Purveyor of the Apparently Impossible. CO₂ 333.73 ppm.
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Last Notes npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 They think it's all over...it is now. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 It's illegal in the UK to use threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior that stir up hatred or are intended to cause harassment, alarm or distress based on race, religion or other protected characteristics. Why then are such characters as Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo allowed to openly stir up race riots? Not much would have happened this week were it not for these public figures weighing in and urging followers to action. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…x9tq The police figure should be ignored as it is a bareface lie. I've attended large protests in London (with 10,000, 50,000, 70,000, 100,000, 500,000) for decades, and only an idiot would imagine as low as 50,000 attending this one. The march was still filtering into Whitehall when the end of the event was announced from the stage! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…pfuj I was protesting outside an Elbit Systems subsidiary today. The employees driving in and out were visibly contemptuous of the angry crowd. Since protests at this location are a weekly event, they surely must know that their components are used to massacre civilians. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 It'll only get worse. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 "...Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated..[we] found multiple examples where Google replaced headlines we wrote with ones we did not, sometimes changing their meaning... npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Reform is a racist party full of far-right extremists. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…x9tq @nprofile…t0ps For once, we somewhat disagree! The monetarist view that expanding the money supply is always inflationary is overly simplistic: in order for there to be runaway inflation, there has to be too many pounds sterling chasing too fews goods and services. In other words, where there is unused 👉🏼productive capacity👈🏼 in your economy, national spending can't add to inflation. If we have the raw materials, willing and able workforce, ecological space etc., we can always afford it. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…t0ps @nprofile…x9tq I wouldn't be the first to point out that they don't even understand macroeconomics! A currency-issuing government can always cover the interest on bonds, can never become insolvent, and - this is the kicker - does not even need to "borrow" from markets in order to spend. If the UK can spend money into existence for quantitative easing (QE) or Covid measures, then it can do so for any other purpose. 🤷🏻♂️ npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 What's shaping up to be among the biggest protest marches in UK history is being formed now! The Together Against the Far Right demo in London has coaches travelling from all over England and beyond. 200+ civil society orgs, faith groups, worker's unions, celebrities and regular citizens are taking part. You can book tickets below, and most areas have concessional prices as low as £5 for those short on funds. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Epstein Files Derangement Syndrome (EFDS) is when everything the Trump regime does is characterised as a "distraction" from the Epstein files, despite there having been pre-existing plans for everything the Trump regime is doing. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…la7y Isn't it just? Someone should be prosecuted. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…la7y I agree with you. However, the aggressive disinfo campaigns by both Reform and Labour - who went so far as to illegally park vans outside polling stations emblazoned with scaremongering anti-Green propaganda - may swing it narrowly for Reform. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…p227 Yes that was my point. Perhaps I should add, "[/sarcasm]" to the post. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Reform UK aren't fascists, they just hang out with Nazis sometimes. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…ryua My guess is that with lighter colours, there's an illusion of the colour changing with pupil size. For example, eyes can "darken" when angry due to pupil dilation. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 The US is starving Cuba. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Today in Manchester, England, a south Asian man was attacked by a far right, racist mob marching for Britain First, a fascist political party. This was an attempted lynching of a defenseless man, interrupted only by the arrival of police. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Oh alright then you can have a pic of our cat, Missy Mae. Here she is in her current favourite spot on top of a filing cabinet. Her favourite spot changes every few days. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 If anyone were to offer me a job working remotely as a 👉🏼human👈🏼 proofreader - the kind who is extremely well-read and has a deep appreciation of creative, colourful prose - I would take it even if the pay was modest. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…gfcd Not that protest alone achieve anything, but it isn't dangerous if enough people go! I've been to several dozen counter-protests here in Britain, against the most angry, violent men (it is nearly always mostly men) in the country. Hardcore fascists and racists, the type who try to break into hotels containing asylum seekers to do them harm. Since we typically outnumber them anywhere between 3 - 1 and 10 - 1, there's rarely any trouble because deep down, they're cowards. 🤷🏻♂️ npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Finally gearing back up for another year of protest. A long break was needed to rest these old bones and recharge this weary soul. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 When the BBC starts emphasizing that the victim was white and a lawful citizen, that's when you need to sit up and listen because we fucking told you this would happen. You should have listened when Black people told you. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 On March 28th, as an answer to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's 100,000-strong far right rally in London last year - the largest of its kind in UK history - a coalition of 80+ civil society groups are staging their own event in the capitol, which we hope will dwarf Stephen's and send a clear message to the white nationalists that they are outnumbered and do not have majority support. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 The UK hasn't been able to produce enough food since the 18th century. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Why citizen journalism is so vital. If legacy media fail to report on it, there'll be no record at all. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…38vg What would you suggest as an alternative (not a facetious question - I'm genuinely curious)? npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…awd8 @nprofile…7nkt ICE have a verified account there now, so lots of folks on the fedi are blocking the bridge. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…a5mn I was raised to believe that there's such a thing as a noble lie, even for people who pride themselves on honesty. If the Gestapo comes a-knocking and asks if you know anything about Anne Frank, you chuckle, look them straight in the eye...and lie your fucking ass off. Share a joke, be real chummy with them. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…x9tq So sure, have your big pro-Palestine protest, but don't keep having them again and again until your actions are increasingly impossible to ignore, resulting in growing visibility and momentum for your cause. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…fwps Not disagreeing here because I don't have data either way, but isn't the countervailing force here that we only see posts from folks we actively choose to follow? There are ways around this - abusive use of lots of irrelevant but popular hashtags can leverage a post into lots of users' feeds despite them not following you - but you can also just immediately block those spammy accounts. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…wp3y Fixed it for you. 👇🏼 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 So, remember when we said that if *anyone's* rights are imperiled, everyone else's rights also become conditional on the whims of power? Which part of that did you not understand? Did you just think it was about trans people or brown people or whatever? Fools. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…926n Oil. The President himself said it was about oil. It's only been about oil for more than a century. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…zvpa So is "clitoric foot mops", whatever they are. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 This will be a short thread of home truths about capitalism. Contrary to popular belief, Western economic dominance wasn't built on "free markets". It was built on pipeline and tanker routes, energy consortiums and contracts, enforced by brutal colonialist wars and the might of armies. It was built on the backs of the enslaved and the subjugated, and depends to this day on an endless supply of cheap hydrocarbons. And eventually, these fuels are going to run out. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…mwjf I don't get why people can't just enjoy how weird nature is, and how multifarious humans can be in their biological make-up, identities and social expression. It's fascinating! 🤷🏻♂️ npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 It's bizarre seeing how adamant transphobes can be that they/them is always plural, despite it having been standard English grammar for centuries where gender is unknown or unimportant. As attested to by the Oxford English dictionary, widely regarded as the most authoritative record of usage there is (at least for British English). npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…35ec This is excellent, thank you for writing it. 🙏🏼 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…7ppx Our selection of novelty mugs, only a couple of which are actually mine! It's particularly fun when we have guests to decide which one will be a talking point. 🤭 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…hzyj It was largely the unregulated, bank-like institutions - which were typically over-leveraged to profit from securities on private debt (not only mortgage debt either, but also credit card and other loans) that caused the global financial crisis of '08. The so-called "shadow" banking system. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…f0lx I've looked this up and it's not actually a spell check error, actually. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…7ppx @nprofile…hs4n I asked for a dictionary of English etymology for Christmas from my parents, as a teen. Mum thought I was weird, but she got me a good one anyway. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 I would suggest the growing push across the Western nations for ever-more autocratic powers of mass surveillance and policing against protest, is in anticipation of civil unrest due to climate impacts - including a growing wave of refugees from the hardest-hit nations. Also why billionaires are funding far-right movements and parties everywhere while building doomsday bunkers for themselves: capital protecting itself. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 I don't think we're talking enough about the remarkable restraint it must have taken Ahmed al-Ahmed, having shown outstanding bravery to disarm a shooter and even taken bullets himself, to not fire the weapon to incapacitate (if not actually kill) the terrorist. In the footage it looks as though he's grappling with this as an option...but he doesn't do it. Good people never do more than is necessary. Life in prison is a worse fate. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…hzyj The most comprehensive dataset for Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) crime we have for England and Wales is the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Dataset (COCAD), and what we see is that the only ethnic group somewhat over-represented in the data is white British men. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…hzyj Well, James Brown's Live at the Apollo, recorded in Harlem in 1963, was one of 50 albums chosen in 2004 by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…54w9 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…54w9 They're trying to create the impression there's already a war against Venezuelan narco-terrorists to provide a pretext for escalating the conflict into an invasion of Venezuela to "dismantle the cartels". In reality it's only about oil and they couldn't give a fig about the drugs. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…54w9 They're trying to create the impression that there's already war against Venezuelan narco-terrorists to create a pretext for escalating the conflict into an invasion of Venezuela to "dismantle the cartels". In reality it's only about oil and they couldn't give a fig about the drugs. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 🚀 Just launched: *TOGETHER against the far right* npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Together Against the Far Right is a new alliance of over 50 organisations - including trade unions, the TUC, the Muslim Council of Britain, refugee groups, anti-war and pro-Palestinian groups, Women Against the Far Right, and NGOs - that formed a united front after the "Tommy Robinson" demo in September which was the largest far right demo in British history. It made many want to do something to fight this. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 SCIENCE FACT. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…9j4p But try explaining this to those who think it remembers, learns and continues to exist between prompts. The illusion LLMs generate can be so captivating for some people, they won't believe it isn't real even if you explain how it works. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…hzyj It makes a difference that you put careful thought into every post. Even on the rare occasions when I fundamentally disagree with you, the fact the position I disagree with has been so well-articulated still makes it valuable for clarifying my own thinking. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 The daftest ever President. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…h9tt Well he didn't say anything about the 20-odd convicted paedos in the EDL, and even defended his pal and EDL co-founder, Richard Price, falsely claiming the child pornography on his computer had been planted. Plus 2 in 5 (40%) of those arrested in last year's race riots had previous police reports for domestic violence. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…scce I generally admire your work, Kevin, but on this occasion you have been unnecessarily offensive towards fish. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 📣 Workshop! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…54w9 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…2slu On the plus side, he's already solved the housing crisis. 🤷🏻♂️ npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…35ec @nprofile…zx9m Now, I saw at least three people in wheelchairs, so it's certainly possible one of them was you? 🤔 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…35ec @nprofile…zx9m I don't think so, no! But we did run into a whole coach load of comrades who'd reconvened at Nelson's Column later on, which was a surreal experience in a crowd that large! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…35ec @nprofile…zx9m I'm in that shot! Well, my flag is anyway. We considered trying to get onto that very bridge for a panoramic view, but didn't want to end up too far towards the back end of the march. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…zx9m @nprofile…35ec Me too! ✊🏼 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…35ec There were also half a million in London a few weeks ago. Barely a mention in the news. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 A significant chunk of The Guardian's political commentary these days is just Oxbridge liberals urging politicians to do stuff they absolutely won't do. Thus we have Polly Toynbee today saying that Kier Starmer already being the most unpopular PM ever is an "opportunity": now (says Polly) he can and must act with "clarity of purpose" and disregard the opinion polls. Which assumes against all evidence that Starmer has principles. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Today fascists Nick Tenconi and Danny Tommo are leading an angry mob in Southampton. Just now, a passerby - not part of the event - hurled a bottle of urine at Danny, soaking him. Enraged, he charged at counter-protesters, mistakenly assuming it was one of us. He was swiftly tackled and pepper sprayed by cops. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 I realise this is a depressingly unoriginal post, but "we" - that is, everyone politically leftward of Genghis Khan - profoundly couldn't give a fuck how many US Democrats or British Royals or Israeli Prime Ministers or Christian clergy or media moguls may be implicated in the largest documented child sex trafficking operation in modern history. Burn it all down. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 It's not that LLMs *could* be used to manipulate public opinion. This isn't hypothetical. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…h3ed Thus proving that the fedi is not as decentralised as we imagine it is. A big enough attack on the hosting providers could take most of it down at the same time. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 The largest study of its kind shows that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time, regardless of language or territory. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Portraying the KKK as representing all Christianity, and calling anyone who opposes this racist hate mob "anti-Christian" would be deeply offensive to Christians around the world. It would also put Christians everywhere at risk from extremists who accepted this conflation, and therefore assumed all Christians to be violent racists. Indeed, you could say the real "anti-Christianism" would be to defend the KKK in such a dishonest and harmful way. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Just in case anyone isn't believing the numbers they're hearing, here's an aerial view. Yes, this was by far the largest national demonstration in Britain since 2003. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 What an amazing experience! More than half a million people turned up in London today to protest against Israel's apartheid and genocide, dwarfing Yaxley-Lennon's recent parade of obnoxious thuggery. The atmosphere was intoxicating. We're all penniless and exhausted after the arduous journey and long, slow march around the capitol, but it was so worth it to have been present for such a significant historical event. ✊🏼 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…myfn @nprofile…300u @nprofile…k80g @nprofile…a0z2 @nprofile…r7en @nprofile…w8zx @nprofile…jcdj @nprofile…f3ps npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…5lc3 Those economists who predicted in 2006 that the housing bubble would soon burst, weren't proved right until 2008, when it finally became undeniable to everyone. I would say all the predictions we're hearing now from banks and other knowledgeable observers, may also take a couple of years to come true. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…ka48 Thank you for remaining vigilant, and for fighting on everyone's behalf to keep us all safe from prying eyes. 🙏 npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Reform UK's official register of donations reveals the "party" is bankrolled by rich businessmen who reject climate science or make money from polluting industries. Oil and gas money is going to right-wing outfits everywhere. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Just in case anyone is wondering why we're not hearing much out of Gaza recently, it's because the IDF murdered all the journalists, photojournalists and videographers ahead of its final assault on the region. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…gk57 I've also had the dispiriting experience of talking to an ex-squaddie who freely admitted he only joined the army to have a legal excuse to kill other humans. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 A couple of pics from Saturday's reading of the names of Palestinian kids killed in Gaza. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Today we read out more than 3,000 names of children killed in Gaza to crowded streets in a city in the East Midlands of England, with volunteers taking turns to take up the reading. It took us six hours. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…60lz @nprofile…dwh5 I've reached the conclusion too late in life that a frighteningly small number of the public are responsive to facts, evidence or reasoned arguments! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 What would happen if Britain really did send all the non-white people home overnight? npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…kmvs "We're in King Lear, if it had been written by monkeys on meth." npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…gk57 ...with many of us stuck behind a locked door in the overcrowded basement! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…gk57 I call it toxic nostalgia. There's a lot of it here in Britain, with older generations yearning for a return to times that never really existed. The days of Empire were actually miserable for the vast majority of people, hence the postwar reforms of the 1940s. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 The USA just can't destroy itself fast enough. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…hujc It's fascinating to me how differently people use the fedi! Personally, I make the safe assumption that a person's boosts will usually match their interests, and so am as keen to see who and what *they* are following as their self-written content. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…9w2h It's the "Raise the Colours" campaign, which is indeed a far-right ploy to cause division, because regular citizens and local authorities will want to remove the flags - some of which are in genuinely dangerous places where no other piece of material would be tolerated, either! - and reverse public property damage - which, again, would be done for any other illegal mural whatsoever - thus handing further ammo to the campaign. "Look, being proud to be British is banned now!". npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 No, it was never about the children. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…aq7u @nprofile…jleu You're "reaching" when trying to make a desperate argument that doesn't withstand scrutiny, usually to avoid admitting you're wrong. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…9z8h I don't understand it either - especially when the image is just a screencap of text in a news article, so the caption would have been a quick cut 'n' paste job. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 If a data center needs to drain all the water in a several-mile radius and put strain on the electrical grid to answer a question I could probably do on a serious hangover, one cup of coffee in, half-conscious on the sofa 'cos I passed out fully-clothed, and *still* have a better chance of giving you a correct answer with primary-sourced references (and lend you the books!), well then maybe you should start listening to your human scholars and ditch this "AI" nonsense. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 I really hope that Microsoft trying to reinvent the calculator by stuffing an unreliable chatbot into Excel, complete with warnings in their own T&Cs that it shouldn't be used for anything important (i.e., it doesn't work properly) is peak "AI" and the moment this crazy tech bubble finally bursts. npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…j732 Worse than shows ending prematurely, is them being spun out endlessly until there's no rational way to tie up all the loose ends! npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…0qap npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 @nprofile…g9w8 Couldn't agree more. I've gone radical with this stuff: If I can't access your website via a VPN, with uBlock, Privacy Badger and No Script running, I'll go elsewhere. If it's possible to live life with no internet at all - which anyone my age or older has done quite happily! - why should I care if I can't use most of it? npub1a8k6hu3sfc2g6a7wzgj0w3zmurpvpn3mzuahuf0qrtrv8lddvdms3naywc The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉 Anyway, for some light relief courtesy of @nprofile…2hrv (who found it on Reddit), here's a little more proof that the offspring of people who drive #Swasticars are kept alive solely by money and social privilege, without which they would definitely not survive.
