Elaine Burke
elaineburke.bsky.social
Elaine Burke
@elaineburke.bsky.social
Talking tech, science and media. Journalist and broadcaster. Host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and Connected AI Podcast.
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If you have been framing your work as involving/in relation to "AI", what do you mean by "AI"? How would you describe your work without using that phrase?

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November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition

"beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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tech companies & executives are not scared enough of the consequences of harming people. they know they're ultimately very insulated from the blowback for wildly reckless experiments on people; that makes for a very unhealthy environment that we need to fix now

tech co's should be scared of people
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's also an excuse to drop my favourite science joke:

What did Watson and Crick discover?

Rosalind Franklin's notes. 🥁
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
These were stats from the report and would assume there wasn't an event distribution of cameras to galleries.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What I'm saying is: I GET IT.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
And true to form, two buses arrived together. Now to join the crawl to expected further delays from an incident at College Green.

No one does congestion like a rainy day in Dublin, a city where it rains for half the year.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hiya Barb, you can find my podcast here:
podfollow.com/for-techs-sake

But the radio piece mentioned above, which is probably what you're looking for, is available here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I bring this up all the time because of how divorced from reality we are when it comes to large numbers, especially because we hear billions and trillions mentioned all the time like they are incremental steps above millions. But there are HUGE leaps between them.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM