Steve

As someone who works in this space, I was always told that 'good enough was never good enough'. The people pumping out AI slop are completely trying to shift that narrative to 'you'll like what we tell you to like'

I knew things were bad, but this is grim, grim reading.

Wait... it's STILL January?

When employers tell you they want you back in the office for the culture... this is the culture they mean

It's a government run by hot dog guys

100% agree. It's the assumption that people don't have agency. Wild to me

I’ve built a Time Machine and travelled to the year 2046. It’s still raining

That's really gross, I'm sorry

A couple of months ago I went to the first parents association meeting of my kids new school. 27 women and me. I was a little stunned 'cause in the last school the dads were quite involved but really I shouldn't have been

On my way to Rascals ahead of my Craicademia talk. Have suddenly forgotten how to speak

This minds me of a bit I had where friends would post pictures of themselves in front of famous world landmarks (eiffel tower, grand canyon, etc) and I'd comment underneath 'where's that?'

looking at pictures from 2015 and the last time I was beardless and my number one thought is that I should have spent more money on a phone with a decent camera. every picture looks like it was taken with a potato. underwater

PS: I know Bentham was a real person but his Panopticon idea is straight out of sci-fi

Episode 1 of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was promising. Just the right level of silliness in keeping with the source material

Green northern lights as seen from Ireland

Seeing the northern lights with the naked eye will never get boring

My fee on the night is going to chronic pain Ireland and work they do

BYOT

Craicademia Dublin’s newest night where big ideas meet great craic. Ted-style talks but with an Irish twist, less PowerPoint and more personality.

I’m speaking at Craicademia on Wednesday night (think Ted talk but more craic). Gonna be discussing living with Trigeminal Neuralgia, one of the world’s most painful medical conditions. Come along and throw tomatoes (just not at my face)

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Kildare twinned with Austria, neither a hurling stronghold

Guess I’m back here now. My WhatsApp groups will be happy at least

So here’s my take. We priced working class people out of journalism with the prevalence of unpaid internships. And the fee-paying school kids who replaced them are the most gullible people imaginable. Cause if you don’t think this was a nazi salute, I dunno what to tell you

The former, or so the people who made them up tell me

I think, but them will probably suffice

I have seen 1000x more people note that Trump didn't really save TikTok than I have seen people claim Trump saved TikTok

I’m 42 and lowkey still not 100% sure you’re not all lying to me about narwhals being real

If the Cadbury's ones get any smaller the will contain nothing but the Heroes version of the chocolate

interestingly, the Programme for Government doesn't seems to include anything about stopping the shrinkflation that affected selection boxes so heavily last Christmas. Truly a missed opportunity

This is a really hard read. Fair play to those women for going public. I was a huge fan of Gaiman's work when I was younger. But he belongs firmly in the bin.

Here come the hot stepper

My trigeminal neuralgia has been giving me awful gip recently. But the cold spell makes such a difference in terms of keeping the worst of the pain away. I know it's been really hard for some people, but the difference I feel being outdoors in this weather. Better than any drug