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So there is a protest in Dublin today “at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin 1”¹
If you’re thinking of heading up on the Dart or the M50, however, think again.
Dart services are down and there are M50 closures.
Protect someone the way the Irish government protects a genocide-complicit, rapist, war-criminal paedophile.
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If you want to know just how disgusting a country the #UK is, read this story:
"the Home Office acknowledged that Maryam had cancer, but still refused the request to join her brother-in-law in Glasgow.
Officials concluded the family's situation did not meet the threshold for 'compelling circumstances.'"

very happy to learn about #scythe, an actively maintained fork of the #python sickle library used to harvest and parse #oai records -> check it out at

Anthropic says new measures like preserved thinking in Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5 have reduced data harvesting through distillation attacks by about 90% to 99% (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/distillation-defenses

Strengthening our defenses against distillation attacks
Illicit distillation allows model developers to copy frontier AI capabilities without creating proportionally robust safeguards. Here, we describe how we’ve reduced the rate of distillation by more than 90%.

I wanted to use my #Jellyfin server for audiobooks, but failed in terms that it not seem to be capable of tracking progress, even after converting to m4b. Maybe it's just a skill issue, if so, please enlighten me.
However I found a great offline audiobook app, that is FOSS and even has features like. Character list, sleeping mode and more

Disney secures rights to podcast content of Gary Neville's soccer media group The Overlap in a multimillion-pound deal; shows will still broadcast on YouTube (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/

Disney+ buys rights to Gary Neville’s Overlap content in riposte to Lineker’s Netflix deal
Disney+ has bought the rights to broadcast The Overlap’s podcast content in a multimillion pound deal

In a supply chain attack on the popular LiteLLM library in March this year, around 434,000 build pipelines – which were in use at more than 2,500 companies – are believed to have been compromised: https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/ai-supply-chain-breach-2500-c…

2,500+ Companies and 434,000 CI/CD Pipelines Exposed in the Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026 | CloudSEK
CloudSEK’s latest research examines the LiteLLM AI supply-chain attack, which potentially exposed 2,500+ organisations and 434,000 CI/CD pipelines worldwide. The report details the risks to cloud credentials, source-code repositories, Kubernetes environments and AI infrastructure, while highlighting how compromised AI dependencies can create enterprise-wide security exposure.

Protect someone the way the Irish government protects a genocide-complicit, rapist, war-criminal, paedophile piece of shit.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0912/1591250-trump-visit-ireland/

In 2011, I reposted my 9/11 memorial from 2002.
It is still valid and relevant today, 15 years later. Which is the worst condemnation of America I can think of.
Do better, Americans.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/2011-09-11

One Hour to a Better America

I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.

Of size, and governance, revisited
Malta has sixty eight local government regions; Luxembourg one hundred and two; Iceland sixty one; Norway, with a population comparable to our own, three hundred and seventy two. The average number of inhabitants of a municipality across the whole of the EU is 22,455. Thus the average Scottish local authority has more than six times the population of the average European equivalent, and more than one hundred times the population of one in Czechia. Czechia is not really an outlier; France, with …