Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

A reminder that the OPW could not find a kingfisher on our lovely River Bride in Blackpool. All they really needed was a magic kingfisher stick and a highly motivated individual to find them. Filmed this evening. It wasn’t difficult. #cork

Why is RTÉ referring to Maria Steen as a "family rights campaigner"? Maria Steen, as a member of the self-styled Iona "Institute", has campaigned against every hard-won right we have today.

These are the Facebook posts for which a Tennessee man was just arrested. wopclive.com/local-news/8...

This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.

He's a journalist like I'm a part-time lettuce farmer from Utrecht called Volslagen Onzin

Mercator size vs. true country size by @neilrkaye.bsky.social

The Fearful #Owl 🦉 of #PapuaNewGuinea 🇵🇬 is 'Near Threatened' due to hunting and #palmoil #deforestation. Their wide-eyed intense looks gave them their name. Support these #owls when you shop #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/31/f...

Maybe Robert could set an example by letting one of the many, many, many rental properties he didn't declare on the Dáil register to them. #gowl #SpeirGorm

Boring can be brilliant. In Pueblo, Colorado, they're planning to replace a coal plant with one of largest clean energy hubs in US. At its core: a thermal battery. These batteries can provide round-the-clock heat, slashing emissions, creating jobs, and improving public health.

This @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social piece pulls it all together nicely. www.vox.com/politics/462...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is where we need to distinguish between generative AI and machine learning based on quality data. The pattern analysis used in forecasting is the kind of thing that *can* be revolutionised by machine learning. But that kind of useful stuff doesn’t serve the needs of the tech bro grifters.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I cannot overemphasise how angry and patronising Danny Healy Rae would get at a TD from another party, one who knew nothing about the plant hire business, make dangerously uninformed comments about an aspect of the plant hire business.

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Now Google says they need 497% more diesel tanks than they originally lied about needing and also they need 547% more diesel generators than they lied about needing and our city & county leaders are gonna pretend to think about it then say lol ok obviously sure www.wane.com/top-stories/...

umm, I was NOT expecting this case to settle either something big changed, or this was extremely expensive for Tesla www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

A more accurate headline: Legislation to increase emissions, fuel the climate catastrophe, and worsen public health in the works, minister confirms.

Can almost smell the Reichstag fire from thousands of miles away www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The fact that our so-called ‘Minister for Climate’ is saying this, at this point, tells you all you need to know about our government. This thing is going to hit us like an all-out war and they still think they can treat it as a Tidy Towns initiative.

This from the climate minister? How grim. O’Brien either has his head in the clouds or is being intentionally misleading. Sustainable Aviation Fuels made up 0.3% of jet fuel last year; they're far too expensive and difficult to scale to play any significant role in the foreseeable future.

4. Hydrogen. In all my decades as an analyst, I have never seen such a big disconnect between the physics and economics of a solution, and the politics of what’s being asked of it. Time to accept that green hydrogen is simply not a climate solution. 22/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

As for SMRs, useful though they might be useful as elements in the energy system (perhaps to power AI data centres), as a climate solution they are largely irrelevant even if affordable. You would need 1,250 big RR SMRs to match the output of wind and solar today. 12a/n

This is great news for the Vice President and the other AcreTrader investors. They will be handling the sale of many family farms to foreign investors over the next few years and will make a tidy profit. This is devastating news for those poor, hardworking farmers.

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

We would all be a lot happier if we let ourselves be a little sillier

"EU went from 11% plug-in vehicles '20 to 24% in 2024💣 China went from 5% to 47% in that time! That's why EU doesn't want to hear any whining from European manufacturers about... 2035!😭💰 Although we must keep an eye on the movements of fossil money in the coming yrs" text: @luisvaldes.bsky.social

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Good morning with good news: Sales skyrocket 38% of fully electric vehicles (BEV) in Europe in the first 7 months of 2025, compared to same period of 2024! Wow! VW up 90.2% Renault up 58.9% BMW up 31.7% Chinese up 19.1% Tesla down 38.7%! www.transportenvironment.org/articles/ev-... #energysky

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda from Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a key entity supporting Israeli hasbara propaganda, which includes famine and genocide denial. #OpCanary

Public records about North Cork Creameries - a company that is a "leading supplier of butter to the internationally renowned Kerrygold brand" - paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Like - buying a Tesla battery, or buying a Tesla car - pretty shitty but at least you acquire a product that does things. Posting stuff on X, engaging there - particularly as a institution or a politician - you are actively volunteering to help a lumpy bigot enact actual harm on non-white people

This is very worrying - they fold up the houses and ship them to Latvia - only increasingly the shortage of homes.

Fascinsting on Chinese energy dominance.

The Israeli government’s reckless aggression across the entire Middle East is a direct result of unconditional US military funding for Israeli war crimes. Because of full US support, the Israeli military is able to carry out attacks on sovereign nations in violation of international law.

Actually good people are killed unjustly every day, and we don’t get flags flown at half mast around the country. That the murder of Charlie Kirk was an appalling crime does not make him a less vile person, or worthy of special honor just for being a celebrity.

For a new episode of Hacklab, our hands-on hacking video series, we tested safecracking methods that can open Securam ProLogic locks on 8 brands of high security safes used in stores and pharmacies nationwide. Morale of the story: Backdoors leave people vulnerable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=upVz...

Check out this first part of a 'Saving the City' podcast series by @unamullally.bsky.social in which yours truly talks about the history & importance of parks & public spaces in Dublin as well as the urgent need to repopulate the inner city, among many other issues. open.spotify.com/episode/1RKe...

This is a really important resource and reporting cataloguing the scale at which AI is scraping the internet and allowing people to search these datasets www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

WHO COMES OUT WITH THIS IN THEIR FIRST 50 SECONDS AS CANDIDATE‽

Totally saying “Beating up your partner / children” is not a crime. Exactly what a lot of people voted for.