David wylie
@opexcain.bsky.social
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I flew to Amsterdam and did an interview with the @jetbrains.com team. We covered everything from DevOps to AI, and why I think it's so important for people to constantly reflect on their careers to avoid having 20 years of 1 year experience.
@kelseyhightower.com on platform engineering:
The deployment inputs you ask for – version, CPU, memory, disk, region – are the API your developers rely on.
VMware, cloud, whatever the backend is… the API is what matters.
👉 Full interview: jb.gg/p27tj8
The deployment inputs you ask for – version, CPU, memory, disk, region – are the API your developers rely on.
VMware, cloud, whatever the backend is… the API is what matters.
👉 Full interview: jb.gg/p27tj8
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I flew to Amsterdam and did an interview with the @jetbrains.com team. We covered everything from DevOps to AI, and why I think it's so important for people to constantly reflect on their careers to avoid having 20 years of 1 year experience.
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After watching @hankgreen.bsky.social's AI bubble video in Oct (youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk), I spoke with a financial advisor at a large bank about the risks of this all, and when I mentioned my concerns with Nvidia, they told me — unprompted — that they were avoiding Oracle.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/s...
Dow jumps to record, but S&P 500 struggles as Oracle leads AI stocks lower: Live updates
The S&P 500 fell as Oracle's results reignited fears about high-flying tech stocks.
www.cnbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
After watching @hankgreen.bsky.social's AI bubble video in Oct (youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk), I spoke with a financial advisor at a large bank about the risks of this all, and when I mentioned my concerns with Nvidia, they told me — unprompted — that they were avoiding Oracle.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/s...
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The government is breaking its own law.
It must provide Assessment of Needs in time, and then the necessary therapies that follow from them.
Instead of actually improving these essential services, they intend to remove their own responsibility and culpability for it.
It must provide Assessment of Needs in time, and then the necessary therapies that follow from them.
Instead of actually improving these essential services, they intend to remove their own responsibility and culpability for it.
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The government is breaking its own law.
It must provide Assessment of Needs in time, and then the necessary therapies that follow from them.
Instead of actually improving these essential services, they intend to remove their own responsibility and culpability for it.
It must provide Assessment of Needs in time, and then the necessary therapies that follow from them.
Instead of actually improving these essential services, they intend to remove their own responsibility and culpability for it.
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Can we do the same, but for politicians?
Getting them off Twitter, Facebook and TikTok would be a hell of a start.
Getting them off Twitter, Facebook and TikTok would be a hell of a start.
As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead and severely restrict social media access for young people.
Following Australia's lead, Denmark plans to ban social media for children younger than 15
Denmark is planning to follow Australia in introducing stricter restrictions for younger teens to access social media.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Can we do the same, but for politicians?
Getting them off Twitter, Facebook and TikTok would be a hell of a start.
Getting them off Twitter, Facebook and TikTok would be a hell of a start.
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Once again - boycott everyone who works for ICE, as well as their family members. Don't serve them, don't help them, don't acknowledge them. Make it impossible for them to live in their communities.
The only antidote to fascism is solidarity - like everyone else, they can choose one or the other.
The only antidote to fascism is solidarity - like everyone else, they can choose one or the other.
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Once again - boycott everyone who works for ICE, as well as their family members. Don't serve them, don't help them, don't acknowledge them. Make it impossible for them to live in their communities.
The only antidote to fascism is solidarity - like everyone else, they can choose one or the other.
The only antidote to fascism is solidarity - like everyone else, they can choose one or the other.
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Amanda Seyfried tells WhoWhatWear she won’t apologize for calling Charlie Kirk “hateful”:
“I mean, for f**k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.“
“I mean, for f**k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.“
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Amanda Seyfried tells WhoWhatWear she won’t apologize for calling Charlie Kirk “hateful”:
“I mean, for f**k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.“
“I mean, for f**k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.“
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Or they can try to organise their own counter-campaign, to raise the possibility of one of those policies that lobbyists made earlier costing FF or FG actual votes
That can sometimes work, but an insulation of living inside walled cities is that those inside them tend to only hear people like them
That can sometimes work, but an insulation of living inside walled cities is that those inside them tend to only hear people like them
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Or they can try to organise their own counter-campaign, to raise the possibility of one of those policies that lobbyists made earlier costing FF or FG actual votes
That can sometimes work, but an insulation of living inside walled cities is that those inside them tend to only hear people like them
That can sometimes work, but an insulation of living inside walled cities is that those inside them tend to only hear people like them
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There are ways that people outside those established walls can force change.
They can, for example, insist on the Government following the law.
And the Govt are trying to stop that from happening by restricting judicial review.
They can, for example, insist on the Government following the law.
And the Govt are trying to stop that from happening by restricting judicial review.
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
There are ways that people outside those established walls can force change.
They can, for example, insist on the Government following the law.
And the Govt are trying to stop that from happening by restricting judicial review.
They can, for example, insist on the Government following the law.
And the Govt are trying to stop that from happening by restricting judicial review.
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This is the malaise in Ireland’s democracy.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is the malaise in Ireland’s democracy.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
Because people lose hope.
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When Patrick O’Donovan unveiled his underbaked pie of an Internet policy giving Meta what it wanted, it was because they are inside the walls, just as powerful (but less visible) than the farm lobby.
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
When Patrick O’Donovan unveiled his underbaked pie of an Internet policy giving Meta what it wanted, it was because they are inside the walls, just as powerful (but less visible) than the farm lobby.
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Meanwhile established lobby groups, long inside the walls, can say “Ireland should use a chunk of its EU political capital to get a nitrates derogation so dairy farmers don’t have to change.”
Most Irish people are not dairy farmers, and would prefer clean rivers
www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...
Most Irish people are not dairy farmers, and would prefer clean rivers
www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...
EU Nitrate Derogation decision a bad day for Irish waterways
Today’s vote by the European Nitrates Committee to approve an extension of Ireland’s nitrates derogation for another three years is a bad day for Irish waterbodies and for everyone who relies on clean...
www.antaisce.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Meanwhile established lobby groups, long inside the walls, can say “Ireland should use a chunk of its EU political capital to get a nitrates derogation so dairy farmers don’t have to change.”
Most Irish people are not dairy farmers, and would prefer clean rivers
www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...
Most Irish people are not dairy farmers, and would prefer clean rivers
www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...
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But this power isn’t available to just anyone. The two civil war parties recognise that certain interests are inside the walls and some are outside.
Being located in the liberties, people and groups outside the FF-FG walled cities can say heterodox things like “I think children are people too”.
Being located in the liberties, people and groups outside the FF-FG walled cities can say heterodox things like “I think children are people too”.
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
But this power isn’t available to just anyone. The two civil war parties recognise that certain interests are inside the walls and some are outside.
Being located in the liberties, people and groups outside the FF-FG walled cities can say heterodox things like “I think children are people too”.
Being located in the liberties, people and groups outside the FF-FG walled cities can say heterodox things like “I think children are people too”.
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One of the evident failures of the FF and FG party candidates in the Presidential election was their inability to articulate what either party was for.
These are hollow vessels, whose policies are largely set by outside forces.
An organised external lobby can simply slot their preferred policy in
These are hollow vessels, whose policies are largely set by outside forces.
An organised external lobby can simply slot their preferred policy in
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
One of the evident failures of the FF and FG party candidates in the Presidential election was their inability to articulate what either party was for.
These are hollow vessels, whose policies are largely set by outside forces.
An organised external lobby can simply slot their preferred policy in
These are hollow vessels, whose policies are largely set by outside forces.
An organised external lobby can simply slot their preferred policy in
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Now, the consequences of the Minister’s ideas would be pretty terrible. Elon Musk would be plugged into the state database built on our PPS numbers, for example.
But what it demonstrates is that the power to make a policy and then see a government adopt it largely sits outside of political parties.
But what it demonstrates is that the power to make a policy and then see a government adopt it largely sits outside of political parties.
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Now, the consequences of the Minister’s ideas would be pretty terrible. Elon Musk would be plugged into the state database built on our PPS numbers, for example.
But what it demonstrates is that the power to make a policy and then see a government adopt it largely sits outside of political parties.
But what it demonstrates is that the power to make a policy and then see a government adopt it largely sits outside of political parties.
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And, given the fact that the register of lobbyists features a record of the same Minister being lobbied by Facebook on this exact plan a few weeks ago, I think we may safely let the Magi know they will be spared a trek to Limerick this year.
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
And, given the fact that the register of lobbyists features a record of the same Minister being lobbied by Facebook on this exact plan a few weeks ago, I think we may safely let the Magi know they will be spared a trek to Limerick this year.
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
www.lobbying.ie/return/13174...
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Patrick O’Donovan went out on the national airwaves with a half-baked, bad set of ideas about linking access to online spaces to our PPS numbers.
If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle.
But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.
If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle.
But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Patrick O’Donovan went out on the national airwaves with a half-baked, bad set of ideas about linking access to online spaces to our PPS numbers.
If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle.
But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.
If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle.
But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.
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Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Coffee thoughts:
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
Ireland is a polity where you can go and visit a Minister in a constituency office on a weekend to ask for help filling in a form.
The distance to/from officeholders is effectively zero.
But the distance for most people from *power* can be (invisible to them) huge.
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This is very good and especially good at pointing out that the minister Patrick O'Donovan is doing exactly what Mark Zuckerberg wants him to do, under the guise of 'curbing' social media influence.
New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one.
It's government by Dunning-Kruger.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...
The Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer
Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is very good and especially good at pointing out that the minister Patrick O'Donovan is doing exactly what Mark Zuckerberg wants him to do, under the guise of 'curbing' social media influence.
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I would like to know what are the inhumane and degrading treatments the Minister believes should be legal.
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
Ireland shares concerns over challenges posed by convention on human rights in relation to migration and deporting criminals, Minister tells meeting
www.irishtimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I would like to know what are the inhumane and degrading treatments the Minister believes should be legal.
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Well, geez, that's cool.
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.
Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Well, geez, that's cool.
@beauschwartz.com
@jonjagger.bsky.social
@scottjohnson.zip
u might find this interesting to listen to on 2nd screen
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
@jonjagger.bsky.social
@scottjohnson.zip
u might find this interesting to listen to on 2nd screen
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@beauschwartz.com
@jonjagger.bsky.social
@scottjohnson.zip
u might find this interesting to listen to on 2nd screen
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
@jonjagger.bsky.social
@scottjohnson.zip
u might find this interesting to listen to on 2nd screen
youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY?...
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Its a squash and a squeeze
A politician in Australia was left in disbelief when he came home to discover his pet dog had let a bull and a horse into his living room.
Moo dunnit? Dog lets bull, horse into Australian house
A politician in Australia was left in disbelief when he came home to discover his pet dog had let a bull and a horse into his living room.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Its a squash and a squeeze
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I wonder what the British “contribution” was when they came to Bengal, or Kenya, or Palestine, or China, or…
My dad came to the UK with nothing. He needed financial assistance for years; he even had to ask a charity for money to buy a suit and train ticket for his university interviews. He became a world-leading migraine doctor and helped countless patients.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
He “took”, then he “gave”.
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I wonder what the British “contribution” was when they came to Bengal, or Kenya, or Palestine, or China, or…
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Even with government grant support, first-time buyers need a combined salary of between €84,000 and €129,000 to be in with a chance of purchasing an apartment.
www.thejournal.ie/apartment-co...
www.thejournal.ie/apartment-co...
First-time buyers need a combined salary of (at least) €84,000 to get an apartment
A new report has found that the costs of delivering urban apartments in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway have increased over the past five years.
www.thejournal.ie
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Even with government grant support, first-time buyers need a combined salary of between €84,000 and €129,000 to be in with a chance of purchasing an apartment.
www.thejournal.ie/apartment-co...
www.thejournal.ie/apartment-co...