@drspacejunk.bsky.social on preserving the ISS www.iflscience.com/what-if-we-d...

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Friends! Do you teach/ design assessments in humanities subjects that tend to engage writing as a form of assessment? Have you been exploring new ways of doing this in an age of ChatGPT rather than returning to exams? If you would like to share your experiences in UL in April, please let me know!

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

California sues websites that publish blueprints for 3D printer ghost guns California law enforcement agencies seize about 11,000 ghost guns every year. The state now is suing websites that help people manufacture untraceable firearms.

Progress on rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Mackintosh building could be decided by an insurance arbitration hearing next month

All academics should read this asap, it’s comedy gold:

One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about. Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards. From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:

This is straight up “IBM in the 1930s”

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m such a sucker for pop art crochet patterns www.etsy.com/listing/4369...

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

I legit don’t know if I will ever get past this ad I saw walking to an appt this morning in soho. And yes, it’s a company that uses human sounding AI voice bots to take over your customer service calls.

"Hayao Miyazaki in Model Magazines", a new book compiling 40 years of interviews with Miyazaki from the magazines Model Graphics, Armor Modeling, and Scale Aviation. >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

The greatest joy in my life as an academic is being asked this type of question

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

A fantastic screening yesterday evening of ‘Designing from Home’, a short film about the designer FHK Henrion, followed by a discussion with directors Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell.

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

The Ancient Artefacts of Blake's 7 #005 'The Way Back' A tentative one, this. I think this is another Mario Bellini design - the Olivetti Divisumma 18, from 1973. I think it's been 'repurposed' for television.

‘A big new survey of executives in America, Australia, Britain and Germany… shows that almost three-quarters of businesses are using AI in some way. Yet 86% of bosses across these four countries report the technology has had no impact on labour productivity over the past three years’

Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.

Micheál Martin has been a TD for 37 years. He’s been in government for 25 of those years and in cabinet for 20 of those years. He’s been either Tánaiste or Taoiseach since June 2020. And every time he’s asked to anything other than build a data centre, he acts like he’s just been handed the job

Judith Butler warns world is ‘witnessing restoration of patriarchy and racism www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/j...

For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.

30/365 of an edit a day on @wikipedia.org Playing catch up, adding a line to the article on Nenagh about a former aluminium business that operated there for over 70 years (I know about it as I bought the teapot pictured a few years ago): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenagh#...

With each COVID infection, your brain's gray matter deteriorates 2-3%. The average American has had approximately five infections. If you think people are getting stupider, it's not your imagination.

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

The OPW and Dublin Bowie Festival presents Bowie Unframed, an exhibition featuring photographs by internationally acclaimed French photographer Philippe Auliac. The exhibition will showcase many extraordinary images of Bowie, including a selection of never-seen-before photographs.

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive

Kind of obvious this is on the horizon but no sense it’s a discussion in Ireland (as far as I can tell).

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?" Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

Our Annual MacCurtain/Cullen prize is now open for entries. The competition is open to current or recent BA or MA/MPhil students. closing date for entries is 1 March 2026. womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/

Ireland can’t claim to be The Greatest Country in the World, but if you have diabetes here, you qualify for the HSE’s Long-Term Illness Scheme, which provides insulin for *free*. The scheme is not means tested. It might count as socialism though, so some in the US might find it offensive.

So we have figures now. Grok created and shared 1.8m sexualised images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X. Overall, the Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4m images — 41% were sexualised images of women www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

The plague of Bath Corgis. I just found a useful public information booklet. Presumably made by the government in the 10 year olds room.

“The Garfield phones washed ashore as though they had been given away en masse by one of France’s older relatives in a flurry of downsizing. Did anyone on the Iroise Coast ask for this? No. Do they need them? Not really. Are they cute? Bien sûr.” www.wrong-house.com/p/everything...

weird i must've been out sick when they first asked for permission to fuck up the power grid

I wrote about the emotional tidal wave of The Great Stuff Transfer for the latest issue of Wrong House, and got to interview great brains Glenn Adamson, Laura Doyle and Michael Diaz-Griffith. It begins with a mystery: www.wrong-house.com/p/everything...

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

CfP #24: Teaching Design Histories. Pedagogy, Knowledges, and Methods in Design History Studies www.aisdesign.org/ser/index.ph...