All the same here's a cleared part of the ditch path

Yeah of the evening sun on a garden and the sea from a window seat with legs and a mug of tea in the foreground

Making progress with a big outdoor project despite being slowed by the weather lately. I usually document more, helps motivate and its good to talk about invasive species but honestly being online lately has been more draining than energising.

This sounds like my childhood. Raised by activists, my Barbie's were fighting colonial oppression 😂

AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.

"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

“The Healy-Raes bowed out. "Sure they were going since the day they came in," shrugged a Government backbencher in the aftermath, before waspishly adding: "They said they would support the Government through thick and thin - now thick and thin have departed."

Ate and left no crumbs

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damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Gabriel Rosenstock, duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Gaeilge agus file ‘idirnáisiúnta’, ar shlí na fírinne Scríbhneoir agus aistritheoir bisiúil ildánach ab ea Gabriel Rosenstock, a bhí lárnach sa ghrúpa ceannródaíoch filí Innti, agus i bhforbairt seánraí éagsúla sa Ghaeilge

Gabriel Rosenstock, duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Gaeilge agus file ‘idirnáisiúnta’, ar shlí na fírinne

Purple dog violets in an Achill dry stone wall

Purple dog violets in an Achill dry stone wall

Violet season at last

Dog violets in an Achill dry stone wall

@carlkinsella.bsky.social you have the chance to do the funniest thing...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Taoiseach lied to journalists about US soldiers at Shannon The claim “there are no weapons” was a lie.

Micheál Martin lied to journalists when he said armed US soldiers weren't landing at Shannon Airport.

Martin said there are “no weapons” passing through the airport – but his colleague Darragh O’Brien authorised US troops carrying guns to land there.

www.ontheditch.com/ag-insint-br...

Ireland has no known legal commercial peat extraction. Yet it exported €40m worth last year More than 370,000 tonnes of material sold to 21 different countries in 2025, including Israel

The hard work is yet to even start on climate change adaptation. Our emissions are waaay worse that they seem
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job.

They have these “news” items though

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Today in AI features no one asked for

The fact that most major film studios, US and international news outlets, TV channels and streaming services are owned by six companies and that number is shrinking should concern everyone

Less than 2 months ago EU leaders were insisting on strategic independence from an increasingly aggressive US demanding territorial expansion in Greenland. Now, they're tripping over their heels to join that US in an illegal war of aggression and regime change. What weak cowards with short memories.

It should go without saying that I'm specifically referring to people who were inconvenienced for a few hours in an airport and then brought home, not people genuinely caught up in it but the internet hates taking the obvious as read

The story format of holiday makers briefly stranded near the outbreak of war or some catastrophe made sense in a pre smart phone age. They were a witness adding human context for a home audience. In a news context where we've all watched videos of missiles dropping on civilians it's beyond tone deaf

This is disgusting, and frankly just embarrassing. Everyone knows that the government knows that this is illegal, but is refusing to say so to avoid US irritation. This makes us look like a state incapable of setting its own foreign policy. It makes us look like a joke

Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

The death toll rises and two realities collide: imagine headlines if 148 schoolgirls were massacred in New York, London or Paris. After this and Palestine, the asymmetry of grief in our so-called world order is brutal and impossible to unsee.

This part right here, is very important for everyone to understand

At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is

Utterly horrifying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's not much anyone outside the US can do to help. The political structure is fucked and Citizen United campaign fiance laws keep it fucked. We can stop centring the US economically and politically. The illusion of being a superpower is only feeding internal issues, like it has in Russia.

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

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