Not sure why both The Guardian and subsequently The Irish Examiner felt this was worth an article.

Nearly €190 to take five people to the panto at the Everyman in 2026. That includes a family ticket… #Cork #Speirgorm

Richie on the ball

This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.

You love to see it. NIMBYS defeated. #Cork www.irishexaminer.com/property/dev...

Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

Wow they really are scared of how much people hate their crap

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

The predatory advance of surveillance pricing ft.trib.al/qLH6yCf | opinion

It's frustrating because electric cars can theoretically be absolutely any form factor. Not limited by drivetrain or engine etc. but they keep making them look like 2000s KDE icons

I still don’t understand why a small country like Ireland feels it needs such a dense concentration of airports. #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

Beautiful blue sky, everywhere calm and quiet, And then, a camera laden drone loudly buzzes across the sky delivering a cup of coffee and scorching the silence. #Speirgorm

A quick new blog for you all: Anthropic's dirty deal with Elon Musk is not surprising because (a) Anthropic already openly loves pollution-based computer buildings (b) Colossus is VERY far from the worst; the whole industry is moving to gross, bloated megaprojects ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

An independent think-tank has found that nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically deprived communities. The greater Dublin area is home to 97 active or planned data centres and Tasc has launched an online map with the location of these data centres. jrnl.ie/7047279

For years the Gardaí refused my requests for information on the type of road users injured in accidents in Galway. It was a nonsense GDPR answer. This infomation is now available on the RSA website at www.rsa.ie/road-safety/... Not surprising that most serious injuries are to pedestrians.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

Using phones at seated concerts is like yawning or farting m.independent.ie/business/tec...

Totally bonkers. The water is so dirty the beach is regularly closed and these people are worried about the aesthetics of a treatment plant? #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

“Versions of this application have now been rejected several times. It is our hope that this decision now marks a conclusion to the matter.” www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Hope this helps!

I am willing to be proven wrong in my Luddite ways but it seems like at this point we should have seen a short film or song or book made by AI that’s genuinely good, it feels like I’ve heard people squawking that within six months it’s coming for at least two years

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Just when I’d become desensitised to Moynihan’s curmudgeonly reactions to any attempts at progress or change in #Cork, I’m blown off my chair by this. He would complain a modern building would look like a glass cage #speirgorm

Culper Research, one of the better activist short firms, alleges that #$NVDA is illegally selling $30 bln/year in chips to China via a third party and that Jensen Huang is involved. Good report on Nvidia. Will it matter? TBD

"Unlike a lot of other meetings with Mr. Musk, this was, like, a good vibes meeting," says Altman of one particularly late-night meeting. "He was excited about the progress in the company. [...] And then it was a long conversation about him showing us memes on his phone."

fascinated by this collision between half-cooked automation and america's longstanding obsession with performative efficiency artifice

"The idea that Trump would negotiate AI guardrails with China is as real as a chatbot’s hallucination. AI’s ace card with Trump is that its valuations fuel the stock market. There is thus a near-zero chance that he will permit serious regulation as president." My column. as.ft.com/r/c634b2eb-a...

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

same mistakes by the EU as done by others. Don't ban it, enforce your regulations properly

Claims that Re-Turn is forcing most people to make "extra car trips" are painfully silly irishcycle.com/2025/08/07/c...

recently Marc Cuban told Alex Kantrowitz he thought OpenAI's capex investment would "never" pay off and that Apple is the genius / winner of this wave of AI because they're just going to license whatever works

I have a copy of this, the true map of Ireland.

Microsoft and G42 were planning to build a data center in Kenya, but it wanted the Kenyan government to guarantee it would pay for a certain amount of cloud capacity annually. When the Kenyan government refused, Microsoft pulled the project. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To Bishopstown! #cork #speirgorm

The North East ward Local Area Committee that Ken was once a member of — is currently considering how to fund resurfacing of the car park for 15 vehicles at Mayfield Library. Costs are estimated to be €50,000. Those are the on-going costs of one small example car park that no-one talks about.

1/ Yeah, @fredlambert.bsky.social took forever to wake up, but boy is he bringing it:

A sliver of land being taken for the greater good and a minister interjecting.... This thing will never get built.... www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Thinking that with the Luas opposition, the tacit drone approval and the regular desire to gift public land for private use, Cork has decided that better things are just not possible and people who think otherwise are contrarian. #Speirgorm

Wow. XAI selling their compute to Anthropic because they can’t use it all on account of Grok having 0 organic demand

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

The era of A.I. dudes taking a real stab at calling their shit art feels pretty dead but this trash is still in full swing for like show fliers, local advertisements, basically any place a working illustrator or designer used to be able to make $25 - $500 dollars on a freelance gig. Now it’s slop.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.