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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
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@blaine totally agree! That’s why I built https://towncrier.app 😀
George Orwell was a terrible human being https://youtu.be/2Gz0I_X_nfo via @YaBoiHakim
RT @BanGaoRen
@MeAgainCG Go for the hypocrisy and the contradiction with 2017 and 2019. Go for the paucity of vision. Go for the associations with Blair and Mandelson. Go for the DPP record. Go for the denial and blind spot when it comes to apartheid. Go for his impatience with, disdain for democracy.
RT @BanGaoRen
My take away from engaging with the Berger issue is that it probably only delivers an easy way for people like this is paint a reputational target on your back. Strategically for them this allows the pinata to be thrashed when necessary. Why feed this? There are other ways.
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#ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.
notice how they are
- creating work for us rather than saving us work
- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes
- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community
- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humans
that thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.
i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.
There is nothing inscribed upon the fabric of reality which says nations can't simply coexist peacefully and collaborate toward the common good of all beings, can't turn away from our primitive impulses of domination and control, can't do anything but drift passively toward nuclear annihilation all because a few imperialists in Washington convinced everyone to buy in.
What are we doing to the younger generations? https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/what-are-we-doing-to-younger-generations?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Most people are decent, some people need to be reminded what decency is. I hope Mohamed gets better. I hope the people who grabbed the food order choked on it.
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RT @jamesfarrar
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This is horrendous!
It's midnight. London E1, Alie Street, and a @Deliveroo rider is down. 1/
https://twitter.com/jamesfarrar/status/1628914550400483329
RT @RedJohnBounds
@sean_baillie @metpoliceuk This is the Cenotaph. Learn your culture, you far right gimp.
I was going to do some writing today and I seem to have spent the entire day trying to return a pair of boots to a company with a .co.uk email address that is actually in Switzerland and doom scrolling.
Oh, and I ate a steak pie.
RT @miltosyerolemou
I am sick and tired of people being offended. A deeply unserious country run by children
RT @driandunce
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Starmer to ban membership of the RNLI according to sources. This week he has already banned a Jewish group, an Irish women's abortion help group and a black African women's group. Sources say he will likely target the RNLI and the RSPB in a speech next week.
RT @simonmaginn
Guardian hacks crying about poverty.
Where were you in 2017 and 2019 when we could have *actually done something about it*?
You were smearing the only possible alternative to more of it with Jew-hate.
Wringing your smug, insufferable little hands now achieves precisely nothing.
RT @dtmooreeditor
the client journalist/opinion columnist complex is something else, really. if the tories started straight-up culling the elderly with machetes some hack would have written "why we need to stop pretending we love our nans" for the spectator before the first body hit the floor
RT @Teh_Snowflake
Transitioning, according to TERFs:
Doctor: What brings you into the ER today?
Patient: I put on a dress this morning. It felt right.
Doctor: WE NEED TO PERFORM A PENECTOMY, STAT.
*two weeks later*
Patient: I have regrets. I must campaign against this BARBARIC PRACTICE!
RT @EthicalRenewal
Funny how those on the Left are branded pie in the sky idealists.... until it comes to war.
Then.... absolute ideological purity is demanded in war's favour.
RT @Normanjam671
Usually we pray for peace, unusually we're now being asked to pray for more war.
I'm a critical thinker, I've always found war is the best route to peace. 🙃
RT @embedded_iot
A thinking person would surely be asking by now why all attempts at pushing for peace talks - including the latest by China - are dismissed by NATO. And it’s not as liars like @NickFerrariLBC would have you believe that Putin won’t talk
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
