New York is not terrible www.threepennyreview.com/krugman-on-n...

Left: 2022 Right: 2026 (at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party) I have so many thoughts, less about whatever her own personal experience is at the moment, and more about the influence these kind of shifts in beauty standards can have on self-perceptions of the viewing public

Saw somebody say “Claude knows” instead of “God knows” and unfortunately I do think it’s time to talk blasphemy laws

Covid is vascular. The name of the game is don’t catch it. All infections carry risks lasting years post infection even asymptomatic. Open windows Clean the air Vaccinate Ffp2 Ffp3 in healthcare

"[H]istory shows that economists and researchers have been terrible at predicting the effects of new technologies on work and workers…"

Better than what happens to the fish in the rivers I suppose.

It is with a heavy heart I must inform you that

So french apple growers can't stand Trump either. fruitmagazine.eu/articles/fre...

NEW: An insolvency judge in England tossed out testimony after discovering a witness was being coached on what to say in real time through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the cellphone after it was disconnected from the glasses, the witness blamed ChatGPT.

he's purged his YouTube channel of most of his crypto videos. what he hasn't done is purged Facebook of his constant self-promotion of those videos. I wonder why Mr. Transparency wants to keep his record on crypto under wraps?

this lad is quite literally to the manor born – I know the manor! – but wants you to crowdfund him to be a full-time fraud posing as a journalist while he bitches and moans about how much he has to pay the employees at his doggy daycare

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Students at Moscow State Pedagogical University's Institute of Mathematics and Informatics report being threatened with withheld diplomas unless they download the MAX messenger app, Ostorozhno Novosti reported. #Russia

I've created a petition to get Winston Churchill replaced on the five pound note, with a Bog-moss. Sign here please. c.org/j7ZFc4qRFn

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

For the day that’s in it…… How many Irish mammies does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Don’t mind me, I’ll just sit here in the dark

Here we are again. In 2022–23 Europe spent €800bn subsidising fossil fuels to keep energy bills down. Imported fossil fuels mean volatile prices. The real solution is not new suppliers but a shift to clean energy.

I started writing a BlueSky post about that Nature essay and kept going until it turned into a whole piece in Tech Policy Press www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

Yesterday's early parade in Cashel flic.kr/s/aHBqjCNbsF

Iran considers offering safe passage to ships carrying oil traded in yuan, not dollars. In other words, pick our side China and we can help you defang the dollar. In a dark way, it is objectively hilarious just how many ways team Trump has left itself exposed. thefederal.com/category/int...

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

The Independent Advisory Committee is a diverse stakeholder group established to advise Minister O'Sullivan on Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan. I'm very proud of the consensus recommendations we have developed, which set out a clear blueprint for an ambitious plan. share.google/KnDVfiPQTgCH...

US military reached out to Ukraine requesting expertise on countering Shaheds, Zelensky said. "We received letters, calls, and requests across all military institutions."

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Funny how all the "free speech" warriors go so quiet when actual state censorship comes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Disturbing and clear account of the security risks in just one area of Palantir's reach in UK. Even without the moral arguments for not using this tech giant, Ministers should be reviewing the risks to national security. 🇬🇧 #palantir #MOD

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Switzerland has said that it refused two US requests to fly over its territory yesterday in operations linked to the current war on Iran, citing its neutrality under international law jrnl.ie/6985831

KAAS, Kidney As A Service

USAF B-52H heavy bomber returning back to base in England after an Iran strike yesterday.

I am fascinated by the decision – by RTÉ and other outlets – not to name Jonathan Sugarman as the user who posted the claim Paul Murphy shared

This just in: Sun agrees to release infinity million barrels of sunshine every morning

Not infrequently, something I post is subjected to hostile quote tweets (or screencaps) leading to a wave of AI boosters discussing me/my work, or rather pretending to, since it never actually reflects understanding of what I do. A short 🧵>>

the “intelligence” he’s promising is just a suicide-instructing, porn-generating, plagiarism machine

Everyone likes to talk about deterrence. Nobody likes to talk about deterrence breaking down. So a few observations based on what we’re seeing in the US war against Iran. Short thread 1/8

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

Little scamps! The amount of “used cooking oil” being exported from Malaysia would raise one’s eyebrows slightly… At the same time as forests are being levelled to plant more palm plantations… Strange coincidence.

Translation. “Data centre opens, burning fossil fuel, instead of using renewables and further destroying Ireland’s chance of meeting its legal requirement to reduce carbon emissions by 51% Your welcome.

There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Well duh.

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📣 New Research just published. Adoption of EVs, solar PV, and heat pumps in Ireland is driven by affluence. Current grants favour high-income groups, risking a "green divide." Policies must focus on equity and lower upfront costs. Open access: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Woeful winter weather related to climate change, and rampent inflation not matched by increases in the price paid for carrots. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

She never ever fails to disappoint

$26.9 million erroneously liquidated on Aave after Chaos Labs oracle bug March 10, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=chaos-labs-aave-liquidations

Amazon has fully embraced AI pair programming: the bot codes the outage and a senior engineer explains it, during postmortem. futurism.com/artificial-i...