"AI Agent, AI Spy" - Good talk by Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker on the risks of agenetic AI and systems like Microsoft Recall: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-ag...

'Against Storytelling' - A refreshing piece by Miriam Rasch via @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/12/agai...

"Half the houses built don't Exist" - Check out the Data Stories blog for a summary of Danielle and Sam's presentation at the Digital Geographies conference 'Artificial Geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking' in Lisbon: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=853

Good talk on video game environments and spatial documentation for development from #GodotFest2025 - 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' by Robin-Yann Storm: media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2...

I recently started a postgraduate diploma in Cybersecurity and I've really enjoyed researching different historic and contemporary encryption techniques. Here's a couple of diagrams I prepared with Excalidraw for my notes. Still working out the best way to communicate the AES S-box and round keys.

Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834

Very intriguing! A new paper discusses Skyfall-GS, a process for obtaining navigable 3D scenes from Satellite imagery via Gaussian Splats: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev

Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826

Exciting times! I've been eagerly awaiting EPUB reading with Zotero on iOS. Now it's here! www.zotero.org/blog/ios-epu...

If you are working on structured data extraction and OCR with tricky documents like PDFs I strongly recommend checking out Docling. Good presentation via the Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...

Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...

Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768

Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.

Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’ New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets) mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20... Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE

Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you can’t bully your way to truth. And you can’t make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...

Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!

Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to work… www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...

Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...

Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!

'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...

New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

New from Data Stories - Carla and I recently visited Oxford Brookes to participate in the Tiny House Games workshop with Mel Nowiki and our collaborators Ella Harris and Hannah Mumby. Check out the post and video for more on #ResearchCreation with games: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33

How to save a PNG to a bird! 😂 Great video from Benn Jordan youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

This is a great, irreverent interview with David Krakauer on the implications of complexity science for the understanding of emergence in LLMs. Feels spot on! youtu.be/jXa8dHzgV8U

I'm loving this live coded performance by Eli Fieldsteel in #SuperCollider I really must find some time to give it a try! youtu.be/09o9IUanLng

Fascinating piece from @bellingcat.com testing LLMs for Geolocation. I was particularly struck by the negative impact of 'reasoning' and 'thinking' functions which often feel like 'self-checking', or sometimes even 'self-defeating', functions: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

New from Data Stories: Read about the recent paper presentation of 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data' by @juliettedavret.bsky.social on behalf of our team at SAGEO in France: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=734

Got a bit excited in the recent @versobooks.bsky.social sale. 📚Sorry, not sorry. Still prefer reading physical copies.

Latest from Data Stories: Read about Danielle and Sam's recent presentations on ‘Creative Methodologies’ with artists and ‘Critical Geographies of Housing’ on eviction data for CIG2025 at Queens University, Belfast: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=727

Four things to know about the art of Jean Tinquely: news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...

Read our latest blog update by Sam Mutter about the recent Community Action Archives Event in Dublin, hosted by Tom O’Dea with the Liberties Community Development Project and CATU: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=723

I took a first look at the Cesium 3DTiles plugin by Battle Road Digital for the open-source Godot Engine today. I haven't tested Godot in a while but this project was a great reason to pick it up again. The plugin was really easy to setup. Further details here: cesium.com/blog/2025/05...

Read about researcher @juliettedavret.bsky.social's recent meetings with Eurostat and ESPON to explore links between housing Data Stories in Ireland and the rest of Europe: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=707

A really interesting oral history of the relationship of #NLP and #LLMs, part of a very strong series that Quanta magazine is running on the state of AI...

Just two days left for the deadline on 30th April to apply for Dani and Sam's CFP on 'Data Voids' this November in Lisbon, Portugal. See below for details 👇

I'll be talking at the Dublin Dataviz meetup next week about a range of projects from digital twins, urban data dashboards and real-time urban sensing to web scraping, AI and large LLMs for structured data extraction. Hopefully something for everyone! www.meetup.com/dublin-datav...

Read about the Data Stories team's recent visit to Detroit for #AAG2025 - 'AAG Conference Recap: Sessions, Walking Tour, and Printmaking Workshop': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=694

CATU Eviction Nation report launched! Read about the launch, report and involvement of the Data Stories team here: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=674

Data Voids Call for Papers - Special Session at 4th Digital Geographies Conference, 3-4 November 2025, Lisbon The deadline for abstracts is April 30. Please read the Data Stories project blog for further details: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=670

The Blender MCP demo by ahujasid using Claude is pretty impressive: youtu.be/FDRb03XPiRo

Good video on physics in generative video...although the findings really ought not to be surprising: youtu.be/Y5GYqeCCu5Y

I'm genuinely quite excited by NVIDIA's #Meshtron for pointcloud reconstruction: youtu.be/akj3bSYCBTk

#VibeCoding - The art of technical debt.