I also wonder if the reason all kids learn about animals from the African savannah (lion, zebra, giraffe, elephant) is linked to the fact that we as animals ourselves are originally from the African savannah.
Not to give an overly serious answer to a rhetorical question, but I've often wondered if the emphasis on farm animals in children's education is a holdover from when most people were farmers, and therefore "what animal is that? what sound does it make?" would naturally come up.
Me normally: one very frustrating thing about being on the left is that a huge chunk of the movement is obsessed with defending the abusive, repressive monster that was the Soviet Union
Me after reading this article: gulag gulag GULAG FOR THIS FUCKER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS
they'll be putting AI in your Granda next #SpeirGorm
this AI shite won't end. they're after putting AI in someone's Ma
It’s super funny to me that Who’s Gonna Drive You Home is by The Cars. It’s like if The Beatles had a song called Who’s Gonna Scurry Out When You Lift That Big Stone
Beer bread through the stages of making: ingredients in mixing bowl, beer (or lager) mixed in, dough in loaf tin and baked crusty bread.
Today's first recipe from TT is Pesto & Garlic Beer Bread. It's a no-knead, no yeast bread with a fabulous crust. Super quick and easy to make. www.tinnedtomatoes.com/2020/07/pest...
#vegan #dairyfree #plantbased #vegetarian
you can play Poor Man's Tomadachi Life by installing the demo then refusing to buy any clothes, leaving it in tutorial mode forever
Fintan O'Toole is one of my favorite journalists to read. Here's his take on the recent blockades in Ireland:
"Ireland’s far-right movement will emerge from the ‘breakfast roll-atariat’
"Big wheels are being driven over democratic norms"
#SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm
archive.ph/kpYLN
There's a persistent myth that Ireland lost this glorious past of diverse market gardeners when the Irish had rich homegrown diets before big bad dairy and corporations took over.
That's a completely ahistorical take & delusion of some from growing up in 50/60s. Truth is we went from
#speirgorm
I'd like to see it! :D
can you think of any other extant characters that match the "vibe" you have in mind? like a moodboard hehe
Take your time, read through the guidelines and go through the survey example, you have til May! Good luck everyone!
(wish me luck too cause I'm so nervous)
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
#basicincomefortheartsscheme #irishartists
what do they look like?
On yard today a few 6th class boys kept appearing in front of me as I was doing the rounds and at one stage they nearly knocked me over. Asked them what the craic was and they admitted they’d invented a game called ‘Blockade’ where they go around trying to divert people from their walking path
I will be blockading my boreen with my fergie until the government gives me money, a pony and bans anyone from Cavan from my road.
Looks a lot easier for one passed-out guy to cause a ruckus in this town!
I do this shit constantly. Sometimes I type "woops" to the other person on Pokémon Showdown, in the hopes of convincing them I am not totally stupid.
“The government’s approach, for a very long time, has been to project powerlessness in the face of every inconvenience, to blame ‘global megatrends’ as Varadkar did in his goodbye speech. To make the public feel insane for even suggesting that the government can solve problems.”
This week’s column!
As we await what happens next, my thoughts on the blockades and the big feelings attached. ciarareillylecturer.substack.com/p/when-the-m...
They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused.
Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.
#OTD 10 April 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, marking a step towards ending decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
#SpéirGhorm #speirgorm #IrishHistory
Hi! I'm looking to get in touch with people, groups and orgs from #Irish #TTRPG scene on both #Fediverse and #Bluesky, please give me your recommendations and share if you could 🙏 #SpeirGorm #MastoDaoine #Irish #TTRPG #Fediverse #Bluesky
A satellite view of Inane, Co. Cork.
There are various Inanes around Ireland, not all of them elected to high office. This one is in Co. Cork, from the Irish 'Eidhneán', an ivy-covered place.
#speirgorm
Oh, your mother couldn't get to her hospital appointment? Well, maybe she should have thought about that before she closed the Strait of Hormuz!
Yeah, super common! I would say at least 10% of the people ordering asked for their food that way, no veg.
The side portions of broccoli were really good, a lot of chinese restaurants offer that. Water chestnuts + bamboo shoots too!
It’s also weird that we’re all having to pretend that any of this matters. The revenues are terrible, Large Language Models are yet to provide any meaningful productivity improvements, and the only reason that they’ve been able to get as far as they have is a compliant media and a venture capital environment borne of a lack of anything else to invest in. Coding LLMs are popular only because of their massive subsidies and corporate encouragement, and in the end will be seen as a useful-yet-incremental and way too expensive way to make the easy things easier and the harder things harder, all while filling codebases full of masses of unintentional, bloated code. If everybody was forced to pay their actual costs for LLM coding, I do not believe for a second that we’d have anywhere near the amount of mewling, submissive and desperate press around these models. The AI bubble has every big, flashing warning sign you could ask for. Every company loses money. Seemingly every AI data center is behind schedule, and the vast majority of them aren’t even under construction. OpenAI’s CFO does not believe that it’s ready to go public in 2026, and Sam Altman’s reaction has been to have her report to somebody else other than him, the CEO. Both OpenAI and Anthropic’s margins are worse than they projected. Every AI startup has to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, and their products are so weak that they can only make millions of dollars of revenue after subsidizing the underlying cost of goods to the point of mass unprofitability. And it’s really weird that the mainstream media has a diametric view — that all of this is totally permissible under the auspices of hypergrowth, that these companies will simply grow larger, that they will somehow become profitable in a way that nobody can actually describe, that demand for AI data centers will exist despite there being no signs of that happening.
It's weird that we're all having to pretend that any of this matters. The revenues are terrible, LLMs are yet to provide any truly measurable productivity improvements, and without selling software at a massive discount, AI would barely have any customers.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/
I used to work in a Chinese and while I didn't judge, sometimes you can feel the "chicken curry no veg and chips" coming beforehand.
I don't really understand what their demands are. Fuel subsidy? No more war in Iran? "Life stop being hard"?
If you made this and/or can make something similar and send me like 10 I'll pay for it. I'll pay way too much. I miss her