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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲

@chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social
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Reformed Digital Utopian. Bought the late 80's and 90's tech hype. Sorely regretting that purchase. A better internet is possible but we need better people making it. Not big on fascists or tech bros but that may be redundant.

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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Goodnight from Terry Anderson, wondering why there’s a freezing fog inside the cab of his truck, but none on the Northmoor Road. Goodnight from the bingo on Blaxwich Pier, where tonight’s caller has unknowingly invoked the gematria of several minor demons. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeats’ amazing poem conveys a sense that there are vast, hidden forces at play in the world. It so suits this current chaotic moment. “What rough beast… slouches towards Doonbeg to play golf”
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Aspire to live in such a way that reporters write stories on why people don’t like you. 🙃 baptistnews.com/article/what...
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What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Look, I am a huge proponent of creating art in an emotionally safe, constructive and low anxiety space. Then I listen to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and think "Okay, maybe there should be a Hunger Games scenario where 1 in 100 musicians has to do an album with their ex and someone who ghosted them".
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And the milk jug sends live telemetry back to Palantir!
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@404media.co on Flock’s latest attempt to build a dystopian panopticon future.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My three-year-old was watching CNN when he turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why is the nice orange man firing the nice wine lady?” And when I told him “Because she became too woke to protect the reflecting pools,” he started crying.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Scarby @thescarby.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
goblin memes
A field of green grass features a stone circle, centered in the photograph. There is overlying text in white: “I never see you at the club”. okay? and I never see you frolicking at the stone circle when the veil is thin
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
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Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’
‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two
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Ben Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Past administrations did, to be fair, lie to us about their war crimes far more respectfully, and that’s what made all the difference.
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Quote from Bruce Schneier's newsletter. He's one of the internet's OG security experts and knows his way around technology. Which makes this quote land even harder. “If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems.”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Joe Rogan looks like the main character in a Twilight Zone episode who is about to learn a terrible lesson
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
It should not feel as epically satisfying as it does to add a member to my Microsoft Office Family Plan. Hours spent battling the horrible UI, the conflicting prompts, the security challenges that time out. I felt like fucking Indiana Jones when my wife said, “yeah, I’m on now.” #fuckMicrosoft
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
WTAF? An academic institution asking the Trump regime’s NLRB to overturn their employees vote to unionize? A vote they encouraged? I grew up in academia and I don’t even know where to start.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our employer, the University of Southern California, is asking Donald Trump to overturn the results of our democratic union election before the count is even finished.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Every state should do this
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It’s possible that we’re not angry enough about the purchasing of our political class.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...
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Jared Polis says his Tina Peters decision
Gov. Jared Polis made the remarks at The Colorado Sun’s annual legislative recap event, only to be drowned out by a small group of protesters
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Oh, bless your little heart. People don't think the Supreme Court is comprised of "political actors" because it makes "unpopular" decisions. They think SCOTUS is composed of "political actors" because it decides cases along predictable political lines & makes decisions that are popular with Trump.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 30/04/2026
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps There's a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. "Hans," one asks, peering at his cap, "are we the baddies?" The skulls had…
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Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There's a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. "Hans," one asks, peering at his cap, "are we the baddies?" The skulls had been there the whole time. The skulls are kind of a giveaway. But it took a while for the question to surface. You've probably seen it:
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
You're all laughing but I'm going to make hundreds of dollars with my "My smart glasses tell me you're horny" t-shirt!
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/04/2026
ghoulish
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/04/2026
the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
AI Jesus told me the money changers are actually the heroes of the Bible.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Christ preached forgiveness, mercy, and peace. A guy who beats his girlfriends and has four gin-and-tonics before breakfast says we should kill for Jesus in Iran. For busy church-goers, it’s hard to know who to believe.
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 03/04/2026
Folks, I give you the New York Times
FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

Gregg Phillips, who is in charge of responding to fires and floods, says the hand of God suddenly and mysteriously moved him to a 24-hour breakfast spot in Rome, Ga.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/03/2026
According to court records, the CEO followed ChatGPT over his legal counsel. Now, he's set to lose. www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...
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CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Reputational damage? For actions you willingly undertook/embraced???That’s called consequences or, as Hunter Thompson would say, “buy the ticket, take the fucking ride.” I thought conservatives were big on personal accountability but I guess they get the ‘white boy goalposts’.
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Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
People were right to be upset at evacuation chaos from Kabul under Joe Biden. Now US citizens across the gulf are stranded as a result of a war Trump started and those voices are where exactly?
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/03/2026
AI research: Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers. Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats. Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary
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Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hunter knew the score long before most of us woke the fuck up.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2026
Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors theonion.com/kash-patel-faces-backl…
Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The thing about Kash Patel flying to Milan to party with the U.S. men’s hockey team on a private jet paid for with taxpayer dollars is that he’s protecting billionaire pedophiles like Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the Epstein files.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
British bobsledder having second thoughts
Andrew in car. Photo credit: Phil Noble, working for Reuters
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