Mastodawn

Mark 1d ago

sjvn 2d ago

Looks about right to me.

Mark 2d ago

Alan 2d ago

“So if you’ve recently asked yourself, “How can they kill journalism even deader?” — this is how.

And this is why Google needs to be seized by the government and broken into a trillion little pieces.”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/new-google-ai-22279112.php

Client Challenge

Mark May 24

Ronan May 24

Data centres should pay twice the price for energy that not shit businesses do. And four times the price homeowners pay.

Mark May 24

“His Margites [ancient comedy by Homer] indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies"
Poetics, #Aristotle

Don’t rush out to buy this towering comedic masterpiece which Aristotle puts on a par with the Iliad and the Odyssey; the bookshop won’t have it. It’s almost entirely lost.
#philosophy

Mark May 23

Show thread

Richard Littler May 23

The internet & computer tech were supposed to have been life-enhancing tools, but now it feels like we spend half our time fending off greedy, malicious, predatory tech firms whose sole focus seems to be on detecting & subverting loopholes in laws designed to protect us. We're not users, we're prey.

Mark May 20

One of Ireland’s very few liberal arts colleges set to close, with its lands transferred to a technological university.

Carlow College to close after almost 250 years
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2026/05/20/carlow-college-to-close-after-almost-250-years/

Education is becoming ever more utilitarian. We train for work and never for the enrichment of the mind. We forget the point.

To make matters worse, the staff had been led to believe the institutions were to merge, with their jobs intact. They’re all to be made redundant.
#education #humanities #Ireland

Carlow College to close after almost 250 years

The almost 90 staff at the college, the second-oldest university-level institution in the country, will be made redundant

The Irish Times

Mark May 16

Quinn Norton May 16

no post has ever made me feel more seen than this one.

Mark May 16

KB May 16

The Last Competent Politician

"the absence of competence at the top is not a mystery and not a tragedy and not, in any useful sense, a generational failure. It is the predictable consequence of forty years of dismantling the institutions that produced political weight. And it is going to get worse."

(Via @paternoster)

https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-last-competent-politician

#UKPol

The Last Competent Politician

My father and I sat down to work out when Britain last had a political class that could do the job. We met somewhere around 2015. What we were mourning was not the politicians.

Anti-Capitalist Musings

Mark May 14

IT project to allow bank cards to be used on public transport set to run €41m over budget

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/14/it-project-to-allow-bank-cards-to-be-used-on-public-transport-set-to-run-41m-over-budget/

Every software developer is thinking, “I would knock it out myself for €500k,” (and I’d deploy it incrementally, offering quick value and feedback).

IT project to allow bank cards to be used on public transport set to run €41m over budget

Key IT projects at Government departments and State agencies set to run €61m over budget

The Irish Times

Mark May 13

“the [Spartans], while they alone were assiduous in their […] drill, were superior to others, but now they are beaten […] in war […]. For their ancient superiority did not depend on their mode of training their youth, but only on the circumstance that they trained them when their only rivals did not. Hence we may infer that what is noble, not what is brutal, should have the first place; no wolf or other wild animal will face a really noble danger; such dangers are for the brave man.”
#Aristotle

Ethics	#goldenrule #privacy #sustainability #publictransport #activetravel #green
Mind	#philosophy #writing #chess
Spirit	#theatre #cinema #scifi
Aesthetic	#synthwave #bladerunner #dystopia #retrofutures