A glossary for 2026: "Smart" - as in, smart devices - means "will spy on people for the enrichment of the oligarchs." "Intelligent" - artificial and/or general - means "will manipulate people for the benefit of the monopolies." "Language" - as in large, or models - you can fill in from here.

Lovely exhibition of street photography from around the world. Well worth dropped Charlemont Square in Dublin 2 to have a look.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... O’Sullivan warns of poor long-term planning for Ireland’s resilience today; contrasting it with how other states (eg, Norway) turned resources and policy into lasting national strength. Where is Ireland’s vision and what legacy are we leaving the next generation?

🔴📺 RDV ce soir à 19:10 dans The Debate sur @france24.com English autour de François Picard pour évoquer les conséquences énergétiques de la guerre en Iran.

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (20/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (19/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (18/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (17/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (16/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (15/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (14/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (13/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (12/20)

I’m convinced! youtu.be/6-W9ow4OL-Q?...

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (11/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (10/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (9/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (8/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (7/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (6/20)

People can be amazing!

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." - Capt. John Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satirical novel Catch-22 (1961) #Booksky #literature #quotes 🖋️📚

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (5/20)

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (4/20)

My kind of happiness

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (3/20)

I think we should normalise crediting artists for posters and graphics and so on in posts about our films & book projects, if not in the post itself than in the comments beneath. Does proper promo for their hard work & dispels any doubt that it's human made.

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (2/20)

Artemis II mission captures first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

If you enjoy the work of MC Escher and you 45 minutes to spare blow your mind by watching this: youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY?...

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (1/20)

I asked A.I. to complete my novel using my own writing style and it did my laundry, went shopping, cleaned the kitchen and spent the rest of the day dicking around online.

Good advice…

The Call for submissions to the annual IHA conference - Un/Silencing Healthcare: Voices, Power and Imagination has been extended to Thursday 16 April 2026. www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Written with love, and as much for the machines as for us... philiprosedale.substack.com/p/awakening-...

In episode 7, we reflect on ‘Metaliteracy and Digital Citizenship’ class over the years. Dr. Valerie Hill (Valibrarian in Second Life) examines how post-Gutenberg reality is shaping education. Generated by Google NotebookLM from content on virtualenvironmentsmodule.com pod.link/1826888323

‘Team Work and Collaboration’ the sixth episode of The Deep Dive podcast looks back on how team building and collaboration has been taught over the years on a TU Dublin module. The podcast is a conversation generated by Google NotebookLM based on www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com pod.link/1826888323

The fifth episode of The Deep Dive podcast is about how the professors and students took on the VWEC Student Challenge. Project Teams had Irish, Turkish and Romanian students working together, mentored by a professor who supported them · 14 minutes pod.link/1826888323 @aidenkenny.bsky.social

Here’s a video of the first episode of podcast ‘The Deep Dive’ exploring topics tackled in the class ‘Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?’ The module is offered by TU Dublin, taught exclusively Second Life. Podcast reflects on student engagement and conversations. youtu.be/WmL0c7-iAyU

🎧 Just launched a new podcast: The Deep Dive Based on my Second Life module “Virtual Environments: Is One Life Enough?” Topics include virtual identities, online communities – all drawn from student & guest insights since 2009. New eps every Wed (10–15 mins). 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This shocking tragedy almost destroyed a family. Support teir efforts to rebuild if you can gofund.me/a4c0bb3f

Speaking at Europe House in Dublin Minister Lawless gives his support to longer term financial support for Irish Universities in European Universities Initiative alliances #StrongerEuropeEUI

I've just signed this petition calling on the HSE to make the drug Pluvicto available to men with prostate cancer in Ireland. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/me...

Hugs and relief as replacement astronauts arrive following nine-month wait. Global cooperation and collaboration offers so much more opportunity for the human race than greed and violence www.thejournal.ie/nasa-strande...

Great piece on BBC website with lovely clips of Gene Hackman in his prime. RIP www.bbc.com/articles/c89...

Just sayin'

Meet the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland. St Brigid may have led the way, but other powerful, inspiring and influential women blazed a trail out of Kildare, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva @maynoothuni.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Deepseek shows us that Europe is approaching irrelevance in AI race Read: www.independent.ie/business/tec... Today's pod ep: www.independent.ie/podcasts/the...