the whole social media thing didn't work out

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

who's going to take one for the team and pay for the bob dylan patreon so we can figure out what on earth he's up to

I have eaten a lobster spice bag before and I felt a lot of complicated emotions about it but certainly I think it brings us closer and not further to God

BANGER

Fixity's new LP 'Assurance' is out today on Moot Tapes. Fixity (With Strings) will be launching in Dublin on 07/05 in Whelan's. Also thrilled that ELAINE HOWLEY will be opening. This is going to be a a GOOD GIG. @fixitymusic.bsky.social @polytunnelmusic.bsky.social @whelanslive.bsky.social

yeah I fucking bet

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

start some DISCOURSE. get in your group chat and send the message "timmy ROBBED". bonus points if you do so in a way that implies that you never actually expected him to win and really liked Michael B Jordan's performance

sick

it has its share of insane hypemen too, but coding seems to be the one very clear example of where modern genAI can be precisely guided by a skilled operator to get exactly what they're looking for at a fraction of the time/cost (at least, for now) as it would take for manual effort.

Got it. Your energy is infectious. To clarify: You want a Proclamation for your country that's bold, sounds smart, and captures the love you have for it. You don’t just hate England— you love Ireland. Here’s a few options I came up with:

for some reason, and I have absolutely no idea why, I thought Brooks Otterlake was dead. like I was telling a friend about this exact tweet on Saturday and said some shit like "I think I saw a bunch of memorial posts about him a few weeks ago"

The funny thing isn't the sellout, it's the paltry amounts that the sellout is for.

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

checked in on twitter to search for references on a thing that I'm writing and man... what's the craic with the people posting there. there's playing while the titanic sinks, and there's retweeting 2008 memes from a couple metres above the earth's core

I actually liked this Drake album

Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer is an essential 21st century text

isn't part of the issue with taxi hailing apps that every driver is driving for multiple taxi hailing apps so most of the requests get routed to drivers who are actually unavailable, and increasing the number of taxi hailing apps will compound the issue?

Pls note: we do not have an advertising regulator. We have an industry body which they hold out as an effective self-regulator.

ceo brain. people with executive assistants thinking "damn, the ultimate product would be something that was like an executive assistant that I didn't have to pay a salary" and then being shocked that most people don't want or need an executive assistant

for some reason if you ask google maps for directions to Sligo, it will tell you to first go to Sligo, but then to get a bus to Rockfield and walk 2.7 kilometers to a random field which is where Real Sligo is

The Northernlion "Why are all of you atheists so puritanical?!" monologue will be one of the defining texts for this era of the internet.

I run a local music discord server that loops into the various local events RSS feeds. In the past week we have been inundated with clown events. Clown Culture Real

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

I want to smoke weed and play Halo 3 with the 2012 Baby. He seems like a good hang.

Modest Maus

I have no idea if this guy's journalism is any good or not but he is always in my YouTube feed and I am begging him to put ChatGPT down and like... I don't know, put in like five minutes on Canva or something. Whats holding his graphic design? Back?

financial times I agree that the hustle culture is out of control but you can't call it "grindcore". grindcore is very much a different thing. it has a wikipedia page and all

it turns out it's very cheap to set up a Raspberry Pi 5 in a case with a built-in M.2 NVMe slot, so I am beginning the effort of building my home server

BBC News website actively preferring and promoting Kristi Noem's version of the Pretti killing, by omitting a key paragraph in his parents' note and inserting Noem's falsehoods.

one of my favourite coffee roasters in Dublin is using AI to stage their product photos so now their website is advertising "Cilter" coffee from "Elhiopia" or "Colomdia" with tasting notes including things like "deacon fruit, lurkish delight, strambhry" and so forth. so it goes

my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms

ticketmaster: *Action Needed* URGENT MESSAGE about the SHOW YOU ARE ATTENDING, do not reply but OPEN IMMEDIATELY (sent x3 in one week) open the email: hello, you are going to a show :)

Burger Shack in Cork. Every time I walked in all the staff were wearing propellor hats and they were probably playing psytrance music or, on a rare occasion, Sufjan Stevens. you could get the greatest venison burger on the earth for a fiver at 2am and it fucking broke my heart when covid killed it

honestly I don't doubt that Bandcamp has an ethical reason for this but it's also just business. nobody's buying the shit and it costs a lot of money to host all the spam. this is cost-effectiveness

this sucks, I'm never listening to Turn On The Bright Lights again

at least you're not this person

the beautiful wilds of Connemara and the uniquely ugly eternally 2005 architecture of the hateful Galway City

Excuse me was I the only one not aware that Paschal Donohoe collects funko pops

genai tools are generally the easiest approach to use to take a first crack at a problem and their outputs can be disregarded just as quickly if they fail so I do believe increases in friction (price, ads etc) will temper demand. but that is an entirely personal bunch without the data to prove it

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025