In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year.
And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone.
“All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”
When I moved to Dublin, I remember people saying “half the population is under 25”. It was a buzzing place of young people and blow-ins. It’s still good, but feels less like a good place to be one of those under-25s. Especially if we don’t address these issues.
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the cost of these workshops every year is a tenth of what the OPW spends on providing free car parking for public sector staff across the country
What influences how you think about climate change?
How we think about climate change is strongly influenced by our social and political identity.
Piece by Dr Ashling Bourke and Salam Jabbour of DCU Institute of Education for RTÉ Brainstorm.
Read more: launch.dcu.ie/47Fegqu
Also the “we hate doing traffic policing and phone it in/ lie about it” culture in the Guards - how was that not a massive scandal
tweet from neera tanden: the truth about the washington post: bezos made decisions to curry favor with trump that made a lot of washington post readers distrust the newspaper. it then lost a lot of subscriptions, which lost money. and now he's doing layoff. he should sell the paper to someone who will make better decisions and avoid layoffs.
elliiott kalan's spider-man panel. spidey says "YOU HAVE $250 BILLION AND YOU’RE DESTROYING THE WASHINGTON POST? BUT YOU COULD SELL THE PAPER TO SOMEONE WHO WILL MAKE BETTER DECISIONSAND AVOID LAYOFFS!" and sauron the dinosaur man says "BUT I DON’T WANT TO SELL THE PAPER TO SOMEONE WHO WILL MAKE BETTER DECISIONS AND AVOID LAYOFFS.I WANT TO DESTROY THE WASHINGTON POST."
Scramblers already illegal on public roads, Department confirms after misleading media coverage
-- Charges to release a seized scrambler are to be increased.-- Extended ban to make any use of scramble in parks and car parks illegal. -- "It must be emphasised that using them on our roads is already…
A pedestrian can’t collide with a fucking truck. Collide implies they were equal participants in this horrible event.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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About the PhD Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me
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They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.
Hanukkah shona duit (got the spelling wrong the first time, and probably still wrong but you get the gist)
long winded joke about kids in a santa movie thinking they were sent back in time to hang out with a jolly bearded gift giver but instead going to the council of nycea and listening to hours of debate with St Nicholas of Myra
Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it
That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?
Can a country be a Failed State but only when it comes to commuting and traffic?
Seal in river Dodder
Seal in river
Seal in river
On today's Dodder walk we discovered a seal in the river. #SpeirGorm
Wow! What time? Presumably at high tide?
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
Why can't the LDA still take it? I'm confused, it hasn't been sold yet? Surely it can be removed from sale?
So we can say hamburger for foods that contain no ham, but can’t say veggie burger for things that are… *checks notes* made of vegetables.
If one of the lads from Kíla said that the election should be cancelled until there was a debate in Irish, there would not be an Irish Times article. There would not be a long line of photographers outside Leinster House.
Good reporting @allthefood.bsky.social
A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else.
Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social
This visualisation is great.
It's 30° in London and I hate this heat and I hate everyone who likes it. But dear God the amount of washing I'm getting out. Four loads already, lads. Washed and dried. The last one *bone dry* after 20mins on the line. My ancestors crying joyful tears in heaven. This must be what heroin feels like.
