Enda McCormack

Technology principal at Version1. Currently delivering the future of funding at DLUHC. Opinions are my own.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.

It now markets itself as the responsible lab.

One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.

Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.

One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.

A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@Jclark1339 @GamersNexus Forgive me, I was more referring to the advanced notice side of right to reply. I.e the video could have been more accurate and less of a spectacle if they had an open dialogue before putting potentially erroneous information out about one another.

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@Furry4Ever @GamersNexus Those are separate points, the fact GN never gives advanced notice and whether they should.

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@Rodrigo47700864 @GamersNexus I wouldn’t say that fully addresses it. That’s like saying I don’t ask for reviews because I got negative feedback last time.

[Alex Żychowski 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇹🇼 @alexzychowski]

Final YouGuv poll with votes to seats projection.

We call this farce "democracy."

#proportionalrepresentation
@MakeVotesMatter

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@AerLingus what a fantastic crew you have onboard flight #ei915 . So friendly, so helpful, they just made my day.

[Ruth Keeling @ruthkeeling]

We've got some developer vacancies in our team which you might want to apply for. To help you decide, our lead developer Gideon Goldberg has written about what it is like to be a dev on the Funding Service Design team @luhc https://t.co/NSbaK7jdmJ

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

About 5 years ago I quit my job as a birthday present to myself, I needed a new challenge. 2 months later I got together with this rag tag bunch and we built a business. We sold the business, but I still couldn't wish for a better bunch of business partners and friends ❤️🍾

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

Got to see the Swedish Gotheborg 18th century ship replica passing down the Thames this morning 😍❤️ #gotheborg #london #thames

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

Lots of fun and fantastic ideas at the @version1group UKDDC face to face meetup today. Really excited for the future we're building together! 🧑‍🏭♥️ @ London, United Kingdom https://t.co/EXFikTEU2S

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

The problem with @Tesla @elonmusk also building robots is in the event of an uprising they'll be in control of our escape vehicles 🫢🤷😂

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

I’m proud to announce the company I co-founded 4 years ago has been acquired by Version 1. We’re very excited to be building a better future together!

[Version 1 @version1]

Our growth into the Northeast of England has already continued to grow! We are delighted to announce that we have signed our 13th acquisition agreement with service design and digital transformation specialists Evoco 🎉!

#digitaltransformation #uktechnews
https://t.co/Kb4oY7RWTy

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

Not that I need too much convincing to rewatch #stargate again, but now there's a 365 days of stargate campaign by @stargatenow_eu to convince #Amazon #AmazonPrimeVideo to make a new series, I guess this is my bandwagon now #WeWantStargate

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@adz67125298 @Ryanair Did you need it in the end? My sister just got the same email and we're trying to find out

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

When your electric mixer stops working, all you need is a bit of creative thinking #Bosch #baking

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@rooreynolds @fully_us @tnt_inter mute switch... or trap door

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@seamuscoffey so essentially the UK can have lower average earnings but higher average household income because of higher participation to average out the load. I looked at employment rates but thought they weren’t a factor as they’re in line with the EU’s averages. Appreciate it. Thank you

[Enda McCormack @EndaMcCormack]

@davidmcw was reading OECD data this evening and read that People in Ireland have on average higher salaries but lower average household incomes. Is this because of higher tax? single worker households? unemployment rate? a mix? Googling for ages and couldn’t find a good answer

[Marie Brouder @MarieBrouder]

@SandraMaguire @marloft @anniewestdotcom @gillianconnolly @GiustinaMizzoni @claireoconnell @magsamond @dalekmad @AnnODeaSR @sarahd0ran @CreativeDynamix @catrinalouisec @debbieforster @marydunph @sophiethiebaut @RosaLanghammer @NiambhScullion @CalypsoIT Thanks @SandraMaguire

Look what I found! DojoCon 2014

Olivia Moran, Cara McGinley, Ronan Keane, Brian Bastible, Gillian Connolly, Enda McCormack, Brian Fallon, Marie Brouder, Stuart Lawn, Veronica Cryan and David Kenny. Missing from photograph is Mary Loftus and John Nugent.