Alan Joyce

Thank you everyone for the messages. Please don't worry - I have excellent security. I will continue to speak my mind, encourage civil debate and argue for a sensible, pragmatic, reasonable approach to politics. "Beneath this mask there is more than flesh: there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof." - V

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AI might help with computation and optimization using available data—like better supply chain models or simulations for firms—but doesn't solve the core issue. Mises/Hayek showed the problem is epistemic: markets generate prices from dispersed, tacit knowledge, subjective values, and entrepreneurial discovery. That data doesn't pre-exist for AI to crunch without private property and voluntary exchange. Central planning with AI still lacks real incentives, adapts poorly to novelty, and substitutes planner biases for revealed preferences. AI boosts decentralized markets far more (e.g., via prediction tools or DAOs) than top-down control. The insight endures.

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them. And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy? Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

Here's a wild and controversial idea but hear me out - if you don't want to attend or watch the match against Israel...don't watch or attend. No fuss, no drama. But you have no right to corral other people according to your whims.

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This must be some sort of record for turnovers! #NFLPlayoffs

@griptmedia Tell me you don’t understand online platforms, without telling me you don’t understand online platforms.

The State could “nationalise” online platforms and use their algorithms to promote “whatever we choose”, an Irish politician has suggested at an ‘online safety’ committee meeting this week: gript.ie/state-could-na…

Isn’t it ironic that the UK threatened to shut down X on the same day Iran shut down the internet to prevent its people from criticising the regime? The irony of our times.

I love working with an idea and building things. There's no better feeling of excitement than diving deep into an idea and bringing it to life. Claude code is the greatest tool for makers.

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Basically guarantees a Jets win tonight.

It’s amazing to me that we went from not knowing Pluto even existed to taking pictures of its mountains in less than a hundred years

Charlie Smyth from 57 yards 🙌 A career long for the Irishman 🇮🇪 #Saints | 📺: CBS

Happy Christmas to everyone from Coding Ireland. Thanks for the support this year—see you in 2026. 🎄💻

Fantasy football is the best!

Slowly, then all at once. This is a graph of completed lessons by students on our @codingireland platform. Hang in there!

$TSLA is essentially an index fund full of startups.

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@PeterMcCormack Until you mentioned the Labour government a few paragraphs in, I thought you were talking about Ireland. Exactly the same sentiments.

Link to full article… open.substack.com/pub/petermccor…

The Moral Case for Peaceful Revolution “I No Longer Consent” Full article link in 🧵

This is Sergey Brin's yacht He got so bored of sitting on this $450M yacht that he had to get out and go create things again The only true long-term satisfaction for man is to create, either things, or babies

every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.

Things just going from bad to worse for the @Chiefs and @PatrickMahomes Not looking good.