Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Everything Musk touches explodes. Including the Moon now, apparently.

I love reading about the history of science. Is there a paleontologist who can tell me why we just… didn’t dig up any dinosaurs until the 1800s? I’ve long wondered if the commonality of dragons across world mythologies are based on now-lost fossil discoveries in the past. Do others think this?

“You used to be able to be poor in a city and still live in it. That was the bargain a city struck”

Karl McDonald@karlusss.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hate to admit this person from Non-Dublin has some points here. Nowhere is the Dead Dublin Theory better illustrated than the proliferation of new pubs done up to look like old pubs imo. Toxic to native fauna but serving the customer base it seeks. www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/dubl...

Genuinely delighted about this. Hope those nerds are furious. (Related: every comic I own is a reading copy, even the old & sought-after ones, because ommfg that’s what they’re for.)

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

“He‘s only far-right when he’s off the clock.”

Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Noel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I think it’s funny how we’ve all known dinosaurs had feathers for quite a while now, and are just… trying to ignore it because they look cooler without them.

UEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.

Wow, it's almost like all those protests weren't really about fuel... www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...

Fuel Support Scheme for farmers ‘under subscribed’ despite €87m budget and nationwide protests over costs

The deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says she does not know why the Fuel Income Support Scheme for farmers and agricultural contractors was significantly “under subscribed.”

independent.ie

‘Concern about the climate is legitimate only insofar as it does not get in the way of whatever Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians deem to be the necessary projects to win votes in particular local areas.’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers

A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone

irishexaminer.com

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

At the risk of taking the joke seriously, we actually got this and it was great.

The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition

An unprecedented comics collection of Scrooge McDuck's life story, this epic Duckburg serial is back for keeps in a beyond-complete oversized full color deluxe edition—and comes slipcased with a speci...

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Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 2w ago

Before he was Scrooge he was…McDuck

This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant

@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social at the Dublin Inquirer has done some really good reporting on this. www.dublininquirer.com/department-o...

Department of Foreign Affairs won’t release internal records on ICE deportation flights via Shannon

“If they need to redact security information, then by all means, redact it, but not releasing any documents at all doesn’t instil confidence in the system here.”

dublininquirer.com

This is exactly what I run into with conspiracy theorists — a stray, unverified claim gets treated as if it debunks the real story, and it almost always falls apart under scrutiny. Wild to hear that pattern showing up at 60 Minutes as Cecilia Vega describes it.

Hey #speirgorm, where could I urgently get New York style cheesecake in Galway? (The urgency is: I wanna eat it.)

Dogs can't look up.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

I don't know if I should tell my (very nice!) neighbours that their dog sounds like a person pretending to be a dog. Like Sprocket from Fraggle Rock.

I’m read and written on this phenomenon but this is, I believe, the most lucid and thorough treatment dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

dannykatch.substack.com

Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again

Specifically, it needs to be targeted at a long-term goal of energy independence. That means wind & solar, home solar, vehicle charging infrastructure, and electric car subsidies.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 2w ago

The Irish Times view on energy policy: supports must be targeted

Just keep sending off Argentina players.

Maps of the GAA senior Football and Hurling champions wins by county. The Hurling map is mad. #Spéirghorm #AllIreland #LIMGAL #GAA #AllIrelandHurlingFinal

“Can AI suffer?” No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas

If you gave 20% of people aged 25-34 in these countries a free house, you’d fix everyone else and Ireland would *still* have a housing crisis.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 3w ago

You sometimes see Government TDs pointing out that Ireland isn’t unique in the world in having a housing crisis. But this graph in today’s Financial Times shows just how extreme ours is compared to the places elsewhere, which also describe themselves as a in a housing crisis.

Next year’s new Prime Minister will be better, I just know it.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration