It’s worth remembering Aughinish Alumina’s Russian owner - “Putin’s favourite oligarch” - was protected by Ireland’s Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil for years. Fine Gael once lobbied the White House directly to lift sanctions on Aughinish Alumina, and then boasted about it all 🤔 https://t.co/T4wtkmDztu #PutinsOligarch #FineGael #AughinishAlumina #IE #RU #US
Data centre growth represents the death of western innovation. So bloated & inefficient are western closed AI models compared to open Chinese AI models, that our tech lords need to splurge on endless data centres. Meanwhile the Chinese require only a tiny fraction. Of course the https://t.co/2PaY2UgO9b #DataCenters #Innovation #AI #CN #US
The global south is innovating at a speed that’s difficult to appreciate. I’m off to Rio in 10 days for Web Summit. The energy in South America is 🔥. It’s a very different event to anything in Europe or North America. Fintech in particular is a different universe. Can’t wait 🇧🇷 https://t.co/5EWb0BzRPS #WebSummit #Fintech #GlobalSouth #BR #EU #NA
Western AI companies are mostly overpriced and over-marketed token businesses fronted by pitchmen who are desperate to disguise and distract consumers, businesses and governments from the fact that everyone in the know in tech has moved to open source models. #OpenSource #AIGrowth #TechTrends #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweet.Thus #theresponseisempty.
JFC the cost of renting soared not “amid” but clearly BECAUSE of the government’s “reforms” which were deliberately designed by FFG to serve the interests of mostly foreign institutional landlords. https://t.co/00QxgpRFFm #RentCrisis #GovernmentReforms #HousingAffordability #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresultis:
RT @wereontheditch: “On a strictly confidential basis” a senior civil servant sent a confidential draft document to a lobbyist at the billi… #Lobbying #Confidentiality #PublicServants #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweet.
RT @wereontheditch: The Ditch can reveal Fine Gael Galway West byelection candidate and Seanad leader Seán Kyne is the senator alleged to h… #Byelection #GalwayWest #FineGael #IE
RT @wereontheditch: After failing to publish data on Irish companies granted licences for military exports to the US and Germany because of… -
