Joe Hackett

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@IrishRugby @MattRCNM Wonderful match at The Aviva yesterday...however spectacle diminished by constant comings and goings of people to buy alcohol despite official policy that no drink is allowed in the seated areas... clean up your act IRFU!

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@PanzerInsight

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@PanzerInsight Is this correct? Tiger 213 is still in La Gleize today. The story is a local villager offered the US recovery team who came to remove it a case of Brandy to leave it behind. They accepted the offer.

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@Caolan_Scully Crowley not fit to tie Ollie Campbell’s boots. Crowley an inadequate journeyman looking good against the kid Prendergast

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@ballsdotie Still “combing through the weeds”? Useless article, useless author, not an original rugby thought in his head.

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@UltimateTrevor @mchooyah Von Barwick?? 😂😂😂

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@IroncladOak @mjfree “Deep Principals” hahaha

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@squinteratn @AnnTravers6 @MaryLouMcDonald So you don’t know? Of course you know but don’t have the guts to say who pulled the trigger.

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@JaneEAppleton @London_W4 Salzburg the pits. No X Ray body scanners, insufficient and rude staff, avaoid if at all possible.

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@Jason_R_Burt Woodridge crashed into a truck ahead of him turning left. Inattention? Maybe, but no charges brought. Patton killed (died days later) by being thrown from back of car into the front. Other passenger survived. A great General.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

This Spectator piece reads like gossip until you realize it’s actually a warning.

A senior English barrister takes a real appeal he spent a day and a half writing, feeds it to an AI model, and gets back something better in 30 seconds. It matched the standard of the very best barristers, and it did it instantly, for pennies.

That’s the moment the illusion breaks.

Law has always sold itself as irreplaceable because it’s complex, nuanced, and human. But most of the value in modern legal work isn’t wisdom. It’s pattern recognition, structure, precedent matching, argument assembly, and risk framing. That’s exactly the territory AI eats first.

The scary part isn’t that AI can draft contracts or scan case law. That’s already obvious. The scary part is that once the output quality crosses a threshold, the pricing logic collapses. Clients don’t care how many years it took you to become a barrister if the document they receive is objectively worse than something generated in seconds.

So the profession reaches for comfort stories.

“AI is just a tool.”
“There will always be a human in the loop.”
“Judges and clients want a human face.”

Those are emotional arguments, not economic ones. And economics always wins.

The barrister in the piece understands something most of his peers don’t want to admit. Law isn’t protected by status or tradition. It’s protected by cost and friction. Once those disappear, so does the moat.

The first to go are process lawyers. Then drafting specialists. Then advisory roles with no client relationship. Eventually people start asking why they’re paying six figures for a human to read out arguments an AI already wrote better.

What makes this explosive isn’t just unemployment. It’s who lawyers are in society. They sit at the top of institutions. They write rules. They shape policy. They’re used to being indispensable. Replacing them doesn’t just disrupt jobs. It destabilizes power.

That’s why the resistance will be fierce. There will be calls to ban AI. To regulate it out of courtrooms. To slow it down. But you can’t regulate away a cost advantage that large.

The most honest line in the whole piece is the advice to his niece. Don’t take on decades of debt for a career whose core value has already been automated. Not in twenty years. Now.

This isn’t anti law. It’s anti denial.

AI isn’t coming for lawyers because it hates them. It’s coming because much of what they do turned out to be legible, compressible, and cheap.

And once that happens, respect doesn’t save you. Only reality does.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.

Senator Mark Kelly just completely torched Donald Trump:

"When Donald Trump was driving the Taj Mahal casino into bankruptcy, I was getting shot at over Iraq and Kuwait. In 2001, after Donald Trump said that the collapse of the Twin Towers now meant he now owned the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, I was carrying flags honoring 911 victims into space on a rocket ship. In 2003, when Donald Trump was writing birthday greetings to the monster, Jeffrey Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts who died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry. In 2011, when Trump was hosting a reality show, and peddling conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed as she recovered from a gunshot wound to the head."

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@RacheLaneMartin Are you back on the drink?

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@dlLambo ‘Rock boy. Expect nothing less.

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@ElizabethHolmes “They lied
You showed truth”
😂😂😂😳😳😳

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@WUTangKids They’ve been trading on that Obama visit for years. Went there with my wife. They said minimum was four people. Really disappointing attitude - avoid if you’re a tourist.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Bolton had his chance to nail Trump on Trump’s impeachment proceedings. He held back as his book was about to be published. He chose money over principal then, don’t come back crying now.

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@Empireaesth Iwo Jima it wasn’t.

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@Robbmonster @theirishstory There was no fighting whatsoever around Boland’s Mills. There WAS heavy fighting around Mount Street Bridge about a mile away. De Valera (Commander) would not send any reinforcements to Mount Street Bridge before surrendering his garrison two days later without a fight.

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@adampollock Oops… sorry!!

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@adampollock Great looking recipe Adam, but as a novice you haven’t told me what heat to cook them at…. Please advise!!