The High Court has heard that teacher Enoch Burke was transferred to Castlerea Prison because he could not be safely housed in the general population at Mountjoy after having his enhanced prisoner status removed due to his behaviour
'Overwatch' director Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard after they told him him 1,000 staff would be fired if the game didn't make a specific amount of money
"It was the biggest 'fuck you' moment I've had ... I believed I would never work anywhere besides Blizzard ... and I was like 'we're done here'"
The state of it. Is it owned by one of the council staff or a councillor? How could anyone look at that and claim it’s not part of #DerelictIreland
can't get over european governments/the EU bein so in hock to the oil & gas industry that they based their economies on fuel from russia, and when that blew up they switched to the US, and when that looked bad they leaned on the persian gulf
out of resistance to consuming less or going renewable
Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh will not face a new terror trial after judges at the High Court in London rejected a Crown Prosecution Service appeal against the decision to throw out the case
www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026...
I suggested the death penalty, but this will have to do.
I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.
Counterpoint: Private equity is basically never the solution for anything other than extractive destruction.
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
Confirmed with Steve Sharpe of OpenAI that this person does not and never has worked at the company, and that they're working with LinkedIn to address it.
The OpenAI/Crusoe post by "Michael Su" is more than likely fake, and I've reached out to OpenAI to confirm. Image comes up as deepfaked in a scanner (questionable reliability but it's a data point), his URL is "michaelsermon" on LinkedIn, can't find history for him at any company he worked at.
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
An in-depth look into the Iris Robinson shcandal of 2010, by Booker-prize winner Anne Enright.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
A thoughtful examination into the use of Irish by fantasy writers as a manic pixie dream language. By Orla Ní Dhúill.
orlanidhuill.com/2019/08/24/d...
"... there's something deeply embarrassing about it, and I really hope that tourists, particularly American tourists, don't take it too seriously"
On Barack Obama Plaza in Moneygall, by Sinéad Baker.
www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama...
The underdog story behind "Maniac 2000" by Mark McCabe, as told to Aoife Barry.
www.thejournal.ie/maniac-2000-...
The one where Matt Le Blanc unintentionally reminded everyone in Ireland of their good-natured culchie uncle.
www.vulture.com/2021/05/matt...
The day Ireland "accidentally" legalised drugs. By Róisín Kiberd.
www.vice.com/en/article/i...
In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
Today is the 150th anniversary of the patenting of the Telephone in 1876 — so, here is our very funny 150th episode of You’re Dead To Me about the telephone’s origins
With comedian Catherine Bohart and historian of science Professor @irmorus.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The experiment, which includes 68 regions, displays differing prices for the same PS5 games. Sony is also testing personalized sales.
A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals #devopsish
When I wrote a piece about my son's love of reading in January, I included this bit because I refuse to hear lectures about literacy rates from the selfsame ghouls and vandals who've cheered on as the UK's apparatus for childhood reading has been stripped to the wiring and sold off for scrap.
Reminder: the printers have a 10% discount code, BCORP10 which you can use at the checkout!
AI might cause an impending economic collapse, the loss of millions of jobs, speeding up the melting of the polar icecaps and is being used for mass surveillance and drone murder, but on the plus side, my local cafe can make instagram graphics of Punch the monkey eating tacos so its not all bad.
stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.
this was a radicalizing discovery for me.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson: “We're not at war right now.
“We're four days in to a very specific, clear mission, an operation, Operation Epic Fury.”
A Special Military Operation, say, just like your pals in the Kremlin.
