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Here mostly for news & also good ideas on sustainable local development, politics, economics, society & climate. Hoping for lots of civil discourse🙌
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
Peak capitalism meets ambulance chasing hedge funds. All while the planet heats up.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws
Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Peak capitalism meets ambulance chasing hedge funds. All while the planet heats up.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Really important clip from news today. Great to see two major agencies collaborating to make such an important plea for action on climate...Ireland faces bill of up to €26bn if EU climate targets missed, report warns on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/ymc3uDoCiaBP...
Ireland faces bill of up to €26bn if EU climate targets missed, report warns
Seamus Coffey, Chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, and Marie Donnelly, Chair of the Climate Change Advisory Council, discuss a new report analysing the financial and environmental costs of Ire...
rteradioapp.page.link
March 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Really important clip from news today. Great to see two major agencies collaborating to make such an important plea for action on climate...Ireland faces bill of up to €26bn if EU climate targets missed, report warns on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/ymc3uDoCiaBP...
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social stunning episode about the reality of the city I live in & peak capitalism/ systemic collapse. open.spotify.com/episode/4Emb...
The shared history of Madeira Cake, Crack Cocaine and Bicycle Repairs
The Blindboy Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social stunning episode about the reality of the city I live in & peak capitalism/ systemic collapse. open.spotify.com/episode/4Emb...
This is proper journalism. Would love to see a similar analysis of #Limerick city & towns around the country by local newspapers. Derelict Dublin: 10 empty southside buildings in a city with a housing crisis
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Derelict Dublin: 10 empty southside buildings in a city with a housing crisis
Including a 200-year-old College Street building, the site of a Kildare Street hotel and the former home of the City Arts Centre
www.irishtimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is proper journalism. Would love to see a similar analysis of #Limerick city & towns around the country by local newspapers. Derelict Dublin: 10 empty southside buildings in a city with a housing crisis
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
I've been a tiny donor for a while to ease my conscience for using other awful social media for fun/work/connection...but now this seems more important than ever. #wikipedia
This would make you want to donate to Wikipedia, wouldn’t it?
Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia
Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?
www.theatlantic.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I've been a tiny donor for a while to ease my conscience for using other awful social media for fun/work/connection...but now this seems more important than ever. #wikipedia
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St Brigid’s Eve - Don't forget to leave a piece of cloth outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes tonight! This is the brat Bríde, it’ll cure headaches or sore throats and keep you healthy for the year! #speirgorm #brigidsday #stbrigid www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How Ireland used to celebrate St Brigid's Day in the past
From the Biddy boys and Brat Bríde to holy wells and Brigid's crosses, February 1st was marked with great gusto in old Ireland
www.rte.ie
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
St Brigid’s Eve - Don't forget to leave a piece of cloth outside to be blessed by Brigid as she passes tonight! This is the brat Bríde, it’ll cure headaches or sore throats and keep you healthy for the year! #speirgorm #brigidsday #stbrigid www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...
Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on
The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.
www.thejournal.ie
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...
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As the @cohereforai.bsky.social joins the Bluesky family — we will be sharing paper gems from when we first started as a lab.
This paper is part of a larger research agenda where we have focused on how to better represent the long tail = making AI work for almost all real world distributions.
This paper is part of a larger research agenda where we have focused on how to better represent the long tail = making AI work for almost all real world distributions.
How can we mitigate the disparate effect of compression 🗜️on model performance for low-resource languages 💬?
Check out our cross-institutional collaboration discusses intriguing & previously unknown generalisation properties of compression.
📜Learn more: arxiv.org/abs/2211.02738
Check out our cross-institutional collaboration discusses intriguing & previously unknown generalisation properties of compression.
📜Learn more: arxiv.org/abs/2211.02738
January 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
As the @cohereforai.bsky.social joins the Bluesky family — we will be sharing paper gems from when we first started as a lab.
This paper is part of a larger research agenda where we have focused on how to better represent the long tail = making AI work for almost all real world distributions.
This paper is part of a larger research agenda where we have focused on how to better represent the long tail = making AI work for almost all real world distributions.
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In the week that DeepSeek took the #1 spot in the App Store, we're dropping this episode with a clear voice about the future of a more sustainable and representative AI ecosystem. Bigger ain't always better! Plus, Sara and I both used to want to be sanitation workers!
"Anyone who is serious about what the next generation of models is knows it can't be the current"
Thanks to @baratunde.com for hosting Head of Cohere For AI, @sarahooker.bsky.social on the latest episode of Life with Machines.
Check out their full conversation on YouTube:
youtu.be/-BsobAoOJvk
Thanks to @baratunde.com for hosting Head of Cohere For AI, @sarahooker.bsky.social on the latest episode of Life with Machines.
Check out their full conversation on YouTube:
youtu.be/-BsobAoOJvk
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Fascinating listen. Great episode. Sarah is a wonderful communicator. @baratunde.com youtu.be/-BsobAoOJvk?...
Is AI on the Verge of a Meltdown? | Sara Hooker (Ep. 8)
YouTube video by Baratunde Thurston
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fascinating listen. Great episode. Sarah is a wonderful communicator. @baratunde.com youtu.be/-BsobAoOJvk?...
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Majority of Irish voters want 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads kept as new government faces “political stumbling blocks”
A majority of votes want the incoming government to keep the 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads, which was set, and an even clearer majority think the new…
A majority of votes want the incoming government to keep the 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads, which was set, and an even clearer majority think the new…
Majority of Irish voters want 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads kept as new government faces “political stumbling blocks”
A majority of votes want the incoming government to keep the 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads, which was set, and an even clearer majority think the new government will not do enough to meet Ireland's climate change commitments, according to a poll published in the Sunday Independent yesterday. Pressure is coming from independents supporting the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael as well as elements within the parties to switch towards more spending roads at a time when large-scale projects such as MetroLink, Dart+, Cork regional rail expansion, and BusConnects are really to be funded or coming close to their construction stages.
irishcycle.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Majority of Irish voters want 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads kept as new government faces “political stumbling blocks”
A majority of votes want the incoming government to keep the 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads, which was set, and an even clearer majority think the new…
A majority of votes want the incoming government to keep the 2:1 spending on public transport vs roads, which was set, and an even clearer majority think the new…
I was v lucky to study Regional & Local Development supported by the EU many moons ago..we were strongly advised by all our lecturers to work for balanced regional development. If we fail to address growing inequality of opportunity regionally & locally the entire country will lose out.
In a personal plea to Simon Harris, Limerick Mayor John Moran said that €2 billion of Apple tax money should be given directly to the city and county of Limerick.
Limerick mayor asked Taoiseach to give over half of €14 billion Apple tax money to Munster
John Moran said that because the windfall had come from industrial operations in Munster, over half the money should go to the region.
jrnl.ie
January 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I was v lucky to study Regional & Local Development supported by the EU many moons ago..we were strongly advised by all our lecturers to work for balanced regional development. If we fail to address growing inequality of opportunity regionally & locally the entire country will lose out.
Such a lovely entree to #speirgorm thanks to @katiehannon.bsky.social and #floridadave for accidentally making the world feel a little more connected. 🙌☮️
I've not had a chance to listen yet but I promised my Irish friends that I would pass it along. Katie Hannon and her producer, Elayne have been incredibly gracious throughout this. #speirgorm
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podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...
Winners, Losers and Florida David!
Podcast Episode · Behind the Ballot · 02/12/2024 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Such a lovely entree to #speirgorm thanks to @katiehannon.bsky.social and #floridadave for accidentally making the world feel a little more connected. 🙌☮️
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This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
This is huge.
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
Great to see irish universities developing two user friendly tools to support voters in considering voting intentions and links to actual stated party policies #GE24. Great job #UniversityofLimerick and @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social www.whichcandidate.ie & www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
VoteSmart: Take our online election test – now including Independent candidates
Phase two of the Irish Independent’s election tool ‘VoteSmart’ has gone live.
www.independent.ie
November 19, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Great to see irish universities developing two user friendly tools to support voters in considering voting intentions and links to actual stated party policies #GE24. Great job #UniversityofLimerick and @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social www.whichcandidate.ie & www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
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The global North net-imports 826 billion hours of labour from the global South every year—more than what is provided by the entire workforce of the United States and Europe combined. www.science.org/content/arti...
Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South
Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap
www.science.org
August 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM
The global North net-imports 826 billion hours of labour from the global South every year—more than what is provided by the entire workforce of the United States and Europe combined. www.science.org/content/arti...