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"If you want to know what the future looks like, what Peter Thiel is planning, and what we should be paying attention to, it’s Argentina, Thiel’s latest plaything, host organism and testing laboratory."

So many infuriating and mind boggling truths in this timely article. ‘There was a time when Europe looked like the world’s answer to the worst excesses of big tech. Ireland has sabotaged that dream for a massive payoff.’ #Speirgorm #spéirghorm

Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#spéirghorm #speirgorm #GenAI

‘After an ex-Israeli spy visited the Irish media regulator and met with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill – discussing a role at the regulator– Coimisiún na Meán has appointed the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland to flag "illegal antisemitic material" online.’ @wereontheditch.bsky.social #spéirghorm

Today we are looking at MURAL (Maynooth University Research Archive Library). This database allows you to search for and find dissertations and thesis from Ireland and UK. (This database largely supports Postgrad Research theses) #mulibrary #maynoothuniversity

Don't miss MU Library's Summer Research Skills Workshops (online), covering bibliometrics, research impact, academic journal publishing, research data management, reviewing literature and reference management tools (EndNote). Book here! https://nuim.libcal.com/calendar/academicresarchersworkshops

Prof. Francesca Bria has mapped connections

At least six Irish people, including one member of the Oireachtas, have been invited to an upcoming event in Wicklow organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel

Muere a los 87 años el historiador Carlo Ginzburg, maestro de la ‘microhistoria’

A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.

This part right here:

‘brands try to promote their product by seeding the websites that AI tools most often cite and scrape from with inauthentic and spammy content.’ Great -_- #GenAI #ResearchSky #spéirghorm #speirgorm

What a lovely blog post competition! ‘blog post that explores how library staff, libraries and information work are portrayed across film, television, literature, art, social media, gaming, news media or other cultural formats’ aslibraries.ie/asl-blog-pos... #spéirghorm #speirgorm

‘By introducing this baseless carve-out from the protections given to citizens to misuse of AI by by the police he would give courts and police an excuse to avoid the judicial oversight EU law has required.’ @tupped.bsky.social Ephemeral TDs at it again. #spéirghorm #speirgorm #AI

The move to @eurosky.social went quite smoothly. It took several hours to migrate all my data (I have a lot of posts!) and I had to run pdsmoover.com to locate some missing blobs, but otherwise everything worked as expected. Highly recommended for anyone who wants their data to reside in Europe! 🇪🇺

If you have a Bluesky account, you can use mu.social with the same account, with all your connections and content the same. Mu has additional functions like post editing and a configurable news section - and we'll be adding new features all the time.

What is this breath of fresh air? 🤩

This a classic case study for anyone working in tech policy www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m.... I don't pretend to know anything about international trade law but there is a bunch of interesting stuff here. 🧵

What a lovely blog post competition! ‘blog post that explores how library staff, libraries and information work are portrayed across film, television, literature, art, social media, gaming, news media or other cultural formats’ aslibraries.ie/asl-blog-pos... #spéirghorm #speirgorm

Once again, everyone is now worried there's an AI bubble. It is, and it will deflate. But deflating doesn't undo the harmful effects, as @histoftech.bsky.social and I wrote back in 2024… ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...

#CriticalAI 4.1, artist Molly Crabapple speaks out against corporate tech’s fleecing of creative workers and the production of “vampiric slop” which mimics their artistry through AI. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Happy to share that, after a prolonged peer-review process, our review on the major Neuroinflammatory events in #LongCovid was accepted for publication in Translational Psychiatry by @natureportfolio.nature.com! Coming out soon, but preprint available here: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

Looking forward to the contributions at this meeting of the Oireachtais committee on AI tomorrow at 11.15am, with Prof @jenniecstephens.bsky.social #spéirghorm #speirgorm #GenAI #Researchsky

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#spéirghorm #speirgorm #GenAI

Uninterested in leading a pile-on but no, AI does not “have access” to everything ever published. Not archival material, obviously, but not secondary material either. Nor across times nor languages. AI is not human knowledge personified. It’s exactly not that, in fact. It’s not even a search engine.

“When we have [Artificial General Intelligence], I don’t think there will be a large number of distinct brands… Probably there will be a single entity that I can talk to that can do whatever I need.” More #OpenAI bull💩. #AIHype #GenAI #IPO

Friendly reminder:

Elaine's been AI-splaining again. This time on RTÉ's Six One News covering the misreporting around Anthropic's latest audacious claims on its genAI's capabilities.

Anyway, we've seen this before. Please enjoy my one and only article in an academic journal, on the topic of tech billionaires forced to weep salty tears by their unstoppable personal potency hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...

‘There is an urgent need for all of us to bring attention to these destructive processes and halt them before the ongoing and proposed dissolution and destruction of critical components of our biomedical research infrastructure are completed.’ #HigherEd #ResearchSky #spéirghorm #speirgorm

“I demand and expect, if there is any conscience, any law, any morality, that the soldier who fired the shots will be held accountable for his actions. This case must not be closed without an investigation and without accountability” One day, everyone will have always been against this.

Anthropic’s AI is reportedly being used by the NSA for cyberwar operations, despite the firm’s own military restrictions

Oh no 😱

#spéirghorm #speirgorm

A 25-mile March for Gaza, from Lurgan to Omeath, defies loyalist attempts to block it, letting conscience lead.

As a test I asked ChatGPT to calculate means and standard deviations for columns in 5 tabs of an excel file and to generate a plot for each tab. 1/5 calculations were correct 🤷

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Libano, ucciso un altro Casco Blu di Unifil: era un sergente serbo di 39 anni

#spéirghorm #speirgorm www.newarab.com/news/gaza-ai...

⭐Job opportunity for UK-based PhD student/recent grad⭐ @nisreenalwan.bsky.social @dalupton.bsky.social Nina Smyth & I are recruiting a Research Assistant for our project on improving healthcare support for Long Covid patients. To apply (deadline 19 June): portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe...

Florida figured it out? Florida? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

An autopsy has found that Jose Guadalupe Ramos Solano a 52-year-old ICE detainee died from Covid, “after suffering from the illness for days while in custody,” and while the autopsy found he “died from Covid,” it is also the case that this society killed him.

Dance first, think later? This is a project I have been working on for a while. If you have journeyed through clubs, raves, dancefloors, sounds and crowds of 1990s/early 2000s Northern Ireland I would love to chat!

🗣️"The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls; cutting off their human readership nose to spite the AI training face." #OpenAccess #Copyright #ScholComms

The only article you need to read to understand fully where we’re at with #GenAI ‘In the new paradigm, we are not so much consulted as tasked with feeding data into the machinery. We perform our humanity, and the machine learns to mimic us.’ #spéirghorm #speirgorm #AI #HigherEd #scholcomms