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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-21 at 13:00

Surely now we can call it?

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-21 at 12:56

It should be a public service to print the elon salute on a little card, and neatly tuck it under the windscreen wiper on any Tesla.

I say neatly because those are some fragile cars with expensive bespoke parts

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-21 at 09:14

Team Ineos are officially called Ineos Grenadiers. It's an advertising ploy, named after a climate chugging 3 litre 4x4 vehicle; a greenwash cycling team.

But the odd thing is the car. In 2023, its first year in production, only 4553 were made. Surely not enough to justify global sports sponsorships?

[#]cycling

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-20 at 19:05

Wow, this is new to me. An Irish newspaper offering that you either accept cookies or pay to reject them and view the content.

Eh, no. To both options

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-20 at 16:13

2025, the year enshittification went public, from private companies to an entire country

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-20 at 14:47

My mission in life is to convince one fitness influencer that trees are 100% pure protein and that they need to get their followers on the woodchip diet.

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-20 at 11:22

I have been typesetting annual reports recently. The ability of accountants to take language and turn it into a cold, dead husk without meaning is almost beautiful. They can do it effortlessly.

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-20 at 10:42

Can we just not mention the orange elephant in the room today?

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-19 at 19:59

Algorithms have riddled our brains, while AI is taking our jobs. And no one is angry about tech

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-19 at 19:34

At about 11'40" Prince's guitarist Wendy Melvoin, plays Purple Rain. Hearing her play it in isolation is just 🤯

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8F_IX4b85y8

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-18 at 17:25

An outstanding talent you say?

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-18 at 10:42

I'm struggling to see what's worse about TikTok than others.

I have no doubt it poisons the minds of the young, and is used by bad actors to gather and spread info.

Unlike Facebook, which does the same, to older people, who have greater power to do something based on their bad info.

Unless it's a case of their bad actors vs ours?

Nah, couldn't be that

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-18 at 09:18

I'm reading a book written in 2023. There's a piece about "USA, the world's oldest democracy" being overtaken by China as the largest economy, "another stress test that will show whether the US stands strong with democracy and holds to its humanistic values or whether it falls for the appeal of a capitalist autocracy"

Well now.

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-17 at 20:22

I just ate a soy based burger that wasn't cooked. For some reason the oven thermometer was incorrect. So now I have an evening sitting and waiting to see what my stomach will do next

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-17 at 14:18

I know some designers who are fully onboard and think that the future is bright and rosy; they'll be sitting there at the controls of an AI dreaming up wonderful things and getting them made.

No. It's your (ex)client who will be sitting there. You will not be designing.

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-17 at 11:50

I fucking hate AI let's do something about it.

That's my new years resolution

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-17 at 11:49

This morning my Microsoft suite threw copilot at me. Then Gmail did the same with Gemini.

Lads, jump in the sea. I want my communication to be human. I don't want computers putting my thoughts into their words. The only thing I'm lost for words in is how soulless the tech bro future is

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-17 at 11:32

Well informed people make better choices.

So it's probably just a coincidence the same companies that are pushing social media algorithms and AI all have misinformation problems.

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-16 at 18:31

Next time someone says eating meat substitutes are a bad idea as rainforest is cut down to grow soy: 77% of that soy goes to animal feed

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Written by Ronan on 2025-01-16 at 18:30

Some further incredible stats from the book I'm reading*

Livestock use makes up 80% farming land globally. But only accounts for 20% of calories in the average diet.

One cow produces between 250 and 500l of methane daily.

Farm animals make up 14.5% of global greenhouse emissions. Equal to all transport combined.

🤯

• Theo Deutinger's Joy and Fear

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