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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 1h

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits | Computer Weekly

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts.

www.computerweekly.com

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 3h

You really gotta love progress.

When I was a kid, the shopping centre would play nothing but boring golden oldies on the sound system.

These days they play the best music, just straight bangers all the time.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 8h

Because it is a real set of songs on the experience of getting old, losing your parents, having your children grow up and also having grown up in 70s/80s Ireland watching and listening to things in the TV.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 2d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Schmutzie @schmutzie.com · 10h

Indulging melancholy on a grey rainy day while listening to The Divine Comedy's album Rainy Sunday Afternoon might be a bit on the nose today, but it's pretty great.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10h

I’m sure you are all aware of Neil Hannon, National Treasure, new Divine Comedy album. But, if you are over 45, please note it is both a piece of Art with a capital A and also a devastating personal attack.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10h

Listen, any literary figure who dresses in a hat that threatens the historical Kings of the Belgians (the Worst) is OK with me.

Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 17h

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

Obvious really.

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 14h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 21h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 21h

When life imitates art

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 21h

I enjoyed drinking the warm liquids in the warm shop.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22h

Special plaudits to the Dept for Foreign Affairs fellow from the local Embassy for making good points on the play in the exact cadence of a lad tasked with providing sideline commentary on a schools final soccer match.

Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22h

What should I say to a person? I will ask the box with the blinking lights.

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Alan Lawlor @alanlawlor.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly breeds seagulls and trains them how to rob sandwiches and chips, then releases them into Stephens Green
#smearTheBejaysus #speirgorm

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, he went *FULL* Monstrance.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23h

Incidentally, it is nice to find one American with an obviously Irish surname who hasn’t actually been appointed to a baloney office by Trump.

Up until now, our distant relatives have not covered us in glory and see Ireland itself as “astonishingly progressive”.

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THE IRISH TIMES |•

This is not to report that Irish Chicago is a homogenous bastion of left-liberal values. While voting Democrat remains a relatively stable factor, we encountered a broad range of social and political opinion among our Irish interviewees, and also noted some significant differences between longer settled and newer emigrants.
A Chicago politician described new Irish emigrants as "astonishingly progressive" compared to the longer resident diaspora - a view that echoed the Irish Central survey where Irish American respondents thought Ireland "more liberal" than the US. Notably, the strong Irish presence in the immigration reform movement in Chicago and Illinois is led by Irish-born emigrants.

President Trump's advisers do not represent the sum of Irish

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

🥳 ❤️ My UK instore tour ttikaram.lnk.to/InStores continues to celebrate the release of my new album 'LIAR Love Isn't A Right ' 🥳
Sunday 12/10 #Brighton 6pm Resident Records
Monday 13/10 @roughtrade1976.bsky.social London 7pm
Awesome Zosia Jagodzinska on cello ☀️👍 Say Hello 🙌❤️
📸 Jeff Simpson

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 23h

Bringing the Monstrance is a spectacular move.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”