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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 9h

Glass Hammer Procurer and Toffee Fireguard Maintenance Operator only became recognised roles in industry after 1893 apparently.

Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 10h

Informed people, good people, are rumoured to believe that she has divisive opinions on coddle that must be explained.
#SmearTheBejaysus

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 12h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing GenAI in government/public sector use to do things like help summarise meetings or help draft policy, how do they plan to counter foreign regimes dicking around with the foundational model to introduce bias that may be opposed to your values/laws?

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 1d

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 1d

The framework I bring people through sparked some interesting discussions yesterday about the benefits or not of using the tool.

Interesting comment: “If we apply these techniques to work with humans we will probably get more efficiency improvement than using the tool”.

#EmpowerHoomins

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 1d

I think you’ll like the course @castlebridge.bsky.social has put together to train people on responsible use of GenAI in work. Heavy emphasis on things that need to be done to maintain cognitive challenge, validation of outputs etc.

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Marek @marekmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

A new facet to David Graeber's idea of "Bullshit Jobs": work that uses AI without consideration. If you think using AI without doing all of the work to check the outcome, you implicitly consider what you're doing to be bullshit.

(See also: every company deploying AI in customer service.)

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“Deloitte “misused AI and used it very inappropriately: misquoted a judge, used references that are non-existent,” Pocock told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “I mean, the kinds of things that a first-year university student would be in deep trouble for.””

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fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune

The updates “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

fortune.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 1d

It’s only RadioWar if it is from the RadioWar region of northern Italy.

Otherwise it’s just sparkling enforcement of terms of an employment contract still in force. But that sounds boring.

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Jeepers, are things so bad in FF that he’s now actively canvassing to get the Greens back into government?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget that the rise of the frog resistance was foretold by a great prophet, many years ago, in a more innocent time.

#PortlandFrog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fu...

Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus - We all stand together

YouTube video by Eadwig

www.youtube.com

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 3d

The Bar Council have been put in the position of having issue a statement correcting the false claims in both the IT and the Indo that Connolly took cases by choice when in fact she was meeting her professional and legal obligations as all barristers do.
www.lawlibrary.ie/statement-fr...

#Áras25

Statement from the Council of The Bar of Ireland: The fundamental importance of an independent referral Bar - Law Library

It is the duty of barristers to be independent and free from any influence, especially such as may arise from their personal interests or external pressure, in the discharge of their professional duti...

www.lawlibrary.ie

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 3d

That’s nice. I want to be 25kg lighter (and that has at least a chance of happening).

The Verge @theverge.com · 3d

Meta wants its metaverse everywhere

Meta’s metaverse VP Vishal Shah explains how the company wants to expand Horizon Worlds beyond VR and into your feeds.

buff.ly

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Explanation: the colour I had picked up (after being told the colour I wanted wasn’t in stock) wasn’t actually included in the offer. This wasn’t mentioned or pointed out when I was talking to the sales person. And if there was signage calling this out it wasn’t sufficiently clear.

Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Questionable pricing strategy by DID Electric - priced an item on line, went into store. Picked up what seemed to be one of that item. Wrapped it and dropped it off as a gift. Checked receipt after I’d done all that at lunchtime. Was charged €30 more than the price advertised on line.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 4d

Judging barristers and solicitors on the clients they have worked for has been a very dangerous and deadly false narrative just a few miles up the road. The Irish media should know better than to try and draw inferences

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Łori J. Williams🧋 @ringtheory.bsky.social · 3d

Google to employees: give your health info to AI or you don't get health benefits.
Why do I get the feeling that the privacy and security audit wasn't of the same rigor as one for facial recognition for building access? 🤔

www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-he...

Google told employees: If you want health benefits, sign up with a third-party AI tool

Google rolled out a third-party AI tool for health benefits, sparking concerns about data privacy and consent among Googlers.

www.businessinsider.com

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 3d

The €66 copy is on Amazon.ie. The other is on Amazon.co.uk. Looks like Amazon is charging a #PaddyTax.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 4d

This is our opportunity to take the awareness of #ChatControl and turn it towards the domestic plan.

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 4d

Looking at #Amazon to get a copy of the #DataEthics book I co-authored with Katherine O’Keefe.

Almost €20 in the difference. For the same book.

Photo of Amazon.ie listing for “Data Ethics” by O’Keefe and O Brien. Price is €66.03.

Photo of Amazon.co.uk listing for “Data Ethics”. Price is €46.10

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4d

All too often, creative work is considered valuable to the corporate-political world, but the people who produce it are not.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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tadaaa.bsky.social @tadaaa.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who did a degree in History, but works in quite an IT technical field I often find myself in meetings saying

"Has anyone actually read this document, & furthermore does anyone understand what it is "actually" saying

Because it's clearly not being articulated in this meeting

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 4d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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