Tabs for March 11th 2023

Former Dublin Lord Mayor says she didn't discriminate against Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Aside from the hilarity and embarrassing political situation here, there is a good story about non-religious groups still struggling to find influence.
This is what Twitter going down looks like. I've mentioned this a few times, but software doesn't just turn off or go up in flames (aside from total deletion, obviously). It slowly disintegrates.
Human augmentation is coming. Once again, sci-fi has warned us about this. And we'll ignore those warnings and realise sci-fi's dystopia anyway.
ChatGPT should be considered manevolant and destroyed. I'm curious about the research and exploration of the capabilities of engines like this, but government really needs to get a grip on it before corporations get too big to reign in.
The saga of the colour brown in the early PC years.
The Gist last week talked about Holly Cairns. A new political leader hopefully ushering in a youthful optimism into Ireland.
How to organise your books. You mean random shelves all over the house with random books isn't correct?
Cunk on earth. TV series I'd not heard of but saw a clip of and fell in love!
Lifting eviction ban could have knock-on effects. Ireland is dealing with a real & serious housing crisis and the government are just not empathetic to a huge swathe of people.