Eoin Cunningham
@eoincunningham.bsky.social
Was going to write ‘unbelievable’. Am probably now going to order some external HDs.
this piece is terrifying. it should be actually illegal to do this to people, it's extraordinary that it's not.
we are still treating 'the internet' as this fun place for entertainment rather than *it's as important as your house, it's where you live and work*.
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
we are still treating 'the internet' as this fun place for entertainment rather than *it's as important as your house, it's where you live and work*.
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple De...
hey.paris
December 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Was going to write ‘unbelievable’. Am probably now going to order some external HDs.
This should be pinned to the door of every classroom:
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This should be pinned to the door of every classroom:
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You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.
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The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
September 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It
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those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
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Look, I'm just saying that in 1920 people thought Zeppelins were inevitable.
June 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Look, I'm just saying that in 1920 people thought Zeppelins were inevitable.
Can't believe it's been nearly 11 hours since them slags smashed into Blackrock College, it still freaks my nut out to this day.
June 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Can't believe it's been nearly 11 hours since them slags smashed into Blackrock College, it still freaks my nut out to this day.
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New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
April 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
I can’t stand when people say ‘this’, but here we are. This:
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can’t stand when people say ‘this’, but here we are. This:
I enjoyed this post on a snake oil merchant and the snake oil industrial complex that enabled it: www.sandofsky.com/humane/ h/t to @erikahall.bsky.social
Oh the Humanity
On the failure of Humane and why you can't build Apple with Venture Capital.
www.sandofsky.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I enjoyed this post on a snake oil merchant and the snake oil industrial complex that enabled it: www.sandofsky.com/humane/ h/t to @erikahall.bsky.social
I suspect more tests are coming.
It isn’t insane. It is a test.
Why change the name of St Petersburg to Leningrad? Because doing so shows where power resides.
Why change the name of St Petersburg to Leningrad? Because doing so shows where power resides.
He’s insane.
February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I suspect more tests are coming.
Worth 30 seconds of your time:
Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes.
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU.
Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
February 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Worth 30 seconds of your time:
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
I would have thought a few quid from the historically high budget surplus might have found its way here, but then why would we want to encourage education, tourism, etc
This is a massive failure of imagination from Trinity, and a deep loss for Dublin.
Trinity’s Science Gallery will not reopen after failing to find sustainable business model
University to transform flagship exhibition space on Pearse Street into campus’s first student centre
www.irishtimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:33 AM
I would have thought a few quid from the historically high budget surplus might have found its way here, but then why would we want to encourage education, tourism, etc
The world’s most predictable middle aged man strikes again:
open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...
Although to be fair, much as I enjoyed Wall of Eyes, I may have forgotten the player was left on for a few days.
open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...
Although to be fair, much as I enjoyed Wall of Eyes, I may have forgotten the player was left on for a few days.
December 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM
The world’s most predictable middle aged man strikes again:
open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...
Although to be fair, much as I enjoyed Wall of Eyes, I may have forgotten the player was left on for a few days.
open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...
Although to be fair, much as I enjoyed Wall of Eyes, I may have forgotten the player was left on for a few days.
Still people voting, despite their dog having eaten all the manifestos in the house earlier.
#dogsatpollingstations
#dogsatpollingstations
November 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Still people voting, despite their dog having eaten all the manifestos in the house earlier.
#dogsatpollingstations
#dogsatpollingstations
This is fabulous (as all interviews with Alan Moore are contractually obligated to be):
With not one but two magick-related books out at the moment, I spoke with Alan Moore about fiction, sorcery and why, in the end, all art is just pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fantasy writer Alan Moore: ‘Magic is not this big, spooky, dark thing that’s full of nightmares’
The legendary storyteller – who has two new books out – says the act of creation is the purest essence of magic itself
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 12:33 PM
This is fabulous (as all interviews with Alan Moore are contractually obligated to be):
This week in middle age cringe: had to do a role play in work training and found myself building a character and working out posture, delivery, voice etc. Because clearly I have a gaping chasm of creative expression.
“Do you do am-dram?”
“Do you do am-dram?”
November 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
This week in middle age cringe: had to do a role play in work training and found myself building a character and working out posture, delivery, voice etc. Because clearly I have a gaping chasm of creative expression.
“Do you do am-dram?”
“Do you do am-dram?”
“Bluesky is down again? If only there were some pattern or connection with world events… “
November 14, 2024 at 11:07 PM
“Bluesky is down again? If only there were some pattern or connection with world events… “
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Michael Haneke’s Elf
Paul Verhoeven’s Phantom Thread
Akira Kurosawa's Caddyshack
October 31, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Michael Haneke’s Elf
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he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
September 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
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Every time I see the word ‘jurisprudence’ my mind goes straight to this headline
August 15, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Every time I see the word ‘jurisprudence’ my mind goes straight to this headline