Ultan O'Connell
@mangoultz.bsky.social
Video game enthusiast, but in like, a pleasant way. I go by MangoUltz in other places. Ireland.
You may have memory holed this but if you're wondering who might accept illegal orders
Why The U.S. Army Made Four Tech Executives Lieutenant Colonels : 1A
Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, OpenAI Head of Product Kevin Weil, and Thinking Machines Lab advisor Bob McGrew are now lieutenant colone...
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Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23h agoWhen you realize a significant chunk of the name brand Silicon Valley billionaires from the heyday of the internet have been working on nothing but military tech and that AI is the only semi-consumer facing part of that equation and they're forcing it down your throat, it gets dark as hell
My genuine reaction to this is that seems kind of low for the moon landing
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Lake Ontario name change is insanely unpopular: just 14 percent support it. By point of comparison, 14 percent of Americans also believe that the moon landing was fake.
Stan Kroenke cried poor to move the Rams from StL after acquiring the Angels today he owns a franchise in all four major US professional sports leagues and Arsenal tax the billionaires (and ffs stop paying them to move teams)
They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim
USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Well they did the bare minimum I guess. "Meta has disabled the photo- and video-taking abilities for thousands of its Glasses users after detecting they had tampered with the light that discloses that the device’s camera is on."
Exclusive: Meta disables cameras on thousands of tampered smart glasses
The company is putting up billboards to raise awareness about when its smart glasses are in record mode.
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The auteur theory is an attempt by adult males to justify staying inside the small range of experience of their boyhood and adolescence. (1963)
This is incredible because it wasn't too long ago the discourse here was "data centers are totally the same as light manufacturing" and it's funny to see the AI stans increasingly sounding like the party of pedos and scammers, but, like believing it to be true
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayScalise: "We are investigating whether China is behind a lot of this misinformation against data centers"
"Pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism. It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty." 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 variety.com/2026/film/gl...
Mark Ruffalo Defended by Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen and More Than 170 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ — Read the Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.
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All of these guys are so fucked up from having jobs that require them to send three emails a day and eat fancy lunches that they will pay the guy from Free Solo 100,000 dollars to teach them how to hurt themselves by falling off the roof
Adam Cook@motorcityadam.com · yesterdayWhy not just leave the diseased tooth untreated indefinitely? Now that’s how you 10x the badassery. First Principles.
10 years ago today, Colin Kaepernick first kneeled. “The conversation that was being had is taking a knee is more problematic than Black people being killed,” he tells @nbcnews.com in a conversation about his protest, the fallout, the NFL and the last 10 years. www.nbcnews.com/sports/footb...
Harry Potter partnership with Australia Post *ended* because of complaints. ✅
Peter Hollo@peterhollo.com · yesterdayA couple of days ago, Australia post started a promo with HBO for the Harry Potter TV series. It you noticed the app logo changed to incorporate an owl, that's why. A bunch of people sent in complaints about the association with that revolting TERF JK Rowling. Today they replied. Partnership ended!
September and October 2026 might be the best 2 months for videogames ever
Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · 2d agoSeptember 2026 Games | What are we buying? Notable releases: 9/3: Orbitals 9/3: Blood of Dawnwalker 9/4: Onimusha: Way of the Sword 9/15: Wolverine 9/17: Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave 9/17: Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter 9/24: Control Resonant 9/24: Silent Hill Townfall 9/29: Witcher 3 Remastered
i think it sucks that we have developed a whole ecosystem through which fragile, stupid, lazy and cowardly men are encouraged to proclaim their fears for the seal clap approval of other fragile, stupid, lazy and cowardly men
much like your posting@mlyp.bsky.social · 3d agoTucked and Cucked
It's not until he says the magic words, that he fears losing control, that it fully clicks. It's not that he believes philanthropy is bad, it's that the risk of someone receiving his money who he doesn't approve of is a bigger problem than the risk that his money helps no one. That speaks volumes.
Billionaire CEO says charity is a ‘negative’ for the world: ‘I’m not going to do that’
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has a net worth of several billion dollars, but don’t expect him to donate to charity or do any kind of philanthropy anytime soon. During a recent interview, Armstrong exp...
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Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d agoA 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Lanterns just dropped one of the best episodes of tv this year.
greatest cutdown day post of all time, maybe the greatest post of all time
This was just a Traitors tie in actually
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d agoFontaines D.C. appeared to confirm a Slane Castle gig next year after they closed out this year’s Electric Picnic. The band were the final headline act at this year’s festival and at the end of their set, a picture reading Slane Castle appeared on the big screen. jrnl.ie/7147164
By allowing Enes Kanter and Royce White attend games to do their transphobic stunts the WNBA has made it pretty clear they don’t want my business. It’s a shame because unlike those freaks and all the terf seals clapping for them I’d actually be around to give them money for years to come. Oh well!
Chris Jackson@chriscjackson.bsky.social · 5d agowhat a fucking loser
Norway's renegade bus driver has stolen his fourth bus, this time he even had a passenger! He is still 14 years old.
Summertime Thaum@thaum.bsky.social · 4mo agoNews out of Norway: a 14-year-old boy has been caught driving a stolen bus for the third time. This time he made it over 300 kilometers, from Oslo to Kristiansand!
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505
There's a pedo throughline in the AI world that's dark as hell and when you realize that the GOP is all in on this "technology" too, the image comes into focus a little clearer. They want kids to use it, pedo Linda McMahon wants it in schools. It's not even subtle anymore. And yet.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denies sister's sexual abuse allegations in lawsuit
Ann Altman has publicly made similar sexual assault allegations against her brother in the past on platforms like X, but this is the first time she has taken him to court.
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Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 4d agothe largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoSharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
The data from New York shows that if you raise taxes or bring in a wealth tax the rich don’t leave. They stay and try and commit tax evasion, and if you make that too difficult they stay and pay and more people want to live and work there.
