Government has sent a clear message to the far right: arson and violence work
It may be that the decision to stop locating accommodation centres in parts of the country takes the heat out of anti-migrant protests. But given the victory they have just been handed, I wouldn’t bet on it
AI is already a focus of endless delusion, magical thinking and plain old foolishness
Tech bros' hype is blinding us to the reality that artificial intelligence might not be so smart after all
St Patrick’s Day is a celebration of the bits of our culture that are not worth celebrating
Even if this year’s White House visit goes well, Trump could still accept the shamrock bowl then promptly announce 25 per cent tariffs on Irish imports
How ‘non-player character’ became a potent insult for the digital age
Desire to see oneself as authentic, self-guided free-thinker, hemmed in on all sides by herds of conformist sheep is fundamentally adolescent
If mirrors in the sky are our best hope of saving the planet, we’re in trouble
By encouraging us to imagine future fixes instead of fixing the problem of climate breakdown now, the more speculative of these proposed technologies are the opposite of a solution
Washington DC feels like a city benignly anticipating its own ruin
The question implicit in US foreign policy - ‘who’s going to stop us?' - is now live in the country’s domestic affairs
The giant machine for plagiarism is now complaining that it has been plagiarised. Oh, the irony
DeepSeek may have been trained on OpenAI’s own software, it is claimed, but it sounds like fair use to me
It’s degrading to have to take anything Elon Musk says seriously, but he’s right about one thing
The uncomfortable fact remains that Musk and people like him – your Jeff Bezoses, your Sam Altmans – are the ones who are invoking a positive vision of the future
Peter Thiel, big tech’s chief conspiracy theorist, says the state is keeping big secrets from us. And he should know
The ramblings of the Palantir Technologies founder are worth taking seriously because of what they reveal about the future direction of the tech elite, and therefore global politics
If you find music on Spotify increasingly bland, it might be the ghosts
When so many of us are listening to music made to order by pseudonymous human musicians on an algorithmic production line, will we even notice when AI takes over?
There’s nothing magical or airy about artificial intelligence, it’s a machine of exploitation
Within this system, our country plays a crucial and disproportionate role: a dense network of data centres and server farms has been built around Dublin
There is something delusional about your frantic trips to the recycling bin
Recycling seems to me a fake individual solution to a very real collective problem. As an idea, it facilitates the endless production of plastic trash
The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not
I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present
The ‘Hawk Tuah girl’ went viral. You won’t believe what happened next – except, of course, you will
In Haliey Welch’s rise to fame, there was an Instagram account, then a podcast and, inevitably, a cryptocurrency
Why is an obscure PhD on the politics of smell causing outrage online?
The people attacking Dr Ally Louks over her chosen subject are really attacking everything they have decided she stands for: woke academia, feminists, leftist-elite intellectuals