Charles
@cgillanders.bsky.social
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This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
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..."
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..."
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service
This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street
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I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
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My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My piece on how populist political NIMBYism stymies renewable energy is in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Your reminder that people who knit and crochet are artists. Generally women whose work is devalued - artists all
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Your reminder that people who knit and crochet are artists. Generally women whose work is devalued - artists all
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You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.
September 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.
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Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
Award-winning but initially controversial building has become Ireland’s busiest public library
www.irishtimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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New York has come up with the only thing that would make me sad not to visit the US.
godotbroadway.com
godotbroadway.com
Waiting for Godot on Broadway | Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter star in Waiting for Godot on Broadway. Directed by Jamie Lloyd. Previews begin Sept 13 at the Hudson Theatre. Don’t miss it.
godotbroadway.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New York has come up with the only thing that would make me sad not to visit the US.
godotbroadway.com
godotbroadway.com
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Shout-out to my fellow Gen-Xers, out here in our 50s with clothes that say we're 25 and knees that think they're 90.
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Shout-out to my fellow Gen-Xers, out here in our 50s with clothes that say we're 25 and knees that think they're 90.
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The only reason I don't have a T-shirt with "I need to check the perimeter" on it is I want to wait for an official one if at all possible.
July 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The only reason I don't have a T-shirt with "I need to check the perimeter" on it is I want to wait for an official one if at all possible.
@glynnstewart.com I saw this and for reasons I thought you should know about it.
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mathstodon.xyz/@keenancrane...
Keenan Crane (@[email protected])
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Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025:
What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10...
mathstodon.xyz
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@glynnstewart.com I saw this and for reasons I thought you should know about it.
mathstodon.xyz/@keenancrane...
mathstodon.xyz/@keenancrane...
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Horizon Zero Dawn definitely got it right that a malignant tech billionaire with main character syndrome would kill the world
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Horizon Zero Dawn definitely got it right that a malignant tech billionaire with main character syndrome would kill the world
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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I see the new programme for government gets in bed further with data centres 🙄. Given how weak Ireland's energy supply is and how beholden already to these secretive energy hogs, its only a matter of time til there's a public energy reckoning & this turns into an angry public issue
January 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I see the new programme for government gets in bed further with data centres 🙄. Given how weak Ireland's energy supply is and how beholden already to these secretive energy hogs, its only a matter of time til there's a public energy reckoning & this turns into an angry public issue