A poster in Drumcondra Dublin. The DCU students are rising.

This is the calibre of AI auto ads on my Google home feed. I mean, seriously… 🙄😏

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

This is a really nice phrasing of what I've been trying to put into words about the idea of 'using LLMs to learn to program'.

And a presidential candidate #aras25

…an unpredictable renegade…

Get the absolute fuck.

Our Leo has a Netflix playlist 🐈

Had a chit-chat with #Grok about the unhinged nonsense last night … It’s daddy is a demon 😈

CBT Audio Podcast resource by Veronica Walsh This is a collection of audio links to podcast style deep dive discussions of cognitive behavioural therapy tips and techniques - plus radio interviews with Veronica Walsh of CBT and Feeling Good Dubl...

It’s crazy. It’s wild. It can’t be real but it is - Google's @notebooklm a.i. turned my top CBT PDFs into podcast style ‘deep dive audio discussions’ with 2 charming ‘hosts’. I’m still scratching my head about it all. 👉 🎧 www.cbtandfeelinggood.com/soundcloud/ Audio Podcast resource / Veronica Walsh

Nope

Self acceptance and embracing who you are – CBT visualisation and self talk 🧘🏽‍♀️ This CBT post gives creative and practical ideas to build unconditional self-acceptance through visualisation and new self talk tips and hacks to manage anxiety and stress.

🫶 🧘 Understanding who you are - with #CBT visualisation amd self-talk skills - iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...

☕️ Caffeine, Anxiety, and the Fight-or-Flight Trap: What You Need to Know Coffee and the fight or flight anxiety trap – this CBT post skills you up with key ideas is what your caffeine habit might be doing to your nervous system, and hacks to break the habit.

☕️ ⚡️ #CBT: is coffee giving you anxiety? iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/%...

The CBT of Paper Tigers and your trippy nervous system / anxiety. Understand the physicality of your anxiety with this CBT post and handout which introduces the cognitive science of a dysregulated nervous system – and the science of anxiety and how to build…

#CBT - understanding and regulating ‘paper tigers’ and a trippy nervous system (anxiety) 🤔 🙀 💡 - iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/t...

Again, as a great reporter, one would think Baron would see more clearly.

He isn’t afraid of Trump. He has been unleashed by Trump to present his real views. And those views may not be the same as they were a decade ago, but that irrelevant.

Why wouldn’t a billionaire be embracing Trump’s agenda?

"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump."

Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Examples for ‘the ABC of CBT’ … This is a simple CBT exercise in journaling, showing The ABC of CBT classic modelling strategy. Includes full examples to illustrate exactly how to dispute bad thinking habits.

#CBT - think different - easy as ABC… iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/e...

2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text

Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park.

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Libyans say Boris Johnson 'doesn't know what he's talking about' after 'cruel and unacceptable' joke Politician calls remarks ‘cruel and unacceptable’ amid calls for Foreign Secretary to be sacked

Having flashbacks to when Boris Johnson said this about the war-torn Libyan city of Sirte

“There’s a group of UK business people who have got a brilliant vision to turn it into the next Dubai. The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

And Q: ’is it realistic to give planning permission for data centres while waiting for magical renewable energy to be invented?’ ChatGPT said: It’s not very realistic to keep approving data centers while hoping for future renewable energy solutions that don’t yet exist at scale.

ChatGPT is helpful on the subject of hosting AI data centres - voraciously hungry beasts…

Happy World Cancer Day, to all who celebrate…

#cansky

The extent to which Elon Musk and the tech bros think they’re somehow the first people ever to think about how to run a government is astounding.

Trump Administration Closes USAID Headquarters The U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel following moves by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to exert control over the foreign-aid organ...

“It’s a coup,” said a current USAID official. It was unclear when, if ever, the agency would be up and running again, the official added. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Definitely worth reading, if you missed it...

Teeny teeny tiny on the NYT home page right now. Seems to be missing the moment

FearNonelnc @RayInsideOut. Here's a list of techies on the ground helping Musk gaining and using access to the US Treasury payment system. Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran Elon Musk @elonmusk. You have committed a crime.

Same reply by Musk, but showing the original post was removed as a violation of Twitter rules

an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine

identifying the lackeys: illegal

Death Notice of Claire Prior (Dun Laoghaire, Dublin) | rip.ie The death has occurred of Claire Prior of Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Ireland, on 31/01/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.

So sad to hear of the passing of Claire Prior / @priorclaire.bsky.social #rip 🙏🏼 rip.ie/death-notice...