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Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 9h

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read

most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb"
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 12h

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 9h

God that interview with Wogan and Bowie - yeeesh

Loved gaybo - but then again, as a teenager in Ireland in the early 80s, He was so clearly a pathway to a different, better, future Ireland so I was always going to be predisposed

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David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 10h

While doing research, I've found a host of unlikely band appearances on Gay Byrne's Late Late Show, and some are absolutely wonderful.
I'll hold one back for the blog, but if the Virgin Prunes performance here wasn't enough, there's also the baffling good natured aftermath.
youtu.be/hyFHn_IWMQQ?...

Virgin Prunes -R.T.E. Late,Late,Show -6.Oct.1979.

YouTube video by johnniejukebox

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 10h

I am mostly no longer surprised by anything but I had to read this sentence three times to get my head around it

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

www.notus.org

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 11h

Over last 10 years I’ve been through this process twice.

Was absolutely petrified before I started each time

Have zero memory of how I did it, what obstacle I overcame etc.

Feels like this should be a more solved problem in 2025 but nope

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13h

Just tried to go to a cafe, the doors were open so we went in. They said, Sorry, we don’t open until 10, can you wait outside please? I checked the time, it was 9.59.

That level of unwelcoming pettiness is not a place I want to spend any time.

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 11h

Keir Starmer calling Kemi Badenoch's bluff over the China spy case in PMQs: she's made serious allegations, govt clearly thinks she can't stand them up, & so far the vibe is fairly 'person on X who doesn't know the law, arguing with a lawyer'

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

This Ireland v Armenia game is PPV in uk

PAY! per view

Pay!!!!!

Jaysus

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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 1d

Choosing Marilyn Monroe as an example for this is a prime -- and dark -- demonstration of how AI slop's core purpose is the erasure of consent for everyone, from the artists whose work has been stolen to the performers the user turns into lifeless puppets

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

Given his record? The former

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to know whether Shanker Singham is this stupid or he is just doing politics.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

Righty-o.

Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

End of days for previous administrations

We have to wonder why it will barely register for this one - amongst media, among voters

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 1d

⚓️ New Article: The AI Mandate

The AI Mandate

I’ve been hearing from more and more friends who are having AI forced upon them and rammed down their throats at work. Goals and bonuses tied to using AI at work AI working groups 1x1 meetings where “how are you using AI in your work right now” is the main talking point Getting “voluntold” to teach coworkers about something cool you can do with AI Senior developers telling junior devs to “ask AI” instead of actually mentoring them Lets not mince words: this is cult shit.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 1d

Spain set to be the world’s fastest growing advanced economy for the second year in a row. All under a Socialist/Communist, pro-migration government coalition …
… which polls show would lose convincingly to the hard right if there were an election tomorrow.
It’s not just the economy, stupid!

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 1d

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El FMI sitúa a España como la gran economía avanzada que más crece por segundo año consecutivo tinyurl.com/4tr6j98p

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

One of the blog entries here

bowiegod.substack.com/p/just-walki...

Just walking the dead

David Bowie returns rooted in time, yet eternal

bowiegod.substack.com

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

Day 1 purchase for me

Peter knows his stuff, writes brilliantly and his blog was a great starting point for this - can’t wait to read a fuller vision

Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty thrilled to announce that my book will be published on January 15! It's called David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God. It’s published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and tells the story of Bowie's spiritual explorations - and why they were fundamental to his work

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but can he finish Bloodborne using only bloodtinge

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 1d

this is insane

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1d

www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

One for my Gooner fans :)

Sit down, Starmer!

It’s a good cause and will be great craic n

It's all up for grabs

An evening of conversation and quizzing with Arsenal legends, in aid of the Kevin Campbell Foundation. Tickets are £27 and include a drink on...

www.trybooking.com

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Sean MacGabhann @seanmacgabhann.bsky.social · 1d

I really like Justin’s books

I really like David’s blogs

So I already have and recommend this

But also #microdisney klaxon!

David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social · 2d

Halfway through and hugely enjoying it. Astonishing how Justin covers all facets of eighties music, from pop to soul to "world music" to even Microdisney, and somehow makes it all cohere. Each entry packs a lot of vital information and trivia so concisely, entertainingly and effectively. Do get it.