This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

RE: https://todon.nl/@Persona/117296612024590497 Can we move the UN out of the US? Maybe someone can calculate the centroid of the world capitals, as the location?

I need to find more GenZ and/or queer/trans folks to follow on Mastodon. Especially looking for more mutuals tbh. It would be nice to make some more actual friends on Fedi. Everyone should boost this to help me make more mutuals. :cyber_boost_request: And come follow me if you fit either of […]

"Slowing down" here, is nothing a euphemism for putting the brakes on the over-promises, during years of hyper-hyping it up. https://www.thejournal.ie/musk-altman-ai-slowdown-7161318-Sep2026/

Musk and Altman back calls to ‘slow down’ development of AI

The boss of Anthropic has said he is concerned that since this summer, AI has been “advancing drastically faster”.

thejournal.ie

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/117247024650494018 What Ireland hasn't twigged yet since we emerged from being one of the poorest countries in Europe... That being "open for business" is NOT the way to ensure the well-being of the population. You reach a point where you need to tax […]

Bodhipaksa@bodhipaksa.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

RE: https://journa.host/@videnskabdk/117246792751092114 Danes are more active than Britons with more likely to cycle to work, for example. and have more time and energy for recreation, because Britons work, on average, the equivalent of three weeks longer each year, and their work hours are […]

Many cities buried urban streams. Here’s how to bring them back "Daylighted streams now pass through residential areas, parks and public spaces. Paths, small bridges, seating, playgrounds and recreational areas accompany many of them...." "... Together, however, the projects form a distributed […]

minnë insisted on a portrait for #caturday. what could I do...

The Union Matters I don't often post anything about matters pertaining to the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT), of which I am a member, but there is something very important going on so I thought I would make an exception. In what follows, I of course speak for myself as an IFUT […]

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

Hot, fresh, sugary donuts are a tradition on the beach in Portugal. Never seen this alfarroba, carob flavour before! @ml #carob #alfarroba #Portugal #BolaDeBerlim

When exposed to #AI #hype or #doomerism (#critihype), look out for: L.ethality I.nevitability E.xeptionalism S.uperintelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKyNdZz3Vw

#transrights #harrypotter

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

My elementary school kid had a writing assignment. Completed on a Chromebook in GDocs. She "wrote" this paragraph in her essay. I call the city schools, asking why they have the ✨ Gemini button in the app they use for writing assignments. Contract w/ Google, school can't disable.

The only data centre I want is a Library. Pass it on. #library

Polls show most people believe in climate change, and think governments are not doing enough. Here are a few things that I think the ("western") public has *not* yet accepted: Feel free to add to the list 1) Air travel will have to be electrified ASAP, or largely go away 2) Sea travel will […]

My latest blog post is my first run at a generative AI policy for students. It's not what you think. I came up with a personal code of conduct first. I figure that, if I'm going to ask students to avoid genAI, I need to declare my own relationship to it […]

On peut le dire clairement maintenant : nous nous dirigeons vers l’un des événements thermiques les plus spectaculaires jamais observés en France tout mois confondus, totalement hors du champ statistique de ce qui a été connu jusqu’à présent en mai. C’est absolument délirant : 1/6

Maybe I SHOULD be one of those weirdos who make a huge noisy deal about using cash, then there'd be at least one relatively normal person among them (🦝 "Relatively normal" = standing outside a bank holding up a sign that says "We need to touch the things with mass and weight that we've spent […]

I'm reviewing the content and computational skills taught in a Research Data Skills module. #data #DataWrangling Apparently my knowledge of perl is pretty outdated nowadays. #perl #perl4datascience But am I crazy to want to teach them to use the *nix command line, and grep, awk and sed??? […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116334615705963746 US courts recently affirmed that only humans can hold copyright; generated works cannot be owned or licensed by anyone, even if a human directs or makes changes to the work. I assume the current version of Claude source code is heavily […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nrennie/116334792227438658 Neat visualisation of the frequency of 4-leaf covers. Can you find it easily? (for me anyway it really stands out at a single glance, although I have to zoom in to see the leaves...)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116301335883460046 This is quite true. And besides resilient to human damage, it is good against weather damage, and it is distributed in the sense of being local and in the hands of the population. Electricity can be removed as a tool of power and […]

I've been editing Wikiepedia for 20 years (and 1 month), averaging little more than one minor edit per year. And I'm a male. This month they are hosting **Celebrate Women** events to reduce gender-marginalisation, including tutorials, talks, and lots more […]

Yikes. Ideas on where to report this are welcome. Discussing babysitting on WhatsApp with another parent: should also pay for taxi home, but for a "schoolgirl that cycles" I'd cycle them back safe. But the AI model/predictive text kicked in, and twice suggested the word 'fucks' after […]

So, Boston or Berlin?

Procurement Before Prestige How audit rules and public infrastructure could break science’s publishing monopolies. An English version of my post for the Verfassungsblog from December 19, 2025. Scientific journals that feel straight out of 1665, prices that could come from a MrBeast […]