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Bernie Goldbach "topgold"

@topgold.ie
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topgold.ie teaches digital transformation in Ireland. Works with Ireland's Youth Media Team. #authenticstorytelling #AndAcyclist ORCID 0000-0003-3431-0747 direct: 8647

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 29/09/2026
Chad shares what many vibe coders have discovered.
aicoding.leaflet.pub
The Spec Can Come Later
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 28/09/2026
In case you need to know what pervert glasses look like.
Bernie Goldbach
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 28/09/2026
What I've learned about engagement while listening to creatives: insideview.ie/2026/09/28/what-ive-l… Things that have changed in this decade about how creatives engage.
Making a storylineOutside Books UpstairsLast Good Day on the Internet
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 28/09/2026
Most of the handsets in my gadget drawer won't work by the end of the year because Ireland will silence the 3G spectrum for other uses.
Xperia with 3G
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 28/09/2026
Changing tyres with perfect nails. Rite of Passage.: insideview.ie/2026/09/28/changing-t… Kneeling on wet or cold surfaces to change tyres on your car is a rite of passage in our home.
Dirty work with tyresAuto-generated description: A person with painted nails is using a socket wrench to tighten or loosen a lug nut on a car wheel.Auto-generated description: A person with red hair is kneeling on the ground and using a tool to work on the wheel area of a blue car.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 26/09/2026
Republicans purchase eight heavy-duty trucks for every one purchased by a Democrat. Those trucks suck diesel. I won't be surprised when those truckers vote against politics that spike fuel prices.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/2026
12-year-old: Why did humans invent money? Me: It makes trade easier--a hat-maker can get milk even if the milk-maker doesn't need hats 12: Why not give everyone the same amount of money? Me: The idea is to make people work harder 12: But once someone has more, they can just cheat to stay ahead
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 26/09/2026
My newfeeds show me how Googlebooks run a full terminal environment with agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Antigravity CLI. The premium build of the hardware is exceptional.
Googlebook
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 25/09/2026
If I was still flying cargo jets, I could confirm the tonnage being flown west from the Gulf. #outoftime America is stepping back. GIFT: www.economist.com/middle-east-...
economist.com
America is stepping back from a region it never managed to remake
It is giving up the job of running the Middle East
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 25/09/2026
Something remarkably organic has happened this quarter with me an @sm2n.bsky.social It involves Open Audio Sharing of discoveries inside professional workflows. Connected to a Signal Chat. Expanded inside Obsidian vaults via Relay services. All for free. #win
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 24/09/2026
On the Luas learnibg how to say ​"An chéad stad eile"
Dublin Luas
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 24/09/2026
Red Cow Luas parking lot needs to be restriped
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 24/09/2026
I don't think this will end well. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
WSJ chart
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 23/09/2026
Remembering when my grandparents were teens in America, the accents and the faces on sidewalks around them were changing with a surge of immigrants. And nobody was clamoring for an ICE-like response.
Bil Bryson One Summer
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 23/09/2026
There are 133 reservations made inside Ireland's public library system for @marklittle.bsky.social's latest book.
The last good day on the internet
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 23/09/2026
Transit point.
Railway station
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 23/09/2026
First of 4 legs
CL1 bus interior
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026
How I finger some AI-generated content: insideview.ie/2026/09/22/how-i-fing… During the past three months, the amount of obvious AI-generated content in front of me has increased at least ten fold. I’ve started using Chrome plug-ins such as Pangram to label content...
Angie the authentic
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026
@sm2n.bsky.social While listening as you walk and talk I believe you confirm that many of history's greatest thinkers have been big walkers.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026
Hoping we can suffocate some of the algorithms that infect our lives.
Mark Little's book
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026
Before pitchforks came for Metaview: insideview.ie/2026/09/22/before-pit… Long before the pitchforks came rushing after people using Metaview, Geraldine McDermott from N-TUTORR visited Ground Zero where Ray-Ban Meta Glasses roamed the hallways. She snapped a ...
Geraldine SnapsCountry MileSessionAndrew recording
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026
The Whoop band on my wrist sends me actionable info. I reckon I will live longer if I act on its notifications.
Whoop wristbandWhoop metrics
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026
Why can't the American govt adopt Chip and PIN? www.wsj.com/us-news/how-...
wsj.com
How Romanian Crime Rings Are Draining U.S. Welfare Accounts
Thieves have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026
Irish trains have improved in this century
Train interior
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026
That Claude Dispatch function is dead handy for tracking project activity when I am underway in Ireland.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026
Some of my most productive mornings start with Claude running pandoc as I make coffee
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 20/09/2026
Remembering the last good day on the internet: insideview.ie/2026/09/20/rememberin… I’m reading The Last Good Day on the Internet because I was there to see the roaming llamas back then. I scrolled back into my blog’s archive and through my Flickr Camera Roll to se...
Auto-generated description: A book cover titled The Last Good Day on the Internet by Mark Little, with the subtitle Finding Hope and Humanity in a Superhuman World and a recommendation quote from Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Senior Correspondent.Auto-generated description: A smartphone home screen displays various app tiles including Twitter, steps tracker, calendar, messaging, phone, and social media notifications.A hand-drawn illustration from a design thinking lass of  person climbing four stepped blocks labeled What is, What if, What works, and What lasts with small plants growing at the base.Bernie's coloured pencils
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 20/09/2026
Thinking @omaniblog.bsky.social should visit the family shop and read the epilogue. Its title "Think Like the Poet" overflows with the empathy @marklittle.bsky.social shares.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 20/09/2026
This policy proposal is like AI being allowed to drive wrong way down the information superhighway. Autonomously.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 20/09/2026
My American friends might not realise more than 14% of US power will be used by data centres by 2030. Hoping friends remember that when voting in mid-terms for locals who are making this happen.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 19/09/2026
So Trump and Xi get the joint AI-sanctioned joint Nobel Peace Prize? Sam Altman's idea: www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
economist.com
Deep mutual distrust will scupper US-China co-operation on AI
Big progress at a summit of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is unlikely
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 18/09/2026
Wanna Be Frank performing under the stars on Cultire Night in Clonmel
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 18/09/2026
Pinging @markomahony.bsky.social from the Colbert Cathedral
Limerick station
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 18/09/2026
My current bookends h/t @marklittle.bsky.social and @doctorow.pluralistic.net
Cory and Mark meet in O'Mahony's
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 18/09/2026
There should be a more active social shaming of those who insist on putting feet on seats when using Irish public transport
Feet on seats
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 18/09/2026
Like many friends, I can feel the rising cost of living in Ireland. I’ve screencapped the daily electricity cost of one person living in my home as a marker.
Electricity usage on 16 September 2026 shows the highest spend peak around 6pm with a total daily cost of €2.69, which is lower than the average €5.41 for Wednesdays.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 15/09/2026
"Trump’s hot dogs were not given out for free. Ethics rules restrict agents from accepting gifts from the individuals they are assigned to serve, so Trump’s club charges the government for the hot dogs Trump insisted agents eat." www.msn.com/en-ie/news/o...
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 15/09/2026
Glad to get my mid-term ballot. Thanks Democrats Abroad.: insideview.ie/2026/09/15/glad-to-ge… I am from Lancaster PA and registered to vote in the US midterm elections. Thanking Democrats Abroad for helping with their ever-vigilant citizen activism.
Lancaster
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 14/09/2026
Inspired by creative visual thinking: insideview.ie/2026/09/14/inspired-b… Inspired by a sculpture that reminds me of creative thinking.
IPA sculpture
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 14/09/2026
Googling this morning
Grand Canal Dock
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 14/09/2026
Thinking about automatic audio throwbacks: insideview.ie/2026/09/14/thinking-a… I am looking for a way to leverage Claude as a scrobbler
A vintage-style Roberts radio displays internet radio station 100.7 WLEV playing The Fate Of Ophelia by Taylor Swift.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 13/09/2026
Icebreakers have opened channels through the Northwest Passage already and into the Polar Sea, a water body that will never be renamed by Trump. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Mark Carney’s Audacious Bid to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU
As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 13/09/2026
Ireland was in a better place when Obama visited Dublin: youtu.be/ngwyKsUg9Ms
youtu.be
Barack Obama's Speech in College Green, Dublin, Ireland
YouTube video by topgold
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 13/09/2026
Trump in Clare and Deep MAGA in Kerry: insideview.ie/2026/09/13/trump-in-c… This weekend, Donald Trump and his posse are in holiday mode along the Irish coast in County Clare. Trump’s hotel is a nice venue, but not as classy as The Dunloe where the cover shot of this po...
Watching pancakes on a treadmill in The DunloeDunloe Gap
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 12/09/2026
Millions more have watched Kimmel interview Talarico than watched the Trump Midterm Con. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
youtu.be
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 12/09/2026
Here are reasons Cal Newport wants to keep AI at arm's length from his Deep Work.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 11/09/2026
Irish Welcone for Dear Leader
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 10/09/2026
The one chart that should have FG parliamentarians discussing the importance of a Trump War Fuel Top-off in the Irish budget this autumn.
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 10/09/2026
Currently connected to the slowest WiFi of 2026.
Speedtest 12 Mbps
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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 09/09/2026
I discovered the magic phrase "speak to an advisor" jumps me to the top of many of telephone queues with State Agencies in Ireland. Handy with licensing and passports. Don't abuse this, friends. #protip
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