America’s tourism slump continues. Some huge downturn figures in this - 37% decline in Canada-US car border crossings. French tourists down by 10%. Only country out of 184 tracked to show decline. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
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America’s tourism slump continues. Some huge downturn figures in this - 37% decline in Canada-US car border crossings. French tourists down by 10%. Only country out of 184 tracked to show decline. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
If you're a leader of any kind trying to cut through and command attention, you really need to understand this. You are vying for a smaller slice of the pie than ever, so you have to be a marksman with your messaging. Spray and pray is dead. markhamnolan.com/strategy/lea...
If only Ireland could copy The Netherlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=53No...
"If the student’s preferred working methods reduce mental effort, we have to reintroduce that effort somehow." "Some are already so reliant on A.I. that working without it is disorienting, even upsetting." Clay Shirky on the impact of Gen AI on writing & thus education: archive.is/Ubptf#select...
Not a place for conversation. And the suggested content, the algorithmic wallpaper of the place, is pure chaos.
This is what we’re all up against in the war for attention. Netflix gathering probably well north of a trillion data points a day by now on user behavior, attention usage, etc. TikTok probably more so, same for YouTube, other platforms. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Noticing a lot of folks quietly, gradually sliding back to Twitter
UK presenters dealing with Storm Tadhg is gonna be fun
Sad to hear about Mark’s passing. He was beloved by all in US media, as shown by the outpouring when CBS unceremoniously laid him off in 2020: www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
“Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year” due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers
Seems bad
CANADA HEAT WAVE Intense heat spreads North and East to Alberta and Northwest Territories with temperatures >33/34C north of 60N latitude. This will just get worse with an early autumn heat wave which will rewrite climatic history by breaking multiple WORLD RECORDS. Stay tuned
Wild that in 1987 Phil Collen and Phil Collins both had UK #1 records.
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If you’re a coffee nerd, this story about how @specialtycoffee.bsky.social suddenly rules the coffee-grading roost really spills the tea slate.com/life/2025/08...
These are really terrifying numbers in terms of the partisan split on vaccine hesitancy in the US... via @today.yougov.com
You get what you pay for.
Oof, that’s a big loss for RTÉ. Claire Byrne is a stellar broadcaster.
I have a US news feed pinned to home on here (courtesy of @gavinsblog.bsky.social) and checking it is increasingly like dipping into a vortex of insanity. ‘Widening gyre’ vibes, constantly.
Another white American male with inexplicable access to a military-grade assault rifle just sprayed bullets into a crowd, killed two kids and injured a bunch of people in a public place. Again.
Well this is fascinating
Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 50% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 67% at 11:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 39% of demand. 1% of generation was exported, 11% of demand was met by imports.
A clear window into chaos and incompetence. If you ever needed an example of feckless narcissism masquerading as ’building in public’ (not that there’s any shortage of that), this was one.
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky
Literally people stockpiled arms in response to these kinds of fears. If Obama had nationalized Intel and put troops sent from Democratic states to patrol the streets in a Republican state...
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Here's the reports that anti-wind folks don't want you to read. It would be a shame if lots of people read them and reposted them.
Imagine if he precipitated another massive epidemic in his second term. Quite possible! Watched a million Americans die out of his own ignorance & negligence, learned absolutely nothing.
Watched 200+ sailors from more than 20 countries launch for the U21 World Championships this morning. Dun Laoghaire at its best. Plenty of future Olympians in this bunch, great to see events at this level staged in Ireland.
Finally getting around to reading this tome. Starts strong.
This is fucking crazy! The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
Kindle Deals is such a sleeper treasure trove. One of my favourite novels of the last few years, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, is currently available for less than a Euro: amzn.to/4oQ05WK
Totally sustainable
Saw auto-subtitles translate ‘Leaving Cert’ into ‘Leave and Search’ and frankly the latter is probably more relevant to most of us.
Anthropic’s copyright case is amazing stuff. On paper, a judge ruled almost everything their way: scanning and digitisation books is fine, and using that to train AI is, too, he ruled. BUT: because they used pirated books, they could be on the hook for *billions* in damages…
Spent Sunday as far away from the concepts of data centers as possible, watching kids wander an island, with boats from the world’s oldest one-design class tacking against the wind up Dalkey Sound.
If you believe the people behind AI have thought things through to their logical conclusion, read @cwarzel.bsky.social on the absolute lunacy we’re all enduring. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Feels like a debrand rather than a rebrand. Removing the iconic peacock is like sending this brand to Siberia.
Right on our doorstep but a world apart
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
When you see a journalist ascribing human motivations to these energy-hoovering stochastic parrots they're baring their entire ass and loudly telling you they don't understand the technology they are writing about
It’s a weird stratification, also subs in UK/Irl are often pretty ruthless and far less collaborative than US editors. They are more akin to ye olde typesetter who would cut mercilessly for space, back in the days of strict inverted pyramid news writing. No consultation with writers, often.
We used to do it as a news team to verify news videos from Syria, then also to contact viral news video creators to help them licence their content. It’s alarmingly easy. youtu.be/sNV4yIyXXX0?...
Bonus point because it also discusses the word ‘scoff’
Yeah English is full of wild little subtleties. This is a classic of the genre: www.theguardian.com/media/2008/j...
Farewell to the Kingdom. Always a wrench leaving #kerry. Back soon.
Discussion on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Pat Kenny show is appalling, as a parent. ‘Sure, girls shouldn’t be encouraged to do science because they aren’t really great at it’ - codswallop - girls excel at STEM when given encouragement but we’ve historically had terrible systems to enable them
If your company has accumulated $40m in losses and is about to go for FDA approval for the only product it’s developing, is that a good time for a leader to step aside and run for president of Ireland? thecurrency.news/articles/198...
@lukemackey.bsky.social I believe you had questions…
If your company has accumulated $40m in losses and is about to go for FDA approval for the only product it’s developing, is that a good time for a leader to step aside and run for president of Ireland? thecurrency.news/articles/198...
As Shakira famously said about global freight, my ships don’t lie
Spreading climate disinfo while wearing a NASA t-shirt is perfect
Amazing tale, well told
Quite stunning how Elon Musk has gone from all-day news omnipresence to barely registering a blip other than via Tesla sales figures.
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?
see the cities and the towns defac’d By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
Flanked by DUI hire Hegseth and convicted sexual abuser and 34 felony count Trump.
Literally could not put this book down for the last 100 pages. An amazing business story, really an amalgamation of many stories. Worth reading.
Unconscionable
Literally could not put this book down for the last 100 pages. An amazing business story, really an amalgamation of many stories. Worth reading.
Beef.
"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )
Baffling stupidity futurism.com/white-house-...
The IRS's free Direct File tool is now "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief. This comes after tax prep companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the for years to block it. Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?
A reminder that Liam Daly's (@eolai ) is having a sale of new paintings tonight and the next two nights from 8.30pm. There'll be one new painting posted every half hour and it's first come, first served. Posted on his website first, then Facebook. liamdaly.com/2025/07/11/n...
Had to go check this wasn’t an AI fabrication but nope, @gop posted a Lada. 10/10 no notes.
Unreal
Stop the car and take the hurried photo:
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
The most interesting thing is that they’re 10 years behind the curve
"Talk like a normal fucking human being" is the wild new strategy blowing Democratic minds.
Welp, this is a 5🚨fire on the road to dictatorship:
Literally a few yards away from where the cable slunk ashore are found, preserved in rock, 385-million-year-old footprints of a marine-dwelling tetrapod, rare proof that they did in fact crawl out of the sea, another enormous evolutionary milestone. What a strange parallel in such short range.
Not far from this lighthouse on Valentia Island, the first cable connecting Europe and America was laid, a milestone that began the era of modern connectivity, which now pipes hot monetized garbage into our eyeballs at astonishing volumes and velocity...
Love being able to 'disappear' shows from Netflix on a profile-by-profile basis btw - underrated feature for parents. 'Oh sorry they removed it'
Solas.
Kudos to the DB for sticking stoic with its curiosity gap social posts.
"..the rise in solar energy generation is the fastest in the history of electricity"... on.ft.com/4fax5nW
Excellent reporting and graphics by @propublica.org on disappearing groundwater www.propublica.org/article/wate...
This is what should have happened.
On-the-water leader of the Fastnet Race visible from SW Cork
All time worst human being
I hope you frame this. But also try having AI make the whimsical colorised cubist version of this and I think you’ll be angry at yourself for liking what it comes out with.
Crossed paths with Tanya while I worked at @cbsnews.com - a true leader and someone who actually understood digital audiences & was willing to take @60minutes.bsky.social forward creatively in that area.
Electricity generation in the US and China. China is adding solar and Wind fast but has it started to reduce their Coal usage? Graphs by me
Spoke to a highly intelligent & successful professional, a US citizen on sabbatical in Europe with their family for the summer, who is doing everything they can to never go back to America. ‘I’ve never not wanted to back before’
bye, tourism
The AFP has always been the most intrepid, fearless battalion of reporters. They go where others fear to tread. They’re like the foreign legion, with notebooks.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise. Every extra kilo carried on a plane requires more fuel to get the plane from A to B. Fuel costs money (and emits carbon, something travellers collectively stop caring about when we’re packing our bags). Staff are being paid to guard profit margin. Makes sense.
Don’t anthropomorphise AI. It’s bad.
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
Americans still don’t fully comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat of climate change is — and journalists are partly to blame.
This👇 is the most-read edition of my newsletter by a huge margin. I write as therapy, mostly, trying to fish lessons out of a life spent on the water. More on that here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-...
If you ask AI why writing might not be pointless in the age of AI, it’ll tell you that better writing makes you a better AI user, which is disconcerting. Good writing is still a killer differentiator, even more so as everyone uses AI. Read more, write more. markhamnolan.com/strategy/has...
So far, in 2025, two people have died on the NYC subway. while over 20,000 people have died on American roads
