Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
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Didn't know this was a thing but delighted it is.
Conor McGregor is a horrible, despicable rapist wanker and he should be the shame of Ireland. Well done The Burren
Kemi Badenoch decrying 'anti semitism' on the same day that she used footage of Catholics being slaughtered in Derry on Bloody Sunday and called for their killers to be protected.
Ciara Breen sat beside her Ma Bernadette in a café in Dundalk on the 12th of February 1997. Her mother didnt realise her 17 year old daughter was about to vanish in a few hours. They returned home watched a film, and went to bed shortly after midnight.
At around 2:00AM, Ciaras mam awoke and discovered her daughter was gone. The ground-floor bedroom window was left unlatched. She had left her coat and money behind.
Gardaí treated the teenagers disappearance with urgency and quickly linked her case with the so-called “Vanishing Triangle.” For years Liam Mullen, a local in his early 30s at the time of Ciara’s disappearance stood at the heart of the investigation. Witnesses claimed he had spoken with Ciara the day before she vanished and that they may have arranged to meet that night.
Her mother Bernadette was alarmed by his interest in her daughter and had once confronted him in their yard, warning him off. Mullen was arrested in 1999 and again in 2015, the second arrest triggered by renewed tips and witness statements, yet on both occasions he was released without charge for lack of evidence.
Files were prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions. Mullen mysteriuosly died in Garda custody in 2017 after being detained on unrelated charges, reportedly after ingesting a substance before being taken to Dundalk Garda Station.
Local sources also suggested Ciara may have fallen into the orbit of unsavory "older men" known in the area as a predatory group targeting vulnerable teens. While never substantiated in court, these suspicions persist in the community.
Decades later two anonymous letters featuring fresh information prompted a major search in Balmer’s Bog, a marshland off the Ardee Road on the edge of Dundalk yet no human remains were found. Ciara Breens mother carried the weight of uncertainty for over two decades, dying in the hope of closure she never received. She appealed publicly for information until her death in January 2018.
If you have any information
Dundalk Garda Station: 042-9388400
Garda Confidential Line: 1-800-666-111
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Nick Offerman shuts down hate over his The Last of Us episode.
"When homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love story, you asshole”
This is the most satisfying news you’ll hear today !
Do you remember when a group of boys, strangers to each other, formed a human chain to save a dog from fast flowing water?
Today, local authorities unveiled a “Unity Statue” at the same place to celebrate human unity.
unpopular opinion: people who become loners are not a red flag. they are often people who have had terrible experiences with humans and who now value their peace.