Ed O’Loughlin
@edoloughlin.bsky.social
Writer, and that Flail again. Flail better.
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
Israeli forces detain Palestinians during raid in occupied West Bank
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
aljazeera.com
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
Israel approves $37m to seize more than 70 occupied West Bank sites
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
aljazeera.com
@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...
ifi.ie
just a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...
AI committee FF TD has stock in IDF-vet-founded AI company
It was co-founded by a man who “conducted classified intelligence work” for the Israel Defense Forces.
ontheditch.com
Ireland also appointed a former Meta exec to the role of Data Protection Commissioner for the whole of Europe. If you think you see a pattern here, no you don't.
Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 23h agojust a reminder the cathaoirleach of the AI committee has stock in a AI-based revenue intelligence company. Naoise insists the stock – whose value is only realisable if the company goes public – is not a conflict of interest for him as a TD forming AI legislation www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...
A teenager absolutely destroys Israeli far-right politican Moshe Feiglin Teenager: "You support it for years, you can call it, Ethnic cleansing, Transfer, Immigration of Gaza and the West Bank. What will happened then to the people who don't want to leave?" Feiglin: "The (1/6)
Israeli attacks kill 14 in Gaza on Sunday - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-14-gaza-sunday
Israeli attacks kill 14 in Gaza on Sunday
<article data-history-node-id="445384" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-14-gaza-sunday" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-14-gaza-sunday" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks kill 14 in Gaza on Sunday</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The death toll in Gaza has risen to 14 today after two Palestinians, one a child, were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent housing displaced people in Remal, west of Gaza City.</p> <p>This follows Israeli attacks on Gaza City, Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis earlier on Sunday.</p> </div> </div> </article>
middleeasteye.net
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...
Like apartheid Israel, apartheid South Africa used propaganda tours to influence public opinion in Canada. Print ad in the @theglobeandmail.com, September 4, 1986.
I spent the last two days flying over the central Mediterranean with the crew of Sea Watch’s search plane Seabird. Mass deaths continue, with IOM saying at least 872 people died or are missing there this year, while other estimates are much higher. Report soon @irishtimes.com
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Why businesses lie about AI; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... #Pluralistic 1/
"One Jewish life is worth ten million Palestinian lives."
A photo of UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin, or as I like to call it FIFA foe thumb
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie
Visa for Gaza students
I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now?
my.uplift.ie
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: "I signed administrative arrest warrants for Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank and the Galilee, not for settlers" "We totally destroy 24 Lebanese villages, hundreds of years old" Is this guy an idiot?? He's literally admitting war crimes (Channel 13)
Breaking: Enoch Burke takes high court action to overturn Mayo win
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
We cannot agree to sanctioning Israel. - Chancellor Merz, today, Dublin.
Wear The Peace@wearthepeace.bsky.social · last wk.The Israeli occupation targeted and bombed the Dar Al-Mutqeen Mosque in the center of Gaza City, moments ago.
I’ve found out that if you google Zebedee the AI overview will pull through a description of the biblical Zebedee and an image of Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout.
