Daragh @ Castlebridge
@castlebridge-chief.bsky.social
CEO at Castlebridge (https://castlebridge.ie). Also on Mastodon (https://mastodon.ie/@CastlebridgeChief) Talks about data from the business perspective. Doing a doctorate in #DataGovernance because life just wasn’t busy enough. Also: Aikido keeps me sane.
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Obligatory #HelloWorld.
Mothballed things on #Birdsite a while ago, active on #Mastodon (mastodon.ie/@Castlebridg...)
Once I find a decent client for posting from multiple accounts across multiple platforms normal service will resume.
Mothballed things on #Birdsite a while ago, active on #Mastodon (mastodon.ie/@Castlebridg...)
Once I find a decent client for posting from multiple accounts across multiple platforms normal service will resume.
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This is my 6th year posting this same message. Black Friday is a nonsense with often pretend discounts on stuff you probably don’t need. We’ll do as we always do at this time and increase the 1% of all income we give to Women’s Aid to 10% on web sales over the weekend. Fuck Black Friday. #speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is my 6th year posting this same message. Black Friday is a nonsense with often pretend discounts on stuff you probably don’t need. We’ll do as we always do at this time and increase the 1% of all income we give to Women’s Aid to 10% on web sales over the weekend. Fuck Black Friday. #speirgorm
10 years ago today I was doing a #DataProtection compliance audit for a client who got very irked when I pointed out that (amongst other things) their orange text on brown background branding was an accessibility nightmare for colour blind people as I had to use CTRL+F to find text on their website.
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
10 years ago today I was doing a #DataProtection compliance audit for a client who got very irked when I pointed out that (amongst other things) their orange text on brown background branding was an accessibility nightmare for colour blind people as I had to use CTRL+F to find text on their website.
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I swear, Google scraping the contents of your emails AND direct messages for Gemini without opt-in is the thin end of the wedge. When companies destroy trust, they destroy themselves.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I swear, Google scraping the contents of your emails AND direct messages for Gemini without opt-in is the thin end of the wedge. When companies destroy trust, they destroy themselves.
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I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!
Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, vents after the company receives backlash for saying 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
uk.pcmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!
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👀 Keep your eyes peeled if you're at the cinema this weekend! You may catch the first look at the DPC's new nationwide #PauseBeforeYouPost public awareness campaign.
We will be sharing our video across social media on Monday morning - watch this space! 🎬
We will be sharing our video across social media on Monday morning - watch this space! 🎬
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
👀 Keep your eyes peeled if you're at the cinema this weekend! You may catch the first look at the DPC's new nationwide #PauseBeforeYouPost public awareness campaign.
We will be sharing our video across social media on Monday morning - watch this space! 🎬
We will be sharing our video across social media on Monday morning - watch this space! 🎬
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David and Georgeta attended the launch of the final report of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group in Iveagh House yesterday. The NCTOG was established by the Department of Health in 2024, and the DPC was delighted to contribute to its work in an advisory capacity.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
David and Georgeta attended the launch of the final report of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group in Iveagh House yesterday. The NCTOG was established by the Department of Health in 2024, and the DPC was delighted to contribute to its work in an advisory capacity.
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When your relatives ask you what good that English degree is....
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When your relatives ask you what good that English degree is....
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Great news coming out of China!
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Great news coming out of China!
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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It's the very first rule in the Model Rules of Ethics.
Know what the fuck you're doing when representing your client. I am technically licensed to represent someone in court, but I've never litigated in my life and it would be legal malpractice AND unethical for me to do so.
Know what the fuck you're doing when representing your client. I am technically licensed to represent someone in court, but I've never litigated in my life and it would be legal malpractice AND unethical for me to do so.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's the very first rule in the Model Rules of Ethics.
Know what the fuck you're doing when representing your client. I am technically licensed to represent someone in court, but I've never litigated in my life and it would be legal malpractice AND unethical for me to do so.
Know what the fuck you're doing when representing your client. I am technically licensed to represent someone in court, but I've never litigated in my life and it would be legal malpractice AND unethical for me to do so.
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Selling environmental policy is always hard, because the process of improving the environment is never complete. But it’s important to note the real wins here. Acid rain has been largely eliminated from North America. The ozone layer is coming back. Smog is less of a thing.
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Selling environmental policy is always hard, because the process of improving the environment is never complete. But it’s important to note the real wins here. Acid rain has been largely eliminated from North America. The ozone layer is coming back. Smog is less of a thing.
Doing read throughs of the #DigitalOmnibus from @ec.europa.eu. My initial thought: the underlying assumption underpinning some of the changes seems to be that every Controller has the same headaches as BigTech or others operating across markets.
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Doing read throughs of the #DigitalOmnibus from @ec.europa.eu. My initial thought: the underlying assumption underpinning some of the changes seems to be that every Controller has the same headaches as BigTech or others operating across markets.
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AI moratorium is back. Peter Thiel must have called.
This is a whole can of worms Trump just opened up:
He’s reviving some version of the ban on state-level regulation of AI that fell out of the big beautiful bill — shoutout to @knibbs.bsky.social for her coverage on the Blackburn defection that led to that — by folding it into the defense bill
He’s reviving some version of the ban on state-level regulation of AI that fell out of the big beautiful bill — shoutout to @knibbs.bsky.social for her coverage on the Blackburn defection that led to that — by folding it into the defense bill
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
AI moratorium is back. Peter Thiel must have called.
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
Interesting #LongRead in the @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
It's not a phenomenon unique to GenAI, but it's something the race to statistically normalise knowledge will accelerate.
#GenAI #LostKnowledge
It's not a phenomenon unique to GenAI, but it's something the race to statistically normalise knowledge will accelerate.
#GenAI #LostKnowledge
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Interesting #LongRead in the @theguardian.com today www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
It's not a phenomenon unique to GenAI, but it's something the race to statistically normalise knowledge will accelerate.
#GenAI #LostKnowledge
It's not a phenomenon unique to GenAI, but it's something the race to statistically normalise knowledge will accelerate.
#GenAI #LostKnowledge
Oh good. Maybe the Belgian DPA will get around to moving the file in my cross border complaint that’s been on their desk for 4 years.
Council adopts rules clarifying the cross-border enforcement of GDPR. The regulation will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the Official Journal of the EU. It will become applicable 15 months after its entry into force. See www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Council adopts new EU law to speed-up handling of cross-border data protection complaints
The Council adopts a new law to improve cooperation between national data protection authorities when enforcing the GDPR.
www.consilium.europa.eu
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Oh good. Maybe the Belgian DPA will get around to moving the file in my cross border complaint that’s been on their desk for 4 years.
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I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise, given we're now on the third or fourth Commission attempt to pretend Max Schrems never happened.
👉 www.brusselstimes.com/1835654/secr...
👉 www.brusselstimes.com/1835654/secr...
Secret EU plans to allow Big Tech to train AI with our personal data
According to leaked documents, the EU is proposing changes which take aim at every element of GDPR that could limit AI usage.
www.brusselstimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise, given we're now on the third or fourth Commission attempt to pretend Max Schrems never happened.
👉 www.brusselstimes.com/1835654/secr...
👉 www.brusselstimes.com/1835654/secr...
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People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
People see Jesus Christ in slices of toast, tea stains, patterns in carpet and damp stains on walls. We are not psychologically prepared to show the required caution in the face of computer software that can mimic human language. People are already surrendering reason to the Jesus in the toast.
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Excellent @euobserver.com oped from @krisshrishak.bsky.social on how EC leadership is running high on AI fumes and immolating public money.
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
Von der Leyen caught in AI hype trap while Tech bros cash in
Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission are fueling the AI hype, claiming AI could reach human-level reasoning next year. When asked for evidence, they cited tech CEOs’ essays, prompting scientists...
euobserver.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Excellent @euobserver.com oped from @krisshrishak.bsky.social on how EC leadership is running high on AI fumes and immolating public money.
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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there is a universe where the democrats didnt let republicans steal the election from this guy and the world isnt about to die
Excellent video - watch!
Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events | AC1N
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
there is a universe where the democrats didnt let republicans steal the election from this guy and the world isnt about to die
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The history of tech is wave of centralisation followed by wave of decentralisation so Chinese models are both a reflection of this and a potential economic weapon
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The history of tech is wave of centralisation followed by wave of decentralisation so Chinese models are both a reflection of this and a potential economic weapon
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Here I am on The Debate, on France24, discussing AI, the AI bubble and how the run of technology's history suggests that the home for these language models will be on your desk, not in data centres.
youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E?...
youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E?...
AI's insatiable appetite for cash, energy and data: Bubble ahead? • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Here I am on The Debate, on France24, discussing AI, the AI bubble and how the run of technology's history suggests that the home for these language models will be on your desk, not in data centres.
youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E?...
youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E?...
I am inordinately proud of the phrase “regulatory homeopaths” in this thread. I’m no @tupped.bsky.social with his Gisting at windmills, but I have moments…
19th November marks the 10th anniversary of #GiovanniButtarelli's call to action as #EDPS on the challenges of #DataProtection and #BigData. www.edps.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
I wonder just how badly the @ec.europa.eu will shit on his memory with their tinkering with GDPR and ePrivacy next week?
I wonder just how badly the @ec.europa.eu will shit on his memory with their tinkering with GDPR and ePrivacy next week?
www.edps.europa.eu
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I am inordinately proud of the phrase “regulatory homeopaths” in this thread. I’m no @tupped.bsky.social with his Gisting at windmills, but I have moments…