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Mastertwit 🇵🇸

@mastertwit.bsky.social
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Father of two small boys. Reader of books, Saints FC fan, climate worrier, Luddite. Free Palestine.

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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great podcast, great episode. Give it a listen.
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One for travelling #saintsfc fans to consider for today’s game. trailers.yarn.co/yarn-clip/40...
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Lincoln, I've been thinking What have you been drinking?
The Simpsons (1989) - S02E18 Comedy clip with quote Lincoln, I've been thinking What have you been drinking? Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Find the exact moment in a TV sho...
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is probably one of the most bewildering parts of the whole story - if you try and google these hallucinated references to see if they're real, often Google's AI summary will give you a summary as if it's a *real paper* making the whole issue worse
A graphic titled 'The cycle of misinformation: AI search summaries cite AI errors, making factchecking difficult'. Steps 1) AI is used, introducing a hallucinated journal article into an inquiry submission 2) The submission is published on the government website 3) The submission is indexed by search engines and AI crawlers 4) Searching the hallucinated reference may now show an AI summary as if it were a real study, sometimes citing the submission as a source
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
Here is what the Israeli-occupied West Bank, not including a detailed look at occupied East Jerusalem, actually looks like in 2026. The International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that Israel’s nearly 60-year military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza was illegal.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good grief, this hits home.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.
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The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot
For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
July 4th, 2026, Washington DC. Patriot Front ride the metro to their hateful little march. Her face sums it all up to me. A mixture of defiance and weariness. Both born out of lifetimes of having to put up with this shit. She knows only too well that America never stopped being a racist country.
Patriot Front ride the metro in DC on July 4th. They surround a black woman seated in the carriage. With the words HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Welp there’s no unseeing this
Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square matUFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Excellent piece about the state of US culture. “Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke.”
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Well worth a read. It won’t necessarily make you feel better but a good way to start the journey back. #saintsfc
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Was really looking forward to this weekend. But because Tonda and his goons bullied an intern analyst into spying on Boro, Saints have been kicked out of the playoff final. Absurd, disappointing, enraging. #saintsfc
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
As Angus Taylor begins his speech the Farrer Lib candidate wipes away tears to stop her mascara running. Not a great start #auspol
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Come on Saints - keep up the good run! #saintsfc
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Facts Matter @ai7gu-wkh45.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Finally a responsible headline. bsky.app/profile/artc...
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I am genuinely sick to death of pretending this is somehow normal or expected. If you use LLMs to do any part of your writing, thinking or synopses (let alone art) you should be embarrassed and out of work.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/03/2026
I heard somebody say That the war ended today But everybody knows it's goin' still Our motherlands and motherseas Here's what we believe It's simple: we don't want to kill
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Heard Somebody Say
YouTube video by Devendra Banhart - Topic
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” (Anon - often erroneously attributed to Dostoevsky)
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/02/2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“To pretend that this visit from the president of a rogue genocidal project, booed at the Olympics and reviled around the world is apolitical is, frankly, insulting. “Do we get foreign dignitaries from any other nation into parliament to speak for mourning Australians during any other tragedy?”
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 03/02/2026
New Australia Institute research shows Australian high schools are the most expensive in the OECD. "I can't see any policy case for taxpayers giving money to a school that can afford an air-conditioned equestrian arena." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The NSW govt needs to elect a new public. Police say this one is not acceptable. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Mark Humphries @markhumphries.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We couldn’t possibly change the date. It’s just not something we do.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.
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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Feeling pretty nervous given our recent second half performances. Should be winning this though. Come on you #SaintsFC
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Entertaining game - should be ahead. Norwich a threat too. Ref losing control of it a bit - they should have a couple of yellows at least. Fraser a poor substitute for Fellows - he always wants to go backwards. #saintsfc
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
@minniesmum.bsky.social excellent interview with ASRC about Nauru at 26:00
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
BRILLIANT Well done Iceland!!! www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Iceland joins Eurovision 2026 boycott over Israel
Iceland's public broadcaster RÚV has confirmed it will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, becoming the fifth country to withdraw in protest at Israel's participation.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit

December 9, 2025

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.

During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.

Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.

Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth.

What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda.

When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic.

Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image.

America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This is one of the most confronting things I've read in recent memory. Despite the title, it's not about the environmental impacts of AI - it's about extreme tech oligarchy. Does anyone have an argument or three to refute it? It seems logical to me. open.substack.com/pub/theturni...
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You forgot to mention how much water AI consumes.
I used to think climate change posed the biggest threat to the existence of humankind. Now, I think AI is more likely to wipe out the majority of humans, faster than climate change will.
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Gotta feel for the umpire there - two incorrect decisions in a row! #TheAshes
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Israel is continuing to bomb children with impunity during the ‘ceasefire’.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/12/2025
can we just say this out loud? Climate change = horny male media editors going absolutely nuts with the skimpy fun-in-the-sun pics
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Emil Privér @priver.dev · 01/10/2025
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Tool used as a cudgel to discipline workers is popular with execs and management. 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/11/2025
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
“There is no good #Zionism; it is a racist ideology, a violent ideology,” said Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who later aligned himself with the Palestinian cause. He added: “There is nothing to justify, nothing to excuse what Israel does.” Via @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
There is no ‘ceasefire’ - don’t be fooled.
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Great guide on what NOT to give your family for Christmas!
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Current stack! On book 95 for 2025. Full titles in alt text. #booksky
A stack of books, top to bottom:

Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford

Woodside vs the planet : how a company captured a country / Marian Wilkinson

Terraform : watch / worlds / burn / edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans

American war / Omar El Akkad

Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle

Perfect victims and the politics of appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd

Discipline / Randa Abdel-Fattah

The AI con : how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want / Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism / Anne Case, Angus Deaton
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Mastertwit 🇵🇸 @mastertwit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
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Drawn @commoner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is one of my favs...
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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 08/08/2025
Evergreen.
Tweet from Jack:

What trillion dollar problem is AI trying to solve?

Wages. They are trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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eastmad @eastmad.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement. It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it. www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Things that make generative AI dangerous: 1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work. 2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings. 1/
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