Daragh @ Castlebridge

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
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thegist.ie I said CJEU judgments were succinct. But one of the ways they manage this is to be very information dense. To expand on that paragraph a little- where a person has a right covered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights or any other provision of EU law and access to those legal entitlements is being blocked by a failure to correctly record their gender (in line with the definition at paragraph 32 above as being defined by "lived gender identity, and not to the identity assigned to them at birth") then whatever national law that is causing that impediment is to just be set aside. It is a dead letter. Every_court, every. state body, every individual official has to behave as it it didn't exist. That's the consequence of incompatibility with EU law.

On discourse about trans people’s right to access to accurate ID, I’d like to remind that the EU’s top court, using data protection’s most fundamental principles, has declared that someone’s “lived gender identity” is what must be recorded to describe them.

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Ireland will remember what International Law is on or after 18th March.

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

#SpeirGorm

I’m looking for speakers for a London event on the science of Star Trek. I’d really appreciate suggestions from underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially PoC/global majority.
(10 min, central London, Sept, currently unpaid but I’m trying to fix that)
Feel free to message

Johnny Twonames joins the pantheon of NoBrains.

Interesting

Dozens of our readers say they were evicted shortly before the new rental rules came in “I received an eviction notice on Friday – just one week before the change. I’ve barely slept since,” one reader said.

This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents).

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"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

YouTube video by billbailey Bill Bailey - U2 Failure - Part Troll

As I get ready for #DataLeaderSummit in #Wexford in 2 weeks, and after outages on login for Claude.ai recently, I'm thinking a bit about business continuity and recovery when humans become dependent on (or replaced by) AI/GenAI As ever, comedy has a metaphor.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dZ...

Christ. I know food is expensive, but…

At this point expressing support for Spain equals standing up for Europe.

I’m 17 years with @castlebridge.bsky.social this summer. Or 5 years more than I was in the phone company where I started while still in Uni.

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

This afternoon the AI Committee was told An Garda Síochána "is transitioning from a traditional style of police service to a data-led, digitally-enabled organisation."

Part of that transition is presumably a bill before the Oireachtas today - to give gardai the power to use "biometric analysis" 👇

Data is anthropology. And data practices are cultural.

Top stories of 2024: Three babies committed speeding offences, Garda system shows More than 2,200 records for children below age of criminal responsibility include 587 for those under three

Data led organisation. I’m sure this will work out just fine…

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

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In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

3/4

I do hope my publisher #KoganPage is taking notice of this.

People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it.

And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too.

#SpeirGorm

So… these guys were assessing risk for a living and didn’t think there might be a risk of a hot war in a general region known for its hotness and warness?

Amen to that.

A teacher present give me unforgettable feedback: I had wasted time with irrelevant background information instead of making the student memorise the lesson.

It made immediately clear why the kids were not doing well in science if the only thing asked of them was memorising stuff

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Ah. So now they have figured out that a SCIF is not a type of small boat.

At long last.

Ghana will update its current data protection law in 2026, joining Argentina, Mexico, and Zimbabwe.

Bruce Wayne just started buying up companies engaging in fraud and firing the bad ‘uns in management.

When they descend to violent street crime to maintain their lifestyles, Bruce gets his Bat back on.

“AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said” <who the hell assessed these tools & the risks from using them?

@jenpersson.com

Workday CEO Says Anthropic and OpenAI Use His Company’s Software Workday Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aneel Bhusri said leading AI companies like Anthropic — which investors fear will disrupt the software industry — actually use his company’s products.

Workday is down -37% this year on fears AI will cannibalize SaaS. It’s quite funny the CEO has to remind investors that Google and Anthropic use Workday instead of vibe coding a replacement.

People checking paystubs or 401(k) settings in a coworker’s vibe coded app is hilarious.