There is a small minority of English people who want this debate, unfortunately they are all columnists.

If I walked in to a toilet and someone was at the sink going "WHAT IS YOUR SEX?" to me I'd call the police because this person is obviously having an episode and is a danger to herself and others.

Today is World Environment Day but in short order we've been hit by news of a new major fish kill, taken to court by EU over continued illegal turf cutting, singled out as UN example of what not to do when it comes to data centres & falling short on climate action targets We can do better than this

Media everywhere is still absolutely determined to do free marketing for these lads. As long as it keeps being repeated unquestioningly they're going to keep saying it.

Apparently it’s more dishonest to write about facial-recognition code embedded in software distributed to tens of millions of people than it is to embed it there in the first place.

our greatest business minds learning in real time that revenue - costs = profit

Oh wow it's almost like politicians have been cynically using 'rural ireland' as cover for shitty politics and should never have been taken at their word about the death/nail in the coffin/last straw/end... Etc of rural Ireland. This will be of no surprise to anybody from a rural area

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

Q. Are we not men? A. We are pro-sex! youtu.be/M0Cktujzcyk

The week Ireland's Department of Enterprise published a report they commissioned KPMG to author, titled The Value of Data Centres to Ireland.

Wrote this on Southampton and the 'creator economy', in case you're interested www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-th...

the video game industry is ~3x as big as film but is treated as niche, so bosses can get away with shit like "fire half of everyone"

The answer is all too obvious; Labour has not appointed its sole, respected technology professional, Chi Onwurah, to a tech-related ministry because her independent professional expertise means she <knows> about tech, how it works, who it can but does work for, and how to tell when its lobbyists lie

A racist instigates a race riot on BBC and receives no pushback, other racists conduct a race riot and get fawning coverage in the UK papers, while non-white Brits with left-wing politics are excluded from the BBC and left-wing protests are demonised in the media. This is a two-tiered society

'These are our numbers, and if you don't like them we have others.'

In other words, the transport minister admits that he outsources transport policy to the transport industry. In exactly the same way that he outsourced housing policy to the property development industry.

Well this screams “getting ahead of the story” openai.com/index/our-vi...

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

In other news, a large number of security experts were among the thousands laid off by #Meta last month.

The author of this column, Susanna Rustin,was described to me by Guardian staffers as a “militant and obsessive anti-trans activist" in 2021.

Reminder that the Polari Prize tanked its reputation for this guy 🙃

Says the country with “Lord Lebedev of Siberia” awarded a life peerage by the PM who went against the advice of security services when appointing him 😆

Literally not a single data point of evidence worldwide that pandering to the right works to win votes but so many nominally centre left party are Arrested Development memeing it

Jim O'Callaghan doing the biggest "but when I do it, it's cute :(" of all time right now

I'm not looking forward to the clearly imminent declaration in the US that critical views of oligarchic, fascism-serving technologies are extremist views and that those who hold them should to be criminalised. The criminalisation of critical tech politics is so very clearly in the post.

this is what Twitter is for now, this is what you legitimize by posting there

Interesting the grace period allowed to the overpaid former ministers & that their agreement is sought. No such leniency shown to those on carers or disability payments, even when the overpayment is entirely the departments fault. €62,000 is around 5x the annual Disability Allowance. #spéirgorm

Again, these lads were labelling people "Putin's puppets" at the drop of hat, but if we're suppying Russia materials to wage their war on Ukraine, well that's different.

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer

Less than one hour between these two stories.

Tony Blair has been hoisted from his burrow and presented to the crowd. Legend has it that if Tony Blair sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of an illegal war in the Middle East

And governments wonder why cybersecurity and data protection experts raise concerns about age verification platforms

This is the Irish state operating at the level of a cunning 12 year old. 'Well actually we've invented our own definition so none of the stuff we don't like applies to what we're doing.' Sadly this is not an infrequent occurence when the state encounters any restrictions on its behaviour.

Leo Varadkar spent a startling amount of his department's money on his "Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All" campaign which played a significant role in securing him leadership of his party. Jimbob O'Callaghan is doing exactly the same thing with these flights.

"The researchers noted that one anonymous US-based account on X and Facebook, Real Irish News, “was responsible for 21% of incidents recorded in this byelection analysis”.

Beyond all the bluster, the Irish government is asking us to believe it is legally and morally sound to facilitate an Israeli settler renting out a property built on land stolen from a Palestinian while recognising it's wrong to allow the sale of an orange from that same land. It's rank hypocrisy.

Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.

So hot in France right now they’ve just run out of colours

I've joked about being uncomfortable about the the way Tech Bro's have pushed me into Team Pope v's Team Tech. The papal encyclical is a good reminder that I'm not team pope. This is a deeply conservative document. It is a well designed trap for liberals who are pissed off with AI boosting 1/

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

In the US, it was the technological creation of the modern cotton gin that accelerated the Transatlantic slave trade — from 700k enslaved Black Americans in 1790 to 3.2 million in 1850. It upsets AI enthusiasts when I point to this history as offering a lesson for technology today.

Did you know if you want to own your own shop and live above it, Irish banks consider that two strikes against you and deny your mortgage application. Ask me how I know! I don’t think this remedies that, this is for landlords. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

who in their right minds goes "oh you plebs aren't evolved enough to understand ai" in response to the growing backlash against ai

It's all over now but it's been amusing to imagine Ron Howard's narrator voice saying "Bertie Ahern" after every update during the day about Fianna Fáil's *difficulties* in Dublin Central.

A very useful way of understanding modern policymaking is to think of it as the result of an endless series of group chats incubating bad ideas