Colin McGovern

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My mind is just collapsing at the "we have far-right entryist groups offering themselves as middle-men to hook you up with professional hitmen, but our big priority is covering up pride pins" of the present BBC.

"[Our research] found: - Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality; - Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. " theconversation.com/big-us-style...

No TDs should be allowed on the Internet until they can pass basic social media stress tests. I'm being 100% serious. We can't afford ministers making decisions after getting piled on on social media cause theyve rotted their brains and connection with real people by spending too much time on twittr

Today I have a new favorite insult

It’s remarkably rare to see a politician deconstruct a question like this, but it’s only possible with moral clarity, which is something you never see from the centrist politicians that dominate our governments.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene. But you absolutely can use her as a yardstick for how incredibly shit the Democrats are being here

This means that "hello" in Irish means "goodbye" in English

every campaign, every look both ways, every be seen, every teach our kids, every be alert, every fucking thing is performative when we refuse to do what we all know works and especially when we refuse to protect what is working.

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

Has Metallica's lifestyle determined the band's deathstyle?

Police Excited To Transfer The Responsibility Of Road Safety From Themselves Directly To School Children”

By January the governement will have spent more on giving in to the demands of fuel protestors than they've provided for in pay rises for the whole public sector. ( €1.2 bn )

Oops the centrist consultants painted themselves into a corner again

The two results that keep coming up, study after study, is that universal basic income and taxing the rich do all of the good things their advocates say, to almost ridiculous levels, and none of the bad things their opponents say, to almost ridiculous levels.

they did the thing

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

And yet Jennifer Carroll-McNeill just said on #rtept that the State can only afford to give a shingles vaccines to immunocompromised over 85s. #IrishPol

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

@cethanleahy.com you are now an artifact in the Museum of Twitter.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

I think Americans and Europeans should be legally banned from making snide comments on this until they look up the extent of US election interference in Brazil over the past few months

Impressive piece of AI slop here. Apparently, Patrick McGoohan in his later years looked remarkably like Vincent Brown...

It’s a stretch, but playing the match because it’s an ineffective protest not to *might* be an argument if the government were actually being decisive about doing what it thought *was* effective, rather than doing nothing more than empty speeches at the UN.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

Now that we're all (ahem) using the term SI for the hyped thing, can we establish that it's abbreviating Statistical Inference? This to me is a far more accurate description of the technology.

Imagine how sad your life must be to never ever see music as something that brings people together in a community.

My gf got her eggs frozen last year and now we’re looking into freezing some embryos and if things keep going according to plan, fingers crossed, in a couple years we’ll freeze a whole baby

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

This is a model case study for “here’s how to murder, you can do it to a child, and they won’t even say you did it they’ll just say the victim got in the way of the weapon”