A boy plays football inside a church property-turned shelter for displaced people in Beirut yesterday. More than half a million people are now displaced by war across Lebanon, according to authorities. Almost 400 have been killed, including 83 children. Report soon, @irishtimes.com
tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
I'm begging the small local community groups in Ireland to please consider reframing their use of AI design work this way. The amount of drama and theatre groups in my sphere that I see using AI posters now just makes me sad.
Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.
How does he sleep at night?
What?
There was a genesis to this phenomenon I've never seen spoken about.
8-10 years ago I used to be in a lot of online hobby spaces. They had long had a 'optimisation culture' where a many folk didn't do stuff guided by enjoyment, but by following an 'optimal' path....
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This year why don't you give your special someone an art print of the dismembered corpse of Saint Valentine ❤️
Available now in my print shop!
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Talking about climate change and poverty without talking about taxes for the rich is like being at a fire-fighters conference and not talking about water.
August 1990
Faith No More
9th @ Deakin Uni, Geelong
10th @ The Palace, St Kilda
11th @ Old Greek Theatre
The British Army has had more no. 1 singles in Ireland (one) than The Cranberries, The Corrs, Aslan, Rory Gallagher and Van Morrison (none).
I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
If you live in Ireland, remember that in recent memory a single rugby-loving bank CEO cost the taxpayer more than every single welfare recipient in the state COMBINED. #SpeirGorm
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
0.2% growth in productivity over five years from "AI".
That's your revolution, lads, really?
The sort of blip that could be reversed by a particularly rainy bank holiday.
Ireland's death toll for The Great Famine was estimated to be 20-30%..... There was a famine 100 years earlier with a similar 20% death toll.
The ENGLISH civil war killed about 41% of the Irish population.
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Polanski expertly dismantling the "rich people will move if we tax them" narrative, while Denham nimbly demonstrates how very patriotic such people are.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Just looking at the population difference by county between now and Pre-Famine numbers.
For nine counties (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, Cavan, Clare, Monaghan, Leitrim, Sligo & Longford) %, the population drop between now and then is greater than the current population.
Really drives it home.
If the Labour Party can't batter a man who flogs gold bullion then there isn't enough time in the rest of human history for all the long looks in the mirror that would be required.
I wonder how big your pen is?
Right, if this is the state of AI information then investors should demand their money back.
yet opposing the integration of genAI into the classroom and other critical societal infrastructure somehow makes one a 'pessimist', 'anti-progress' & 'anti-innovation'
