EmmaC

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… The media does a terrible job of explaining this to people, so I’m creating a series of YouTube videos to explain what’s going on. Click here to have a watch, make sure you subscribe, and if you could share this post, I’d really appreciate it! Ju youtu.be/FAQrgUFz_p4

Amy Acton's mother is the first woman Republicans ever believe in a rape case.

He’s everywhere. @cnbc.com @nytimes.com @politico.com

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

We are spending Ben Delo's £36m donation on producing a new propaganda newspaper, The Reformer. Then we are spending Chris Harborne's £36m donation on the postage bill when everyone sends it back to us one page at a time using the Freepost addresses below:

Good Lord. I haven't seen an e2 node in the wild for quite some time. Also relevant though - and declaring the interest that I work for his other think tank - Martin Lewis launched this the other week: small-ideas.org

These were your reactions to the Cornell University case. You're right. It cannot be left to women alone to fight back against violence against women. Men have a role to play too. Help us reach 10,000 signatures, pledge to call our misogyny and stand with women ✍️ https://goodlaw.social/u6dj

A) Can AI do incredibly useful work, often at ability levels exceeding those of humans? B) Are AI intelligent? Those are not the same question. They're not even in the same room. Opponents of AI conflate them. "Given the answer to B is false, A must be false". Pure logical fallacy.

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

I mean I’m not surprised but still 🤯

start your day right

An update on how the far right media infrastructure in the UK continues to double down on open homophobia. Liam Rondi has been documenting this on TikTok. The extreme figures involved are/were regular contributors to much of the London rightwing media [part 1, with part 2 attached below]

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.

It is now one of the biggest facts in the world that the richest man in the world is an overt white supremacist trying to bend politics worldwide in the direction of white supremacy. Twitter isn't the source of his wealth but it is his biggest megaphone.

Well, on the bright side, at least he'll have AI to visit him in the nursing home one day

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

it’s always “protect girls’ and women’s sports,” but never “protect girls and women”

This!

No one judges me as harshly as I judge myself. Except for my screen time reminders.

Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.

Lest we forget

In 1978, a mother had a baby girl. She looked down at this child and said, "I will name her Alison. And one day, when she has her own babies, they shall call her BRUH"

We didn’t have fidget spinners when I was a kid. We had cigarettes

At my age, some days the glass is half full, some days the glass is half empty. Either way, I have to pee.

Private Eye:

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

Different country but same situation happening here

At what point do we stop saying the AI has gone rogue and start accepting this is what it's for? Hacking and nudifying and killing the internet and maybe some useful speak-and-spell. And then killing humans obv as.ft.com/r/dc864f30-7...

Superb

The only breasts I’ve touched recently belonged to a rotisserie chicken.

​He does this every time. Maybe he's trying to wish it into reality. But the truth is, Russia chose to invade Ukraine four and a half years ago. Every day since then, they have chosen to continue it. The day they choose otherwise is the day the war will end.

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!

Latest from me: on why the next election will be more emotional than political, because of what has happened to the English right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You can see from the photo that boat's tipped too far right

I simply don’t grasp the desire to compromise one iota with people like this. They have no desire to compromise with us, or with their clueless enablers and fellow travellers. They will not be merciful or understanding if they win. Every inch we give is a victory for them. Enough already, now.

Be different ❤️

💥Reform UK led Staffordshire Council facing potential budget gap of £63 million. £63 million. Reform UK said Staffordshire was in “safe, responsible financial hands” even boasting in June about delivering a small surplus.

Last week we were in Germany. They are well aware of the similarities between what happens in the US and what happened in WWII. We saw someone who wore a shirt with the text: "Wer in der Demokratie schläft, wacht auf in der Diktatur." “Those who sleep in democracy, will wake up in a dictatorship.”

💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇

From over on X, some more context around the CNC parties in the Silicon Valley/Rationalist/AGI set: