Aidan O’Brien

2 panel comic Panel 1 is titled “Client Feedback (2012) Red Guy sits at his desk typing on his laptop. There is a bubble on the right hand side of the panel showing his screen. A small text panel says “and the”. There is an arrow pointing to the bottom of the words with a correction box that reads: “Text is slightly misaligned. Please fix” Panel 2 is titled “Client feedback (2026) Red Guy is slouched on chair typing into his phone. His phone screen shows a panel of text that is complete gibberish. This time the correction reads “not alphabet but who give a fuck”

client feedback in the GenAI era

Would you believe I have read O'Flynns thoughts on this matter *and* taken a urine sample from my dog this very same day...

A parade ☘️ honouring a man who came to this island from a different culture* with a different language** AND a radical new religion should never (checks notes) include people from other cultures.

I love this cognitive dissonance for them.

* part of Roman Empire
** probably Britonnic

Meanwhile Sadiq Khan is welcoming everyone in London to a big St. Patricks Day parade this Saturday.

Yup. In the screenshots.

@TheMandyGall • 35m Who will be held to account for

@SuzieD755164 - 17h HERE'S WHO TO CONTACT REGARDING THIS APPALLING POSTER 0 ... Shannon Community Partnership receives funding from Clare Co Council and the Arts Council. This money comes with strings attached (so as Sustainable Goals agendas trickle down through community projects). They say on their Show more

St Patrick's Day is Ireland's national day. 9 .. It marks the feast of our patron saint and celebrates Irish history, Irish music and Irish culture. Everyone is welcome to celebrate with us. Ireland has always been welcoming. But the day should remain about Ireland. Turning St Patrick's Day into a global "celebrate every culture" festival misses the point. Every nation deserves one day each year that honours its own heritage. Ireland deserves the same.

Over on X, the everything app, after getting bored harassing a fun run, and Dublin Zoo, they've now turned their attention to a regional St Patrick's Day parade for being "inclusive".

Volunteers and organisers are being targeted for harassment, and already a sitting TD has joined in on the pile on.

He blocked me when I asked him if there was any chance of UB40 reunion....

But if I didn’t try to get the sample while walking him in public we wouldn’t have provided entertainment for dozens of Dublin commuters this morning….

“Provide a urine sample from your dog” is a perfect example of something that sounds easy but really isn’t…

What's your sign?

Early results from the Australian experiment should be taken with a grain of salt, as companies affected by the ban generally were doing the bare minimum to comply with ​legal requirements, said Iain Corby, the executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association, a trade association that represents about three dozen vendors including Yoti and Persona. In some cases, he added, the social media companies asked AVPA member firms to turn off controls that make the age checks more robust. “They are extremely worried this is going to be contagious and be a policy that is ​adopted around the world, so they are not really motivated for it to be a glowing success,” he said. “They are testing the regulator’s patience to see what they can get away with.”

This, from a Reuters piece on age-assurance tech, is very noteworthy www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Faced with rising oil prices caused by its own actions, on the 3rd March the US Govt quietly slipped out a Notice punching a hole in sanctions on Russia selling oil internationally.

ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

there is a direct relationship between growing conspiracism and attacks on public servants, because conspiracy theories give people a psychological and moral license to mistreat other people, especially agents of the state. the library crusades were an obvious, naked example, but far from the only

not mentioned in this piece, but in December, serial vexatious litigant and conspiracist Patrick McGreal entered the Court of Appeal during a hearing and tried to carry out a citizen's arrest on a state solicitor

I'm sure multiple of the incidents recorded by the Courts Service were his doing

Tying to pick out the most incompetent Tory ministers in recent UK history is a bit like trying to pick out the definitive starting 11 for Real Madrid. They're all Galácticos...

Yes the problem with the Irish housing market is the absence of foreign property “investors”

90%+ of new build housing in Ireland is getting bought up by investment funds. So A) they’re already here, & B) the cause of much of our housing problems.

So WTF are we there?

So?

You’d really think you’d couldn’t find a way to appear to be more tone deaf about the Irish housing crisis than Darragh “resting I’m keeping your deposit face” O’Brien, but a “pavilion” at foreign investment property conference on the French Riviera?

Kudos Minister James Browne, kudos…

Nirvana’s first Irish gig was in the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire and was under 18s only

“Impractical leftist have no serious ideas and will destroy the UK with bad policies” is a magnificently stupid take after decades of failed Tory & Blue Labour policies have made the UK demonstrably poorer, and worse off.

What's your sign?

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

“These are phantom investments... Big tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Say what you like about other stupid bubbles but at least people can live in houses and tulips are pretty…

lede to an irish times article about Harry and Meghan by Patrick Freyne.

A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Nepal's Gen Z Used TikTok and Discord to Win a Historic Election The election of rapper-turned politician Balen Shah was shaped by platforms and algorithms built on the other side of the world, writes Aaradhyaa Gyawali.

Nepal's Gen Z used TikTok, Discord & Reddit to flip their country’s political system, as rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah crushed the 6-time incumbent in last week's election. Aaradhyaa Gyawali offers an account of how events played out, and what it says about the role of technology in elections.

Brendan O'Carroll as Mrs Brown.

2025, one of the most (inexplicably) popular performers on tv:

As the world seems to be teetering towards an unnecessary global conflict, the return of Franz Ferdinand is an ominous omen.

They are. This is selective outrage by "free speech champions", who will defend their "right" to abuse, intimidate and harass anyone/thing that does not meet their hypocritical standards on what they deem is acceptable behaviour.

When “independent journalists” aren’t really journalists The rise of slop producers like Nick Shirley

This piece by @theverge.com on right wing infulencers' monetisation of outrage is on my mind RN