For 10 years, I’ve listened to people say AI will kill us all. Here’s what I think
These apocalyptic ideas feed into a viciously recursive AI hype cycle, and serve the sector’s abysmal hunger for investment capital
A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say ‘prepare for a slow decline’
Climate change for most of us will be a slow, banal deterioration in our quality of life - and we’re the lucky ones
For all his delusion, Enoch Burke comes strangely close to acknowledging something real
What’s fascinating about the video he posted last week is the total clash of discourses it represents
Ireland may not have mutant Blitz attitude to climate crisis but we have our own potent version
Any kind of climate scepticism has shrivelled in the dry heat of another scorching summer
The Danube ran dry, and revealed an overblown metaphor
Its water levels have sunk so low that dozens of wrecked Nazi warships have been exposed. It’s hard not to see this as an extreme metaphor
The US is shooting mirrors into space to redirect the sun. There may be a few issues
Reflect Orbital plans to launch a fleet of 50,000 satellites into orbit making the night sky three to four times brighter
Hell is empty and all the devils are in my social media feed
Most people I encounter are not bigots, or psychopaths. But as soon as I open a social media app, I’m faced with a terrible and lurid array of aggravating things
Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport
There is a pure escape, a total transportation, that no other field of human endeavour is quite so capable of providing
There are few things more life-affirming than a dancing robot going haywire
It functions, among other things, as an antidote to the relentless propagandising of the tech world, with its insistence on AI as an inevitable replacement of human labour
European societies are not built for the climate reality we now inhabit
The terrifying heat-map of the future is here
Peter Thiel’s Irish gathering is not part of some secret plot. It’s more blatant than that
The tech billionaire’s anti-democratic ideals have been out in the open for years
Dublin’s Dead Zoo is home to the funniest exhibit of all time. Please let it return soon
We’ve been here before: the seemingly wild cost of refurbishment and the fact that, after nearly two years of closure and an expenditure of over €3.3m, main construction has yet to begin
Argentina’s AI chief executives are a scary thought. But will we notice any difference?
The idea of a world run by machines might seem far fetched, but only until you think about it
Trump is offering grants to make Europe great again. This may not have the desired effect
Marco Rubio’s state department will fund European groups that the Trump administration hopes will increase Europe’s civilisational self-confidence
This, and worse, is what is happening to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody
Much was revealed by the way Israel’s minister of national security treated activists abducted while trying to bring aid to Gaza