The disappearance of Larry Summers from public life cannot happen fast enough.

today we had a class of young students (12-14 yr old) came to visit the @aial.ie on campus. they were so keen to learn about AI and most importantly I was blown away by the type of questions they asked us: water consumption of data centers, how openai makes money, why RAM prices keep going up, ...

Eliminating the Impossible xkcd.com/3210/

The 'hood.

GAUSS users: "Do not cite the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written."

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

Tiens une info que je n'ai pas vue dans les médias français hein...

Larry Summers has been a scourge so long that there are whole generations brought up on different terrible things he said and did.

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Police and MI5 waged campaign of illegal interference against ex-BBC journalist, tribunal told

uuhhhhhhh not good *FOUR US SPEEDBOAT PASSENGERS SHOT DEAD BY CUBAN COAST GUARD:AFP

A minister saying forecasts aren't specific enough & don't enable people to take preventative action, a govt backbencher saying they're too broad & cause people to take unnecessary preventative action None of them is saying much about climate change, & ABSOLUTELY NOTHING re govt climate backsliding

Two skinheads counting the takings from a neo-Nazi gig: Leo Regan’s best photograph

Waou… Il y a des jours où je n’ai plus les mots. À 17h, déjà 149 records de chaleur ont été battus en France, y compris dans des stations installées au XIXᵉ siècle. En FEVRIER, s'il vous plait (quel délire !), on approche les 30°C au pied des Pyrénées, plus de 25°C sur la moitié nord. 1/5

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until now, the funniest thing about Lindsay Hoyle was that he wanted to rename Heathrow after Princess Diana. this is funnier

LLM’s running weapons is the *most insane* thing. The depth of delusion + misinformation over what LLM’s even are is mind boggling. I work in data engineering and the disconnect between the people who build systems and the people even one level removed over what those systems are is unfathomable.

Easily one of the top charts of all time

We are excited to welcome @daniellaurison.bsky.social of @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social to the network! Laurison’s research focuses on class and social mobility, and class and racial inequality in U.S. politics. Check out his SSN member profile here: scholars.org/scholar/dani...

Is this a Lisp joke? Don't see those often!

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

It happened whilst he was still alive, that's lightning quick for a member of the ruling class

Sending a ship that is not available to address a crisis that does not exist because of a delusion that cannot be pierced.

SLOPTU

C'est sympa le Louvre, des gens entrent, prennent des trucs, en posent d'autres, c'est le premier musée collaboratif du monde.

the AI evangelists are not okay

Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

This machine kills fascists.

Keir Starmer's unerring judgement on display

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

When you arrest Prince Andrew, you have a media circus. When you arrest Prince Andrew AND Peter Mandelson, you have a case.

FFG have opposed the recording and streaming of Limerick Council meetings for years. Now, it's back on the table in a very public way after media coverage of the latest goings-on. #LimerickCity www.limerick.ie/council/serv...

Wes Streeting wants people to forget. Never let him forget.

a year is a long time in politics

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Relatively mainstream liberals and leftists are sliding into BlueAnon batshittery over the Epstein files. It's scary.

"A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever."

John Quiggin always has interesting takes: in the medium term, Trump is destroying America as the "indispensable nation". A lot of pain for much of the rest of the world in the short term, but it's a hostile takeover with asset stripping for the US. crookedtimber.org/2026/02/21/t...

« Ce bruit assourdissant, en comparaison du silence politique d'il y a quatre ans, est une monstruosité » Vaut pour chacun des silences suivant les victimes des nazis. www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actual...

L'un des avocats de la famille de Federico Aramburu dénonce les hommages à Quentin Deranque : « Ce bruit assourdissant, en comparaison du silence politique d'il y a quatre ans, est une monstruosité » www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actual...

i think there is a decent chance he actually thinks this i also think there is a decent chance that he actually thinks asylum seekers were people from "insane asylums" i also think there is a decent change he wants greenland because it is big on map

Spring is here. A couple of days ago I saw some pterodactyls (herons) carrying twigs to their nests in a huge tree; today some trees in front of my house were showing those pinhead pink blossoms that come out before the leaves.

People who say knees are evidence against intelligent design should remember that Microsoft Windows is the result of intelligent design

Thomas Friedman on Israel is completely unlike Thomas Friedman on most other topics. He abandons the cringeworthy flippancy, the perpetual attempt to coin phrases or develop half-baked theories, and just cuts straight to the moral heart of the matter www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

"Tesla's first flop" is the one with Musk's imprint all over it (remember, he bought his way into Tesla). The other burn on this topic, seen elsewhere, is that it "displaced the Edsel as the biggest flop in motoring history".

Even sports journalists are now saying the solution to the problems of X are to shun it. There were lots of impediments to this realisation, but it seems reality is finally eroding them.

I may misremember, but in I think the late 1980s (a different era in Ireland) a govt minister was found with a male prostitute in a car in Phoenix Park, exposed in the Sunday World IIRC. There was a moral outcry, not "sack the pervert" but "we don't want English-style tabloid journalism here!"

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.