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Co-founder and CEO of Team Tito. Tito is an Irish company that makes: - Tito (https://ti.to) for event registration - Vito (https://vi.to) for online communities - IO (https://io.rsvp) for bespoke RSVPs

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 11d

Ah, fuck.

www.breakfastandtravelupdates.com/blog/day-13-...

Day 13: Travel Day — Breakfast and Travel Updates

www.breakfastandtravelupdates.com

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 12d

Meant as: Convoluted plot / lots of people with different motivations / the more we know the less we know how it will end up.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 12d

This story is windier than the upcoming Winds of Winter.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 15d

“Paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life"

That’ll get me through the morning. Thanks, Kurt.

Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 15d

"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life still have to drink water from time to time." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 17d

This is fantastic.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 17d

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities

coexistence.global

In this spirit of fraternity, hope and caution, we call upon your leadership to uphold the following principles and red lines to foster dialogue and reflection on how AI can best serve our entire human family:

Human life and dignity: AI must never be developed or used in ways that threaten, diminish, or disqualify human life, dignity, or fundamental rights. Human intelligence – our capacity for wisdom, moral reasoning, and orientation toward truth and beauty – must never be devalued by artificial processing, however sophisticated.

AI must be used as a tool, not an authority: AI must remain under human control. Building uncontrollable systems or over-delegating decisions is morally unacceptable and must be legally prohibited. Therefore, development of superintelligence (as mentioned above) AI technologies should not be allowed until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and there is clear and broad public consent.

Accountability: only humans have moral and legal agency and AI systems are and must remain legal objects, never subjects. Responsibility and liability reside with developers, vendors, companies, deployers, users, institutes, and governments. AI cannot be granted legal personhood or “rights”.

Life-and-death decisions: AI systems must never be allowed to make life or death decisions, especially in military applications during armed conflict or peacetime, law enforcement, border control, healthcare or judicial decisions.

Independent testing and adequate risk assessment must be required before deployment and throughout the entire lifecycle.
Stewardship: Governments, corporations, and anyone else should not weaponize AI for any kind of domination, illegal wars of aggression, coercion, manipulation, social scoring, or unwarranted mass surveillance.

Responsible design: AI should be designed and independently evaluated to avoid unintentional and catastrophic effects on humans and society, for example through design giving rise to deception, delusion, addiction, or loss of autonomy.

No AI monopoly: the benefits of AI – economic, medical, scientific, social – should not be monopolized.

No Human Devaluation: design and deployment of AI should make humans flourish in their chosen pursuits, not render humanity redundant, disenfranchised, devalued or replaceable.

Ecological responsibility: our use of AI must not endanger our planet and ecosystems. Its vast demands for energy, water, and rare minerals must be managed responsibly and sustainably across the whole supply chain.

No irresponsible global competition: We must avoid an irresponsible race between corporations and countries towards ever more powerful AI.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

Good links. Thanks.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

All of that. The Peter Thiel-ification of the rich white tech male.

It's also not accidental. There's a playbook ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

Curtis Yarvin - Wikipedia

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Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

I had a really good conversation about it on Friday with a friend. I've experienced all these things myself: anger at being called out, defensive after my own ill-advised behaviour, rage at perfectly valid criticism. My conclusion was: listen and learn. Other folks I guess table flip and nope out.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

I’ve struggled to understand it too. Best guess is a victim mentality, no learned emotional regulation, seeing criticism as an attack, and then taking the status quo literally that they can do and say what they want without tangible consequences.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

Thank you for writing it. You did all the callouts and the links and the refutations. What a disappointment he has repeatedly revealed himself to be.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 18d

Tekin writes what everyone (that I care about) is thinking.

Tekin Süleyman @tekin.co.uk · 18d

The Ruby community has a DHH problem
tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 22d

Sad not to hear:
- Knees Deep
- Head in the Clouds

Joining list of favourites:
- Roundabout

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · 22d

“There’s a hot smell up here” — Accidentally excellent final words from @thebeths.bsky.social after a very intentionally excellent show. Thanks for coming to Dublin. Loved it.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · Sep 2

When Ireland was the tradwife capital of the world.

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland was once the tradwife capital of the world. Worse, they were happy

Or so they said. But surrendering to oppression can be a form of contentment

www.irishtimes.com

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Aug 30

Reddit has a story about someone whose AirPod fell into his beer, he drank it, then… it made its way out and … they still worked!

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I BIKE Dublin @ibike.ie · Aug 26

It’s time to dust off the speakers. Will you join us for #IBIKEBop / #CriticalMassDub ?
📆 Friday, 29 August, ‘25
⏰ Starting 6pm
📍Leaving from Parnell Sq. N, D1
❓1hr city centre cycle with good company & tunes.
Spread the word!

Large group of people cycling along a city street.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Aug 5

Got sick of WordPress, so made my own.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Aug 4

Can I show you what I made sometime?

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Aug 4

The linked thread is really sad. Twitter was getting really good again. Then "yoink".

Danilo, Juicero Aspect 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · Aug 4

It honestly breaks my heart

I got my first big break thanks to Twitter

I made friends, I learned so fucking much

I became a more interesting, educated version of myself. it’s criminal that wealthy vandals could just destroy something so valuable

a sign of the rot of our times

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 4

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Jul 26

That’s so cool! Did a little leisure trip right past that spot today. Looking forward to it. One or both of the boys would love to join that.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Jul 25

Damn, I’ll need to keep an eye out for this. Just biked home from town! Racked up 220km in the last 9 days doing the summer camp run where I was driving before.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Jul 25

I went with Unifi (Dream Machine Pro) and a couple of their access points and it’s been really great, 7 years and counting.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · Jun 18

I call that folder “Done”

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · May 28

It’s definitely a rollercoaster, but I’m not feeling too put out by this other than it being weird to see the name “io” out in the wild in such a high profile way.

Paul Campbell @paulca.com · May 28

A $6.5bn elephant walks into the room. I think about it for a week, then write a blog post.

Un-introducing IO:

blog.tito.io/posts/un-int...

Un-introducing IO