David wylie

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Teachers, nurses and gardai should have studied harder and learned to be born into hereditary wealth. Simples.

@jonjagger.bsky.social didnt have strategy game for resin in 2025 on the cards

Irish ethno-nationalists and white supremacists are predictably as unimaginative as every other dead-end blood politics that’s crawled from the sewer of human cowardice and hatred over the past century.

Meanwhile Twitter is now simply (and openly) a vehicle for this racist and fascist mobilisation. Musk’s Stormfront. Just another reminder that billion dollar social media platforms (the most powerful propaganda tool in human history) require regulation. And yet most govts are inert, frozen, lost.

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

There isn’t much evidence that layoffs are being caused by AI taking people’s jobs.

For big tech, such as Amazon’s recent layoffs, the reason seems to be a combination of cutting headcount to balance increased spending on AI infrastructure and anticipation of (not realized) AI productivity gains.

"In my mind, I've done nothing wrong" is not the same thing as doing nothing wrong.

Ah would you stop

My experience is its not encouraging its admonishment.
Just do it this way. its not work. Well ur fucking doing it wrong energy

I never realised how demented The War On Formula was until I became a Dad.

Think about the kinds of vice products you're not allowed get supermarket loyalty points on (fags, booze, lottery tickets, carrier bags) - it is scandalous that f*cking baby formula is lumped in with them.

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Such a heartbreaking story, felt by so many others around the country. Makes me so angry that the Taoiseach can just say that the HSE isn’t in a position to fulfil the law rtn with regards assessments for children with special needs. As if he isn’t ultimately responsible for that.

Surrealing in the Years: Yates' Fianna Fáil dealings an open kimono moment for Irish politics Agh, my eyes. My eyes!

"You may not know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected. And what on Earth would give them that idea?"

Happy Saturday, it's time to read my column.

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different.

shutting the fuck up is free.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.

12 days of work in 107 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Probably because these billionaire Trump sycophants don't want their staffs getting any ideas... especially before any of those AI widgets are in a stable enough state to properly replace them...
#FizzVsGaming

No economy at its peak productivity distributes its wealth like this.

Money is only productive if it is in circulation!! If a rich guy endlessly stores it to show wealth on paper, this hurts the whole economy

AND the irish government even wants to do some dodgy accounting to change how (extremely climate-warming) methane emissions are counted, to let beef and dairy farming off the hook

Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

Tesla is more a cult than a company these days, so this pie in the sky nonsense was inevitable.

They're all reality-agnostic woo infested weirdos terminally rotting from their own insularity, so it's a big mistake to keep pretending only Musk is the lone bonkers element. He's just their John Frum.

best part of this is how elon musk's definition of "swindler" is also the most concise possible summary of how he became a billionaire

Two arrested in Drogheda IPAS centre fire investigation Two men in their 20s have been arrested in connection with the investigation into a fire at a building housing International Protection applicants in Co Louth on Halloween night.

Two men in their 20s have been arrested in connection with the investigation into a fire at a building housing International Protection applicants in Co Louth on Halloween night.

Not The Onion.

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After avian influenza was confirmed at two commercial turkey farms, Aengus Cox looks at what bird flu is and what the possible implications of its spread may have on the poultry industry here.

All the second amendment lads who bang on about needing to have guns to defend against a tyrannical government sure are quiet about things like this, aren't they?

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

X is designed to radicalise people.

The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain.

Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there.
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Wait, I thought the whole plan was to bury yourself in debt and then have the AI solve your problems? 🤔

This is a disastrous move. RTE's documentary-makers in both radio and TV are held in very high esteem all over the globe, and to shutter the in-house TV unit is as stupid as it is short-sighted.