Aubrey Robinson
@aubreyr.bsky.social
TV producer. Image maker.
Currently #TonightVMTV
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Currently #TonightVMTV
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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'A shutdown of the AMOC “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” said @rahmstorf.bsky.social , a physical oceanographer and climatologist who has studied the AMOC at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social '
A crucial system of ocean currents may be on course to collapse. This country just declared it a national security threat | CNN
Without warm currents from the South Atlantic, Iceland would be much icier and stormier. Now, those currents are at risk of collapse and the country is preparing for this “existential threat.”
edition.cnn.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'A shutdown of the AMOC “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore in view of the evolving science over the past years,” said @rahmstorf.bsky.social , a physical oceanographer and climatologist who has studied the AMOC at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social '
If you though the housing deficit numbers were depressing…
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you though the housing deficit numbers were depressing…
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As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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#aras25 poll: Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks
(Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%)
Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks)
Heather Humphreys 23 (+3)
Jim Gavin 15 (-5)
Undecided 31 (-8)
After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
(Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%)
Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks)
Heather Humphreys 23 (+3)
Jim Gavin 15 (-5)
Undecided 31 (-8)
After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
Poll: Catherine Connolly leads in race for presidency as support for Jim Gavin drops
Catherine Connolly is now leading the race for the Áras and is ahead of Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys by nine points, a new poll for the Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks today shows.
www.independent.ie
October 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
#aras25 poll: Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks
(Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%)
Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks)
Heather Humphreys 23 (+3)
Jim Gavin 15 (-5)
Undecided 31 (-8)
After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
(Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%)
Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks)
Heather Humphreys 23 (+3)
Jim Gavin 15 (-5)
Undecided 31 (-8)
After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47
www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law
Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.
www.politico.eu
July 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
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AI is transforming the Irish job market — fast.
Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind.
📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social
Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind.
📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
AI is transforming the Irish job market — fast.
Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind.
📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social
Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind.
📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social
What do you do when the sea ice is at its lowest level on record? In Trump’s America, you turn off the recorder.
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What do you do when the sea ice is at its lowest level on record? In Trump’s America, you turn off the recorder.
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There's something very...visceral about the idea of Anthropic ripping books from their bindings and feeding them to the machine. Also makes me wonder: who did this physical ripping and chopping work for millions of books? Where do they live? how much were they paid?
June 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There's something very...visceral about the idea of Anthropic ripping books from their bindings and feeding them to the machine. Also makes me wonder: who did this physical ripping and chopping work for millions of books? Where do they live? how much were they paid?
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I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but...
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
June 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
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a significant part of facebook these days is literally just organising pogroms
This page is now going street by street to identify houses for burning
June 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
a significant part of facebook these days is literally just organising pogroms
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Pulp all look like teachers that lost their school pupils in a cave collapse in 1987.
June 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pulp all look like teachers that lost their school pupils in a cave collapse in 1987.
“You're [Ireland] a transit point. You're like a port, you're like Antwerp.”
www.businesspost.ie/markets/were...
www.businesspost.ie/markets/were...
‘We're flushing it all through Ireland’ – Top investment lawyer on Ireland’s role in funds industry
www.businesspost.ie
May 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“You're [Ireland] a transit point. You're like a port, you're like Antwerp.”
www.businesspost.ie/markets/were...
www.businesspost.ie/markets/were...
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The EPA’s latest GHG projections show Ireland is far off track to meet its legally binding carbon budgets. Even with optimistic assumptions, emissions are projected to fall just 23% by 2030—less than half the 51% target.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The EPA’s latest GHG projections show Ireland is far off track to meet its legally binding carbon budgets. Even with optimistic assumptions, emissions are projected to fall just 23% by 2030—less than half the 51% target.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Analysis: There is no hiding place from latest EPA data on greenhouse gases
Do we want to spend our money on fines or ensure Ireland becomes climate resilient?
www.irishtimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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The EPA’s latest GHG projections show Ireland is far off track to meet its legally binding carbon budgets. Even with optimistic assumptions, emissions are projected to fall just 23% by 2030—less than half the 51% target.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
The EPA’s latest GHG projections show Ireland is far off track to meet its legally binding carbon budgets. Even with optimistic assumptions, emissions are projected to fall just 23% by 2030—less than half the 51% target.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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Our periodic reminder we are still in a global climate emergency 🌍
🌡 The April 2025 Climate Bulletin is out. It was the second-warmest April globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 14.96°C, 0.60°C above the 1991-2020 average for April and 1.51°C above the pre-industrial level for the month.
Read the details climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...
Read the details climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Our periodic reminder we are still in a global climate emergency 🌍
Why families became homeless in Q1… 344 due to evictions.
April 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why families became homeless in Q1… 344 due to evictions.
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Using ChatGPT, I recreated Sam Altman as a Simpsons character! Amazing what this tech can do
March 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Using ChatGPT, I recreated Sam Altman as a Simpsons character! Amazing what this tech can do
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In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!
March 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"