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@lenazun.bsky.social Precision cuts deepest.

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@cheesecakechik.bsky.social The mods are ‘orthodox marxists’?

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@bryonquertermous.com Has stayed among my favourite books list for a quarter of a century, and it’s weird to think how long ago it was I read that.

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@cato.org This is probably what people who self-identify ‘libertarian’ have reckoned with.

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@pamkeithdc.bsky.social Sad because it really doesn’t have to (aside from should/shouldn’t). The ground is changing. Aipac cash looks like to more and more people what it is: stain.

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@requiemarm.bsky.social Lol, he checked out long ago.

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@joelhs.bsky.social ‘everyone pissing me off is the ruling class’

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There’s no use case for anthropomorphic AI except to leverage psychological vulnerabilities for profit. Anthropomorphic behaviour is a solved problem. There are 8+ billion units available on the planet already with this feature.\nwww.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026…

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@bireeves95.bsky.social Meh, it’s still people trying to leverage kleptocracy and I enjoy when it blows up in those people’s faces.

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@andrewfordlyons.net They took a health service in need of solid, real investment and thought, how can we just extract anything monetizable from it while it’s on life support?

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@andrewfordlyons.net Starmer purged those dastardly ‘leftists’ from the party and a lot of people clapped while he lit the green light for NHS and other vital national infrastructure get snarfed up by a techno-fascist’s data harvesting monolith. He took an election win built on Tory fatigue and went more Tory.

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@andrewfordlyons.net Should start using it in proposal writing feedback. :-)

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@katerqburns.bsky.social Why are the chairs like that?

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@apocalypticanow.bsky.social It’s what I miss about news before everything became clickbait. Spoilers at the top.

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I get news outlets have to have a business model, but just tell me up front before the whack-a-mole of popups and opt-ins.

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@jamesrball.com I am having latitude envy.

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It’s really a sad state of affairs when the voters in Clacton-on-Sea only have the choice between a joke candidate and Count Binface.

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@andrewfordlyons.net If the optics are showing you’re an absolute shit, you could simply try not being an absolute shit.

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@apocalypticanow.bsky.social My favourite is when a news site wants everything plus the right to send you push notifications and only after you get through the whole workflow you see a paywall. I’d prefer if they just left with that.

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@andrewfordlyons.net We can’t even avoid messing up the habitat here that was bespoke to our exact needs by default. Who the fuck rationally thinks we’re going where the conditions are constantly deadly and turning it into second earth? No one. No one rational.

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@andrewfordlyons.net Older article, but still right: “Finding ourselves on this lush, beautiful, abundant planet [Earth] is not some testament to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of life. Nor is it a coincidence. This is where life could happen; we are here because this is where we could be.”

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@sexabolition.blog There are really no accidental nazi tattoos, Imo. ‘Oops, I mistakenly put some Panzer Division iconography on my body’ just doesn’t make sense to me. I think when people get something permanently stuck on them they have some clue as to why they want to live with it forever.

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@jeremykaplowitz.com It’s plausible enough that I did a news search.

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@charliearchy.bsky.social They’re very bad at keeping their secret, Imo.

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@saulstaniforth.bsky.social The bureaucracy is the product. Those in it have no incentive to fix it.

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@seantcollins.com I enjoyed when they could just be summarized as tankies.

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@andrewfordlyons.net This take needs to be tossed into the fire. ‘The Biden administration wasn’t horrifying people over its constant, glee in tripping over itself to maintain a genocide, it’s just because they were old and unhip.’ Nope, pretty sure it was the grotesque defence of wholesale war crimes.

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@andrewfordlyons.net Imo, nothing to apologize for. Get a reasonably good cooling system that works for you and be well.

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Are You In the Weights? andrewfordlyons.net

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After Venezuela’s devastating earthquake, many communities are without power or communications. Donating here will fund emergency satellite internet, generators and phone-charging stations in the hardest-hit areas.

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Extremes put enormous stress on farms, power grids, ecosystems, and lives. Subway stations, sewers, roads, bridges, transmission cables, and foundations are all designed with a tolerance level. Supercharged with carbon, nature breaks our engineered world. Never forget: the economy is a ‘wholly owned subsidiary’ of nature.

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— Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay, in Global Boiling

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I don’t recommend people stay on Elon’s hell site, but if you are going to be there then you better be shit posting as good as Captain Pike.

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I’ve no idea who made it, it’s undoubtably AI slop, and yet it is arguably museum worthy art for our times.

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RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the influential indie comics that have continued to find new readers for over 25 years, and are especially relevant now.

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Fascist rhetoric wrapped in a css stylesheet aimed at co-opting retro, ironic 1980s nostalgia is still fascist rhetoric. America is going backwards, but more like the 1930s, and in Europe. If you’re waiting for an election in 2028 to save the U.S., that’s going to be too late.

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INTERVIEWER: “So, how do you write, exactly?”

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J. G. BALLARD: “Actually, there’s no secret. One simply pulls the cork out of the bottle, waits three minutes, and two thousand or more years of Scottish craftsmanship does the rest.”

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The Trump Administration is rebuilding the federal government and removing the agencies.

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The National Design Studio says its job is to redesign how Americans experience their government but I think the job that they’re actually redesigning is how the government experiences its citizens. — The Drey Dossier

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The world’s bullies can still break cities. What they can no longer assume is that broken cities mean obedient people.\n— John Sipher, The age of asymmetry – the weak have learned how to make the strong bleed

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\"Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism\"

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Superb interview with Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov on the vestigial Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism of the Western “anti-imperialist” Left in an increasingly multipolar world.

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Greater Israel: How a fringe settler fantasy went mainstream\nIsrael’s settler movement has moved from the fringes to having influence over key Israeli institutions, including the media, where a constellation of voices is pushing for Israel to conquer new territory. — Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post

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Went to the city to see the Banksy statue on Pall Mall. With Reform sweeping so many council elections this week its arrival is well timed.

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I have the #KeepItOn 2025 report on internet shutdowns in a tab on my browser.

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Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown.

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Something broke in Lusaka \"Press : andrewfordlyons.net

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The revolution will not be podcasted: andrewfordlyons.net

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No, the chatbot didn't cure that dog's cancer \"Auto-generated\"Auto-generated : andrewfordlyons.net

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This is a test of a plugin. It is only a test.

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“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’

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A lot of banging great lines in this book!

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AI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.

\nA screenshot of a humorous, fake job posting on Indeed. The post features a large, dark wooden pirate ship sailing on the ocean. The job title is \"Looking For Crew Of 30-50 Good People\" with a salary range of $60,000 to $100,000 a year, followed by the disclaimer \"(If we find treasure).\" The requirements listed include sailing the world for treasure, drinking beer and rum, and singing sea shanties.\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/03/ai-can-take-all-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-03T09:26:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-03 09:26","date_timestamp":1775208412,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116340059766552345","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3milfq6mcwc2r","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DWqhoHGEYZK"]}},{"id":"87497411","content_html":"

Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver: andrewfordlyons.net

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It strikes me that increasingly in the world it is becoming harder – that there are more people who are not really critically aware of the forces that are shaping them. That’s what most people are feeling today – and that’s the goal. That’s what authoritarian regimes do. — Raoul Peck, director of Orwell: 2+2=5

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. — Ada Lovelace, on AI in 1843

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