@jobswithCHI will Christmas Parties be properly funded? (Asking for a friend)
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Jeff Chapman
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Have a strategic and hands-on role in shaping, delivering, and embedding a high-performance learning culture across Children’s Health Ireland. Applications are invited for the role of Learning & Development Business Partner. Learn more and apply at buff.ly/oTuYifk
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I’m officially a candidate for the Dublin Central Bye-Election 🗳️
For 17 years I’ve been your city Councillor. Now, I want to bring that experience to Dáil Éireann.
On Friday, 22nd of May, Vote Ray McAdam No.1
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@ORIONPLAY007 @Sign what about the crowdstrike incident today c. 10:00 UTC?
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ngl, I wasn't planning to write about infrastructure today. then I remembered the CrowdStrike incident from July 2024.
one faulty update. 8.5 million Windows devices knocked offline worldwide.
#SignDigitalSovereignInfra $sign @sign
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This happened on Saturday, not a word on mainstream media, imagine teh reaction if this was a mosque we would never hear the end of it.
Boyne News@BoyneNews
Footage has emerged of an incident which is believed to have taken place during a Confirmation ceremony in St. Mary's Church, Navan, Co. Meath on Saturday. Boyne News received the following statement from An Garda Siochana: "Gardaí responded to a report of a public order incident at a premises in Navan, Co. Meath on Saturday 21st March 2026 at around 1pm. "A woman, aged in her 40s, who was arrested at the scene has since been charged. "She is due to appear in court at a later date."
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@spectatorindex imagine any other regime using the clapometer to rate minions ...
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BREAKING: Trump asked 25 Republican donors whether they preferred he back JD Vance or Marco Rubio for the 2028 nomination, whereby 'attendees overwhelmingly indicated Secretary of State Marco Rubio through their cheering', according to NBC News report.
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Race Day is here! 🏁
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@CitiesSkylines Your purpose of this update is to get CS1 a trash and to make us buy CS2, isn't it?
This update is just a first step to break CS1 completely and following updates would be released continuously until we all give up to play CS1
Yes, I know
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With the Cities: Skylines 1 update tomorrow;
There are significant changes in the code for this patch, so this update will probably break many mods.
If you use mods, we have dusted off the cobwebs of this old Patch 101 and updated it. It's worth a read! pdxint.at/CS1_StateofMods
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@nocontextfm1 I've just scraped into the Conference League with London Samurai after 10 seasons.
First game Vikingur Reykjavik.
Samurai vs Vikings.
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Watching the 10th division team I managed in FM24 in person.
They don’t know that I know half their names and chucked a water bottle at them once.
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@DHSgov yeh, no.
not true.
ICEman trigger happy,
admin covering it up.
classic.
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Today, in an act of domestic terrorism, an anti-ICE rioter weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement. Our officer relied on his training and saved his own life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers.
Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement.
@POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem will always have the backs of law enforcement.
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Having received the review into Fianna Fáil’s disastrous presidential bid, Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he is “absolutely” confident his leadership is in tact and the report will be furnished to Fianna Fáil’s parliamentary party “promptly”.
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@FootballManager ... unavailable until National Management returns in March
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Complete the sentence ✍️
The team I’m managing in #FM26 is…
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me: "the wizard *and me*"
*throws bucket of water at Elphaba #Wicked #ForGoodGrammar Oz
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After the utter stark-raving success of setting my 9 year-old daughter's previous lyrics to AI music, she wrote another one.
Again the lyrics look a bit weird written down, but that's how they came out of her mind, straight on to the page, without thinking about a tune along the way.
She's picked this up incredibly quickly.
I'd always been puzzled by song-writing relationships like that between Elton John and Bernie Taupin, where Bernie would write the lyrics in isolation, and then Elton would set them to music afterwards.
I'd always thought that lyrics and music could and should only come into being together, one adapting and twisting around the other as they come into existence.
And yet here is an AI music generator which can take pretty much any words, and find a great melody, regardless of whether they look like they're going scan.
Case in point: my daughter wanted to know what line could rhyme with "tall like a skyscaper". "Is there such a word as 'violator'?", she asked. "Well, yes...", I replied, "but I'm not sure it would go with the rest of the song."
Shows what I know. That section turns out to be my favourite part.
GEEK DETAILS: Again, the song generator uses artistic licence on the original lyrics, adding its own ad-libs and repeated lines. And the skyscraper/violator line is one example of some really catchy melodies, which don't quite go where you expect.
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I want to share a joyous side-project with you...
Last year my 8-year old daughter and I started making some AI-songs, all sung by the band she invented.
CLAWS are a five-piece, part-human, part-animal rock group:
Celine is on drums
Lydia is on vocals
Angel's on flute
Wester goes wild on lead guitar
Satona joins Lydia on vocals
Eventually we had enough songs for an album, which I put on CD for her last Christmas.
And now we've decided it's time for CLAWS's second album.
A lot has improved since the first attempts - the AI song models have got better, and I've also learned that I can get more control by using a different LLM to create the lyrics and the song prompt suggestions.
So here's the first song from CLAWS's second album. And I have to say, it's a banger.
GEEK DETAILS:
Yes, it's a simple four-chord song, but - well - they work. I don't know whether certain style prompts will always lead to these chord progressions, but I do try and get it to deviate later in the album (with limited success).
When asking the LLM for lyrics, I explained the make-up of the band, and that this should be the first song on the second album. A joyous, celebratory return, asking if the audience had missed them.
This song popped right out, and I can't really fault it.
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