"Why Was Garland Shot?"
The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Fรฉin, on the attempt on National Organiser Seรกn Garland's life, which had taken place the week before.
Published #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975.
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The #RadicalRight in Belgium: T. Pauwels. โExplaining the Strange Decline of the Populist Radical Right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The Impact of Permanent Oppositionโ. In: Acta Politica 46.1 (2011), pp. 60-82. dx.doi.org/10.1057/ap.2010.17.
NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse โ where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
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AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC
I made a bingo card
โIf the ball had gone into the net, I would have scored a goal.โ
So it seems we have reached the โusing a potential conflagration as an opportunity to hustleโ stage of LinkedIn.
There is โfamily votingโ in Ireland in that some families have voted for the same parties since the civil war. But thatโs about the size of it.
โDemocracy Volunteersโ trying to get as much mileage out of this phantom phenomenon as possible?
This thread on Ireland very much worth reading in full:
The clues are there
Something tells me there wonโt be much mileage in these family voting claims.
On the Democracy Volunteers kerfuffle ... I profiled their head John Ault for a Cornwall council by-election in 2014, and came away from that research with the strong impression that he'd written his own Wikipedia page.
I hope you had 3 versions of this article prepared, Jon ๐
Two new posts on the UK far right:
1/ Matt Goodwinโs antisemitic pals in Reform UK (via @hopenothate.org.uk)
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"At minute 151, when he veered from a story about an orgy on Pat Sajak's boat to complaining about how John Roberts smells like cauliflower, it dawned on me that his presidency was not, in fact, on more stable ground."
New book review published advance access.
Matthew L. McDowell reviews "The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s" by Thomas Adam (Anthem Press, 2025)
@anthempress.bsky.social
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Matt Goodwinโs academic project was debunked as โtotal garbageโ. Reformโs Gorton & Denton by-election candidate left a right-wing think tank โwith his tail between his legsโ when work was exposed, sources tell The Times.
โMiscommunicationโ? Fluency in English not an issue for a Reform candidate, surely?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Many congratulations to Alvin Jackson on his appointment.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...