDP is $113,135 per capita, and yet there are over 20,000 homeless.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
Average house prices are 8 times the average income, making it impossible for most Irish people to afford a mortgage.
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is now a chasm, and that's the real threat to social cohesion.
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"And Here You Are, and It's A Beautiful Day."
December 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"And Here You Are, and It's A Beautiful Day."
I'm not sure about this Uketsu sequel
December 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm not sure about this Uketsu sequel
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Like it’s a consumer product specifically designed to work against me and be my enemy
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Like it’s a consumer product specifically designed to work against me and be my enemy
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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The conflation of ML and genAI is really disingenuous. Nobody is rejecting the use of ML. It's powerful, efficient, and useful, and has been studied and used in products for decades.
genAI is garbage, and yes, it's tremendously easy and morally & ethically imperative to avoid using it
genAI is garbage, and yes, it's tremendously easy and morally & ethically imperative to avoid using it
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The conflation of ML and genAI is really disingenuous. Nobody is rejecting the use of ML. It's powerful, efficient, and useful, and has been studied and used in products for decades.
genAI is garbage, and yes, it's tremendously easy and morally & ethically imperative to avoid using it
genAI is garbage, and yes, it's tremendously easy and morally & ethically imperative to avoid using it
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You can identify a true William Shakespeare fan because they’ll often refer to him as Dickie Shakes
October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
You can identify a true William Shakespeare fan because they’ll often refer to him as Dickie Shakes
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"To become mature is to become kind" is actually beautiful.
Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.
October 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"To become mature is to become kind" is actually beautiful.
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I've said it before but the main reason why democracy is the superior system is that, while the average person is a moron, the average elite is even more moronic
October 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I've said it before but the main reason why democracy is the superior system is that, while the average person is a moron, the average elite is even more moronic
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oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened
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You only needed to look at the overwhelming success of stuff like Libs of TikTok, a crowdsourced campaign to get teachers fired for the crime of being gay on social media, to see this. But it seems that for lots of media types, it's only real cancel culture if it's people like them losing their jobs
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
October 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
You only needed to look at the overwhelming success of stuff like Libs of TikTok, a crowdsourced campaign to get teachers fired for the crime of being gay on social media, to see this. But it seems that for lots of media types, it's only real cancel culture if it's people like them losing their jobs
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We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”
How cancel culture came for everyone
Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!
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Of course Trump, the GOP, and their media sock puppets will attack the Dems! There's no scenario on the table where they don't! Oh they voted for cloture on a spending bill, I guess they're not evil radical leftists we have to apocalyptically crush and censor after all, let's play nice now? Come on.
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Of course Trump, the GOP, and their media sock puppets will attack the Dems! There's no scenario on the table where they don't! Oh they voted for cloture on a spending bill, I guess they're not evil radical leftists we have to apocalyptically crush and censor after all, let's play nice now? Come on.
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Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse
In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse
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Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.
May 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.
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Again: no one knows who Charlie Kirk is, and everyone knows who Jimmy Kimmel is
screenrant.com/disney-scram...
screenrant.com/disney-scram...
Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It
Now it's scrambling.
screenrant.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Again: no one knows who Charlie Kirk is, and everyone knows who Jimmy Kimmel is
screenrant.com/disney-scram...
screenrant.com/disney-scram...
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Kirks youngest child is about the same age as my son. I will never ever celebrate an infant losing a parent that way, it honestly makes me sick to think about. But we don't have to lie about who he was either. The price of being politically notable is that you don't get fawning eulogies when you die
September 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Kirks youngest child is about the same age as my son. I will never ever celebrate an infant losing a parent that way, it honestly makes me sick to think about. But we don't have to lie about who he was either. The price of being politically notable is that you don't get fawning eulogies when you die