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George Jacobs

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A peripatetic grotesque Interests include maths & writing y comunicandose mal en distintos idiomas

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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Alien form by Julia Soboleva www.instagram.com/juliasobolev...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/06/2026
Explainer: What is behind South Africa's anti-immigrant protests? reut.rs/4amgUmw
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Explainer: What is behind South Africa's anti-immigrant protests?
Protesters have told all undocumented foreigners to leave South Africa by Tuesday, ahead of anti-immigrant rallies that many fear will turn violent.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This thoughtful article is an antidote to the extreme hype surrounding current "AI". Even when a tech bro like Elon Musk talks about the dangers, they're hyping it as being capable of thought, of understanding, which is not currently true. The way we're lapping it up though, that is worrying.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Excellent point. Replacing public servants with AI is like importing your public service from the US. You spend less money into the domestic economy and shovel more NZ financial assets into offshore ownership.
Who are we paying?
Almost all the serious AI in the world is built by a handful of American companies. The huge computer systems that run it are owned by an even smaller group of American companies.

So when the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle in the United States. That money leaves the country and does not come back.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/before-we-let-ai-run-the-public-service-we-need-to-know-the-full-impact/
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sir Keir Starmer on today's 2 marches in London (far right, and pro-Palestine) on X: “Today the voices of division will be loud.” Donald Trump on Charlottesville 2022 far right march and murdered counter-activist: “There are good people on both sides” A touching exhibition of their shared values.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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pumpkin pye 🎃 @pyeraptor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
why do fascists love ai art? because real art requires creativity, empathy and compassion, which they don't understand
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Freedom Press @freedompress.org.uk · 07/04/2026
Trump threatens to wipe out an entire civilisation, as US bombers take off from UK airbases. Has anyone seen 'Sir' Keir? 👀 #askingforafriend
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
El narcisismo patológico se está volviendo cada vez más aceptable en la sociedad occidental, hasta el punto de que incluso nos agrada en nuestros líderes.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
More police overreach, enabled by the current and recent governments: takebackpower.net/2026/03/05/p...
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Police arrest 15 Take Back Power supporters at a nonviolence training event - Take Back Power
15 Take Back Power supporters were arrested during a nonviolence training this evening being held in the Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Take Back Power is a nonviolent campaign demanding a tax on e...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/03/2026
“This tells any potential adversaries of the U.S.: Get nuclear weapons. Hedging is not a strategy.”
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The U.S. Killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What Comes Next?
“This tells any potential adversaries of the U.S.: Get nuclear weapons. Hedging is not a strategy.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/02/2026
Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.
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Blood tech: UK's use of Israeli spyware that helps underpin a genocide
Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/12/2025
Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize
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Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize
Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’ * Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize. Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by the British-Nigerian represented a watershed moment for the international art world. Continue reading...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action? Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group. www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
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Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
“History shows it clearly, 
austerity creates the conditions 
in which fascism thrives. When 
Gov'ts strip away public services, 
weaken safety nets and deepen 
inequality, people lose hope 
in democracy and turn to 
authoritarian strongmen.’”
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  - Richard Murphy
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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 27/08/2025
We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.
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CristinaBellino @cristinabellino.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things" Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Iris, oil on canvas, 1926
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Tech has successfully gamified everyone's brains to the point that they think they're living in a simulation/video game even if they don't actually think that. Literally 'reading' books like a player in a game to gain imaginary xp.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"We also reported that the chatbot was bullshitting, in the technical sense." We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.
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Gisela Baños @gisbanos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
La mejor frase que he escuchado hoy: «No son genios, solo son millonarios». Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
AI & propaganda is 💜 a marriage made in heaven. 💜 Describe your desired conclusions, use that as an AI prompt, and then: your agenda is presented as a factual analysis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Trump enjoys starring in his bits of theatre. He has the backing of half of the people of the USA. Should we in the West still respect the USA? Should we vote for governments who continue to follow the lead of the American government?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/05/2025
How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees theonion.com/how-the...
Providing protection from harmful extremists like human rights activists.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Mientras en los EEUU festejan el triunfo de la ignorancia, nosotros tenemos que alejarnos para evitar el contagio.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Because if I wanted someone to confidently make up answers to my questions I would simply ask a man
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/04/2025
Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
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Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’
The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’
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Gisela Baños @gisbanos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
«Había crecido en un país dirigido por políticos que enviaban a militares a pilotar bombarderos para matar a los bebés y hacer del mundo un lugar más seguro donde los niños pudieran crecer en paz». Ursula K. Le Guin
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
!!! Wetherspoons, of brexiteering fame, not exactly an icon of liberalism, and yet they live in the 21st century unlike our government.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain. We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today. Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
Image shows protesters walking the streets of London holding a banner reading "No British Arms for South Africa", text below reads "we need to carry the momentum of the South African anti-apartheid movement to Palestinians and other communities still living under apartheid today"
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Most South Africans, of all colours, are happy to get rid of a few racists who feel oppressed.
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Mojeek Search Engine @mojeek.com · 24/04/2025
Does it ever occur to folks calling for an encryption backdoor that it could be used in the future, to spy back on them?
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
المسيح قام حقا قام Χριστός Ανέστη Αληθώς Ανέστη
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Hilo largo que vale la pena explorar
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Some polls putting Labour on as low as 21% and set-to drop further. David Graeber was right.
"The Labour Party under 
Keir Starmer will abandon 
its core idealism and
principles and it won't 
even gain tactical 
advantage. It will be a party 
which gives no one a reason 
to vote for it, and then no 
one will, in fact, vote for it."
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  - David Graeber
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marinaesaenz.bsky.social @marinaesaenz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Pues, en teoría, ni la sentencia que elimina derechos a las personas trans e intersex británicas, ni la ley que va a consagrar la discriminación legalizada que prepara Stamer, tiene nada que ver con las demandas del gobierno Trump… Pero !!!qué casualidad!!!
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THE CODEX NOIRMATIC @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trybunor Szernevvol Biblomna VI, a most renowned historian and writer, High Archivist of House Thranderbury. Took a special interest in the travels of Francesca and wrote several texts about them. Here with the Gner'voesch, the traditional metamorphic regalia of her people. 2021
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
De hecho ya lo he experimentado en ambos papeles, de oyente nativo y de hablante extranjero.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Yet another positive review. I hated it. Initially I loved its distinctive dreamlike atmosphere and evanescently undefinable mood and tone. But then it just stayed there, no narrative evolution, just went on and on, passive and static; no point in reading beyond any thirty pages chosen at random.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'm ok with this. I'm not American. I wish the people of the USA well, but the duty of their government, like any government, is to their own people. There's scope for positive outcomes for other countries if in the long term the USA is no longer able to comprehensively dominate global affairs.
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 10/04/2025
‼️NOVEDADES CTXT 📖 'Gordofobia. Otra herramienta de dominación' es el NUEVO libro de Adriana Torres (@bukuku.bsky.social) con el que estrenamos la colección de libros cortos CTXT Mini. 🔴 Preventa ya disponible en: agora.ctxt.es/producto/gor...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/04/2025
Trump Boys Hook Dollar Bill Up To Potato To Make Cryptocurrency theonion.com/trump-b...
Trump Boys Hook Dollar Bill Up To Potato To Make Cryptocurrency

First Sons Plan To Mine Coin From Common Root Vegetable
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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 08/04/2025
Hoy es el Día Internacional del Pueblo Gitano. La Gran Redada de 1749 fue un oscuro episodio que duró más de una década y media e inevitablemente el tiempo pasó factura al pueblo gitano en España.
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¿Exterminar a los gitanos en España? La Gran Redada de 1749
En 1749 en España, bajo la aprobación de Fernando VI, se decidió exterminar al pueblo gitano, en un plan conocido como la Gran Redada.
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
El cuadro me recuerda a «El retrato de Dorian Gray», aunque un rey corrupto ya no me parece para tanto en estos tiempos del rey desnudo
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
UK gov claims good Trump tariff but it turns out that there was a simple formula applied indiscriminately: half the trade deficit divided by imports. That's it, applied to most countries except some suckers (like the UK) that would have got less than 10% automatically got 10%. (But Russia got 0%.)
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George Jacobs @feydun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Monster of the Week as Realism
It’s not that I never read realistic fiction and not that I don’t like it. It’s just that sometimes I don’t get it. I know realistic fiction, speculative fiction, and genre fiction are just terms w…
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Juantxo López de Uralde @juralde.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Dato mata relato #lobovivo #loboprotegido
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