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Geraldine Seymour
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PhD Candidate | Luddite | Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction | Space | Gothic | Cats |Writing | Bad Drawings in Ink
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Cigarette manufacturers shouldn’t be getting all this money, we should be growing our own tobacco with tax payer money!
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...
www.dropbox.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Academic intros that go hard
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🚀 Discover new and forthcoming ebooks in Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online, a digital collection offering a broad perspective on a variety of themes relating to #SFStudies. Available to libraries as a one-off purchase and with perpetual access.

Browse the full collection ➡️ bit.ly/lsfso
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I was so focused on jumping out of the way to avoid being hit by a left-turning car, that I was very nearly taken out by a left-turning Deliveroo rider — who also wasn’t giving way to pedestrians and thus was unprepared when I was forced into his path last night.
#HighwayCode
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics," Musk says, conveniently replacing the word "me" with the better-testing "everyone."
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Superb commentary from @niedermeyer.online omfg we are so screwed…
"Please have a seat. Now I'm sure we can do a big round of applause for one of the greatest two leaders of our history. Let's go ahead!"

oh man, the Elon-Jensen Saudi Investment Forum interview starts off as incoherently as you'd hope, this is gonna be so good

www.youtube.com/live/E2bU6n7...
Tesla's Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang talk AI at U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum — 11/19/25
YouTube video by CNBC Television
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Difficult to understand why #bbcmidlandstoday thought an OB inside #CoventryCathedral while an actual remembrance service was going on was an appropriate course of action. Actually disgraceful…
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bless your heart, Jade Bird…
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looking forward to #JadeBird at Manchester Academy tonight…
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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"After burning through almost a trillion dollars, we finally invented a computer that can't do math."

"For the torment nexus, that is the AI industry, to get built, it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to help build it."
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Go ahead and try to fill the infinite void in your soul with merchandise at the Onion Store.
https://store.theonion.com/collections/tote-bags
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Talking seriously about hijacking into robot bodies via VR is the most real-life sci-fi thing I've typed out this year.
The fact that they have to be online all the time is a massive cybersecurity risk, and it's probably an incredibly cyberpunk problem to have, but someone hijacking into it via VR is mostly equivalent to being able to access someone's home. Conceivably, they can do anything they want in there.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.
www.thebookseller.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Check out our recent blog post all about 'The Embedding' by Ian Watson and a fascinating look at how the author explores linguistics alongside science fiction.

Read student Jonathan Thornton's blog: https://orlo.uk/UqgDO

#livunilibrary #livuni #specialcollections #voyager #sciencefiction
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nearly here…
October 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Pre-ordered. Can’t wait. A writer of immense talent. 84k still haunts me.
October 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
October is my favourite month…
October 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The unironic use of the term ‘AI Slop’ by the NY Times and by @kevinroose.com on Hardfork.
A.I. Slop Is Here
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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)
October 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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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?!
October 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM