"A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney had its planning permission overturned on the grounds that it breaches Irish national climate policy.
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@CiaraNi Very cool, Sally and others who pushed back!
@munin Agreed! And good on Mayo County Council for making a decision based on the merits and facts. Local authorities always should, of course, but generative AI data centre facilities seem to have made even sensible politicians and public officials lose their faculties.
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@EregLoch I amn't sure what you mean. If you are asking about the phrase: it is a satirical phrase from Private Eye magazine that has become a phrase in general culture when pretending to allude to dark secrets and conspiracies being hidden from ius.
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@CiaraNi No mention of what part the owl played in all this.
@Nickiquote @CiaraNi It was foretold: The Owls Are Not What They Seem
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@Nickiquote I think we should be told
@CiaraNi @Nickiquote It heard they’d ruled in favour of the apellant, and thought they’d said something about the flavour of a pellet (I’m terribly sorry, this is all I have. Like, in my life)
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@Nickiquote @CiaraNi It was foretold: The Owls Are Not What They Seem
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@Nickiquote I think we should be told
@CiaraNi @Nickiquote my best guess is it's really a story about the owl, Sally Rooney, pictured here perched on the gauntlet of bestselling author Sally Rooney (no relation)
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@NellytheWillow @EregLoch @Nickiquote Ah, ok. I didn't know that reference, so had no context, so was lost.
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@munin Agreed! And good on Mayo County Council for making a decision based on the merits and facts. Local authorities always should, of course, but generative AI data centre facilities seem to have made even sensible politicians and public officials lose their faculties.
@CiaraNi Absolutely! High fives all around!
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@CiaraNi @Nickiquote my best guess is it's really a story about the owl, Sally Rooney, pictured here perched on the gauntlet of bestselling author Sally Rooney (no relation)
@syrovy @Nickiquote Perhaps! One never knows.
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@CiaraNi @Nickiquote It heard they’d ruled in favour of the apellant, and thought they’d said something about the flavour of a pellet (I’m terribly sorry, this is all I have. Like, in my life)
@Gogs @Nickiquote What was the owl doing at a council meeting in the first place, is what I'd like to know.
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