Miriam

🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧. All my own views will add the odd retweet if I think it's worthwhile follows likes and retweets ≠ endorsement

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

No anthem like it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@deeharvey @Domjb03 Irish kids living at home??? Where’s the evidence for that.

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@deeharvey @Domjb03 Not true that only well-off Irish students that do it. It’s down to the course the individual choose and if it’s an option. Some courses it’s mandatory to do it. Erasmus isn’t popular in the UK because they can’t actually access it and before it was because it wasn’t promoted

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@deeharvey @Domjb03 Only used by rich kids is absolutely the fault of the UK government. Lack of education on the benefits of the EU including Erasmus got UK into this mess. Go to any Irish university, c10% of students go on Erasmus and the other 90% know it’s a thing regardless of economics

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

Oh lawd this is just gorgeous 💕

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@MrFamilyOffice Ireland being on that list is interesting, given the huge lack of access of advice and personal investing for the mass market. Shows the government have nothing to fear about pressing ahead with reforms

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

What a save what a game

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

Karpathy just said the people who don't use LLMs are already losing.

he spent 4 minutes explaining why smart people are still going to fall behind.

Not only the people who refuse AI, but also those who think signing up for Claude counts as using it.

here's what it looks like for most people right now:

> ask Claude to rewrite an email
> ask Claude to summarize something
> close the tab

that's not wrangling Claude. that's paying $20/month for spell check.

Karpathy's point isn't that LLMs are powerful.

everyone knows that.

his point is that knowing how to use them is the actual skill gap and most people are nowhere near closing it.

Claude can be your research analyst, your writing editor, your salary negotiation coach, your financial reviewer, your 30-day curriculum builder.

all of that is in your $20/month subscription. right now. today.

most people will see this tweet, agree, and go back to asking Claude to fix a sentence.

the article below covers 20 prompts across every area of your life.

not productivity hacks.

actual use cases that change how you work and how you think.

the model is not the bottleneck. knowing what to ask is.

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

Cat-like reflexes from Richie Hogan on GAA+ 😅

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@theiaincameron Specfically it comes from the Munster Irish pronunciation of Mham which is Mom. Hence it’s still used by Kerry/West Cork people today. Unclear what you mean by British, as the belief is that it’s a derivation of an English word?

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@spk67_ @theiaincameron Everyone in Kerry says Mom.

[Oasis Mania @OasisMania]

No matter how good life gets it can never top that random Saturday in July

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

This woman 👏

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@philipnolan1 Amazing resource to look at. The amount of famous folk whose family are there.Forced immigration allowing other countries benefit from our talent eg Oasis. A reminder to folk of our immigration history and that there are always benefits regardless of what social media says!

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@mitskiIeaks @Care2much18 Lisa McGee’s choice of music for Derry Girls deserved a stand alone BAFTA she nailed the moments everytime

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

28 years ago today, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, one of Labour’s proudest achievements.

Working in Northern Ireland, I saw first-hand the transformation peace brought to communities.

At a time of global instability, it reminds us that peace must be built and protected.

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@trq212 Could you do videos on this for the folk you don’t know 😉 would be mega helpful

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

@PeterRimmer74 @RepBrendanBoyle He’s a US congressman he has no tools!

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

😢☘️ 🇮🇪 #coybig

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

Troy has a way with words man

[Miriam @Mirsb85]

Staaaapppp 💚 🤍 🧡 #COYBIG