Brian
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Brian
@bfitzx
Tech Product Manager Health x Tech x Data | Dad of 2 | CrossFit, Muai Thai 🇹🇭 & Tri 🏊♂️
Galway, Ireland Beigetreten Ağustos 2024
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@NoContextHumans Yes. Only because I’ve trained Muai Thai and I know the shock of getting kicked for the first time. Massive advantage. Sweeps and teeps too because they look cool 🤣
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I get what you’re saying and now they’re paying for that arrogance. It looks like they did try to do the right thing through the right channels. I also suspect there has to be more to this. They didn’t build it brick by brick so they had architects, QS and builders to build the house. How did it get built? You can’t do anything in Ireland without questions being asked?
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@bfitzx @NewstalkFM Nothing to do with envy. I would take a small stone cottage over that gaudy yoke. It's the sense of arrogance that money brings to some people, that I don't like.
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ESB workers have arrived at an illegally built mansion in County Meath, following a legal battle spanning more than 20 years.
Chris and Rose Murray made five failed attempts to get retention, and they told Amy Molloy of the Irish Independent that they feel they are being 'treated worse than the Kinahans'. They built the home in 2006 without planning permission.
Speaking to Claire Byrne this morning, Rose said: "There's a warrant out for myself and my husband's arrest" over the ordeal.
Earlier this week, Meath County Council took possession of the property, which was constructed without planning permission.
The electricity supply is now set to be disconnected, with demolition crews expected to begin work shortly afterwards.
🎧Watch for more and listen back to the entire interivew on the GoLoud app.
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@pmosligo @NewstalkFM Don’t tear down the house. Sell it. Give the family back something from the proceeds, anything. They can move on with their lives and the council can review their position. Thoughts?
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Have you ever sat in a council meeting? They pass the most crazy stuff. X person has lived there for x years and only wants to build 4 houses for his family? It’s sketchy. So, I’m pretty sure councils have (are) compromised.
I never said people can build whatever they want. Maybe the compromise is that the house is sold and they get something back from it? Tearing it down is awful. Making a family criminals is awful too. That’s just my opinion.
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@bfitzx @NewstalkFM So let people build whatever they want and then negotiate compromises with County Councils afterwards - that effectively means planning laws are bypassed.
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🚨 Anthropic just dropped its 🦞 @OpenClaw competitor
Meet Dispatch.
A new research preview in Claude Cowork that completely changes how you interact with AI.
Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Pairs your phone to a persistent Claude session on your desktop
2️⃣ Message tasks on the go, come back to finished work
3️⃣ Executes code in a secure, local sandbox
Your files stay 100% local and private, and Claude asks for your approval before touching anything
Sure, the desktop needs to stay on, but the flexibility is insane.
Rolling out now to Max users (Pro coming soon).
Time to pair that phone! 👀
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Jensen Huang just called out every CEO who’s been firing people “because of AI.”
Jim Cramer asked him why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive.
Jensen's answer:
"For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more."
Read that again.
The man who built the most important tech company on Earth just told you that if your CEO is using AI to cut headcount, it means one thing:
They have no imagination.
They have no vision for what comes next.
They got handed the most powerful tool in human history and their FIRST instinct was to fire people.
This is the CEO of NVIDIA. The company whose chips power every AI system on the planet.
If anyone on Earth has the right to say "AI replaces workers," it's Jensen Huang.
And he said the OPPOSITE.
He said every carpenter could become an architect. Every plumber could become an architect. AI elevates capability. It doesn't eliminate it.
But here's where it gets really interesting...
During the same interview, Jensen revealed something nobody's talking about:
He said AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are seeing their revenues increase by one to two billion dollars a WEEK. And he wishes these companies were public so the world could see what he sees.
One to two billion per week.
That's a $50 to $100 BILLION annualized run rate.
For companies that most people think are burning cash and making nothing.
The entire Wall Street narrative that "AI companies aren't profitable" might be completely wrong.
Jensen sees their numbers. He sees their compute orders. He sees their growth. And he's saying the revenue is real.
So if the money IS real, why are other companies firing people?
Because they're not building AI products. They're not creating new revenue streams. They're not using AI to expand into new markets.
They're using AI as an EXCUSE to cut costs because they ran out of ideas 3 years ago and need something to tell the board.
Jensen's company added $500 billion in new orders in 5 months. He expects $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2027 from just two product lines.
That number doesn't include the new chips, systems, or partnerships announced this week.
And he's not cutting people. He's hiring.
Because when you have imagination, more capability means MORE opportunity. Not less headcount.
Meanwhile Salesforce cut thousands. Meta cut thousands. Amazon cut thousands. All blaming "AI efficiency."
Jensen's response: You're out of imagination.
He also said something that stuck with me.
Cramer asked if he ever thought he'd build a $10 to $20 trillion company while waiting tables at Denny's.
His answer: "I was just trying to make it through the shift."
Biggest tip he ever got? Two, three dollars.
Now he's building tech that increased computing demand by one million times in two years.
He announced OpenClaw, which he says is as big as ChatGPT.
And he's got 21 months of new business that isn't even counted in the trillion dollar figure yet.
When asked how long he plans to keep working?
"I'm hoping to die on the job. And I'm not hoping to die anytime soon."
This is a man who believes every single thing he's building.
And his message to every CEO using AI to justify layoffs is simple...
You're not innovating. You're surrendering.
The technology wasn't built to shrink companies.
It was built to make them limitless.
If your leadership can't see that, the problem isn't AI.
It's THEM.
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Geez. A reasonable response in a sea of crazy. I get your point. Completely. They did the wrong thing. However, there’s no law on “not being short of money” and it’s that bias holding that against them. Believe me I’m envious of the “mansion” myself but people are being evicted from homes every day who don’t have mansions. Whether it’s this family or a family in Waterford in a 3 bedroom house it worries me that so many people want to see them dragged out of their homes. These people, with their mansion tried to make things right. Other families have tried to make things right. I’ve seen developers break planning laws in the news. Are they in jail? Do they have the Guards raid the house? Maybe it’s just me but these people tried to make things right and now they’re fugitives. Vulture funds and developers seem to have their own laws.

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@bfitzx @NewstalkFM There would be no point to the planning system if that was done. I would have some sympathy if they hadn't built a huge mansion. Obviously not short on money either given how much they spent on appeals.
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@griptmedia Just wait. Micheal will announce something on Monday. It won’t make much of an impact and he’ll spend a week talking about how great he is and saying “tha most venerable in society” ad nauseam The sad part is we’ve all come to expect disappointment from this government.
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JOHN MCGUIRK: Government can act now to slash the taxes on energy, or it can reap the inflationary whirlwind later in the year as food, transport, and electricity prices skyrocket:
gript.ie/partys-over-ti…
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@HelenDuignan2 It was weird to see similar in a video from Ballinrobe. Now there’s another messed up float in another parade? It can’t be a coincidence. Sickening
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@prestonjbyrne Hahaha
What are their options here? Have you seen their team?
I feel they have been highly compensated fighting for tech company to have the freedom they have today and now they’re being compensated to curb the same rights.
ft.com/content/19e9da…
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After obliterating people’s trust in the government Micheal will announce on Monday that he always intended to take every step necessary 🙄 There will be an entire week of messaging that the government will do the bare minimum to support those who need it. Game over FF the lack of leadership is appalling
GIF
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Relentless pressure on the Government from Opposition, and their own TDs, to take action on fuel costs has told, but it remains to be seen what form of 'appropriate intervention' they will make
rte.ie/news/2026/0318…
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In honour of the closure of the metaverse, I would like to re-up one of the worst videos ever recorded.
Barry Malone@malonebarry
Just two humans having a perfectly natural conversation.
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