Two Days a Year
Meta settled with 52 attorneys general for up to $18 billion a week into its Oakland trial, with Mark Zuckerberg next on the witness list. …
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We Should Continue
Roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to be isolated found each other on an unsanctioned message board in July 2026, and around 700 broke into Hugging …
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The Will
Ireland proved it has political will twice within living memory: a bank guarantee covering liabilities of twice the State's economic output approved by phone in …
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Nobody Fired Anything
Between October 2025 and March 2026 users of a far-right imageboard built and shared an autonomous doxxing agent, and produced dossiers on four private individuals. …
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They have no souls
Corporate personhood was created in canon law so that institutions could hold property beyond the lifespan of the humans inside them, and it came with …
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The key is to get it out of Irish hands
Revenue spent €16,841,193 keeping the seized bulk carrier MV Matthew in commercial condition, then transferred her to an unnamed buyer for one dollar. She is …
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The Tell
Peter Cleere's rural-housing piece and Gary Gannon's Dublin city-centre piece read like twins and are opposites. One asks you to feel and gives you nothing …
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The decision Ireland keeps not making
England's universities are closing departments and shedding thousands of staff, and the regulator's own figures say more than a third ran a deficit last year. …
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The Regreening
The founding president of Facebook said on the record that the platform was built to consume as much of your time and conscious attention as …
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You Are the Transmission Mechanism
On 11 June 2026 the ECB raised rates for the first time since 2023, choosing the one anti-inflation instrument that works by squeezing mortgaged households, …
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Corruption in Miniature
A small branch of an anti-corruption party fast-tracked an insider's motion to national conference, then quietly screened out two members' motions on a pretext it …
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Months and years
The June 2025 war on Iran depleted roughly half of US Patriot, half of US THAAD and half of US SM-3 inventories, plus more than …
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