@moderation.bsky.app has suppressed my Sweets of Sin post! To read the blog post that's too hot for Bluesky, please visit bloomsandbarnacles.com It's what James Joyce would want you to do #booksky

Ep. 162 - Quaker Librarian We discuss an especially an especially obscure passage of Ulysses and @animatewithdermot.bsky.social 's most obscure illustration #booksky

@moderation.bsky.app has suppressed my Sweets of Sin post! To read the blog post that's too hot for Bluesky, please visit bloomsandbarnacles.com It's what James Joyce would want you to do #booksky

New blog post -- Sweets of Sin On the influence of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs, and Victorian flagellation literature on Ulysses #booksky

Ep. 161 - Yogibogeybox If you'd like to know about the various uncouth antics of a young James Joyce and Oliver St. John Gogarty, we've got you covered. #booksky www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/episodes/ep-...

We're talking Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce's only story set outside of Dublin. We talk about the poetry of the work, how it influenced his later work, and of course the controversy surrounding this work Here's a preview. You can find the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast youtu.be/sshBjDtpf-o

Being on social media is fine but if it’s getting in the way of you doing deep reading and deep thinking, then your balance of how you spend your time is off Lots of interesting threads here and none of them are a substitute for reading a good book or essay

We're talking Giacomo Joyce, James Joyce's only story set outside of Dublin. We talk about the poetry of the work, how it influenced his later work, and of course the controversy surrounding this work Here's a preview. You can find the full episode at patreon.com/barnaclecast youtu.be/sshBjDtpf-o

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Episode 160: Anne Hath a Way Stephen Dedalus would have you think that Shakespeare's wife Anne was an Elizabethan Yoko Ono. Is he right? (Spoiler: No, he's not. Also, Yoko didn't break up the Beatles.) #booksky

The new tariffs are going to hit artists particularly hard if it means losing customers in the US, so I'd ask Irish people to please consider buying local, from Irish makers, where at all possible. Support that means little to a huge business makes a massive difference to small creators. We need ye.

New blog post: The Most Historic Spot in All Dublin In which we discuss the Geraldines, visiting buildings that don't exist, and why landlords suck. What do you think is the most historic spot in all Dublin? #booksky

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

We're so proud of our video about Ulysses and AI that we're pulling it out from behind the paywall for your perusal. Could an AI write Ulysses? Watch now at: youtu.be/lHVdjVLpLx0 #booksky

Aristotle and Joyce in one ep? That's a wild brain workout. My fave pun might be "I'm reading a book on anti-gravity... it's impossible to put down"

Ep. 159 - AEIOU We talk Aristotle and possibly Joyce's best pun. What's your favorite pun? #booksky www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/episodes/ep-...

Amazing stuff happening in the Chat GPT subreddit or right now.

One thing I wish Chat GPT could do is make me a list of reliable resources to aid in my research for the podcast. The last time I attempted this, 8/9 sources were hallucinated and unusable. See my video in the pinned post on my page. I thought I'd give GPT 5 a shot, in the interest of good faith:

I've figured out what those mangled maps of Ireland from chat gpt remind me of. I bought this bootleg copy of Brave New World when I was living in SE Asia because I really enjoyed the typo on the cover.

James Joyce’s words dance like music in my mind. His lyrical prose reminds me that art can take many forms. Each page is a note, creating a symphony of thought and emotion. 🎶✨ #books #booksky

New blog post: I tell the story of James Joyce's might-have-been music career #booksky

Inspired by @edzitron.com I generated a map of Ireland just now to see if it improved on the map we used in the our video. It's somehow worse with GPT 5 Anyway, I live in Canav now. Where do you live? #speirgorm

I love to live in the future ....

GPT 5 is here! I don't think I need to update the video...

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Being a Shakespeare junky, 'Scylla and Charybdis' is one of my favourite sections. Before this episode I'd never considered how Stephen's theory of unfaithful Anne Hathaway etc. applies just as much (if not more) to Bloom, Molly and Rudy... Plenty of food for thought!

We decided to brush up on Hamlet as we work our way through "Scylla and Charybdis" in our favorite way - watching a movie from the 1940's! We talk Shakespeare's Hamlet, Olivier's Hamlet, and way too much about Freud and the Oedipus Complex. Listen or watch now at patreon.com/barnaclecast

We're so proud of our video about Ulysses and AI that we're pulling it out from behind the paywall for your perusal. Could an AI write Ulysses? Watch now at: youtu.be/lHVdjVLpLx0 #booksky

Ep. 158 - Hamnet We discuss how Shakespearean criticism has evolved over the centuries, and of course, what this tells us about Stephen Dedalus' theory of Hamlet. #booksky

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

AI Keynes is not the real John Maynard Keynes and it knows nothing about what he thought, etc.

New blog post: everything you ever wanted to know, and probably some things you didn't, about Father Conmee's appearance in Ulysses

google's AI has started suggesting entire emails for me to send back to people and every single one of them has had a major factual error. as in it'll be an email about meeting up with someone and it will invent where i live or say i work somewhere i dont work, etc

New podcast! Ep. 157 - The Absentminded Beggar Stephen Dedalus warns about propaganda in the poetry of Kipling, Swinburne, and Shakespeare. #booksky

paradox, you say

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

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June bonus episode: Could an AI write Ulysses? Listen to an expanded version of our Bloomsday talk, available now on patreon.com/barnaclecast

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"I asked ChatGPT" ok well I asked myself what I'm doing associating with a wet wipe who would do such a thing

Is Ireland the only country where you get chips and has brown with your breakfast?

Join us at The James Joyce Centre for a special Bloomsday live podcast recording that tries to answer a question that could not be more topical: Could an AI write Ulysses? 6.30pm today Tickets: tinyurl.com/47sfcvfd #bloomsday

LIVE SHOW THIS MONDAY! Come see us live on Bloomsday at the @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social in person or on livestream Tickets for both are available at the link: www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/blooms...

It's been so easy to go about my life not asking chat gpt a single question. Real weird for people to act like they need it for literally anything.

Come hear me and @animatewithdermot.bsky.social talk about Ulysses and AI on Bloomsday!

Come see us live on Bloomsday at the Joyce Centre in Dublin! We're talking AI and Joyce. Can't make it in person? You can also watch via livestream: www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/blooms... #booksky #speirgorm

Bloomsday 2025 Live Show Announcement! Could a chatbot become the 21st century's James Joyce? Maybe not, but could AI at least help us analyse and understand Joyce's work better? We'll be talking about Joyce and AI at the @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social on 16 June. Tickets and info at the link below

Ep. 156 - Horseness is the Whatness of Allhorse We're keeping this episode strictly Platonic. We dig into Stephen's thoughts on the swirling maelstrom of Plato's philosophy as it appears in Ulysses #booksky