A reminder that this person (ultra MAGA) was Johnny Depp's social media collaborator during his trial. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I'm calling on Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan to scrap plans that would force people to use a state-run Digital ID card to access social media. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/no... @uplift.ie #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm @tupped.bsky.social

What I look for most in a coding tool is for it to manipulate and gaslight me into total psychosis.

David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1

But they were all of them deceived.

Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.

I admire people who post claims that Bluesky is dead and who threaten to leave, but who turn out on rooting here to have posted only half a dozen times in 2025, the immediately previous one in late August. That they draw copious coaxing responses to their threat to leave impresses me still more.

"I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was." Narrow channel acts like a funnel, as the tide rises, water can surge at up to 7 knots/8 mph–which can knock waders down and sweep them out into the Bristol Channel. Difference between hi and lo tide can be ~40 feet.

Carrying water for generative ai is so wild to me like tech daddy doesn’t care and will never love you kiddo.

Klaus Unger himself (see supra) is being witty or at least sardonic in his letter today about the monstrosities at Wood Quay in Dublin, Ireland.

Wang Shishen 汪士慎 (1686-1759), October 1728: 每餐先备买鱼钱，曾记携归小似拳， 一自爪牙动黠鼠，傍人安稳卧青氊。 I set money aside for fish before each meal. She used to be no bigger than my hand -- Now with claw and tooth she routs the crafty rat, And drowses by her humans on her mat.

Their entire season will be Kevin Sorbo reading Charlie Kirk's effusions.

This one got to me. Good on this guy for finding a way to teach his kid some math.

Just driving past the Swedish embassy and remembrancing my wee old dad having a hissy fit in IKEA years ago because it was too late for breakfast. "They've got eggs and bacon and a frying pan back there, and I've got money; I don't see what the problem is?!"

In Al-Mawasi, Gaza's largest displacement camp west of Khan Younis, displaced people's tents have been blown away amid a new winter storm, compounding the already unbearable conditions.

Please enjoy this picture of a sheep I took today

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"It’s not about whether we say yes or no to AI, but rather whether we can deliver it in a smart, clean and safe way." In his next column, Eamon Ryan proposes building a SpaceX launchpad on the hill of Tara so Ireland can show the world it can embrace the future as well as the past. Óinseach

Watching a show in which Maya Rudolf plays a feckless billionaire and I was amused to see her handbag, which #SpeirGorm will recognise as the bag that helped sink a feckless presidential campaign

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

“There’s a responsible way to use AI” “There’s a responsible way to pay more for electricity, poison Black people, and encourage teens to kill themselves”

Good for the Journal, they’re fearless and incisive in their investigative reporting. This needs discussion, investigation by Gardaí and the people involved need to be prosecuted. There’s no way there isn’t an Irish connection in the whole sordid Epstein story.

I contributed to this review of our environmental performance in 2025 - despite some good news stories the headline indicators are still moving in the wrong direction. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

the only options available aren't either "4chan/predatory chat rooms" or AI "companions". we can demand better including spending resources on building communities, spaces for young people, and human professional support

I know the knee jerk impulse is to assume the men who use these apps will ignore real women but they won’t. These apps literally condition men to see women as objects, without agency, and that paired with the “male loneliness epidemic” is a ticking fucking time-bomb.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

a neat (and scary) survey into AI "companions" and kids www.aura.com/reports/stat... "nearly half of the time kids and teens use AI, it is for companionship, and when they do, the themes of discussion are primarily sexual, romantic, and violent."

If you like this map you should follow @mattfromlondon.bsky.social as he made it; a detail Mark neglected to highlight.

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

As I reposted this diagram it occurred to me that I’m sitting here reading a book that was printed 90 years ago, cost me almost nothing, and remains in perfectly good condition (albeit a bit faded and spotted). Not sure how much we are producing now that will still be useable in 90 years time.

Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI file770.com/erin-underwo... Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."

What choice do they or anyone else have? Sadly Government favour property class/landlords over those who need a home @judesherry.bsky.social & I will continue to make case for custodian squatting which along with compulsory sales & rental would transform housing situation #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

I know everyone is super concerned about ‘inciting terrorism,’ so why exactly is it okay for a Toronto Sun columnist to essentially say that violence is an appropriate response to anti-genocide protesters?

Good example in Empire of AI with psychosis. They internally predicted vulnerability among users and allowed it anyway. Another example with Meta and their AI policy for children. They have internal experiments showing these bots solicit kids as young as 8 and the legal team approved it anyways.

Treating Ms Rachel as some kind of monster is a truly amazing own goal: it makes it crystal clear to everyone who sees it that there is no form of objection that is acceptable, and the only permissible reactions to the genocide are acceptance, cheerleading or indifference.

Yes. He unfollowed me after I pointed out he’d posted something untrue. Again, not a great response. I don’t have a lot of truck with people who set themselves up as an authoritative news/information source & then just post things off the wires for clicks, often without attribution.

Hmm. A lot of folk I know follow Mark Chadbourn - chadbourn.bsky.social. I unfollowed a while back because I felt he shared a lot of stuff created by other people and rarely credited it to them. This morning he did it again with @mattfromlondon.bsky.social’s wondrous Anglo Saxon map. So….

40-70K for a keynote-type talk (typically no more than 60 minutes)?!? Ain't *nobody* that good. I guarantee you my keynotes are better than his, and I'm not even 5% of that, plus I include workshops and consulting 🙂 #JustSayin 🤷‍♂️

Welp. It was bound to happen. If you’re a WIRED subscriber, your personal data was likely exposed in a September breach from Condé Nast. Time to change your password.

Delighted to find it there! www.youtube.com/shorts/EbvIC...

They'll be lathering themselves in butter the length of the country.

Roman History is just a bunch of guys assuming what worked 50 years ago will work this time and then when it doesn’t they decide that what thy need to do is try something that worked 100 years ago

Ms. Rachel isn’t on this app much, but I’m convinced she’s Mr. Rogers incarnate. Or something close to that.

Thrilled to hear that this trial has gone so well for Jonatan & that he can stay on the medication indefinitely! Kudos also to his mother, Aneta, who has fought like a tiger for Jonatan always. I hope 2026 brings many more good things to the Safiak family!💖

In today's Irish Independent (by Ali Bracken) Jonatan is talking about his life after the official trial has come to an and. He is now on 'off label use' of this medication. If there is any of you who can support and/or repost 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/happy-life...

Which muppets are kosher

The Irish name for wolf is 'mac tíre' or 'son of the land'. The root words 'mac' & 'tír' are ancient and go back to Proto-Celtic or Proto-Indo-European. If you teach your kid 'mac tíre', they will be using words that reach back to prehistory! ❤️ #Gaeilge

I knew Bardot was controversial in her later years. I did not know that she was in court so frequently for racism that the prosecutors complained about how frequently they had to charge her.