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The Harry Potter pilgrims

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By Seamas O Reilly Verified
| MSN Verified
Séamas O'Reilly The Bow Lounge in Atholl Palace is silent this morning. Two dozen disciples who have gathered in this large white space within a 19th-century Scottish castle ruminate with total concentration. Some scribble in journals, others close their eyes, all are searching for deeper meaning in the single line from scripture that has been proffered to them.
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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

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By Seamas O Reilly Verified
| The Gist (Ireland)
There are so many reasons to hate AI that my first piece along these lines from last year barely scratched the surface. To reiterate first principles, my main problem with Artificial Intelligence, as its currently sold, is that it’s a lie. In almost every single instance of AI hype: 1. Those things that it can actually do are either evil, stupid, harmful, environmentally ruinous, or all of the above. 2. The technology cannot do almost all of the things it purports to do. 3.
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UK: ‘The kids went to a city farm to… ride go-karts?’

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By Seamas O Reilly Verified, Michael Levenston Verified
| City Farmer News
“In a sense, they regard animals as characters from fiction, …” By Séamas O’Reilly The Observer Aug 8, 2025 Excerpt: I grew up around farmland and don’t remember it being lousy with go-karts, nor most of the other attractions available at Bocketts Farm Park in Surrey, where my sister Dearbhaile and her family are accompanying us for the day. There are animals here, of course: rabbits and birds, cows and sheep.
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