Seaghan MacConmidhe
@seaghan.bsky.social
Also known by my colonial name, 'Shane McNamee'. Interested in law, digital rights, sustainable policy-making, history, antifascism, arguing that the Celts weren't really a thing. Views expressed are mine alone - if even.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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You know the way the UK Gov keeps thinking its found a way to solve Brexit stuff, only to be reminded of the Good Friday Agreement?
That's us but with data protection laws
That's us but with data protection laws
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You know the way the UK Gov keeps thinking its found a way to solve Brexit stuff, only to be reminded of the Good Friday Agreement?
That's us but with data protection laws
That's us but with data protection laws
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Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
www.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whatever your view on judicial review and NIMBY-ism, this is an appalling attack on the rule-of-law —
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
If a person successfully (successfully!) proves wrongdoing by the state, the state will bankrupt them?
Cui bono? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael conies and the worst days of An Bord Pleanála corruption.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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The funniest thing about the Catherine Connolly smear campaign is that the establishment seems to be following Ivan Yates' advice, despite his impressive record of getting things spectacularly wrong, as highlighted on this old but evergreen tweet from @prayforpatrick.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The funniest thing about the Catherine Connolly smear campaign is that the establishment seems to be following Ivan Yates' advice, despite his impressive record of getting things spectacularly wrong, as highlighted on this old but evergreen tweet from @prayforpatrick.bsky.social
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Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances
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The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?
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"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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The police will tell you they have 'no choice' because PA are a proscribed organisation but come to Belfast and you learn very quickly that is a lie.
This is absolutely a choice.
This is absolutely a choice.
A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide
#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The police will tell you they have 'no choice' because PA are a proscribed organisation but come to Belfast and you learn very quickly that is a lie.
This is absolutely a choice.
This is absolutely a choice.
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Queen
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Ruth Coppinger TD, who had organised a rally against McGregor at Dublin City Co says the person to thank for his withdrawal is Nikita Hand for "exposing him".
"That took away any shred of credibility he had to get support... he did not want to run a gauntlet of people calling him a rapist."
"That took away any shred of credibility he had to get support... he did not want to run a gauntlet of people calling him a rapist."
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ruth Coppinger TD, who had organised a rally against McGregor at Dublin City Co says the person to thank for his withdrawal is Nikita Hand for "exposing him".
"That took away any shred of credibility he had to get support... he did not want to run a gauntlet of people calling him a rapist."
"That took away any shred of credibility he had to get support... he did not want to run a gauntlet of people calling him a rapist."
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Didn't we decide, as a society, when Google tried to introduce this kind of technology a few years ago, that yes there's some interesting fun ideas in embedded tech glasses, but the possibility of covertly recording/spying on other people in public was too ick?
Or does Zuckerberg welcome the creep?
Or does Zuckerberg welcome the creep?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Didn't we decide, as a society, when Google tried to introduce this kind of technology a few years ago, that yes there's some interesting fun ideas in embedded tech glasses, but the possibility of covertly recording/spying on other people in public was too ick?
Or does Zuckerberg welcome the creep?
Or does Zuckerberg welcome the creep?
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I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
September 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
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Gen AI out here making the case for strong moral rights.
You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason
August 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Gen AI out here making the case for strong moral rights.
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"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
August 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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I personally loved the Dermot Desmond Metrolink column.
Very fun. "Why do anything?", I say.
"Richard, why aren't you in work?"
"Robots in the future will make me obsolete."
Very fun. "Why do anything?", I say.
"Richard, why aren't you in work?"
"Robots in the future will make me obsolete."
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I personally loved the Dermot Desmond Metrolink column.
Very fun. "Why do anything?", I say.
"Richard, why aren't you in work?"
"Robots in the future will make me obsolete."
Very fun. "Why do anything?", I say.
"Richard, why aren't you in work?"
"Robots in the future will make me obsolete."
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Sunday Independent...
August 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sunday Independent...
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despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick
August 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick
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I was confused recently by an article that claimed Moore's Law was driving tech innovation, seemingly turning something descriptive into something normative, but that makes more sense when you take hype into account (hyped growth = investment from people who believe the hype = R&D)...
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
July 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I was confused recently by an article that claimed Moore's Law was driving tech innovation, seemingly turning something descriptive into something normative, but that makes more sense when you take hype into account (hyped growth = investment from people who believe the hype = R&D)...
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...