@topgold.ie UCLA estimates the elimination of USAID will cause the death of 14m people. Which means Trump/Musk have the largest death toll of any regime leaders since Mao died. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/USAI…

@rothaiocht.bsky.social Very mid-Atlantic, don’t you think? But your vocabulary makes you a furriner–or someone from Berkeley.

@klillington.bsky.social Gifting the NYT piece. We’re still looking at “loss of 20 percent of the world’s oil supplies, which was sending the price of gasoline soaring, and creating shortages of fertilizer and, among other critical supplies, helium for the production of semiconductors.” …

@shaneconneely.eurosky.social In 2012, I read grad school refugee Katherine Losse’s take from inside FB’s Hotel California. Insightful then and now.

@sm2n.bsky.social I wonder which podcatchers display cover art unique for every episode. Pocketcasts doesn’t.

@adrianweckler.bsky.social It would be so nice if off-motorway cafes had EV chargers. Simple way to attract happy custom. And relatively easy to make Open Table work as Open Charger.

@sm2n.bsky.social In case @omaniblog.bsky.social drops by, I should mention that any audio uploaded to a paid micro.blog account generates a transcript that appends automatically to the blog post.

@sm2n.bsky.social If most of what you do is writing or reviewing writing, Parker explains why Claude is your man: youtu.be/yRrzKf8WGJA?…

@sm2n.bsky.social Because the Chinese built on models the West had created. Now the West builds on top of pre-existing data trawls.

@sm2n.bsky.social You only need two: Claude and Gemini. ChatGPT will be gone by 2030, perhaps cannibalised inside Copilit. Google will survive with the image creation you need.

@sm2n.bsky.social Surprised you dont use Gemini instead of Deep Seek in your AI stack.

@sm2n.bsky.social The govt is responsible for everything according to the Concerned Citizens in my FB feed.

@paulmwatson.com We pay €100 to fill up a 2L Skoda. Ireland may reduce excise duty in the short term but we need to jump into electric.

@soulcruzer.bsky.social Can’t get it in Ireland

@soulcruzer.bsky.social I don’t see Gistvox in Play. Send a Play Store link if you have one.

@rothaiocht.bsky.social Recommending Bryson’s One Summer: America, 1927. NYC was so far ahead of Ireland back then.

@rothaiocht.bsky.social I am flying back to Trumpland 17603 to hand carry two blue votes this year. So worried about losing ability to vote by mail.

@rothaiocht.bsky.social I live inside my customised feeds. That’s the only place I see people from Oakland. Or people who have dropped me free pints.

@manton.org If you ever venture to the westernmost part of Europe, we know the locations of perfect pints.

@CiaraNi I spotted my seagull stalker watching my board the 0730 DART in Dalkey

@sm2n.bsky.social I’m hoping to cross-post Dylan’s baby steps into audioblogging, starting with him breaking down this trip:

@manton.org Love Barça

@anildash.com The public financing of elections would strip a lot of corruption from American politics and reduce the power of major parties FTW

@klillington.bsky.social AI is quite helpful when reformatting original content for different audiences and different channels.

@paulmwatson.com And @paulmwatson.com you should weigh in on Mathew’s hand crafted AI hub and his enthusiam for Obsidian.