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research. language. lay ethnomethodologist. broadstone based. mundane methods of pedestrianism + active travel also: D7 Play Streets, almost always (running) in the phoenix park worst taste in music: @yesboyicecream.bsky.social

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everytime i see this, it brings me joy!

submitted 9 minutes ago • 1 comment

This is inevitable (but deeply stupid and will absolutely cause tremendous fuck ups), but I find the brief comments from Jack Chambers and Niamh Smyth so telling. Regurgitated corporate marketing pablum. They don't understand the technology at all!

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

How can we use these dehumanising, deskilling, exploitative and environmentally damaging magic beans responsibly?

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

“early and often” should be the catch-call for engagement on infrastructure delivery. There is still a tendency to see engagement and consultation as something to be outsourced to external service providers or as an add-on for existing roles which I think is revealing of its prioritisation…

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

DUBLIN MENTIONED IN DEFECTOR

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

submitted 17 hours ago • 571 comments

My term paper this year for a first year course in Greek and Roman mythology was for student to compare already generated AI images of the gods and compare those with ancient images of and descriptions of the gods. I preselected the images trying to get a representative set for each one.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

#3 was originally released in october 2005 - thanks to the label's aggressive (but involuntary) anti-capitalist stance, i will have several hundred unsold copies to sell pending any suburban kids revival or anniversary show

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

where could i find a minidisc player in the year of our lord 2025? or a minidisc-attuned divining rod that might be able to find my lost one?

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Disappointing that Minister O'Donovan couldn't come visit some of the areas I represent after dismissing the real issues that we face here in north Dublin independent.ie/regionals/du...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I think mundane Utopianism of this sort is very attractive and inspiring to me. Basically pleasant bureaucracy for life

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

‘On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences’ Helmer and Rescher (1959)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

To reiterate one of my academic themes for 2025: It’s a real problem that students feel incapable of operating without genAI, particularly given that they do worse with it. I don’t care if slackers slack, but if insecurity x manipulation shields well-meaning students from their education, I care.

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After "What problem are we trying to solve?" the questions I ask most frequently are "How do we know that?" and "Where does the data come from?"

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True of people who pretend to be politicians! Remember where Borisconi wanted to put a bridge!

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True of newspaper columnists, talk-show hosts and across a range of professions - my favourite example of “not understanding the notion of deep application to work” being Joe Duffy’s considered proposal for a Luas to Dublin airport:

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments