I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

Is that a lot? That sounds like a lot.

OpenAI is an evil corporation. The reports about suicides (plural!) related to ChatGPT are absolutely harrowing.

2 Big 2 Short

I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination". Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent. Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it. But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...

It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition. #SpéirGorm #ClimateChange

Airbnb operators are extracting wealth from *spare housing* during a *housing crisis*. They should be social pariahs.

Data centres are to energy as Airbnbs are to housing. They devour the supply, inflate the costs, and destabilise the entire system. Societal vampires.

So it turns out Irish politics is just three Ivan Yateses in a trenchcoat. I'm not even mad. This unifying theory actually brings me some peace.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously? It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.

The FFG response to heavily losing an election to a compassionate person is to lean into that tiny racist spoiled vote? Losers.

If any local communities in Ireland can delay these data centres as long as possible, through whatever means, then the imminent bursting of the AI bubble will make the data centres no longer viable, solving the issue. Delay. Object. Appeal. Annoy.

A peak behind the Iron Curtain. (Co. Clare, circa 1990)

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa. Black River — near total destruction.

What's the brighter side?

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication? It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

Mary MaAleese was from the North, had never been elected before - was an academic. As much of an outsider as you can get really. She got two terms no bother - the system is fine

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

I have a feeling our new Uachtarán is a @martylyricfm.bsky.social in the Morning listener.

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

As major hurricane #Melissa passes over #Jamaica - moving painfully slow - it will dump biblical rainfall on the island, super-charged by both the rugged mountains and coincidentally the hottest water in all the Carbbean right now (88-89F) focused specifically around the island… 1/

Every time a pundit says ‘woke’ they should be asked to define it. On the spot before anyone can move on with the discussion. Every single time

“Aontú has sacked the leader of its youth wing and dismissed five other members after it learnt of the existence of ­secret WhatsApp groups where some Ógra Aontú members posted racist and antisemitic comments.” Be warned, the messages detailed in this article are absolutely vile.

Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Intermediate Advisory Number 19a issued at Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:33:40 +0000 ...MELISSA RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING... ...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF JAMAICA AND SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA THROU... Additional Details Here.

Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.

Irish media not being able to help themselves today!!! #Aras25 #speirgorm

This 10-year-old concrete Communist tower block is crumbling, water is seeping in, the lifts break down, and its residents worry about their creaking apartments... Oh no, wait! Sorry. It's capitalism, so let's luxury-code the article.

This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!

Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram. European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

Forget? never.

Shock in Brussels and outrage across civil society. This story is not going away. euobserver.com/digital/ar6c...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

What a graph 👇 "English-speaking countries have fared far worse at increasing housing supply than other developed nations, and have generally seen steeper price rises..."

I know they're trying to #SmearTheBejaysis out of her, but isn't the ability to carry out your legal duty professionally and objectively - in spite your personal or political beliefs - pretty much *exactly* the kind of quality that's needed in an Irish President? #Áras25

Us too, Humpty. Us too.

Vaccines are an effective way to reduce the risk and burden of winter hospital admissions, heart failure and stroke, writes Professor Rónán Collins. jrnl.ie/6843922

The pyrotechnics going off as Prendergast kicked the consolation conversion in front of a near-empty Croke Park was 👌 #LeiVMun

I’ve a piece in the Financial Times magazine about the stuff I’ve learned from singing sessions www.ft.com/content/3954...

Some ~500,000 peer-reviewed journal articles later, there’s simply no excuse to not protect the public, especially those who count on responsible adults to keep them safe. Kids deserve better so we need to do better. Actions over excuses. 😷 💉 🪟💨

Ah, retail jobs. I worked at the meat and fish counter of a supermarket my first year of college. A customer once reported me to the manager because she asked me if her cat would like a particular piece of fish, and completely earnestly, I replied: ‘I don’t know your cat’.