We've strategically placed mediocre hacks at the top of every political and business organization, let's see what happens next

Writer @jmcm.bsky.social gives such generous support to the writing community in Ireland, through Frazzled Lit & the creative community sessions she organises - please consider supporting her in raising the funds she needs for a learning opportunity gofund.me/6663f9001

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie;
But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

At this Stand Up for Palestine gig in Vicar Street, there’s a deadly raffle with lots of gig tickets as prizes, and turns out you can enter it from anywhere - grab a ticket and support the cause ☺️🇵🇸 raffall.com/397084/enter...

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

Hahhaaaa that’s amazing

This is VERY funny www.thejournal.ie/presidential...

Congratulations Sylvia, this is so exciting!

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

feel like slim and fat chance should be a different amount of chance

I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!

“You can’t simply proscribe Sally Rooney and be done with it. You can’t reach into the London Underground and pull her books out of the hands of commuters who want to live vicariously and cathartically through her throuples and hunks on the verge of tears.”

This week’s Surrealing.

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

This review from @pitchfork.com is spot on I think pitchfork.com/thepitch/28-...

Saw 28 Years Later last night. It’s not unenjoyable but it’s a giant mess. Anyone else seen it?

No interviews with anyone who knows anything about LLMs. No indication the author understands that LLMs are designed to tell you what you want to hear, not necessarily what you need to hear.
If you substituted "tarot cards" for "ChatGPT" you'd end up with the exact same story, beat for beat.

You know when a work meeting ends early and your boss says, "I'll give you back your time"? I found out what not to reply is, "What about my soul?"

Great read 😁

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Evanna don’t get me started on ‘raising awareness’

Every single interview with a person who has decided to get some publicity by claiming they will run for Irish president should start with this question:

What exactly are the powers and constitutionally mandated role of the presidency?

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)