A moat is a protective / defensive layer around a company, that differentiates it from competitors. What happens when smart employees laid off from software companies have too much time on their hands and tools like this? They can start competitors to their employers with much less costs. This *could* be the end for big tech https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

DCU interviewing everyone who sits on the board of their "Future Journalism Insitute" (the ones that belittled you for having reservations about the vaccine etc. And collecting their sob stories. And of course , the journal.. who ate heavily connected wont let you comment. DCU is the centre for Orwellian Journalism research in this country.. never forget. https://www.thejournal.ie/women-in-journalism-online-hostility-dcu-research-6068555-May2023/

International Protection Integration Fund 2022 Successful Applicants: Two groups, namely Failte Isteach and Clare Immigrant Support groups, received funding of 50k and 20k, respectively, from the Department of Children. Both groups visited Clare today. Interestingly, the group that received 50k was posing as a local organization, despite being located 50 minutes away by car and failing to disclose their funding amount. Source: https://assets.gov.ie/238507/6dce1545-fc9a-48bc-8d26-997ca31fd96f.pdf

Musk is a (bit of a) hero... reading between the lines. It's now prohibitively expensive for FUJO to analyze your tweets. Recently, Twitter increased the cost of their cheapest enterprise API package to $42,000 per month, and even with this price, there are significant limitations. It only allows analysis of 5,000 Twitter users and a mere 0.3% of all Twitter data. This is the reason for the saltiness in the article. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/05/16/online-platforms-failure-to-share-data-makes-it-harder-to-tackle-disinformation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Report by the Council of the European Union on the use of ChatGPT in the public sector.

Wow. Twitter completely pulled the rug on Fujo + Edmo Ireland who monitor Irish Online content with help from the NLP (Natural Language Processing) Team at the University of Sheffield. The image is from a recent presentation on countering disinformation by Dr Eileen Culloty of DCU/Fujo/Edmo.

The BEAM software project was mentioned in the presentation by ISD to the National Counter Disinformation Working Group... quote "In 2021 Beam was the joint-winner of the US-Paris Tech Challenge for innovative approaches
to counter disinformation, sponsored by the US State Department, the Department of Digital,Culture, Media and Sport, and NATO."

In Clare, Rape is up 66% and other sexual offenses are up a staggering 1200% comparing pre pandemic / post plantation figures (second half of 2019 vs second half of 2022). Figures are from the CSO. Please share this info far and wide as Im not on twitter.

Interesting document regarding cork being a "city of sanctuary" ... well worth a read even if it's a few years old.

Would be interesting to do a full deep analysis of mainstream medias coverage of the Tusla scandal versus the "Tubridy Scandal". Number of ariticies and journalists reporting on both.

Exhibit a. thejournal.ie. 1 hour after a article on state child abuse scandal was posted (no comments allowed) the RTE astroturfing began. There have been 10 articless (and counting) on the journal regarding the "tubridy scandal".. and zero follow up on Tusla. RTE & The Journal both sit on the advisory board of Fujo.