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Mary O'Connell

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Lecturer in English at UCC, teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Crime Fiction. Mama to Dylan. Arsenal fan.

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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 11h
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 8h
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social · 7h
5/5 #Shakespeare #Pericles #OxfordWorldsClassics
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23h
AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me right now
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...
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Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth
Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Incredible to think that it's 59 years since Man City won the title.
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Chris Lepkowski @chrislepkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, I am shocked... (I'm not!)
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026
if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI companies: We’ve invented an unreliable guessing machine which sometimes doesn’t follow instructions. If you give it access to important systems it could kill us all. Also AI companies: Deploy this technology everywhere and replace your employees with it, otherwise China wins. IPO next month.
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Amazing
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Saw Sense and Sensibility. Many thoughts, but one is the visuals were very Bronte - down to the Jane Eyre style first encounter with Brandon. I'm not quite sure what the hell the dancing was. Marianne needed to wash her hair.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is REALLY neat
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23/09/2026
“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-of-…
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@carriegrif.bsky.social
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have absolutely *zero* trouble believing this.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dartmouth provost’s email statement to the student newspaper about how his op-Ed’s are AI was produced by AI! You can’t make this stuff up! Just write your own email!!!
In an email statement to The Dartmouth on Sept. 18, Schnell wrote that he uses artificial intelligence for "language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization and making writing processes more efficient," but "review[s] the final text and take[s] responsibility for its content."
"I develop ideas and arguments, conduct the research, evaluate the evidence and sources, determine the structure, prepare drafts and decide what appears in the final text," Schnell wrote. "I regard these technologies as assistive tools. They do not identify the problem, design the research project, guarantee the validity of research results, interpretations, citations, conclusions or substitute for my research, intellectual judgment or authorship."
Schnell's Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself "100% Al-written," according to a Pangram test.In a follow-up statement about the composition of the email, Schnell wrote that he "developed the substance and wrote a draft" of the email, then "used an Al tool to assist with language and clarity, taking on several suggestions (including reworded sentences), before reading it through, making minor changes and sending it to you with my signature."
"I am fully responsible for any text under my signature," Schnell added.
Schnell previously wrote in an email statement on Sept. 10 that the
"characterization of my Washington Post essay as '100% Al-written' is not accurate."
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@edelsemple.bsky.social @middleagewitch.bsky.social
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shockingly bad performance but what kills me is certain players seem immune from being taken off or rotated. Just a thought, play the man who got the most goals last season once in a while.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You know what never hacked another company or had a 10% chance to kill humanity? A goddamn book.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Wow Totally Awesome Animated Text
Alt: Wow Totally Awesome Animated Text
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seminar yesterday, gave copies of the reading, notebooks, pens. Laptops and phones in the bags. Worked like a charm.
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CFP for the Brontes and the Supernatural symposium for next September in Haworth - deadline New Year’s Eve
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Haunt me, then! - The Brontës and the Supernatural Symposium | The Brontë Parsonage Museum
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2027 special exhibition will focus on the Brontës’ fascination with the supernatural, and we invite proposals
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Godfather Massacre
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives. 
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A dog on the street could have called this offside.
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turzaak @turzaak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every time I see a post about how AI is going to take Every Job, I have to roll my eyes. People. I've worked in high-precision robotics and semiconductor. The robots run into walls. The STATIONARY robots. The precision vision can't handle glass windows. The machines aren't taking shit.
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mortifying
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Businesses are 'clear that universities should do "more to help students to gain workplace experience".' Are they clear that such workplace experience needs to be provided by, ahem, businesses?
ft.com
UK universities pledge work experience to more than 1mn students
Initiative comes amid growing concern among employers about young people’s readiness for workplace
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Donald Trump has ignored panicked warnings from Anthropic employees claiming that AI could end civilization. He says the U.S. will be in a very bad position if China wins in AI. Translation: It’s going to take more than an extinction level event to stop those data center build outs.
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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s a strange kind of cognitive dissonance involved in seeing the bbc website run a nice longread (underneath headlines about tourist tax etc) where people who know a lot about AI say it is quite likely to exterminate humanity in the medium term
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 08/09/2026
Irish teenagers getting weaker at maths and reading, new international research shows
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Irish teenagers getting weaker at maths and reading, new international research shows
OECD says ‘increased digitalisation’ and ‘falling rates of reading for enjoyment have coincided with weaker literacy outcomes’
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Christopher Priest was working on a biography of J.G. Ballard when he passed away from the same cancer that killed Ballard. Our own Teika Marija Smits chats with Nina Allan, Priest's widow, who finished the biography as a love letter to two great men. britishfantasysociety.org/the-illumina...
The cover of The Illuminated Man, plus images of Teika Marija Smits and Nina Allen
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rejecting AI is not ignoring it.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/09/2026
New cover just dropped! “The Nerd Reich” remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a second week—and is #4 in Business books. (Ha)
Cover of Nerd Reich book with New York Times bestseller label
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How disappointingly ableist.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every time a person uses ChatGPT, a few people go without electricity and water. Thanks ChatGPT users, for your services to destroying lives across the world. We see you.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is no gray area on Scrooge. He is the most explicitly caricatured figure in all of Dickens. A Sistine Chapel level finely filigreed precise depiction of every miserly trait boiled down to an aromatic reduction. A Platonic ideal of the form.
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
😂😂😂😂😂😂
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