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"When systems are built to last for decades, we often don’t see the disaster unfolding until the people who cared for those systems have been gone for quite some time." From @histoftech.bsky.social "Built to Last" logicmag.io/care/built-t...

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Ireland's data center problem may solve itself. fortune.com/2025/02/24/m...

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"All your base are belong to us."

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Highly recommend this essay on Andrea Dworkin and her work. @moiradonegan.bsky.social elegantly captures Dworkin’s strengths and limitations. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Front page of every single UK newspaper today. Generative AI is theft.

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In honour of #worldgaelicweek here is Dwelly’s Illustrated Gaelic to English Dictionary! The 1977 edition was illustrated by Alasdair Gray, with the eighteen trees representative of each of the letters in the Gaelic alphabet.

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Expect to see a lot more of this 👇 in the coming months & years. If Europe is at least pretending to have a serious conversation about life without a US security guarantee, then the same conversation has to be had about tech dependence on the US. Whether anything will happen is another matter.

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That sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.

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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.” —by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social #MotherLanguageDay theconversation.com/how-scottish...

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‘When Joyce asks about what has disappeared – “How might we remember, retain and preserve?” – he isn’t suggesting building a heritage park, but rather acknowledging the past in a way that makes it sharp, exact, almost real.’ Colm Tóibín on rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Who else is looking forward to seeing Ths THDPSSSPS?

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ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

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💙💛 Congratulations to American author and financial journalist Michael Lewis, who was honoured with the James Joyce Award by the UCD Literary & Historical Society in recognition of his incredible career.

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Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself

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On Grafton Street, for today only, lies what looks on the outside to be an ordinary flower shop. Men and women stoppedat the storefront looking to buy a dozen roses for their Valentine. But on the inside, it isn’t a florist’s at all jrnl.ie/6622859

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Tha seangain a’ fuireach ann an dùn-sheangain, seillein ann am [sic] sceap. ‘Ants live in an anthill, bees in a hive.’ (1991 Aonad Àrainneachd 2.7) New entry: www.faclair.ac.uk/sgeap.php Dealbh bho Theatrum Sanitatis (Biblioteca Casanatense 4182). #Gàidhlig #cleachdi

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Black, Red and Black https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/black-red-and-black-1968

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Primary school children in Dublin are calling on Education Minister Helen McEntee to deliver an Irish-language secondary school that was promised last year. http://jrnl.ie/6620830t

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On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

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"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them in disused coalmines which are then filled up with town rubbish & leave it to private enterprise to dig the notes up again...there'd be no unemployment..real wealth would be greater" John Maynard Keynes www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Focus on Ireland's Built Heritage — Picturesque, dolls house-like gate lodge (c.1900) at Rathaspeck, County Wexford. #WexfordHeritage #IrishGateLodges #BuiltHeritage

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Scal ghréine ar cuairt na maidine.

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Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School #womensart

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If there is one major lesson to be taken from the devastation inflicted by Storm Éowyn, it is surely that we need to focus far more on how we are going to adapt to live with extreme weather events that are certain to worsen, writes George Lee

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www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

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Saturday 1 Feb, feast of Brigid, Kilbride (Brigid’s church), Wexford, And the start of spring in Ireland.

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"Air Latha Fèill Brìde (toiseach a’ Ghearrain), bhiodh cuideigin air a chur don chladach airson partan a thoirt dhachaigh." The Gael's version of I-Ching uses crabs instead of sticks for Lá Fhéile Bhríde. 'Partán' = Crab /Sean-Ghaeilge. Not an Indo-European word. cf Goidelic Substrate hypothesis.

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