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TJ McIntyre
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I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
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Steve Jobs shows off iPod socks at the low low price of $29
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
The cover of Outrun by Kazinsky. A Ferrari Testarossa and driver are silhouetted against a moody sky.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Are you sure? Looks like an O.MG cable to me.
DJ Carey, with a charging cable up his nose.
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Section 31 is referred to just one minute in:
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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By comparison, even basic ChatGPT manages to spot the key issues:
I am a tenant in Dublin. I have a one year lease which is expiring. The landlord refuses to renew it. What can I do?
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Spectacularly wrong on the most basic landlord and tenant issue possible. 0/10
Legal Analysis Brief Answer If your lease in Dublin is ending and the landlord has provided formal notice to vacate without offering to renew, you generally need to vacate the property unless you have specific entitlements under tenancy law that allow you to remain. Explanation In Ireland, tenants typically do not have an automatic right to have a lease renewed at the end of its term. The key legislation governing residential tenancies is the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, which provides some protections and rights to tenants. However, if your lease was for a fixed term and the landlord does not wish to renew it, they are generally within their legal rights to ask you to vacate, provided they have given adequate notice. The notice you received to vacate should comply with legal requirements, including the correct notice period depending on the length of the tenancy. For a one-year lease, typically a 28-day notice is required, but this may vary based on specific circumstances or other agreements. If you believe the notice was not served correctly, or if you have grounds to challenge the notice (such as discriminatory motives), you can contact the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) for assistance or dispute resolution. Relevant Law / Authorities Residential Tenancies Act 2004 The notice requirements under this act concerning tenancies of various lengths.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Cryptocurrency is a threat to democracy.
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=20...
Dr Manhattan meme, with text about Irish failure to drift cybercrime convention.
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This is absolutely wild: US Secret Service seizes "anonymous communications network with more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers" in New York, targeting UN General Assembly? "Only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel." archive.is/S4hkB
A handout photograph provided by the Secret Service showing racks of dismantled communications devices that were part of an anonymous network in the New York region. Approximately a gazillion antennas and what look like SIM cards inserted into flat devices.
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Quite spectacular victim blaming from the Taoiseach when asked about the clearly illegal large scale commercial abuse of mobile phone location data. Reflective of institutional cluelessness about privacy throughout the Irish state.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
Speaking to reporters in Lismore, Co Waterford, Mr Martin said: "People shouldn't share their location data. "I think one of the issues is when people are downloading apps or generally speaking, they don't read all the terms and conditions, and they tend to bypass those."
September 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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There’s not much you can do on this side of the Atlantic about the US slide into fascism. But canceling Disney+, and mentioning Jimmy Kimmel in the reason why, would be a good idea at a key pressure point.
Disney + Ok, your subscription has been cancelled We've sent a confirmation to your email on file. You may continue to watch Disney+ until 13 October 2025. River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social Follow Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises. 18 September 2025 at 15:09 @ Everybody can reply 894 reposts 340 quotes 3.5K likes 42 saves 265 12к О 35к . River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social • 2h The thing about streaming services is that their bread & butter are households that sub and forget - ppl who go months w/o actually using the product but enjoy having the option at their fingertips. They're the first to go in a boycott (it costs nothing to cancel) and they're the hardest to get back 1 161 • 1.2K
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Despite the careful wording, this will be remembered as the equivalent of offering thoughts and prayers on the death of Horst Wessel.
Text from Irish Taoiseach with thoughts and prayers for Charlie Kirk.
September 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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It explains so much about the Irish state’s attitude to privacy and technology if it did not even attempt to secure its own communications. I have no trouble believing that sensitive calls about Brexit were held in the clear on public networks. archive.is/3H4gK
The level of distrust is highlighted in a chapter called Standing Up for Ireland, where Varadkar outlines his suspicions about Britain and the EU as negotiations progressed. He says the British delegation installed a "huge, green tent-like object" in its negotiation room where May could "make calls without being heard" . He referred to the tent in conversation with May saying: "That's an interesting piece of equipment," before adding, , "we don't bother with any of that". According to Varadkar, May responded with a wry smile: "Oh, we know you don't." He conceded that, while the British government had the ability to monitor their communications, the Irish contingent had "no way to stop it and a limited capacity to even detect it" . The Irish position was simply to repeat any conversations they had in private during public engagements. "This way, the British didn't need to monitor our calls to find out what we were really thinking, as we just said it in public," Varadkar said.
September 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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A lot of European authors hoping for a payout from the Anthropic settlement are about to be disappointed. Assuming the settlement is approved by the court, you will get paid only if your work was registered with the US Copyright Office. Search here to find out: publicrecords.copyright.gov
All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen downloaded by Anthropic, as contained on the Works List. "Book" refers to any work possessing an ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication.
September 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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More details of the UK’s incredible attempt to compromise the private files and passwords of literally all iPhone users worldwide. www.ft.com/content/fe2c...
However, the new IPT filing states the TCN "is not limited to" data stored under ADP, suggesting the UK government sought bulk interception access to Apple's standard iCloud service, which is much more widely used by the company's customers. The TCN also included "obligations to provide and maintain a capability to disclose categories of data stored within a cloud-based backup service", the filing states, which suggests the government sought to tap messages or passwords that were backed up in the cloud as well.
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I suppose we have to give him credit for being a typically vapid AI booster as far back as 2013. 2/2
How might your technology change how -- or what -- we write?One of the areas I’m working on is, can we create a doctoral-level thesis that’s fully automated -- to save the pain of four years of a Ph.D. program -- and still come up with an original conclusion? If we could do it in an automated way, we’d increase the speed of discovery. As time goes on, someone might be able to say, “I’d really like to do a doctoral thesis on X and Y with a Z perspective,” and with a few clicks, it will have be authored.
August 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Quite apart from McGregor's own stupidity and likely defamation, I'd love to see the legal reasoning behind creating a chat bot that will pontificate about live litigation. Some very interesting contempt of court issues coming down the road for X.
Conor McGregor quoting a Grok post saying that he is innocent.
August 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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“I hope this email finds you well.”

How your email finds me.
A skull in a reliquary, blurred behind glass and decoration. Shades of a corpse in a spacesuit helmet.
July 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Getting my takeaway to eat while I'm watching Dune. It's a spicebag.
A spicebag from Arrakis Fish and Chips Shop. The caption is "He who controls the spicebag controls the universe." There is an Arrakis landscape in the background
July 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Amazing shot of (seemingly) an Israeli intercept of an Iranian ballistic missile. Clearly exoatmospheric from the huge plume. The sci fi of my youth is here, and we’re watching the terrible beauty of war in space in real time around the world.
Red, purple and blue concentric circles of light high in a dark late evening sky, with the last sun visible on the horizon.
June 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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"Government slapped with record €550k fine over biometric data use in Public Services Card" www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
A black and white picture of James Connolly, smirking. On top the text: well now didn't i fuckin warn ye i did so i did i fuckin warned ye
June 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Probably, but stiff competition from this classic.
2022 tweet from "EliLilly" announcing "insulin is free" and chart showing a plunging share price.
June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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BRB, just going to ask Berezovsky how it plays out when the oligarch turns against the president they put into office using their money and media interests.
Tweet by Elon Musk - Is it time to create a new political party in America (with some yada yada).
June 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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There’s an interesting aside in this otherwise shoddy attempt at journalism. What Trumpian figures were in Dublin, and what local grifters did they meet?
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The knock-on effects have not gone unnoticed across the Atlantic, and Washington is not amused. As it steps back from its old role as global policeman, it finds its companies quietly conscripted as global censors. The regime, for good measure, threatens to tax not just American profits, but the principles underpinning them. And thanks to a quirk of geography and corporate clustering, Ireland has become the bailiff. That role has already earned Dublin what diplomats might politely call a "frank exchange of views". This week, Trump dispatched a team to the Irish capital, where they met with free speech advocates and, I'm told, delivered a few sharp words to the Irish government and media commissioner.
June 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"Ireland remains fully committed to ratification of the Convention on Cybercrime." www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=20...
Dr. Manhattan meme. It is 2000/2010/2025, Ireland is about to implement the Cybercrime Convention.
May 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM