Puzzle: A + B = C Answers on a postcard #mastodaoine

RE: https://mastodon.social/@karelbrits/115434091142349480 #notthatjesus No, we don't follow that Jesus, we follow the Jesus of the old testament. "An eye for an eye" and none of that woke "turn the other cheek"

You lied on your job application. “Ten years experience as a communications engineer”, well you’ve had a phone nearly that long and you changed the oil on your honda once. You’ve been sent to troubleshoot a communications problem at company HQ. You open the door to the network closet and it’s a […]

Anyone looking for context on the Irish presidential election, here is everything you need to know: https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/messy-democracy-irelands-reshaped-presidency/ #aras2025

#aras25 #aras2025 #jimgavin #fiannafail

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/115435110241982234 Solid factual article from Le Monde. Notes that the presidency is "essentiellement honorifique"

There are spreadsheets #aras2025 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N9PxE0z7tDJ8ggNZ7Idy69N2JoyecvdIgX_ZZG4CjoM/edit?gid=0#gid=0

"Messy Democracy: Ireland’s Reshaped Presidency". My loooong (4,000+ words!) article on the story of Ireland's reinvented presidency, and the background to the 2025 #irishpresidentialelection #aras25 is now published in #bellacaledonia […]

People seem to feel "whom" is obsolete, but it would have improved this sentence: "Heather Humphreys, the Fine Gael candidate who polls suggest is behind in the race failed to land any knockout blows." #grammar

Maybe this sort of experience will mean the Gardaí will become a little less tolerant of the far right. https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/21/citywest-hotel-protest-public-order-gardai-at-scene/

2006: "Data is the new oil" 2025: "AI is the new microplastics"

Happy "Sarkozy is in jail" Day to those who celebrate. (see, Americans, this is how you do it) #France

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/115408786448263374 Lovely, the Trump-appointed head of NASA is playing Bezos off against Musk because SpaceX can't get their act together.

"Too many international students" is not a problem that exists. If for some reason you feel you just gotta to hand it to MAGA about problems in higher ed -- do not include this one.

#XKCD readers know what happened to #aws#xkcd... https://xkcd.com/908/

Contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait croire, la panne mondiale #aws ne va faire que confirmer le choix d’AWS. Parce que : 1. Ce n’est pas notre faute, c’est AWS. On ne peut rien faire. 2. Même Amazon est down, du coup, nous on a le droit aussi. 3. Les médias grand-public disent que "Internet […]

Prince Andrew says he will no longer use his titles, including Duke of York, after "discussion with the King.”

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LOL this is going to turn out well when your kinky ChatGPT chat gets uploaded to the cloud https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/14/openai-chatgpt-adult-erotic-content

Hydrogen is mostly bullshit - It's a terrible battery - It's a terrible vehicle fuel - It's a terrible heating fuel - It's hard to store & transport - It's low energy density The one thing Green Hydrogen is good for is replacing Grey Hydrogen as feedstock in industrial processes. Even there […]

@jbond It isn't intended to make sense to people with technical minds, it's intended to bamboozle the credulous. Like politicians, for example.

new ayn rand just dropped #argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes

The US is at a point now where a professor who got bullied by the far-right sends a message basically saying "Phew, we made it out of the country". It is worth reflecting on this for a minute.

Why? Beyond various personal animosities, a high level reason for this is to destroy sources of institutional power for their opponents: Media, universities, science, public health. Also, weakening government creates a vacuum, in which no one trusts anything, for authoritarianism to fill.

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/10/sam-altman-copyright-ai-sora-2-video-generator

Trump’s next target.

I listen to radio via streaming via scripts that run ffplay on the various URLs. Recently several stations have started playing adverts at the start, unless you've connected recently. I'm trying to see if wget-ing 45 secs of these URLs at the start of the session will avoid this. Main reason […]

Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @mariafarrell https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/

When the Savoy Ruled St. Patrick’s Street Ah, St. Patrick's Street before it became a pedestrian-friendly boulevard and when crossing the road meant taking your life in your hands and timing your dash between a parade of boxy saloons that all looked vaguely related to each other (hello, 1960s […]

One thing I like about #brightspace: I can import a calendar of events for a class/module, and if I change something, delete everything and reimport in a few clicks. Pattern: manage your data outside the web app, import easily, remain in control. All it needs is a calendar program outside that […]

I don't know how many children 2025 Nobel Laureate Mary Brunknow has, but this AP photo caption says "one of their daughters." If she has 2 kids she just raised the mean number of children for Nobel medicine winners from 0.8 to 0.9.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115338739959369197 Really surprised that #julialang is mentioned only once in the replies. Pretty close to hitting the three criteria.

FOX NEWS IDIOT: If you thought the masked "Former Antifa Member" Jesse Watters had on last week looked familiar, there's a reason for that... #OMG...He was also the masked "former gang member" and masked "Gaza resident" Watters had previously interviewed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817 Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry. "Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion." THANK YOU […]

What a tale for our times! The cancelee's redemptive account of how he was cancelled by allegedly false allegations of #MeToo-era sexual abuse, cancelled by defamation claims from former colleagues who allege that his allegations about their behaviour (including supporting his alleged victim in […]

I have often told myself that many of my best tweets, toots, skytes etc are the ones I write, think about, and then delete instead of sending. What I can't decide is whether the best thing about them is that they got deleted, or that I am deleting my best posts. (Inclined to favour the former)

Britain clearly has a problem with too many people going to university, and Badenoch proposes to change that. Imagine how much better off the UK would be, if Cameron, Osborne, Bojo, Gove et al had never gone to Oxford! […]

Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas? So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel […]

D’ici 5 ans, ChatGPT sera plus intelligent que la majorité des humains. De la majorité des humains qui auront passé 5 ans à utiliser ChatGPT.

The World’s Most Annoying Man https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/05/the-worlds-most-annoying-man

Fintan O'Toole at his excoriating best, putting the boot hard into Micheál Martin. Fianna Fáil's choice of #JimGavin was a badly botched attempt to "cut the presidency down to size" by selecting a man of little substance. Paywalled original […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I was thinking of #bluesky as not-Twitter, i.e., commercial but free of the RW nazi-adjacent stuff, & run by well-intentioned people. I was forgetting that it is a US-based VC-funded corp. I imagine there are all sorts of crazy pressures on it to buckle under MAGA rule, and that e.g., Charlie […]

Good news for Irish artists, musicians etc. https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/06/budget-2026-states-basic-income-scheme-for-artists-made-permanent/

[Northern Ireland, The Troubles] Hoo boy. The UVF carried out false flag attacks against Protestant civilians in the 1960s and 1970s, on the orders of Iran Paisley, to turn Protestants to the right and against any sort if détante or agreement with Catholics. The British Army knew what was going […]

Just to make sure, if I put a 1 next to [CC or HH] and then a 2 next to the other one, can I put €3,000 next to the remaining candidate without spoiling the first two preferences? #irishelection

Chris Van Hollen: "We want to re-open the government without giving Donald Trump a blank check to continue his lawless activities." Who says bluesky isn't influential. www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #socialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies." 🤔

## You did no fact checking, and I must scream https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/ I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]