My wife, enjoying a Heated Rivalry marathon from her hospital bed

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Reading the third book of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume, many hours into a spell in A & E, waiting for my wife to be tended to for her acute diverticulitis. Have never identified more with the concept of being trapped in a time loop.

What is the function of satire, @storti.bsky.social asks, in the representation of racist fantasy?

she's literally funneling the cash from all her various media ventures into a money gun and pointing it directly at whichever institution promises to hurt trans people the most. she's not even lying about it. she's just telling you that's what she's going to do if you give her more money

Nathan O'Donnell ( @pva-books.bsky.social) on the limitations on cultural infrastructure in Dublin artreview.com/after-the-co...

The most ludicrous situation I’ve ever seen in football just became a whole lot ludicrouser: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.

🚨🚨🚨 🇮🇱 BOMBED NEXT TO THE UNESCO SITE OF BAALBEK This adds to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 axis targeting of a series of heritage sites in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon over the past week (see post 👇 🧵)

Have mentioned this before, but I read "better to incur a mild rebuke than perform an onerous task" in Henry Sugar when I was 8, and I have a very strong, and pleasing, memory of looking up the words incur, rebuke and onerous, and feeling like the doors of language had opened up one crack further.

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

Four days and this war has already cost the American people more than $2.25 billion. iran-cost-ticker.com

First day of 2026 with no recorded rain in Ireland

Have you ever felt all of the fondness and admiration for a person just drain out of your system in 5 seconds?

Interventions like this from the Taoiseach are vital, as they ensure Irish business owners ask themselves questions like “Is it price gouging they’re all at now? Should we be price gouging too? Sure don’t we have to price gouge if they’re all at the price gouging? Would there be good money in it?”

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I've often come across the claim that a fair bit of far right racism shifted to some extent away from a biological framing and towards a more culturalist framing some time in the late 20th century. I'm not sure who first proposed this and would like to read and cite them. Can anyone help?

Again tapping the sign that The Guardian has a sponsorship partnership with OpenAI and every AI article is just dystopian advertorial gunk whether or not directly about OpenAI

Big “hey, you’re rich and stupid!” energy off every shop in Heathrow

Spotify releases a bluetooth urn the same day that BDS calls for a consumer boycott for the company's complicity in Israel's genocide www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

I have many thoughts on The Secret Agent but my main one is that I can’t think of a film that makes better use of its minor characters. There are so many figures that don’t push the plot on, as such, but add so much richness and allude to different facets of Brazil’s social history.

Superb investigative reporting, in front of the paywall for a little while longer.

In a British context, it's particularly odd to watch moderate and sensible journalists + politicians decrying X misinfo one minute, then vastly overstating the salience of X-born right wing talking points the next. Their days spent telling you that there's lead in the paint, while drinking it.

Why in the name of sweet christ is the Irish state funding a chair at *the university of cambridge*?! www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Bohemian FC is proud to host a screening of 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'. Next Thursday at the Light House cinema Smithfield we are hosting a special screening of Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film. 📅 Thursday 26th Feb 🕰️ 6.45pm 📍 Lighthouse Cinema 🔴 Free entry 🎟️ tinyurl.com/HIND-BOHEMIA...

If the Andrew M-B case actually sticks then it means he is too stupid to have any other major figures he could bring down with him. That’s a breathtaking level of stupid.

I know everyone else loves podcasts, but the vast majority of them are “former footballer and two members of S Club 7 discuss carrots and other things that give them the ick”

🇵🇸 🇩🇪 Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania refused to accept the “Most Valuable Film” award for her doc. The Voice of Hind Rajab at the Cinema for Peace gala in Berlin on Feb. 16. The ceremony at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski was attended by fmr. U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton & actor Kevin...

The Government's strategy around Israel is pretending not to know what a boycott is, or how they work "If we boycott the games, the Irish team will lose out" - yep, part of a boycott sadly "The Israeli players aren't responsible for their Gov's actions" - buddy, you need to go back to Boycott 101

I’ve been reading the Migrating Minds journal since their first issue, so I’m delighted to have published this piece on minor characters in Teju Cole’s Open City with them and will be even more delighted if people read it: repository.digital.georgetown.edu/handle/10822...

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights was mostly what I expected: a lush, aesthetically juvenile cartoon melodrama designed to be chopped and sprinkled all over TikTok. Adaptation scholars could have fun reading it against Andrea Arnold’s version - so earthy it might have come from the ground itself.

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights was mostly what I expected: a lush, aesthetically juvenile cartoon melodrama designed to be chopped and sprinkled all over TikTok. Adaptation scholars could have fun reading it against Andrea Arnold’s version - so earthy it might have come from the ground itself.

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

Brian Kerr is a good man. There is no argument to be made against anything he says here. We must not play those games.

Delightful juxtaposition of the little cutie boos in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania with their deviant neighbours. Get some help, Maryland

This guy has been in all kinds of shows and movies I’ve watched over the past couple of decades. He has looked 57 in all of them and is always perfectly competent, and exactly the same. I remember actor’s names but I don’t think I’ve ever known his and I don’t care to learn it.

“On the minus side, I’ve hurt and humiliated you, but on the plus side, I’ve told the entire world that I hurt and humiliated you!”

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

My little protest against recent American developments was to not watch the Superbowl or engage with it. I’m hearing MAGA is having a good hard look at itself and fascism is down 23% already.

if you think you’re excited about this job opening just imagine how the inside candidate must be feeling

Name them shame them

Awful news, thoughts are with the families affected. Everyone in Dublin passes through this area from time to time, we all know how easily this could happen.

Yeah, it'd be brilliant though if the "US Congress" could just mind its own fucking business 👍

Great work, Darren, looks completely fucking shite!

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

omg bill gates slipped his wife antibiotics after he got an std from a russian hooker also is his foundation offering a fellowship

Watched all two hours and thirteen minutes of Highest 2 Lowest and have made myself a promise that I’ll place greater value on my time in future. Between this and Da 5 Bloods, I am willing to declare that Spike Lee is more than ready to retire.