Sorcha O’Brien

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

I’ve just launched Research Notes Studio, where I support researchers and organisations with editing, research development, and grant-writing.
If you’re preparing a manuscript or a proposal or know someone who is, please share www.researchnotesstudio.com

PLEASE tell every author you know about this!

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

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The OPW are hiring seasonal tour guides across the country!
If you're passionate about history, storytelling & Irish heritage, apply today via https://cutt.ly/GuideRecruitment

#OPWJobs #IrishHeritage #TourGuideIreland #HistoryJobs #HeritageIreland
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ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3)

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar

(9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value

@forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested Hands-On with The Fallout 3 Pip-Boy 3000 Working Replica!

*I've got a real soft spot for hackers who want to build functional versions of sci-fi props.

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Apparently

YouTube video by Viral Reddit Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

AI is making us into morons and subverting democracy, Ireland’s parliamentary (Oireachtas) Committee heard today.

Full story: www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Cover of Electric Wind

Interview w/ Dr Marianna Dudley, abt her academic work & book "Electric Wind."

"There can be debilitating overwhelm when it comes to climate action. I want the stories of communities who effected real change ... to offer narratives of hope and determination."
allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/18/i...

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Ha, I was in this restaurant last week and it had a rather interesting set of digital projections going on the other side of the laneway. Didn’t clock this horror, thankfully 🫣

Cartoon drawing of a diagram that shows "THE ENTIRE INTERNET" as a stack of components precariously stacked on top of each other like a Jenga game, with one tiny precarious leg labeled "AWS" (with the Amazon Web Services Logo) and then another base layer under everything titled "Cloudflare"

This looks promising: plans for the 1926 census release
nationalarchives.ie/engage-and-l...

Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"

I remember seeing references to it from Americans and thinking it was as weird (and creepy) as hell. So incredibly unprofessional.

Transplantation of chemically induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived islets under abdominal anterior rectus sheath in a type 1 diabetes patient Chemically induced stem-cell-derived islets were transplanted beneath the abdominal anterior rectus sheath in one patient with type 1 diabetes, resulting in tolerable safety and promising restoration…

Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

My latest piece for my 100 Buildings series for @rte.ie Culture is Cavan Hospital designed by Andy Devane and team for RKD Architects and built by Sisk. You can read about a piece of Brutalism in Cavan here:
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

chud atlantis Hello everyone, sorry to go so long without posting something. I caught covid in August and it's taken me months to start feeling relatively back to normal. I am still struggling with fatigue and some...

NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...

I wish we could get Ireland talking about this more, farmers especially. The consequences of the AMOC collapsing are nightmare fuel for farmers.

A shot of a screen in the sci-fi show, The Expanse, showing the names and bio read-outs, Aliens 2-style, of an assault squad gathered to attack a space station. The names are: Draper, Ackbar, Quaid, Bowman, Shepard, Burton, Idaho, Rogan, Nesmith, Buck, Garrity, Ripley, Hicks, Cooper, Anderton, Ochiai, Vasquez, Hudson, Deckard, O'Neil, Levine, Starr, Banks, Flynn, Neary, Rico, Thrace, Connor, Stone and Riker.

The production designer of The Expanse walks into the dark, smoke-filled director's office.
'We've a screen full of names to show in this scene. How many should we use for sci-fi Easter Eggs?'
The director, with hollowed-out eyes, cigarette in hand.
'Use them all.'
'But–.'
'I SAID USE THEM ALL!'

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

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Discover how the new Changing Ireland Galleries in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, will provide unprecedented public access to our 20th- and 21st-century history collections.
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Heads up: If you haven't read A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by @tkingfisher.com (and frankly that's criminal in the first place) and you're on Audible, it's part of the 2 for 1 sale right now. You won't regret it.

It has a possibly sentient, probably murderous sourdough starter in it.