Instead of buying your kid a smartphone encourage them to build their own device! There are so many amazing creative examples rn

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Here's my solution:Take the numbers of every vehicle in the blockades & give the owners until midnight to move them. Announce that registered owners of any vehicles there after that deadline will be ineligible for any contract or funding from the State or EU for the next 3 years. That should do it!

So, I'm calling for all trans folks and allies to block the M50 with rented tractors until the NGS is abolished, healthcare for kids reestablished and the conversion therapy bill is passed. I'm sure AGS won't crack our heads open in the first hour.

You can probably support the working class and demand support for people who are struggling because of capitalist inequality and also not pretend massively bigoted rhetoric and action isn't happening or being Trojan-horsed in under the guise of taking down those in power, by the way. Just a thought.

Right folks as one of the few farmers on here let me explain something really simple.
We're currently in the busiest time of year, calving & lambing is ongoing and crops need tending
The awful weather means contractors are also flat out
So how representative do you think this lad is? #speirgorm

I’ve been picking up Irish History here and there living here 26 years… and didn’t know all of this.

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Why is any politician still on the CASM service X? #thisweekRTE @rte.ie

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this.

If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

wait this theory 👀

Perl 4 life
Perl 4 eva

🐪

A language whose chief evangelist in the 90s had the same look and energy as Richard Simmons!

In a flood of AI news this is a happy retro thought. All my best compact cli pipes are still perl.

…make it damn near impossible to find a way to tell them they have the wrong address, and then finally when I do find a working email, say:

“Thank you for contacting Oscar.

You have reached the Broker Support Department, reserved for our broker partners.
Please email help@hioscar.com. “

Health insurance that works for you | Oscar Oscar offers health insurance plans for individuals, families and employers. Find a plan that's right for you.

I have a year two Gmail account, so of course I get a lot of mail for other people, who either misspell or forget (or ??) their own email address.

Even more fun when sites like HiOscar.com start leaking customer data to me,

If Ned Kelly Was King (Remastered) by Midnight Oil on Apple Music Song · 1981 · Duration 3:41

I guess I’m listening to Midnight Oil today!

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Oh no, if they bring someone “like that” into the meetings they won’t get all these lovely photo ops and it might affect FDI! Sorry they really would like to but sure you understand…

I’m telling you, this is a line we should not allow to be blurred.

Assert that what has been done is illegal.
Have it investigated as illegality.
Bring prosecutions of company officials on illegality.

Describe the basis of each step clearly and without obfuscation or imprecision.

World-famous divorced arsehole Elon Musk making a shit joke about buying Twitter

Some reading for your Sunday morning, especially if you are insisting on remaining on a platform that monetises CSAM.
Staying on Twitter doesn't make you special - let that sink in
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And the absolute furore over this image. The Gardai were having none of it.

How is it so excruciatingly painful for these people to leave, when I, a man with a crippling Twitter addiction, somehow managed to do so without any sort of psychic wounds

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

i am not a toy. i am not a christmas present. i am a 3,000 pound semi aquatic liability. please think hard before gifting a hippopotamus this christmas.

A grey cat with text: “Our beloved Ernie is missing. Richmond road/clonliffe road. Reward if found, call 0892533727 Please share”

#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie

Men, as they move upwards in the demographic boxes, don’t have to conform to demands for “seriousness” in public (or, god help the Victorian antecedents of the same in private).

Find something you knock some craic out of, and knock that thing *hard*.

My primary PM is half my age, and has a team of people all 10+ years older. I could spend half an hour listing the ways she’s better than truly bad PMs I’ve had in my career…

You’ll be great, they hired you! Just don’t over-apologize!

They’ll start by publishing the unreacted browser history of every ministers laptop, right?

There’s a joke somewhere here about a man who confuses a battlefield and a barracuda…