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The Home Office now describes asylum seekers as "illegal immigrants [living in hotels]" with no reference to the reason that these people are in government-funded accommodation is that this government has taken & will process the asylum claim from them in 98-99% of cases of unauthorised entry.

A Letter to Home from a Weary ICE Agent Dearest Beloved, I received your missive of Thursday last with the greatest of gratitude, as I and my brave compatriots have five hours now awaited...

"I received your missive of Thursday last with the greatest of gratitude, as my brave compatriots and I have now waited five hours for the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city."

Your Local Hiking Trail Has Had It with You People Hey, it’s me, the closest trail to the metropolis, and I’m begging you to take your midlife crisis elsewhere. Every week, a fresh crop of you forty...

"How long before this trek ends up as a LinkedIn think piece? 'Five Things Mother Nature Taught Me About Payroll Automation.' I give it ninety minutes, Carl. I know your kind."

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

When you lose shitfaced middle-American teenage bros, you have lost America.

I think “speak to your fake dead relative” might be the most evil application of “AI” i’ve seen so far

Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the hol...

"If you're looking for a hunky young doctor who wants to give back to his hometown, we don't have one unless you count Clint, a misogynist physician older than Methuselah who won't prescribe birth control to unmarried women."

There will *always* be new stories.

My tuppence worth, if it's worth tuppence any more, is that actually it is a bad idea to re/dename Herzog Park. There are very few signs of Ireland's Jewish history. As someone who has been involved for years in trying to get a blue plaque up to the Waterford community–something that's on pause–

Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service

A shout out...The next Rare Earth on @bbcsounds.bsky.social is all about nature in our cities. Please reply with any surprising examples of creating living space for nature amongst living space for us - roundabout rainforest, skip salad plot, alley arboretum?

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Chart showing US presidential election results from 1976-2024, displaying percentage of eligible voters who did not vote and those who voted for different candidates. Data is arranged by year with color-coding: yellow for non-voters (typically 38-49%), blue for Democratic candidates, and red for Republican candidates. Stars indicate trifecta wins."

interesting - between 34-43% of Americans have not voted in the last 3 US elections
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YouTube video by cloudbear The West Wing - Missile Defense

I only like one bit of long preachy Aaron Sorkin dialogue, so it's aggravating how right he got missile defense. youtu.be/oQP52M_0tcE

I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning “Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday morning, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless object...

In France, we pride ourselves on enjoying life’s simple pleasures: food, drink, and the occasional grand larceny. To rush through these things would not just disrupt our leisurely schedule; it would be a sin. One must savor the moment, not run from robbery to robbery like a buffoon.

Graphic depicts select capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.

Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Books Upstairs | Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop

Worth noting that

1) Books Upstairs is an amazing bookstore, a real gem of Dublin

2) They do have an online store you can order from to help them out.

3) They do deliver internationally

booksupstairs.ie

Photograph of a double bed with an excel themed bed cover and matching pillow cases

Spreadsheets

Let's just be clear on this.

600 billion dollars is enough money to decarbonize the entire US power grid.

But somehow our species is spending that money on trying to build a machine which pretty nobody wants, except like the 5 richest guys in the world.

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Ah here. I hadn't noticed that and NOW I CAN'T NOT HEAR IT.

BUT NOT LIKE THAT, DIANE

They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.

I don't trust it when the UK has a Bank Holiday weekend that we don't. What are they getting up to with all that free time?
Colonialism probably.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Crowds throng along a street. Do not as yet have a picture credit

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.

One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.