David Smith

@KarlBrophy so, Only Fans for wildlife? Could be a market for it

Leopards having sex, four new young male lions taking over a territory, a bunch of rhinos and an old mother with her three week old baby elephant. Just another s**t day in Africa.

brilliant interview - I have been to the wakes, and flounders - they were excellent

@patrickc @s8mb Is this a under the radar pitch for your new restaurant.....

There’s a lot of discussion in these parts about all the things that are degrading (public safety, disorder, architecture, institutions, …), but it is remarkable how much better food has gotten over the course of my lifetime. I was recently traveling in the UK, and even in small towns, the restaurants were consistently great. (I particularly recommend Isla in Durham.) Ireland has similarly improved by leaps and bounds. The US is very good these days. Has there ever been a better time to eat?

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@conoro many people leaving Cork - surly not a surprise?

23 years flying from Cork. Longest security queue ever.

this is so good!

This video is not on a loop. These are real people logging the price of a pint at their local! This is what happens when creative strategy meets product-market fit and the right media talk about it. This is #traction! #guinndex

Also hitting new highs in Ireland 🇮🇪

The stuff that actually prevents heart disease is incredibly boring: • Walking • Eating well • Not smoking • Normal Blood Pressure. • Normal Non-HDL Cholesterol.

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AI has become the justification for every layoff. It's the perfect excuse card, but there is a lot of spin involved. Every layoff is some combo of the following five very different AI stories. 1. Nothing changed, we just realized we have too many people. We are going to blame AI, but we are bullshitting. This is the AI as an excuse; it was really sloppy hiring, and we are just blaming AI. (See Block) 2. Growth has gone away so now we have too many people. This may be because of AI if you are a SaaS company. All the customer love is now going to AI. But it's less AI as a productivity lift, and more about you just building a less ambitious growth company. (See Salesforce and most every SaaS company) 3. We spent our money on capex to build AI so now we can’t afford as many people. Management may say it’s about AI making us productive (4 below) but my gut is a lot of it is about Nvidia getting our money so now there is none for you. (See Meta and Oracle) 4 We are really using AI the way god intended us to. We don't need as many people. This is the ONLY version of the story that is actually about a productivity increase. It's real, it's happening, but I wonder if it is even the majority of the layoffs. (See some software engineering departments right now) @jasonlk raised a fifth reason that doesn't get talked about enough: we just have the wrong people. Maybe we don't need 20 engineers who all know C++, but rather eight who have strong AI skills. This I think should be happening everywhere. Every time a layoff announcement comes out, I try and mentally categorize per the above.

My son left his knives, that he uses for work as chef, in a leather procook case (identical to picture) on the dart this morning around 10:45am (heading to Malahide) - it’s a long shot but if anyone comes across them could they please DM me 🙏🙏🙏🙏

The one thing that's worth paying attention to in Meta's glasses with displays isn't actually the glasses (they suck right now, I'd wait for version 2). It is the armband that listens to the electricity going down to your fingers through your nerves. That already has led to a new way of interacting with the computer and will get more important in the future.

.@NTMA_IE welcomes @SPGlobalRatings upgrade of Ireland's long-term sovereign credit rating to AA+ with a stable outlook. Read more here: ntma.ie/news/ntma-welc…

Ireland’s population chart remains a wild one to look at. The country has still not recovered from the Great Famine (1845-52).

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.

The SaaSpocalypse has left every legacy SaaS company asking the same question. Can you transition existing customers to the new AI way of automating things and save yourself in the process? Wix is a perfect lab experiment for this. They have 6.1 million customers already paying them to build websites, and an AI product in Base44 that has reached $100M ARR doing exactly what those customers now want to do with AI. The use case couldn't be more tailor-made. And the math is straightforward enough. If Base44 can grow like Lovable or Replit, Wix could become a 30% growth company in 24 months. If it can’t, the core will keep declining. This is as clear a second act play as it gets. If you can't cross-sell existing customers to the new AI way of doing the same thing with 6.1 million customers and that obvious a use case, the second act story doesn't work for anyone. There are two trillion dollars worth of public companies and another trillion dollars worth of private companies for whom this is the bet.

Finland is crowned the happiest country in the world for the ninth year in a row in the new World Happiness Report. Ireland is 13th happiest - its highest ranking since 2012, which makes it the happiest English-speaking country after New Zealand. 🇮🇪😁 independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Ireland Issues Stark Warning To Britain

Map Of The Irish Diaspora In The World brilliantmaps.com/irish-diaspora/