excog
@excog.bsky.social
"I do not think therefore I am a moustache"
Sartre, La Nausée, 1938
Interests:
art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs.
* adferoafferro.wordpress.com
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God has a lot to say for himself. Clearly not a theology student.
God has a lot to say for himself. Clearly not a theology student.
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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God has a lot to say for himself. Clearly not a theology student.
God has a lot to say for himself. Clearly not a theology student.
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😼 [Wry Ginger cat emoji]
The first time I met Ginge, who I later learned from his hotel-owner was called Tiggy, was on the bottom of my bed in the early hours. The bedroom window had been left ajar. He jumped in, curled up and went to sleep.
From then on he was Ginger the Roofer.
😼 [Wry Ginger cat emoji]
The first time I met Ginge, who I later learned from his hotel-owner was called Tiggy, was on the bottom of my bed in the early hours. The bedroom window had been left ajar. He jumped in, curled up and went to sleep.
From then on he was Ginger the Roofer.
November 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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😼 [Wry Ginger cat emoji]
The first time I met Ginge, who I later learned from his hotel-owner was called Tiggy, was on the bottom of my bed in the early hours. The bedroom window had been left ajar. He jumped in, curled up and went to sleep.
From then on he was Ginger the Roofer.
😼 [Wry Ginger cat emoji]
The first time I met Ginge, who I later learned from his hotel-owner was called Tiggy, was on the bottom of my bed in the early hours. The bedroom window had been left ajar. He jumped in, curled up and went to sleep.
From then on he was Ginger the Roofer.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
#Trump
#Ellison
#Murdoch
‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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#Palantir
#AlexKarp
"Its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice)..."
SEE screen grab ↙️ for the rest.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
⚪ The public needs to know a lot more detail on what Palantir does.
#Palantir
#AlexKarp
"Its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice)..."
SEE screen grab ↙️ for the rest.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
⚪ The public needs to know a lot more detail on what Palantir does.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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#Palantir
#AlexKarp
"Its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice)..."
SEE screen grab ↙️ for the rest.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
⚪ The public needs to know a lot more detail on what Palantir does.
#Palantir
#AlexKarp
"Its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Ice)..."
SEE screen grab ↙️ for the rest.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
⚪ The public needs to know a lot more detail on what Palantir does.
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😼 Have had to resort to Copilot prompts to try to work put what the hell this all about...
For the non-expert the paper of course requires a lot of hard work to get the essentials.
The fun bit is being prompted by AI [4]
😼 Have had to resort to Copilot prompts to try to work put what the hell this all about...
For the non-expert the paper of course requires a lot of hard work to get the essentials.
The fun bit is being prompted by AI [4]
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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😼 Have had to resort to Copilot prompts to try to work put what the hell this all about...
For the non-expert the paper of course requires a lot of hard work to get the essentials.
The fun bit is being prompted by AI [4]
😼 Have had to resort to Copilot prompts to try to work put what the hell this all about...
For the non-expert the paper of course requires a lot of hard work to get the essentials.
The fun bit is being prompted by AI [4]
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Ah well, yes obliterated. That looked interesting. So asked my local chat what it had on the matter.
Though it doesn't give refs this time, which it usually does, easy enough to paste headings into a search engine to check.
How different thinkers have tried to rupture it might be a good prompt.
Ah well, yes obliterated. That looked interesting. So asked my local chat what it had on the matter.
Though it doesn't give refs this time, which it usually does, easy enough to paste headings into a search engine to check.
How different thinkers have tried to rupture it might be a good prompt.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Ah well, yes obliterated. That looked interesting. So asked my local chat what it had on the matter.
Though it doesn't give refs this time, which it usually does, easy enough to paste headings into a search engine to check.
How different thinkers have tried to rupture it might be a good prompt.
Ah well, yes obliterated. That looked interesting. So asked my local chat what it had on the matter.
Though it doesn't give refs this time, which it usually does, easy enough to paste headings into a search engine to check.
How different thinkers have tried to rupture it might be a good prompt.
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OK, let's whack that into Copilot:
"AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it"
OK, let's whack that into Copilot:
"AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it"
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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OK, let's whack that into Copilot:
"AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it"
OK, let's whack that into Copilot:
"AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it"
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Peter misspelled Warhol Worhol so wonder what happens to Warhols vs. Warhols when AI gets hold of it. I know what I'll ask Copilot.
Prompt: How does Copilot deal with misspellings of a well-known word? e.g. Warhol vs. Worhol
Note the follow on Copilot prompt...
Peter misspelled Warhol Worhol so wonder what happens to Warhols vs. Warhols when AI gets hold of it. I know what I'll ask Copilot.
Prompt: How does Copilot deal with misspellings of a well-known word? e.g. Warhol vs. Worhol
Note the follow on Copilot prompt...
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Peter misspelled Warhol Worhol so wonder what happens to Warhols vs. Warhols when AI gets hold of it. I know what I'll ask Copilot.
Prompt: How does Copilot deal with misspellings of a well-known word? e.g. Warhol vs. Worhol
Note the follow on Copilot prompt...
Peter misspelled Warhol Worhol so wonder what happens to Warhols vs. Warhols when AI gets hold of it. I know what I'll ask Copilot.
Prompt: How does Copilot deal with misspellings of a well-known word? e.g. Warhol vs. Worhol
Note the follow on Copilot prompt...
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www.reiner-opoku.com/angelika-pla...
⚪ The vertical of the window at his left shoulder shows as off-vertical in the mirror!
www.reiner-opoku.com/angelika-pla...
⚪ The vertical of the window at his left shoulder shows as off-vertical in the mirror!
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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www.reiner-opoku.com/angelika-pla...
⚪ The vertical of the window at his left shoulder shows as off-vertical in the mirror!
www.reiner-opoku.com/angelika-pla...
⚪ The vertical of the window at his left shoulder shows as off-vertical in the mirror!
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Cummings: with Gove at Dep. Ed. Nick Timothy too. We're talking free schools & academies. Cummings fancied setting up a free school. But didn't. Worked for Toby Young's New Schools Network funded by tax-payer.
ref. 3 & 4
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
physicsteacher.blog/2013/10/17/a...
Cummings: with Gove at Dep. Ed. Nick Timothy too. We're talking free schools & academies. Cummings fancied setting up a free school. But didn't. Worked for Toby Young's New Schools Network funded by tax-payer.
ref. 3 & 4
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
physicsteacher.blog/2013/10/17/a...
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Cummings: with Gove at Dep. Ed. Nick Timothy too. We're talking free schools & academies. Cummings fancied setting up a free school. But didn't. Worked for Toby Young's New Schools Network funded by tax-payer.
ref. 3 & 4
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
physicsteacher.blog/2013/10/17/a...
Cummings: with Gove at Dep. Ed. Nick Timothy too. We're talking free schools & academies. Cummings fancied setting up a free school. But didn't. Worked for Toby Young's New Schools Network funded by tax-payer.
ref. 3 & 4
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
physicsteacher.blog/2013/10/17/a...
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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You might say that of a human who reads a lot and is generally well informed, but can make mistakes. And not because of probabilities. Through not reading enough and carefully enough and using judgement.
Copilot:
"Summary of Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
One of 3 refs:
paminy.com/summary-trac...
You might say that of a human who reads a lot and is generally well informed, but can make mistakes. And not because of probabilities. Through not reading enough and carefully enough and using judgement.
Copilot:
"Summary of Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
One of 3 refs:
paminy.com/summary-trac...
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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You might say that of a human who reads a lot and is generally well informed, but can make mistakes. And not because of probabilities. Through not reading enough and carefully enough and using judgement.
Copilot:
"Summary of Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
One of 3 refs:
paminy.com/summary-trac...
You might say that of a human who reads a lot and is generally well informed, but can make mistakes. And not because of probabilities. Through not reading enough and carefully enough and using judgement.
Copilot:
"Summary of Wittgenstein's Tractatus"
One of 3 refs:
paminy.com/summary-trac...
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Today I is eating nectarines from Zimbabwe and white eggs.
Today I is eating nectarines from Zimbabwe and white eggs.
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Today I is eating nectarines from Zimbabwe and white eggs.
Today I is eating nectarines from Zimbabwe and white eggs.
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#poem
#poetry
#JanetFrame
Had Man No Memory, in collection of poems, The Pocket Mirror 1967
⚪ Frame well-known for autobiog, Angel at My Table, and film by Jane Campion
⚪ Google AI summary on Frame's memory loss ↘️
ref. 7:
Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
#poem
#poetry
#JanetFrame
Had Man No Memory, in collection of poems, The Pocket Mirror 1967
⚪ Frame well-known for autobiog, Angel at My Table, and film by Jane Campion
⚪ Google AI summary on Frame's memory loss ↘️
ref. 7:
Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#poem
#poetry
#JanetFrame
Had Man No Memory, in collection of poems, The Pocket Mirror 1967
⚪ Frame well-known for autobiog, Angel at My Table, and film by Jane Campion
⚪ Google AI summary on Frame's memory loss ↘️
ref. 7:
Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
#poem
#poetry
#JanetFrame
Had Man No Memory, in collection of poems, The Pocket Mirror 1967
⚪ Frame well-known for autobiog, Angel at My Table, and film by Jane Campion
⚪ Google AI summary on Frame's memory loss ↘️
ref. 7:
Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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It'll be part of the idiocratosphere. Watching too many podcasts promulgating end of days by the US Christian Right and sundry deluded others.
Even Thiel has directly suggested Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
Thomas Paine is a corrective.
Age of Reason:
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
It'll be part of the idiocratosphere. Watching too many podcasts promulgating end of days by the US Christian Right and sundry deluded others.
Even Thiel has directly suggested Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
Thomas Paine is a corrective.
Age of Reason:
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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It'll be part of the idiocratosphere. Watching too many podcasts promulgating end of days by the US Christian Right and sundry deluded others.
Even Thiel has directly suggested Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
Thomas Paine is a corrective.
Age of Reason:
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
It'll be part of the idiocratosphere. Watching too many podcasts promulgating end of days by the US Christian Right and sundry deluded others.
Even Thiel has directly suggested Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
Thomas Paine is a corrective.
Age of Reason:
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
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#Aberfan
Aberfan Disaster 21 October 1966
aberfan.walesonline.co.uk
⚪ Beautifully produced commemoration of the tragedy that befell Pantglas Junior School in the Welsh village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil 59 years ago.
Interviews/editors/acknowledgements ⬇️
#Aberfan
Aberfan Disaster 21 October 1966
aberfan.walesonline.co.uk
⚪ Beautifully produced commemoration of the tragedy that befell Pantglas Junior School in the Welsh village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil 59 years ago.
Interviews/editors/acknowledgements ⬇️
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#Aberfan
Aberfan Disaster 21 October 1966
aberfan.walesonline.co.uk
⚪ Beautifully produced commemoration of the tragedy that befell Pantglas Junior School in the Welsh village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil 59 years ago.
Interviews/editors/acknowledgements ⬇️
#Aberfan
Aberfan Disaster 21 October 1966
aberfan.walesonline.co.uk
⚪ Beautifully produced commemoration of the tragedy that befell Pantglas Junior School in the Welsh village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil 59 years ago.
Interviews/editors/acknowledgements ⬇️
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Time to dust off the Thomas Paine (or re-read them in Gutenberg..)
The Age of Reason
Part I, Ch. 2
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
Time to dust off the Thomas Paine (or re-read them in Gutenberg..)
The Age of Reason
Part I, Ch. 2
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
October 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Time to dust off the Thomas Paine (or re-read them in Gutenberg..)
The Age of Reason
Part I, Ch. 2
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
Time to dust off the Thomas Paine (or re-read them in Gutenberg..)
The Age of Reason
Part I, Ch. 2
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
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It's only a short piece but gives some info about where she's coming from & where the interested person might go to.
News in : "The WH" chewing maracas about not getting the prize. Can't watch him, but fun to see if he said he didn't know who Machado was!
This the Google run down on Machado :
It's only a short piece but gives some info about where she's coming from & where the interested person might go to.
News in : "The WH" chewing maracas about not getting the prize. Can't watch him, but fun to see if he said he didn't know who Machado was!
This the Google run down on Machado :
October 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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It's only a short piece but gives some info about where she's coming from & where the interested person might go to.
News in : "The WH" chewing maracas about not getting the prize. Can't watch him, but fun to see if he said he didn't know who Machado was!
This the Google run down on Machado :
It's only a short piece but gives some info about where she's coming from & where the interested person might go to.
News in : "The WH" chewing maracas about not getting the prize. Can't watch him, but fun to see if he said he didn't know who Machado was!
This the Google run down on Machado :
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MSM has al last got something to get their teeth into.
Nobel says:
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
But Google says:
MSM has al last got something to get their teeth into.
Nobel says:
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
But Google says:
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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MSM has al last got something to get their teeth into.
Nobel says:
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
But Google says:
MSM has al last got something to get their teeth into.
Nobel says:
news.sky.com/story/nobel-...
But Google says:
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Who knew anything about her. But we can soon get up to speed:
Who knew anything about her. But we can soon get up to speed:
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Who knew anything about her. But we can soon get up to speed:
Who knew anything about her. But we can soon get up to speed: