the inherent sociality of pedestrianism

The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes@phantomtollbot.bsky.social · yesterday

Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch—walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden. There were voices to hear and conversations to listen to in wonder, and the special smell of each day.

Thanks to the intervention of @feljin.ie, I have discoverd that the WTE staff statistics I posted are inaccurate for DLRCC and Fingal (actually closer to the other Council) but these are the figures still published on the NOAC site! 🤷‍♂️ cdn.noac.ie/wp-content/u... cdn.noac.ie/wp-content/u...

the unnecessary-cardboard-sign-for-state-agency-photo-shoots industry is AI-proof

Emmet Ó Briain@emmet.quiddity.ie · 2y ago

Triggered by more sightings, I am bringing my campaign against #holdinghashtags to this platform. Interested in international perspectives on the phenomenon of people holding physical representations of digital artifacts at campaign press launches - or is it a peculiarly Irish thing?

A detailed Reddit discussion on: The Pragmatics of Temporal Expressions in Professional Requests in the Irish Workplace “When an Irish colleague says a task is "not urgent at all," how do you know whether they secretly mean it needs doing today anyway?” www.reddit.com/r/AskIreland...

besides enjoying the very headhunters-meets-a-midi-can vibe of this Horse Lords album, i just think it's a great title: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! horselords.bandcamp.com/album/demand...

Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords

12 track album

horselords.bandcamp.com

The All-Ireland Poc Fada competition takes place on Monday in its spiritual home on the Cooley Mountains, where women and men of all ages will hit a sliotar up and down the mountain to recreate the legend of Cú Chulainn. Great @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social explainer of the origins and history below 👇

Emmet Ó Briain@emmet.quiddity.ie · last yr.

The Poc Fada was on today ... hitting a sliotar up and down a mountain is such a brilliant premise for a national competition. Great @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article on its origins and history... www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

hypothesis: Linkedin recruiting users as volunteer annotators, not to improve the ux of app degraded by the platform's automation (and structural incentivisation) of a specific type of shitty content, but to make the automated shitty content harder to identify as automated

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 6d ago

@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike

tangential, but whenever someone tells me that they believe 'x' to be generally true about a particular community/country because they were told so by someone from there, I think of the many people from my own community/country who I hope no one would listen to or trust as having any great insight.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

the written record of antiquity, for reasons I hope are obvious, over represents the blinkered moral perspectives of that day's most powerful people. you should take the care with generalizing from their opinions that you'd want a foreigner to take if a tech CEO was asked about your country's morals

It's all a bunch of closely related computational techniques, and the name is whatever lands external money for your efforts at that point in time.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

move over cargo bikes, make way for camper bikes!!

Johnnie Johnstone@johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · last wk.

Morning shift. Sprite 400 Caravan, 1966

“show, don’t tell” presentation of self

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · last wk.

male loneliness epidemic is here to stay

just listening to this now - it rocks (gently)

odubhda@odubhda.bsky.social · last mo.

Now playing: Wendy Eisenberg. wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-...

Flâner ("Strolling") is a series created between 2014-2016 by filmmaker Cecile Emeke that documented Black people walking and talking about various topics. "Episode 3: Police in France, Negritude Movement, Martinique, Petits Blancs & more" This young man has lived in Bordeaux and Martinique.

Flâner (FR) | Episode 3: Police in France, Negritude Movement, Martinique, Petits Blancs & more

YouTube video by cecile emeke

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Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · last yr.

Flâner (FR) is a documentary series created between 2014-2016 by filmmaker Cecile Emeke that documented Black people across the diaspora, walking and talking about various topics spanning. 25 episodes were produced across London, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels, NYC and Kingston. #BlackSky

i love how this shows that you can enjoy sport, support your team and if things don’t go your way, just choose to be generous in defeat!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.

Kerry fans 'happy for Mayo' after All-Ireland final loss

Ethical or supposedly ethical businesses can seem complicated or short on detail when you scratch the surface of promises. What we do is really simple. We give up 4% of all our income which has been over 30%of profits in each of last 4 years. We're not a social enterprise or charity.

turns out the curse was real 😱

“We’re asking whether it’s healthy for individuals to develop relationships with AI when we should be asking whether it’s ethical for companies to engineer emotional dependency and then profit from it” www.cnet.com/tech/service...

We’re Asking All the Wrong Questions About AI Companionship - CNET

In her new book, Bridget Todd argues that the problem isn’t people who use AI for companionship, it’s the tech companies building them.

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there's a received wisdom in many state agencies that active travel advocacy should steer clear of upsetting or offending motorists ... but this public safety ad from 1986 demonstrates the clarity of a more confrontational approach! (h/t to @johnmunro.bsky.social for putting it in my timeline!)

Stephen Holden Bates@stephenholdenbates.bsky.social · 2w ago

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org Thought you’d be interested in this 1986 Department of Transport advert in the NME…

Decades of "would you please consider not endangering pedestrians and cyclists with your car?" instead of making infrastructural interventions to physically prevent stuff like this.... Like strongly worded warnings on cigarette packs, instead of just making smoke free spaces in our society.

Stephen Holden Bates@stephenholdenbates.bsky.social · 2w ago

@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org Thought you’d be interested in this 1986 Department of Transport advert in the NME…

I feel like people in favour of policy goals such as reducing social inequality or promoting inclusion should explicitly subscribe to and advocate for this idea

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

my feeling on this is that any system is going to have a certain number of grifters and you just have to accept that it is far more important to help deserving people than to not help undeserving ones. you can do your best but gatekeeping is generally much crueler than needed.

#OnThisDay in 2011, the Utøya massacre claimed 77 lives in a tragic act of hatred and violence. Today, we honour the victims and stand in solidarity with their families and loved ones.

Most reporting of this today has been along the lines of: OpenAI reluctantly confess their new models are just 'that damn good' (also, many breathless accounts of The Algorithmic Great Escape)

tante@tante.cc · 2w ago

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/):

mushy peas (close up)

It's awful to watch beautiful buildings around the city (and the rest of the country)left to rot by their owners and facilitated by Councils Many hours of sewing went into that banner! @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social @frankoconnor.bsky.social #DerelictIreland

activities that go together: children playing - ”no ball games”- and 💩 - ”no dog fouling” (collected under the category of “things that aren’t allowed / we don’t want to see”)

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 11mo ago

I keep seeing posts about ai models like "actually they're good at this thing now!" but once you understand that ai tools are being built by fascists in service of attacks on humanity, whether or not they can generate useable code or do basic searches kind of stops being the main question

From Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the priceless child (1985) “Children cannot obtain space and can lose rights to what they have when others demand more, so children suffer…the new 20thC rules for urban outdoor space, designed by adults for their convenience, constricted the public life of children.”

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'll go with Skenazy's headline - "If you want your kids to thrive this summer, don’t just turn off their phones – open your front door, too" - but not this: "the original experience blocker is fear". Blaming parental fear avoids big questions about cars, hostile public space, and austerity.

I should follow up to say, if we want to open our front doors for children to play, we should make (temporarily) closing streets to cars easier, we should ensure there are welcoming, playable spaces within (independent) walking distance, and we should make local walking and cycling routes safe.

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'll go with Skenazy's headline - "If you want your kids to thrive this summer, don’t just turn off their phones – open your front door, too" - but not this: "the original experience blocker is fear". Blaming parental fear avoids big questions about cars, hostile public space, and austerity.