Description: A Commonplace Book
About Contact Fiosracht: a commonplace book Restoring the Tech Worker’s Dream I love this video of Cory Doctorow explaining how the dreams of tech workers have changed over the past 15 years. https://youtu.be/XwvqecNDHF0 This topic also appeared in his speech that he gave to Defcon earlier this year. Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out…
Shane MacGowan passed away on November 30th, 2023. He was a huge figure in Irish music and someone whose music still means a lot to me. https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2023/11/30/shane-macgowan-obituary-rank-outsider-who-became-one-of-irelands-most-feted-sons/ I thought Philip O’Connor did a great job talking through the history of Shane MacGowan and his band, The Pogues, in a recent episode of The Global Gael…
I was scrolling through my RSS feeds on Friday when I came across the news of Sam Altman being fired as the CEO of OpenAI. After the success of OpenAi’s Dev Day the previous week, I was surprised by this. After reading the blog post announcing the decision I still didn’t understand why exactly he…