Reposted by Conor LinehanSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you 31155644216
Reposted by Conor LinehanPete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is a brilliant interview with the psychologist that everyone should actually be listening to on social media effects: 28057
Reposted by Conor Linehanphoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours 3161022358
Reposted by Conor LinehanLady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If they want to build a data center, they should have to buy the worst land possible for the highest price and then be forced to create a way to power all of that independently and without harming the environment I mean, they are supposed to be geniuses Figure it out 26065571426
Reposted by Conor LinehanMarie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money." 299127313823
Reposted by Conor LinehanDes Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Tfw it's not coming home 171
Reposted by Conor LinehanWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh 1226492781
Reposted by Conor LinehanJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology. 46110853239
Reposted by Conor LinehanDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There’s a big push to blame teen mental health issues on smartphones but this story made me wonder about exploring other things that have since become normalized. Should we expect kids who grew up post-Columbine on regular school shootings and active shooter drills to have great mental health?theatlantic.comWhat if It’s Not the Phones?An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology. 1602200579
Reposted by Conor LinehanEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Do you despair about the almost total lack of political will to tackle climate and ecological breakdown? I know I do, often. But there IS hope, in the form of 'Coalitions of the Willing', ie nations prepared to step up and lead the way. This is already happening. youtube.com/shorts/LqBRM...youtube.comHow 57 Countries Could End the Fossil Fuel EraYouTube video by Michael Mezzatesta 717959
Reposted by Conor LinehanThe Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 10/07/2026So if we don’t allow Athletes to bet on games that they have the ability to influence… Why do we allow Congress to invest in companies they regulate? 312124693312
Reposted by Conor LinehanNeil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026AND THE AULD TRIANGLE WENT 1128753
Reposted by Conor LinehanHIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Jarell Quansah has his red card ban extended to two matches. FIFA will consider an appeal, if the England defender can prove he’s either American or Argentinian or a brown envelope stuffed with cash 12454321087
Reposted by Conor LinehanBat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The real takeaway from this story is buried in the reportage: this batch of AI using students scored lower than the historic average when they weren't using AI. It's a perfect demonstration of how AI use robs you of the ability to learn, to analyse, and to apply that learning. 0172
Reposted by Conor LinehanDr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"Evil is often committed, not by monsters, but by ordinary people who stop thinking." -Hannah Arendt denisestobes.substack.com/p/the-danger...denisestobes.substack.comThe Danger of Thoughtlessnesspublic opinion, artificial intelligence, and why the greatest threat to moral judgement is our willingness to surrender it 10331129
Reposted by Conor LinehanEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The deeply primeval feel of a relatively intact Irish rainforest is impossible to communicate. The only way to know it is to spend quiet time in one. 361700199
Reposted by Conor LinehanPJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now. 22103503
Reposted by Conor LinehanTim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 07/07/2026the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims 153317892
Reposted by Conor LinehanSummer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind. 10654071527
Reposted by Conor LinehanPurchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026🚨 Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work We need to restart global tax reforms...techspot.comMicrosoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happensMicrosoft said nearly 40% of its pretax income was booked in Ireland, even though only about 3% of its global workforce is based in the country. In... 602398968
Reposted by Conor LinehanGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet? 14603935
Reposted by Conor LinehanEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ireland's real 'forty shades of green' is a temperate rainforest. 967780
Reposted by Conor LinehanAlice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time! 7553169
Conor Linehan @conorlinehan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Expecting all the Argentinians in the crowd to start chanting for Cape Verde, like what happened in Rocky 4 010
Reposted by Conor LinehanImran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore. 132425685
Reposted by Conor LinehanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here? 927249688680
Reposted by Conor LinehanVal Halla @thevaleriehalla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This is why I am firm in my belief that the insane amount of resource being put into AI is largely a tech literacy issue. Anyone who sees a computer beyond being a magical little box understands that it’s not NEARLY worth the resource or environmental/social cost. 11192
Reposted by Conor LinehanRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing 371703317
Reposted by Conor LinehanJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠nytimes.comBook on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. 511252369
Reposted by Conor Linehanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/04/2026saw someone use grok today to correct the pope 1455522380
Reposted by Conor Linehan🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/03/2026this paper is the best thing I've read thus far on LLMs-in-practice; there is presently little substantive work in this area but this paper is a great start (authors Gabriel Alracas and Donato Ricci) hal.science/hal-05421828...hal.science 1112
Reposted by Conor LinehanDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026To be entirely clear: every "AI" company should have bright red ethical lines against things like genocide and weapons systems and surveillance and consent violations and shepherding an encroaching fascism, and those lines should be placed way earlier than anthropic and openAI's seem to be. 430566
Reposted by Conor LinehanThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident 342862138
Reposted by Conor LinehanMike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics 7186222550
Reposted by Conor LinehanJooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Feck's sake - you can tell the people who make decisions about public transport in Cork city never have to actually use it. And haven't for years. 5205
Reposted by Conor LinehanNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u... 37633176
Reposted by Conor LinehanAmos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026This pretty much nails what underlies all the hype about sentient AIs. 14217
Reposted by Conor Linehanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000 449211493508
Reposted by Conor LinehanHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...economist.comEd tech is profitable. It is also mostly uselessIndependent research identifies few learning gains 13516257
Reposted by Conor LinehanPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew 1376103
Reposted by Conor LinehanUniversity College Cork @ucc.ie · 16/01/2026Reducing harmful engagement with AI-generated explicit images UCC researchers have launched the world's first educational tool which aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of AI-generated explicit imagery.rte.ieUCC launches new toolkit to combat engagement with AI deepfakesA programme developed by researchers at University College Cork has found that educating individuals about the harms of AI identity manipulation can help to stop this problem at source. Rachael spoke ... 0106
Reposted by Conor LinehanLuigina Ciolfi @luiciolfi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"The free 10-minute intervention dubbed ‘Deepfakes/Real Harms’ has been designed to reduce the willingness of users to engage with harmful uses of deepfake technology, like creating non-consensual explicit content", research by John Twomey supported by Lero www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...irishexaminer.comUCC researchers unveil 'world-first tool' aimed at persuading Grok users to avoid creating explicit imagesFree 10-minute intervention dubbed ‘Deepfakes/Real Harms’ has been designed to reduce the willingness of users to engage with harmful uses of deepfake technology, like creating non-consensual explicit... 053
Reposted by Conor LinehanPAT Research Group @patlabucc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026PAT research led by John Twomey on addressing engagement with deepfake tools is featured in the media today! @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc-apppsych.bsky.social @lerocentre.bsky.social www.rte.ie/news/munster...rte.ieUCC launches toolkit to combat AI deepfake engagementResearchers at University College Cork (UCC) have developed a new online educational toolkit designed to reduce engagement with AI-generated explicit images. 054
Reposted by Conor LinehanJason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps. 1131046370
Reposted by Conor LinehanHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.bloomberg.comDo You Want Your Food Made by a Robot?E-commerce mogul Marc Lore's Wonder is leaning into automation in a $2 billion effort to do to restaurants what Amazon did to shopping. 1522850
Reposted by Conor LinehanUCC Applied Psychology @ucc-apppsych.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Are you thinking about your 2026 CAO choices? Have an interest in Psychology? Students from UCC PsychSoc have put together an extremely informative introduction to the School of Applied Psychology in UCC! #caochoices #cao #psychology #leavingcert 035