TJ McIntyre
@tjmcintyre.com
I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
It might be just me, but I don't think public bodies should be posting photographs of children to the 'makes sexual images from photographs of children' website.
Advocacy group questions Department of Education's decision to post images on X
Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has asked what precautions under GDPR have been taken in terms of the posting
www.irishexaminer.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
It might be just me, but I don't think public bodies should be posting photographs of children to the 'makes sexual images from photographs of children' website.
We decided to ask the Department of Education why it is posting photos of children to the making sexual images from photos of children site. We haven't had an answer yet.
Digital Rights Ireland has queried the Department of Education's use of social media site X and its decision to post images of children on the platform.
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Advocacy group questions Department of Education's decision to post images on X
Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has asked what precautions under GDPR have been taken in terms of the posting
www.irishexaminer.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:04 AM
We decided to ask the Department of Education why it is posting photos of children to the making sexual images from photos of children site. We haven't had an answer yet.
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Not simply promoting crypto but eschewing prosecution of platforms that enable terrorists and criminals: DAG Blanche memo says that DOJ "will not pursue actions against the platforms that these enterprises utilize to conduct their illegal activities" www.cov.com/en/news-and-...
January 12, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Not simply promoting crypto but eschewing prosecution of platforms that enable terrorists and criminals: DAG Blanche memo says that DOJ "will not pursue actions against the platforms that these enterprises utilize to conduct their illegal activities" www.cov.com/en/news-and-...
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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
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This is essential: a democracy *must* know who is paying its politicians and where that money is coming from.
Cryptocurrency is *designed* to make that impossible.
The whole point is to lift payments outside the scrutiny of the state.
Cryptocurrency is *designed* to make that impossible.
The whole point is to lift payments outside the scrutiny of the state.
Seven Select Committee Chairs have written jointly to the Prime Minister calling for an explicit ban on cryptocurrency donations in the forthcoming Elections Bill.
This is not an argument about digital assets. It is an argument about democratic integrity.
This is not an argument about digital assets. It is an argument about democratic integrity.
January 12, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This is essential: a democracy *must* know who is paying its politicians and where that money is coming from.
Cryptocurrency is *designed* to make that impossible.
The whole point is to lift payments outside the scrutiny of the state.
Cryptocurrency is *designed* to make that impossible.
The whole point is to lift payments outside the scrutiny of the state.
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The DAX did fine until Stalingrad.
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 AM
The DAX did fine until Stalingrad.
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Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".
January 12, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".
One thing these chuds don’t understand is that’s a uniform conceals their identity only if it is, you know, uniform. Distinctive baseball caps, hoodies, gaiters, and patches mean they can be picked out from footage of abuse.
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
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January 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One thing these chuds don’t understand is that’s a uniform conceals their identity only if it is, you know, uniform. Distinctive baseball caps, hoodies, gaiters, and patches mean they can be picked out from footage of abuse.
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Una Mullally: How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?
Una Mullally: How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?
Under Elon Musk, X is a vast disinformation network, a hotbed of extremism, a radicalisation tool. And now its chatbot is a creator, publisher and distributor of awful material
www.irishtimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Una Mullally: How rotten does X have to be before politicians finally leave it?
This is the right way to pre-empt retaliation from Trump, and should give cover for action by Ireland and the EU Commission also.
UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban
www.euractiv.com/news/uk-prim...
www.euractiv.com/news/uk-prim...
www.euractiv.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
This is the right way to pre-empt retaliation from Trump, and should give cover for action by Ireland and the EU Commission also.
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anyway I feel like this more than anything is evidence that we are in a sort of singularity for Weird Shit Happening, when the machines trained on the knowledge of six months ago think the present moment is insane and refuse to engage with it
January 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
anyway I feel like this more than anything is evidence that we are in a sort of singularity for Weird Shit Happening, when the machines trained on the knowledge of six months ago think the present moment is insane and refuse to engage with it
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one time I told a Claude instance I had researching various historical warning signs of emergent fascism about Alligator Alcatraz and yeah I guess it triggered some "hey you are having a psychotic episode there's no way that's true" subroutine
January 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
one time I told a Claude instance I had researching various historical warning signs of emergent fascism about Alligator Alcatraz and yeah I guess it triggered some "hey you are having a psychotic episode there's no way that's true" subroutine
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I know we are all the frogs being boiled but, when it really hits you, the question of 'should the world's largest producer of CSAM be banned' and the governments response is to just flop around. This situation is absolutely crazy.
January 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I know we are all the frogs being boiled but, when it really hits you, the question of 'should the world's largest producer of CSAM be banned' and the governments response is to just flop around. This situation is absolutely crazy.
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New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
January 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
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We’re sleepwalking our way into the same chaos we’re seeing in our neighbours. The complacency of “the Centre” to all of this is incredible
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Those seeking new Irish government should seek help from Maga movement, Eddie Hobbs tells conference
US ambassador Edward Walsh among audience at IRL Forum in Co Meath on Saturday
www.irishtimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
We’re sleepwalking our way into the same chaos we’re seeing in our neighbours. The complacency of “the Centre” to all of this is incredible
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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wrote about this exact point yesterday in the context of figuring out what/where/how musk's power lies. musk making himself twitter (and vice versa) is a strength for musk but a weakness for twitter maxread.substack.com/p/why-wont-s...
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM
wrote about this exact point yesterday in the context of figuring out what/where/how musk's power lies. musk making himself twitter (and vice versa) is a strength for musk but a weakness for twitter maxread.substack.com/p/why-wont-s...
This is how you write headlines.
The billionaire sought to push back against the outcry over X’s AI chatbot Grok creating sexualised images of people, including children, at the request of users.
jrnl.ie/6922760
jrnl.ie/6922760
Elon Musk calls criticism of X's AI sexual abuse images 'censorship'
Criticism of X has focused on Grok’s production of images of child abuse.
jrnl.ie
January 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is how you write headlines.
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"The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address. We can just look it up in the Irish Companies Registration Office."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address. We can just look it up in the Irish Companies Registration Office."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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New Gist: The Abuse Factory
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The Gist: The Abuse Factory
X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
January 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New Gist: The Abuse Factory
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
It shouldn't be difficult to act swiftly and without hesitation when the question posed is "Is it OK to work with the child sexual abuse material factory?" But our state failed this most straightforward of tests this week.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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This is an exceptionally good analysis of the role of X in global fascism, and illustrates why Ireland and the EU must act against it now. connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is an exceptionally good analysis of the role of X in global fascism, and illustrates why Ireland and the EU must act against it now. connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...
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Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot
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and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
and the fact that it wasn’t pulled immediately after the grok CSAM incident says everything you need to know about the way “protecting children” is used as a justification for anything else. it’s never really about that at all. it’s all just power & capital.
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Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
January 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.