George Jacobs
@feydun.bsky.social
A peripatetic grotesque
Interests include maths & writing
y comunicandose mal en distintos idiomas
Interests include maths & writing
y comunicandose mal en distintos idiomas
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Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
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Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
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We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.
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"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things"
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
August 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things"
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Tech has successfully gamified everyone's brains to the point that they think they're living in a simulation/video game even if they don't actually think that. Literally 'reading' books like a player in a game to gain imaginary xp.
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Tech has successfully gamified everyone's brains to the point that they think they're living in a simulation/video game even if they don't actually think that. Literally 'reading' books like a player in a game to gain imaginary xp.
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Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?
August 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?
"We also reported that the chatbot was bullshitting, in the technical sense."
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.
This is how Perplexity operates: www.wired.com/story/perple...
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases...
www.wired.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"We also reported that the chatbot was bullshitting, in the technical sense."
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.
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Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
www.thebulwark.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.
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La mejor frase que he escuchado hoy: «No son genios, solo son millonarios».
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
July 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
La mejor frase que he escuchado hoy: «No son genios, solo son millonarios».
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
AI & propaganda is
💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜
Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜
Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
AI & propaganda is
💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜
Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜
Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump enjoys starring in his bits of theatre. He has the backing of half of the people of the USA. Should we in the West still respect the USA? Should we vote for governments who continue to follow the lead of the American government?
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump enjoys starring in his bits of theatre. He has the backing of half of the people of the USA. Should we in the West still respect the USA? Should we vote for governments who continue to follow the lead of the American government?
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How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees theonion.com/how-the...
May 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees theonion.com/how-the...
Mientras en los EEUU festejan el triunfo de la ignorancia, nosotros tenemos que alejarnos para evitar el contagio.
Artículo completo:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. y su cruzada contra la ciencia: un ataque a las personas neurodivergentes desde el poder
spanishrevolution.net/robert-f-ken...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. y su cruzada contra la ciencia: un ataque a las personas neurodivergentes desde el poder
spanishrevolution.net/robert-f-ken...
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Mientras en los EEUU festejan el triunfo de la ignorancia, nosotros tenemos que alejarnos para evitar el contagio.
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Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man
Bit of an odd story this one - the main analysis says women don't use AI because they lack STEM skills, confidence and value in the workplace. Yet the anecdotes suggest that women excel at communication, whether writing or interpersonal, and can spot ChatGPT's flaws
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Why are fewer women using AI than men?
The use of artificial intelligence appears to have a significant gender imbalance.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man
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Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’
www.independent.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
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«Había crecido en un país dirigido por políticos que enviaban a militares a pilotar bombarderos para matar a los bebés y hacer del mundo un lugar más seguro donde los niños pudieran crecer en paz».
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
April 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
«Había crecido en un país dirigido por políticos que enviaban a militares a pilotar bombarderos para matar a los bebés y hacer del mundo un lugar más seguro donde los niños pudieran crecer en paz».
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
!!! Wetherspoons, of brexiteering fame, not exactly an icon of liberalism, and yet they live in the 21st century unlike our government.
A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.
April 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
!!! Wetherspoons, of brexiteering fame, not exactly an icon of liberalism, and yet they live in the 21st century unlike our government.
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In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
April 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
Most South Africans, of all colours, are happy to get rid of a few racists who feel oppressed.
President Trump issued a Feb. 7 executive order that called for the US to resettle Afrikaner refugees, saying they were ‘victims of unjust racial discrimination.’ It came after he had suspended all US refugee admissions, citing security and cost concerns reut.rs/42Jo0N7
April 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Most South Africans, of all colours, are happy to get rid of a few racists who feel oppressed.
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Does it ever occur to folks calling for an encryption backdoor that it could be used in the future, to spy back on them?
April 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Does it ever occur to folks calling for an encryption backdoor that it could be used in the future, to spy back on them?
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My Dad just sent me this. In case you were wondering why I am the way I am 😆
April 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Hilo largo que vale la pena explorar
Es bastante más lo que desconocemos que lo que conocemos sobre María Magdalena. Y aún así lo poco conocido de ella está popularmente errado. Su figura ha dado lugar a muchas leyendas y teorías. Y aún se lucha por otorgarle el valor que realmente tuvo.
Hilo va.🫀🔥
Hilo va.🫀🔥
April 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hilo largo que vale la pena explorar
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Some polls putting Labour on as low as 21% and set-to drop further. David Graeber was right.
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Some polls putting Labour on as low as 21% and set-to drop further. David Graeber was right.
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Pues, en teoría, ni la sentencia que elimina derechos a las personas trans e intersex británicas, ni la ley que va a consagrar la discriminación legalizada que prepara Stamer, tiene nada que ver con las demandas del gobierno Trump…
Pero !!!qué casualidad!!!
Pero !!!qué casualidad!!!
JD Vance has reportedly told the UK it needs to roll back LGBTQ+ protections to secure a trade deal, though Downing Street deny this
'Roll back LGBTQ+ laws to secure a US trade deal', UK government reportedly told
US vice president JD Vance has reportedly told the UK that it must roll back its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to get a trade deal over the line.
www.thepinknews.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Pues, en teoría, ni la sentencia que elimina derechos a las personas trans e intersex británicas, ni la ley que va a consagrar la discriminación legalizada que prepara Stamer, tiene nada que ver con las demandas del gobierno Trump…
Pero !!!qué casualidad!!!
Pero !!!qué casualidad!!!