John Thornton
@jmcthornton.bsky.social
UK, NY, and Shanghai.
A lifetime irradiating people and things ☢️
Physicist, crystal surfaces, radiotherapy, linacs, synchrotrons, and cyclotrons.
Supporter of Claire House Children's Hospice.
www.clairehouse.org.uk/
A lifetime irradiating people and things ☢️
Physicist, crystal surfaces, radiotherapy, linacs, synchrotrons, and cyclotrons.
Supporter of Claire House Children's Hospice.
www.clairehouse.org.uk/
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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My post on Crypto and stablecoins: As Gary B Gorton and Jeffery Y. Zhang argue Stablecoins have no intrinsic value. Instead, like unregulated banks of old, they are currency used to facilitate exchanges and like banks manage transactions... annpettifor.substack.com/p/capitalism...
Capitalism Devours Crypto
… by blowing up and looting DeFi to enrich TradFi
annpettifor.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
My post on Crypto and stablecoins: As Gary B Gorton and Jeffery Y. Zhang argue Stablecoins have no intrinsic value. Instead, like unregulated banks of old, they are currency used to facilitate exchanges and like banks manage transactions... annpettifor.substack.com/p/capitalism...
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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He's on a mission from God
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
He's on a mission from God
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
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Scooby Doo tried to teach us the real monsters are white men with shady business practices and we just never learned the lesson
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Scooby Doo tried to teach us the real monsters are white men with shady business practices and we just never learned the lesson
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Yeah, here's a photo of her after this happened. Hats off to her for actually standing up.
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Yeah, here's a photo of her after this happened. Hats off to her for actually standing up.
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ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.
Make statues of this.
Make statues of this.
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening.
Make statues of this.
Make statues of this.
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Getting sick of state controlled sports sponsorship. You can hardly watch anything without Aramco and its like polluting your view. I'm getting nostalgic for the simple honesty of tobacco sponsorship, which only had the message to "smoke more fags".
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Getting sick of state controlled sports sponsorship. You can hardly watch anything without Aramco and its like polluting your view. I'm getting nostalgic for the simple honesty of tobacco sponsorship, which only had the message to "smoke more fags".
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October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I’m gonna cry this is so good
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m gonna cry this is so good
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The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
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This a live video showing what appears to be protestors marching with and celebrating vehicles carrying soliders, some of whom had Madagascar flags.
A member of Gen Z Madagascar say they are trying to get to the symbolically important Place du 13 Mai
web.facebook.com/100075732734...
A member of Gen Z Madagascar say they are trying to get to the symbolically important Place du 13 Mai
web.facebook.com/100075732734...
Redirecting...
web.facebook.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This a live video showing what appears to be protestors marching with and celebrating vehicles carrying soliders, some of whom had Madagascar flags.
A member of Gen Z Madagascar say they are trying to get to the symbolically important Place du 13 Mai
web.facebook.com/100075732734...
A member of Gen Z Madagascar say they are trying to get to the symbolically important Place du 13 Mai
web.facebook.com/100075732734...
Full marks France24.
" for his involvement in various global conflicts. "
" for his involvement in various global conflicts. "
And each and every single one more deserving of the prize.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251010-ten-contenders-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-who-are-not-donald-trump
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251010-ten-contenders-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-who-are-not-donald-trump
Ten contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize who are not Donald Trump
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday in Oslo, Norway, to one of 338 candidates, among them 244 individuals and 94 organisations. US President Donald Trump has been hinting that he deserve...
www.france24.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Full marks France24.
" for his involvement in various global conflicts. "
" for his involvement in various global conflicts. "
Do they have outrageous french accents?
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Do they have outrageous french accents?
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if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."
just to make sure you catch 'em all.
just to make sure you catch 'em all.
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."
just to make sure you catch 'em all.
just to make sure you catch 'em all.
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It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It tells you everything you need to know about British politics that the only people who have ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of racism are the people who dare to call it what it actually is
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Aha!
I had a suspicion Trump might just want to sell off these neighborhoods he’s “cleaning up.”
I had a suspicion Trump might just want to sell off these neighborhoods he’s “cleaning up.”
Always follow the money. Who is benefitting from ICE rousting tenants & damaging the building?
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Investors buy bigger share of properties in South Shore than other neighborhoods near Obama Center
Investor interest in South Shore has steadily increased with investors buying single family homes and condos.
www.cbsnews.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Aha!
I had a suspicion Trump might just want to sell off these neighborhoods he’s “cleaning up.”
I had a suspicion Trump might just want to sell off these neighborhoods he’s “cleaning up.”
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PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...