Houses swept away.
Houses swept away.
An Irish-American billionaire says he has a €100 million plan to free the internet by building a blockchain-based alternative to Facebook Frank McCourt, a real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, says he is willing to pour $100 million to rebuild the foundations of social media, because he says Facebook and […]
Naturally, no other Irish media outlet appears to have covered this story, because the only international comparisons that interest them are with the UK and the USA, and even then, only if those comparisons flatter Ireland. But it is important to note that Ireland’s approach to covid-19 is an outlier by international standards, and radically […]
Cancel Culture.
We do not really cover sports here at Gript, so it is a delight to be able to write about my beloved Formula One under the guise of writing about the latest evidence that Ireland’s overly cautious pandemic policies are insane. There are two questions here: First, will Max Verstappen embarrass reigning seven-time world champion […]
Tension.
Horrifying footage has emerged of a 12-story Miami Beach apartment building collapsing last night, sending clouds of debris into the air. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1408055796534059010 The footage, obtained by local staton WSVN revealed the sudden nature and extent of the collapse, which has left 51 people unaccounted for Thirty-five people were rescued from the damaged building and two people, […]
The crackdown continues.
Minority woman of colour loses out to trans athlete…
Heart inflammation.
Imagine a situation where some country – let us say China, since they’re not historically averse to training Olympic athletes from childhood – was found to have provided masses of testosterone to its female weightlifters from the ages of 12 to 25 while training them to enter the Olympic weightlifting competition later in life. In […]