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Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
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The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
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Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.
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I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
The new rules and regulations will not affect tenants that have been in place before March 1 and after that date, they will see a six-year tenancy agreement put in place
Renters could be facing an even more uncertain market in the months ahead of new tenancy rules that are coming into effect
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November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
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Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM
Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2—the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, training process and checkpoints along …
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November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...
First, how is this a news story? Second, there is zero evidence it's foxes besides a video showing them "circling a car". I live very close to this estate and I worry this collective hysteria will lead someone to poison foxes/wildlife. 🦊 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Foxes believed behind damage to dozens of Dublin cars
Residents of a south Dublin housing estate are trying to uncover the cause of damage to around 40 cars which has resulted in repair bills of totalling tens of thousands of euro.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
First, how is this a news story? Second, there is zero evidence it's foxes besides a video showing them "circling a car". I live very close to this estate and I worry this collective hysteria will lead someone to poison foxes/wildlife. 🦊 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
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We've transformed our city in many ways in the last five years. This street used to be full of cars. Now there's music, laughter, food, people sitting down. Life slows down a little bit on Parliament Street.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We've transformed our city in many ways in the last five years. This street used to be full of cars. Now there's music, laughter, food, people sitting down. Life slows down a little bit on Parliament Street.
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
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Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence
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That was nothing but a racist riot last night in south west Dublin.
Thank you to the Gardaí who did their jobs managing to quell the racist thugs by 10pm.
And a reminder that usually the biggest risk to people's safety are the abusers who are in the riot.
Thank you to the Gardaí who did their jobs managing to quell the racist thugs by 10pm.
And a reminder that usually the biggest risk to people's safety are the abusers who are in the riot.
October 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
That was nothing but a racist riot last night in south west Dublin.
Thank you to the Gardaí who did their jobs managing to quell the racist thugs by 10pm.
And a reminder that usually the biggest risk to people's safety are the abusers who are in the riot.
Thank you to the Gardaí who did their jobs managing to quell the racist thugs by 10pm.
And a reminder that usually the biggest risk to people's safety are the abusers who are in the riot.
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He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
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#HaveYourSay on the future of Deansgrange Village!
Please support Option 3 or 4
bit.ly/dlrDeansgran...
Please support Option 3 or 4
bit.ly/dlrDeansgran...
Public Consultation: Deansgrange Village Improvements 2025 | Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
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October 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
#HaveYourSay on the future of Deansgrange Village!
Please support Option 3 or 4
bit.ly/dlrDeansgran...
Please support Option 3 or 4
bit.ly/dlrDeansgran...
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This is appalling
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
www.thejournal.ie
October 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This is appalling
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
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AI is apparently already accelerating science as a co-intelligence.
Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.
Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
AI is apparently already accelerating science as a co-intelligence.
Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.
Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.
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A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity.
"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."
scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...
"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."
scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...
Earth Was a Fungal World Before Plants Existed
Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have prepared the world for life to flourish on land.
scitechdaily.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A profound rethinking of the history of #biodiversity.
"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."
scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...
"In new view, plants did not colonize a barren wasteland, but rather world prepared for them over eons by the ancient and persistent activity of the fungal kingdom."
scitechdaily.com/earth-was-a-...
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Micheál Martin raises the white flag on achieving our climate targets 🏳️
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.
October 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Micheál Martin raises the white flag on achieving our climate targets 🏳️
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.
A Government with no leadership, no ambition and no ideas.
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If it's not poisoned/shot eagles or killing life in rivers it's just plain bulldozing of important habitats.
What they all have in common is the ease with which perpetrators escape meaningful punishment... if they're caught in the first place.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
What they all have in common is the ease with which perpetrators escape meaningful punishment... if they're caught in the first place.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
Farmer fined for destruction of rare limestone habitat
A Co Galway farmer has been ordered to pay over €9,300 in penalties for the destruction of more than four hectares of "an extremely rare and unique" limestone pavement habitat in a Special Area of Con...
www.rte.ie
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If it's not poisoned/shot eagles or killing life in rivers it's just plain bulldozing of important habitats.
What they all have in common is the ease with which perpetrators escape meaningful punishment... if they're caught in the first place.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
What they all have in common is the ease with which perpetrators escape meaningful punishment... if they're caught in the first place.
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
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Little Nettle tap moths covering this Ragwort today. They are beautiful little moths. Ragwort is such an important plant.
September 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Little Nettle tap moths covering this Ragwort today. They are beautiful little moths. Ragwort is such an important plant.
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Ironically, the reason why generative AI has defaulted to the "dreamlike" aesthetic over time is due to RLHF of the average person preferring it.
It is us, the audience, with bad taste.
It is us, the audience, with bad taste.
February 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Ironically, the reason why generative AI has defaulted to the "dreamlike" aesthetic over time is due to RLHF of the average person preferring it.
It is us, the audience, with bad taste.
It is us, the audience, with bad taste.
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The massive success of the 20+ play streets across Dublin today will be entirely missed by the naysayers precisely because they only impact (positively) the people who live on the streets concerned - and no one else!!
September 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The massive success of the 20+ play streets across Dublin today will be entirely missed by the naysayers precisely because they only impact (positively) the people who live on the streets concerned - and no one else!!
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Sir Clement Spelman and his second wife Ursula (nee Willoughby), leaning awkwardly on their elbows.
All Saints church, Narborough, Norfolk.
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/narborough/n...
All Saints church, Narborough, Norfolk.
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/narborough/n...
September 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Sir Clement Spelman and his second wife Ursula (nee Willoughby), leaning awkwardly on their elbows.
All Saints church, Narborough, Norfolk.
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/narborough/n...
All Saints church, Narborough, Norfolk.
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/narborough/n...
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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?