Cornelius (aka Con) Traas
@theapplefarmer.bsky.social
Fruit Grower. University Lecturer. Horticultural Scientist. Drinks Manufacturer (juices, cider, spirits). Sustainable Food Production Systems. Statistics hobbyist.
If I was an editor* at an Irish media outlet insisting on covering the upcoming soccer games against Israel that should not be played, I would hire Palestinian freelancers and accredit them to do the job for me. *This is also why I'm not an editor at an Irish media outlet.
Incorrect. Develop all parts of your brain and abilities.
Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 13h agoInstead of trigonometry, high schools should give kids a proper pop culture education to prepare them for their professors' references in college and grad school.
Never enough money for some. Can he not just take advantage of Mike ?
Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️@mrsceltics.bsky.social · 14h agoPolymarket partner LeBron James continuing to promote gambling 🤢
tech guy: what if we could average every book other tech guy: my god. the ultimate book tech guy: exactly richest people: wow yes the best way to do anything creative I'm positive have infinity trillion dollars tell me can it ruin earth and civilization tech guys: yeah richest people: fuck yeah
It's supposed to be an arts center, they have been removing actual artwork and replacing it with this propaganda kitsch. 2/2
At the risk of sounding like a hose drinker, I don’t want a washing machine that requires connection to WiFi. I want one of those workhorses that keep going for like 30 years that I can fix myself.
Simon McGarr. Excellent as usual.
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2d agoNew Gist: What If? Exposed to bot armies on social media, politicians have become like Nipper, the loyal Jack Russell dog, listening intently to the automatic, unending and completely synthetic version of His Master's Voice. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
The flipside of everyone replying to every post I do on every platform saying "call them surveillance centers not data centers!!!"
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d agohe’s really losing it with the AI stuff
The UK has, unfortunately, provided the Irish government with a decade’s worth of *demonstrable* evidence that making immigration harder is an act of economic self harm. *AND* that the UK government’s performative acts of cruelty against migrants does not appease far right voters.
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2d agoNew Gist: What If? Exposed to bot armies on social media, politicians have become like Nipper, the loyal Jack Russell dog, listening intently to the automatic, unending and completely synthetic version of His Master's Voice. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...
At EU level, the Irish Government proposing any tech policy immediately renders that policy suspect, if not automatically unacceptable. We are seen as nought a paid for and every time our Govt does something in this area it reaffirms that perception.
Johnny Ryan@johnnyryan.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.
A pen of cows condemned by 72 years of gov failure. Otherwise healthy cows, all raised by me since their first minute of life, lost to a disease Haughty claimed eradicated in 1965. The red girl at the beginning is 1919. Im not too proud to say when the vet said she had TB it broke me #speirgorm
the same result would have been achieved if the bigots had just stayed at home with their families. instead there was two years of hostility and hysteria. the residents of Dundrum House will be gone in less than a year, but the stain of racism on that village will last much, much longer.
First: we don't actually have any good emissions estimates of all data centres in the world, so not sure what this refers to. But more importantly: methane emissions from all landfills are HUGE. Maybe up to 1 GTCO2 - more than every country's individual power grid except US, China, India for scale
Buyers of pervert glasses join the war on pervert glasses: www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claims
People who use Meta's smart glasses or were recorded with the gadget are worried about how the social media giant is using their photos and videos.
latimes.com
Anyone asked him about their funding for far-right Omarchy?
Omarchy Foundation Gets $8 Million From Dell, Stripe, Cloudflare, Others
The Omacom Foundation has been established to push the Omarchy Linux distro.
lunduke.substack.com
the glasses of a tech commentator who has the worst, most uninformed opinions imaginable yet still somehow makes more money in a month than you did in the past 2 years
Is Ireland's President @president.ie the first Head of State to raise genocide in person with the US President?
How mad is the Irish housing crisis ? There's a Hong Kong-based group with agents buying up poor quality houses in my city centre nhood in Cork - and cramming them full of bunk beds to stack desperate Brazilian Deliveroo drivers like battery chickens. And a few local landlords doing the same.
🚨BREAKING: New report by @ketanjoshi.co finds NVIDIA’s indirect emissions have risen 725% since 2020. Reminder, there is no evidence to say AI is a net benefit for climate, and Europe can't lock itself into more fossil gas to power data centres for Big Tech profits. ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
"wow, with the rising cost of fuel, I think I'll take public transport" Irish govt: "woah there, not so fast!"
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 5d agoFalling revenue and rising costs have created a deficit of more than €800m in funding for public transport services, an Oireachtas committee has heard
What do they do instead? They go on podcasts and go to climate week events and insist that AI will end up being a "net benefit" for climate, even accounting for those carbon bomb data centres. Exactly what we debunked earlier this year as a misleading greenwashing trick ->
They (most politicians who never take a bus, and seldom take a train) want public transport to fail, and resent all the resources the Green party directed to improved services.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 5d agoThe National Transport Authority has confirmed that bus and train fare hikes will lead to fewer people using public transport. An Oireachtas committee was told that for every 10% fare increase, passenger numbers fall 3%. jrnl.ie/7164363
The National Transport Authority has confirmed that bus and train fare hikes will lead to fewer people using public transport. An Oireachtas committee was told that for every 10% fare increase, passenger numbers fall 3%. jrnl.ie/7164363
NTA confirms that bus and train fare hikes will lead to fewer people using public transport
The NTA said for every 10% fare increase, passenger numbers fall 3%.
jrnl.ie
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
We all agree, we shouldn’t have to pay more for public transport. We need to encourage people to make the sustainable choice, not punish them. If you agree, join us outside the Dáil on Thursday at 6pm.
