This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Additional State funding is to be given to a school to help pay for security as Irish teacher Enoch Burke continues to attend school grounds

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Paul Givan, Northern Ireland's DUP Education Minister, who unilaterally decided to order discrimination against trans kids recently, went on a trip to Israel to visit a school there for some reason.

He was joined by others from the DUP, TUV and UUP.

The “increasingly fragile” ceasefire is a euphemism for “Israel murders scores of civilians, including kids, whenever it feels like it”, and somehow the “international community” plays along with this ghoulish charade.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

that’s how everything becomes “gender affirming” gray goo validity politics instead of “give us our fucking human rights”. because everyone wants to forget that they have a fucking body. they turn off the lights in their living room by closing their eyes. “don’t have politics it make my stummy hurt”

MIT basically confirmed it rots your brain

time.com/7295195/ai-c...

It figures that an industry that thinks that "vibe coding" is a reliable thing would now decide that QA is the next thing you can replace with AI 😒

Your friendly reminder that good QA people are worth their weight in gold and an invaluable part of game dev

Gardaí have launched an investigation into the assault of two drag artists on a Cork city centre street yesterday.
http://jrnl.ie/6857699t

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SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...