Niamh
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Niamh
@niamhberlin.bsky.social
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1st-generation Irish 🇮🇪 woman 🙋🏻‍♀️ in Berlin. Historian, literature graduate 📚, digital marketer 👩🏻‍💻, Remainer & 4th-wave Feminist 💪🏻. She/her for pronouns. 🏳️‍⚧️
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#ProductAtHeart conference kicks off with 1st 2 speakers @martycagan.bsky.social & Henrik Kniberg

2 really inspiring talks about founder-style leadership and AI agents.

#Founders #FounderMode #AI #AIAgents

@productatheart.bsky.social
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The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...
Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future
www.nytimes.com
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Ai and plastics have so much in common
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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exactly like the Chinese surveillance state
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
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"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children."

from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
www.nytimes.com
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Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump’s fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8...
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Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap."
On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.
www.theatlantic.com