Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511   Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127   how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette   Limeraiku   There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku   Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip.   Shakespearean Haiku   Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot.   How to Write a Haiku   The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus.    Brian Bilston  

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Expansion of Public Services Card into national ID card is a legal quagmire, say ICCL and DRI Key elements of the Public Services Card are operating unlawfully, according to the Data Protection Commission.

The media reports today that a new bill proposes to expand the Public Services Card's use in Irish society.

Key elements of the PSC operate unlawfully. With @digitalrightsirl.bsky.social, we say that extending its use as a form of national ID compounds the legal issues.

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

We have one team heading to Edenmore and then two potential away semis in Balbriggan and Navan Rd. If M50 is blocked good luck with any of those.

Niche but I like it.

Is this another thing I'm going to have to get a Public Services Card for before I can use it? Mandatory but not compulsory to strike again.

The evidence to date is that LLMs are generally none of those things.

I have a chequebook, but the last one I wrote was around 2010.

A stacked area chart of the electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. There is also a black line showing electricity demand. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

A treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, oil, gas, and waste-to-energy. Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of total generation that source comprised. Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO

🚨 Output from large-scale solar farms on the island of Ireland reached a new high yesterday afternoon of 1078MW, equal to roughly 22% of all-island demand around 1pm. This is the *third time* this record has been broken so far this month ☀️

Solar's now reaching peaks 20% higher than last autumn 📊

Knowing more than one verse of O Come all ye Faithful by heart.

Best 6 Nations in years. So many brilliant matches.

The combined winning margins need to be about 100 points. So possible but unlikely.

Graph of crude oil price spiking and then coming back down

So I assume by Friday diesel will be back down to normal price again. Seeing as CircleK et al were so fast to jack up prices at the end of last week.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Cover of Queen album A Kind of Magic

Started me down the rock and metal path. Never looked back.

Feeling real safe in the days of LLM guided warfare

All of this. Plus their makers stole all our work, are trying to change our IP laws to lionise this theft, took a sledgehammer to the creative economy and successfully reframed predictive text generation as the zenith of artistic achievement

Also, the fascism

I heard the tallies were banned. (I know, wrong country)

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Darragh O'Brien in most transport meetings.

Irish citizens who are permanent residents of the UK can. Works in reverse too for Irish general elections.

Is Eoin Hayes available?

Israel and the US has judged 10 days of bombing is what the Iranian people need to finally love freedom.

Luckily our electoral system allows both parties to coexist and collaborate/feud as necessary.

Thanks to @tupped.bsky.social and others I don't have a Public Services Card. But it seems that I will get one automatically if I verify my MyGovId which I would like to do to access other services. Guess it's still mandatory but not compulsory.

Follow the Money is phasing out U.S. tech – follow the journey We report critically on Europe’s dependence on Big Tech – yet our own platform still relies heavily on U.S. systems. It’s time to change that. Together with De Correspondent, we’re phasing out U.S. te...

We're thinking about/working on this as well, little by little.

The State of the Union is a lot like the Superbowl in that I won't stay up to watch it because I find it too sad considering what we know about brain damage these days.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Lauding Limerick hurling when one of them should have been behind bars for violent behaviour is an interesting take.

One for the cybersecurity nerds: the pre-legislative report for the Irish National Cyber Security Bill 2024 is out, and recommends major changes to the draconian powers proposed for the National Cyber Security Centre. Featuring lots of input from @digitalrightsirl.bsky.social + @iccl.bsky.social.

5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:

Terry Pratchett
Iain M Banks
Roddy Doyle
Ross O'Carroll Kelly
Ken Follett

For SF and Fantasy there are many others above 5 each.