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Breaking: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of IBS

a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.

hahahaha

they probably feel hard done by not getting to quadruple prices like everyone else under the guise of inflation, it must be difficult deal with having customers who've been paying the same amount for credit in their 30s as they were when they were 15

is anyone else on three prepay since like 2008 and finding themselves contacted on a regular basis by customer care calling to offer a new, worse contract, because they obviously regret offering €20 all you can eat data for life nearly 20 years ago and are trying to trick you to end the contract

Screen shot of text from the end of an email that reads: If you want, I can also write a much sharper version (still legally safe but far more cutting) that will really land with him and his solicitors.

Pro tip: if you're going to send someone a nonsense letter that you hope uses enough serious sounding "legal" language to be taken seriously, you should probably make sure you delete the bit at the end where ChatGPT offers to write a different version lol

WAR CRIME BY THE US.

An unarmed Iranian ship was takIng part in an Indian naval exercise, alongside the US.

The US withdrew and torpedoed the Iranian ship.

THEN the US refused to rescue the sailors, letting them drown.

This is treachery, cowardice, cruelty and a war crime of the highest order.

PS: Keep an eye out for some new episodes of For Tech's Sake from @elaineburke.bsky.social and @earley.bsky.social very soon! 👀

A little taster of what we talked about on Flop Culture with Fionnuala Jones.

Catch the full episode here: shows.acast.com/flop-culture...

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Honestly insulting at this point that the government continue to insist this and similar events have nothing to do with their new legislation

despite all of the transphobia and nonsense and hate this woman spews, i STILL hear her music when i walk into LGBTQ+ bars and queer spaces in dublin... can we finally forget about her once and for all pls

across from the mace, you know beside the chicken shop that used to sell both chicken and phones

what goes wrong

because you're about to have crazy beef with these prices

4 of the 5 most popular stories today are product stories... surely the companies consistently featured should be absorbing the cost of running the website, rather than the readers?

sometimes i quite like The Verge and back before they changed the site i wasn't that bothered that so much of their content is ads/product reviews, but it's actually so infuriating to constantly see things that are basically just ads behind a paywall

its giving famine

there's a new tiktok-style baked potato truck on dorset street and i just looked it up and these are the prices

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

Two taxidermy birds building a nest in a tin can

Irish hedgerows are protected by an annual ban on cutting from 1 March to support nesting birds. These European Robins from Crumlin, Dublin are countryside birds from 1902 and a tin can will do. National Museum of Ireland - Natural History @nmireland.bsky.social #SpeirGorm

i could not have conceived of bring me the horizon having nearly 2.5 decades of staying power

i really don't know what i expected to happen to the NME and Kerrang poster boys of 2007, but i frequently find myself in disbelief that a lot of these bands are still going 20 years later

Firefighter/Paramedics from Tara Street assisted with the delivery of a baby boy on Monday morning.

#DidYouKnow our maternity kits on our ambulance now come with a special Dublin Fire Brigade hat for newborns.

🚨Don't forget that our National Women's Basketball team is to play Israel on *St. Patrick’s Day*. Take action to ask Basketball Ireland not to play the apartheid state and to respect the Palestinian boycott call.
#BDS #BanIsrael
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can anyone share an example of a *really* well-written news article they've seen recently? it must be suitable for someone under 18 to read and ideally not be related to a depressing theme like war. i am trying to gather a few bits to help leaving cert students i am working with

The car is back!

i think my biggest takeaway is that drink just dulls my mental notifications that my social battery is done but smoking areas also just make u feel shit

it’s been almost a year since i’ve drank and the feeling i get now, after a late night in a club & smoking area, even without drinking is soo similar to a hangover im wondering if i ever actually got hangovers or if i just react so badly to being tired that it makes me sick