@ivanobrien.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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My perhaps naive theory is that the Trump administration and their replicants abroad have misread polling that says people are concerned about immigration to mean the majority shares their slavering hunger for unlimited, gleeful performative cruelty.
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My perhaps naive theory is that the Trump administration and their replicants abroad have misread polling that says people are concerned about immigration to mean the majority shares their slavering hunger for unlimited, gleeful performative cruelty.
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I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election!
*Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose
*Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
That's right! We should destroy human rights so that Keir Starmer can win* the next general election!
*Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose
*Make it even more likely he'll lose by mainstreaming the far right politics he pretends to oppose
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“it’s hard to take concerns about free speech from the Trump administration seriously: these are folks who want to expel legal migrants for criticism of a foreign government, and whose leader … insults and threatens journalists who are insufficiently North Korean in their adoration of him” 👌
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The EU Commission has finally fined X - the Digital Services Act's main character
My analysis - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The EU Commission has finally fined X - the Digital Services Act's main character
My analysis - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
The Digital Service’s Act Main Character: the EU Commission finally fines X
Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Animated Heaven, via Wikimedia Commons Intr...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“it’s hard to take concerns about free speech from the Trump administration seriously: these are folks who want to expel legal migrants for criticism of a foreign government, and whose leader … insults and threatens journalists who are insufficiently North Korean in their adoration of him” 👌
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If you are still on X, ask yourself why. Do you really want to support Musk? I certainly don't.
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If you are still on X, ask yourself why. Do you really want to support Musk? I certainly don't.
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My should-be-entirely-non-controversial position is that any personal assets over, say, $500 million should be taxed at about 90%, and if you're genuinely opposed to that, why? What human being needs that much money? Or more than that?
Capitalism is a sickness.
Capitalism is a sickness.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
My should-be-entirely-non-controversial position is that any personal assets over, say, $500 million should be taxed at about 90%, and if you're genuinely opposed to that, why? What human being needs that much money? Or more than that?
Capitalism is a sickness.
Capitalism is a sickness.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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A short article about EUDR: thankfully books and printed materials have been excluded. Whew! booksirelandmagazine.com/books-and-pr... (might wear a different shirt for my next headshot)
Books and Printed materials excluded from EUDR - Books Ireland
A clear majority of MEPs have adopted an amendment to exclude printed products, including books, from EUDR.
booksirelandmagazine.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A short article about EUDR: thankfully books and printed materials have been excluded. Whew! booksirelandmagazine.com/books-and-pr... (might wear a different shirt for my next headshot)
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The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
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a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually
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My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #BookElves2025 @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social 📚Starting off Book Elves 🧝♀️ with a selection of picture books 🇮🇪 featuring animals #latelate #latelatetoyshow @RTELateLateShow @irishkidsbooks @bookelves2025 @erikamcgann.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #BookElves2025 @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social 📚Starting off Book Elves 🧝♀️ with a selection of picture books 🇮🇪 featuring animals #latelate #latelatetoyshow @RTELateLateShow @irishkidsbooks @bookelves2025 @erikamcgann.bsky.social
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech.
Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech.
Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
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if anything like this was happening in a broad daylight in an African country, western governments would be issuing warnings left and right decrying how unsafe it is for their citizens to travel there
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
if anything like this was happening in a broad daylight in an African country, western governments would be issuing warnings left and right decrying how unsafe it is for their citizens to travel there