We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME

The online safety Code specifically defines audiovisual content as “communication consisting of images with or without sound” (Section 11) which could be applied as readily to stills as video.

the fucking Lancet again, folks

in a kinda real sense, being hired to high salary (relative) straight out of undergrad without time to experience the world has the same but lesser effects to domestication and that's kind of horrifyingly fascinating

i’m slowly getting nervous that ai is going to start the chaotic pretremors of unemployment during the trump admin and on top of all fucking horrible fascist shit they’re already doing, they’re going to try to implement some sort of mvp UBI only for select groups of people

There is something hypocritical and immoral to me for Norwegians to participate in robbing a people of their petroleum wealth.

Senator Alice Mary Higgins asked the CnaM Chairman why his organisation didn’t take action under the Irish Online Safety Code against Grok generating CSAM. Apparently, it didn’t appear to them to be a breach of the code. What , then, is it good for?

Guys, Alysa Liu just made heart hands at my trans flag, so I am officially deceased. Please hand over this account to my next of kin #SkateAmerica

just got sad because i remembered how my daughter told me she's never been in a kid on kid snowball fight because they aren't allowed to have them at school. they have their own laptops, but not snowball fights.

oh wait i was wrong! this also includes the Serval and others from the same state of the art family but more importantly, it also includes Ceasar artillery: that is quite the impressive buy the only thing i don't see is missile batteries/SHORAD, kinda surprised since that's the priority gap

Griffon heavily armoured, not the lighter Serval it's the choice i'd make too, if concerned w/ local defense of the isle; it's not as if they're gonna be moving much

<Kenny Loggins intensifies>

Note the radiators, “data centres in space” people.

This from last nights John Oliver via Australia’s 60 Minutes about what Andrew Windsor Mountbatten’s close protection officers used to call him is just 😘 👌

EvilCorp www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

I’m so glad team USA promptly embarrassed everyone who cheered for them by partying with Kash Patel and gleefully taking a phone call from the pedophile dictator in chief, complete with misogynist jokes. That’s your country and that’s your team America, the rest of the world is disgusted.

"well, my self-study was in computer science and software engineering but then I had to make a 5 year detour into military strategy, logistics, manouver, leadership, and scalable pedagogy"

All this talk about Sam Altman valuing AI above feeding people and not a single comment on how he is very clearly coked out of his mind here

Small rejoinder to the cohort of people who confidently tell you Ireland should turn to nuclear power. After inventing solar and wind, it just doesn’t make economic sense, and it takes too long to implement.

awwww, github pages refuse to serve Claude, so it can't learn from those? awww, what hypocrites

WHAT www.ontheditch.com/fedex-delete...

The genuine fondness in my heart for this poster and the person who put it together, it could feed nations

Extreme right wingers continuing their losing streak against logistics.

Main concern is that he goes ballistic and declares war on somebody in this press conference.

The reason we bought American was because the Americans promised to protect us. Literally. It was always protection for business. You remove the protection? We withdraw our business! Silly fascists.

youtu.be/GJVSDjRXVoo this has to be ADM w/ significant impact on someone's life

Jury trial.

You would think not but it wouldn't surprise me. The traditional officer and gentleman way, of course, would be to leave a pistol next to the whisky decanter in the library.

Look, if you give me an XKCD generator, we all know what's gonna happen

Far be it from me to hand it to the police but arresting him at his birthday party was very funny

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Scotus: You can't arrest the president or his minions, he's got kingly powers. British: Arresting king's brother.

Frustration yes. It's also embarrassing AF

"The Andrew formerly known as Prince" was right there, people.

'Sorry mate, I didn't see you.' #smidsy

the good goons

vmfunc.re/blog/persona/ here's the context: the EU commission amongst many other govs are pushing for a “papers please” verification of every user on the internet, under the pretext of age verification it's a distributed database of sorts but all websites are now subcontracting Persona #speirgorm

I had a very unpleasant tutorial during an on-campus intensive where a bunch of social work students admitted they’re currently using AI to write case notes and reports in their roles in the community services sector

such hypersonics, very difficult to intercept, much propaganda [i should probably validate this w/ primary sources, but i can't be arsed and i never believed putin's horseshite about his penis not being vulnerable to shorad anyway cc @jackkennedy.ie our international relations correspondent]

you've got at least 3 copy-paste paradigms CUA (ctrl c ctrl v) vi's pro-Union yankee paste and emacs'/GNU style kill and resurrect

@donoteat.bsky.social Horrifying "Safety Third" material from a friend of mine who shall remained unnamed. Folks if you have to get rid of diesel DO NOT DO IT POUR IT INTO SOME POOR BUSINESS'S SUMP.

The NTSB has released its 419 page final report on the DCA mid-air: www.ntsb.gov/investigatio... I'm expecting to finish my Hawker stall test article tomorrow, and I'll start diving into this crash immediately after.

If the prison companies are actively lobbying to hold a population larger than could ever be legally detained -- which, you know, seems to be the case -- they're pretty much aiding and abetting and profiting from false imprisonment, kidnapping, etc. 2/?

I can’t remember the precise phrasing, but the description of Bluesky as a text-based medium where the largest national cohort cannot reliably read for comprehension does rather come forcefully to mind at times.

took longer than Google replying “nothing to see here” 🙈🙉🙊

The context here is of course Vance's and Musk's comments about the "Scots-Irish". They themselves are incapable of learning anything. But other people might be interested to know how much the idea of an "Anglo-Saxon" culture was developed specifically to justify the subjugation of Ireland.

good news, terrible phrasing from the ft

ah yes, anthropic subcontractor for palantir, claude used in the Maduro raid ffs what a crap timeline