Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Several ages of Ireland on display in Whitegate, Co. Cork, this morning.
Sickening but no surprise
Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for
Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home
#speirgorm
No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
Totally superb and fearless writing here from Susan Pedersen.
“…any man shocked by the Epstein story has been working over time at shutting his eyes”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
On the news it really was just RTE reading out the company's press release.
This is shocking reporting.
We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step.
How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive?
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Today is publication day!
johngrindrod.substack.com/p/tales-of-t...
A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Dogs aid in Dublin put up a photo of these two strays, and for some reason everyone is convinced the guy on the left is the brains of the operation.
The don't make radiators like they used to. (St Mary's cathedral, Limerick)
Reducing women to victims of men's wars is a dishonest simplification at best. Women work in military factories, they work in chains of supply for armies, they take part in state militarisation of children as mothers and teachers. Some of them encourage men to volunteer to provide for the family.
The official statement from Grammarly is so typical of AI boosters/tech companies of late. ‘Sure, we’re resurrecting the dead to exploit them for a few dollars and the ‘experts’ have no idea we’re using their names and reputations, but we hoped to make more money before anyone really noticed’
Irish Peg was in trouble again in 1740, when several witnesses swore to her impeccable character! 2/2 www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t1740...
'Margaret Poland...otherwise Margaret the Wife of James Mayfield; otherwise Margaret the Wife of James Tweed , otherwise Irish Peg, otherwise Margaret the Wife of John Fosset , otherwise Margaret the Wife of Charles Poland'. Guilty of receiving, 1738 1/2
www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t1738...
So much of this is disturbing but it's particularly telling that he refers to women, in this case Jewish woman subject to slave labour during the Holocaust, as females throughout. It is such a marker of alt-right, incel, manosphere etc to constantly refer to women as 'females' in this way.
Look, I have a lot of time for OCR in modern digital databases, but I cannot help but enjoy having searched for 'Sodomy' in East India Company records and gotten ...
'Jeremy Prycke' as a hit.
#skystorians
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
Maybe just facebook then!
#EarlyModern #Religion
(Long!) #Reformazing
Ban the elderly from social media.
Did someone say 'cheese'?
She doesn’t use genAI for historical research, she uses genAI to plagiarise the work of historians who conduct research.
Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.
Hey look, some real journalism about AI datacentres
"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard."
Did someone say 'cheese'?
Here's another reason to ban the proliferation of vape shops
Sad to see Glasgow’s 1851 iconic train station destroyed by cheap battery products that are bad for anyone who uses them and the people mining the raw materials
#BloodBatteries #BanVapes
