Here's Meta's Andrew Bosworth describing NameTag, the company's face recognition feature for its glasses, which Meta said did not exist after we reported that inactive code for it was already on millions of phones: youtu.be/VmQl7TswfLM?... Our original story here: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta's Plan to Win in AI: Glasses, Muse Spark, and Staff Data - Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth
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A terraced house has been set on fire on Ainsworth Avenue, reports are it's now spreading. cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sh...
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CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
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New research piece out looking at how the Irish far right are collaborating with British and European fash to normalise calls for ethnic cleansing in Europe, under the guise of 'remigration.' hopeandcourage.ie/hate-on-the-...
Hate on the Move From 'Remigration' to Deportation - H&CC
Over the past decade, far-right movements across Europe have sought to transform deeply racist, xenophobic and violent ideologies into palatable rhetoric and policy ideas. Central to this is the idea ...
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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
there is a lot of intimidation in rural Ireland we don't talk about when it comes to politics. when the far right were on the move in Tipp, me and so many people I know got hit with abuse and threats, online and off, followed around when we were outside, etc. I know someone whose car was burnt out
Stephie Graphics@cloudsteph.bsky.social · 6mo agoChatting with the homestead. Seems people felt afraid NOT to participate in the blockades for fear of being targeted, whether in a low-key “why weren’t you there?” way or family getting doxxed way. This is all very schoolyard bully but on a more sinister level. AKA, quite Trumpian.
Chatting with the homestead. Seems people felt afraid NOT to participate in the blockades for fear of being targeted, whether in a low-key “why weren’t you there?” way or family getting doxxed way. This is all very schoolyard bully but on a more sinister level. AKA, quite Trumpian.
"Your feed is not Ireland. It is a slice of Ireland that has been assembled by an algorithm optimised for engagement, not accuracy or balance"
Goosed.ie@goosed.ie · 6mo agoIrish Instagram is quietly radicalising adults, and it's not teenagers you should be worried about. From nostalgia reels to rage-bait algorithms, here's how ordinary feeds are reshaping Irish political opinion.. Read now on Goosed.ie 👉 goosed.ie/news/how-iri...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warn they could deprive the U.S. and its allies of oil and gas supplies for years if what Tehran calls its “red lines” are crossed.
We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot. We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
BREAKING NEWS: Massive strikes reported in Tehran.
Somewhere Naomi Klein sighs heavily, resets a “days since last incident” sign back to zero, writes “MOON” on a post it note and underlines it twice
The question is does the IRGC concur?
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6mo agoIran's ambassador to Pakistan:
As Trump threatens scorched-earth attacks on Iran, a joint advisory from US agencies warns Iran-linked hackers have hit US critical infrastructure: "In a few cases, this activity has resulted in operational disruption and financial loss." www.wired.com/story/iran-l...
Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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Lebanese political sources have been informed that there is a high possibility of announcing a ceasefire that includes Lebanon within an hour. -Lebanese MTV network
because there was no organisation or planning, just a call to action that spread on social media that groups and individuals answered on an ad hoc basis. it's a barely coordinated parade of incoherent grievance
Jooooohhhh No!@josefoshea.bsky.social · 6mo agoIreland's two busiest roads - Dublin to Limerick and Dub-Cork have been fully closed for most of today. Some ppl have been trapped in cars for hours. It was all supposed to end at 11am. This is crazy
I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises. The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.
Trans News Network@transnews.network · 7mo agoCrossing state borders for HRT. Insurance denials. Missed surgeries. U.S. Catholic bishops imposed a ban on all trans healthcare throughout the church's massive networks. That's left working class trans people struggling even more. Our latest, by @davidforbes.bsky.social are some of their stories:
My next Big Interview for @wired.com is out, and the timing couldn’t be better: In the days before Arm was set to launch its own chip (!) I had the chance to grill Arm CEO Rene Haas on what this CPU means for the chip market, and for the future of Arm www.wired.com/story/arms-c...
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
Arm just confirmed the rumors: It’s producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won’t alienate the many chipmakers who license the company’s designs.
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We have to (have to!) break this "chat shit for money" version of the internet.
Alexios Mantzarlis@mantzarlis.com · 12mo agoNEW on @indicator.media: I found 101 accounts impersonating Telemundo, Televisa, CNN and other media outlets spreading clickbaity falsehoods to millions on TikTok. The company took them all down after I reached out.
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Israeli Troops Begin Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon
Israel says its troops have begun ground operations in southern Lebanon. This comes as the World Health Organization says it has verified that 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses were killed in an Israe...
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Q: The president just said on Truth Social it would be a 'big mistake' for UK to hold over control of Diego Garcia, but the State Dept said the US supports that handover LEAVITT: The post should be taken as administration policy. When you see it on TS, you know it's directly from President Trump.
Karoline Leavitt took questions for more than a half hour today and not a single one of them was about Trump's role in the ongoing Epstein coverup
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
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She did not say what, amongst others, the French and German Foreign Ministers are claiming she said. The video they watched is obviously manipulated,they should have noticed. She did say that a system that enables genocide is the enemy of all humanity. That's because it is youtu.be/iHChlXErbGs?...
No, the UN's Francesca Albanese did not call Israel 'the common enemy of humanity' • FRANCE 24
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Rather than banishing the spectres of deindustrialisation, stagnant wages and rising midlife morbidity, it creates new spectacles of deportation and extrajudicial killings, and prospective annexations of oil wealth and ice fields.. www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
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A colonialist operation, says Cardinal Pizzaballa www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...
US-led Board of Peace a 'colonialist operation,' Cardinal Pizzaballa says
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and r...
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Irish Aviation Authority are planning to restrict air space in the city to facilitate a single takeaway-food company. Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers. Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...
Proposed restrictions on drones
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🔴 Tony Blair Institute privately pressed a top EU official working on rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. Fair to say Democracy for Sale isn’t sleeping at the moment! New story up w/ Lighthouse Reports and Follow the Money democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza
TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows
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Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise That’s why they were targeted
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 8mo agoStarmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
