ArteKino Festival 2023 - Cinema | ARTE in English

Just discovered this festival. 12 films by European directors. Available during December and a short interview with the director of each.

After the event.

Trinity College Christmas

Regretful Accelerationism – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Let the virtual world be one of customized content for every individual, with the assumption it is all made-up; some may lose themselves to the algorithm and AI friends, but perhaps more will realize that the only way to survive online is to pay it increasingly little heed.

AI and Trust - Schneier on Security

AIs are not people; they don’t have agency. They are built by, trained by, and controlled by people. Mostly for-profit corporations. Any AI regulations should place restrictions on those people and corporations

Long read but worth it.

Our favourite stories: The cathedral walls have stories to tell

Always fascinating finding old graffiti.

Shane MacGowan: A unifying Irish-English voice, in time of bombs and bullets - BBC News

But The Pogues did Irish song with dirt under its fingernails, as spellbinding as American gospel, as heart-rending as Puccini, as wild as the sea-spray on a Connemara cliff, as wrenching as a Kilburn hangover.

Perfect.

A breath of fresh air

Ireland used new EU alert as riots broke out in Dublin

By triggering an alert under the DSA, the Irish authorities ensured that the European Commission became directly involved in warning the digital platforms of their obligations under the new Europe-wide legislation.

Inspired by Duel of the Defaults: Hemispheric Podcast with long list of links created by Rob Knight here is my current list.

• Browser: Safari
• Read Later: Safari Reading List.
• Notes: Logseq, Apple Notes, Devonthink.
• Bookmarks: Devonthink.
• Mail: Apple Mail.
• Calendar: Apple Calendar
• Search: Kagi, DuckDuckGo, Perplexity ai.
• Tasks: Reminders
• Camera: Apple Camera
• Launcher: Spotlight
• File Storage: iCloud
• Photo Management: Apple Photos, Lightroom.
• RSS: NetNewsWire & Feedbin.
• email newsletter subs: Feedbin.
• Messages: iMessage, Signal, Whatsapp when no alternative.
• Personal Finance: Numbers
• Music: Apple Music
• Podcasts: Overcast
• Maps: Apple Maps
• Password Management: 1Password.
• Blogging: Micro.blog
• Fediverse Client: micro.blog, phanpy.social.
• Weather: Met Eireann app, WeatherPro.
• News: Irish Times ePaper, RSS list via NetNewswire.

Google and Apple, The Beginning – Asymco

Put simply, Android is not a profitable product. It’s not designed to create revenues. It’s designed to reduce costs

Already shaping up to be an excellent series.

Paris mayor quits X, calling social media platform a ‘vast global sewer’

Elle a raison. Bravo. No European publicly funded organisation or political party should be using this or any other privately owned algorithmly driven platform.

Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds | Advertising | The Guardian

More of this please.

Finished reading: Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart 📚

Finished listening to the audio book version of this over 13 hours of walks. Eye opening, gob smacking, and ultimately a depressing insight into UK politics. I’m sure though, it’s pretty similar in many other countries. Serious people are being forced out of politics.

In Vienna, the Renters’ Utopia — Blind Magazine

GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting - Google DeepMind

GraphCast predicts weather conditions up to 10 days in advance more accurately and much faster than the industry gold-standard weather simulation system – the High Resolution Forecast (HRES), produced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Construction starts on electricity link between France, Ireland – EURACTIV.com

Construction on a high-voltage subsea cable able to carry enough power for 450,000 homes, with the aim of boosting energy security and helping to reduce bills, began on Monday between France and Ireland

Good news.

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal | Ars Technica

Google and Apple objected to making this key detail public from their long-running default search deal. But their closely held secret came out on Monday during testimony from Google’s main economics expert, Kevin Murphy, during the Department of Justice’s monopoly trial examining Google’s search business.

Wow. Explains so much.

Status Red warnings issued ahead of Storm Debi

A red wind warning for Clare, East Galway and South Roscommon will be in place from 3am until 5am while a separate red wind warning for Offaly and Westmeath will be in place from 5am to 7am.

Met Éireann said that there will be extreme winds during this period “with potential danger to life”.

Feels like we are getting a storm every other week.

Gaza: Patients and medical staff trapped in hospitals under fire | MSF

“The situation in al-Shifa is truly catastrophic. We call on the Israeli Government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system. Our staff and patients are inside Al-Shifa hospital where the heavy bombing has not stopped since yesterday”, says Ann Taylor, MSF’s Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Brexit & Beyond: What the Covid Inquiry tells us about Brexit