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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The rapidity of the shift in usage from the pejorative ‘human waste’ or ‘low quality output’ to ‘trivial but fun’ tells its own story.

Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 1d

The unironic use of the term ‘AI Slop’ by the NY Times and by @kevinroose.com on Hardfork.

A.I. Slop Is Here

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 2d

10 horror movies to get to know me by:

Gothic
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Hunger
The Wicker Man (1973)
Psycho
Eraserhead
The Sixth Sense
M3gan
Crimes of Passion (1984)

A Japanese poster for the film The Hunger, starring Susan Sarandon and David Bowie

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 5d

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 9d

On a train being held five minutes out of Euston due to an evacuation of the station.

Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 9d

It’s an establishment stitch-up, cried the Baroness… or was it the Prince… how thick are these people?

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 9d

Definitely giving Don’t Dead vibes…

Iconic hospital doors from The Walking Dead series, where someone has spray-painted a phrase that seems to read ‘Don’t Dead Open Inside’

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 11d

Vale Brian Patten.

The Penguin Mersey Sound anthology thrilled me when I discovered it as a teenager. It showed me what poetry could be and was allowed to be.

The cover of The Mersey Sound poetry anthology

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 13d

Night, Hookland

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 17d

After all that, I still don’t understand what it is that it wants you to do…

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 17d

Yes, yes, I’m woefully late to the party, but HOLY SHIT, All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker is the ultimate lying on the beach holiday read…

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 17d

How much is Putin paying for the Trump girlfriend experience?

Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 18d

Cats of Venice

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 20d

From a great essay by Edward Ongweso Jnr

open.substack.com/pub/thetechb...

On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad

Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 20d

“No class of beings have in any time past made so rapid a movement forward. Should not that movement be jealously watched, and checked while we can still check it? And is it not necessary for this end to destroy the more advanced of the machines which are in use at present…”

Samuel Butler

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 21d

‘the feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted and personalised’ by the marker, so what is the benefit of adding in all the extra steps to get ChatGPT to spit out a vacuous and generic comment which then has to be rewritten for each student?

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 22d

Patrick Boyle has just been demonetised by YouTube for his Epstein Birthday Book video.
#PatrickBoyle

Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 22d

Morning…
www.thetimes.com/article/38f3...

Morten Morland’s Times cartoon: Friday September 19, 2025

Buy prints or signed copies of Times cartoons from our Print Gallery at timescartoons.com or call 0800 912 7136

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 23d

I haven’t visited an actual website for months. I’m tired of being kettled into an increasingly smaller collection of platforms and AI slop search results. Can you build your own search engine that just finds web pages on topics you’re looking for? I miss the original AltaVista.
#enshittification

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Shacknews @shacknews.com · 23d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Geraldine Seymour @geraldineseymour.bsky.social · 24d

Cats of Coste

White Cat with grey patched and stripy tail

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