Master Datasmith. Elsewhere at https://teapaw.org/t.co/5Rnp8FzZDk and https://teapaw.org/t.co/Ymx42npj2l
Kildare, Ireland
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These monstrosities shouldn’t be allowed in any graveyard. ‘A surprise to everybody’: Family denies organising 4.5m-high memorial in Sligo Cemetery
irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
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It's going to be hard to explain to future generations what it was like to be alive during Trumpism.
"After shredding the Constitution, taking the country to war, and blowing up his own coalition, he talked about ...caulk? And algae?"
"Well, yes. And men's butts."
Headline says it. ‘We Caulked It’: Trump Delivers His Midterms Closing Message washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
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We optimized a DAX measure ourselves and asked AI to do the same. Neither version was faster on every query.
Then AI refined our version: the slowest query went from 4,396 ms to 1,538 ms.
It also wrote more equivalence tests than we ever had the patience to write.
sqlbi.com/articles/optimizin…
#dax #powerbi #ai
ALT Horizontal bar chart titled Query duration by version, in milliseconds, lower is better. Four versions for each query: Baseline, Human version, Independent AI, AI refinement. 2025 total: 1,244, 354, 340, 236. By month: 998, 866, 705, 775. Month by country: 1,166, 891, 715, 730. Month by category: 2,710, 1,678, 1,345, 1,299. All-history total: 4,396, 2,594, 3,910, 1,538. Bold marks the fastest version for each query.
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Today, I am attending the Data Engineering & AI Leadership Summit in SF. I'm looking forward to the "How Should We Build Open Standards for Data & AI?" session. Are people using Apache Ossie for semantic layer? What other efforts are needed? dataaileadership.com/
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Nigel Farage will no longer write for The Telegraph, which published regular opinion columns from the Reform UK leader, reports The Guardian. It comes after columnist Allison Pearson was let go following Axel Springer's £575m takeover of the title theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Tyrone Power (2 Nov 1797 #Kilmacthomas #Waterford-14 March 1841). Landed family. Stage actor, comedian, author & theatrical manager. Great-grandfather of actor Tyrone Power III (1914–58)! Acted in Irish-themed plays & tried to overcome Irish stereotypes! dib.ie/biography/power-tyron…
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I said (at length, in a book), Trump's base is full of people who are bored, resentful, angry about the outcome of their own lives. They were happy to punish others for that - until they realized Trump hates *them*, too.
They didn't see it until gas got expensive, but... okay 🤷♂️
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this is the first time in US history a city mayor is more popular nationally than the president
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Not K-kauppa getting targeted by implacable AI swarms. Is nothing holy
UPDATE: Finland is now also reporting disruptions to supermarket refrigeration systems.
Temporary temperature irregularities were detected overnight in some K Group stores. The incidents appear to be on a smaller scale, with the cause still under investigation.
Finland now joins seven other European countries reporting similar incidents this morning.
The situation continues to develop, and further reports from other European countries cannot be ruled out.
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There’s a tonne of early voting numbers out there- but this, for me, is by far the most revealing. Aligns with what we’re hearing from the ground in Texas with both campaigns. Huge Hispanic turnout, driven, it seems, by ICE.
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Living one hour north of Manhattan means that sometimes coyotes stalk your home. They may plan to devour your puppies. This is frontier country. Many don’t know this. Six years ago, an eagle snatched a snickerdoodle from a backyard. People don’t comprehend.
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The two AI mammoths left their IPOs too late. They are now popping up demanding $3T in combined market cap, just as the sentiment is fracturing.
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31 Oct 1993 - at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in The Troubles - UDA gunmen entered the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel & murdered seven people. Another man died later. A gunman shouted "trick or treat" before opening fire. Families of the victims would help pull NI back from the brink.
“Mr Hume we prayed for you round my daddy’s coffin last night, that you would be successful so that what has happened to us wouldn’t happen to any other family”
#SpotlightNI #TheTroubles @mandy_mcauley
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Elliott’s of Ann Street, Belfast. 1950s.
Miss Elliott arranging false-faces for Halloween.
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Pretty sure newly purchased garments have distinct olfactory provenance. That a seasoned sartorial sommelier could identify a t-shirt’s country of origin in a blind smell test. Ah yes, I’m getting notes of Por Senchey west of Phnom Penh.
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It's been the long goodbye, but Carla Lockhart will quit the DUP early next week. She's its youngest MP with its biggest majority. She will join forces with Jim Allister - even if not joining his party. Double trouble lies ahead for the DUP.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comme…
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The thing about Koreans is that they still DO things. They jack up memory prices 600%, have 9% stock market rallies, launch deranged KPop bands, do anti-capitalist horror movies, steal $6B from these feckless Yankees, etc. Japan is just kind of sitting there.
