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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

i think citizenship should be given, no questions asked, to anyone who comes to Ireland and sticks it out for say 3 years. 3 years of these winters - cold, wet, dark, miserable, buses that randomly don't show up, and you wanna stay? Welcome. This island is a monastery, you are a child of God.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

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🇫🇷 PARIS! 🇫🇷 I will have work in Paris Photo, at the Momentum, Miami booth. Grand Palais - Paris 11-15 Nov, 2026. I'll also take part in this panel discussion at CCI paris on Nov 13. www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/... With support from Culture Ireland :)

Is it just a coincidence that Dublin Bus services vastly improved when the green party were at the table, and services have deteriorated more more since they lost power?

Ahead of an appearance at Deep Time, the Irish experimentalist gives Alastair Shuttleworth 10 entry points into a back catalogue which includes an opera with Barbie dolls, 12 fictional aliases and a board game for them to play The Strange World Of… Jennifer Walshe buff.ly/2y3ExlK

How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.” [anildash.com]

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Meta truly is an evil corporation. Move that friend or family group chat off WhatsApp and over to signal. Start the conversation. Keep suggesting this until everyone goes. Even if it takes years.

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

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Brazil!

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Serbia!

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What the fuck is wrong with these nerds?

Meta using the RayBan's design was such a miss.

A prototype of the manual and cartridge for v0.9 of the BITBAS Creative Coding Platform for the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom - the flip book format is in both English and Japanese - kierannolan.com/bitbas

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You found an item.

How I imagine discourse on tiktok in the last 24 hours: It's okay to punch your granny in the face if she moves in too fast, but grannies have the right to defend themselves and can administer an almighty kick in your gowl if you don't vote FF in the next election.

Objections to the current state of reality continue over at pragmatophobia.net

So tired of fascists turning everything into a fake culture war. Why do these creeps have to be so annoying?

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Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

My local, The Vintage Inn is going to be sold! No good will come of this. www.independent.ie/business/com...

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Ten toes - it's more than enough!

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25 years of internet activated bubbles. This is what the internet was supported to be. andieandmike.org/bubblecam/

So the Irish Government launched the 'Intelligence:Applied' programme at the AI Summit last week. Buried in the aspirational goals (see here: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...) is this particularly interesting nugget. It looks like the #Eircode database may become #OpenData! Grain of salt required.

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Cyborg / Commodore 64 / CRL / 1987

If only Ruhama ambassador Frances Fitzgerald had been there when the architect of law, Frances Fitzgerald, was told the law would increase violence against sex workers, by sex workers themselves.

Tongan trolling is elite 😂

he could immediately fund more than half of this by scrapping the €150m allocation for "AI upskilling"

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