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Whittaker got me good.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I wasn’t clear!

That's a good way of putting it tbh

Oakland has been so abandoned by every single sports team they have ever loved (or loved to hate), that it feels so perfect and healing that this young woman is filling that empty space with her deeply Oakland energy ...

Indeed; I meant the tech companies more generally seem to stand up for nothing but deregulation. Didn’t intend a dig at Anthropic setting a limit.

It’s the ones who laundered those messages into the establishment—while platforming people like Jordan Peterson, as Caitlin Flanagan did—who paved the way for these laws.

They’re taking a stand on abundantly deregulating themselves.

Day 1 of the Epstein War.

AGAIN!!!

On Baby Name Day I measure my progress along the Judgmental Old Biddy scale.

Howyra to all the new Ógies and Páidís!

The 1970s Kerry GAA stars have me entertained enough to cancel out the FFS at another 5 spellings of Sadhbh.

Hardly flinched at Aodhla.

Holding steady in trying times.

Engineering talent used to be the bottleneck for tech companies.

For tech CEOs, the last ten years have been about removing that power and disciplining an “ungrateful” woke labor force.

It turns out that one of the most popular content types for humans right now is the micro-stereotype.

It kind of doesn’t matter if it is deployed as iykyk pride, as comedy, or as object of ridicule.

Such a strange, dehumanizing form!Maybe the spiritual opposite of a (good) novel?

The few times I look at Instagram, my feed is full of iykyk pride / comedy about Ireland, including a ton from outsiders / the “foreign boyfriend” marveling at e.g., our skedaddle dancing.

Was briefly cute, now feels so manipulative. My actual Irish friends and family are buried by the algorithm.

That’s fantastic!

Thriving societies have always known how to get out of the way for the person who can lock in.

(I’m kind of a Wikipedia Intellectual, if I say so myself.)

Written on a billboard outside of Manchester United's Football Ground: IMMIGRANTS HAVE DONE MORE FOR THIS CITY THAN BILLIONAIRE TAX DODGERS EVER WILL. In reference to the club's owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who said, "The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it?" Ratcliffe has chosen to live in Monaco to avoid paying UK taxes.

Great day for one of my many parishes

I've been in education for so long and have seen several cycles of "we must rethink education!" and I think it is NOW more than *any other time in the last 30 years* that we need to rethink education.

We must address AI, screens, attention span, democratic ideas and weighty ethical questions.

I want to hear from the history teachers most of all.

I read Wikipedia when there’s blood on the screen.

Marrying Dennis Hopper at 22 was probably great training for The Pitt, though.

Noah Wyle and Taylor Dearden having real, lovely, unfucked-with faces (despite both being LA royalty) adds greatly to my enjoyment of The Pitt.

That post was my reminder that while everyone is 12 now, everyone is 12 in differently annoying ways.

Erika Hall: What Design Research Is and Isn’t Erika Hall discusses the origin of her work, misconceptions about design research, and what it actually takes for organizations to learn and make better decisions.

Here's a handy summary of the stuff I say over and over.

www.journal.designlabs.net/p/erika-hall

That’s great! When she was writing in 2012ish, she pointed out that every time say, Walmart, slashed labor costs their stock was rewarded and Costco was punished, even though Costco’s generous labor policy was what drove their customer satisfaction and profitability.

Fanny looks like someone spelled Cradock with two d’s again.

I completely misestimated the impact of "bias" in the Twitter algo. The issue with Twitter wasn't the risk of radicalizing the hoi polloi but rather of distorting elite world view.

Oakland skater Alysa Liu smiling and biting a gold medal.

Come visit!

I used to try. They’re mostly in a different world with very small circles and primary loyalty to each other.

MacKenzie Scott is working tirelessly to take herself out of billionaire rankings, no strings attached. Everyone else is pulling our strings.