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Geoffrey Hinton losing the run of himself.

I admit, if you ignore where it says ‘unreleased’ right below the headline (and on our homepage), then skip past the part where we say it required a code review, and ignore paragraphs 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, and all the adjectives that mean undisclosed, it does read like an active feature.

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

I have just heard the most brilliant use of the word "inclusive": a school said an event with a lesbian author was not "inclusive" because it meant children whose parents refused to let their children attend were not included.

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Listen, I’m so very very weary this evening, but I just wanted you to know that the Irish Government has introduced a Bill to justify biometric police surveillance that doesn’t follow EU Law and their idea is based it on having a definition of biometric processing different from in the AI Act.

Nearly 90% of Dublin’s data centres are located in economically deprived communities jrnl.ie/7047279

Blabbing like an idiot at the end of Good Omens. #pTerry

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Kraftwerk soon at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre!! Can’t wait!!

Delighted to tell you all that I have a new series in @thejournal.ie where I get to grips with all things Ireland-coded! Have you ever stopped to think... what exactly is a parish pump? jrnl.ie/7040952

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail. n.pr/42EBavp

They have changed the address again: It is now: "Contact: EDSR at Valukoja 8/2 C Corpus, 2nd Floor, Tallinn, 11415, Estonia" I'm suspecting the other address was one of those wonderful AI hallucinations. At least they are eating their own dog food, even if it's crap.

PHANTOM OFFICE: Elon Musk’s AI company xAI that runs X chatbot Grok has quietly moved its official European point of contact for users to Estonia – to a building whose owner says it has no contract with the company or its representatives. Gift link: www.ftm.eu/articles/elo...

a likely lad in his 80s at a funeral receiving line recently said to the widow 'i'm tom, I went out with your friend Mary when we were kids', she replied 'my sis Joan too, but not me' he winked & said 'there's still time' She burst out laughing, her son thanked him & said she hasn't laughed in wks

The Taoiseach wants consideration of nuclear. I made a programme that did that. Long story short: an Irish nuclear power plant wouldn’t generate any electricity until 2066 at the very earliest. Link at end of thread.

it would be funny if thousands of Irish people changed their email signoff today to ‘You know yourself what's at stake’ with no explanation

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

Controversial children's book on Sitka spruce with misleading environmental claims originally produced in UK by Morgan Sindall Construction was sent to UK schools Version funded by Irish industry bodies distributed in Irish schools had a foreward by recently-resigned former Irish minister of state

Take your time, read through the guidelines and go through the survey example, you have til May! Good luck everyone! (wish me luck too cause I'm so nervous) www.gov.ie/en/departmen... #basicincomefortheartsscheme #irishartists

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

THIS is what General AI is good for: entertainment.

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

My latest column in AI slop and how its impacting online communities www.techcentral.ie/forget-ai-sl...

Oil crunch: Brendan and the RTÉ R1 South Dublin dinner party crew chatting about using less electricity to run the washing machine like that makes a difference when 20%+ of the grid goes to powering data servers.

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"I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell." Remembering #BrandonLee who passed away this day in March 1993.

Killer quote from @nathankhensley.bsky.social: “AI products are best understood not as technologies of information (as their backers prefer them to be discussed) but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.”

Žižek famously analyzed movies he had never seen and repeated the same anecdotes word-by-word in multiple books. He also straight up made up things. LLMs have nothing on Žižek.

In 2020, the scientist John Abraham observed that the amount of heat being added to the oceans was equivalent to about five Hiroshima bombs of energy every second. Last year, the WMO figures suggest, it was closer to 11 Hiroshima explosions per second. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1️⃣ Online platforms are now the main source of news for many young people In 2015 only 21% of 18-24s across 18 markets said their main source of news was social media. Ten years later, this percentage has risen to 39%, overtaking news sites and apps, which have decreased from 36% to 24%

Whooop!!! Come see what happens *behind the mic* 🎙️ with me and @earley.bsky.social.

@rhi.bsky.social I don’t know if you’ve seen that Good Omens and Soul Music are among the books banned by a school library in Manchester. I don’t know what is wrong with the world but I do know that if more people read your father’s books the world would be a better place #TerryPratchett #Books

Nice easter egg on DuckDuckGo.com. If you search for “Guybrush Threepwood”, the logo transforms into Guybrush. Spotted by Technical_Pass7714 on Reddit.

I'm so very pleased to say that Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell and his wife Collette Michaud, the former LucasArts art department manager, have agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, should it go ahead. (And if you want to help make sure it goes ahead, please sign up at scummdoc.com.)

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is: * start with a true statement * introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion * true statement again The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.

Heard you was talkin’ sh*t.

Thank you for bullying me @duolingoverde.bsky.social 🤣

Everything may be terrible but it’s okay to still do things that spark joy.

My latest column on ‘AI-sexual’ as a manufactured identity. www.techcentral.ie/ai-sexual-is...

Over the next few weeks we'll see Micheál Martin's White House visit framed as a very difficult task, something he'll need his wits about him to get through, & one that requires no small amount of seriousness & diplomacy. When really it's a fascist enabling jaunt he should have rejected outright

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I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I am once again feeling like this mash up is incredibly prescient.