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Lisa D : Naturally Different

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Freaky Deaky Arty Speaky : ayeaye.uk Arts PhD researcher at LJMU. 'The Uncertain Human : Agency and the Technological Gaze'. Side Hustle: Antiquarian Book Seller on ebay

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders — @nafeez.bsky.social The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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UN Acknowledges ‘Conflicts’ of Interest After Byline Times Exposes AI Panel’s Ties to OpenAI and Anthropic Funders
The supposedly independent panel has close ties to donors who financed the AI giants they have assessed, a Byline Times investigation has found
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holy fucking hell this is quite a piece of writing. I have known for a while that rationalism had the same vague shape as scientology. I did not know that there were camps for inducting teenagers into the belief system. ...Nor did I know that the camps were run by rape enthusiasts.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
www.youtube.com/shorts/5Lyts...
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#edsheeran #macklemore #concert #israel #palestine #controversy
YouTube video by mrcodydahler
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
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Why Silicon Valley Is Dressing for War
YouTube video by Marina Hyde
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tante @tante.cc · 19/09/2026
This is not a critical event. The Future of Life institute is part of the cult. This is just an effective altriusm jerk off.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor — @nafeez.bsky.social Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf……
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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor
Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf, against a British Jewish artist who accused them of antisemitic bullying.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...
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An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape: An organizer’s reflection
Key takeaways from “An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape” workshop at the 9th inaugural Deep Learning Indaba
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The fine Irish poet and editor Pat Boran just posted this on FB (shared here with his permission): DOONBEG Thoughts and prayers for Trump on his golf course. The record for fascist dictators emerging unscathed from bunkers isn’t always the best.
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The West Midlands Police now has a PATTERN of harassing black journalists to defend Reform UK. Thank you to Birmingham Live for exposing this censorship and corruption.
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Police back Reform UK and attack Black Journalist... AGAIN - Birmingham Live
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The media has insisted that it was in the public interest to run endless stories questioning the integrity of Jason Arday. So I await the endless stories about *this* guy.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
You are beautiful and wonderful just the way you are. Yes, you too. All of you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTvC...
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Glacier
YouTube video by John Grant - Topic
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well, well, Welland.
@HelloStephano

Every ship entering the Great Lakes goes through the Welland Canal, located fully in Canada. There's no other option. $26.3 billion of US trade depends on it. Would be a shame if tolls skyrocketed or it was transit-taxed heavily...

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😢
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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
While the restauration of the first moonrise image from old data is fascinating, you should know that the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project was housed in an abandoned McDonalds, was nicknamed McMoon and flew a pirate flag for their reputation as a rogue operation of hacker engineers.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
I have warned about Jeffries and Kushner for a decade. Don’t be shocked by their alliance. From my 2024 essay, “Bad Weather”:
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026
artsy-fartsy, hyperaware, unchoreographed, undercapitalised, mixed-media
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Today, apparently, is National Potato Day in America, so if you’d like an absurdly long thread of root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content, you’ve come to the right place. We begin with the potato monument in Biesiekierz, Poland, because, well: look at it. Of course we do
A large sculpture in a park, possibly, or at least an area of grass by a road, in Poland. An enormous pale blue stand, with four prongs, holds up a gigantic (metal?) potato, complete with knobbles
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/08/2026
Selective time travel is one of the most interesting aspects of SF narratives around time. A lot of shows will talk about “fixed points” in time, essentially to prevent the characters from strategically or logistically deploying time travel to dismantle the crisis the story is about.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/07/2026
On a complete change of topic, so we know i help run Oxford’s Pubs & Prams meet-up group and this week it is “dads getting hacked by clicking on AI stock portfolio links and then spamming everyone” in the chat. We’ve had six in three days
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2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com · 27/07/2026
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/07/2026
Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. map.citationneeded.news
A screenshot of the map, with a side panel open showing Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Side panel contents: Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Intermediary Entity When Walter Shaub, then Director of the Office of Government Ethics, called on President Trump to divest from the Trump Organization during his first term, Trump instead transferred his operating businesses to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Many had urged him to use a blind trust. Critics argued the DJT Revocable Trust fell far short of that standard: Trump remained the sole beneficiary, his son controlled the assets, and Trump could revoke the arrangement at any time. Shaub later commented that the arrangement was “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective” and that “setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust—it’s not even close.” Established 2014 Sources ↗ Stenglein, Christine, "OGE Director warns Trump’s business plan insufficient", The Brookings Institution, January 11, 2017 ↗ Craig, Susanne, and Eric Lipton, "Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire", The New York Times, February 3, 2017 ↗ Kravitz, Derek, and Al Shaw, "Trump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants", ProPublica, April 4, 2017 ←controlled by Donald Trump Jr. According to a 2024 regulatory filing, Donald Trump Jr. "is the sole trustee and has sole voting and
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
So true
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Musk is a pathetic liar. He tried telling The Economist’s Editor-in-Chief that a British civil war is "inevitable," only for her to calmly point out that he hasn't stepped foot in the UK in years, she actually lives there, and real crime stats prove he made the whole thing up. Pure gold.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
Time travel is only possible between the 13th day of any month that falls on a Friday. It is not currently possible to dictate the direction of travel but research is ongoing at the University of Laputa (Swifty, B; (2082), 'Time and Time Again', UoL Press )
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
This whole ongoing story is so odd, funny, tragic, historic, it deserves it's own Christopher Nolan film. Think of the costumes, the locations, the subtleties, the violence, the redemption arcs, the betrayals. A microcosm and metaphor for our age . And did I mention the costumes!
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
FAFO - www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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UK ‘ready to defend itself’ after Iranian threat over US bases
IRGC claims base in south-west England was used by US to launch bombing missions, making it ‘legitimate target’
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
For a moment there I thought that Burnham would be better. More fool me. novaramedia.com/2026/07/22/b...
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Burnham Lets Trump Use British Bases for Illegal War on Iran
Andy Burnham has granted US president Donald Trump permission to use British military bases as part of his illegal war on Iran.
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
All of my professors at Goldsmiths are on strike as management tries to force involuntary redundancies and shutter courses. They're running an art raffle to support the striking workers, so if you want to support them you can buy tickets here. www.gucu-raffle.com
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Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026
UK friends. Time to fill in yet another skewed and pre-loaded government "consultation". HMRC really hates creatives, eh? Short version: UKG wants writers etc. to pay tax monthly and change our "projections" online every time we ... don't get paid regularly. BECAUSE WE ARE FREELANCERS.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
*clears throat* *taps mic* welcome to Schism Watch 2026 I am here to report a new crashout
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General House Communiqué: The Society Files a Recourse Against the Decree of 2 July 2026
Communiqué de la Maison générale : La Fraternité dépose un recours contre le décret du 2 juillet 2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
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Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 30/06/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Would be quite wonderful to have this very econian spin on his library, as Eco always valued the imperfect and the weird www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/u...
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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
that.was.intense. #paraguay
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Now you even need to be a time traveler to apply for a job.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very very good.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
England football fans From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026
Reasons to be cheerful part #255. TIL: that over 98% of UK constituencies would vote to rejoin the EU, and 75% of EU voters would not back far right parties. That'll do. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Dr Hell-Mart @hockeyeeyore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump literally drove his heavy armored motorcade across the drained Reflecting Pool to inspect the new blue coating. The Beast weighs up to 20,000 lbs and driving that massive weight over a fresh liner is exactly how you cause the giant tears and peeling he’s now blaming on "vandals."
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