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People who don't write newsletters or are new to it might not realize that Substack's monetization model is different from its competitors like Ghost and Beehiiv. Substack takes 10% of your earnings. That's primarily how they make the money they give to right-wing authors. You are funding them.

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You can't really blame the appalling Patrick O'Donovan on moral or intellectual grounds: this is what simple organisms like that do. You can blame the quality papers and the public service broadcasters for acting like his performing seals.

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Taoiseach displeased by Opposition doing opposition things.

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Kemi Badenoch is plagiarising Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

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I need you you youngsters to know that in my age demographic there’s a certain strain of AI enthusiast who will insist that you only get the good answers if you’re paying for a premium version and, like, buddy. given the circumstances I consider it a moral duty to defraud you of your nest egg

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IT Crowd personnel being crossed off one at a time like the cover of Uncanny X-Men 141

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this dude scanned the headlines, took the measure of society and correctly decided a nation deranged enough to reelect Trump was an ideal target for the second most obvious scam of all time

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

They are governing a country that doesn't exist anymore. Where men wore suits, women cooked dinners, and art was for protestants and homosexuals.

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The “shift people from low productivity government jobs to high productivity industry jobs” thing has become a little shibboleth, a reliable signal that you have a strong desire to sound very wise but don’t know much of anything about anything.

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The Irish Times regards this story as so important it needs two people on the byline.

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Nobody seems to mention that O'Donovan was the Minister of State for Public Procurement during this time? Even aside from this, he's not asked anything about that time or what he changed.

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This all smells very strongly of a shouty man from Limerick and his party leader trying to gin up a sector-wide scandal so they can do a little bit of Musk-style wrecking.

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I kinda feel one should be immediately sceptical of the Tánaiste telling you how to feel about a - relatively - miniscule amount of spending eight years ago. I'm not sure you'd even get a decent SpAd for €120K these days, and I'm sure Mr Harris has several of those. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

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Amusing that Apartheid Clyde is making an explicit connection between his grievance-fuelled takeover of Twitter and his grievance-and-looting-opportunities-fuelled attempts to break the US state.

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It's truly disgusting how Ferat Kocak of Die Linke is being put under a microscope by right wing media for being a normal letfy activist and pro-Palestine, while the AfD secured 20% of the vote with soon to be MPs who probably build models of concentration camps in their free time.

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Remember that O'Donovan once called for "open source" browsers to be banned. He was the minister overseeing the OPW but blamed the cost of the Dail bike shed on cyclists in general. He blamed the Dublin & Monaghan bombings in the IRA. I've eaten more intellectually curious cabbages.

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

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happy birthday mitch

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Bit tricky to stage a comeback after the party you named after yourself lost, I suppose.

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Musk's whole deal is to pretend that no one knew how government bureaucracy worked before, like it was this big mystery box, and it's exactly that combo of stupidity and arrogance that pervades silicon valley and leads to them reinventing a city bus and thinking they're Isaac Newton

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#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

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It is very hard to accept, but it is no longer safe to move EU governments & societies to US clouds. Not only is it dangerous to do so, it is also likely flat out illegal in the near feature. We're trading convenience for utter dependence on a mad king. It should stop. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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"a level of productivity growth that means everybody in the world, in ten years' time, is going to be more productive than the most productive person in the world today" is a phrase which is going to be rolling around in my mind for quite a while. Possibly even for the next ten years.

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how is this new, this was literally British policy in like half of Asia in the 19th century

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Hope everyone in the UK remembers what Elon Musk is doing to the US government the next time Domminic Cummings writes a 30,000 word blog post on his plan to replace all the "NPCs" in Whitehall with 19 year old Nazi superforecasters.

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Then they're going to do Ctrl-F on the entire body of responses for any mention of "The Cathedral", because that'll lead them straight to it.

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It couldn't happen here, now could it? on.ft.com/3DclAOk

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All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

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Interestingly, the same thing that occurred during the Third Reich. The ‘all-powerful’ Gestapo were surprisingly quite small in number; what created their panoptic power was the phenomenon of regular people selling out neighbours and coworkers over petit-bourgeois (and petty, bourgeois) grievances.

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The evergreen argument annoying people like us digital rights activists have been making for decades to politicians is coming true: Imagine the power you just created being in the hands of the ‘bad guys’. What does it look like now?

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Quite something to watch Americans in positions of power trying to get to grips with extremely basic principles of good privacy practice and data handling, which are the fundamentals I used to cover in the first few slides for conference audiences here. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

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I see Stephen Collins has dramatically relocated Ireland a few thousand miles to the left in today's Irish Times. Which would perhaps have been picked up if anyone bothered to do the bare minimum of editing on pieces which appear in the IT's opinion section.

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God this chorus of “rising fascism is the left’s fault” is really getting louder isn’t it? When “the left” hasn’t actually been in power for decades and nearly every paper from the Morning Star to the Nazigraph are transphobic

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when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

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Still sighing about the fact some Democrat big brains thought “No, we must not call these people weird, for that would be uncouth”

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Well, now. This is what our industry has to deal with. I have said it before, and I will say it again, DCCI are a disgrace and need to be properly looked at. Feel free to RT so more people realise what is happening. #SLATED #DCCI www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

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It's a little on the nose that we're floating out a grand old ship named the "United States" and deliberately sinking it in the Gulf of Mexico right now.

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I'm not sure a bowl of shamrock is going to cut it as an appropriate tribute for the King of America next month. The lads up in Iveagh House might want to consider some more lavish alternatives.

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It's interesting just how much corruption the advertising ecosystem breeds. Ad fraud, financing of disinformation, funneling state funds to party propaganda outlets, all the privacy issues, buying (even controlling) politicians through PACs and now apparently facilitating a protection racket 🤮

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Imagine having power over the most militarily and economically powerful nation of the world and using it to force ad agencies to buy ads on Twitter. So low it bounced off the Earth's core. It turns out that no, no media publication has covered ad tech enough. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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