@redderedder.bsky.social
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I 100% endorse this message. The spoiled votes are a 3rd or 4th order story in this election and disproportionate attention and airtime is a measure of the level of editorial discomfort with talking about Connolly’s success and FF/FG failure.
Catherine Connolly got more votes than any other president in history - any pol corr or commentator trying to convince you that the story is actually the spoiled votes is showing you their whole arse, and should be treated accordingly.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I 100% endorse this message. The spoiled votes are a 3rd or 4th order story in this election and disproportionate attention and airtime is a measure of the level of editorial discomfort with talking about Connolly’s success and FF/FG failure.
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Sarah Carey, in the course of criticizing Connolly, mentions how many Irish journalists are paid to go on jamborees to Israel to get that genocide-performing nation's point of view, and I'd actually like to hear more about that please.
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Sarah Carey, in the course of criticizing Connolly, mentions how many Irish journalists are paid to go on jamborees to Israel to get that genocide-performing nation's point of view, and I'd actually like to hear more about that please.
Going to be wonderful in open plan offices.
buy a headset Ed and throw your keyboard away. You're talking to your PC in the future!
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Going to be wonderful in open plan offices.
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Entirely man-made famine.
August 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Entirely man-made famine.
Seeing as it was a puff piece for an AI event he is sponsoring. I would say no, they could not ask a question.
Would it have killed the IT to ask one fucking question.
August 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Seeing as it was a puff piece for an AI event he is sponsoring. I would say no, they could not ask a question.
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Would it have killed the IT to ask one fucking question.
August 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Would it have killed the IT to ask one fucking question.
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This is great news.
New Dead Zoo Lab to fill the gap left by closure of Dublin's Natural History Museum
https://www.thejournal.ie/dead-zoo-lab-museum-dublin-natural-history-6782552-Aug2025/
https://www.thejournal.ie/dead-zoo-lab-museum-dublin-natural-history-6782552-Aug2025/
New Dead Zoo Lab fills the gap left by closure of Dublin's Natural History Museum
Specimens housed by the Natural History Museum have now been moved to the National Museum in Collins Barracks.
www.thejournal.ie
August 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is great news.
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Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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We have learned nothing.
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
June 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We have learned nothing.
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.
Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?
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Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.
June 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Which should be compared with what the Gardai told me at the time.
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By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil.
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil.
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
🧵
It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi.
🧵
@reckless.bsky.social subscribe to a newspaper and get a speaker
June 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
@reckless.bsky.social subscribe to a newspaper and get a speaker
So not only are their ideas blatant libertarian / randian shite. They also either a) believe everyone is a gullible idiot or are b) gullible idiots themselves
The founder of Progress Ireland insists he is free from the ideological influence of his funders, who are all very right wing. He also says these funders don't want any influence over Progress Ireland, they're just funding it cause they believe in the project so much! Isn't that just peachy for all
This is a fascinating look at influential think tank Progress Ireland, who's behind them, and what they believe. Yeah, I'm biased, as it's written by @lokapila.bsky.social, but still ...
June 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
So not only are their ideas blatant libertarian / randian shite. They also either a) believe everyone is a gullible idiot or are b) gullible idiots themselves
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you could not pay me to give a shit about what other people do if it doesn't endanger anyone else and i just can't understand people who feel differently
April 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
you could not pay me to give a shit about what other people do if it doesn't endanger anyone else and i just can't understand people who feel differently
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Please for the love of god send this to all the normies in your life who need a succinct summary plus broader Elon context
Can anyone stop President Musk?
A republic, if you can keep it.
www.theverge.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Please for the love of god send this to all the normies in your life who need a succinct summary plus broader Elon context