Tiarnán de Burca
@nycdubliner.bsky.social
Building a Twitter lifeboat
Sections of this paper read like the excerpts of the Orange Bible in Herbert's Dune.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
September 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Sections of this paper read like the excerpts of the Orange Bible in Herbert's Dune.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
I find it hard to express how sad this makes me. We will always have war, and while we work at it, I never thought it was going away. We used to cheaply stop children from getting diseases, but we've decided to stop doing it. Is just so fucking depressing.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements
Exposing vulnerable people to vaccine-preventable disease is just part of life, Ladapo said.
arstechnica.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I find it hard to express how sad this makes me. We will always have war, and while we work at it, I never thought it was going away. We used to cheaply stop children from getting diseases, but we've decided to stop doing it. Is just so fucking depressing.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’
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There won't be a mobile phone licence awarded by a corrupt process in Tipperary tonight!
July 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
There won't be a mobile phone licence awarded by a corrupt process in Tipperary tonight!
It's SRE Meetup Time! May 22nd, 19:00, hosted by AWS. Great talks, Great Audience. Be There! Pls RT. :)
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The May SRE Meetup., Thu, May 22, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
If I May....
Our next Meetup will be **May 22nd, 19:00**, hosted by **Amazon Web Services (AWS)**.
As ever, first thing to do is to thank **Datadog** for hosting us in Ma
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May 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's SRE Meetup Time! May 22nd, 19:00, hosted by AWS. Great talks, Great Audience. Be There! Pls RT. :)
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I'm hiring! Snowflake in Dublin.
Production Software Engineer, Traffic team.
If you don't know us we're one of the biggest cloud first B2B SaaS companies.
If you don't care about that: We're big, we're growing, and we've problems to solve!
Please Reshare!
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Production Software Engineer, Traffic team.
If you don't know us we're one of the biggest cloud first B2B SaaS companies.
If you don't care about that: We're big, we're growing, and we've problems to solve!
Please Reshare!
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Production Software Engineer | Engineering | Snowflake Careers
Apply for Production Software Engineer job with Snowflake in Dublin, Ireland. Engineering at Snowflake
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April 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm hiring! Snowflake in Dublin.
Production Software Engineer, Traffic team.
If you don't know us we're one of the biggest cloud first B2B SaaS companies.
If you don't care about that: We're big, we're growing, and we've problems to solve!
Please Reshare!
careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/SN...
Production Software Engineer, Traffic team.
If you don't know us we're one of the biggest cloud first B2B SaaS companies.
If you don't care about that: We're big, we're growing, and we've problems to solve!
Please Reshare!
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"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
Bruce Schneier being right.
If you need me I'll be over here wearing out my shocked face.
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Bruce Schneier being right.
If you need me I'll be over here wearing out my shocked face.
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
DIRNSA Fired - Schneier on Security
In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote: It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. It’s something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference...
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April 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
Bruce Schneier being right.
If you need me I'll be over here wearing out my shocked face.
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Bruce Schneier being right.
If you need me I'll be over here wearing out my shocked face.
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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Interesting that you support onerous government regulations yet you’re also a fan of many superheroes who got their powers from workplace accidents 🤔
March 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Interesting that you support onerous government regulations yet you’re also a fan of many superheroes who got their powers from workplace accidents 🤔
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So there’s an Old Guard 2 “book” for sale on Amazon. It’s an ebook. It says it’s by Greg Rucka.
I didn’t write it.
Fuck AI. Fuck Amazon.
I didn’t write it.
Fuck AI. Fuck Amazon.
March 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So there’s an Old Guard 2 “book” for sale on Amazon. It’s an ebook. It says it’s by Greg Rucka.
I didn’t write it.
Fuck AI. Fuck Amazon.
I didn’t write it.
Fuck AI. Fuck Amazon.
The @variety.com article on YouTube at 20: "only about 4% of an estimated 50 million creators worldwide earn more than $100,000 per year"
That's 2 million creators making $100k a year! Only?
Is there another site that's created 2 million well paid jobs?
variety.com/2025/digital...
That's 2 million creators making $100k a year! Only?
Is there another site that's created 2 million well paid jobs?
variety.com/2025/digital...
YouTube at 20: How the Video Colossus Launched the Creator Economy and Turned From Hollywood Foe to Friend
At 20, YouTube is a multibillion-dollar streamer that powers thousands of creator businesses and has become a force media companies can't ignore.
variety.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The @variety.com article on YouTube at 20: "only about 4% of an estimated 50 million creators worldwide earn more than $100,000 per year"
That's 2 million creators making $100k a year! Only?
Is there another site that's created 2 million well paid jobs?
variety.com/2025/digital...
That's 2 million creators making $100k a year! Only?
Is there another site that's created 2 million well paid jobs?
variety.com/2025/digital...
Snowflake Dublin are hiring!
I'll have more to sing about soon, but our first tech role:
Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization
Skills needed: Strong SQL, Strong Support, Great comms.
Please Re-Share!
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I'll have more to sing about soon, but our first tech role:
Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization
Skills needed: Strong SQL, Strong Support, Great comms.
Please Re-Share!
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Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization | Engineering | Snowflake Careers
Apply for Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization job with Snowflake in Dublin, Ireland. Engineering at Snowflake
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March 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Snowflake Dublin are hiring!
I'll have more to sing about soon, but our first tech role:
Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization
Skills needed: Strong SQL, Strong Support, Great comms.
Please Re-Share!
careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/SN...
I'll have more to sing about soon, but our first tech role:
Senior Cloud Support Engineer - Snowflake Engine - Optimization
Skills needed: Strong SQL, Strong Support, Great comms.
Please Re-Share!
careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/SN...
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Great idea! Here is a chart with monthly carbon emissions and electricity demand (all-island). Looks like there has been a decoupling between demand growths and emissions from domestic generating sources. Even if we include emissions from net imports in 2023 and 2024, the decoupling still holds.
March 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Great idea! Here is a chart with monthly carbon emissions and electricity demand (all-island). Looks like there has been a decoupling between demand growths and emissions from domestic generating sources. Even if we include emissions from net imports in 2023 and 2024, the decoupling still holds.
This was really interesting. And by the time I'm reading '000s word long posts about cultural impact and translation of Sally Rooney novels.. I should read one!
This interview with Na Zhong, the translator of Sally Rooney's work into Simplified Chinese, is thought-provoking in how the nuances of two cultures are painstakingly matched
A Trinity Marxist and a Chinese Marxist are not interchangeable!
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A Trinity Marxist and a Chinese Marxist are not interchangeable!
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The Cloud in Sally Rooney's Room
Is Sally Rooney the undeniably universal millennial experience as the rest of the world claims? Jaime interviews Na Zhong, the Simplified Chinese translator of Sally Rooney’s three novels to date, to ...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This was really interesting. And by the time I'm reading '000s word long posts about cultural impact and translation of Sally Rooney novels.. I should read one!
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I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
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I’m crying, this is so funny
WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”
- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
March 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m crying, this is so funny
WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
Fun with @deepseek.bsky.social
"What word follows these terms to describe geographic locations?
Red
Times
Tianerman
Trafalgar"
I guess if you copy from an uncensored model, you have to add the censorship in postproduction!
"What word follows these terms to describe geographic locations?
Red
Times
Tianerman
Trafalgar"
I guess if you copy from an uncensored model, you have to add the censorship in postproduction!
January 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Fun with @deepseek.bsky.social
"What word follows these terms to describe geographic locations?
Red
Times
Tianerman
Trafalgar"
I guess if you copy from an uncensored model, you have to add the censorship in postproduction!
"What word follows these terms to describe geographic locations?
Red
Times
Tianerman
Trafalgar"
I guess if you copy from an uncensored model, you have to add the censorship in postproduction!
Charge Everything.
January 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Charge Everything.
Amazing pic.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock left the government meeting, refusing to be photographed with Chancellor Olaf Scholz after his decision to block the allocation of a new aid package for Ukraine, - Bild.
Instead of a thousand words.
Instead of a thousand words.
January 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Amazing pic.
January #SRE Meetup.
Back to the Mothership!
Google Dublin Jan 30th.
We keep booking out, so sign up!
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Back to the Mothership!
Google Dublin Jan 30th.
We keep booking out, so sign up!
www.meetup.com/site-reliabi...
The January SRE Meetup. , Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Happy New Year!
Our next meetup will be on **January 30th, 19:00**, hosted by **Google**.
Back to the SRE Mothership!
None of this is possible without our hosts, so thank
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January 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
January #SRE Meetup.
Back to the Mothership!
Google Dublin Jan 30th.
We keep booking out, so sign up!
www.meetup.com/site-reliabi...
Back to the Mothership!
Google Dublin Jan 30th.
We keep booking out, so sign up!
www.meetup.com/site-reliabi...
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Friday Banger.
Give it up for The Superman Lovers.
youtu.be/h61QG4s0I3U?...
Give it up for The Superman Lovers.
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The Supermen Lovers (feat. Mani Hoffman) · Starlight (Official Video)
YouTube video by LaTebwaRules
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January 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Friday Banger.
Give it up for The Superman Lovers.
youtu.be/h61QG4s0I3U?...
Give it up for The Superman Lovers.
youtu.be/h61QG4s0I3U?...
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Every trans adult was a trans child.
I was a trans child. I was a trans teenager. I just didn’t have any help.
I was a trans child. I was a trans teenager. I just didn’t have any help.
December 31, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Every trans adult was a trans child.
I was a trans child. I was a trans teenager. I just didn’t have any help.
I was a trans child. I was a trans teenager. I just didn’t have any help.
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me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies
December 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]
my boss: and the other one
me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]