Putting Doctor Evil in charge of FIFA was a bad idea
When you're
Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, endorsed banker Eric Thor's suggestion for a "weighted voting proportional to the amount of income tax you pay." He also suggested the poor and pensioners should have their right to vote stripped entirely.
It doesn't take half a second to realise a world where only the wealthy get to choose public reps might be compromised and awful.
Is there a tech ceo who isn't a terrible person?
So AI is a numbers game. Put enough false info out there and it just believes it. Then idiots believe the AI
Imagine my disgust to find out that the bridge in Newbridge has been on maps since 1752. That's not that new anymore guys.
And to compound matters, the bridge in Oldbridge dates from 1870
I love the earnestness of this label. It's big, ~8cm square. On the inside of my wife's 10 / 15 year old tweed jacket. I remember my dad had the same label inside a flat cap in the 80s. It took up most of the inside!
#design #textiles #ireland #graphicDesign
It's pretty hilarious that the trump "shooter" didn't fire his weapon, but the secret service guy shot his own colleague instead.
So much for it's not the guns, firearms training, one good man with a gun, all the best people...
Patrick Collison donated $7m to campaign against wealth tax.
Shut up Patrick, just pay $7m tax and stop trying to be a freeloader
I love this idea for a font: Bodoni cut from potatoes, Bodedo
I've a bit of cash left over this month, thinking I might buy a Reform candidate. It's been a while since I added to my collection
Standing looking at the future coming towards then they scream no and try to push it back. It moves on, past them
#Dublin was looking nice today
John B Keane's The Field should have been called Ire Land
George Monbiot is clear-eyed and terrifying when discussing the all but inevitable AMOC collapse
https://archive.is/2026.04.23-063926/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis
Ineos, who are sponsored by a gas guzzling suv company owned by a xenophobic Brexiteer tax dodger chemical baron, and have Chris Froome on the team are now getting a new sponsor. An AI company. Because it's not possible to dislike Ineos enough.
I wonder why pidcock left?
#cycling
From the end of last year: The Ineos Grenadier is selling much less than expected (7500)
https://www.inovev.com/index.php/en/market-analyses/category-blog/21685-2025-26-2
That's less than half the number of Cybertrucks sold (16,000) and that thing is tin panels and sellotape
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/tesla-sells-over-16000-cybertrucks-in-2025/
Apparently Glen Hansard was the victim of a death hoax earlier this week
https://en.mediamass.net/people/glen-hansard/deathhoax.html
