Shamim Malekmian
@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social
Journalist for @DublinInquirer.com mostly covering immigration. Send tips/stories/hellos to Shamim@dublininquirer.com
Like I said, they want all the advantages of personhood, the only change here is they want none of the obligations of personhood
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h ago“I view AI personhood as similar to corporate personhood, where we grant rights in exchange for obligations, as a way of encouraging prosocial corporate behavior.”
Men find yet another way to film and harass women without consent, this time, using a remote controlled robot to push against a "16-year-old girl's buttocks", and this is how the most well-resourced news agencies cover it: Read *our* piece here: www.404media.co/theres-nothi...
I wrote about how access journalists are slinking back to Twitter using some of the thinnest justifications imaginable
Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
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i think it's easier to just say "immigration is fine" than come up with increasingly strained descriptions of why moving from france to germany for 6 years or whatever isn't immigration somehow
Minister for further education James Lawless promotes government’s AI summit… … with picture of a six-fingered hand typing on a laptop
ICYMI, Anthropic is advertising an executive assistant role for senior management in London, and the job description has me asking a lot of questions, like "Aren't these all things you keep telling us AI can do?"
Great turnout and lots of fun on the picket lines in Maynooth. So much support from the public and from service providers refusing to cross the picket lines.
At Dublin Summit two translators tell how AI re-shaped their craft. www.dublininquirer.com/at-dublin-su...
At Dublin summit, two translators tell how AI re-shaped their craft
These days, a growing cohort of clients see the translator's job as just cleaning up after the machine, they said.
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Today is probably the only day drivers' honking hasn't bothered me when they do it whizzing by picket lines
I'd wager that most lawyers, by now, have had clients come to them with fully-"drafted" pleadings and affidavits for a case and they say "how much of a discount do I get since I've done all the work?!" You cannot make them understand that you are going to have to scrap it all and start from scratch
Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 2d agoAt Dublin Summit two translators tell how AI re-shaped their craft. www.dublininquirer.com/at-dublin-su...
At Dublin Summit two translators tell how AI re-shaped their craft. www.dublininquirer.com/at-dublin-su...
At Dublin summit, two translators tell how AI re-shaped their craft
These days, a growing cohort of clients see the translator's job as just cleaning up after the machine, they said.
dublininquirer.com
The first of these ICE removals has taken off, an Eastern Airlines 767, likely headed for a fuel/crew change stop in Senegal. This will be a thread for all three trips over the next few days.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d agoThree ICE charters are currently staging for Africa removals over the next 24 hours. A small jet at Mesa, AZ, a small jet at Harlingen, TX, and a large jet at Alexandria, LA. All could include third-country removals, particularly the last one. Gonna be a bad week.
The government having failed to prevent tomorrow's strike:
Taxi drivers' protest outside NTA offices on Smithfield square
I just signed to stop Italy from capping "foreign" children at 30% per class. Kids could be moved away from their friends because of their passport. Parliament can still delete it. Add your name. They’re taking signatures from all over Europe. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-10...
Europe’s classrooms belong to all children
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Europe’s classrooms belong to all children
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Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
''Is this your pussy?'' Halloween postcard, ca. 1909. Ref ARTS-PC-128, Toronto Public Library
Absolutely love these hand drawn posters that have been put up on the noticeboard at our apartment block for someone advertising their dog sitting/walking service
I just think it's kind of tiresome how, in a country with incredibly weak unions and industrial relations legislation, the government are trying to act wounded and outraged that unions are doing literally the only thing they can do to exercise leverage
Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word? My goal for the day is one new sale at my shop. Each Jeremy Creature is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Down observing the AI Counter Summit today for something I’m working on. It’s been organised by the CWU as a response to the Government’s AI Summit next week - which is predominantly based around speakers from corporations, with just one union rep on any of the panels.
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Reading Nerd Reich and it is jarring to learn for how long technocrats have been dreaming of the society we're inching closer to everyday.
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
“One of Curtis’ favorite hymns was the traditional lament, ‘I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray.’ In one version, the singer requests of God: that, if it be His will, He ‘remove this bitter cup.’ Curtis’ cup was bitter, but he was not. He was gentle. And he endured.” mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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The face of a girl who managed to blag a second dinner by fooling one foster parent into thinking the other foster parent hadn’t already fed her a few hours earlier 🙄
