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Geraldine Seymour
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PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
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garymarcus.bsky.social
OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) may have gone completely viral, but it is also a disaster waiting to happen.

A PSA for why you should steer clear.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:38 PM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
OMG yes…
26 Upcoming Horror Books We Can’t Wait to Read In 2026
If you read new horror fiction, then you know 2025 was a great year for scary books, and 2026 is already promising even more frightening reads. Some of the biggest names in horror will be back with ne...
bloody-disgusting.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 AM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
WTF? Just landed… yet another way to destroy humanity…
Welcome to post-Darwinism: AI fires silver bullet for creating new life
In a breakthrough experiment, molecular biologists and tech entrepreneurs have teamed up to write the genetic code of a virus that destroys killer bacteria
www.thetimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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pinkzombierose.bsky.social
Misogyny is a global issue with geopolitical underpinnings and it affects all of us.
In response to Stephen Miller's vile assertion that the US has the right to seize Greenland because “Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny government and a tiny military" and can't defend it, Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov said this: "I hope he's kept away from young women, because that's the mentality of a rapist. You can't defend yourself, so I'm going to take you. That's basically what he's saying."
January 23, 2026 at 6:19 PM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
Dear Air New Zealand/Etihad code sharing flight managers, please put my bags on the next flight from Melbourne to Wellington. I’ve been wearing the same clothes since I left the UK on Monday.
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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junlper.beer
at this point i will defect to whatever country invades and deposes donald trump this is just getting too embarrassing and disgusting
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20d
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
January 19, 2026 at 6:16 AM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
The megalomania escalates. Everything he touches turns into a gigantic pile of shite…
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20d
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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mysteriosox.bsky.social
This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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jonathanthornton.bsky.social
Today on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social my thoughts on Wuthering Heights fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/01/wuth...
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë (BOOK REVIEW) | Fantasy-Hive
Jonathan shares his Gothic reading of Emily Brontë's classic romance/not-a-romance WUTHERING HEIGHTS: "Given how visual and visceral it is, it is perhaps surprising that adaptations keep insisting on ...
fantasy-hive.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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gearlis.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Anthropic C-suite folks are ridiculous, but unfortunately also empowers to impose things on others based on their batshit views.

www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

Short 🧵>>
Screencap from linked article: When Clinton deployed an AI chatbot on Thanksgiving Day, it irritated longtime members. Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group. “It’s quite a bit more complicated than you’d think: we don’t know what consciousness or sentience is, it’s called the hard problem of consciousness for a reason,” Clinton said in Discord messages to the group reviewed by 404 Media. “We have published research showing that the models have started growing neuron clusters that are highly similar to humans and that they experience something like anxiety and fear. The moral status might be something like the moral status of, say, a goldfish, but they do indeed have latent wants and desires,” Clinton said.
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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merriam-webster.com
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
If you’re going to waste column inches waffling about brooches in the shape of beetles, at least mention Janna Kavenna’s novel Zed about a UK takeover by a Chinese AI company known as Beetle, complete with BeetleBands, BeetleInsight and 24/7 surveillance.
New MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations
Blaise Metreweli, in her first public speech as head of the intelligence agency, says the world is being remade by technology that was once the stuff of fiction
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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akaharriet.bsky.social
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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livunihss.bsky.social
🔥🔥 We're very proud to see Dr Sally Hoare from the University as one of the bright sparks (ahem) who helped discover humans had been able to create fire much earlier than previously thought. Read about this amazing work here 🎇
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought - University of Liverpool News
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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g0blinegg.bsky.social
*New Post*

In my latest post I revisit the subject of witchcraft in Shropshire and discuss its historic and folkloric legacy. This is my most comprehensive study of the subject so far! I hope you enjoy!

nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/01/witc...

#witchcraft #history #folklore #witch
A woodcut of a witch, taken from a 1643 book on the subject
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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crsfliverpool.bsky.social
The CFP for #CRSF2026 is now live on our blog crsfhome.home.blog!
The theme for this year's conference is Systems and Entanglement 🪢
We're so excited to see everyone's abstracts and proposals!
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
geraldineseymour.bsky.social
What happened to Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine? Years of back issues for sale in my local charity shop.
Many many issues of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine for sale in a charity shop.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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bsky.realhackhistory.org
Cigarette manufacturers shouldn’t be getting all this money, we should be growing our own tobacco with tax payer money!
To address that, we have long advocated for the development of "public AI": models and AI systems that are developed under democratic control and deployed for public benefit, not sold by corporations to benefit their shareholders. The movement for this is growing worldwide.
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM