Ryan Kelly
@ryandelarge.bsky.social
Writer and editor. https://nothingiswritten.blog/
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every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
My brother Paddy lived his short life in an endless vortex of uncertainty and upheaval, yet he continuously issued declarations of resilience and optimism, right up to the week of his death. These are my reflections on what would have been his 30th birthday. nothingiswritten.blog/2026/06/01/r...
Reflections on Paddy’s 30th birthday
From the moment our mother died, my brother Paddy lived his short life in an endless vortex of uncertainty and upheaval, yet he continuously issued declarations of resilience and optimism, right up…
nothingiswritten.blog
"Of course, while Musk and co. are busy railing against Nolan’s casting decisions, institutes of higher education across the Western world are busy shutting down departments and programmes in classical literature and cognate disciplines." jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...
Be honest, you don't really care about Homer or classical literature
I will believe you actually care about Homer when you fight for a classics department.
jamescosullivan.substack.com
A look back at the time Roy Keane characteristically took a handshake snub from Ronaldo Nazario and Diego Simeone in his stride. A much-memed moment of 'football heritage' from the 1990s. www.goal.com/en/news/roy-...
'Roy Keane waits for no one' - Story behind legendary Man Utd skipper's handshake snub of Ronaldo and Diego Simeone in Champions League clash with Inter | Goal.com
GOAL remembers Roy Keane's cool-headed response to the 'Dark Arts' of Diego Simeone and Ronaldo during a Champions League quarter-final clash between Manchester United and Inter in 1999
goal.com
Consistently one of the best-performing articles on GOAL, this page of football quiz questions initially began life as the best 50 quiz Qs & As before expanding to 100. A useful resource for quizmasters and quizzers alike, I hope - & great fun to execute! www.goal.com/en/news/best...
Best 100 football quiz questions, trivia and answers | Goal.com
GOAL brings you 100 of the best football quiz questions to bamboozle even the brightest football brains.
goal.com
Ah, good old 'AI'. An excuse for businesses to chop loads of jobs AND a way to exploit those same vulnerable workers when they seek new employment. Great work, guys! www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...
AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them
Fraudsters are using the promise of fake roles to trick job-seekers out of money, personal information or both, and with the help of AI they are more convincing than ever. But there are ways to spot t...
theguardian.com
Billions being forked out for tools that "may not work as intended". It's paying over the odds for a car with no doors that might take you from A to G sometimes instead of A to B every time. Great work guys! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.
tomshardware.com
These aggressively hyped-up tools have been available for years & they're still hopelessly unreliable. Why keep using them? Unfortunately, a lot of stuff is still mindlessly waved through by injudicious editors - even those at supposedly top-tier publications. They should be embarrassed & ashamed.
Futurism@futurism.com · 7mo agoKeep that slop outta here.
"Won't see the golden of the sun when I'm gone And the evenings and the mornings will be one when I'm gone Can't be singing louder than the guns while I'm gone So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here" The great Phil Ochs - 'When I'm Gone'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVB...
When I'm Gone
YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic
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8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.
Shorts: Animated Shorts curated by Whoopi G | 2026 Tribeca Festival | Tribeca
Tribecafilm.com: Home of the 2026 Tribeca Festival
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y agoFor those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵
"But with the Carpenter On the seat Way up in the Capitol town The USA Be on the way Prosperity bound" In light of recent nonsense around Trump, Christ and a doctor, it's worth listening to Billy Bragg & Wilco (inspired by Woody Guthrie). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v17g...
Christ For President
YouTube video by Billy Bragg - Topic
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If you needed a reminder that time is a flat circle, here is the great Bill Bryson, in a book published 32 years ago, highlighting the classic pattern of demonising and pulling up the ladder on immigrants. On and on it goes.
🧵✍️ Here is a collection of different articles I have written over the years, from match reports and miscellaneous football pieces to blog posts about personal loss, politics and social issues. 👇 (shares etc. appreciated)
🧵✍️ Here is a collection of different articles I have written over the years, from match reports and miscellaneous football pieces to blog posts about personal loss, politics and social issues. 👇 (shares etc. appreciated)
"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."
List of oracular statements from Delphi - Wikipedia
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George Pearkes@peark.es · 6mo agoGibberish closely related to war crimes
Billions being forked out for tools that "may not work as intended". It's paying over the odds for a car with no doors that might take you from A to G sometimes instead of A to B every time. Great work guys! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.
tomshardware.com
These aggressively hyped-up tools have been available for years & they're still hopelessly unreliable. Why keep using them? Unfortunately, a lot of stuff is still mindlessly waved through by injudicious editors - even those at supposedly top-tier publications. They should be embarrassed & ashamed.
Futurism@futurism.com · 7mo agoKeep that slop outta here.
"Groups of people actually produce fewer ideas when using LLMs compared to when they are simply tasked with collaborating and bouncing ideas off of each other." gizmodo.com/researchers-...
Researchers Say AI Is Homogenizing Human Expression and Thought
For a
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You have to go back to June 2011 to find the last time Ireland won four games in a row. G. Trapattoni's team beat N. Ireland (5-0) & Scotland (1-0) in the 'Carling Nations Cup', then defeated Macedonia, as they were then, in a Euro 2012 qualifier (2-0) before beating Italy 2-0 in a friendly game.
"...a central conceit that plagues the whole AI field: a gross overestimation of the value of intelligence by itself to solve problems." www.persuasion.community/p/ai-cant-de...
What AI Hypists Miss
These systems still struggle with implementing real world solutions.
persuasion.community
"However discerning the humans behind these endeavors fancy themselves to be, A.I. remains a fundamentally tasteless technology." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
A.I. companies are attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality. But has the online ecosystem become so polluted that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all?
newyorker.com
“The cafés of San Francisco are full of highly paid tech workers clattering away on their keyboards; if you peer at their screens to get a closer look, you’ll generally find them copying and pasting material from a ChatGPT window.” —Sam Kriss
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
buff.ly
I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:
“BUY THIS BOOK AT ONCE AND HAVE A NICE DAY” Not only is Bill Bryson’s ‘Made in America’ a wonderfully illuminating book on American history and linguistics (in fact it should be required reading in the USA), the back cover of the 1998 Black Swan edition has great advice.
Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨ bansheepress.org/submit
Submit — Banshee Press
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Today’s podcast with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the incredible story of Labour Together Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5tkr... Listen on Apple podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/f... Sign up for updates via freestatepodcast.com
Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre and Unprecedented - The End of Keir Starmer
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