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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

My email to my local TD this morning opposing the proposed change to timeline for gaining #Irish #citizenship. I encourage everyone to do the same. To those with much bigger social media presence than me, please consider boosting.

Text of my email opposing the proposed change to timeline for gaining Irish citizenship.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

Instead of thinking about AI itself, we should be thinking about its effects. It concentrates power; it obfuscates accountability; it further despoils nature and climate; it is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages and lands for massive profit; and it will probably make us lonelier and stupider.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026

Their reactions says it all! What a match! #snooker

Presenter Seema Jaswal and pundits, six-time world champion Steve Davis and 2024 World Champion, Kyren Wilson hold their hands to their faces in shock (after Mark Allen misses a black).

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026

Tokens for Chinese AI models are around 20% of the cost of their US competitors. All things being equal and assuming Chinese models will be “good enough” for various applications, this has to weight on the upcoming IPO valuations of Anthropic and OpenAI.

Headline followed by image of AI logos being handed from one person to another.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026

🎉🎉🎉 Major-elect, Emmanuel Grégoire arrives at l'Hôtel de Ville by Vélib' :).

Major-elect, Emmanuel Grégoire and two other men all cycle to l'Hôtel de Ville by electric bike.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 17/03/2026

While the general point of the article re: AI slop imagery is valid, choosing an authentic image of an actoricity and the headline “A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?” is an appalling decision by The Guardian. (1/4)

Guardian headline for a real image of an aerial shot of a graveyard being dug for 170+ people, mainly children.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

Most EU governments hate immigration but it’s looking like demographics are going to force them to change their stance. One would hope they won’t want to have policies that promote declining living standards. (Then again, Brexit.)

Headline followed by image of older person with a walker beside an oncoming tram.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026

Column resizing in Finder rendered useless as element covered by the horizontal scrollbar. How did this UI make it into Apple production?

Arrows pointing to where the column resizing function in Finder is rendered useless because the resizing elements are covered by the Finder's horizontal scrollbar.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 28/01/2026

Add Capgemini to the list of ICE helpers. (Via FT)

Paragraph from FT: Capgemini's US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) signed a second contract with ICE in December for "skip tracing services" — used to locate people for legal processes — in which private investigators help the agency locate immigrants it seeks to deport.
The company also agreed to modify an older contract for "data analysis" services, adding skip tracing work starting in October.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 21/12/2025

Students could use gAI for summary generation *after* (not before) they complete their own & then compare with the AI summary. Discussion will show that summation (or abstract dev) is a very skilled human *practice*, with an implicit perspective. It should also show up weakness in AI outputs.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 08/12/2025

Thanks to all for coming to my talk today at @education.ox.ac.uk. Great discussion and always nice to see familiar faces:).

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025

Arriving into Dublin Airport to see a recruitment advertisement for social care workers. These are the very people whose families the new Irish immigration policy seeks to tear apart. Not to mention the cruel irony of using photos of kids as promo.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 01/12/2025

In Untitled (Buffalos) (1988-89), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) framed a portion of a diorama depicting a traditional Native American hunting method as an allegory of the decade as he was dying of AIDS. #WorldAIDSDay. Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu/artworks/238...)

Untitled (Buffalos) depicts a diorama from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., of a traditional Native American hunting method in which plains bison were herded toward cliffs, forcing them to plunge to their death. Interdisciplinary artist David Wojnarowicz selectively framed a portion of the display in black and white as an allegory of the decade as he was dying of AIDS. At once analogy and piercing critique, the image embodies the tragedy of the pandemic and offers an indictment of a nation at odds with itself.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 11/11/2025

This is a hell of a statement on the massive cost of #AI infrastructure from JPMorgan. For comparison, the entire German economy is ~$5tn, which is about 1/5 of the entire Euro economy. on.ft.com/3JwN1pw

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 10/11/2025

This headline beggars belief… until you read the HSE response: “… the waiting time has now been reduced to 10 years”. These are not timelines that any well funded health service should be working with.

Photo of a child looking at children’s artwork above the news headline.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 27/09/2025

Well done @atsukocomedy.bsky.social for highlighting how the “you can’t say anything anymore!”comedians (as she rightly terms them) agreed to being censored in order to perform in Riyadh. (She turned it down when asked 👏👏). #shillinforsaudi

Text: Content Restrictions:
ARTIST shall not prepare or perform any material that may be considered to degrade, defame, or bring into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, embarrassment, or ridicule:
A) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including its leadership, public figures, culture, or people;
B) The Saudi royal family, legal system, or government, and;
C) Any religion, religious tradition, religious figure, or religious practice.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 25/09/2025

Movie recommendation: Columbus (2017)

Screenshot from the movie Columbus with the main character seated in a green space, noting that "no one can finish as book anymore", in the context of a discussion on attention versus interest.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 22/09/2025

Have I got this right? #Nvidia is investing in #OpenAI so OpenAI can use the cash to buy - you guessed it - … more Nvidia chips. No hype cycle here at all! Nope, absolutely not!!

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 02/09/2025

Even by Labour’s low standards, Yvette Cooper’s dehumanising rhetoric of warehousing people in “industrial sites” is truly shocking. Cooper’s authoritarian leaning supporting Reform to go even further.

Headline on red background with photo of Cooper.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 10/06/2025

“I think the world needs a lot more angry women” -Greta Thunberg in response to Trump after being deported from Israel. @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025

Currently the #Madleen is just off Port Said. @freedomflotilla.bsky.social freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Map 2 showing distance to the Gaza Strip

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 06/06/2025

Ireland is providing support for the US government to deport people to third countries via Shannon airport. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Flight path from Texas to Djibouti via Ireland.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 03/06/2025

Day 3: #Madleen off the coast of Greece on its humanitarian trip to break the siege of #Gaza. @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Live Tracker: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/ #AllEyesOnDeck

Location of the Madleen off the coast of Greece, having sailed from Sicily, on Day 3 of its trip to Gaza.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 24/02/2025

Many congratulations to Ken on the release of his new book, “The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity”. The book’s aim is to encourage children to program with a GenAI chatbot as a supportive partner! cmkpress.com/product/lear...

All yellow book cover for “The Learner’s Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human Creativity”, with AI in big blue letters in the centre.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 29/12/2024

So, you know Irish wines are a thing, right? “Carlo Rizzini and his son Alberto grow Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot on the shores of Lough Owel in County Westmeath in central Ireland” #wine on.ft.com/3Pcw8j4

Man crouching down, holding two bunches of red grapes.

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Niall Winters @nwin.eurosky.social · 27/11/2024

Another nail in the coffin for international law. Let’s see if they even bother to arrest Min Aung Hlaing. (Note: #ICC doesn’t agree with France’s argument re: Netanyahu.)

France says Netanyahu is immune from ICC warrant as Israel is not member of court

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