The big positive for Govt of Irish cabinets being capped at 15 members is the max of 30 feet that ministers can shoot themselves in.
Semi-state chiefs in line for huge pay top-ups after controversy over €430,000 for Housing Tsar
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Sad to see this. 'The Feast of the Goat' in particular is the most terrifying exploration of the inner working of the court of a dictatorship.
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I’m glad people are out there asking the important questions about emerging technologies.
Such as “why DO so many AI company logos look like bum holes?”
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In markets jargon what we are now seeing in equities is classed as an 'absolute shit show'.
Not too far from where the Ardagh chalice turned up.
And the name of a famous former Cricklewood dance hall.
And Musk's status shifts from kingmaker to client.
And promising to rebuild autobahns! It gets weirder by the day on this side of the looking glass..
This is huge. By way of comparison Angela Merkel was just about convinced, eventually, to do just barely enough to prevent a collapse of the euro after years of the debt crisis spiral.
Thanking the driver from half way down the bus as you exit via the middle door is entirely performative, there I've said it.
And the SNL people must be incredibly sound, to be widely regarded as makers of comedy.
They'll be hiring them back as over paid anr under interested consultants per every corporate mass cull in business history.
My take on project cabin - and why it really means operation shanty
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Excellent. A childish motion that won't build a single shed. Take that housing crisis.
Why would you report as fact a claim that even the person making it admits is entirely made up? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Did we change things so a Tanaiste can appoint senators now or is that we've all just abandoned the idea of having a Constitution?
this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."
Russian billionaire #oligarch Suleyman Kerimov held a stake in SpaceX while he was sanctioned - good scoop from Bloomberg
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A smart assessment, though I'd caution that Ireland is certainly not immune from anti-Semitism either.
You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh etc
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
On Thursday night I was at a dinner in Davos, where the example of US primacy given was that Nvidia’s market cap is bigger than the entire German stock market. Someone remarked that Europe’s only hope is that the Davos consensus (this time about US primacy) is always wrong. And lo…
This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future".
We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.
‘Learn to code’
Should’ve done a proper degree like sociology or political science
If you need a sense of how resistant Irish people are to infrastructure changes just check out reaction to the renaming / rationalising of Dublin bus routes. Yes, its nice you first shifted your now wife/played a walkman/mitched off school on the 46A. No, its not a reason to keep the route.
But also, 'How many radical leftists does it take to screw in a lightbulb' is a really old joke. A] 'The lightbulb is only a symptom, the whole system must be changed so join in our chant 'down with darkness, down with darkness..'
The idea they're entitled to take opposition speaking time while clearly part of the government is beyond ludicrous. The opposition are absolutely correct to stand their ground.
