Aidan Glover

Important message re @DubGAAOfficial club fixtures this weekend. Spread the word a chairde.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

MFCA: @GAALucan 2-13 @plunketts_ie 2-8.

IHC: @GAALucan 5-17 @roundtowers 1-15.

AHL1: @clgnaomhjude 1-25 @GAALucan 4-22.

AHL1: @clgnaomhjude v @GAALucan switched to 12th Lock. Same throw-in of 3.00 this afternoon.

1. A thread about safeguarding and sports. There is a misconception in this article that 'never being charged' means safeguarding practices don't apply. Malachy never even mentions safeguarding - which shows the work we have to do to improve knowledge of this in the GAA.

U21A HC final: @FaughsGAA 1-8 @GAALucan 3-10.

Wexford GAA confirming that the Revenue Commissioners are now looking into a number of County Board’s accounts. And that audits could be extended to all County Boards and Clubs. I was told by a chairman at the weekend that audits are stretching back for years.

U21A HC quarter-final: @GAALucan 1-20 @KCrokesGAAClub 0-22.

Things the Catholic Church opposed in Ireland: Tampons (believed they aroused women) Free healthcare for mothers and children Contraception Divorce Decriminalisation of homosexuality Civil partnership Abortion in all circumstances Equal marriage And more…

A little bit on Bolt. Let's remember he also visited (and was visited) by notorious quack Healing Hans, chose to train remotely in South Africa and the lack of OOC drug testing in Jamica at the time.

The long answer: We do know that his success came at a time when British Cycling were employing ex-dopers, East German coaches and at least two doping doctors. One banned for life, one struck-off (both for doping.) A time when medical records were not kept, lost or destroyed.

There is so much to digest here. I've had to watch it back multiple times, and I can't work out how they butchered this. London GAA Intermediate final. St Claret's with a late injury time goal, win a late free out, and this happens. Not sure Dulwich Harps can believe their luck!

Champo Semi- final day today, Bígi linn!

JHCA quarter-final: @GAALucan 1-20 @Bodengaa 2-6.

MFCA: @GAALucan 4-12 @KCrokesGAAClub 3-10.

With just seconds left on the clock... @GAALucan's John Bellew nets a stunning last-minute goal to secure his side the win 🤩🔥 #GoAheadDSC

IHC: @StMarksGAA 0-14 @GAALucan 2-18.