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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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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
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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Misogyny is a global issue with geopolitical underpinnings and it affects all of us.
January 23, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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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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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at this point i will defect to whatever country invades and deposes donald trump this is just getting too embarrassing and disgusting
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 6:16 AM
The megalomania escalates. Everything he touches turns into a gigantic pile of shite…
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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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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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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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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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 🧵>>
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’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🔥🔥 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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*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
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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
What happened to Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine? Years of back issues for sale in my local charity shop.
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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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Cigarette manufacturers shouldn’t be getting all this money, we should be growing our own tobacco with tax payer money!
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM