David Mac Redmond
@davidmacredmond.bsky.social
Journalist with The Journal. Part of the FactCheck team. I have opinions but I don't take credit for all of them. @thejournal.ie @factcheck.thejournal.ie factchecking.ie
Funeral held in Gaza for more than one hundred people pulled from rubble years after they died jrnl.ie/7121483
Funeral held in Gaza for more than one hundred people pulled from rubble years after they died
Gaza’s Civil Defence said more than 8,000 bodies are still trapped under rubble.
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Never want to hear any of these tech companies talking about their ethics again. This has zero use cases outside of generating disinformation, and they pushed it out there anyway
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Pretty quick pivot from denialism to accelerationism
John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · last wk.It’s exhausting. For years, decades, right wing media have lied and told us #climate breakdown was just woke nonsense. Now, it’s whoopsies, yes it’s real, but relax everyone & enjoy our new “Mediterranean” climate as Europe goes up in flames around us.
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Sadly parts of Spain and France are seeing huge wildfires with over 40,000 hectares in France impacted and temperatures over 40c will hit parts Spain and France later this coming week.
Just like the far right loves to use AI images to support claims about things that never happened, they also seem to like using it to show things that never will.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoCan’t win in Iran so he’s going back to bullying Canada. Can’t win there either. TBH, I think a lot of Canadians would probably go for this in a big way.
Misleading maps and false stats are spread by the far-right to manufacture a crisis. They are intended to scare people into feeling that Ireland is changing so fast that they can’t keep up. jrnl.ie/7108860
How statistics can be twisted to push the Great Replacement conspiracy theory
Misleading maps manufacture a crisis that the data does not support.
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Here it is. Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more jrnl.ie/7110966
Data centres used almost one billion litres of water last year, but another industry used far more
The Journal Investigates found that while data centres use huge quantities of water every year, pharmaceutical companies often use a lot more.
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Conor O'Carroll@conorocarroll.bsky.social · 2w agoTonight, a new investigation reveals how much water each individual data centre campus has used in the past two years. But our findings also show how pharma plants have used more than double that of data centres. Story w/ @davidmacredmond.bsky.social Read just after midnight on thejournal.ie 🔜
Tonight, a new investigation reveals how much water each individual data centre campus has used in the past two years. But our findings also show how pharma plants have used more than double that of data centres. Story w/ @davidmacredmond.bsky.social Read just after midnight on thejournal.ie 🔜
What does the OpenAI 'autonomous' hack incident tell us about AI and cybersecurity? jrnl.ie/7111252
What does the OpenAI 'autonomous' hack incident tell us about AI and cybersecurity?
The incident has raised questions about accountability and “autonomous” systems.
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What does the OpenAI 'autonomous' hack incident tell us about AI and cybersecurity? jrnl.ie/7111252
What does the OpenAI 'autonomous' hack incident tell us about AI and cybersecurity?
The incident has raised questions about accountability and “autonomous” systems.
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Nice to write a good news story every now and then. Boy behind change to Northern Ireland's organ donation law receives heart transplant jrnl.ie/7108862
Boy behind change to Northern Ireland's organ donation law receives heart transplant
Daithí Mac Gabhann was born with a rare congenital heart syndrome.
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Irish TDs visit Dubliner in German prison charged with damaging Israeli-owned arms factory jrnl.ie/7108780
Irish TDs visit Dubliner in German prison charged with damaging Israeli-owned arms factory
A number of Irish politicians will attend Tatlow-Devally’s court appearance on Wednesday.
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Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting. It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed, a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights. The "Unhumans" playbook, exposed: www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...
'Unhumans' Playbook Explains Trump's 'Communist' Fixation
“It’s important to use ‘communist’ this way as a slur.”
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Argentina may have won last night's World Cup semifinal against England but a diplomatic battle between the two countries has continued today after Argentine players brought a banner onto the pitch that claimed sovereignty over The Falklands. jrnl.ie/7103826
Argentina vs England: The game might be over but the diplomatic row over The Falklands rumbles on
Meanwhile, Argentina has lodged a diplomatic protest with the UK over what it called the “unlawful” movement of a Royal Navy patrol ship.
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The incoming hosepipe bans announced on Monday by Uisce Éireann have brought the huge amount of water used to cool data centres back into the spotlight. jrnl.ie/7101544
The hosepipe ban has led to criticism of Ireland's data centres, but how much water do they use?
As of June 2025, Ireland was home to 89 data centres, which produce a significant amount of heat.
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An Irishman was found guilty of the murder of an American woman by a court in Budapest last Wednesday, but Hungarian media has still not named him. The Journal asked legal experts in Hungary why. jrnl.ie/7100129
An Irishman was convicted of murder in Budapest, but Hungarian media didn't name him. Why?
The Journal asked legal experts in Hungary why the press there has declined to name Lorcan Murphy when reporting on the case.
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Marco Rubio seems to have declared war on the International Criminal Court...
On X, Rupert Lowe MP tweeting Jude Bellingham's name generated * challenges from left MPs about racism * contested by Restore members who insist would never deport Bellingham * contested by Restore members & supporters who insist Bellingham not English. Some want him deported as mixed race
Patrick O'Donovan flown back to Ireland on government jet after becoming unwell in Belgium jrnl.ie/7098277 with @davidmacredmond.bsky.social
Patrick O'Donovan flown back to Ireland on government jet after becoming unwell in Belgium
The media minister was hospitalised in Brussels on Tuesday.
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This is sickening.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 4w agoAround three kilometres from the Co Tyrone site where a replica mosque was set alight this week is the Dungannon Islamic Centre. “It's very, very stressful and scary for us,” said a trustee of the Dungannon Muslim Community, just over a five-minute drive from the bonfire site. jrnl.ie/7097580
A man been arrested in relation to a controversial loyalist bonfire in Moygashel, Co Tyrone which has been topped with a replica mosque. The bonfire is one of around 300 across the North which will be burned on 10 and 11 July, ahead of the Orange Order’s annual 12 July parades. jrnl.ie/7096014
I *really* want to know who put together the guest list for the American Ambassador to Ireland's America 250 party. A veritable "who's who" of Irish conspiracy theorists, podcasters, and fringe Irish political figures. There was also a rare public appearance of a very famous handbag... #Speirgorm
