I just want a nice night on the internet ca 2014 when you could think about Denver Airport conspiracy theories without worrying that maybe they were right

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

underexamined in the debate about banning youths from social media is that we are effectively talking about regulating social media as a vice industry like alcohol, tobacco and gambling, but with the public health implications of that not at all applying to adult use of social media

this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action

This is a shocking move even for them. People's homes are flooded and sewage is running down the streets cause of climate change and these clowns are deprioritizing doing anything about it. The only thing they'll do is remove judicial reviews...

Any organisation taking this money are agents of a foreign power and should be shut down.

Will the Irish Electoral Commission be ready to deal with the flood of US State Department funding for far right and MAGA voices attempting to influence Irish elections? www.ft.com/content/f869...

what the fuck man

From: [email protected] To: Tony Hoare u shd let an refrence b empty. it wl b a clean way to reprasent mptyness nd shuld b ez to implamint

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

My mother's phone has a speech to text function and sometimes I will get a text message from her like "Hello, weather is lovely and a body has been found in the garden brutally murdered" and I have a short panic before realising she has texted me while watching Ms. Marple.

The thing about Jack Chambers is that he's a guy who will in all likelihood still be a TD in the 2040s when Climate change will really be kicking us in the dick. You'd think that taking measures now to mitigate the worst of it would be in his own personal interest.

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

behaviour we would prosecute under existing laws if we prioritised the safety of the most vulnerable road users: speeding, driving using a phone, breaking red lights, footpath parking, parking in bus lanes behaviour we plan to prosecute because we prioritise motordom: cyclists not wearing hi-viz

If you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.

I’m passing Conor’s Law which is ‘enforce the actual laws that already exist that already make these things clearly illegal’

And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling. This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

help i think im going to turn into a marble statue pfp guy but for computer. this is a moral hazard. we’re losing our culture. this decadence will end in decline

I’m sorry I’m still not over a US Congressional report trying to use the arrest of British man Graham Linehan by UK police in late 2025 as evidence of the European Union’s agenda to suppress “American Speech”

Put the squirrel back you dirty snartchers

The idea that there could actually be a business case for a data center that cant cool itself, cant power itself, fails at a significantly higher rate, and costs at least an extra $4,000 per kilogram is so fucking laughable that I dont even know where to start

A "sentient sun"... But the physics of putting data centres in space is extremely challenging, to say the least www.newscientist.com/article/2509...

Worth remembering that SpaceX is currently committed to landing on the moon next year, using a mission architecture that has never been attempted. Is it also going to build data centres in space at the same time? Or will it let one or both of these goals slide?

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

you could not under penalty of torture get me to admit the level of ignorance about my own country and its history and culture that Irish conservatives are proudly displaying about Imbolc right now

I do think CS Lewis was on to something when he wrote about the lure of being in the Inner Ring. (“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things”) www.lewissociety.org/innerring/

It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?

Astonishing how every major figure in New Atheism turned out to be an arsehole linked to racism, anti-feminism, transphobia, or Epstein.

“And then everything goes into this markdown file” is the computer programming version of “and I don’t even need a real toilet because I have all these empty mountain dew bottles already”

I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives

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.

Just gonna sit here with the knowledge that everything we suffer right now is legitimately downstream of a lack of adequate forum moderation

GAIUS QUINTUS DONT STEP ON THE CLAY BY JUPITER

I have, for years, talked about how I spent the late aughts on 4chan, and I've been watching the worst people from there take over the world. And. He's. He relaunched /pol/ after meeting with Epstein. It's been fucking /pol/ this entire fucking time fucking fuck.

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

Interesting story from Eavan Murray in @Independent_ie today on infighting within Met Éireann and the response to this week’s events.

feel like “moltbook” is effectively “sydney 2,” insofar as: (1) it’s genuinely cool and spooky, but (2) most of the posts are the bots "performing" implictly for the approval of human readers, including a lot of confabulation, which we should expect because

OpenClaw (which was Moltbot, which was ClawdBot, all in the course of a week) is the new `sudo curl | bash`

Increasingly think UBI is what tech bros say because they can’t face saying tax and welfare/benefits as.ft.com/r/da40da05-4... Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@griffski.bsky.social this is possibly not news to you but it seems Sesame Street have been uploading more old episodes! kottke.org/26/01/watch-...

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

clawdbot/moltbot is going to help someone lose a LOT of money when they merrily wire everything up to the Internet. People are already tradng Shodan scans of clawdbot installs running on cloud servers!

The only public operational data we have about the operation of our city bus network (as opposed to the slack-jawing of certain local councillors) is in the pre-BusConnects Choices Report . The data pointed to lower levels of service at weekends suppressing passenger traffic.

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

UpScrolled is blowing up due to the Tiktok ban - #2 in the US right now. It's ethical social media: no shadowbans, no algorithmic bullshit, no controls on your feed, not designed for addiction, doesn't sell your data

From the genre "I never thought the suppression of the Malayan National Liberation Army / Mau Mau would come to Derry".

"immigration crisis" "federal accounts challenged" The IT has no idea how to meet the moment

the whole D&D movie is such a delightful surprise and really captures the feeling of your classic party: constantly egging each other on to ridiculous shenanigans that totally derail whatever the DM is trying to do poor, poor Jarnathan