Never Go Full Weiner
Seriously? The Irish Times reports that the Health Service Executive (HSE) recently hired two digital influencers – bleurgh! – to advise staffContinue Reading
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Two Women Travel, Illustrating The Moral Case For Repealing The Eight
On Saturday the 20th of August, two Irish woman, citizens of this Republic, travelled to the United Kingdom where one of them soughtContinue Reading
British Spies To Continue Mass Surveillance Operations In Ireland And Elsewhere
The United Kingdom’s state intelligence agencies have been given the green light to continue their mass spying operations around the world followingContinue Reading
Opposition Factions Of The Syrian Civil War
The researchers Ryan O’Farrell and Cody Roche have compiled an incredibly useful list of Opposition Factions in the Syrian Civil War for theContinue Reading
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The Open Letter Attacking Warner Bros And Its “Mess” Of Recent Movies
When I published a short piece yesterday criticising the dramatic vacuousness of Hollywood’s big budget “superhero” movies I was unaware of an open letter publishedContinue Reading
Penn Jillette Interviewed By Nick Gillespie, On Trump And Libertarian Politics
I’ve been a big fan of the showmanship of Penn Jillette, of the eponymous magicians’ act Penn and Teller, for many years but lessContinue Reading
The Sci-Fi Typography Of Stranger Things And Blade Runner
Watching Netflix’s nostalgic science-fiction drama, “Stranger Things”, I was struck by the accuracy of the show’s 1980s setting. While quite reminiscentContinue Reading
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Journalism
Most blogging is parasitical in nature and that is especially true for blogs which primarily focus on news and currentContinue Reading
The Chinese Opera? Opera Browser And SurfEasy VPN Sold To China
For the last few years I’ve been using the Norwegian-developed web browser Opera, or its siblings, as my default program for internetContinue Reading
The Norwegian Dialects Versus Anglo-American English
British-based journalist, Jessica Furseth, who was raised in Norway, has written an article on the increasing and disruptive presence of theContinue Reading
The Young Turks Versus Alex Jones
Right-wing propagandist and conspiracy theorist par excellence, Alex Jones, crashed a live broadcast of the left-leaning Young Turks during theContinue Reading
An Sionnach Fionn On Twitter And Facebook
Just a quick reminder that if you prefer more tongue-in-cheek stuff An Sionnach Fionn is also on Twitter, @AnSionnachFionn, where offence is neverContinue Reading
The Digital Tech Of The Islamic State And Others
Bellingcat has an interesting article by Jett Goldsmith summarising some of the online techniques used by adherents of violent political Islam toContinue Reading
New Information Video By The Irish National Caucus Sparks Unionist Anger
I’m somewhat lukewarm on the Irish National Caucus (INC), the Irish-American human rights organisation which has campaigned on equality and justice issues forContinue Reading
Happy 4th Of July To The Spook-Bots Of US Intelligence
A very happy Fourth of July to the automated-programs of the United States’ Armed Forces and intelligence community who haveContinue Reading
The Latest War To Grip EVE Online
EVE Online is a game-playing virtual universe developed and published by the Icelandic company, CCP Games, where users from all over the world competeContinue Reading
When Irish History And Geography Meets American Earnestness
From the United States (but of course), and more specifically, the city of Seattle (naturally), a video illustration of “100 YearsContinue Reading
Internationalised Domain Names To Be Introduced For Ireland Namespace
It seems likely that the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the company that manages Ireland’s “.ie” country code top-level domain (ccTLD), is to go aheadContinue Reading
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Rowling’s History Of Magic In North America Is Not Magical To Native Peoples
Some of you may be aware of yesterday’s launch of “History of Magic in North America”, an expansion of theContinue Reading
The New Rockstars Need A Lesson In History And Geography
The pretentiously-named geek website, The New Rockstars (“What The Internet Cares About Right ****ing Now!”. By which they mean maleContinue Reading
The Power of Privacy With Aleks Krotoski
Technology journalist and psychologist, Aleks Krotoski, presents a Guardian documentary, “The Power of Privacy”, examining growing concerns about private data and onlineContinue Reading
Facebook’s Opportunist Defence Of Non-English Languages
Given the relative antipathy or indifference of most major internet corporations to global minority languages, or indeed to any languages other than American English,Continue Reading
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