Derek Brauders

How Researchers Won a Legal Fight to Access X's Data Under the DSA A Berlin court has delivered a consequential ruling, ordering X to grant Democracy Reporting International access to its publicly available data.

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

I thought this was a joke, but "Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X" is an actual quote from this article.

After hitting $115 this night, the oil price is now at $103 per barrel, up from around $65 before the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
Big impact on the world economy, and hopefully on the energy transition too.

Food prices in Ireland at risk of rising ‘dramatically’ due to war in Gulf, Minister warns Government open to examining supports as energy costs increase – but repeat of energy credits unlikely

Food prices in Ireland at risk of rising ‘dramatically’ due to war in Gulf, Minister warns

BREAKING A strike targeting Bahrain's sprawling Al Ma'ameer oil facility has caused a fire at the complex along with material damage, state media reports.

Bahrain's state-owned energy company Bapco declares force majeure after waves of Iranian strikes targeted the country's energy installations

Well, now I feel sorry for Ai.

More realistically, What The Actual......?

Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI The same class of business executives who heaped AI onto us by the shovelfull aren't immune to its effects.

Outsourcing their what now?

”Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”
The Wealth of Nations, landmark work by Scottish Enlightenment economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith, first volume published #OTD 1776.
Portrait medallion by James Tassie, 1787, National Portrait Gallery London

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Markets nosedive as surging oil prices threaten to raise living costs

My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we’ll know when it’s time to leave Ireland Only after the name-changing debacle of Herzog Park and Bondi beach attack, Government realised the Jewish community were not paranoid

My wife, who is not Jewish, asks me if we’ll know when it’s time to leave Ireland

Japan prepares for deployment of its first home-developed long-range missile Japan started deploying its first batch of domestically-developed long-range missile, with their launchers arriving at a southwestern Japanese army camp Monday as the country accelerates its strike-back capability in response to rising challenges in the region.

Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles, with their launchers arriving at an army camp as the country accelerates its offensive capability in response to rising challenges in the region.

Stupid is as stupid does, and it does stupid so, so well. On so many levels.

Three major banks are preparing to launch a new mobile contactless payment system for customers.

Zippay will soon be available to around five million AIB, Bank of Ireland and PTSB users, allowing payments to be made through their existing banking apps.

#VMNews

Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.

More to come, unfortunately.

I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.

I think the devil will not have me damn’d, lest the oil that’s in me should set hell on fire

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There's an Amazon Kindle sale on Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, 2nd book in the Rising World series) today for 2.99, US and Canada www.amazon.com/Queen-Demon-... #booksky

Lucy is moving 3X her weight.

Moving 180 lbs in deadlift has her competitive with intermediate-to-advanced *teenagers*

On a good day I can pull 1.65X my BW off the ground, which makes me Advanced.

The qualification for Elite ADULTS is 2.5X BW.

@hannahdaly.ie this is the question I’d prefer to have baited you and your computational acumen on. There’s a trade off here we need to work out.
A) Rewet cutaway bog now. It will most likely never rehabilitate and sequester like pristine bog. But it will cap emissions from degraded bog.
Or …

To the supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... thoughts would be welcome.

Send the Iran women football team back to Iran and near certain death and/or torture?

Or encourage them to claim asylum in Australia?

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We wouldn't do it for long though, or very far...

(Note, in my case a different military. Just to be clear)

Visual reading 'Policy Input: Erasmus+ 2028-2034, EUA response to the European Commission's public consultation on the EU's next long-term budget (MFF),' with the European University Association logo on the top right over a blurred architectural background.

In a challenging geopolitical and economic context, strengthening cross-border education is one of many urgent tasks that the EU’s next #MFF must address.

🔗 EUA’s response to the European Commission’s public consultation on the next long-term budget bit.ly/43SdIM9

#ErasmusPlus #HigherEdSky

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A cut to excise on petrol and diesel, as was done in 2022, requires the assent of the Dáil, similar to changes made on Budget Day. Not a runner until its return on March 18, unless there was a prospect of recalling the Dáil mid-recess to pass an emergency financial resolution

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Where ministers were previously reticent to make big fiscals commitments - this war emerged almost spontaneously, and could end similarly abruptly - now the penny has dropped that this is not a short-term event.

So, what do they do?

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Ireland’s unique energy mix, where the cost of electricity is materially influenced by the whole wholesale price of gas, also means household bills would be hit as consumers worldwide compete for supplies

This when 1-in-7 Irish homes are already in arrears on household energy, and 1-in-4 gas

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The escalation of conflict over the weekend, and Iran being increasingly drawn into conflict with its neighbours, also means the price of crude oil will rise tomorrow - putting even further pressure on the pumps

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