#DIBLives Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (d. #OTD 2014) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident in St Vincent's. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...
Brits: STOP THE BOATS
Iran: باشه
Thanks!
We'd never bothered to codify our sovereignty over our waters unless we had to (and the money from offshore wind became the incentive). In lots of ways everything that was more than 3 miles offshore was in a legal lacuna.
An island of farmers with our backs to the sea.
It's a question on my part! I was lobbying for offshore wind, and chasing down what was going on with the Marine Area and Foreshore Act, only to discover that it was in Foreign Affairs regarding the Law of the Sae, because the primary legislation came from 1933 Saorstát, or 1814 George III, Acts
Is it not that until the Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2021 we hadn't ratified the Montego bay convention on the Law of the Sea?
So almost no state body had jurisdiction to do anything at sea (which is also why we only ended up with 4 offshore wind turbines - as no-one could give planning permission)
A rendering of a reimagined college green with more trees, no roads and lots of open space
Today is the last day to submit on the college Green public consultation. It’s super quick and easy to do!
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Such a display of weakness though, all it'll do is make him feel more contempt for them
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in Ireland. I wore a beret to a funeral once and everyone said I was in the IRA.
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Wild that Jim O'Callaghan is sitting there in South Dublin, has spent decades being exposed to whining, impotent irrelevancies that emerge from the withered lich of Michael McDowell's political career, and is still thinking, "I want me a bit of that"
One of Robert Maxwell's many great gifts to the world was for-profit-academic-publishing industry
He traded on his spooky contacts post-war to print the Springer-Verlag research that hadn't left Germany during the war and ultimately sold the business to Elsevier
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Old photo of a "Swastika Laundry" delivery van Bright red Says: "Swastika Laundry" Then a Swastika Then "Ballsbridge"
Old photo of a "Swastika Laundry" delivery van Bright red Has a Swastika Says: "Swastika Laundry"
Pretty common symbol for good luck, once upon a time.
Also, the non-evil, non-slave labour, laundry of its day in South Dublin
I was seven and I'd snuck into the front room where my Granddad was dying of throat cancer.
From the narrow leaba set up against the wall, he pointed across at me, eyes burning into mine, and the last words he ever said to me were:
"Nevermind the church, Shane, they're inherently evil"
In the absence of a state body that provides long-term loans for these kinds of projects (or some kind of benevolent patron) it's hard to get these things going (without going back to the great depression and buying the land/buildings then)
It'd cost a couple of million to buy even a ghost estate, and as much again to make them livable, so you'd need to raise €5-10 million without finance, or pay 12% p.a. in interest (developers would pay less but they pay back more quickly) and if you can raise €5m then why not sell them for €300k?
But, they have either involved raising the finances and then selling a long-term bond on the rent to cover the capital loan (where they have self-organised), or they've been in control of land/buildings since the 1920s to 1950s, and so, have real business heft
Unfortunately land and capital are the constraints, the people who own the ghost estates/derelict properties can't be forced to sell them. And Irish institutions won't finance a cooperative, meanwhile individuals can't mortgage their share
I've visited a few on the continent and they've been great
There are also nerds who look at what is being done elsewhere and track what we can learn from them are, and they've loads to pick through regarding what works elsewhere (even in NYC)
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The Approved Housing Body allows them to get funding from the state to build social housing, the umbrella group is:
icsh.ie
In these cases the institutional buyer is the state and developers work with AHBs to build and sell to one institutional buyer, it makes financing easy
There are a lot of groups that cater to those who want to do things in housing e.g.
www.cooperativehousing.ie and they give advice
They've been going for 50 years and have a lot of communities which they run/part run, but these days they are very focused on the Approved Housing Body model
Yep. There's no problem with that. Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance do a good bit of work on those lines building on council lands (though the problem they had was around mortgages, and banks requiring people to buy homes from the CLG, so the heirs of those people get the cheap council land windfall)
XKCD - two figures: One says: You're trying to predict the behaviour of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of> - Easy, right? - So, why does <Your Field> need a whole journal anyway? "Liberal Arts Majrs may be annoying sometimges, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject"
As a rule, if someone is offering an opinion on LLMs and the Turing test - which doesn't involve a digression about Eliza - they either don't know what they talk about, or they are running a con
People coming out with this stuff usually have a sparse knowledge of applied statistics (and the associated matrix algebra), or anything related to cognitive science/philosophy of mind, or both.
Often they work with a trivial definition for "think", or "consciousness", or some other ambiguous term
Maths is a means to create tools that model complicated things without speaking to their mechanism, it's an unreasonably successful technology. But just because we make machines that make sentences, and have a habit of mind which ascribes agency to anything that moves, does not make a matrix think.
Not a great use of the term "fact".
We can, with exquisite, and arbitrary, precision model the movements of the heavenly orbs using epicycles. This does not give us insight into their actual paths through space, nor the factors that cause this procession.
Any chance that a journalist could do a follow up with the used car salesman Jonny and ask him about his concerns over batteries, now that we're experiencing our second fossil fuel supply/price shock in only five years?
Yeah Strabo (writing in Greek called us Ierne - and also named the British Isle [singular]) - the Hibernia/winter thing is a case of linguistic false friends
We were sent a letter in December requesting information within 28 days of the date on the letterhead, otherwise the citizenship application would be deemed abandoned.
The date on the letter was 31 days prior to the letters arrival.
They haven't responded to any of our emails in the 3 months since.
In Cushendal apparently.
Pure skill issue, she missed out on saying "I'd never vote for an orange bastard" or "We don't have your mind of Republicans at home"
Every so often I remember the Irish immigration system is so dysfunctional that the Brazilian community here had to set up a WhatsApp group to help find each other after the DoJ kept returning their passports to the wrong people #speirghorm
