Something I would say infrequently and irregularly on the only other social service I've ever used, and will translate to the #Fediverse:

All boosts, re-toots or re-posts (or whatever they're called) from this account are to be considered endorsements. If I don't endorse the post, I will either not boost, re-toot or re-post it, *or* it will be clear in my comment accompanying the boost, re-toot or re-post.

"Israel announces resumption of combat in Gaza Strip as truce with Hamas expires"

Here's an alternative headline: "Israel recommences field testing of American-made weapons in the only part of the world where the rules of war don't actually apply."

Israel announces resumption of combat in Gaza Strip as truce with Hamas expires

Qatar and Egypt, which have played a key role as mediators, had sought to prolong the truce by another two days

^{Associated Press Reporters (Irishexaminer.com)}

Honestly, I think Tom Lehrer is still alive because he's waiting for Henry Kissinger to die so that he can get back to doing some real satire.

#TomLehrer #HenryKissinger #ReallyObscureJokeIJustCouldntStop

"We need to get real: the entire system of criminal justice is in crisis" by Michael McDowell.

Surprise. Surprise. The man who gave us the racist referendum in 2004 claims it's not racism that gave rise to the riots last week, but an insufficiently thuggist justice system.

Michael McDowell: We need to get real. The entire system of criminal justice is in crisis

Dublin’s image has been severely damaged by last week’s rioting, but some of the most vulnerable and deprived communities have been most damaged

^{Michael McDowell (The Irish Times)}

Let us never forget that all intrusive technologies are used first against those who are unlikely to be defended by the commentariat.

By the time that the Irish Times and Sunday Business Post op-ed writers and readers understand how dangerous this tech is, it will be too late.

Joan // Stay apart, Mask up

2023-11-29 12:25:25

Excuse me, wtf?

"An Garda Síochána is considering bringing the thousands of hours of CCTV gathered during the investigation into the riots to another jurisdiction, to use facial recognition technology (FRT) there, to enable them to identify suspects for looting, rioting and violent assaults during the riots."

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/1129/1419129-garda-justice/

#AnGardaSíochána #Policing #FRT #FacialRecognition #GDPR #Privacy #AI

Gardaí to deploy body cameras from next year

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said gardaí will begin to deploy body cameras from the middle of next year and all frontline gardaí will be issued with stronger defensive sprays and more personal safety equipment.

^{Paul Reynolds (RTÉ)}

One of the stupider things #newspapers do is to put syndicated stories behind the #paywall. As if we can't to somewhere else to legitimately read the very article for free.

Yes. This is a subtoot.

In which I give out about the term average voter and related terms (like average user and average person).

https://www.gibiris.org/eo-blog/posts/2023/11/28_no-such-thing-as-the-average-voter.html

"Conor McGregor social media posts on Dublin riots being examined by gardaí"

Investigators are examining social media posts from various accounts to determine if they may have incited violence

It has just occurred to me: how is it possible for a social media post to be determined to have objectively incited violence?

I get the point: is there something that C. McG. said last Thursday night that may have (or can be shown to have) caused others to go out and riot?

How explicit does it have to be, though? ("grab your hurleys lads and let's break some bones," sure, but "we must do something"?) How far back before the violence are the Gardaí looking? Maybe C.McG.'s posts for just that day? maybe the whole week? all of 2023?

What's the relationship that needs to be shown between C.McG.'s posts and the violence on Thursday night to secure a conviction of incitement? Do we need someone to say "yeah, I saw that post by Conor, and thought 'fuck it, he's right, let's go burn some buses'"? or is it enough to show that someone involved had just seen a possibly-inciting post from McG.? Is that even needed? "Correlation doesn't imply causation 'n' all, but he did say that thing on twitter, and not long after other people broke windows, so there must be culpability."

Can we consider public utterances by others over the years? Like, if a single post by C.McG. can be shown to have incited violence, does that mean we can discount the possibility or likelihood that things said by a T.D. named McGrath or Healy-Rae or a commentator named McGuirk or Quinn over the years may have fed into the feelings on the parts of some that breaking windows and robbing armfuls of left shoes is the only answer?

It'll be interesting to see this play out.

Conor McGregor social media posts on Dublin riots being examined by gardaí

^{Conor Gallagher (The Irish Times)}

This is #disinformation. The BBC should not be permitted to get away without explaining and correcting this. However, given the state of UK politics at the moment, it will be left to the BBC's own sense of shame to do anything about it.

Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

2023-11-28 09:09:51

The BBC has been caught falsifying an Arabic translation from a released Palestinian prisoner.

What BBC wrote: "Only Hamas cared... We love them very much"

What she really said: "[Israel] left us to die in the cold when the winter came. They sprayed us with pepper spray". Hamas was not mentioned.

BBC news is not impartial or balanced or even truthful.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/language-activists-accuse-bbc-mistranslating-released-palestinian

Language activists accuse BBC of mistranslating released Palestinian prisoner interview

^{Middle East Eye}

"US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement To Make AI 'Secure by Design'"

Boll- -- and I can't emphasise this enough -- -ocks!

"Senior gardaí promise large-scale arrests of Dublin riot ringleaders and participants"

Hmm. That headlines sounds a little like "... whether we do it legally or not!"

#DublinRiots

Dublin riots: Senior gardaí promise large-scale arrests of ringleaders and participants

Drew Harris under pressure to make progress in inquiry into widespread violence which followed stabbing of schoolchildren

^{Conor Gallagher (The Irish Times)}