@aaocarroll.bsky.social
Sociology (#work, #class, #time & #tech). Policy geek at the Digital Repository of Ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. She, her. Also cats, jokes & typos
Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.
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Introducing the DRI Research Reuse Reward! 🏆 📊
For #LoveData26 we're announcing a new scheme rewarding good research that interrogates, enhances, remixes or reimagines Ireland's social and cultural data. You could win up to €500 for reusing data in the DRI repository.
dri.ie/news/dri-lau...
It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
11.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 40 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 6Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Today we launch new AI guidelines to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future - read more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/new-ai-...
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Grass, brown leaves and purple and yellow crocus
Spring. Imbolc.
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I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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Typical winter's day in this entry for #February in the Labors of the Months section from the Très Riches Heures (15th.c). Some peasants get warm by the fire, another chops wood + another leaves for market. Above, an arguably redundant Phoebus... publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
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Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...
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National Grief Awareness Week runs Jan 26 – Feb 1, and its message is that grief affects everyone, and no one should grieve alone. The Irish Hospice Foundation’s Bereavement Support Line is at 1800 80 70 77.
And, if you can, please donate to help them do what they do.
hospicefoundation.ie/donate
Love Data Week!
Join ISSDA's webinar discussing the documentation needed to understand data. Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/issda-loves-data-documentation-tickets-1981131678180?aff=oddtdtcreator
#IrishData #SocialScience #DataArchive #LoveData26
@researchireland.ie @ucdlibrary.bsky.social
Great thread and key point re LLMs
29.01.2026 10:24 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0And a third one!
23.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 133 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 0MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
23.01.2026 17:33 — 👍 2139 🔁 905 💬 44 📌 99Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
This collection, of over 5000 specimens from the 1800 can be used to track changes to plants and to the Irish eco-system over time: paging all students looking for a neat botany project. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @darrenreidy.bsky.social @ailbhe-brazel.bsky.social @scaldararu.bsky.social
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CFP: Transnational Queer and Feminist Archives
This collection seeks to publish work demonstrating transnational strategies for preserving queer and feminist activist archives.
Abstracts due: 30 March 17:00 PST
Learn more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Latest Lankum offshoot drops
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20.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A pescatarian just challenged me to a duel. I told him to name the time and the plaice.
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Excerpt from John Speed's map of Cork city in 1610 showing the line of rivers, walls, houses, bridges, churches etc from a birds eye view on a green background
Hello and welcome to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas BlueSky page! The IHTA is a long-term research programme housed by @ria.ie with the aim to record the topographical development and history of towns across the island of Ireland. To date, 32 atlases have been produced with many more in the works.
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8 different mittens in varying colours with strong geometric patterns and borders. Blue, cream, white, red and a burnt orange colour. The wool looks chunky and cosy.
For a Monday in January, the Swedish mitten museum digitaltmuseum.se/search?descn...
You're welcome.
"Oh shit", mutters the Irish Government, realising their "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" poster has been hung up on the wall upside down this whole time.
19.01.2026 08:56 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Front cover of a pamphlet with the title 'Aid for Spain', promoting the International Solidarity Fund. It includes an image of a food bowl being passed from one hand to another, with the ruins of a destroyed building in the background.
The Spanish Civil War through contemporary eyes
Faced with a fascist coup and polarising conflict, an international aid effort was launched - our digitised collection on the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, contains 4,000+ archive sources freely available
Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Archer-Butler Luck Stone
Originally owned by the Butler family of Garnavilla, near Cahir, Co. Tipperary & used to protect cattle from disease. Dipped in drinking water or hung from the neck of a cow. The crystal ball is 200g, frame ?17th century. (Hunt Museum, #Limerick)
St Brendan the Navigator Enters the chat
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Patrick Freyne: AI’s weird billionaires want us all to be atomised units of labour and consumption
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screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Feast of the Ass, observed on January the 14th.
Merry Feast of the Ass, y’all!
14.01.2025 08:03 — 👍 351 🔁 176 💬 0 📌 35The lack of self awareness is astounding. This from the man who ended birthright citizenship in Ireland.
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