Object permanence
#20yrsago Sony releases de-rootkit-ifier, lies about risks from rootkits https://web.archive.org/web/20051126084940/http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=921#20yrsago Pew study: Kids remix like hell https://web.archive.org/web/20051104022412/http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/source/rss/report_display.asp#15yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/nov/02/cory-doctorow-children-and-computers#15yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” https://memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02/bedtime-story-supernatural-thriller-about-the-dark-side-of-getting-lost-in-a-good-book/#10yrsago America’s a rigged carnival game that rips off the poor to fatten the rich https://web.archive.org/web/20151104012651/http://robertreich.org/post/132363519655#10yrsago As America’s middle class collapses, no one is buying stuff anymore https://web.archive.org/web/20151105142153/http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-disappearing-middle-class-is-threatening-major-retailers-2015-10#10yrsago Irish government to decriminalise personal quantities of many drugs https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/injection-rooms-for-addicts-to-open-next-year-in-drug-law-change-says-minister-1.2413509#10yrsago Book and Bed: Tokyo’s coffin hotel/bookstore https://bookandbedtokyo.com/en/#10yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: space is bigger than you think https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02/kim-stanley-robinsons-aurora-space-is-bigger-than-you-think/#5yrsago Trustbusting Google https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unborked/#borked#5yrsago Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of waterhttps://pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unborked/#beltway-bandits#5yrsago Trump’s electoral equilibrium https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unborked/#maso-fascism#1yrago Bluesky and enshittification https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
Source:The Irish Times
November 03, 2025 15:33 UTC
Five German climbers killed in Italian Alps avalanche
The climbers had set out on Saturday to scale Cima Vertana in the Ortler mountain range. Photograph: EPAFive German climbers have died after being caught in an avalanche in the Italian Alps, local authorities said on Sunday. The climbers had set out on Saturday to scale Cima Vertana in the Ortler mountain range near the village of Solda. The avalanche struck as they headed for the summit. The Ortler massif, part of the Italian Alps close to the Swiss border, is a popular destination for experienced hikers and climbers.
Source:The Irish Times
November 03, 2025 02:29 UTC
Ballygunner keep up dominance over Limerick sides as strong finish sees off Na Piarsaigh
Munster SHC: Ballygunner (Waterford) 0-18 Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 0-15And on they go. In all the hand-wringing about their autocratic dominance of the Waterford championship, very little heed is paid to Ballygunner’s extraordinary appetite. Na Piarsaigh took the lead for the only time in the game with eight minutes remaining and having led by five points early in the second half, Ballygunner had lost all momentum. The Limerick champions suddenly needed a goal and that had been a troublesome task all afternoon. According to Shane O’Neill, the Na Piarsaigh manager, they had 32 attempts at goal and scored with just 15 of them.
Source:The Irish Times
November 03, 2025 02:22 UTC
Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack finishes 10th in New York City Marathon
Fionnuala McCormack produced another fine run to finish in 10th place in the New York City Marathon, just seven weeks after finishing in ninth place at the World Championships. The testing 26.2-miles through the five city boroughs is no place for fast times, still McCormack clocked 2:27:00 – over three minutes faster than she ran at those World Championships in Tokyo. Last December McCormack improved her lifetime best to 2:23:46 in Valencia, four months after she became the first Irish woman to compete in five Olympics. The previous best Irish women’s finisher in New York was Sonia O’Sullivan, who finished in 12th place back in 2002, running 2:32:06, after dropping from the leaders around the 16-mile mark. Given New York’s testing course, McCormack was unlikely to challenge Catherina McKiernan’s Irish record of 2:22:23, which was set in Amsterdam back in 1998.
Source:The Irish Times
November 03, 2025 02:14 UTC
Should I risk disturbing the hungover young woman or meekly go look for another seat?
She slumped back into her arms, folded across the carriage table, joining three sets of folded arms already there. My seat was at a window among a similar set of folded arms. Should I disturb the suffering young woman in my seat to claim what was mine and risk the terrifying wrath of a disturbed hangover, or meekly pass by hoping to find a seat elsewhere in the packed train? Above seat A23 my name winked back at me, a seeming challenge to claim what was mine. “Girls, I’m in the wrong seat,” she announced, urbi et orbi (to the city and to the world).
Source:The Irish Times
November 03, 2025 01:31 UTC
Message from the Editor: John Collison’s intervention
A bespoke collection of Irish Times journalism exclusively for subscribers featuring previews and the best of the week that wasIt’s a while since a single opinion piece generated as much discussion as John Collison’s essay in The Irish Times last week. “It’s not okay for our society to forget the basics of running a country: we’ve forgotten how to build sufficient housing for our population, we’ve forgotten how to sensibly organise population growth, we’ve forgotten how to attract foreign manufacturers, and we’ve forgotten how to build infrastructure to support our population,” Collison wrote. Within Government, where the piece was a frequent topic of conversation, ministers lined up publicly to agree with Collison’s analysis. In The Irish Times, the debate continued in news stories, columns and in Letters to the Editor all week. Here’s how we closed out our editorial on their story this weekend:“The McGee couple were people of modest means facing the weight of decades of Catholic moral interests.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:54 UTC
Piotr Torng was held in the Dublin city morgue for six months. No one came forward
And like almost everyone who lives in a city like Dublin, I do a lot of not seeing, a lot of not hearing. There’s an ingenious fantasy novel called The City & The City by the English writer China Miéville that I think about quite frequently when I consider this aspect of living in Dublin. Piotr Torng died last year, but no one came forward to claim his bodyAll this is on my mind because of a report published earlier this week about an inquest into the death last year of a 41-year-old homeless man. The man was known as Piotr Torng, and was believed to be from Lithuania, but his actual identity remains unconfirmed. According to that news report, Piotr Torng largely spent his days in the south inner city.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:42 UTC
The ‘Cable Cowboy’: The US billionaire who made Ireland his home-from-home
But despite owning 2.2 million acres there, John Malone has made Ireland his home-from-home over the past decade. The first was the cable provider UPC – later to become part of Virgin Media Ireland. Paul Farrell was vice-president of commercial at Virgin Media Ireland when Malone and the rest of his board came to Ireland in 2018. Farrell and the Virgin Media team presented Malone with the plan to rebrand TV3 as Virgin Media Television and to seek “synergies” between it and the broadband business. In the room that day in 2018 was Liberty Global chief executive, and Malone’s right-hand man, Mike Fries – who will assume the role of chairman in 2026.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:38 UTC
James Lowe feels pain of opportunity that slipped away but promises Ireland will bounce back
They seemed stunned as much as disappointed by the way a seemingly winnable game was wrenched away from them. At the start of the second half, we were good, but when you don’t convert pressure into points it probably shows with the outcome. “We put ourselves in a position for the game to go deep and unfortunately we just didn’t. “But I don’t think anything will come from it. Because he’s got one gear, and you don’t want to get that shoulder on a Thursday, that’s for sure.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:36 UTC
Does a Pacino-De Niro bromance ad contain the seeds of a cure for male loneliness?
I was startled by all the cool male friendship ads, given the alarming stories about an epidemic of male loneliness and a diminution of friendship and romance in the lives of men, especially young men. The human condition is very, very complicated.”Not the solipsistic world that many young men are creating for themselves with pliable, eager-to-please AI companions and fantasy love objects. “When a woman doesn’t have a romantic relationship, she pours that energy into her work and her friends,” he said. “When a man doesn’t have a romantic relationship, he pours that energy into porn and conspiracy theories. “Young men need male role models, they need friends, and ideally a romantic partner,” he said.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:34 UTC
One man remains in custody after mass stabbing on train in England, police say
Nine people have been hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after a mass stabbing on a train travelling from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday. The man being held, after brandishing a large knife, is believed to have been shot with a Taser by police at Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire, eastern England. Forensic investigators at Huntingdon train station in England on Sunday. Olly Foster said he was in coach H when a man ran past warning passengers of a man “stabbing everyone, everything”. A forensic investigator records evidence from inside the train at Huntingdon station on Sunday.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:33 UTC
Woman accompanied by armed garda to court obtains protection order against ex partner
Photograph: Stephen Collins/CollinsA woman who says she is in fear of her ex partner after he allegedly did “horrible things” to her has obtained a protection order. Describing the situation as “very serious”, the judge granted a protection order. The woman previously got an interim barring order on an ex parte basis (one side represented in court) against her son. When her case came back to court on Thursday, he did not attend and the woman sought a full barring order. A woman who said she fears for her life due to her estranged husband’s behaviour got a protection order.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:32 UTC
Seán Moncrieff: Why would anyone want to be a radio presenter?
In Ireland, there have been only a handful of people who got to leave on their own terms. The rest don’t get their contracts renewed or have them terminated or are quietly edged out. If you tot up, for instance, the number of people who host national speech radio shows, it is a very short list. Radio presenters don’t get recognised on the street. My first radio gig was It Says In The Papers on Morning Ireland.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:26 UTC
TV lads’ verdict on Ireland’s performance against the All Blacks? Not very well done
There wasn’t a Zimmer frame in sight, though, when Ireland took to the field, but the panel wasn’t entirely hopeful about their prospects. And you know what they say: it’s hard enough battling the All Blacks with 15 men, never mind having one sinbinned soldier. Undercooked? The 14 men only went up the pitch and scored a try, 78-year-old Tadhg Furlong going over the line. At least the Virgin Media lads could head to the cosy green room for a hot toddy, Wagyu steak and chips.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:04 UTC
Ivan Yates work on Gavin campaign sparks political and media fallout
Controversy over coaching provided by broadcaster and former Fine Gael minister Ivan Yates to Fianna Fáil’s presidential campaign has sparked an internal Government row and fallout over his media work during the election. He said Fianna Fáil could not “just dismiss” questions about the media training work Mr Yates did with Jim Gavin. Mr Yates sparked a campaign-trail controversy when he suggested that were he working with Fine Gael, he would “smear the bejaysus” out of Independent candidate Catherine Connolly. A Fine Gael spokesman said it has not used Mr Yates for media training or similar work. Mr Yates did not respond to a request for comment.
Source:The Irish Times
November 02, 2025 19:00 UTC