George Jacobs
@feydun.bsky.social
A peripatetic grotesque
Interests include maths & writing
y comunicandose mal en distintos idiomas
Interests include maths & writing
y comunicandose mal en distintos idiomas
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Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize
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’
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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...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize
It's not really the case that patronymics are used in Greece and Cyprus. It's not like in Russia where it's usual to refer to someone by their name along with their father's name. It's only used occasionally in certain official documents.
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's not really the case that patronymics are used in Greece and Cyprus. It's not like in Russia where it's usual to refer to someone by their name along with their father's name. It's only used occasionally in certain official documents.
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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.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
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...
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
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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...
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...
"Independence" means very different things here in each case; whether the separation of former Yugoslavia into separate nations, the first phase of Greek independence from the then Ottoman Empire, or Turkey becoming a republic; these are completely different and it's misleading to compare them.
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Independence" means very different things here in each case; whether the separation of former Yugoslavia into separate nations, the first phase of Greek independence from the then Ottoman Empire, or Turkey becoming a republic; these are completely different and it's misleading to compare them.
At the low end there's likely to be significant under-reporting. At the high end there's a reverse bias: people with major mental health problems may not be able to mantain a demanding high income job. This graph means less than it appears to.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
At the low end there's likely to be significant under-reporting. At the high end there's a reverse bias: people with major mental health problems may not be able to mantain a demanding high income job. This graph means less than it appears to.
It's because he was within Mordor. It's "explained" shortly after Shelob's lair, when Sam had been wearing the ring to hide from orcs but takes it off just before coming out of the tunnel and entering Mordor, because instinctively he realises that he'll become visible to Sauron in his domain.
October 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It's because he was within Mordor. It's "explained" shortly after Shelob's lair, when Sam had been wearing the ring to hide from orcs but takes it off just before coming out of the tunnel and entering Mordor, because instinctively he realises that he'll become visible to Sauron in his domain.
Me sorprende que te hayan dicho que trabajar con pantallas provoca la presbicia. Yo he sido un ratón de biblioteca desde siempre, así que tengo miopía, que ya reduce el efecto de la presbicia que tengo debido a mi edad.
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Me sorprende que te hayan dicho que trabajar con pantallas provoca la presbicia. Yo he sido un ratón de biblioteca desde siempre, así que tengo miopía, que ya reduce el efecto de la presbicia que tengo debido a mi edad.
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Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
September 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.
Por desgracia, como persona solitaria, no tengo más opción que discutir con mí mismo.
September 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Por desgracia, como persona solitaria, no tengo más opción que discutir con mí mismo.
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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.
August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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"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
Georgia O'Keeffe
August 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"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
Georgia O'Keeffe
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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.
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
An incisive article.
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An incisive article.
Some of those men will be gay.
August 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Some of those men will be gay.
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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?
August 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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?
"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.
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.
This is how Perplexity operates: www.wired.com/story/perple...
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases...
www.wired.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"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.
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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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.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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.
Yo lo empecé hace poco y me encanta.
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yo lo empecé hace poco y me encanta.
Por cierto, no fue el único: Marie Curie recibió premios Nobel en física y química.
July 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Por cierto, no fue el único: Marie Curie recibió premios Nobel en física y química.
UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
www.thebulwark.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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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.
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
July 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.
Is it right to assume that bluesky are prejidiced? An alternative explanation that occurs to me for the simple reason that I've seen this kind of thing before is an organised bombardment of complaints, alleging antisemitism or whatever, from a large number of individual accounts.
June 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Is it right to assume that bluesky are prejidiced? An alternative explanation that occurs to me for the simple reason that I've seen this kind of thing before is an organised bombardment of complaints, alleging antisemitism or whatever, from a large number of individual accounts.
Maybe put out a call for unpaid volunteer slush pile readers on a trial basis? You'll be able to figure out which one is in tune with the themes and style of the magazine. I think there are many people (like myself) who would like to gain experience of the process and would volunteer.
June 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Maybe put out a call for unpaid volunteer slush pile readers on a trial basis? You'll be able to figure out which one is in tune with the themes and style of the magazine. I think there are many people (like myself) who would like to gain experience of the process and would volunteer.
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...
💜 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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
💜 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...
