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An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages. restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.
restofworld.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages. restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...
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Hey remember when it was a delusional fantasy to suggest that Russia was going to invade Ukraine?
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hey remember when it was a delusional fantasy to suggest that Russia was going to invade Ukraine?
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Yep, we are all so keen to be reconquered by England here in English speaking Galway. /s
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Yep, we are all so keen to be reconquered by England here in English speaking Galway. /s
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I knew my Uncle’s plans to conquer Galway would be vindicated at some stage
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I knew my Uncle’s plans to conquer Galway would be vindicated at some stage
Lol. Big thread about citations without citing the artwork owners
people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lol. Big thread about citations without citing the artwork owners
Or perhaps Europeans will know their history from WW1 when small nations such as Belgium will be targetted in retaliation if they did otherwise, while the US flounders as to whether it would live up to NATO Article 5 responsibilities if the event of a Russian attack.
It will be hard for many European citizens not to wonder whether Belgium forced EU taxpayers to assume a multi-billion euro risk in order to protect Russian money — whatever the actual technical mechanisms of the arrangement.
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Or perhaps Europeans will know their history from WW1 when small nations such as Belgium will be targetted in retaliation if they did otherwise, while the US flounders as to whether it would live up to NATO Article 5 responsibilities if the event of a Russian attack.
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In particular this part from around 14 minutes in, where he drove up to Dabancheng, the largest detention facility we're aware of and the site of a new prison large enough to hold 10,000 people. This is the first film I'm aware of of this place.
youtu.be/cI8bJO-to8I?...
youtu.be/cI8bJO-to8I?...
寻找新疆集中营 - 城乡随拍[5/8]
YouTube video by guanguan
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December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In particular this part from around 14 minutes in, where he drove up to Dabancheng, the largest detention facility we're aware of and the site of a new prison large enough to hold 10,000 people. This is the first film I'm aware of of this place.
youtu.be/cI8bJO-to8I?...
youtu.be/cI8bJO-to8I?...
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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The RTE article misses a crucial part of the policy - that initially, data centres will not be powered by renewables, but mostly by fossil fuels. It is also very unbalanced in its coverage of reaction, only including positive industry responses - no voice for climate.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
80% of data centre energy must come from renewables - CRU
Data centres will be required to meet at least 80% of their annual energy demand with additional renewable electricity projects generating in the Republic of Ireland.
www.rte.ie
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The RTE article misses a crucial part of the policy - that initially, data centres will not be powered by renewables, but mostly by fossil fuels. It is also very unbalanced in its coverage of reaction, only including positive industry responses - no voice for climate.
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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And here it is: the EU’s first big fine against X under the Digital Services Act www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
Elon Musk’s X Hit With $140 Million Fine in Europe
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
And here it is: the EU’s first big fine against X under the Digital Services Act www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
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It's based on my article from earlier in the week: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's based on my article from earlier in the week: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The level of stereotyping of mainland Chinese on show here is quite something
www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...
www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...
After the Hong Kong fire, Beijing confronts a grief it can’t easily police
Thousands queue to mourn victims, highlighting tensions between public grief and Beijing’s strict controls on dissent
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The level of stereotyping of mainland Chinese on show here is quite something
www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...
www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p...
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The voices that have publicly sought to challenge the government narratives on what caused or contributed to the Tai Po fire are being silenced "for obvious reasons".
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The voices that have publicly sought to challenge the government narratives on what caused or contributed to the Tai Po fire are being silenced "for obvious reasons".
Whatever about caps, there are legal means to reduce immigration flows. Caps on student visas, worker visas, business visas etc are the most obvious, and in my opinion, a more just place to start with policy changes as opposed to actively promoting family seperation measures which are cruel
You can't actually cap migration into Ireland without:
1. Dismantling the Common Travel Area
2. Leaving the EU
3. Placing a hard border between the Republic and the North
This "population growth" argument the self-declared sensible people have come up with is in reality really extreme
1. Dismantling the Common Travel Area
2. Leaving the EU
3. Placing a hard border between the Republic and the North
This "population growth" argument the self-declared sensible people have come up with is in reality really extreme
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Whatever about caps, there are legal means to reduce immigration flows. Caps on student visas, worker visas, business visas etc are the most obvious, and in my opinion, a more just place to start with policy changes as opposed to actively promoting family seperation measures which are cruel
I'm going to put this on a t-shirt
PS (1) reg changes were not made to make housing more ‘affordable’ for buyers/renters; purpose was to make sites more ‘viable’ (profitable) for developers. Savings for lower standards are not passed on
(*Yes, this was 2020)
(*Yes, this was 2020)
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm going to put this on a t-shirt
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Climate March Dublin kicking off 🌻🌍🌎🌏
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Climate March Dublin kicking off 🌻🌍🌎🌏
Not always a fan of Fintan O'Toole's writing but he's bashed the nail on the head here (paywalled) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
www.irishtimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not always a fan of Fintan O'Toole's writing but he's bashed the nail on the head here (paywalled) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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The Caiseal Mara Hotel in Donegal was set on fire in 2018 - it was supposed to house asylum seekers. There have been dozens of arson attacks since, and only now a security review?
Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack rte.ie/news/ireland...
Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack rte.ie/news/ireland...
Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack
A security review of all IPAS centres will take place speedily in the wake of an arson attack on a facility in Drogheda, the Minister of State for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration has said.
rte.ie
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Caiseal Mara Hotel in Donegal was set on fire in 2018 - it was supposed to house asylum seekers. There have been dozens of arson attacks since, and only now a security review?
Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack rte.ie/news/ireland...
Security review of all IPAS centres after arson attack rte.ie/news/ireland...
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This is so grossly irresponsible at a time when brown people are being subjected to a terror campaign in Ireland
Immigration numbers are too high. We have to listen to the people in this country. The increase is too high.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
- Simon Harris, via @news.rte.ie
Welcomed by Aontu.
Matt Carty says SF has been saying this for some time.
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is so grossly irresponsible at a time when brown people are being subjected to a terror campaign in Ireland