Hugh Macabre
@hughmacabre.bsky.social
Fulltime academic (TU Dublin, media/technology). Sometime musician (M Stevens & The Ghasts, learning jazz, gimme indie rock). Oddtime artist (weird and not-so-weird photography). Back from Spain.
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I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.
January 18, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs a while back. It's fruitless. Even if they could be budged on empirical grounds, they are explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical.
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No Women, No Palestinians and No Muslims on this “Gaza Board of Peace,” deciding the fate of Palestinian Gazans. Exploitative Western Colonialism still going strong in the 21st Century.
Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blair and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace'
The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the
www.bbc.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
No Women, No Palestinians and No Muslims on this “Gaza Board of Peace,” deciding the fate of Palestinian Gazans. Exploitative Western Colonialism still going strong in the 21st Century.
Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blair, Kushner and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Doing a lot of pulling out records I haven’t listened to in a long time recently. Some stand up and some don’t. This kicks the shit out of everything.
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Doing a lot of pulling out records I haven’t listened to in a long time recently. Some stand up and some don’t. This kicks the shit out of everything.
“The 47 Ronin director was accused of defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars intended to be spent on completing a sci-fi series … ; he was then alleged to have spent the money on luxury items and risky bets on the cryptocurrency market.”. Surely this is something to be applauded.
Carl Rinsch, director of 47 Ronin, faces up to 90 years in jail having been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11m.
filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix...
filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix...
Netflix | Director Carl Rinsch loses $11m fraud case; faces years in prison
Carl Rinsch, director of 47 Ronin, faces up to 90 years in jail having been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11m.
filmstories.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“The 47 Ronin director was accused of defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars intended to be spent on completing a sci-fi series … ; he was then alleged to have spent the money on luxury items and risky bets on the cryptocurrency market.”. Surely this is something to be applauded.
Last night I watched the excellent Swedish film Crossing about a Georgian woman searching for her trans niece in Istanbul and it occurred to me that if the Warners/Netflix deal does put the final nail in the coffin of Hollywood then, sad as that is, there is a whole world of other cinema out there.
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Last night I watched the excellent Swedish film Crossing about a Georgian woman searching for her trans niece in Istanbul and it occurred to me that if the Warners/Netflix deal does put the final nail in the coffin of Hollywood then, sad as that is, there is a whole world of other cinema out there.
If I didn’t already have a job I’d be all over this. Fantastic opportunity for someone.
Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...
Call for Digital Humanities Research Scientist (M/F/D)Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing"
Job Offer from December 04, 2025
www.biblhertz.it
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If I didn’t already have a job I’d be all over this. Fantastic opportunity for someone.
Dublin Music fans: my band are playing Curveball tonight. Passed my PhD viva yesterday so I’ll be celebrating. Probably drunk but I’m on bass tonight so that should be fine. God knows, I’ve done that enough times before.
December 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dublin Music fans: my band are playing Curveball tonight. Passed my PhD viva yesterday so I’ll be celebrating. Probably drunk but I’m on bass tonight so that should be fine. God knows, I’ve done that enough times before.
What’s going on with RTE drive time? It’s bad enough they chopped off a chunk and replaced it with sport but now I turn it on at 5:30 (before the stupid sport starts) and I find they’re just wittering on about Brussel sprouts.
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What’s going on with RTE drive time? It’s bad enough they chopped off a chunk and replaced it with sport but now I turn it on at 5:30 (before the stupid sport starts) and I find they’re just wittering on about Brussel sprouts.
Dublin folks … my band have a rare gig coming up …. and I’m playing the bass now, which is my real musical comfort zone buttonfactory.ie/shows/2025/1...
CURVEBALL: M Stevens & The Ghasts — Button Factory
M Stevens & The Ghasts play in Curveball on December 6 th . Having released their second album Sycamore Helicopters in November 2024, The Ghasts spent 2025 playing gigs around Ireland as well a...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Dublin folks … my band have a rare gig coming up …. and I’m playing the bass now, which is my real musical comfort zone buttonfactory.ie/shows/2025/1...
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If Affinity does this design work immediately becomes viable on Linux. Huge deal.
techcentral.co.za/affinity-for...
via @conignis.bsky.social
techcentral.co.za/affinity-for...
via @conignis.bsky.social
Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market
Canva is seriously considering porting Affinity to Linux - a move that could transform desktop Linux and challenge Adobe.
techcentral.co.za
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If Affinity does this design work immediately becomes viable on Linux. Huge deal.
techcentral.co.za/affinity-for...
via @conignis.bsky.social
techcentral.co.za/affinity-for...
via @conignis.bsky.social
Perhaps the greatest ever two line review of a book.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Perhaps the greatest ever two line review of a book.
Given that tonight I’m going to see the greatest Irish band of the last 30 years do a warm-up gig at an as-yet-undisclosed location in preparation for their first shows in over a decade it’s understandable that I won’t get any work done this afternoon, right?
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Given that tonight I’m going to see the greatest Irish band of the last 30 years do a warm-up gig at an as-yet-undisclosed location in preparation for their first shows in over a decade it’s understandable that I won’t get any work done this afternoon, right?
Every time someone chairing a meeting moves to bring it to a close by confirming that they are “conscious of time” I wonder why we are suddenly talking about phenomenology.
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Every time someone chairing a meeting moves to bring it to a close by confirming that they are “conscious of time” I wonder why we are suddenly talking about phenomenology.
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🇮🇪 DUBLIN! 🇮🇪
My new show 'ASSETS' opens at Green on Red Gallery for Dublin Gallery Weekend.
Nov 7 - Dec 12
Reception: Friday Nov 7, 5-9pm
Here is a sneak peek of new sculpture...
Ghost Mussels (2025)
3D printed mussels in the shape of mussels on a hand-painted default rock from blender.
My new show 'ASSETS' opens at Green on Red Gallery for Dublin Gallery Weekend.
Nov 7 - Dec 12
Reception: Friday Nov 7, 5-9pm
Here is a sneak peek of new sculpture...
Ghost Mussels (2025)
3D printed mussels in the shape of mussels on a hand-painted default rock from blender.
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🇮🇪 DUBLIN! 🇮🇪
My new show 'ASSETS' opens at Green on Red Gallery for Dublin Gallery Weekend.
Nov 7 - Dec 12
Reception: Friday Nov 7, 5-9pm
Here is a sneak peek of new sculpture...
Ghost Mussels (2025)
3D printed mussels in the shape of mussels on a hand-painted default rock from blender.
My new show 'ASSETS' opens at Green on Red Gallery for Dublin Gallery Weekend.
Nov 7 - Dec 12
Reception: Friday Nov 7, 5-9pm
Here is a sneak peek of new sculpture...
Ghost Mussels (2025)
3D printed mussels in the shape of mussels on a hand-painted default rock from blender.
We need a Dublin version of this.
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
October 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We need a Dublin version of this.
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Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
I have a bike pannier I inherited from my late father. He must have bought it in the late 70s or early 80s. It still works, is in good nick, and it looks classy. A backup I bought a few years ago has already fallen apart.
Reminder that things are in fact worse quality for more money, that no, Elder Gen Z/millennials/gen x, you're not imagining it, nor should you accept it as "the way things are."
Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling
Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I have a bike pannier I inherited from my late father. He must have bought it in the late 70s or early 80s. It still works, is in good nick, and it looks classy. A backup I bought a few years ago has already fallen apart.
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Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience
Rún - Rún
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Rún - Rún
buff.ly/NIspZR6
September 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Mining sludge metal, free improv, krautrock, sacred music, electronica, and folk, Rún are playing with horror, not just as a trope, but as a worldly experience
Rún - Rún
buff.ly/NIspZR6
Rún - Rún
buff.ly/NIspZR6
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"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"
Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"
Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"
Just submitted this thing today. Now to try and remember what I spent my time doing before this took over my life. I might have to start another band.
August 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just submitted this thing today. Now to try and remember what I spent my time doing before this took over my life. I might have to start another band.
I paid a fair few quid to get hold of a used copy of this a few years back. Absolutely worth it. I also did my undergrad thesis/project on ELIZA many moons ago. Me and Weizenbaum go way back.
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.”
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
August 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I paid a fair few quid to get hold of a used copy of this a few years back. Absolutely worth it. I also did my undergrad thesis/project on ELIZA many moons ago. Me and Weizenbaum go way back.
Your house is on fire and you can only save one record.
August 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Your house is on fire and you can only save one record.
Well done to everyone who worked to make this happen and I’m very pleased to see my university involved in this.
The first flight with an estimated 27 students will arrive in Dublin today.
The complex operation has involved coordinated action by a number of Irish unis inc. SETU, TCD, UCD, UL and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, University of Galway, Maynooth University, ATU, RCSI, TU Dublin and DCU.
The complex operation has involved coordinated action by a number of Irish unis inc. SETU, TCD, UCD, UL and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, University of Galway, Maynooth University, ATU, RCSI, TU Dublin and DCU.
Fifty-two young Palestinians from Gaza are due to arrive in Ireland today and in the coming days to begin a new life as students in Irish universities.
August 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well done to everyone who worked to make this happen and I’m very pleased to see my university involved in this.
REM thing with @tedleo.bsky.social and friends at Vicar Street tonight was just glorious but also made me think that Murmur really is their best record. Having said that - I’m looking forward to the possibility of a run through LRP. Shannon is also clearly a frustrated rock star. Great job folks!
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
REM thing with @tedleo.bsky.social and friends at Vicar Street tonight was just glorious but also made me think that Murmur really is their best record. Having said that - I’m looking forward to the possibility of a run through LRP. Shannon is also clearly a frustrated rock star. Great job folks!
Infuriating listening to the technology correspondent of the Irish Times on the radio conflating email with gmail and not telling listeners they could deal with the spam problem by simply switching to a different email service.
August 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Infuriating listening to the technology correspondent of the Irish Times on the radio conflating email with gmail and not telling listeners they could deal with the spam problem by simply switching to a different email service.