"We have stood up for the values of this country," the Anthropic CEO said, discussing the AI lab's refusal to accept the Pentagon's terms for Claude.

Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf.

If the hyper-capitalists and neo-libs are both so rock hard for AI, why aren't we using it to live-factcheck political debates and speeches on stage? Put a big ol' accuracy bar above their heads, going from green to red, or 👼 to 🤡, based on their claims. Assign a score after.⚡

I miss Daft Punk

I miss Daft Punk

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

If the hyper-capitalists and neo-libs are both so rock hard for AI, why aren't we using it to live-factcheck political debates and speeches on stage? Put a big ol' accuracy bar above their heads, going from green to red, or 👼 to 🤡, based on their claims. Assign a score after.⚡

"Art should not be political" is a sentence only ever uttered by hacks who simply do not understand art, and by really, really terrible artists.

TORONTO! Gird your loins and gather your party members - infinite adventure awaits at the bottom of the ENDLESS DUNGEON, coming to your fair city May 21st! Presale begins 2/18 at 10 AM ET. I’ll see you there.

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-squalor-of-the-epstein-class

Big in Dublin (derogatory)

Big in Dublin (derogatory)

I’ve come to the belief that your teens and early twenties are for figuring your identity out. And then your late twenties and thirties are for constructively breaking that apart because it’s a plane that was built in midair.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

The country owes @cmatbaby.bsky.social a huge debt. #Speirgorm

So funny for him to travel down to Enniscorthy just to be like 'now of course as you know, I can't do anything about this'

I'm watching political Twitch streamers you've never heard of advocate for political ideologies you could never understand...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Mockler: The monetization of this presidency of the office is unprecedented. I could almost get over the Trump shoes, the Trump watches, the Trump phone, the Trump NFTs. But when Trump coin came out…

Wake-up babe, JK Rowling is in the Epstein files!

Scream 3 has a crossover with Jay and Silent Bob. I'd totally forgotten that. It feels... Wrong.

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda

Omg. That was honestly some of the dumbest sh1t...

I have never felt more Nostradamus-y in my life and I predicted the feds would cut off research grants

All this news is really completely confirming all my unfair knee-jerk judgments about a certain cadre of rich/famous douchebags, I gotta say

There is zero point putting Gunther in the Rumble unless he's winning it. Waste of a slot otherwise. #RoyalRumble

I don't think it's a conspiracy, I think Trump just wouldn't have thought to demand his wife's name be removed the documents.

Is it just me, or did Dragon Lee's entrance go really f**kin' hard just now??? #RoyalRumble

Ok. So why don't we (and I know this might sound crazy,) *stop them*.

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️pop 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

New Substack newsletter: what I read in January, thoughts on tracking things, and my criteria for whether or not I enjoy people naoise.substack.com/p/to-track-o...

Lolling at the inspired choice from Dublin City Council for their new logo. The citizens of Cork will love this...

We’re delighted to share some very good news: Molly Twomey and Gunnhildur Jónatansdóttir are joining the HOWL 26 team working on English language poetry and fiction. More @ www.howlwriting.ie/post/new-add...

Great news for Munster ❤️

Soon, all the films in close proximity to it will also be THE THING. Within the year, all films in the registry will be THE THING.

None of these guys actually live like this, it’s a social media aesthetic they maintain so that if their start up does make it thy can pretend it was grit instead of luck that got them there. This is actually a model how thy want other people to live, particularly their employees

Nationalize the Viking Splash tour busses!

The naked complacency of people looking at ICE and saying it couldn't happen in the UK. It has happened here. NI shows multiple examples of rules on the use of lethal force being ignored and covered up. And if anyone has the temerity to seek justice, the rule of law matters less for some victims:

Slick, clear Comms. 👌

Former president Mary Robinson has criticised Trump’s Board of Peace, describing it as the “board of the power of one Trump imperial idea”. (requires registration to read)

New Substack, in which I talk about cultural policy, feces, clothes tags, and Fugazi's 1998 album "End Hits". COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE.

just a bird with a banana, as God intended, sir. me, a bird, with a banana as big as my body. you ask me why I sing? and yet you see me here, a bird, with a banana as big as my body

MJF: "There Is The Big Promotion That Loves To Talk About How Much They Want To Cultivate Their Young Talent, But Everyone On Top Of Their Card Is Not Young"

This is going to be outstanding. Walter kicking things off in his old stomping ground, Logan Paul being booed out of the building, and hopefully a massive hometown win for Finn Balor 🤞🤞🤞 WRESTLING IS BACK!!!!! #WWERaw

It's just such a consistently reliable way to identify creeps - just watching who is being very vocally anti-trans or anti-LGBT in general...

This is going to usher in a new era of centrist dad columns on why this means Ireland has to join NATO, buy thousands of cool fighter planes, introduce mandatory military service, build our own nuclear deterrent, &c.