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Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at MUSSI Data Visualisation | Urban Sensing | Mixed Realities | 3D Dynamic Mapping

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Circular deals among AI companies The big AI companies are making deals with each other, promising and distributing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years. Itโ€™s difficult to keep track, but Bloomberg has thisโ€ฆ

Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...

13.10.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

08.10.2025 07:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768

06.10.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.

05.10.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs | LinkedIn Help LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs

Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

22.09.2025 08:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Books: 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan and 'Language Machines' by Leif Weatherby.

Books: 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan and 'Language Machines' by Leif Weatherby.

New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)

18.09.2025 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New report: โ€˜The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issuesโ€™

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

17.09.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Strudel/TidalCycles Live Coding Metal Djents
YouTube video by boggo Strudel/TidalCycles Live Coding Metal Djents

Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE

12.09.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenAIโ€™s Waterloo? [with corrections] Post GPT-5, the narrative has flipped โ€” and that could hurt them

Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you canโ€™t bully your way to truth. And you canโ€™t make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...

15.08.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Books: 'Emanciapation(s)' by Ernesto Laclau and 'Adversarial Design' by Carl DiSalvo.

Books: 'Emanciapation(s)' by Ernesto Laclau and 'Adversarial Design' by Carl DiSalvo.

Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!

14.08.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LLMs vs. Geolocation: GPT-5 performs worse than other AI models - bellingcat Bellingcat challenged the latest modelsโ€”Grok, GPT and Geminiโ€”on geolocation tasks, revealing GPT-5 as a clear downgrade.

Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to workโ€ฆ www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

14.08.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 141    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Dries Depoorter Belgian creative technologist and artist Dries Depoorter, based in Ghent, creates thought-provoking work about technology, surveillance, ...

Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...

13.08.2025 21:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat Bellingcatโ€™s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

13.08.2025 09:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 248    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...

13.08.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!

12.08.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data Birdsong is all around us, but is there a deeper meaning? Can computer analysis help us decipher these hidden patterns in our own backyar...

'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...

11.08.2025 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Paper abstract for 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' by Oliver Dawkins and Rob Kitchin.

Paper abstract for 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' by Oliver Dawkins and Rob Kitchin.

New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

05.08.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Data Stories game ideation

Data Stories game ideation

Tiny House board game

Tiny House board game

Testing game mechanics

Testing game mechanics

Data Stories Commodity Narratives research question and ideation

Data Stories Commodity Narratives research question and ideation

New from Data Stories - Carla and I recently visited Oxford Brookes to participate in the Tiny House Games workshop with Mel Nowiki and our collaborators Ella Harris and Hannah Mumby. Check out the post and video for more on #ResearchCreation with games: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33

29.07.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

How to save a PNG to a bird! ๐Ÿ˜‚ Great video from Benn Jordan youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

26.07.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)
YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)

This is a great, irreverent interview with David Krakauer on the implications of complexity science for the understanding of emergence in LLMs. Feels spot on! youtu.be/jXa8dHzgV8U

26.07.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SuperCollider Live Coded Improvisation - 15 March 2025
YouTube video by Eli Fieldsteel SuperCollider Live Coded Improvisation - 15 March 2025

I'm loving this live coded performance by Eli Fieldsteel in #SuperCollider I really must find some time to give it a try! youtu.be/09o9IUanLng

22.07.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

Fascinating piece from @bellingcat.com testing LLMs for Geolocation. I was particularly struck by the negative impact of 'reasoning' and 'thinking' functions which often feel like 'self-checking', or sometimes even 'self-defeating', functions: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

06.06.2025 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Journal Investigates: Where are all the data centres and why should you care?

investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres

03.06.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Juliette Davret presenting the Data Stories paper 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data'.

Juliette Davret presenting the Data Stories paper 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data'.

New from Data Stories: Read about the recent paper presentation of 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data' by @juliettedavret.bsky.social on behalf of our team at SAGEO in France: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=734

29.05.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Verso books sale haul including books by Wark, Laclau, Doctorow and Routhier.

Verso books sale haul including books by Wark, Laclau, Doctorow and Routhier.

Got a bit excited in the recent @versobooks.bsky.social sale. ๐Ÿ“šSorry, not sorry. Still prefer reading physical copies.

27.05.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Latest from Data Stories: Read about Danielle and Sam's recent presentations on โ€˜Creative Methodologiesโ€™ with artists and โ€˜Critical Geographies of Housingโ€™ on eviction data for CIG2025 at Queens University, Belfast: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=727

26.05.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jean Tinguely Made Art That Movesโ€”Literally. Hereโ€™s Why He Still Matters Jean Tinguely was born on May 22, 1925. To celebrate his centenary, here are four things to know about the celebrated Swiss artist.

Four things to know about the art of Jean Tinquely: news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...

21.05.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Read our latest blog update by Sam Mutter about the recent Community Action Archives Event in Dublin, hosted by Tom Oโ€™Dea with the Liberties Community Development Project and CATU: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=723

21.05.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Visualisation of 3DTiles for Dublin running with Cesium in the open-source Godot game engine.

Visualisation of 3DTiles for Dublin running with Cesium in the open-source Godot game engine.

I took a first look at the Cesium 3DTiles plugin by Battle Road Digital for the open-source Godot Engine today. I haven't tested Godot in a while but this project was a great reason to pick it up again. The plugin was really easy to setup. Further details here: cesium.com/blog/2025/05...

07.05.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sign post to Luxembourg

Sign post to Luxembourg

Read about researcher @juliettedavret.bsky.social's recent meetings with Eurostat and ESPON to explore links between housing Data Stories in Ireland and the rest of Europe: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=707

02.05.2025 07:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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