Harmonious Bosch

Thanks to AI powered upscaling technologies, the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem is now extremely smooth.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

it's so cool how these people are going to set back actually useful computer science innovation in healthcare by a decade

One of Ireland's most rancid exports.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Yep Hadley Freeman reprinted this lie in her Guardian column, and refused to apologise for it.

The Graun printed the most graceless retraction possible, never retweeted it or apologised z

Once again, Europe's most vindicated statesman.

Jim O'Callaghan must be really angry with the person who put him in this easily avoidable awkward position.

A screenshot of a headline from the Irish Times which reads 'JP McManus: Racing’s most famous gambler has a stronger grip than ever before on the sport'

Another one for the alternative headlines file: 'Prominent Tax Exile And Sportswashing Pioneer Celebrates Birthday Soon'.

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

A screenshot from the Prelinger Archives page on archive.org showing 'Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons' from 1960 is the most viewed item this week.

Only mildly ominous that an "instructional film on nuclear weapons for U.S. Air Force personnel" made in 1960 and titled 'Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons' is the most viewed item in the Prelinger Archives this week.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

Reply of @ec.europa.eu to my letter of March '25 (!) Re transatlantic data transfers. It is crystal clear that even at this stage of transatlantic relations, the Commission flatly refuses to ensure protection of European citizens’ rights, but relies instead on the “pretence of compliance” policy

because the rest are cowards

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...

EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.

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Iran attacks show the perils of following America’s economic lead [FREE TO READ] A growth plan of renewable energy and diversified trade is far better than guzzling fossil fuels and aligning with the US

My Trade Secrets today. Latest superpower energy offers to emerging markets:

China - cheap green tech to wean you off hydrocarbons.
US - coercion into trade deal to buy US fossil fuels, then huge chaotic war creating global oil shock.

WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE? 1/2

as.ft.com/r/8b8df69a-5...

Finally, an article about the real victims of this war: piles of money

A screenshot of text from the linked article. The headline reads "Irish officials were warned in advance that Irish travellers would have faces scanned at Holyhead" The subhead reads "Minister for Justice says his department was advised of facial recognition technology trial by UK immigration officers"

A more apt subhead might be 'Minister for Justice licked his lips, cackled loudly, rubbed his hands together villainously and said "Soon. Here soon."'

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Never posting normal after posting anti-trans stuff continues to be law

Screenshot of a notice on a website which reads "Disable your ad blocker to continue reading."

Nope.

Amazon has invested at least $8 billion in Anthropic. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the appearance of this grotesque advertorial in the Amazon founder's media outlet.

The end result of outsourcing public sector work and therefore hollowing out knowledge and capacity is, apparently, that you have to take on the people you're already contracting as consultants as employees.

There's a book about this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big...

I believe handbag troll Maria Steen was on the IT politics podcast recently complaining about there being limitations and blocks on funding of political parties in Ireland from abroad.

This is why.

I got one of these recently with the subject line "Let's reconnect". The first line in the body of the email was "We haven't had the chance to work together before ..."

They did get my name right though.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

I would be interested to hear @unioflimerick.bsky.social explain how this RT from Chancellor Brigid Laffan promotes the 5 core values of social justice, inclusivity, respect, empowerment, & agency?

i think it would be cool if enya came out of her castle, recorded exactly one note-perfect 25 minute hardcore LP, and immediately secluded herself again