Aubrey Robinson

As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Poll: Catherine Connolly leads in race for presidency as support for Jim Gavin drops Catherine Connolly is now leading the race for the Áras and is ahead of Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys by nine points, a new poll for the Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks today shows.

#aras25 poll: Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks
(Oct 2-3, MoE 2.6%)

Catherine Connolly 32 (+12 in four weeks)
Heather Humphreys 23 (+3)
Jim Gavin 15 (-5)
Undecided 31 (-8)

After Gavin’s elimination and transfers, Connolly would win 53-47

www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Is CMAT’s claim about suicide during the economic crash accurate? A noticeable increase in Irish male suicide from 2007 onwards ‘can be mapped directly’ against the economic crash

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

World’s top court says climate inaction can breach international law Nonmembership of the Paris Agreement doesn’t exempt countries from duty to fight global warming, ICJ says.

Governments can be held legally responsible for climate inaction, the world’s highest court said in a landmark decision on Wednesday, opening the door to a cascade of lawsuits.

www.politico.eu/article/top-...

AI is transforming the Irish job market — fast.

Watch Mark Kelly, Founder of AI Ireland, on #TonightVMTV as he warns of a future where entry-level roles dwindle and grads are left behind.

📺 Full discussion: youtu.be/LWLTj5Cpfs0 | @virginmedianews.bsky.social

What do you do when the sea ice is at its lowest level on record? In Trump’s America, you turn off the recorder.

There's something very...visceral about the idea of Anthropic ripping books from their bindings and feeding them to the machine. Also makes me wonder: who did this physical ripping and chopping work for millions of books? Where do they live? how much were they paid?

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

Bleedin’ typical

100%. Also got the key wicket of Smith in first innings.

Daring to dream? Still a lot of runs to get off the four horses of the apocalypse

a significant part of facebook these days is literally just organising pogroms

Pulp all look like teachers that lost their school pupils in a cave collapse in 1987.

‘We're flushing it all through Ireland’ – Top investment lawyer on Ireland’s role in funds industry

“You're [Ireland] a transit point. You're like a port, you're like Antwerp.”
www.businesspost.ie/markets/were...

Analysis: There is no hiding place from latest EPA data on greenhouse gases Do we want to spend our money on fines or ensure Ireland becomes climate resilient?

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The EPA’s latest GHG projections show Ireland is far off track to meet its legally binding carbon budgets. Even with optimistic assumptions, emissions are projected to fall just 23% by 2030—less than half the 51% target.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Our periodic reminder we are still in a global climate emergency 🌍

Why families became homeless in Q1… 344 due to evictions.

A screenshot of the conman Lyle Lanley in the monorail episode of the Simpson

Using ChatGPT, I recreated Sam Altman as a Simpsons character! Amazing what this tech can do

In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris says he is now “convinced" of need for Ireland to acquire combat jet aircraft” to “deter and detect airborne threats" as part of a massive increase in defence spending.

Given she was only told 24 hours in advance that her budget was being slashed by 40% I'm not surprised.

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Catch up on last night's #TonightVMTV ⬇️

We discuss the urgent crisis in special needs services: 14,000 kids overdue for assessments & a shortage of school places. Plus, the political deadlock over speaking rights in the Dáil. 

Live from 10pm, @gavreilly.com will be joined by Billy Kelleher MEP, Catherine Connolly TD, Senator Tom Clonan, Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Cormac O'Keeffe to discuss:  

🚨 Has Trump's attitude towards Ukraine shifted geopolitics and international security?  
🚨 Irish military spending

A panel from "Belles and Wedding Belles", the topper strip to "Polly and Her Pals", showing a distracted man looking at a pretty girl while his girlfriend stares daggers at him, drawn in the "bigfoot" cartoon style of the day.

Cliff Sterrett doing the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme in 1930

In the past two years, floods ruined soybeans growing in Brazil, a hurricane destroyed millions of $$ worth of crops in Jamaica and drought hit Sri Lankan rice

This new interactive map gives a snapshot of how extreme weather is damaging crops, feat. 100 news stories from 2023-24

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