Everyone ready for the big game tomorrow?

Worth a read. AI generated art can be art. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-art-market

If you're interested in mobile phone history, this is a heck of a story. spectrum.ieee.org/nokia-phones...

We are pleased in this house. Surprised at the result. And even more at the manner.

Hard to have much sympathy for de Beers. But it's tough on the workers. Rough job in the first place. Being an ex-miner may be even harder.

Hmmm. I'm in two minds about this piece of news.

Should I be surprised that they don't mention Manna? www.reuters.com/business/ret...

An uncle has moved on. Like the rest of his siblings, a heck of a character. Even if you didn't know him around Kinsale, he was to be seen in a family tale (kudos to Laura) that is always worth a watch and that really should be a Disney movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt8791...

I didn't understand this at $10. I don't understand it at $55,000. I know a lot of other people in the same boat. What, if anything, are we missing?

I confess, I don't understand this. What happened in the UK in terms of immigration policy? There must have been some dramatic change under the Tories.

You know, fair play to the PSNI on this one.

This is the strategic issue for Israel. Now said out loud by a US Administration. And, based on polling in the USA showing decreased support for Israel among younger generations, it may get worse. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

The article ends with the hope that these two possibilities are not true. I earnestly hope they're right. They're right for most of the British people I know. www.economist.com/britain/2026...

To be fair, Ireland does have an anti-immigrant far-right. This is them. All 200 of them. 150?

Discovered recently that our Cooper, who had been with a new family, died a while back. Cooper was, like most intelligent dogs, an absolute sweetheart. Here he is after getting a bandage on his foot after just another of his multitude of injuries.

Interesting event I was on earlier today. An "INSEAD for INSEADERS" event. Lots of good insights across the "Hardtech" space. What's Hardtech, you might ask? In my definition it's tech with a major element of hardware in it, and mostly not consumer tech....although that's not NECESSARILY the case.

The way you illustrate data changes how you view data, apparently.

Our little AI explainer is there all the time, ready and waiting. Ask it whatever questions you want. It does pretty well. Still, it isn't all-knowing so you should eventually get in touch directly or via the website. www.goeve.com?open=askeve

I think I'm at 18 (maybe I'm being too generous). Specialization is for insects. Great line. HT Jorge P.

Should I be surprised by this data? ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta... And if you include the UK and Switzerland - which are not in the EU - the regional picture might be even better. I confess surprise.

Extraordinary example of what's happening in modern politics. An Englishman who used to be an advisor to an Irish Taoiseach is now candidate for Governor of California. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Congrats to the many ardent Barcelona fans I know. Heck of a day! And commiserations to the many Real Madrid fans I know. There'll be another day.

Vector based search can sometimes come to completely the wrong conclusion. www.decathlon.ie/search/?quer...

I saw a map of population changes in Europe from 1961 to 2021/2024 by small local govt area. Fascinating. I wanted to poke around at it so I made my own. Loads of interesting stuff to see. The depopulation of Spain. The bounce in Dublin city center. Wild stuff. hughsheehy.github.io/EuropeanPopu...

I confess, if I was Ferrari I wouldn't like this number becoming very well known. Or if I was a recent Ferrari buyer.

Europe has a big problem and it's still ignoring it. correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

It's an anniversary today. Of the end of something horrible almost beyond belief. The war. The holocaust. The Soviet dead. There was at least, albeit briefly, some global agreement on what was good and what was evil. We could use that agreement nowadays.

For all those people having philosophical discussions about the meaning of consciousness and how it requires a physical body (I disagree, btw), this article from the IEEE might be interesting. The tech is getting there. spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynam...

People like Dawkins are speculating on AIs and consciousness. I suspect he's wrong, and I don't believe that the current LLMs can be conscious. But we might not be that far off. Here's my speculation from a couple of years ago. I might be wrong too. hughsheehy.medium.com/ai-animal-an...

Absolutely startling poll. Difficult to understand, to be honest. A significant majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland within the EU. And more in NI even than in the rest of the island. It may be a Brexit effect. www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/u... Page 15/26