Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉
@stane.bsky.social
Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir agus slán le cupla lá.
We'll be in Wales and wifi -less until the new year.
Tog go bog é.
We'll be in Wales and wifi -less until the new year.
Tog go bog é.
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir agus slán le cupla lá.
We'll be in Wales and wifi -less until the new year.
Tog go bog é.
We'll be in Wales and wifi -less until the new year.
Tog go bog é.
Essential read.
Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives.
www.equator.org/articles/how...
www.equator.org/articles/how...
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Essential read.
Just finished the third book of the Calculation of Volume. No spoilers but satisfying to discover it was published in English on 18th November but also satisfying to know the next one is out in April.
December 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just finished the third book of the Calculation of Volume. No spoilers but satisfying to discover it was published in English on 18th November but also satisfying to know the next one is out in April.
Thanks to @drstewartsmith.bsky.social for sending me on a Carla Bley trip
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thanks to @drstewartsmith.bsky.social for sending me on a Carla Bley trip
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Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
Brits arrest someone who was the guest of our president a few days ago. Time to call in the ambassador for a word?
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Brits arrest someone who was the guest of our president a few days ago. Time to call in the ambassador for a word?
Read a review of Palestine 36 that said it was a counter-movie to 'Exodus' and wondered who even remembers that?
I was thinking about this recently in terms of legacy children's literature being so prominent in bookshops compared to hit adult books from the same era. Harold Robbins, Germaine Greer, Shirley Conran, Leon Uris...
Just starting a running thread for “once famous figures now slipping into recondite knowledge now that they’ve died and society moves on” to come back to as and when I remember
=1 Peter Cook and/or Dudley Moore
=1 Peter Cook and/or Dudley Moore
December 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Read a review of Palestine 36 that said it was a counter-movie to 'Exodus' and wondered who even remembers that?
They're looking into it right now...
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
They're looking into it right now...
Don't think I've bought much new this year apart from.lots of excellent cassettes from @fortevilfruit.bsky.social and that comp from @nyahhrecords.bsky.social but in terms of 'big' releases, Golliwog by Billy Woods is the one
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Don't think I've bought much new this year apart from.lots of excellent cassettes from @fortevilfruit.bsky.social and that comp from @nyahhrecords.bsky.social but in terms of 'big' releases, Golliwog by Billy Woods is the one
There were three old gypsies came to our hall door/ They came brave and bold -i -oh/ one sang high and the other sang low/ and the third had a parcel from EVRI that just needed a signature.
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
There were three old gypsies came to our hall door/ They came brave and bold -i -oh/ one sang high and the other sang low/ and the third had a parcel from EVRI that just needed a signature.
Everyone knows the British Library reading room in St. Pancras, but they also have a room beside their storage facility in Boston Spa, in Yorkshire. I was there once and the librarian came over to tell me my car had a flat. 'how did you know it was mine?' I asked. 'only car we didn't recognise....
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Everyone knows the British Library reading room in St. Pancras, but they also have a room beside their storage facility in Boston Spa, in Yorkshire. I was there once and the librarian came over to tell me my car had a flat. 'how did you know it was mine?' I asked. 'only car we didn't recognise....
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I've worked with some researchers who treat data as undifferentiated sludge until it's thematised, and knowledge extracted from it. The self-knowledge that an interviewee might have about themself, or the reflexivity of a printed/ online source is of little interest.
yes of all the horror stories of AI, I think the use of "synthetic publics" to do research on might be - in a very crowded field - the worst one?
*as a novelist* - I can write you fake characters who believe whatever you like. it is just stories.
this is a whole culture developing AI psychosis.
*as a novelist* - I can write you fake characters who believe whatever you like. it is just stories.
this is a whole culture developing AI psychosis.
Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I've worked with some researchers who treat data as undifferentiated sludge until it's thematised, and knowledge extracted from it. The self-knowledge that an interviewee might have about themself, or the reflexivity of a printed/ online source is of little interest.
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Source: The Guardian
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Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
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December 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Source: The Guardian
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@hollyfur.bsky.social
You had similar thoughts I believe?
You had similar thoughts I believe?
Lol. I mean I know it's the imperial war museum, but come on. Have some respect for yourselves if nothing else.
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
@hollyfur.bsky.social
You had similar thoughts I believe?
You had similar thoughts I believe?
SF please note
December 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
SF please note
Bad preparation matched by terrible news management. End of an era, despite the last line?
Well this feels pretty damning
‘it was a glorified stag do. Some members of the team followed two days of drinking in Brisbane with four more in Noosa – six in total, as many days as there had been of Test cricket at this point in the tour.’
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
‘it was a glorified stag do. Some members of the team followed two days of drinking in Brisbane with four more in Noosa – six in total, as many days as there had been of Test cricket at this point in the tour.’
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Bad preparation matched by terrible news management. End of an era, despite the last line?
Wise words. The way the inner cop gets triggered for a lot of academics is telling.
The real task for me as a teacher (and human being) is to make sure that I keep my eyes on the real villain in the whole AI debacle--capital and its captains.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Wise words. The way the inner cop gets triggered for a lot of academics is telling.
An AI that could say anything in an MES voice...
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
An AI that could say anything in an MES voice...
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A wounded walker (has a septic foot) shared his cauliflower with me.
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Partner just back from town (I know - why would you?) went into new concession of well known 'outdoor;' brand.
Posh assistant: 'have you shopped with us before?'
Partner 'yes' in a FO and leave me alone tone.
Couple walk in, dressed head to toe in said brand.
PA 'I see you're wearing our clothes'/
Posh assistant: 'have you shopped with us before?'
Partner 'yes' in a FO and leave me alone tone.
Couple walk in, dressed head to toe in said brand.
PA 'I see you're wearing our clothes'/
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Partner just back from town (I know - why would you?) went into new concession of well known 'outdoor;' brand.
Posh assistant: 'have you shopped with us before?'
Partner 'yes' in a FO and leave me alone tone.
Couple walk in, dressed head to toe in said brand.
PA 'I see you're wearing our clothes'/
Posh assistant: 'have you shopped with us before?'
Partner 'yes' in a FO and leave me alone tone.
Couple walk in, dressed head to toe in said brand.
PA 'I see you're wearing our clothes'/
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"Please indicate the expected impact of your research proposal"
"By the end of the second project year, we expect to reach between 250 and 500 citations of non-existent papers associated with our work"
"By the end of the second project year, we expect to reach between 250 and 500 citations of non-existent papers associated with our work"
December 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"Please indicate the expected impact of your research proposal"
"By the end of the second project year, we expect to reach between 250 and 500 citations of non-existent papers associated with our work"
"By the end of the second project year, we expect to reach between 250 and 500 citations of non-existent papers associated with our work"
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The annoyance of buying a book, recommended highly, that turns out to be all but unreadable. Good writing is as good as ever, but bad writing is far worse than it used to be.
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The annoyance of buying a book, recommended highly, that turns out to be all but unreadable. Good writing is as good as ever, but bad writing is far worse than it used to be.