Cormac Deane
deanec.bsky.social
Cormac Deane
@deanec.bsky.social
media, 7 types of control, film, total information awareness, heat-seeking academic, future college dropout, Balor, formerly @itsmybike on X.
Control room #1
Judge Dredd, 1977
October 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Starting my Christmas wish-list now
#control #controlroom
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Even in the snakes and ladders that is politics, it’s unusual to stop a piece of reform that you yourself created and championed."

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
We deserve better than delays to landmark health legislation
Alcohol labelling laws have repeatedly been delayed, with American tariffs cited most recently, write Sara Burke and Norah Campbell
www.irishexaminer.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The IDF seem to be running low on euphemisms:

Israel army says expanded Gaza operation includes 'moving most of the population' jrnl.ie/6696110
Israel army says expanded Gaza operation includes 'moving most of the population'
Israel’s security cabinet agreed to the ‘possibility’ of distributing much-needed food to the starving population of Gaza.
jrnl.ie
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It might sound at first like a gimmick - writing an essay per week on the same film for a while year. But these essays are beautiful and they point the reader (this reader, anyway) towards many unseen films and books. If you like film, you should follow this on Substack.
This week in Red Desert, we exchange awkward looks with a grey peddler of grey fruit in a grey street - not unlike the grey street Riley walks down in Inside Out, while Joy is lost in the grey pit of disintegrating memories. Plus other depressing thoughts about loss and decay... #filmsky
Everything That Happens in Red Desert (13)
The fruit-seller
www.slowmovingpictures.org
March 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I've reviewed a new book about Liverpool for the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/7ec5...
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain — lessons from a radical city
Sam Wetherell’s provocative history explores a postwar struggle against obsolescence and its relevance for the country’s urban future
www.ft.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The new Captain America film is a chilling warning of what the United States and Israel are capable of before cynically demonstrating mercy on their terms

Eoghan Lyng writes:

dmovies.org/2025/02/17/i...
Is Brave New World a display of American and Zionist superiority?
Eoghan Lyng argues that the new Captain America film is a chilling warning of what the United States and Israel are capable of, before cynically demonstrating mercy on their terms
dmovies.org
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Desperate for people to understand how Big Tech is a major cog in war machines.There is no casual use of foundation model AI. Universities embracing the AI-enhanced learning dream are contributing to mass annihilation, even if it's inconvenient for them to recognize it.

apnews.com/article/isra...
As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
apnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM