Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
If I was going to start a faith-based AI company I would have called it "Machina Ex Deus".
Emoji Caresser@lizrummy.bsky.social · 2w agoFaith-based AI company Gloo
Wait, wouldn't this drive it underground? Like the hare coursing?
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 3w agoThe Garda Commissioner has said he would 'absolutely' support an outright ban on e-scooters on Irish roads
This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.
Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 4w agoWhat is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
Sure Microsoft may have fired thousands of people and gutted its games division but at least it had more money to pour into Copilot, the 4th most popular AI, a product nobody wants or likes except rich executives, that is constantly losing horrendous amounts of money
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
'Trying to give yourself a better chance at solving the housing crisis by getting rid of targets is sort of like if you were shooting at a bullseye, missed 10 times in a row, and concluded that the problem is that you’d been doing it with your eyes open.' Surrealing is back after a gew weeks.
Surrealing in the Years: Housing minister's war on targets comes for homeless children
Ah, sure targets only remind us how rubbish it all is anyway.
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If you are unlawfully made homeless, and complain about your landlord to the Residential Tenancies Board, they will close your complaint because you can’t give them a permanent address you live at (because you were unlawfully made homeless).
herculean levels of passive voice here for what has been a butchering of thousands of livelihoods over the course of years at the hands of incompetent executives. no shade to whatever poor community manager had to write this image lol
Bungie@bungie.net · last mo.
Microsoft buying these studios that make wonderful prestige titles always felt off because Xbox lacks a sense of identity that lasts longer than 3 fiscal years. This contradiction was made even worse by their unwillingness to respond to the BDS Boycott in even a perfunctory way.
X the everything app has eschewed banking in favor of race riots and pogroms
MY SMALL SON THINKS GOOSEBERRIES ARE CALLED "CHOKINGHAZARDS" HE JUST SAID "I WANT SOME MORE CHOKINGHAZARDS PLEASE"
I swear to god at this point the Irish government should just commission a cutesy data centre mascot.
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo agoThe operators of an off-grid data centre in west Dublin have completed the purchase of biomethane to power the facility.
Why are we the only ones held hostage like this? Many other European countries have vibrant tech scenes and radically lower energy % spent on data centres. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Data centres 'help secure 94k Irish jobs’ – Government-commissioned study
Department of Enterprise-commissioned study warns that if data centre development is curbed, Ireland could miss out on €1.6bn in annual employment-related tax revenues
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Again, I wish this government cared about literally any other policy area as much as they yearn for dismantling the triple lock.
polifeed@feed.gavreilly.com · 2mo agoRTÉ News: Law removing Triple Lock expected to pass by year end
"Nothing matters and there's no point in even trying because it won't work" may as well be the Taoiseach's personal motto at this point.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo agoA boycott of Ireland's games with Israel may have moved a small step closer, as a section of the FAi has backed calls to hold an EGM to discuss a boycott. But the Taoiseach has warned that any boycott may have “no impact at all” on Fifa or Israel. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-isra...