Op-ed: Biological Females Have an Unfair Advantage and Should Be Banned From the Hosts of the Rohirrim by the Witch-King of Angmar, director of the Nazgûl Foundation for a United Future

I will just say it again for those in the back: Ai is a knowledge killer and an epistemic suicide machine, it is a digital cage meant to silo human creativity and learning. A digital back hole that destroys your cognitive development and ultimately our collective humanity. Generative ai is a threat

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

The lesson is clear: you can’t outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.

Quitting twitter for bluesky

Year by year, Act by Act, the UK has long been slowly, steadily creating an evermore Illiberal security state. And politicians and the media have just nodded it through. Party politics and the press have made little if no difference.

Hard not to be reminded that before Facebook, Zuckerberg made a website to compare the hotness of people in photos he didn't have permission to use.

Future historians will be diving into the Wayback Machine archives like it's the High Seas Fleet on the bottom of Scapa Flow.

Right-wing parties benefit from economic crises—currency crashes, debt crises, inflation crises, or banking crises. And if the incumbent party is right wing, further right parties benefit. Downstream effects also include conservative shifts in public opinion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is my bin bag There are many like it, but this one is mine My bin bag is my best friend It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my bin bag is useless. Without my bin bag, I am useless. 🫡

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Those props are so pretty

Exactly this. The media wanted violence, they wanted coverage of running street battles, they wanted coverage of minorities being attacked on the streets - because it makes ‘good’ television.

🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

I've never been a particular fan of historical analogies between the current moment in the US and 1930s Europe, but one thought that bothers me is that Trump might just be the Hindenburg to what comes next

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

One odd thing that is left out of the small boats discourse is how much the problem was directly caused by Conservative policy – specifically Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. 2018: 299 small boat arrivals 2019: 1,843 arrivals Truss’s 49-day premiership: 10,523 small boat arrivals

Today is my birthday! Could you, please, share my art, it is the best gift an artist can get 💖

Foolproof billion dollar business idea: • dupes of your favorite business software from 2009 • you pay money for it once • you never hear from me again unless there's a software update • don't give me your personal information, I don't wanna know

We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000. Bluesky: help a museum out

So ChatGPT 5 has been released and it supposedly "hallucinates less." But why use a thing that hallucinates at all? Even if it only hallucinates 10% of the time, that still means you have to manually double-check everything if accuracy is required.

"Thank you for contacting the void. Please hold, your scream is very important to us."

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Ok, let's depress ourselves still further, shall we?

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Today alone, I learned that the latest version of ChatGPT cannot reliably answer how to spell the word blueberry… And on a far more serious note, AI told a man to replace table salt with sodium bromide, thereby poisoning him. My job is to teach critical thinking skills, and boy are they needed.

Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man

Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵

Same mistake that Lab made with austerity in the 2010s - accepting the other side’s narrative & offering similar solutions only with less passion. God knows it’s hard to change the narrative with the media against you, but that was always the mission.

large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.

This weekend thousands of people in the UK stood up against racists and far-right thugs only to have representatives of a nominally leftwing government support, enable and empower the racists. Why do you not hear the worries of those trying to protect minority rights and liberal democracy?

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I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Apologies, but I'm so tired. Just to get this off my chest, it amazes me that in this day and age, after all we've seen, the vast amount of actual facts and evidence at people's finger tips, we still allow bigoted little people intent on demonizing minorities to lead the debate on people's rights 1/

Wilhoit's Law - "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

SCIENCE FACT: the deepest that human beings have ever tunnelled is the Kola Superdeep Borehole near the Russian border with Norway, which plunges 12,262 metres into the Earth's crust, and that's still not deep enough for the best place we could put Nigel Farage. Thanks for reading my science fact.

Every UK petition is like this

I want to live in the timeline where Gordon Brown doubled down and explained why he thought the bigot was a bigot.

Fucking hell the standard of the debate on that asylum hotel protest is appalling. Broadcasters and politicians bending over backwards to defend and justify the actions of the protestors. Not even a hint of the bravery required to stand up or challenge far-right ideas.

UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP. Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average. UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD. No questions asked about billions given away in corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich.

The U.K. is a police state

19 July 1545 // English carrack Mary Rose flooded and sank while leading an attack on French galleys in the Solent. Between 360 and 400 died, fewer than 40 survived. She was raised in 1982 and preserved at Portsmouth. Image: the Anthony Roll c.1546 (Wikimedia Commons). #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Wrote a piece on Matthew Goodwin for the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What led a promising academic to throw it all away in the name of becoming a propagandist for the radical right?

Back in 2022 on Tw*tter, I posting this about the startling new evidence that the vast megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean around 5.3 million years ago was mind-blowingly quicker & more violent than previously assumed. Now there's new evidence that supports it - and it's on *land*. 1/

A while back I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head. Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry. Hang onto your hat. This is wild. 1/

You want to let AI do more human jobs to maximize corporate profits and/or just see where that takes us? Then we need a UBI that’s a living wage. You want people to have to work to earn a living? Then we need to DRASTICALLY regulate AI asap. There is no cake here that can be had & eaten too

Let me be very clear: we are making every effort to unwiden the gyre, restore contact with the falcon, & address the legitimate concerns of those full of passionate intensity