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“ Well, I have wondered, via The Guardian: There are a few things that routinely keep me ...”

“ Thoughtful piece about AI tools and creativity on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: Promoters of AI ...”

“ https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-ceo-sam-altman-responds-school-plagiarism-concerns-bans-2023-1 Given how popular ChatGPT has become, Altman believes that the world must adapt to generative ...”

“ This sounds like a great tool: “Cities account for more than 70% of global CO2 emissions,” Shalit ...”

“ "What would make a difference is developing mass transport and substantially reducing car ownership; closing ...”

“ David Mitchell has a refreshingly good take on the latest culture kerfuffle: The debate has inevitably ...”

“ This came to my attention recently: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-17/ocean-cleanup-plastic-pollution-great-pacific-garbage-patch/102075810 " if the plastic density was a tenth of ...”

“ When they had computers, and non-cracking concrete, and so on. Although many inventors mentioned in ...”

“ This is a good guide, and very informative: If you take away nothing else from this ...”

“ https://flic.kr/p/2nqc72u Goods Train Engine, Set 7730, 1982 Lego Set 7730 ”

“ The hunt for a potential 'Planet 9' by Shannon Stirone over on Longreads is a ...”

“ Many have known it is a real thing for a long time, yet, apparently, nobody ...”

“ https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-navy-decommission-eithne-orla-ciara-5805258-Jul2022/ Now, that'd be a nice bit of history. We don't have much naval history on ...”

“ BBC has a description of how the new space telescope sees so far back in ...”

“ https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/noam-chomsky-and-gpt-3 One good way to move beyond merely filling in the blanks might be to ask ...”

“ https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2022/07/19/janan-ganesh-western-democracy-has-a-personnel-problem/ As Janesh argues in the IT: The crisis of democracy is the crisis of the restaurant ...”

“ Bruce Schneier: "Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant ...”

“ I find these fascinating, there's true mystery to them yet they're also very evocative of ...”

“ Excellently put here by Ryan Broderick: Websites are not similar to telephones. They are not even ...”

“ This looks very enjoyable - Beautiful, decadent, damaged: a walk back in time through roaring ...”

“ What a find: On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare ...”

“ This (via Reuters): Twitter has $13 billion in debt after the deal and faces interest payments totaling close ...”

“ Ever hear that air-raid klaxon sound on a Friday afternoon? In fact, it is a “test ...”

“ “(on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed)All right, I can see the broken eggs. ...”

“ Will future generations look at the interior design of the early 21st century in appreciation? ...”

“ Here's the Brexit cake you ordered, now you've got to eat it. At a lunch ...”

“ Some public health experts argue it can be done, but the experts in carrying out ...”

“ When George Shultz was secretary of state in the 1980s, he liked to carve out ...”

“ Want to feel small? Watch the earth in action: https://youtu.be/keD3Nzlvvlc Amazing photographs here via The Guardian. ”

“ Why aren't we more afraid of global warming / climate change, asks the Independent (UK) ...”

“ https://murf1977.tumblr.com/post/644651473131700224 ”

“ The Guardian reports that the US National Academy of Science has proposed a study of ...”

“ Boris about Scotland. Another entry in my John Major Warns series (a whopping four entries ...”

“ Wonderful hour-long interview with the late, great Murray Walker from 2013. Any time I think ...”

“ This is an informative article on that cloudy, foggy brain that I know I've definitely ...”

“ Quirky news of the day: A local amateur historian taking a walk in forest near to ...”

“ “Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no ...”

“ Anyone needing to register if they live in Dublin just can't. Although, outside the Pale, ...”

“ Looks great for any Beatles fans out there. Fifty-one years after the group broke up, ...”

“ Why is this interesting? is well worth subscribing to. This edition is, as always, interesting. ...”

“ “It was a con,” says Paul Sweeney, an economist with the Siptu union. “It appealed ...”

“ Via The Guardian: Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys ...”

“ https://youtu.be/2iaBdMB7PYM ... that's what you are. ”

“ For ex-smokers. A limited study has shown some evidence that your lungs can replace smoking-damaged ...”

“ Councils are sharing your data in the UK with whoever wants it, basically (" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/04/councils-let-firms-track-visits-to-webpages-on-benefits-and-disability ...”

“ It’s ironic that people go to prison for committing crimes, but inside a prison it’s ...”

“ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/29/apollo-13-how-teamwork-and-tenacity-turned-disaster-into-triumph In approaching this crisis, their delegation of authority and deference to expertise is almost total. ...”

“ Enoch Powell did such harm to this country. When he did his Rivers of ...”

“ https://youtu.be/R2RJXa5oTXU Important advice for everyone with kids. Keep your distance, slow the spread. Otherwise, it could ...”

“ I can usually see a stream of little silver slivers on the horizon, landing and ...”

“ Forty days into the national epidemic and the word from Prof Nolan, who chairs the large ...”

“ I find that no matter how many books I read on the second world war, ...”

“ This is a brilliant story from the classic days of F1. I love it because ...”

“ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/26/pompeii-ruins-show-that-the-romans-invented-recycling Reduce, reuse, recycle the Roman way. Yet another thing the Romans did for us! ”

“ So, today I learned that Windows 10 doesn't really shutdown when you tell it to. ...”

“ https://flyinginireland.com/2020/04/air-corps-to-take-delivery-of-pilatus-pc-12-today%EF%BB%BF/ Saw this flying by the house yesterday, so we have an extra medevac capability. ”

“ https://2kmfromhome.com/ Very handy! ”

“ Every cloud: Having already lasted seven weeks, the lockdown also mitigates one of the biggest challenges ...”

“ Fintan O'Toole nails it: So why does his odyssey during lockdown produce a whole different kind ...”

“ I know it's been predicted and pushed for, but maybe this time it's happening. Mass ...”

“ Don't pack too light: A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out ...”

“ “Those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil” Hannah Arendt Via memex ”

“ Scientists have identified 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to have been recently active ...”

“ Hogan’s account crumbled and destroyed von der Leyen’s trust says the Irish Times. Classic brass ...”

“ Over on Memex, John Naughton makes a good point worth remembering regarding tech companies (the ...”

“ “A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible ...”

“ Is exactly not the headline to this article in the Guardian ("UK had highest number ...”

“ Hmmm: Financial services in the UK can currently trade across the European Economic Area (EEA) because ...”

“ Working on something that you don't quite fully understand, don't have the time before delivery ...”

“ The outgoing 'C' gave an interview to the FT: "So Alex, you've been at the service ...”

“ Sad to hear that the author of The God Squad died today. A revealing indictment ...”

“ The other week, the Supreme Court rejected an argument put forward by Subway that their ...”

“ https://flic.kr/p/25F66bn Morning Coffee, Amsterdam, 2018 Back when we could travel. We will, again, together. ”

“ https://murf1977.tumblr.com/post/632064034987966464/30-minute-memes-i-will-have-what-she-is-having ”

“ In November 2018, former defence secretary Gavin Williamson introduced a zero tolerance approach for drug use, saying ...”

“ The IT has a list of Irish online shops to help you shop local during ...”

“ Amazing detail in this tour of asteroid Bennu courtesy of NASA and the OSIRIX-REX probe: https://youtu.be/QunVAWABQSc ”

“ Wow: Astronomers think that 16 Psyche is the exposed core of a full planet that didn't ...”

“ Inspired captioning here, this is one of the better Downfall re-captioning's I've seen in a ...”

“ ... that Brexit "may be more brutal than anyone expected". Sir John Major said the ...”

“ “Democracy is not something you believe in or a place you hang your hat, but ...”

“ This is a cool project to do when the kids are a bit older: The resolution ...”

“ Therapists might disagree about the benefits of a particular aspect of this therapy versus a ...”

“ https://vimeo.com/14238985 Found this ages ago and remembered it the other day when listening to Queens of ...”

“ "It's the law of inverse relevance. The less you intend to do about something, the ...”

“ 'Sources' close to the negotiations at what is now the long last minute of the ...”

“ Chris Grey notes that the 'sticking' points about the neverending saga of the Brexit negotiations ...”

“ Just saw a program about these two places on C4, the kids would love it. ...”

“Modern life is making us anxious: Keeping calm in modern life is difficult and even our ...”

“ https://youtu.be/Wvr6o7fBcTY The Numbers Stations, Documentary BBC Radio4. As a kid, I used to scan the radio ...”

“Enjoyable, if brief, interview with Margaret Hamilton, who lead the software team for the Apollo ...”

“ This is an illuminating way of looking at what the relationship really is like between ...”

“ Not knowing is a hard thing to deal with. Fascinating unsolved crime long read in ...”

“ https://flic.kr/p/2hqt1Z7 Shenanigans at the lap dancing club, Blackpool. Teehee. ”

“ I've been thinking and reading about technical and non-technical leadership, productivity and leveraging, and this ...”

“ An improvement: Iranian women will be able to officially enter a soccer stadium on Thursday ...”

“ Industrial production of food has substantially changed what we eat. Our food has become higher ...”

“ This is fascinating: IN THE BLACKNESS of space billions of miles from home, NASA’s Voyager 2 ...”

“ Air quality in New Delhi is now so bad that the basic advice is just ...”

“ Very interesting article by Paul Collier - Greed is dead. Humans aren't the rational, selfish ...”

“ Thought provoking: While previously the public’s news consumption was shaped by powerful gatekeepers such as newspaper ...”

“What a beautiful description of a state of being, languishing in the Mediterranean sun: The Croatian ...”

“In the news, more adoption issues in a case that further illustrates the attitudes and ...”

“Some good news in the last days of the Obama administration, President Obama has commuted ...”

“I find it far, far easier to accumulate than de-clutter. This sounds like it might ...”

“Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon and Commander for the ...”

“This certainly seems chilling, "Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest | ...”

“Again and again, the default position is that people on bikes, or foot, or mobility ...”

“Folk who advocate banning cycling with headphones always think it's ludicrous to equate it with ...”

“Rules, justice, the system, none of this works by itself. Terry Pratchett once wrote "There ...”

“David Frum expounds on the possible outcomes of Trump's Presidency in the Atlantic. Fascinating and ...”

“This is a fascinating and delightful article by Katie Notopoulos, with its detail on classic ...”

“Helen Blackman on how 'policed' the simple need to sound off every now and then ...”

“A sensible statement about health planning for once. Imagine using actual data to plan capacity: Ireland ...”

“The stark reality of the 'cheating' on emissions by Volkswagen: “The researchers estimate that 1,200 ...”

“Marsha Gessen wrote a set of six rules for surviving an autocracy back in November ...”

“Interesting article over on the New European ( "Don't send Ireland back to division" ), exploring ...”

“Unsurprisingly enough, and as previously indicated from small scale tests, sitting in a car or ...”

“The recent Dail vote to require members to stand for the daily prayer has got ...”

“Fuck. I was only talking about him yesterday with a friend who'd recently gotten me ...”

“ "Could have stayed somewhere, but train tracks kept going It seems like they always left soon And ...”

“ "The way to take a problem, and make it a huge problem, is first to ...”

“I've just finished the excellent documentary "The House I Live In" (thanks to D for ...”

“https://youtu.be/n_GFN3a0yj0 "Malcolm Young, AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder, Dead at 64" Rock In Peace.”

“News has broken that twitter might be abandoning it's rather unique 140-character limit for messages, ...”

“Interesting interview in the IT from a while back with Francis Rossi of the Quo. On ...”

“They are, in fact, two different things: capitalism is a system of ownership; markets a ...”

“So, a glitch in a software update to the Nest left users quite literally cold ...”

“ Very much. Cast, soundtrack, storylines, all great so far. It's all vaguely familiar in some ...”

“Although Anderson eventually received salary parity with Duchovny, she told The Hollywood Reporter she was ...”

“http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/20/i-live-in-a-terrorist-house-police-speak-to-muslim-boy-10-over-spelling-error As a result, the child was interviewed on 7 December by police and the authorities ...”

“Prudent: “We we are with the Fiscal Advisory Council,” Mr Ryan told a press conference ...”

“Danah Boyd has an interesting piece on the Reality Distortion Field that is modern tech. ...”

“Interesting observations in the age of the drones. All declared threats to Britain tend to come ...”

“What I find most odd about the age we live in is that even though ...”

“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I take a look at ...”

“Lovely piece by Deborah Orr in the Guardian, about how much the EU project has ...”

“This: So ‘mass cycling’ simply means that everyone has the option to cycle, for any given trip, in much ...”

“Great story about the dying profession that is journalism. So many older, experienced, journalists have ...”

“Hmmm, good if you're expecting, bad if you're sick or laid off: Ireland offers the second ...”

“Outside, workmen were building a new entrance at a blocked-up archway. “What are they doing exactly?” ...”

“It's been more than 100 years since the world began observing International Women's Day, and ...”

“It all started innocently enough.  I was 12 years old, living on a farm, and ...”

“In the ongoing discussions over the future of Irish Water and forming a government, one ...”

“There's no such thing as being 'offline' anymore. It's almost impossible, I'd say, to live ...”

“Good news: As longstanding, longsuffering readers will be aware, for the past year and a bit, ...”

“Fascinating idea: Breakthrough Starshot’s spacecrafts, which they call “nanocrafts,” will be gram-scale computer chips that will ...”

“Financialisation, as Andrew Sayer notes in Why We Can’t Afford the Rich, has had a ...”

“Ironically enough, the work of many recently deceased celebrities tells us what we ought already ...”

“I've still not started watching GoT, but I admit I'm running out of reasons not ...”

“Feels like we're participating in a slow-motion disaster. More scary news: Latest monthly figures add to ...”

“"I would never have made that claim..." Watch Farage move sideways fast here: WATCH: @Nigel_Farage tells @susannareid100 ...”

“A summary of events: UK politics update:Government: PM resigns, but not quite yet. Opposition: Tearing itself ...”

“This 'Brexit' event is surely the greatest existential crisis for the UK since Suez back ...”

“I'm quite concerned about the potential impact of a BREXIT, and have been avidly following ...”

“Good points from John Naughton in the Guardian today about the recent Tesla car auto-pilot crash: For that ...”

“Fascinating article on Trump, and what seems to motivate him: “I started off in a small ...”

“BA has resumed flights to Tehran. Now that's a country I'd love to see. Especially ...”

“Brendan Rodgers and the Plight of the English Soccer Manager By accepting help with player recruitment ...”

“With the depressing news recently that funding has been apparently cut by the NTA for ...”

“These things fascinate me, they're unbelievably tough: Tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — are ...”

“A truck passed me twice this morning (due to it getting held up in traffic), ...”

“It’s now obvious Britain is leaving the single market. Of course, Theresa May spent much of ...”

“Good stuff from Donald Clarke in the IT: Somebody is always “just asking a question” about ...”

“Interesting:  Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone - The Atlantic Harris is the closest thing Silicon ...”

“Gary Younge spent over ten years in the US working for the Guardian, and gave ...”

“BANGKOK (AFP) - Millions of Thais donned black Friday as the grieving nation prepared to hold traditional ...”

“ Brexit negotiations going well. pic.twitter.com/CsNxYjmIk9 — Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) October 23, 2016 Teehee.”

“RTE have a good summary of the recent happenings over in BREXITland ("May lacks legal ...”

“Design, design, design: Much as cyclists might like to see bad drivers punished for their distracted ...”

“@ellenfromnowon has shared an excellent short video that shows clearly the difficulties faced by a ...”

“Another study showing that one of the best health adjustments you can make is to ...”

“So far RTÉ has received 676 emails critical of the decision to feature Hopkins as ...”

“From an @FT comments page. Seems a fair summary. pic.twitter.com/MmZVSXUeYu— Duncan Castles (@DuncanCastles) November 16, ...”

“Jonathan Nightingale on hiring: In tech, a common pattern is for hiring managers to say “I ...”

“Very good point here: When I could get no really substantive on-the-record statements from the tech ...”

“Sad to hear of the passing of George Michael on Christmas day. Another one gone ...”

“Stay young, keep cycling: A study of fit amateur cyclists aged 55 to 79 found that ...”

“ "You hit a woman!" "I hit a NAZI!" Possibly the best thing to emerge from Australia since ...”

“ The notion that 100 percent of traffic deaths are preventable is difficult for many of ...”

“"It was early morning when the German police stormed the house of Andrej Holm and ...”

“So-called professional drivers, who drive for a living, are, on a day to day basis, ...”

“Curious: Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and ...”

“ Molotov Cocktails! Sexy Sandwiches! Via Grist”

“Paul Krugman could be on to something when he points out that small country politicians ...”

“Instructive piece on the BBC about the demise of some Tesco stores in the UK ...”

“Penn State have released a study on hot sauce and gender: In the study, the researchers ...”

“Some quirk for the day - An obsession - brutal, beautiful bus stop design of the ...”

“According to the latest Snowden documents, it seems that GCHQ have stolen the master encryption ...”

“Judas: still on for Friday? Jesus: Friday? Judas: yeah, the last supper Jesus: the what? Judas: supper. Normal supper ...”

“There's a lovely interview in Vanity Fair with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer for The ...”

“http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-united-states-is-angry-that-china-wants-crypto-backdoors-too “You can't have it both ways,” Trevor Timm, the co-founder and the executive director of ...”

“Mark Treasure has written up an excellent post (complete with some illustrative photos) on why ...”

“Jason Kottke has been doing some reading on children and play, specifically Peter Gray, and ...”

“ Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. ...”

“This is very interesting: Our solar system is weird. First of all, it doesn’t look much like ...”

“ Katie-Jane Garside is just fantastic.”

“ A short documentary about an event inspired by a one liner in the original ZX ...”

“First post a year ago today, happy birthday to postcards! I've managed to keep posting ...”

“Yes please: So what better place to reintroduce Marxist ideas than on a show dedicated to ...”

“ Spring is here again....”

“Even more interesting — and depressing — was the resulting ‘controversy’ about the pledge, which ...”

“British Sunshine day 3, utter chaos as it is too hot to drink tea. Unattractive ...”

“I never knew that.”

“ SDCC call this a 'high quality cycle route' (see http://www.sdcc.ie/services/roads-traffic/cycle-tracks/tallaght-to-ballyboden), I wouldn't. It is segregated, so ...”

“Toilet training is one of the bits of parenting that you *really* hope goes well, ...”

“The Guardian has a great piece on how Amsterdam became the world's cycling capital. It ...”

“Seven decades after the second World War ended in Berlin, Germany is still burying its ...”

“‘No’ posters in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign which say every child should have a ...”

“A firm call for ending direct provision, but is anyone going to action it? The Oireachtas ...”

“Cargo bikes are, probably, the purest expression of utility cycling. They allow for that bit ...”

““The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence ...”

“"We who are parents, brothers and sisters, colleagues and friends of Ireland's gay citizens, we ...”

“Never again do I want to have to politely beg someone for a right I'm ...”

“Fintan O’Toole in the Times: ‘I don’t know what the definition of public interest is.” Thus ...”

“Fascinating read in The Atlantic. Patagonia as a company has tried hard to remove exploitation from ...”

“Five great tips to help introverts survive in an open plan office: http://www.quietrev.com/5-ways-to-love-your-office/ Well worth ...”

“This looks great: http://irishcycle.com/2015/06/10/public-imput-wanted-on-major-dublin-city-centre-transport-plan/ Especially the bit about D'Olier street.”

“Bicycles as tools of liberation.   Why did you focus on bike riding? It's kind of cliche, but ...”

“Conor Faughnan of the AA, perhaps seeing the thin end of the wedge for private ...”

“So, Omar al-Bashir has flown back to Khartoum, "despite an order barring him from leaving ...”

“There's nothing that can be done without a report drawn up first, and of course, ...”

“The Dublin Cycling Campaign posted this earlier, pointing out the complete lack of #space4cycling in ...”

“Those people. They are us. Sobering piece from Mark Treasure. Top comment, which explains a lot: "When I mentioned ...”

“We've created an immobile society, avoiding outdoors play, driving everywhere, and sitting constantly. Inserting an ...”

“I saw a (private) facebook thread recently were someone had posted a photo of them ...”

“Five years ago I was over in Harrisburg, PA on an extended business trip. The ...”

“This makes for horrifying reading: New research reveals that Britain and the US knew six weeks ...”

“Has the EU been captured by the ECB, and is the financial sector, those most ...”

“The "War on the Roads" explained. pic.twitter.com/mhyDmxmVvu— Bez (@beztweets) July 21, 2015 ”

“Excellent. We’re excited to unveil the new Flickr Pro for both existing and new members of ...”

“Fascinating. A potted biography of the miscellaneous other priests that populated life on Craggy Island. I’m ...”

“Quite why a downhill race has any comparison to going down the shops is beyond ...”

“Finally, something: "Debris confirmed as coming from Flight MH370" http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0805/719398-mh370/ Still hard to believe an entire aircraft ...”

“Damien Ó Tuama in the Irish Times, responds well to their recent variable-quality series on cycling and ...”

“Some good news: Stillbirths have dropped by almost 8% in England since the smoking ban was ...”

“We're paying €28m a year to private toll road operators thanks to 'minimum traffic' clauses ...”

“The FT contradicts itself a bit here I think: The works-traffic is being compounded by large ...”

“Amanda Marcotte makes an link between GOP nominee hopeful Donald Trump and the 'Sad/Rabid Puppies' ...”

“The new 10 year Defence white paper is to be published today - "Government plans ...”

“Marcy Borders, made famous as the subject of 'The Dust Lady' photograph by Stan Honda, ...”

“Amazing: http://kottke.org/15/03/the-algorithmic-sea”

“There are more than three trillion trees worldwide - around eight times more than some ...”

“Very impressive editing in this film mashup. There is a place where all fictional characters meet. ...”

“Richard Bloomfield has a few useful tips on preparing for autumn/winter cycling over on dublinbikeblog.com: Cycling ...”

“ Cynical and sweary, but spot on.”

“  https://flic.kr/p/yXTdeM Picked all the fruit with the kids earlier. Almost all pears this year. Just two ...”

“Yanis Varoufakis noted simultaneous reductions in taxes on the wealthy and cuts to spending on ...”

“I was wondering if the additional deaths caused by this would result in prosecution, maybe ...”

“An argument that I’ve heard a lot over the years is that, since I often ...”

“This is interesting: In a speech to business leaders Mark Carney said that by the time ...”

“Interesting: How does this affect peoples’ likelihood to go to the ballot box? We were totally unprepared ...”

“Netflix have picked this up exclusively, so I hear. http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/film-siege-of-jadotville-to-reveal-heroism-of-irish-troops-1.1891868 It's a fascinating story, I'd consider getting ...”

“https://youtu.be/NwW3N6UW9XU Great reggae style closer from their classic debut album "Outlandos d'amour", released in 1978.”

“ Cycling to work can bring you through lovely places. Even on a dull morning in ...”

“Touché: If you don’t watch the extensive foreign reporting we provide, it must be partly our ...”

“ mamasnark on Twitter: "Basically, Trump is what would happen if the comments section became a ...”

“Well now, that's interesting... MI5 has concluded that there is no easy way to identify those ...”

“we are sentient beings capable of choice, and that this is highly valued, but choices ...”

“The use of antibiotics exerts a Darwinian selection pressure for acquisition of resistance by the ...”

“Only a country as restrictive as Saudi Arabia could come up with such a thing ...”

“Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan is to remove a 50-year old official rule which gives ...”

“Which is exactly what it's not called, because that'd be far too honest. Instead, it's ...”

“Star wars! (@ Light House Cinema - @lighthoused7 for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in ...”

“*blinks*”

“Just a test.”

“BBC Research Blows Out the 1% Rule. In the UK at least. It's now more like ...”

“This is pretty bad : In short, Heartbeat allows one endpoint to go "I'm sending ...”

“Funny how Tories don't grasp that if UK leaves EU, EU can then tax EU ...”

“Remember the big stockpiling exercise by Governments of Tamiflu for our benefit in the event ...”

“Apparently, the NSA may have at least known of this bug for a long time, ...”

“Great column by Colette Browne in the Indo today, pointing out that being irate at ...”

“Frank Bruni calls out Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vax campaigns in the NYT: There’s also this: ...”

“Kira Cochrane has a great piece in the Guardian summarizing the issues with gendered toys. Do ...”

“Not a lot, it would seem, says Vincent Browne in the IT: Based on data the ...”

“This is delightful - "The distractions of social media, 1673 style" by Tom Standage: You know ...”

““History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green ...”

“This is an interesting idea that has been in use in Idaho (hence the name) ...”

“Brazil vs. Germany.: Pretty much sums it up...”

“Advice for teenagers from 1959. pic.twitter.com/0OPjP6T6MC— Suzanne Alexander (@SuzzanAlexander) July 1, 2014 ”

“Gaza is not just about them, it’s about us, too: Leaving Israel and beleaguered Gaza far ...”

“The Irish Responsible Society, of which five key PLAC leaders were members, was the Irish ...”

“Once again, society has failed the vulnerable. Via @mazzyk: Child B's situation deteriorated rapidly – within ...”

“I'd heard about the correlation between lead and violent crime before, but George Monbiot adds ...”

“A very visual representation of what two different societies value. Both newspapers are tabloids (although ...”

“Two Odessa girls are sitting in a café. One says “Sara, can you believe it? ...”

“ “Even Minister Donohoe appears to be toeing the RSA line of victimising pedestrians rather than ...”

“Motorists have ruined England - and they need to pay the price, says Alex Proud ...”

“Danish consultants who worked on plans for the River Dodder Greenway in Dublin say that ...”

“Any regime, no matter how repressive, will gladly fête its enemy’s critics—while homegrown versions of ...”

“Curious kickstarter project to create fashionable 'pockets' that block WiFi, mobile, GPS and so on. ...”

“The DRB has a delightful glimpse of Dublin and Irish life in 1835 by a ...”

“ When I was eight years old they taught us in school that rising levels of ...”

“There's a great article in Vanity Fair covering the Air France Flight 447 disaster, and ...”

“Laura Slattery in the IT reports two interesting nuggets from the latest Google Consumer Barometer: When ...”

“This is significant: The Facebook onion address (accessible only in Tor-enabled browsers) connects users to Facebook’s ...”

“ Much Bizarre. ESQ: How did you come up with the idea for this? CK: It was one ...”

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