LMAO. @kateholterhoff.com accidentally turned on Zoom's AI Companion at the start of a call and then immediately turned it off. It still sent us a recap.

I am loving , LOVING the new Star trek related LEGO content but if that price is a little bit galaxy class to swallow then please, can I recommend you go visit @liliumbrickyards.com whose inspired creations are worthy of your shelf space too @liliumbrickyards.com website liliumbrickyards.com

Lordy it's the first Thursday of a month AGAIN #DalkeyOpen

Setting fire to a building when people, children, are inside should be investigated like it's an attempted murder because that's what it fucking is.

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

RTE panel show Impossible Challenge

Even more exciting, DynamoDB is now available in us-east-1.

Things that are fake: - Alpha males (debunked by the original researcher) - MSG causing headaches (never replicated) - Learning styles (no evidence) Things that are real: - People will believe anything if it confirms their priors

Iggy Pop, baked as fukken badger doing "Passenger" in 1977 in Manchester youtu.be/TZth4CNaEBA?... Iggy Pop, needing to sit down for a couple minutes every now and then, doing the same song in 2025

"No credible evidence of a suggestion" is science-speak for "oh fuck the fuck off for fucks sake"

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Rapture? More like Rupture amirite

Hello friends! I'm doing a *free* online talk about Filthy Queens and the history of Beer in Ireland for the Dublin Festival of History on Sept 30th from 5pm IST. All welcome. Hope to see some of you there! Link to register: dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/filthy...

People love it

If you're in Dublin @ 2 Sunday, pop into @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social where I'll be launching @sylvialeatham.bsky.social 's most excellent debut novel, "Chaos Theory". Support real bookshops, cultural institutions of the northside, brilliant Irish writing, and love stories! 2pm! Chapters!

that endless feeling (for too long now)

Shot an email to my TDs about this. Might do nothing but if anyone wants to use the below as a template the wording is in the alt-text

there really is something inherently abusive about AI. Buying into the hype means you are perpetually gaslighting your workers while desperately explaining away its faults as if they're either your own or your employees. Very nasty stuff.

at a time where folding for fascism and aligning with authoritarianism is the norm, distinguish yourself by having integrity and convictions and defending them

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.” Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.” Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.” Genocide is not a “justified action.” These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

Good plan. LinkedIn need an enema.

It has that exact curve that every "AI" tool has for normies like me: - Woah, this is decent - Oh.....I quickly found a case where it failed - Oh.......it's failing more than it did when I started somehow - Cancel / give up

Regular exposure to resin can lead to a sudden onset of resin allergy, where you may be fine for a long time and then, boom, contact dermatitis. This is why we use gloves and respirators when working with it. I've just become allergic to the word "democratize", in the context of technology.

Basic Income for the Arts Year 2 report just came out. Fingers crossed this gets continued and expanded to more artists (and artforms). www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

The solution to the flag issue is for decent people to fly 1000s of tricolours that say "All Welcome" or "Céad mile fáilte" or have rainbow stripes down through the white stripe. We need to seize the symbolic power of the flag. www.dublininquirer.com/as-anti-immi...

Shall be missing the #DalkeyOpen as per usual this week, something -regularly- comes up that I have to prioritize, dammit!

Time zones are so CRAZY. In Denmark it's Noon. In Canada it's 6am. In the USA it's the late 1930s Germany.

Re-upping this for the afternoon:

I might have to put this in my profile as the kind if shit I am into and I make no apologies youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?...

STOP DOING AI YEARS OF MARKETING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND Want to chat with a PDF? We had a tool for that: It was called "EMAILING THE AUTHORS" "Let’s shove this feature at users. Let’s do this EVERYWHERE" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged They have played us for absolute fools

omg I got cranky on Mastodon mastodon.ie/@oisin/11498...

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

1948-2025

The reproductive system of birds is an evolutionary marvel. Their only functioning oviduct is a fantastic conveyor belt of weirdness, of which parts are still mysterious. An illustration made for a pet bird magazine. You can read more on my Cara page: cara.app/post/e9f92d4...

In 1994 the Pentium FDIV bug that caused 1 in 9,000,000,000 calculations to be slightly inaccurate lead to a massive recall after Intel downplayed it. In 2025 it’s normal for tech companies to sell software that is just lying outright and half of the time fails at the simplest calculations.

Ethno-nationalist who has amplified and endorsed far-right propaganda about a “non-white invasion” has not ruled himself out of running for the presidency.

After the fucking nonsense that England had been going on with in the past few weeks, I've bought all Bob Vylan's stuff and oh boy this is a late 70's flashback. Amazing. Punk as fuck. The boys are spot on. I'd rather fight ✊

Dublin Bay by night

Yes bring this fast hire business back pls.

I've written an article laying out my arguments for an extension of Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts. It crosses some of topics I've covered in other blogs, but I wanted to cover all these points in a single piece. oisinmcgann.com?p=5733&previ... #BasicIncomeForTheArts #UniversalBasicIncome

My brain was mush last night so I watched a movie that promised to be action-y, yet had a couple of decent actors in it. The Great Wall (2016) Oh boy that was an absolute STINKER. It was winner of the 2017 Most Out of Place White Person in a Movie from the All Def Movie Awards.

Here's a handy primer for why 60db dones flying over your house intermittently is huge problem And not all “only 60 dB(A)” are created equal Puncturing the "its only as loud as a conversation or a car BS" 1/15

I was asked had I “mentally cancelled Stephen Pinker” when I said I was disappointed to see his appearance at the Dalkey Book Festival. I said nope just making a moral judgement on his laundering of racist views and soft supporting of the alt right is something that needs to be called out.

Any industry eliminating entry level roles where new, younger employees learn on the job before promotion to more advanced, decision-making roles is sawing through the branch it's sitting on.

Ticked off one of my bucket list seeing Iggy Pop signing Passenger live.

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.