I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:
It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!
Such a failure of leadership that people see "banning kids is" seen as a more realistic option than "make the companies stop destroying the world"
'Just 20 percent of adults accounted for more than 80 percent of all books read last year....But the people devoted to text, who derive cultural understanding and intellectual connection from the written word, are now part of a subculture.' Curious kids know everything, incurious kids know nothing
Never been a fan of Metallica nor their music but credit where it's due. Giving blood is extremely metal. www.giveblood.ie/campaigns/me...
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Metallica teams up with Irish Blood Transfusion Service to encourage fans to give blood and save lives.
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I’m not expert enough to tell you who lobbied for the security priority, or what it actually means. But I am near certain no member of the Government birthed it like Athena from their brow.
Whenever I hear Rory Sutherland speak nowadays it sounds like he's describing our economics more broadly.
When you realize that all they care about is the appearance of passable output and not about process, or learning, or knowledge, or integrity, the fact that we’re inside a culture held captive by the worst grifters suddenly doesn’t seem so surprising.
If anyone would like to see a photo of a cat that appears to be running very low on toner, then this is your lucky day. #Caturday
Today's date features in Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," "It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, Delta day." Here she is, live at the BBC in 1968: youtu.be/HaRacIzZSPo?...
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968)
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🦊 “Longbridge Foxes” — By Annatomix in Longbridge, Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧 Underpasses That Became Secret Art Worlds (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/05/23/u...
Or the library worker who wasted time looking for the nonexistent journal article or book AI confabulated
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3mo agopeople are sending me important memes
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
People who think summary execution is an appropriate response to petty theft are unfit to participate in civilised society
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
New rule. We don't get to use buildings as a measure of progress on homelessness. We already have more derelict/vacant buildings and empty short term lets than homeless people. The only acceptable metric for progress on homelessness is a reduction in homelessness figures #spéirgorm
RTÉ@rte.ie · 3mo agoThe Taoiseach has admitted that housing costs are still too high for many people, but insisted that the Government was making progress on the building of social, affordable, and private housing. https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2026/0516/1573629-fianna-fail-ard-fheis/
This is such a shame! This is an incredible cafe & a wonderful business. I think those involved in the EU Presidency must protect this business as they use Dublin Castle and the Chester Beatty over the next 6 months
IanMoore3000@ianmoore3000.bsky.social · 3mo agoSilk Road Cafe to close for at least six months, possibly forever. www.thejournal.ie/silk-road-ca...
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job
The narrative of “x technology is here so you should not resist it” is one pushed only by the owners of that technology. A great many technologies which challenge power have been strangled in the crib by those same owners. Do not trust them and do not believe their lies.
Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 3mo agoChloé Zhao nodding along, ladies and gentlemen