The thing about being a useful idiot is that you're supposed to be useful.

They don't mean a single word they say. They were given the "benefit of the doubt" by the establishment for more than a century, and all they did was rape and abuse more children and cover it up. Seize everything they own, and get them out of Irish public life once and for all.

this site is so cooked lol

Maybe the 100 most influential people in AI are actually 100 data labelers from the philippines

I feel like if people are unable to solve the mystery of “why am I getting paid six figures per YouTube video” then they may not be equipped to provide useful analysis on more complex political and cultural issues.

The ongoing brutality of the Israeli slaughter machine is a stain on humanity.

irishtimes.com/health/2024/09…

Increases to inheritance tax thresholds over the past decade have had the appearance of being “arbitrary and without any clear policy rationale,” the Parliamentary Budget Office, seemingly unaware that FF and FG have long been protectors of the rich. irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

The 50 men on trial with her husband include a local councillor, nurses, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, soldier, firefighter and civil servant, many of whom lived around Mazan, a town of about 6,000 inhabitants. irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

This absolutely wild post unintentionally highlights something very real: Silicon Valley has specifically designed information technologies as a *retreat* from material concerns, not a way of addressing them

When CDs came out their champions gassed on about sound quality & handy size, completely missing the point that we lost the organic structure & drama of 2-sided records with closing/opening tracks each side and the aptness of a 20-minute programme of music. Plus artwork size.

This is so cool/kind (AND they're using machine learning to actually do the thing 'for humanity' that companies selling ML to the pharma industry claim it will , but that of course their version will not actually do, given the incentives♥️) 404media.co/right-to-repai…

Time for memes! Post your favorite Tenet Media/Tim Pool/Benny Johnson memes 👇🏻 This one was stolen from turtlerancher66 NAFO, give them a follow!

There’s something particularly depressing about people in Kilrush opposing immigration. Few places on the island suffered more during the Great Hunger. The root cause was an indifference of others to their plight. One of the most effective ways to survive was to emigrate.

🚨Breaking: The Israeli army has killed an American activist, shot in the head by an Israeli sniper during her participation in a peaceful protest against settler crimes in the town of Beita, south of Nablus - palestine.

Her name is Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, and she’s not the first US citizen to be killed by the IDF whilst peacefully protesting Israel in Palestine, or whilst simply doing her job there. From Rachel Corrie to Shireen Abu Akleh, this sad list is growing.

Welcome to Griptland, where innocent asylum seekers must be treated as a potential paedophiles, "just in case," - but known clerical abusers, with dozens of witnesses to their abuse, must be given the benefit of the doubt...

First a peerage and now a plum job. Why does Boris Johnson keep promoting [Baroness] Charlotte Owen ? prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67789…

Breaking: 13-year-old Bana Amjad Bakr lost her life today after being shot in the chest by Israeli forces in Qaryut village, south of Nablus.

A US citizen taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank died of her wounds on Friday after being shot in the head by Israeli troops. theguardian.com/world/article/…