Andrew J
@fftyfv.bsky.social
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BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 12
“WHAT DOES THE FOREST SAY?” w/ DR. FLORIN POENARU
Gregk speaks to Florin about his essay on Romania’s cancelled 2024 Presidential elections and what happens when a country’s civilian sphere becomes permeated by a large and unruly intelligence apparatus.
“WHAT DOES THE FOREST SAY?” w/ DR. FLORIN POENARU
Gregk speaks to Florin about his essay on Romania’s cancelled 2024 Presidential elections and what happens when a country’s civilian sphere becomes permeated by a large and unruly intelligence apparatus.
"What Does The Forest Say?” w/ Dr. Florin Poenaru | Blood Work
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December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 12
“WHAT DOES THE FOREST SAY?” w/ DR. FLORIN POENARU
Gregk speaks to Florin about his essay on Romania’s cancelled 2024 Presidential elections and what happens when a country’s civilian sphere becomes permeated by a large and unruly intelligence apparatus.
“WHAT DOES THE FOREST SAY?” w/ DR. FLORIN POENARU
Gregk speaks to Florin about his essay on Romania’s cancelled 2024 Presidential elections and what happens when a country’s civilian sphere becomes permeated by a large and unruly intelligence apparatus.
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the will to offload the "processing" of one's own life (and to see life as something to be processed and optimized) also imposes the demand that others live similarly, and builds out the social infrastructure to impose that way of life on everyone
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
the will to offload the "processing" of one's own life (and to see life as something to be processed and optimized) also imposes the demand that others live similarly, and builds out the social infrastructure to impose that way of life on everyone
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An extraordinary YouGov poll in Wales. The future won’t be like the past.
December 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
An extraordinary YouGov poll in Wales. The future won’t be like the past.
This is a really good overview of the current situation and what should be the way forward. prometheusjournal.org/2025/12/16/d...
Disorienting Times | Prometheus
A review of the politics of the British left at the close of 2025, looking at their limits and the challenges ahead.
prometheusjournal.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a really good overview of the current situation and what should be the way forward. prometheusjournal.org/2025/12/16/d...
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normal boring anarchist caveats apply but i now have a general secretary who has, amongst other things, promised to not implement the recent supreme court judgement. whereas christina mcanea's immediate reaction was to remove all available trans guidance and refuse to speak to us. bye bitch.
🚨I am delighted to have been elected as UNISON's next General Secretary.
This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:
This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
normal boring anarchist caveats apply but i now have a general secretary who has, amongst other things, promised to not implement the recent supreme court judgement. whereas christina mcanea's immediate reaction was to remove all available trans guidance and refuse to speak to us. bye bitch.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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"In Thailand, the heaviest single rain event in what has been estimated to be three centuries was recorded. Severe flooding across nine southern provinces had killed at least 145 people and affected more than 3.2mn people, officials said."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
www.ft.com/content/6137...
South-east Asia reels as rare cluster of storms claims more than 400 lives
Large parts of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka suffer worst flooding in decades
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"In Thailand, the heaviest single rain event in what has been estimated to be three centuries was recorded. Severe flooding across nine southern provinces had killed at least 145 people and affected more than 3.2mn people, officials said."
www.ft.com/content/6137...
www.ft.com/content/6137...
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oh shit, it's a week until i run the Valencia Marathon. I'm having a final fundraising push - any shares or donations to help raise money for @deeboom.bsky.social and @stargocks64.bsky.social trans healthcare would be massively appreciated 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
oh shit, it's a week until i run the Valencia Marathon. I'm having a final fundraising push - any shares or donations to help raise money for @deeboom.bsky.social and @stargocks64.bsky.social trans healthcare would be massively appreciated 🙏
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
www.gofundme.com/f/running-th...
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4pm today UK time
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
4pm today UK time
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There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before*
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before*
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming
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Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists.
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists.
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
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lmao
The agency workers in Birmingham covering the regular striking bin workers, have themselves voted to go on strike
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike
Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
lmao
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Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
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Useful article by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the Green's turn to the left (something that's been going on for much longer than a lot of the coverage and media talk of "entyrism" would suggest):
The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red | Novara Media
Zack Polanski’s smash-hit eco-populism might seem like a sudden gear-change for the Green party. In fact it’s part of a tectonic shift some of its members have been driving for more than a decade. Ada...
novaramedia.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Useful article by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the Green's turn to the left (something that's been going on for much longer than a lot of the coverage and media talk of "entyrism" would suggest):
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This is interesting. A little bit reminiscent of Andy Beckett's book 'The Searchers' and passages in the book on how John McDonnell found novel ways (using dormant mechanisms) to fund the GLC's programme in the 1980s.
Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things)
Zohran Mamdani’s new aide will focus on “excavating the law” to lower prices, borrowing from her legal playbook at the Federal Trade Commission.
www.semafor.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is interesting. A little bit reminiscent of Andy Beckett's book 'The Searchers' and passages in the book on how John McDonnell found novel ways (using dormant mechanisms) to fund the GLC's programme in the 1980s.
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
I struggle with thinking about the cost to the exploited people of the world with this kind of individualised rush for green tech independence like this. And how inefficient it is. And the lack of societal organisation to plan the systems we need. It's Mad Max, for real.
"He says plug-in solar systems do not produce as much energy as a full rooftop solar array.
But they cost much less, can be installed on balconies or in yards with little or no expertise, and can be easily taken down and reinstalled...So they’re ideal for renters or low-income households."
But they cost much less, can be installed on balconies or in yards with little or no expertise, and can be easily taken down and reinstalled...So they’re ideal for renters or low-income households."
On a scale of one to 10, how much do you want to add a small solar system to your apartment balcony? ☀️
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I struggle with thinking about the cost to the exploited people of the world with this kind of individualised rush for green tech independence like this. And how inefficient it is. And the lack of societal organisation to plan the systems we need. It's Mad Max, for real.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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At my hospital this is predated on the functions of 100s of admin staff being replaced with the NHS app and electronic patient records. The IT department focused exclusively on EPR for 6 months yet when it launched it broke so many things they turned it off and declared a critical incident.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
At my hospital this is predated on the functions of 100s of admin staff being replaced with the NHS app and electronic patient records. The IT department focused exclusively on EPR for 6 months yet when it launched it broke so many things they turned it off and declared a critical incident.
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#OtD 13 Nov 1972 100s of people in Kirkby, England, blocked roads around Tower Hill to prevent bailiffs from evicting eight tenants who had been on rent strike against the Housing Finances Act. The council then decided it would not evict any strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8518...
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#OtD 13 Nov 1972 100s of people in Kirkby, England, blocked roads around Tower Hill to prevent bailiffs from evicting eight tenants who had been on rent strike against the Housing Finances Act. The council then decided it would not evict any strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8518...
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london review of blokes
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
london review of blokes
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.