Mike Feerick

Entrepreneur, Educationalist, Diasporian, Global Citizen.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

This isn't AI, it's the Huajiang Canyon Bridge in Guizhou, China, the world's highest bridge at 625 meters above the river beneath it.

It features a man-made waterfall created by diverting karst spring water discovered during tunnel construction.

[NS @NS_1872]

If I was Hearts, the first thing I would be doing tomorrow morning would be contacting the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Would be the most open and shut case in history.

The next few weeks will have absolutely colossal implications for sporting integrity.

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

This is pretty special. 💚

At today's Liverpool game at Anfield, Sean Cox presented Mo Salah with a Dunboyne GAA jersey with his name on the back. 🇮🇪🤝🇪🇬

The jersey also had a special inscription under the crest with a message of thanks from the Cox family. 🥹

📸 St Peter's Dunboyne GAA

[Mike Feerick @MikeFeerick]

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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

SAM ALTMAN “OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit because we don’t ever want to be making decisions to benefit shareholders. The only people we want to be accountable to is humanity as a whole… That’s why we’re a nonprofit.”—2017

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

THE PERSON WHO FIRED SAM ALTMAN JUST WENT ON RECORD.

And what she said is going to be very hard for OpenAI to ignore.

Helen Toner. Ex-board member. The person who was in the room.

Not a rumor. Not a leak. Not an anonymous source.

THE PERSON WHO VOTED TO REMOVE HIM.

Here is what she says happened.

Sam hid the ChatGPT launch from the board entirely.

Lied about owning the OpenAI Startup Fund.

Provided falsified safety information.

Then lied to oust her after her research paper.

The board did not fire him over a disagreement.

They fired him because they said they could no longer trust a single thing he told them.

Think about what that means.

The most powerful AI company on earth.

Run by someone his own board said they could not trust.

And the world kept using the product anyway.

This is not a drama story.

This is a governance story.

And it raises one question nobody in tech wants to answer out loud.

If the people closest to him lost all trust — what does that mean for everything built on top of the decisions he made.

The AI industry does not have a technology problem.

It has a transparency problem.

And this is the loudest that problem has ever been stated on the record.

Follow @cyrilXBT for the AI stories, systems, and shifts that actually matter.

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Former Bayern president Uli Hoeneß on ticket pricing:

“We could charge more than €120 per season ticket. If we charge €350 per season ticket we would get €2m extra, but what does that mean for us?

The difference for a fan between €120 and €350 is enormous and we do not believe that fans are like cows, which are milked.

Football has to be for everyone. That is the biggest difference between us and England.”

👏👏

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s close ally Cardinal Robert McElroy received a standing ovation at the end of his homily, where he called on Catholics to take up civic action to help end the “immoral” war against Iran.

“When we leave this church tonight, we must move beyond prayer. As citizens and believers in this democracy that we cherish so deeply, we must advocate for peace with our representatives and leaders.

“It is not enough to say we have prayed. We must also act. For it is very possible that the negotiations will fail because of recalcitrance on both sides, and the president will move to re-enter this immoral war.

“At that critical juncture, as disciples of Jesus Christ called to be peacemakers in the world, we must answer vocally and in unison:

“No. Not in our name. Not at this moment. Not with our country.”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

In the 1970s, a small Canadian town called Dauphin was chosen at random for a remarkable experiment.

The government gave every resident a guaranteed basic income — the equivalent of about $15,000 a year in today’s money — with no strings attached and no way to lose it.

What happened next was fascinating.

People spent more time with their kids. Very few quit working entirely, but many stopped accepting terrible jobs, which actually raised overall working conditions. Employers had to offer better pay and standards to attract workers.

But the most striking result? Hospitalizations for severe depression and anxiety dropped by 9% in just three years.

Johann Hari shared this story and it left me thinking: what if a simple floor of financial security could meaningfully improve mental health at a population level?

It’s one of those rare real-world experiments that makes you question a lot of assumptions about work, poverty, and human well-being.

Have you ever heard about the Dauphin experiment before? What surprised you most?

[Mike Feerick @MikeFeerick]

Excellent News

[Chinese Embassy in Ireland @ChinaEmbIreland]

Dublin–Shanghai flights confirmed — fantastic development for both cities. 🇨🇳🤝🇮🇪

[Kganki Chávez Mphahlele 🇿🇦 @Absolute_Kganki]

“The majority of South Africans are unemployed because they’re unemployable, they’re unemployable because they don’t have the necessary skills to drive a modern economy. We boast about having so many people on the SASSA social welfare program as if it’s an achievement whereas it’s a failure.” - President Thabo Mbeki 🇿🇦

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible

He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill

“This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital:

- It totaled about $24,000
- My CT scan alone was $8,300
- Laboratory, 6,000
- IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total

And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478

because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill”

“But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’

Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare.

So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.”

US Health Insurance is a scam

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Well done Spain

[Mount Carmel Concerts @MountCConcerts]

The First of the Mount Carmel Concerts 2026 is announced - John Spillane - April 4th! Only 70 seats available to hear & meet John in wonderfully intimate surroundings with superb acoustics! https://t.co/NhY7PEt6FE. @loughreaonline @Loughrea @Galway https://t.co/1qHrZuEvtV

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

The moment Irish 🇮🇪 journalist Steve Sweeney take cover from an Israeli 🇮🇱 missile in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧

Israel 🇮🇱 are doing it again

Targeting journalists who report on 🇮🇱 war crime.