consumer-facing llm chatbots must be stopped. it's like crack to some people. worse, maybe, because they are being led to believe they're doing the smart thing by using "AI"

I never noticed this either.

Member of prominent Fianna Fail family interviews member of prominent Fianna Fail family on national radio. How Ireland works.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Ha! Filtering for hand waving techno-babble, that was the entirety of his counter-argument. I mentioned that, because I'm human, was a child, and am an experienced driver, when I noted a small child with a ball playing between parked cars, my knowledge of the world was in use, not sensors

Vroom vroom! Beep beep!

application for this phd closes on 10 Feb

genx parting gift

Somewhat ironic that we've a generation of men who have functionally sterilised themselves through overconsumption of capitalist self-help content.

Shocking but unfortunately true

These are our everyday mugs, at least 28 in here in the cupboard above the kettle. Some in the dishwasher waiting to return here. Two people. We each have our favourites, and some are used for different purposes. All here have good mug action! Visitors' mugs and retired mugs are stored elsewhere.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

AI boosters are. not. all. there.

FF & FG have had literally over 100 unbroken years of governance to do something. Yet they constantly act like they popped into existence five minutes ago and throw a strop if you suggest otherwise. Refuse to govern, refuse to take responsibility, refuse to do anything except say "DONT BLAME ME"

To suggest that a country as wet and flood-prone as Ireland shouldn't have established mechanisms in place for rapid delivery of flood relief is absolutely nuts. This isn't a surprise act of God. It's common. Disaster preparedness should be a basic aspect of any government's portfolio. #Spéirgorm

“Every day, I lead with purpose and devotion,” she says, meaning nothing. Melania’s chronicle of her own life in and around the White House has a vague and eerie ChatGPT-like quality—anodyne statements full of clichés seemingly drafted for an educational video for third graders.

Followup: this thread is getting re-posed in German, Swedish, Norwegian and French because apparently governments across Europe are contemplating contracts with Palantir. Europe, do me a favor and don't contribute to a worldwide tyranny machine.

Takeaway: Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service" This has 2 parts: 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

Voter data unlocks the possibility of ICE targeting key polling precincts, swing districts, election officials or individual voters. ICE leadership could conceivably order voter repression up at any address, like an Uber.

Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.

"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

Lauren forgot to include guitar repair and maintenence

🤦‍♀️ Science is science. Data are data. Met Eireann publish the math. It's up to others to make the judgement call: local authorities, government 🤷‍♀️

We need to get real. Met Éireann is not to blame for flooding damage - poor planning, building on flood plains, not implementing over 20 years of remedial action are. We were warned decades ago winter rain would increase, but continued doing nothing and built on space needed for water #spéirghorm

Imagine an Ireland in which the road traffic legislation was enforced

Irish Politicians Vs Irish Policy Experts

€200 on the spot fine for people who watch videos or play music without headphones.

Not a rugby person, but this made me smile in what is a very grim time line at the moment 💜

OK so in 1992 a girl I know went with her brother to Lepre-con and she was one of the only girls there. The shy nerdy boys acted like she was the goddess Aphrodite and it did wonders for her self-confidence. Then one boy approached her with a figurine and said "I have painted you an orc".

You Know When Something Just Clicks*

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

This isn't a company, it's a performance. Altman et al have spent the last few years building out offices, staffing with overpaid chuds, appearing at conferences, at Davos, everywhere, inviting academics like Pavlo to their fancy offices, etc., etc. On and on. All of it a kabuki performance.

Extremely funny to realize that the reason Western Europeans are getting mad enough to start chastising random Americans is because they realize that the Faustian bargain they struck after WWII is going sour and the Mongoose they let live in their crawlspace and kill communists has rabies now

TBH I can see both sides here

Brb, just wistfully looking at princess Margaret’s morning routine and planning on a way I can adopt this.

Interesting point from a good thread

Thinking about him (the man standing in front of me at a The Fall gig, who, about two songs in, loudly exclaimed “oh, no. No thank you” downed his pint and left

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🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)

Veronika 🐮🎓❤️

Quote of the day

Phone: comfy? Me: yeah Phone: finally got everything just how you like it? Me: yeah Phone: good cuz I feel a big update coming on

Twinsies!

"Shannon Airport is strategically vital national infrastructure, serving not only commercial air traffic but also facilitating military traffic at the direction of Government," Airport Chair writes to Minister. That’s US military traffic. At the direction of Government. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

im so sorry.. that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee