Any automation used in military, *medical* or other life-and-death situations must be thoroughly evaluated within its use case and paired with usage norms that keep accountability with people who have actual power to make decisions. My asterisks, radiologists please copy!

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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@atlanticbirding.bsky.social 's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Black&White Pied wagtail, but in colour...

Perhaps if the tax cut was passed on to the customer rather than pocketed???

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · yesterday

Slide in North American tourist numbers ‘highlights need to extend tax cuts’

@garda.ie please copy...

Rob O'Mhantain@mhantain.bsky.social · 2d ago

Roads would be a lot safer if he wasn't using his mobile phone while behind the wheel of a car

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). First and last! Great-tailed Grackle

@helenbennett.bsky.social says that oday's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Bonus points for any bokeh balls! ☺️🪶📷️ Alt: #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! Cattle egret in the heat, panting!

@atlaaas.bsky.social 's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Seabirds & alt is #Airborne. So I've gone for a #Twofer Lesser Frigatebirds, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs. Here's a pair of Tawny Eagles.

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Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’

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@atlanticbirding.bsky.social has said that today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Raptors; any bird of prey Here's a Black Vulture gliding over a forest in Costa Rica

🪶 Rob’s chosen #RedHeads as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any bird with red on it’s head/beak Alternative is #Gull, any Gull will do Twofer! Silver Gull, Queensland, Australia,

We elected a President we can be proud of. Not like some people. 🙄 #speirgorm #Áras25 #Uachtarán

Alan's #BirdOfTheDay today is #LightAndShadow #chiaroscura Black Noddy, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia

Channelling Spinal Tap…

@helenbennett.bsky.social #birdoftheday is #CaptionThatBird. "He said wait here...!"

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by Atlantic Birding is: #Elegant; any elegant looking bird African Paradise-Flycatcher doing what it does best, but so elegantly!

#speirgorm

Dean Buckley@deanbuckley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finn McRedmond thinks "Mary Antoinette" was one of Henry VIII's wives. aren't editors supposed to catch their columnists when they betray their ignorance so severely it damages the credibility of the newspaper for continuing to publish them?

#speirgorm

Dónal Hassett@donalh.bsky.social · 2w ago

My God. We have truly crossed a Rubicon when the Irish Times of all newspapers is spreading misinformation about the Royal Houses of Europe. It wouldn't have happened back in the days when it was calling for the execution of the 1916 leaders😂

#speirgorm

Lisa Guerrero@lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #ODG - Owl, Duck, or Geese as today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. Here's an Eastern Spot-billed duck from Seoul last year.

@helenbennett.bsky.social said today's Alt: #BirdyLongLegs Any bird with legs that look way too long for its body! Marabou stork in flight looking ungainly! #MasaiMara

"These are not ebikes. They are illegal electric motorbikes." Irish meejah please copy!

When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker

As a cyclist I want the authorities to act with clarity. Lime bikes and renters can be annoying, but the true threat is those who dangerously flout the law, says the Guardian’s senior political corres...

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TLDR: Two IT journalists read the SIPO returns. Call it an "investigation". #speirgorm

Minister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and Senators

Irish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients

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Per @atlanticbirding.bsky.social Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Silhoutte; any bird in silhouette Still identifiable? (Grey crowned cranes, again!)

"GP practices were closed and while the GP out-of-hours service in Donegal had been informed of the service “no referrals or telephone enquiries were received” staff shortages; annual, sick and maternity leave were not routinely backfilled and industrial relations issues prevented additional duties

Saturday hospital unit staffed by consultants saw just five patients over three months

Weekend pilot of acute medical assessment unit reports no improvement in ED patient flow

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas, The Alt theme is #Robins Grey-crowned Cranes in the #MasaiMara with a well camouflaged chick in the grass ...

for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #BirdsInAbstract chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social Twocan play at that game! (yellow-throated), close up captive.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme Alt. is #Black; any bird with black plumage Migrating black tern, Nimmo’s Pier, Galway.

To use a metaphor that our Minister for Sport can understand, Mary McAleese plays *senior hurling*, while O'Donovan is warming the subs bench on the club reserve team.

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mary McAleese holds double doctorates in Criminal and Canon Law. She's a former barrister, journalist and was provice-chancellor of Queen's University. Oh, and she served two terms as Uachtarán na hÉireann. Before being elected, Patrick O'Donovan was a primary school teacher & county councillor.

The spiders are back!