Mary O'Connell
@mary1010.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at UCC. Mama to Dylan. Loves Victorian lit, the Romantics, crime fiction, football. Not necessarily in that order.
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Hello media please stop framing the autism/gut microbiome discourse around autism being a bad thing. Being autistic can be extremely challenging, absolutely, but that's because because society at large doesn't understand and isn't built for autistic people.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hello media please stop framing the autism/gut microbiome discourse around autism being a bad thing. Being autistic can be extremely challenging, absolutely, but that's because because society at large doesn't understand and isn't built for autistic people.
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First edition Chandler on this week’s rare list. See more here: mailchi.mp/mysteriousbo...
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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“If you elect to have a machine do those things for you, you’re losing something. You’re losing a part of yourself.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“If you elect to have a machine do those things for you, you’re losing something. You’re losing a part of yourself.”
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I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?
![["When your selling point is: 'This thing is great, it'll write your high school essays for you, it'll create your artwork for you if you're an artist, so you don't have to actually learn how to draw and paint anymore ... You don't ever need to learn how to read a map or use a compass ... this this will wipe your butt for you.' What's left to live for? The creative spark in human beings - it's one of the most precious, wonderful things we have. What is more important than being creative?'"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiazbvzipuugud3dfrlmwalqxgfkzqkm6hhhnc4deh22bwaxnmz5p4@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I need everyone who uses AI to generate art & text to notice what Vince Gilligan says here. You're surrendering your brain, your creativity, the divine spark within you to a machine. Someday you'll wake up and find you're no longer capable of writing or thinking. And for what?
It is my absolute favourite lecture of the year today. George Eliot. Scientific imagery in Middlemarch. Mary Anning.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It is my absolute favourite lecture of the year today. George Eliot. Scientific imagery in Middlemarch. Mary Anning.
I'd go with 120 million on a striker they didn't need.
Arne Slot’s big mistake at Liverpool this season? Failing to drop struggling Salah | Barney Ronay
Arne Slot’s big mistake at Liverpool this season? Failing to drop struggling Salah | Barney Ronay
Mohamed Salah has drifted from crucial to peripheral in big games, and Arne Slot’s decision to keep picking him is strange
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'd go with 120 million on a striker they didn't need.
No shit.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
No shit.
Had a student tell me they do this. 😭
V tired of seeing people I respect and admire talking about how they use LLMs. "I don't use it to write but I do use it to interrogate my ideas". Why don't you talk to other writers to do that? Or other people in general? Have you considered the ethics?
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Had a student tell me they do this. 😭
The fact this is happening to Liverpool having spent what they did on a title winning team...
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The fact this is happening to Liverpool having spent what they did on a title winning team...
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AI "has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education."
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
AI "has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education."
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Manchester City play a game of football today. Most of us will be watching. Which makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why so few care about City’s owner playing an active role in a genocide so gruesome it can be seen from space. By @barneyronay.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Manchester City play a game of football today. Most of us will be watching. Which makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why so few care about City’s owner playing an active role in a genocide so gruesome it can be seen from space. By @barneyronay.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
Looking forward to this one.
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Looking forward to this one.
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Fuck. Yes.
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fuck. Yes.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Voilà ce que va créer l'IA
Le doute systématique
Le doute systématique
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Voilà ce que va créer l'IA
Le doute systématique
Le doute systématique
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Mamdani responded to the smears by putting out an ad in Arabic and speaking Arabic in his victory speech. The lesson is to never apologize for who you are and never cede to your opponents the idea that their voters are somehow more legitimate than your own voters.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Mamdani responded to the smears by putting out an ad in Arabic and speaking Arabic in his victory speech. The lesson is to never apologize for who you are and never cede to your opponents the idea that their voters are somehow more legitimate than your own voters.
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This made me laugh so, so hard.
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
(For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)
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Had the depressing thought for the first time today that as AI makes people dumber, there will be less and less daylight between humans and AI, it’s just a race to the slop bottom
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Had the depressing thought for the first time today that as AI makes people dumber, there will be less and less daylight between humans and AI, it’s just a race to the slop bottom
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct