Greatest country in the world
10.03.2026 20:26
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Greatest country in the world
Curious what proportion of Threads visits are intentional and what proportion doesn’t realise they’ve left Instagram
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Few things are as resilient as a to-do list.
Rubio urges America's TV networks - which, for the most part, do not broadcast to the Middle East - to put emergency government phone numbers on their screens for Americans seeking repatriation to call. If only the country had an external broadcaster. The could call it "Voice of America", maybe....
“One of every 15 residents in Dublin’s trendy Grand Canal Dock district was born in the U.S., according to realtors, higher than the percentage of Americans born in Ireland during the 19th-century influx following the Potato Famine”
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.
For the first time in Gallup history —
More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis.
41% Palestinians (+8)
36% Israelis (-10)
Democrats: Palestinians +48
Independents: Palestinians +11
Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30
Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18
So over the past week you are seeing what you would expect to see if AI is, in fact, both rapidly gaining capabilities & proving to be very useful:
- Rolling market disruption in response to growing awareness of AI capacity
-Government versus AI lab struggles for control
…& it is still quite early
AI OG and friend of Boole, Claude Shannon, died on this day in 2001.
Guess what’s named after him.
The future belongs to whoever has abundant cheap energy.
Europe is making progress, but no-one is making the progress China is making. Yes, they're still burning way too much coal. Yes, they're installing solar in places and ways that are probably going to cause soil erosion. Yes. And yet.
With one or two exceptions, the Ten Commandments are not bad rules to live by! Don’t kill people. Be nice to your mum & dad. Don’t sleep with your neighbour’s wife. These are universally moral and wise things! (But Old Testament). Do unto others, etc. Also good!
Really not my main point - which is that what religion asks us to believe without questioning stretches credibility. What value lies within it is usually poorly communicated by men who are ill equipped to distribute wisdom in the 21st century. They could do with some help.
Both, I suppose. I mean, his nationality was Judaean I suppose at the time, rather than Palestinian, but yes obviously Jewish
Obviously you can’t trust a computer to parse the universal moral wisdom shared by an all-powerful immortal phantom who exists outside of space and time and apparently inhabited the body of a Palestinian carpenter 2,000 years ago. IT MIGHT HALLUCINATE.
It is startling that there doesn't seem to be any way for courts to tell the government "Stop doing that. It's illegal."
Nobody does a better job of explaining AI for Normies than @emollick.bsky.social
‘The rain in Buttevant’ doesn’t rhyme as readily
The rain in Spain falls mainly because of an unusually far south jet stream
Went to see To Kill A Mockingbird last night which is set in the 1930s Deep South. The heinous Jim Crow values in the play seem genteel and quaint in comparison to what’s going on right now. That’s bad.
Love is…
Three weeks ago I had never used a command line interface. Today I’m building AI content generation tools. Steepest learning curve but appropriate for the times we’re in.
Ireland, Day 1056 of The Rain. Everything is saturated to the grey of the sky. Moss covers every surface. The outdoors sounds like constant static. The entire staff of Met Éireann is on mental health leave. I’ve forgotten what dry clothes feel like.
It is still a yellow weather alert.
#SpeirGorm
Claude Code is one helluva drug
Can’t stop thinking about how algorithmic consumption hands an discerning, adventurous-thinking minority a massive, growing advantage
Longform X/Twitter posts are the worst format imaginable. Just the absolute worst. I would rather crawl outside a flying plane to read notes scrawled in sharpie on the fuselage than read another longform X/Twitter posts.
What a wildly stupid idea.
Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes.
That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
This is stupid
