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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I 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

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Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is a brilliant interview with the psychologist that everyone should actually be listening to on social media effects:

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phoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If 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

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No 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."

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tfw it's not coming home

Simpsons "there will be no orphanage, I'll tell the children" meme

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another 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

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Its 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.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great job 👏

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There’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.com

What if It’s Not the Phones?

An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Do 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.com

How 57 Countries Could End the Fossil Fuel Era

YouTube video by Michael Mezzatesta

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So 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?

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

AND THE AULD TRIANGLE WENT

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HIGNFY @hignfy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Jarell 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

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The 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.

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Conor Linehan @conorlinehan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is how VAR has always worked. It’s a technology that is applied arbitrarily, according to vaguely written rules, and typically in favour of the more commercially favourable team

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The 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.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026

In 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.

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the 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

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I 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.

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Purchase 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.com

Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens

Microsoft 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...

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ireland's real 'forty shades of green' is a temperate rainforest.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I 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!

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Conor Linehan @conorlinehan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Expecting all the Argentinians in the crowd to start chanting for Cape Verde, like what happened in Rocky 4

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If 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.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The 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?

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Val Halla @thevaleriehalla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This 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.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Feels 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

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Julia 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.com

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

saw someone use grok today to correct the pope

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🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

this 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...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

To 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.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

i 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

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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Feck'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.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

As 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...

“People don’t understand what this job is,” he said, adding, “You cannot pick and choose, because among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people. Capitalism is a rough system.”
In defending his pursuit of Mr. Epstein and candidly describing the burden of raising money, Dr. Botstein gave insight into how the need to attract dollars can appear to run headlong into an academic institution’s stated values.
Mr. Epstein gave prolifically to many charities and universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., and the Wall Street Journal report showed that his network of contacts was wider than had been thought, including prominent figures like the linguist Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard. Dr. Summers sought money for a poetry foundation, led by his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor. Mr. Summers declined to comment.
“Would we accept money from Jeffrey Epstein today? No,” Dr. Botstein said, describing the former donor as a “monster” and “truly evil man.” “We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

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Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This pretty much nails what underlies all the hype about sentient AIs.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

read 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

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Blistering 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.com

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

When 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

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University College Cork @ucc.ie · 16/01/2026

Reducing 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.ie

UCC launches new toolkit to combat engagement with AI deepfakes

A 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 ...

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Luigina 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...

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UCC researchers unveil 'world-first tool' aimed at persuading Grok users to avoid creating explicit images

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...

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

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