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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10h

Am behind with lots of bits of work so made potato dumplings; that’s how this works no

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gosh yeah all the violence was out of sight and you were able to just have brunch x

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 1d

Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 1d

Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his time in office and I don’t remember a single scene like this.

Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social · 3d

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

My word. (Again.)

Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

My word. (Again.)

Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 5d

My two-hour Philosophy of Law exam requires candidates to discuss a previously unseen excerpt, typically a page-long excerpt from a text or judgment relevant to theories they have studied but which they have almost certainly never encountered

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 5d

My curmudgeonly AI in higher ed opinion is that instructors should be less precious about changing the assessment format. You’re not going to win the moral battle or the detection battle. Closed book exams are imperfect but more adaptable than ppl think. For example, discussion of unseen passages

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 5d

You’re very unlikely to change people’s minds or even soften their position, by discoursing with them. You’re probably as likely to harden them in their views. But trying to get a rise out of them is a perfectly respectable aim, too

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 5d

A democrat president would do imperial violence with a bit more nuance and a sympathetic head-tilt, some gestures of concern. They’d keep it to drone-murdering people in southwest Asia, or something like that, letting the liberals have brunch in peace

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 6d

My kids are 8 and 6 and most of parents of their friends are probably closer to 50 than 40

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 6d

… the typical 40 year old is now (in Ireland at least) more familiar as the lot of the 50 year old.

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 6d

stumbled across a British drama on Netflix from 2006, ‘Life Begins’. The premise is two 40 year old parents of teenagers battling midlife crisis- i.e. ‘Life Begins at 40’. It’s surreal sociologically because today, middle class 40 yr olds are more likely to be parents of infants & what’s depicted as

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 7d

That food has to be used up! I’m being responsible. Ecological, even

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 7d

I had a flu-type bug which coincided almost exactly with the twelve feasting days of Christmas, so tomorrow as others get their oats and their milled flaxseeds, I am going to spend mid January on the soft creamy cheeses, on the cured meats, on the chateauneuf du pape

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 8d

This is what the US has always done – and yet they need some oriental metaphor to truly understand it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 12d

Have to show off this bookmark my 8 year old daughter made for me as a Christmas present. Amn’t I lucky?

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 13d

Caveats:
1. This is not scientific
2. Maybe certain personality types thrive on firm external boundaries (I have no idea)
3. Wouldn’t work below a certain age (she is 8)

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 13d

A thing I have noticed about parenting: When my daughter asks how much/many of something she can have, I usually say, well just take how much/many you think is appropriate for you.
And she almost never takes more than I would have decided myself.
A lot of control/conflict is counterproductive.

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 13d

They think you’re dumb enough to believe houses are decommissioned when sold

Irish independent headline, worsening exodus of landlords from market

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 14d

Yes m, neither is perfect but either perfectly sufficient and 100% AI-proof. I don’t know why people have to be so melodramatic about it when there are clear low-tech solutions available

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 14d

Recovering from a flu and watching Four Weddings and a Funeral , the most 1990s thing ever to have existed, bemused that we are almost as far from 1994 as 1994 was from the Cuban missile crisis

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15d

In any event nobody asking you to ‘enact massive violence’ ; you might, I don’t know, consider holding oral exams instead 🙄

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15d

It’s not generating ‘ideas’ to interact with you; it’s generating linguistic patterns. Have some self-respect

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15d

Capital is sovereign; that’s literally the tweet

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16d

Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18d

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15d

Hard to make this one up; AI boom causes increased carbon emissions, former Irish Green Party minister celebrates AI boom based on a fantasy counter factual where it was fuelled only by renewables and harnessed to public good www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Eamon Ryan: The AI revolution is an opportunity for Ireland – and the planet

If we can develop zero-emission data centres, Ireland will have an industrial skill the rest of the world needs

www.irishtimes.com

Sam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social · 15d

If you use it as a dialogic thinking space where you externalities thought and use it to hold, reshape, question, extent, perturb your thinking. Just like a good teacher or mentor could, except you need to set and guide the interaction style.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16d

Academics literally cannot make Gen AI go away. As in it is not possible to make it happen on a political, legal, and technical level. We do not and will not command the massive violence necessary to make chatGPT or Claude disappear. Responsible pedagogy grapples with the fact!

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18d

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d

Dragged along to a fair as a curiosity to showcase the big Irish head

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d

My head is always too big for these things. I’m happy, really- my face is just like that

Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d

… way children are supposed to, which is all part of the unique charm we love her for

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