Graph of crude oil price spiking and then coming back down
So I assume by Friday diesel will be back down to normal price again. Seeing as CircleK et al were so fast to jack up prices at the end of last week.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
Cover of Queen album A Kind of Magic
Started me down the rock and metal path. Never looked back.
Feeling real safe in the days of LLM guided warfare
All of this. Plus their makers stole all our work, are trying to change our IP laws to lionise this theft, took a sledgehammer to the creative economy and successfully reframed predictive text generation as the zenith of artistic achievement
Also, the fascism
I heard the tallies were banned. (I know, wrong country)
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Darragh O'Brien in most transport meetings.
Irish citizens who are permanent residents of the UK can. Works in reverse too for Irish general elections.
Is Eoin Hayes available?
Israel and the US has judged 10 days of bombing is what the Iranian people need to finally love freedom.
Luckily our electoral system allows both parties to coexist and collaborate/feud as necessary.
Thanks to @tupped.bsky.social and others I don't have a Public Services Card. But it seems that I will get one automatically if I verify my MyGovId which I would like to do to access other services. Guess it's still mandatory but not compulsory.
The State of the Union is a lot like the Superbowl in that I won't stay up to watch it because I find it too sad considering what we know about brain damage these days.
i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
Lauding Limerick hurling when one of them should have been behind bars for violent behaviour is an interesting take.
One for the cybersecurity nerds: the pre-legislative report for the Irish National Cyber Security Bill 2024 is out, and recommends major changes to the draconian powers proposed for the National Cyber Security Centre. Featuring lots of input from @digitalrightsirl.bsky.social + @iccl.bsky.social.
5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Terry Pratchett
Iain M Banks
Roddy Doyle
Ross O'Carroll Kelly
Ken Follett
For SF and Fantasy there are many others above 5 each.
They're taking about the Wales that lost by 40 to that terrible English team, right?
Especially in the civil service!
Can't imagine an Irish teams would be any worse than the MS version. It really is the worst of all worlds.
Just spent the last week on jury duty. Nothing too heavy to deal with and interesting to be part of the process. And the grub in the jury canteen wasn't half bad.
PSA: if you want to repost a thread, you only need to repost the first post. That is the point of threads. You don't need to clog your followers' timeline with every single post, however interesting.
All of this.
Fuck JKR and all the people earning her money in the new HP audio series that she apparently has nothing to do with.....
Large part of me thinks they shouldn't be going there this year either. Plenty of other countries to hit up on their jollies.
Surely it's time for the Gardai to kick in the front door on Fenian St.
They see the great success Carlow Weather has had and want to replicate that in every other county.
I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop
And most importantly, the Six Nations kicks off.
