Posts by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
(DIR) Post #ARgM0lPMF1VURnYkds by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T20:42:54Z
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“Some of them don’t even have names”
(DIR) Post #ARgM0nJPA7vwLun1do by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T21:21:56Z
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Some years ago, Junior Minister Pat Carey went on TV to propose to require people who bought mobile SIMs to all be entered into a Register.He argued this would prevent drug dealing (method unspecified).I had to go on the telly (which I do not like to do because the big glass eye steals your soul and shows the people you went to school with all your new chins) and point out it would be ineffective (resale or gifting was not captured) and disproportionate (most phone calls not drug deals).
(DIR) Post #ARgM0oyCzuAPUkt7se by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T21:23:21Z
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Junior Minister Pat Carey lost his seat at the election that followed (not because of this idea, but due to the participation in collapse of national economy).
(DIR) Post #ARgM0qeQkPXChzeMKW by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T21:26:12Z
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Then Junior Minister Jim Daley wrote his letter to the European Commission You can read it here, if you have the steel in your soul to get through it.Reading it, it was unsurprising to learn the minister had not consulted the AG’s office as part of his correspondence preparation.https://www.digitalrights.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jim-daly-EU-Commissioner-Letter.pdf
(DIR) Post #ARgM0sVHrNPQSDO5M8 by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T21:26:52Z
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As mentioned above, the Minister did not seek election at the following vote.
(DIR) Post #ARgM0uCvWbuXjqoS12 by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-01-15T21:29:35Z
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More galling from my point of view, I had to go on the telly again to explain why this plan was less than ideal (and illegal).I looked like this as he replied.
(DIR) Post #AUOl4qZCkKs6QOJfDE by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T20:56:45Z
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All books belong in every library.Pay no attention to any bad faith argument by loo lahs presenting themselves as concerned parents etc that any book - *any book*- is inappropriate in a library.Ireland was world famous for its avid censorship of books throughout the 20th C, the same time when it is now famous for abusing children.
(DIR) Post #AUOl4rDGLOukQd3eeO by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T21:00:47Z
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The core, obscured, objection is the granting of offspring (adult or minor) personal agency.Informing people, allowing them to find things out in the literal sanctuary of a library or a supportive school, is anathema to impulses or ideologies of control or ownership over offspring (again, either adult or minors).All education, all literature, all information, empowers people.That’s the power being objected to. That’s the agency they would like to claw back.
(DIR) Post #AUOl4ro88KPAGyJ67E by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T21:07:53Z
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We saw exactly this argument made explicit in the campaign against the Constitutional amendment to recognise children’s rights.The driving stated motivation of the splinter which opposed it on principle was to continue to exert control, ownership and power over children.It was, rightly, rejected almost universally at the ballot box and children’s rights and dignity as human beings confirmed.
(DIR) Post #AUOl4sOzvFta7JYXa4 by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T21:12:00Z
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These people, of course, don’t accept other people’s decisions on granting their children or adult children the dignity of personal agency.They even tried to over turn the referendum in the Supreme Court.We’ve seen recently enough the sort of blinkered, barracking rejection of any alternative point of view this worldview creates.https://www.thejournal.ie/childrens-referendum-result-2066605-Apr2015/
(DIR) Post #AUOl4t4pPjM8D37wmW by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-04-06T21:16:37Z
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I exist as the person that I am because of my local library.I would go there whenever I wanted to read books.Books don’t just go away when you’re finished them, their words sit on your mind, to sink deeper and deeper into you, until they are a part of who you are. Sometimes a very important part.The possibility for change is anathema to people who insist they have had the whole truth already revealed to them.
(DIR) Post #AVVT0Dgnx0C6RxY30q by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-05-10T08:14:57Z
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An absolutely beautiful story from the Dublin Inquirer on the effect two little public sculptures, secretly installed by a railway bridge, have had on a community.#publicart https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/10/in-the-south-inner-city-unauthorised-sculptures-of-a-cat-and-a-rat-stare-each-other-down/
(DIR) Post #AXHNdmW4DaI0GPZsJM by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-07-02T08:48:14Z
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Look, there aren’t a bunch of rules for using Mastodon beyond not being a dose.But there are a bunch of people who love making rules. This is not a technology thing, just a nature-of-humanity thing. Pay no heed.However, the one thing I do here different is to write in the descriptions of the pictures for people who can’t see.Because we don’t need rules to tell us to be sound.
(DIR) Post #AXLuEbFf2LC5CuLMrw by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-07-04T07:26:37Z
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High Value Tea Towel.
(DIR) Post #AXPfH0HmD5AGkRrS1A by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-07-06T08:08:48Z
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I feel Meta naming their Twitter replacement after a story of society’s decent into post-apocalyptic savagery is a bit on the nose. #ThreadsApp
(DIR) Post #AXPfH17B7yHVJruV8a by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-07-06T08:50:15Z
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The #ThreadsApp can’t launch in the EU because of EU data and consumer protections- which tells you about the level of surveillance bales in- but it has launched in the U.K., which tells you about the U.K.
(DIR) Post #AYKU9cPrfCdDK8E7dY by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-08-02T19:05:17Z
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@EU_Commission This is embarrassing gobbledygook.
(DIR) Post #AYadaY22r4fyRlj612 by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-08-09T11:06:32Z
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I'm quoted here by TechCrunch on Zoom's EU law problems in justifying their claim that they can use personal data gathered from users of their service to train AI models. https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/zoom-data-mining-for-ai-terms-gdpr-eprivacy/
(DIR) Post #AZRSCxUDvhZxjK0XRI by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2023-09-04T21:52:18Z
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Please tell me the funniest book you ever read. I want actual wheezing tears of laughter, loss of the power of speech, ugly gasping for breath funny.Nominate your choice, please.
(DIR) Post #Av4H8cbF6GFZlY7CMq by Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2024-04-20T13:28:41Z
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You can tell the Old Testament is the product of a desert people, because when they tried to imagine the end of the world they went with “rained for forty days and forty nights”, which in Ireland is just called Spring.