Geraldine Seymour
@geraldineseymour.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
Difficult to understand why #bbcmidlandstoday thought an OB inside #CoventryCathedral while an actual remembrance service was going on was an appropriate course of action. Actually disgraceful…
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Difficult to understand why #bbcmidlandstoday thought an OB inside #CoventryCathedral while an actual remembrance service was going on was an appropriate course of action. Actually disgraceful…
Bless your heart, Jade Bird…
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Bless your heart, Jade Bird…
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"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math."
"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math."
"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
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Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
Reposted to celebrate some excellent copywriting that presumably is still being done by a human being…
Go ahead and try to fill the infinite void in your soul with merchandise at the Onion Store.
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted to celebrate some excellent copywriting that presumably is still being done by a human being…
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Talking seriously about hijacking into robot bodies via VR is the most real-life sci-fi thing I've typed out this year.
The fact that they have to be online all the time is a massive cybersecurity risk, and it's probably an incredibly cyberpunk problem to have, but someone hijacking into it via VR is mostly equivalent to being able to access someone's home. Conceivably, they can do anything they want in there.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Talking seriously about hijacking into robot bodies via VR is the most real-life sci-fi thing I've typed out this year.
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We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.
www.thebookseller.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
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I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Check out our recent blog post all about 'The Embedding' by Ian Watson and a fascinating look at how the author explores linguistics alongside science fiction.
Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO
#livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction
Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO
#livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Check out our recent blog post all about 'The Embedding' by Ian Watson and a fascinating look at how the author explores linguistics alongside science fiction.
Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO
#livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction
Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO
#livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction
Nearly here…
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Nearly here…
Pre-ordered. Can’t wait. A writer of immense talent. 84k still haunts me.
October 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Pre-ordered. Can’t wait. A writer of immense talent. 84k still haunts me.
October is my favourite month…
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
October is my favourite month…
The unironic use of the term ‘AI Slop’ by the NY Times and by @kevinroose.com on Hardfork.
A.I. Slop Is Here
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The unironic use of the term ‘AI Slop’ by the NY Times and by @kevinroose.com on Hardfork.
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Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.
10 horror movies to get to know me by:
Gothic
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Hunger
The Wicker Man (1973)
Psycho
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
M3gan
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Gothic
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Hunger
The Wicker Man (1973)
Psycho
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
M3gan
Crimes of Passion (1984)
October 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
10 horror movies to get to know me by:
Gothic
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Hunger
The Wicker Man (1973)
Psycho
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
M3gan
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Gothic
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Hunger
The Wicker Man (1973)
Psycho
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
M3gan
Crimes of Passion (1984)
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This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!
On a train being held five minutes out of Euston due to an evacuation of the station.
October 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
On a train being held five minutes out of Euston due to an evacuation of the station.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
Vale Brian Patten.
The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.
The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Vale Brian Patten.
The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.
The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.
Yes, yes, I’m woefully late to the party, but HOLY SHIT, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is the ultimate lying on the beach holiday read…
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yes, yes, I’m woefully late to the party, but HOLY SHIT, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is the ultimate lying on the beach holiday read…
Cats of Venice
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Cats of Venice
“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward. Should not that movement be jealously watched, and checked while we can still check it? And is it not necessary for this end to destroy the more advanced of the machines which are in use at present…”
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
September 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward. Should not that movement be jealously watched, and checked while we can still check it? And is it not necessary for this end to destroy the more advanced of the machines which are in use at present…”
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking