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Can seem silly to feel sad about the passing of celebrities you didn't know but I am cos Catherine O'Hara brought a lot of laughs and fun into my life and she was a proper old-school star who traded only on talent and hard work and seemed so lovely too Definitely not the obit I wanted to read today

🌞 Day-O Dance 💃🕺 Beetlejuice 🪲

There's tons in Catherine's oeuvre that will make you laugh out loud but Best In Show might be one that's often overlooked. But it's a gem and she is the best thing in it.

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Catherine O'Hara cannot die. Catherine O'Hara is eternal. I refuse to accept any other reality.

CSAM generator coming to a stock market near you

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Catching up on this. This is essential listening to try understand flooding and rivers and nature. And yes, it mentions the biggest problem in Ireland: the lack of trees and the amount of land used for agriculture. If only people/Gov listened to actual scientists instead of blaming Met Eireann.

You can tell neither Ireland nor Australia have done any sort of studies on this subject, or talked to teenagers, or even considered the negative impact this will have for teens whose support systems are outside their family home. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

The Gov are going to offer AI training modules before long (UK are doing it already) & there's gonna be loads of big tech firms BEGGING to be the ones to offer the trainings because...they just love educating people! Like how we outsourced our CS education to Google for years, they're just altruists

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

A thorough, and entertaining, review of the UK government's AI Skills Hub. TLDR: The state of this yoke.

This interview with @megafloods.bsky.social on the Storm Chandra flooding pulls no punches and is so refreshing to listen to. There are no quick fixes, but there are obvious, evidence-based steps. Follow the science! (Which told us decades ago that this would happen.) pca.st/episode/47c0...

"The main message that came through from the experts we spoke to was simple: it is essential to impose limits on who can see any images you post of your children online." I shared some tips for this piece: www.thejournal.ie/grok-protect...

Desperate to keep feeding coins into their LLM slot machine.

I guarantee that not that long ago the victims of these data grabs were thinking "sure what have I got to hide?" or "what's the harm?" whenever they encountered warnings about the insidious nature of tech's vast data profiling. We need to cop on with data privacy.

Hard to imagine a more morally damning headline. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Great to be back in action

I recently learned about the EU's push for a shared digital commons in a shift towards tech sovereignty. Thanks to @colinkeogh.bsky.social and @jmip.bsky.social for their insights. Read the full article here: www.businesspost.ie/tech/how-iri...

Back in studio with @charlietaylor.bsky.social for a new series of the Connected AI Podcast – coming soon!

so much for the surge in creamy beamies

#StormChandra 🚗 Drive through water slowly, avoid a bow wave 💧 test your brakes when you leave the water 👀 Watch out for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users who may be avoiding standing water ☔ Avoid entering any water if you are unsure of its depth 📸 Rathfarnham this morning

Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".

A senior colleague of mine from Europe was invited to speak at a scientific meeting in California next week. He has just cancelled the trip citing that he cannot bear to come here in the present climate.

On-air soon!

ICYMI, there was news late last week on TikTok's new US entity. I was called up by Morning Ireland to explain: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

When the intensity of parasocial relationships and the ramifications of our broken information ecosystem collide...

Dublin Bus are offering €15,000 for innovative ideas on how to improve their services www.dublinbus.ie/press-releas...

Ireland! We only need 4,000 more signatures to pass our threshold. C'mon!! @ipsc.bsky.social @kneecapceol.bsky.social 🇵🇸🇮🇪✊

Starstruck to feature alongside @alisonspittle.bsky.social and the voice of the train announcements in this beautiful audio story by @sioframulqueen.bsky.social for @rteradio1.bsky.social. 🤩 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I was grateful to be given a lot of time and space to go off on my push for intentional tech use, returning to being active and not passive users, in this segment with Laura Fox. If you're thinking of dumping devices or platforms, try listening to this first: www.rte.ie/radio/2fm/cl...

Reach out and scrub stains

*Record scratch* So… does that mean that I am entitled to a cut of OpenAI’s revenue derived from the use of my IP in their training data, perhaps through some form of right to control who can copy my work and a mechanism for me to grant a license in exchange for that cut of revenue? Am I Royalties?

I'm reading about the world's first business computer and learning that they had a better understanding of the limitations of automation back then. Source: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-...

While you wait for new episodes from us, why not check out our guest appearances on some other shows such as ESB's Re:Energise podcast, where @elaineburke.bsky.social came on to discuss e-waste, the environmental impact of AI, and sustainability: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_D...

They’re still killing journalists in Gaza. The horrors and war crimes have not stopped.

The Social Media giants need to be accountable. Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.

He has escaped the Pound coin

On 2FM shortly talking about one of my favourite things: making your tech use more intentional.

I was at Webwise's teen ambassador training day yesterday and the kids had great questions around AI, privacy, education, creativity and the environment. I only wish the adults in the room had better answers for them. We owe them that.

The latest from Coolock's finest: kellysrubbish.substack.com/p/not-the-co...

Old people stop whining about how young people use language challenge

Breaking news: Cow tools www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-too...

How can we end homelessness when our proposed solutions are deemed unattainable? Last week, our Executive Director wrote a letter to the editor of the Irish Times commenting on the housing crisis in Ireland and it's impact on people experiencing homelessness & housing insecurity 🏘️ 🧵 1/4 #Spéirgorm

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because