Gareth Stack

@garethstack
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Irish writer / director / DOP.

Irish writer and filmmaker. Fiction in Hobart, Cassandra Voices, Piranha!, The Runt, and Albedo One. Non fiction in Analogue Music Magazine, No More Workhorse, & Blue Ireland. Radio dramas serialised on Newstalk, Lyric FM, and the Radio Drama Revival podcast. Plays staged at the Scene and Heard, and New Irish Playbook festivals. Podcasts include 'Reading Plays' and 'Everybody Want to Love You'. Music videos for many Irish independent artists.

Websitehttp://garethstack.com
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Soundcloudhttps://twitter.com/garethstack
Gareth StackJan 9
My phone was stolen earlier this week. It took GOMO over 60 hours to activate my new sim. During this time, smart thieves could have potentially overwritten passwords and stolen my identity in numerous ways. We need legislation to force providers to take these threats seriously.
Gareth StackDec 15

Brian Eno on scent (and much much more)

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/detail92.html

Details Magazine: Scents and Sensibility

Gareth StackSep 15
Cllr Oisín O'ConnorSep 14

I can't believe this needs to be said: A small survey of 175 estate agents should not be used as solid evidence to give hundreds of millions in tax breaks to private landlords.

Rents in Ireland have risen by 115% since 2010.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0914/1533340-landlords-estate-agents/

Gareth StackAug 28
I am Jack's Found 404Aug 10

Hey everyone... I'm looking for work.

I work in medical tech research, doing programming & electronics.

I'd love to stay in that field (particularly open source). I also love science & physics so some kind of cool research would be ideal.

I love prototyping & system design. I'm mostly a programmer and a "non-traditional" engineer. I love Arduino/microcontrollers and PCB design.

Also super interested in security, maps, GIS, GPS, outdoors, computer vision, tech4good

#getFediHired (USA)

Gareth StackAug 26
The Tennessee Holler Aug 24
“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.
Gareth StackAug 12
JamesHeatherAug 11

The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos

#privacy #security #eu #europe

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Gareth StackAug 7
Cory DoctorowAug 7

In democracies, we're told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians' primary occupation is *thwarting* the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no/#water-flowing-uphill

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Gareth StackAug 5

I find it absolutely fascinating that these early world models / image generators etc have the same limits as dreams - inconsistent after a few minutes, difficulties rendering text, consistent but unreal 'dream logic', lack of conversational complexity etc.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models

Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...

Google DeepMind
Gareth StackJul 28, 2025
Spencer BeswickJul 28, 2025
Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.”
Gareth StackJul 25, 2025

My first feature documentary, 'Sightless Cinema' comes to RTE 1 August 6th at 11:15PM.

https://garethstack.com/2025/07/25/sightless-cinema-documentary/

Sightless Cinema Documentary

Two years ago I remigrated from Berlin with three months severance and no work lined up. Ciaran Taylor offered to hire me to film some of the upcoming Sightless Cinema shows, ten years after I firs…

Gareth Stack