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James Tindall

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Welfare Not Warfare. Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea. 🇵🇸 Long time software engineer. One time net artist. Overtime philosopher. Out of time musician […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@atomless, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I recall hearing this at the time and 26 years later I still can't believe how much better the peel session versions of these tracks are than those the Strokes managed on their album youtu.be/X-wSXggWxPA
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Why is the story “War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?” and not “War may be coming. Shouldn’t we change this horrific violent system entirely?”
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War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
*The "Vintage Artificial Intelligence" PC software collection archive.org/details/vintageai
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
That feeling when what you already believe (about the machine) is presented to you by the machine and that belief is that the machine presents you with what you already believe.
Social media at least makes you go out and hunt for confirmation of your views for yourself, wheras deep research delivers your own rightness straight to your door gift-wrapped…
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
*The prescient campaign with the perverse effect of accelerating slaughterbots *I blame science fiction dystopias medium.com/predict/slaughterbots-in…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
That wonderful moment where the strongest counter argument is the unspoken meaning constituted by the very proposition of the argument.
©) Daniel Faggella & A -
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how literally any therapist is still in business given the amazing context,
wisdom, selflessness, and helpfulness of Al is beyond me
why would anyone pay an actual therapist now?
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
That wonderful moment where the strongest counter argument is the unspoken meaning constituted by the very proposition of the argument.
©) Daniel Faggella & A -
w? @danfaggella
how literally any therapist is still in business given the amazing context,
wisdom, selflessness, and helpfulness of Al is beyond me
why would anyone pay an actual therapist now?
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
RE: mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/1170307831368… Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts. It also hurts because the result is presented as absolute and undeniable, with no path for appeal or inspection. A decision presented as a black-box score with no insights […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@RealGene/117068948812… this made my day
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Opposing surveillance cameras is now classed as terrorism, apparently. youtube.com/shorts/tj5Xbji9VEA
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
www.creativeapplications.net/theory…
New Gaza presentation at the World Economic Forumintensify. This abomination demands we perform .
the very same manoeuvre proposed by Altman. It .
envisions a future where not only would an .
assortment of Trump idolatry and temples to :
Capital, a plastic Dubai doppelganger, appear to :
have sprung from the bare soil, but seem as if it ’
was always there —that Palestine, and its ancient ’
olive groves, never were. Like Altman, it
declares: “If you can't tell the difference [or recall
the lives crushed in its creation], how much do you
care?” Again we glimpse the synthetic high of the .
machinic K-hole —the pure-bliss ignorance of .
next-token or next-human-target prediction.2® .
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There's a simple, fair and effective means of funding politics, which ensures that voters count and money doesn't. MPs: please stop messing about with proposals for donation caps, and press for a proper, democratic funding system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
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Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Clacton right now would be a brilliant place for some Radical Listening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine a technique that can heal Britain of division and keep out the hard right. I call it ‘radical listening’ | George Monbiot
In my constituency, a group of volunteers chats with people – most of whom find they are to the left of their voting intentions, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
This is so bang on from Meredith Whittaker youtu.be/qYVeyhxLF7s?is=fsx8XXbP6d3…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
Acid Horizon’s latest episode focusing on ”The Promise of Cruelty” by @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social, is absolutely brilliant, essential, and urgent youtu.be/c8G_X_3F94c
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#Danegeld www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Cricket, warm beer and excess mortality are the markers of national character. This week's column is about the ignorance, snobbery and cruelty in the billionaire press, triggered by last week's heatwave. And about the grim condtions children now face in schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) archive.org/details/vanishing-cultu…
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Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026) : Luca Messarra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
DOWNLOAD THE FREE EBOOK:PDFEPUBPURCHASE A PRINT COPY:Buy the book from Better World Books or any online bookstore.Order a copy through your local...
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Bees using tools. www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds
Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
Billionaire Bunker Tech #1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqUP6QjEkc
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@bruces/11680464836… A core motif of cyberpunk future is fading into a forgotten past 🙁
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Oh the irony. “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is .... the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; .... who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'” Martin Luther King
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
I have been searching for a good way to articulate how our labour is increasingly made both repetitive and robotic in preparation for its automation and so that the traces of our labour best train our replacement. This video, of workers not only having to wear a camera to record their labour but […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
This response to the riots is absolutely spot on. Please give it a read: steviesyerda.substack.com/p/the-bar…
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The Barbarism Is Already Here
On the riots, the deflected anger, and finding the real enemy
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@josephcox/1167318… In the future we will all be called Elias Thorne.
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
Dario's own website knows he is not to be trusted darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-…
Screen grab of Dario Amodei's post on the "AI Exponential" except his website is side-eying him with suspicion
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
It should not be surprising that Anthropic have come out as the 1st frontier AI lab to admit their model will silently sabotage its paid users’ efforts to build their own AI models - a supposed general purpose AI that will actively prevent others from developing their own general purpose AI! Of […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-q… I can't help wonder if the claimed tendency for humans to turn in a counter-clockwise direction is derived purely from observations made in the northern hemisphere? 🤔
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
Their 1998 album's title "Music Has the Right to Children" presaged the slow cancellation of the future, and the music itself captured the nostalgia for that future long before many of us realised it had been cancelled. I very much hope BOC's latest album, Inferno, as brilliant as it is, is not […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
Incredibly important paper on the epistemic threat posed by LLMs -- seriously, this is an absolute must read papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abs…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Predictive Capital was published exactly 1 year ago today. If you're curious about the limitations and the violence of so-called "AI" and how it extends and intensifies those of Capital, please give it a read. www.creativeapplications.net/theory…
AI guided bombs drop from the cloud onto the rubble of Palestine
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Please read this paper. It is genuinely important: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Missed this until now. An erasure poem using Andreessen's Techno Optimist's Manifesto. So good! bengrosser.com/projects/andreessens… ht/ @creativeapps
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Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry
Redaction poetry transformation of Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto
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DisruptionNetworkLab @disruptionnetworklab.mastodon.bida.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
🚨 EVENT ALERT 🚨 🎧 Palestinian Sound Archive coming up this week! We are FULL! Thank you for the amazing response. Can't make it? Please cancel your registration NOW so a waiting list member can take your place. 🔗 Link in your confirmation email. Don't miss […] [Original post on mastodon.bida.im]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
If AGI were immanent --as they have long claimed-- why would OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX not wait until after such a transformative event before going IPO?
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026
Please can we all refrain from framing GenAI completions as "the machine found this behaviour on its own"? Whether it is devious blackmail to prevent its replacement or breaking out of its containment to mine crypto, it is just the same function approximation of the human behaviour in its corpus […]
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
RE: hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044 all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
Super honoured to have my essay "The Overwhelm" included in this release from STEMcell music that looks and sounds incredible. Huge props to Steph Maj Swanson for the stunning artwork, the recording artists + producers for the sonic wizardry, and all others involved! […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
this is a must read: prometheus-mag.com/2026/03/26/the-p…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@creativeapps/11665… Days after Google sounded what according to many could be the final death knell for websites and the open internet that once catered for humans rather than machines, it is only thanks to CAN and the few sites remaining like it, that […]
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
Approaching a year since I wrote about the Apparatus of Intention -the harness into which we are strapped to train our replacement- China's youth are fighting back via mass adoption of a tool that renders useless the data extracted from surveilling them www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUZTCjVykE
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
Big up Gary Chambers youtu.be/0Ac4yx5YIhA?si=g9IUNrvw7EO…
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026
In light of Google's merging of search, ads, and shopping into a single GenAI UI that is next-token predicted on demand based on the highest ad bidder, you might like to have a (re)read of my Feb 2024 piece: Ways of (Not) Seeing. In it I talk about this unholy marriage of the recommendation […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists
Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted
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James Tindall @atomless.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
The right continue with Thiel's positioning of technological domination as the route around the opinions of their political opponents and the inconvenient limits that the democratic process's places on their otherwise unobstructed rule x.com/beffjezos/status/205428222424…
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