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Presidential election count live: Connolly predicted to win 64% share; spoiled votes set for historic high.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/25/irish-presidential-election-count-results-catherine-connol…

Presidential election live updates:
The 10th president of Ireland will announced today

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

Meta removes an AI video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin that falsely showed Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the race (œrla Ryan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/1…

Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Deepfake video designed to look like RTÉ news bulletin was viewed almost 30,000 times

Good summary of the background:
"But a number of cultural and geopolitical factors – an openly rightward turn among the tech elite; the growing perception of a Chinese threat to US global hegemony; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with Trump’s withdrawal from established defence arrangements, putting the fear of God into EU leaders – have made it clear that there is money, fast and deep money, to be made in defence tech."

Mark O'Connell: If you didn’t have qualms about Spotify before, wait until you hear what its founder has done
Over the past couple of years, tech investors have pivoted toward a collective embrace of the military-industrial complex

Good Morning #Canada
For Day #7 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming, we head west young man to a province we don't want to leave, but we wish their government would just go away.
Alberta's oil industry overshadows the importance and size of their agricultural sector. It's one of only two provinces where the number of farms increased in the most recent StatsCan reports (2021), and their farms generate the highest revenues per operator in the country. Due to the dry climate in they have invested heavily in irrigation, and over 72% of all irrigated farmland in Canada is in Alberta. Oil seed and grains, and beef cattle, dominate with almost 70% of their 40K farms involved in those products. Alberta ranks worldwide as a top exporter of beef, wheat, canola, and pulse crops. Which is interesting because if they separated, they would be surrounded by border checkpoints and tangled up in customs negotiations as a tiny country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #AllHatAndNoCattle
https://www.canadaaction.ca/alberta-farming-facts