Take your time, read through the guidelines and go through the survey example, you have til May! Good luck everyone!
(wish me luck too cause I'm so nervous)
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
#basicincomefortheartsscheme #irishartists
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
THIS is what General AI is good for: entertainment.
Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.
His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
My latest column in AI slop and how its impacting online communities www.techcentral.ie/forget-ai-sl...
Oil crunch: Brendan and the RTÉ R1 South Dublin dinner party crew chatting about using less electricity to run the washing machine like that makes a difference when 20%+ of the grid goes to powering data servers.
sorry have to add my favorite one
"I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell."
Remembering #BrandonLee who passed away this day in March 1993.
Killer quote from @nathankhensley.bsky.social: “AI products are best understood not as technologies of information (as their backers prefer them to be discussed) but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.”
Žižek famously analyzed movies he had never seen and repeated the same anecdotes word-by-word in multiple books. He also straight up made up things.
LLMs have nothing on Žižek.
In 2020, the scientist John Abraham observed that the amount of heat being added to the oceans was equivalent to about five Hiroshima bombs of energy every second. Last year, the WMO figures suggest, it was closer to 11 Hiroshima explosions per second.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A bar chart titled "Proportion of 18–24s that say each is their main source of news," comparing data from 2015 and 2025. Key data points: Social Media: Increased from 21% in 2015 to 39% in 2025, becoming the top source. News websites and apps: Decreased from 36% to 24%. TV: Decreased from 28% to 21%. Print and Radio: Both saw slight declines, from 6% to 4%. The chart notes that young people in 2025 are much more reliant on social media for news than those 10 years ago.
1️⃣ Online platforms are now the main source of news for many young people
In 2015 only 21% of 18-24s across 18 markets said their main source of news was social media. Ten years later, this percentage has risen to 39%, overtaking news sites and apps, which have decreased from 36% to 24%
Whooop!!!
Come see what happens *behind the mic* 🎙️ with me and @earley.bsky.social.
That would make amazing wallpaper 🤣
@rhi.bsky.social I don’t know if you’ve seen that Good Omens and Soul Music are among the books banned by a school library in Manchester. I don’t know what is wrong with the world but I do know that if more people read your father’s books the world would be a better place #TerryPratchett #Books
Nice easter egg on DuckDuckGo.com. If you search for “Guybrush Threepwood”, the logo transforms into Guybrush.
Spotted by Technical_Pass7714 on Reddit.
Confirmed Cast: Steve Purcell. Steve created zany crimefighting duo Sam & Max, who made numerous cameos in background art both before and after they got their own game. He also painted the cover art for several SCUMM adventures. HIs SCUMM-related credits also include character art/animation on Loom.
Confirmed Cast: Collette Michaud. Collette served as head of the LucasArts art department through the first half of the 90s. She was also lead animator on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, co-designer on Sam & Max Hit the Road, and one of a few animators on Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. She met her husband, Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell, through their mutual work as artists at LucasArts.
I'm so very pleased to say that Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell and his wife Collette Michaud, the former LucasArts art department manager, have agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, should it go ahead. (And if you want to help make sure it goes ahead, please sign up at scummdoc.com.)
Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...
If you're not familiar, the format for a "truth sandwich" is:
* start with a true statement
* introduce the newsworthy lie or distortion
* true statement again
The idea is that the false claim should not be the first or last impression. It's useful when you think a lie should not be ignored.
Heard you was talkin’ sh*t.
Thank you for bullying me @duolingoverde.bsky.social 🤣
Everything may be terrible but it’s okay to still do things that spark joy.
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Over the next few weeks we'll see Micheál Martin's White House visit framed as a very difficult task, something he'll need his wits about him to get through, & one that requires no small amount of seriousness & diplomacy.
When really it's a fascist enabling jaunt he should have rejected outright
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
Memories!
