NylaNox FBPE
@nylanox.bsky.social
Author of Graveyards of the Banks and many stories and articles. Veteran of the fight against Brexit. Lover and translator of poetry.
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Dream study requires that we look at ourselves embedded in a dominant culture that actively - through advertising, social and mass media, and propaganda -attempts to shape our thoughts and behaviors by activating our instinctive reactions...
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Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks
Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building
practice
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Dream study requires that we look at ourselves embedded in a dominant culture that actively - through advertising, social and mass media, and propaganda -attempts to shape our thoughts and behaviors by activating our instinctive reactions...
By donation, Tues in January
By donation, Tues in January
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Sweden’s foreign minister says EU imports from Russia have exceeded support for Ukraine by 124 billion euros since the full scale invasion. Europe gave Ukraine 187 billion, but imported Russian oil, gas and other goods worth 311 billion.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Sweden’s foreign minister says EU imports from Russia have exceeded support for Ukraine by 124 billion euros since the full scale invasion. Europe gave Ukraine 187 billion, but imported Russian oil, gas and other goods worth 311 billion.
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From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.
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Human brains produce new ideas every second of every day. Sit down with a tiny child and ask them to explain something they're doing and you will hear half a dozen of them. Ideas are what humans *do*. The idea is by far the easiest part of any creative process.
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Human brains produce new ideas every second of every day. Sit down with a tiny child and ask them to explain something they're doing and you will hear half a dozen of them. Ideas are what humans *do*. The idea is by far the easiest part of any creative process.
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Big Polar Plunge across Europe as the jet stream takes a nose dive! Temps 10-20C below normal! Lots of snow in the mountains!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Big Polar Plunge across Europe as the jet stream takes a nose dive! Temps 10-20C below normal! Lots of snow in the mountains!!
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Children helping clear the rubble. 19 dead so far
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Children helping clear the rubble. 19 dead so far
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From Germany: "The UK wants to abolish the obligation to support asylum seekers that became EU law in 2005. UK had 84,200 asylum applications in 2024. From 2011 – 2020 (before Brexit) the average was 27,500 applications per year. By comparison, in Germany, 250,945 people applied for asylum in 2024."
ROUNDUP: Getrieben von rechts - London will Asylsystem verschärfen - boerse.de
LONDON (dpa-AFX) - Unter dem Druck der rechtspopulistischen Gegner hat Großbritanniens sozialdemokratische Regierung eine drastische Verschärfung der...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From Germany: "The UK wants to abolish the obligation to support asylum seekers that became EU law in 2005. UK had 84,200 asylum applications in 2024. From 2011 – 2020 (before Brexit) the average was 27,500 applications per year. By comparison, in Germany, 250,945 people applied for asylum in 2024."
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Freelancer Day at a German trade unions, representing, among others, artists, journalists, translators etc. The country is still very hostile to freelancers, with huge barriers in social insurance, pensions and employment status. Curious what the union will/can tell us today. @social.verdi.de
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Freelancer Day at a German trade unions, representing, among others, artists, journalists, translators etc. The country is still very hostile to freelancers, with huge barriers in social insurance, pensions and employment status. Curious what the union will/can tell us today. @social.verdi.de
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I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.
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I’m sad that fellow remainers block me for pointing out that accession to the EU takes a long time and requires a lot of buy in from a large majority of the population, but that is the case. We are not looking at a fast process, and we would be far behind even Ukraine in the accession queue.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I’m sad that fellow remainers block me for pointing out that accession to the EU takes a long time and requires a lot of buy in from a large majority of the population, but that is the case. We are not looking at a fast process, and we would be far behind even Ukraine in the accession queue.
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Die Kürzung der Ticketsteuer fürs Fliegen führt zu Mindereinnahmen von 350.000.000 Euro im Bundeshaushalt.
Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.
Prioritäten. So wichtig.
Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.
Prioritäten. So wichtig.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Die Kürzung der Ticketsteuer fürs Fliegen führt zu Mindereinnahmen von 350.000.000 Euro im Bundeshaushalt.
Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.
Prioritäten. So wichtig.
Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist.
Prioritäten. So wichtig.
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UK commits to ensuring 'poignant' COVID memorial wall in London will be preserved
UK government says COVID memorial wall in London will be permanent
The National COVID Memorial Wall was established without official authorisation on a half-kilometre stretch of the Albert Embankment in March 2021.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
UK commits to ensuring 'poignant' COVID memorial wall in London will be preserved
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A simple rule of thumb: Any politician who proclaims to be pro-EU while avoiding supporting re-entry to the Single Market is afraid of mentioning Freedom of Movement. Many have been playing that game for 10 years, and pro-EU voters are wise to it. Anything without Freedom of Movement is still Brexit
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A simple rule of thumb: Any politician who proclaims to be pro-EU while avoiding supporting re-entry to the Single Market is afraid of mentioning Freedom of Movement. Many have been playing that game for 10 years, and pro-EU voters are wise to it. Anything without Freedom of Movement is still Brexit
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November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This kind of thing, btw, is one of the reasons I think it's right to use the (admittedly ugly) word 'Brexitism': there are multiple recurring threads linking Brexit to post-Brexit politics/ culture wars. So many things which aren't about Brexit per se are in/directly connected to it. 3/3
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Months after the People's Vote March, a Brexit voter told me he didn't think it had happened. I said I was there. Still, he refused to believe it. His argument: If it had taken place & w/ 1m people, the BBC would've reported it.
Such was its tremendous reputation. Squandered & shredded. A tragedy.
Such was its tremendous reputation. Squandered & shredded. A tragedy.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Months after the People's Vote March, a Brexit voter told me he didn't think it had happened. I said I was there. Still, he refused to believe it. His argument: If it had taken place & w/ 1m people, the BBC would've reported it.
Such was its tremendous reputation. Squandered & shredded. A tragedy.
Such was its tremendous reputation. Squandered & shredded. A tragedy.
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If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
...if I'd done even the barest comparative reading of just the first line of Beowulf, I'd have been well on my way to a better sense of what literary translation involves.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you ever thought of literary translation as some mathematical formula where there was somehow in there a literal solution, take a gander at a handful of professionals translating the first line of Beowulf and realize that it's art, and that these translators are as much authors themselves.
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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
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"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."
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The ultimate aim should be that all pedestrian crossings are green for pedestrians by default and motorists should have to press a button to activate the lights so they can cross the footway.
Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The ultimate aim should be that all pedestrian crossings are green for pedestrians by default and motorists should have to press a button to activate the lights so they can cross the footway.
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They can’t hide the truth forever
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 12 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
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November 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
They can’t hide the truth forever