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Child of Prog

@devindoyle.bsky.social

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Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France. Age: unverified.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2h

Irish filmmaker Leo Regan spent a year taking photos of a group of Nazi skinhead thugs in 1980s London, then found them all again ten years later and made a documentary about their lives. It is pretty astonishing viewing.
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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 4h

Can someone from Kerry confirm this birra slang?

Varee – to get a notion to do something out of character
Te-spock – to carry out said ‘varee’

And if it's real, how's it pronounced?

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 7h

CEFR is also confusing, as A level is beginner, B level intermediate, and C level advanced. I know quite a few people who've lost jobs because they've assumed their mother-tongue English is A1, when in fact it's C2.

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 7h

I was wondering about the "A level" bit. Most people take it as equivalent to the A-level English test you do leaving school, but if it's CEFR, A level (A1 and A2) is pretty basic.

Piss-poor govt. communication, though.

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The CEFR Levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - www.coe.int

Levels descriptions of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

www.coe.int

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 10h

So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

On Friday I’m going to have a premium newsletter with a generous (2600 word) free intro about the nasty demands of Sam Altman and OpenAI. They need $161 billion in the next six months - it’s the only way for them to complete any of the plans they have agreed to. A truly nonsensical time.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 19h

This is the death of culture. It's fucking disgusting. A mockery of what it means to be part of the human race. It's also really fucking dangerous.

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K Grace 🎃 @lietkynes.bsky.social · 19h

This looks like the shit I see every day as an online content moderator btw

More of your kids talk like this than you know

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 21h

Irish football folk still talking about rescuing qualification when this team doesn't deserve to be within sniffing distance of a playoff, let alone at the finals.

Mind you that Armenian goalkeeper was dead good.

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Now that I've seen it as "unobtainable", I can't see it as anything else.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Hemingway was great but because of his rugged individualism he was elevated by the elite over many of his peers who were also great but were writing, essentially, about American socialism.

(This may or may not be unhinged.)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 1d

He'd have loved that!

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Had a brilliant one of these but it's so funny and disturbing I can't bring myself to post it. Fucking chickenshit.

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 2d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

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Surely it's got to be Midnight Cowboy with Rizzo the rat playing Dustin Hoffman's character

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 2d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 2d

MARCO RUBIO: If you just spread 'em a little wider I can get my tongue a whole inch up there.

TRUMP: Only one?

RUBIO (muffled): Maybe 2.

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Is he saying that in order to get your paycheck, you have to accept a king?

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 2d

"leather"

A closeup of the previous image, wherein Heather Humphreys is holding some marketing material with her own name on it, but her finger is covering up half of the H, making it look it says, hahahahahaha, "leather".

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 3d

AH FFS Andrew.

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 3d

What a gigantic prick.

Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 3d

It's difficult to overstate just how bleak this is. If Nick didn't start out a sociopath, he's becoming one.

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 3d

Good god this is grim. Quite a remarkable condensing of various contemporary ideological salients. A mutilation of language, meaning, the possibility of human relation as such. Nick is too dim to realise how evil it all is.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked Guardian article, which read:

"The majority of Chatfishers say they would never dream of letting AI do all of their talking. Most are like 38-year-old Londoner Nick, who sees it as a tool to help foster stronger connections with app matches. He works in tech and lives with his girlfriend; they’re in an open relationship and both date other people casually. He sometimes uses ChatGPT in his conversations on the dating apps Feeld and Bumble. “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it. Equally, while I want it to be ‘meaningful’, I don’t necessarily want to get super heavy and emotional straight away – it feels like quite a balancing act.” ChatGPT, he says, helps him tread that fine line: offering enough charm to spark a connection, without the investment of time or emotional labour that might otherwise feel wasted if the match fizzles out after a handful of messages."

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 3d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Child of Prog @devindoyle.bsky.social · 3d

Nope.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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