Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson

@keithwilson.eu

Philosopher of Perception and the Cognitive Sciences at @ucddublin.bsky.social. Former programmer and sound engineer. Father of #LittleHuman. Curates @philosophy.eurosky.social #philosophy lists, starter pack and feeds. ↓ #LongCOVID (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

Lost half a day’s work yesterday when #MicrosoftWord reverted to an older version of the document I was writing on my iPad without any warning, despite autosave being on. How can their software be so 💩? 😡 #Micro$lop

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈
@rachelahandley.com

Dublin friends! I will be one of the featured readers at Pride Poets this Tuesday (27th October) at Street 66. There will be an open mic on afterwards, and the event is entirely free!

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Kelly Robson
@kellyrobson.com

Sign this Authors Guild petition against the Australian government allowing AI to legally scrape books — any books, your books, even if they’re not Australian authorsguild.org/news/austral...

authorsguild.orgAustralia May Legalize AI Training on Your Books. Sign a Statement Opposing It.The Australian government has announced that it is planning to introduce legislation that would change copyright law to allow AI companies to use authors’ work, without a license, to build their model...

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Stephen McCarthy
@misterjabsticks.eurosky.social

Turns out Soylent Green really is people.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app

Let’s call it the privatisation and corporatisation of the history of human endeavour, of civilisation itself. All you need to do is allow your soul to be digitised and turned into data. What remains of you will be human sludge and slurry. Industrial effluent."

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Adam Miller
@ajm6792.bsky.social

We have to stop choosing to make the world worse to maintain existing hierarchies

Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

nytimes.comPublic Colleges Are Passing the $50,000-a-Year Mark. For Locals. (Gift Article)At the University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Barbara, students get an unwitting education in navigating the housing market.

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Andre Barrinha
@abarrinha.bsky.social

From an outsider’s perspective it’s rather puzzling how #Ireland simply ignored the possibility of becoming a global higher education hub, failing to capitalise on #Brexit and the political instability in the #US…

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson@keithwilson.eu

“The harsh reality is that State funding per student is now over 30% lower in real terms than in 2008. This country ranks 36th out of 37 OECD countries for investment in higher education as a share of GDP” #HigherEducation #Ireland #SpeirGorm

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

My flight this morning was cancelled due to #StormBoelo. Worse, I missed the one opportunity in the year to spend an extra hour in bed. Instead, I got up extremely early! 🫩

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

The building I work in at #UCD bears more than a passing resemblance to this iconic development on London’s South Bank, even down to the recessed ceiling blocks. ‘Uncompromising’ is the word, but not without their charms…

Modernism in Metro-Land@modinmetro.bsky.social

The National Theatre on the South Bank was opened OTD 50 years ago. Designed by Denys Lasdun with three separate theatre spaces, the building is constructed of board marked, reinforced concrete. Read more about this uncompromising building here buff.ly/24tsr6m

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

Replying to @garius.eurosky.social

When questioned about this, Elrond explained that dealing with the One Ring was an administrative services problem. He had research projects to focus on. He requested he still be invited to the One Ring Committee though, and promised that in these he would continue to provide his extensive advice.

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

#academia

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social

Eventually, Elrond's account of the One Ring ended, overruning the meeting time by 20mins. Despite his lengthy discourse on the subject, everyone later noted that, in the minutes, Elrond had avoided giving himself any actions related to actually dealing with the One Ring problem.

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

“The harsh reality is that State funding per student is now over 30% lower in real terms than in 2008. This country ranks 36th out of 37 OECD countries for investment in higher education as a share of GDP” #HigherEducation #Ireland #SpeirGorm

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie

Universities are to tell an Oireachtas committee that they are at capacity and teetering on a cliff-edge unless the Government addresses a funding gap in higher education.

rte.ieUniversities warn funding gap leaves sector at cliff-edgeUniversities are to tell an Oireachtas committee that they are at capacity and teetering on a cliff-edge unless the Government addresses a funding gap in higher education.
Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

The Large Hadron Collider is always about to “break the laws of physics”, or the standard model, and yet somehow never actually does… #physics apple.news/AybjXpODAQme...

apple.news‘Very, very exciting!’: The Large Hadron Collider could be about to break the laws of physics, say experts — BBC Science Focus MagazineAnd it could be particle ‘penguins’ that are to blame October 17, 2026 For more than 50 years, particle physicists have explained our Universe through one framework – the Standard Model, a theory that...

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Mic Wright
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

Palantir being given access to this stuff is basically treason.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billionsThe Ministry of Defence asked the controversial US tech firm how to fix its procurement rules. Its answer? Fewer obstacles for companies like Palantir
Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

“Just as Merkel doubled down on cheap Russian gas and exports to China to keep the economy solvent, #Ireland burrows deeper every year into our financial dependencies on US technology and pharmaceutical companies. Neither approach was, or is, sustainable in the long run.” #IrishProblems #SpéirGhorm

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com

Eoin Drea: Ireland’s relationship with Big Tech is a bad case of Stockholm syndrome

irishtimes.comEoin Drea: Ireland’s relationship with Big Tech is a bad case of Stockholm syndromeAs debate raged in Brussels about dependence on US tech firms, Google celebrated Ireland’s EU presidency
Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

#Trumpland #USCorruption #AgentKrasnov

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

The ′90s are back, baby… 💿 😄

jack@j4ck.xyz

it’s kinda fun having a cd collection, each time I go out for a drive to practice, I take a diff album each time to play 🔥

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

Irish universities have followed the UK model of charging high fees to non-EU students to subsidise teaching and research. A sharp fall in visa approvals combined with a €250,000 shortfall in government funding is now putting the squeeze on university funding. #HigherEducation #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

This was of course entirely predictable—and indeed predicted (see below). What’s new is that, like the UK before it, the Irish government’s own clampdown on international visas is the source of the problem. Additional government funding is urgently needed to keep the university sector competitive.

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson@keithwilson.eu

Concerningly, #Ireland is now following the same model, increasing the numbers of non-EU students who pay exorbitant fees to subsidise the educations of local and EU students. This works well as long as people want to come here—they do, partly thanks to #Brexit and the US political situation—but is…

Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson
@keithwilson.eu

At present, government funding only covers 60% of the cost of teaching, so universities have to make up the shortfall somehow. Hard to see how this can be resolved without urgent government intervention, which is why (among other things) the ongoing talks on public sector pay are so important.