PatrickFreyne
@PatrickFreyne1
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Irish Times writer, essayist & storyist. My book's out! https://t.co/Fa0e85Expf
Joined May 2011
The paperback version of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is out NOW. It has a new BLUE cover & essays on bands, driving, loss, caring, parachuting, singing, the army, mental health, my brother's birth, pirate radio & Mel Gibson's Braveheart
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Excellent trailer for my brother David Freyne's excellent new film just "dropped"
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Brilliant Sally Rooney: "Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism" https://t.co/LGe987dV68
theguardian.com
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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This is why a search engine response with multiple answers you have to weigh and consider is both more accurate and better for the internet endumbened brain. And yes “endumbened” is a word. Just ask Grok
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It also demonstrates the whole problem with thinking of gen A.I as a magic answer-delivery machine when in reality knowledge is actually complex and requires multiple texts and perspectives and sources for any real understanding.
It’s fine that one unhappy, tantrum-prone billionaire wants to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
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It’s fine that one unhappy, tantrum-prone billionaire wants to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.
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Thank you @LouisOHaraSF for having the Youth Access Group from @ywirl up in Leinster House yesterday to screen our documentary #breakingbarriers we hope that all who watched the documentary learned a little about what it's like to be a young disabled person in Ireland. We need
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Anna Carey's brilliant Our Song is at number 1 in Hodges Figgis.
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I’m reading OK Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by @PatrickFreyne1 and this bit about doing a parachute jump is making me laugh like an idiot while on a packed train
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An immense honor to be awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for our work on Sudan. https://t.co/hsXeQQcMIV
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. @Issaamro who featured in The Settlers has posted videos of his latest harassment by settlers and soldiers. Our team has been in regular contact with him since the documentary and over the last 24 hours. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
The soldiers raided my house today, they wanted to revenge from me for participating in the @BBC documentary “ the settlers” , after the army left the settlers raided my house, they injured one activist and cut the tree, they stole tools and the garbage containers. The Israeli
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Privileged today to have a powerful if at times distressing conversation with @PatrickFreyne1 & @C_Maddaloni on @RTERadio1 on their incredibly important reports v recently for @IrishTimes from Sudan/Chad border. Great work on a major humanitarian crisis.
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Following on from last week's article , the horror & hope of Sudanese refugees , empathetically reported here by @PatrickFreyne1 & Chris Maddaloni in the @IrishTimes , a crisis , under-reported & acknowledged by all of us.
We visited a women's centre in the refugee camp in Adre set up by refugee & social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes. The stories are upsetting but the women were resilient & open & kind
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Chatting to @PatrickFreyne1 & @C_Maddaloni about this and much more soon on Sunday with Miriam @RTERadio1 10am.
The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently
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We visited a women's centre in the refugee camp in Adre set up by refugee & social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes. The stories are upsetting but the women were resilient & open & kind
irishtimes.com
Rape and sexual assault are used as weapons of war in Sudan. A refuge in Adre in Chad offers ‘a safe space for women and girls’ where they can make handicrafts and talk
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We visited a women's centre in the refugee camp in Adre set up by refugee & social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes. The stories are upsetting but the women were resilient & open & kind
irishtimes.com
Rape and sexual assault are used as weapons of war in Sudan. A refuge in Adre in Chad offers ‘a safe space for women and girls’ where they can make handicrafts and talk
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The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently
irishtimes.com
The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts
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The way the algorithms keep us hemmed into a handful of news stories has really been bothering me recently
irishtimes.com
The Sudan war is the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, but it seems our human compassion is taken up by other conflicts
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Here’s a further report from a second camp for Sudanese refugees in east Chad with photos by Chris Maddaloni (there’s a lot of upsetting testimony from people here) https://t.co/5qTq3nsXL0
irishtimes.com
Having escaped a war where murder and rape seem systematic, some 1.3 million people from Sudan struggle to meet their daily needs in Chad - while bearing physical and emotional scars
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There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. https://t.co/lzJ1IQhKwe
irishtimes.com
An unforgiving conflict between rival military factions has killed 150,000 people. Another 12 million people are displaced, many fleeing to a huge desert camp in eastern Chad. Photographs by Chris...
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