"AI accounts for 1.2% of US GDP" for this to be a bubble does this percentage have to drop? I think I'm a few years more than 1.2% of the stuff produced will be by current ai systems successors. www.pharusmanagement.com/it/en/insigh....

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

The hop industry has an endless stream of hyped-up products, aimed at making beer more awesome than you can possibly imagine. But do they make any real difference? Today on the blog, I investigate, albeit not very thoroughly: thebeernut.blogspot.com/2026/02/cryo...

It’s Leslie Nielsen’s birthday & this is still the greatest gag in the history of comedy.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

‘Milo and Tina are "the first openly Gen Z Mascots," implying the existence of closeted Gen Z mascots’

Australia installed 100k home batteries in 17 weeks. About 1500 a day of 25kwh each by the end of 2025. Total of 2,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) in individual homes. Thats 400MWh more than Turlough hill. reneweconomy.com.au/australians-...

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Dennis the menace from the Beano is 75 next month. His name comes from this filthy 1935 song www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Us3...

Macbeth: SHIT

Could we detect ourselves from another star system? Probably not anymore #mathplotlib code gist.github.com/cavedave/e90...

*Runs in * There is genuine French biathlon drama! www.threads.com/@aldokt/post...

A student received a posthumous postcard from his former professor, Don Glickman, who was known for his humor. He instructed his daughter to send over 100 postcards. The gesture went viral and reflected Glickman's unique approach to life and death.

BIG NEWS: It seems the sub-3 barrier has been broken in speed cubing by Teodor Zajder of Poland with a 2.766 earlier today. Here’s the first video I’ve seen. youtu.be/vQ5H2uc9fQQ

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

OMG rip ie have a podcast

Pasta cooking times in practice versus the box advice

Yesterday I finished the Christmas jumper I started in October. The pattern is Pacific Knit Co winter doodle sweater. I had a lot of fun making this. #knitting 🧶

In charge of the music at the Scotland Italy game #SixNations

I'm so busy today I barely had time to make a clay model of 2nd century BC Ur copper merchant Ea Nasir

But did they die of a direct hit from an RPG or with a direct hit from an RPG?

Let's go Team Ireland! Cuir bród orainn ar fad! 🇮🇪🇮🇪 #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina2026

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

🇮🇪 #IRL IRELAND #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #WinterOlympics #OpeningCeremony

Great jumpers from the Irish Olympic team! #winterolyimpics

another for my adultbel series

Send me some numbers you like and I'll make a strange attractor galaxy out of it

Thinking about Big Bertha, the world's oldest cow from County Kerry, who died just before her 49th birthday after calving 39 times over her life (another record) - she also raised thousands for charity, lead the St. Patrick's parade in Sneem, and had her birthday and wake in a local pub

Half the country under water, but this is what Jack Chambers and this government think of Ireland's commitment to climate action, as if we needed any further proof that they couldn't give a shit. I assume he owns a house on a hill.

I feel like making some fractals. Send me a three digit number and I'll make you one

It’s 2028 and all pedestrians are mandated by law to wear hi vis clothes at all times. Black north face jackets are illegal. Black mascara has been outlawed and replaced with neon. Drivers are still watching tiktok and saying didn’t see you there pal.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

I made a graph of US supreme court justices

I'm finding the Pomodoro Technique much easier now I've reduced the work intervals to 12 seconds

This meme just punched me in the face and stole my wallet

RIP John Virgo. He's with the angles now.

I wanted to challenge myself and decided to try to make a game using a kid's game engine! I didn't have any coding classes growing up, so I was excited to give this a go & purposely limit myself using the Scratch engine. Here's my game: Top Potato! #gamedev #indiegames unaminh.itch.io/top-potato

Top 5 January by Rainfall in mm in Armagh since 1853: Year rain 1948 170.8 1873 152.7 1872 150.4 2026 140.0 1868 138.2

Data centers make no sense to me. spacenews.com/spacex-acqui... Here's a back of the envelope as to why. Please point out my mistakes as I am no expert.

End of the month wacky AI news -- there were 3 "world models" released, the moltboot reddit and analysis, a lot of iso city web apps, a roleplay oriented model, a good article on plot that introduced Kishōkentetsu to me... a lot in here (no paywall). open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

Classic archeologist T-shirt

The new Aibhe Reddy album is great music.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHb...

My Internet today

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Everyone has their Dublin character that they miss - like "Bang Bang" for example. For me it would be Pat Ingoldsby. Had some truely wild conversations with him years back. youtu.be/hAuIRGIXW4I

Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...