Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

They erased Banksy’s mural in London — just like they erase Gaza’s story every day. 💔

You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be solved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs?

Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants).

Really fucking annoys me.

Liberals: “The system is broken and must be fixed.”

Anarchists: “The system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed.”

'... the repulsive essence has remained the same. Namely using racism and xenophobia to drive divisions between the working classes, and to distract us from the system of class-based exploitation that’s actually causing most of our problems.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-culture-war-only-serves-to-distract?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

Why is it that so many, whether deliberately or through ignorance are pointing the finger in entirely the wrong direction?
Cold weather payments not been cut because of immigration. The government are not attacking the disabled because of the working poor. It not the fault of those in poverty that food and energy bills are rising.
I wish more folk would stop and think about what is really going on and who is doing very well in a time of austerity for the rest of us.
#wealthInequality

@bobjmsn best ignored. No publicity.

@DrALJONES Yes,

https://americandragnet.org/ has a full report.

"ICE spent roughly $97 million on data brokers in this period [2017-2021]. The primary contractor that has provided this service is Thomson Reuters, which offers a person-search database called CLEAR."

I would wager even after switching to LexisNexis, ICE kept the data from Reuters. There's no way they washed their hands of that and it not contibuting to what we see now. Sealed records from 12 years were used in one recent arrest.

@DrALJONES Reuters has turned out to be a blatantly pro-fascist, pro-genocide organization that directly, materially aided in the current ICE kidnappings as well.

@palestine

#FuckReuters

Here are a few thoughts about the most costly pattern I see in the IT world – and unlike many other patterns that oscillate over years or decades, this one occurs over months, weeks or even days. I call it, "do you even tech, bro?"

https://artisanalgeek.blog/2025/202508-do-you-even-tech-bro.html

An example of algorithmic resistance

An Irish Author threatened by UK Genocide loving government when she lives in Ireland and the British were kicked out of most of Ireland.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/18/uk-warns-sally-rooney-after-novelist-pledges-to-fund-palestine-action?traffic_source=rss

When politicians say protestors against immigrants have 'legitimate concerns' they may be right;

protestors are concerned about the continuing cost-of-living crisis, the unavailability of good jobs in their area, the feeling that society is stacked against them.... but, what his not legitimate is seeking to channel that disquiet & frustration & turn the blame on migrants.

The real reason for this social malaise is home-grown not the migrants... its classic bait & switch politics.

#politics

Report: "No more silence, no more complicity": more than 60 EU lawmakers demand an emergency meeting to sanction Israel.

They also demanded that the EU lobby member states to implement an arms embargo on Israel & "sanctions against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation & individuals within the organisation."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/eu-members-demand-emergency-meeting-sanction-israel

#EU #USPOL #EuroPol #BDS #GazaGenocide #GHF #USCo-perpetrator .