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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 7h

I've been looking at Yudkowsky and Soares (#10) since early summer. Clear and Wynn-Williams are enshrined in my @readwise.bsky.social collection.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 19h

Keep critical thinking at the front: insideview.ie/2026/10/11/keep-criti… The biggest impact I make when working with creatives is to show them how to keep their critical thinking at the front of content they create. This is challenging because many people want to ...

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 08/10/2026

Let it germinate. Says my bookshelf.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 07/10/2026

Still starting with pens: insideview.ie/2026/10/07/still-star… Every year I look at my Starter Pack. I still start with ink.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 06/10/2026

My brief morning walk needed to be 20 minutes longer to burn off one Americano and 300 ml of orange juice

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

Cross-posting boosts audio: insideview.ie/2026/10/05/crossposti… I can’t keep up with all the cross-posting people do across social networks. That’s probably why all my besties will fit around a Tipperary Long Table.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

Watching OCR help a hand injury: insideview.ie/2026/10/05/watching-o… I am working with young people who often have challenges with their handwriting. At the moment my son Dylan can’t hold a pencil in his writing hand because of surgery.

Dylan thinking about his handwritten notes, resting his hand on the back of his head.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

If LLMs continue using DroidSpeak there's no way humans will be able to understand what autonomous LLM agents are communicating. Their speed and efficiency is much higher than what passes during standard human natural language.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

Essential throwback from October 2025 in my Gospel of Effective Collaboration h/t @danabra.mov

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

Making Joyful Christmas Shoeboxes: insideview.ie/2026/10/05/making-joy… There are twice as many women jogging around my local area during the past month and many of them are training for the Irish Life Dublin Marathon. One of the daily joggers is Frances O’Donn...

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

I used three different colours of highlighters while reading The Last Good Day on the Internet: Finding Hope and Humanity in a Superhuman World by @marklittle.bsky.social 📚 The pink colour is for my 15 yo son so he can compare what I highighted to what Mark says in the audiobook version.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 05/10/2026

And here is a screenshot that will forever burn in my personal history because of the precursors of the sleep stress.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 04/10/2026

Happy enough when Claude gives me marginal gains.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 04/10/2026

Two years ago, @educatefran and I were creating a full day @oebconference.bsky.social workshop. It was the first time dozens of educators in those workshops would use "generativism" for curriculum development.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 04/10/2026

Starting a looong trip to County Donegal.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 02/10/2026

Today's Throwback shows me several activities I should be doing to improve life. Like walking along ivy walls and playing handball. And journaling moments of banality.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 02/10/2026

I use a Whoop and it ruthlessly tells me I have tonsjed weight if I want to live longer. The current Whoop metrics have me on track to outlive my three most recent ancestors.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 01/10/2026

@sm2n.bsky.social my mic recorded snippets of a cafe convo next to me in a noisy venue when mobile Obsidian was in focus. I have never seen this happen before.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 01/10/2026

It turns out me and Filipe and Frances have time traveled to several places. Proof:

Three 21st century posers with a real 20th century shopkeeper

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 01/10/2026

That's @educatefran outside D'Arcy's Garage in 1930s Tipp Town

Printed Selphy for "Put yourself in history" micro-course

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 01/10/2026

Testing Selphy wireless printer before workshop

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 01/10/2026

Bonus training aid: wireless Canon Selphy printer

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 29/09/2026

I still use AI while shopping. Handy: "Can Aldi match this price?"

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 28/09/2026

In case you need to know what pervert glasses look like.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 25/09/2026

We need to share Adventures with Dispatch.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 24/09/2026

On the Luas learnibg how to say "An chéad stad eile"

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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-...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 22/09/2026

Hoping we can suffocate some of the algorithms that infect our lives.

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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 ...

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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.

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026

Irish trains have improved in this century

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 21/09/2026

And that's Dispatch telling me I need more money.

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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 · 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...

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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.

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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 · 19/09/2026

After listening to your recent #audio365 I asked Gemini on my phone to RAID a first draft of an upcoming grant application in my Drive. So instructive

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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

Could it be you passed a slice of bread stapled to a tree? There is a FB group for that.

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