Glorious bygone days, stamping out Sister Miriam Godwinson.

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.

Hmm, I'm not sure there are enough letters in there and I would prefer that any acronym was derived from the initials of the name in French for maximum EU-ness. Perhaps le "Service Claude Chappe de Messagerie Numérique TransEuropéen des Citoyens"? Find me on SCCMNTEC...

A thorough, and entertaining, review of the UK government's AI Skills Hub. TLDR: The state of this yoke.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

NPR Tiny Desk concerts rarely disappoint – this is another absolute banger of a band I would never have otherwise come across.

I’m tired of being constantly embarrassed by witless government inaction on the most flagrant of tech issues.

I wrote a statement for FuJo on Generative AI, IBSV, Elon Musk, and the continued use of the platform by the Irish Government. fujomedia.eu/news/account... Short 🧵

"Why is the government posting on a deepfake child porn site?" That's the question to ask them, journalist friends.

And that's it now. We all agree to leave all the bad stuff back there in 2025, right? Grand. Happy New Year :)

This is the single greatest piece of rock art in human history

Car and house alarms should be time limited. And if you haven't come to rescue your car or house in the allotted couple of minutes, the car or house should be confiscated, sold, and the proceeds divided between the nearest 50 neighbours while you die a slow agonising death

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovison 2026 over Israel

Final quarterly update on AI-adjacent matters for @enoughaboutai.com for 2025 - featuring bigger valuations, bigger concerns, and small ways to resist the anxiety-inducing future. podcast.enoughaboutai.com/2421061/epis...

Good to see @dpcireland.bsky.social being willing to convey the serious consequences of social data. I hope they follow it up with equal earnestness in their regulatory commitment. Personal responsibility for data is only one side of a coin that has some dodgy corporate behaviour on the other!

Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system. www.authoritarian-stack.info

ROFL

I presume even this yet more explicit evidence of how ridiculously manipulated Twitter/X is by fake “patriots” from suspiciously distant locations still won’t be enough to stop politicians and journalists continuing to keep it alive by participating.

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

Agreed. Journalists, Politicians, Activists, Public Figures, NGOs, etc., all USED TO get something immensely valuable out of Twitter - and I assume many have hung on because of nostalgia and sunk costs - but it is an increasingly putrid carcass of what it once was. Leave it to decay without you.

"For one night only I'll let you out." 😈😈😈😈 #Halloween BL Cotton MS Nero C IV; the Winchester Psalter; f.32r

This is such an amazing photograph. It really captures the essence of this family and their unique place in Irish society.

Completely normal website legitimised on the daily by politicos, hacks and people willing to turn a blind eye to what it is, and what its owner uses it for.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

The frogs have spawned! Dublin represent! #NoKings

I've watched this video six times already tonight. Lisa O'Neill is one of the best, and this is some of her best work. youtu.be/Nbm-pNGPuo8?...

Before computers became terrible and drowned us all in AI slop, they used to be Jacquard looms. Here's one now in the National Museum of Scotland. What a marvel! youtu.be/OlJns3fPItE?...

Mystifying why The Irish Times fails to report the many equally baseless things that I or anyone else who's not on the ballot might "call for". Maybe if we all had better handbags to accessorise our self-serving demands?

ChatGPT “Edu” is the same chat model, with some greater leeway on message limits and a promise not to use the prompt data for training. It’s not meaningfully designed for education in any sense. This is just marketing for an existing general purpose product in a potentially lucrative sector.

This is nearly as good as when we got to see what a fun and legless time we would all have in the Metaverse.

It's really that bad: "...about one-third of the statements made by AI tools like Perplexity, You*com and Microsoft's Bing Chat were not supported by the sources they provided. For OpenAI's GPT 4.5, the figure was 47%" 👀😏

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

It’s good to see some solidarity in an event that’s specifically about unity. I hope more countries join this stance.

Certainly correct. And hopefully a widely adopted stance across more countries involved in #Eurovision.

I mean it's hard not to be biased about it but IRELAND HAS PRODUCED THE BEST SERIES OF THE TRAITORS!

What does this even mean

Interesting repeated use of the em-dash there, alongside the cadences familiar to anyone who has to read AI outputs a lot! Odd too to specify "exercising [his] constitutional authority" under Article 14, the one about what happens where there isn't a president! An chiall amach is an mórtas isteach?

Latest iteration (v1.5) of TOPIC citation model is here. #GenAI tools may not be relevant or warranted in many academic contexts but where lecturers assess that they are and define how, this offers a structured way for students to report on what tools they used, why, and how. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Oh yikes.

Sad news, but what a legacy. The best knowledge podcast archive there is!

the full complaint is such a difficult read. but I think it's important we confront, without flinching, what's happening here www.404media.co/chatgpt-enco...

“But regulation will stop the innovation” …

An alarming result of climate warming is that it apparently now encourages Irish spiders to grow to grotesque Australian sizes, before they wander into my house.

This would be a colossal and negligently unnecessary waste of public money in the UK. I just hope it’s only hype from OpenAI themselves to show that they have new avenues for big income to shore up their valuation, and not something getting remotely serious consideration from governments.

DCU's Dr Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com and Ciarán O'Connor @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social explore the anxiety about whether we are in a bubble - and what might happen if it pops in the latest episode of their podcast 'Enough About AI'. You can listen to the full episode here: launch.dcu.ie/41lYspI