Charlie Taylor

I love it when I get struck by an ordinary phrase that has poetry hidden in it. Today: “a flight of stairs”.

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He "Smells" a Similar Crash Coming To Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, it's reasonable to prepare for a "reckoning."

"I don’t feel the storm, but the horses are starting to whinny in the corral."

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid that the way I die won't be funny

Connected AI Podcast: Jentic’s Michael Cordner on OpenClaw, and Ireland’s thriving tech ecosystem

The Connected AI Podcast: Raluca Saceanu on how AI is changing cyber security

The latest from myself and @charlietaylor.bsky.social on AI covers the cybersecurity risks raised by AI agents (with help from Raluca Saceanu), the AI ad wars, YouTube's slop problem, and 'AI detectives' on LinkedIn.

Check it out: www.businesspost.ie/tech/the-con...

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Still looking for people, if you regularly use an e-scooter, please get in touch #escooters

A man wearing a brown leather jacket with black leather pants, black boots, and a black shirt.

A man wearing a brown shearling bomber with a cream colored turtleneck and tan colored suede pants.

Jim Morrison in a black leather jacket, black t-shirt, black leather pants, and suede boots.

A chart shows that Bitcoin has fallen 34% in the last year. At its peak within this period, it was about $125k. Today, it's $64k.

if you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin

If this isn’t evidence that no woman on earth is safe from this absolutely evil bullshit from inadequate pathetic men then I don’t know what is

The Connected AI Podcast: Conor Sheridan on scaling Nory, the AI-powered restaurant platform

The Connected AI pod is back with myself and @charlietaylor.bsky.social talking about the surge of 'selfware' built from AI-generated code, Wikipedia's deal-making with LLMs, OpenAI's plans to become profitable, and the collapse of the information ecosystem.

www.businesspost.ie/tech/the-con...

Been waiting and hoping for this one!

❤️

The Connected AI Podcast - Conor Sheridan on scaling Nory, the AI-powered restaurant platform

Underneath the name Charlie Hebdo is a pile of bloodied dead bodies representing US citizens killed by ICE. The pile of bodies are collected in one corner to represent the stars of the US flag and the streaks of blood caused by them being dragged across the ground form the red and white stripes. In the foreground an armed skinhead officer with an ICE vest is dragging his latest victim with multiple gunshots to join the pile. The world is watching in horror.

Wow.

The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

Great to be back in action

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

Seen two episodes and really enjoyed it

Hey #SpeirGorm folks, know anyone in the Irish govt who could use friendly outreach to get on Bluesky? This is talking about setting up handles, verification, tech support etc… so just if any of those might be blockers on orgs or people moving over.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Lots of abusive and misogynistic far-right posts on X are the first replies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

Curious Alice: the VR experience · V&A Discover 'Curious Alice', a new virtual reality experience commissioned by the V&A, taking you on a mind-bending virtual trip into Wonderland

Hello lovely hive mind, I'm looking for ideas for interactive approaches to children's literature in a museum setting.

I'm thinking of, for example, the V&A show about Alice in Wonderland. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/cur...

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

Luminate Medical raises €18m with plan to help treat 100m cancer patients at home

Thinking idly about how there was a time in the past where the Grok CSAM scandal would lead to a huge exodus off X to Bluesky and elsewhere but how now everyone who cared about such things has already left

Charlie Taylor’s top Irish tech firms to watch in 2026: AI One, Anam, Seapoint and lots more

A thread of quick-win suggestions for @dublinbusnews.bsky.social to trial with the aim of improving the service for customers and staff.

#BetterDublinBus

(As opposed to major changes like Bus Connects or large technology changes such as changing the fleet to hydrogen or electric.)

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025

- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions

none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...

And an album that comes in under 45 mins

‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold

Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm