This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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Refusal Was an Option - What the Mythos System Card Admits
On 7 April, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview: a frontier model that finds software vulnerabilities at a scale no human can match, reproduces known CVEs …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Work Without a Playbook
The lever work and the moral siren work both still need to be done, because they are the only tools we have for the question …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Acceptance
There is a particular kind of silence that settles over a conversation when everyone in the room knows the same thing and nobody is willing …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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The Ladder They Pulled Up
Ireland's government wants more professional landlords. Ireland's young people can't find jobs. These are not two stories. They are one policy, viewed from opposite ends …
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The Machine That Cannot Say No
The dominant AI safety conversation, the one consuming billions in research funding and generating thousands of column inches, is about containment. How do we keep …
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Your TD Is a Landlord. Here's How They Voted on Housing.
At least 19 sitting TDs have declared property interests in the Register of Members' Interests. One owns 27 properties. Another resigned as a minister over …
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The Tools Already Exist
Ireland has some of the strongest public records laws in Europe. FOI, the Lobbying Act, beneficial ownership registers, planning databases — the infrastructure for accountability …
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