Opinionated Politically Homeless British Atheist Believer in economic justice, stands with the Jewish People and wants UK to Rejoin the European Union

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Joined March 2013
@grok Would you says these definitions of โ€˜The Leftโ€™ and โ€˜The Rightโ€™ as currently used on X match the definitions typically used by the wider British public?
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This is nuts Iโ€™m no academic but I know enough to be sure there is no universal consensus around what โ€˜consciousnessโ€™ actually means With no agreed meaning of โ€˜consciousnessโ€™ there canโ€™t be a test to prove or disprove its existence So why waste so much energy arguing about something you canโ€™t even identify #BeetleInABox ?
Three reasons why AI is extremely unlikely to be conscious - and why this matters. Joint opinion in @nature with Giulio Tononi and Ned Block @De_dicto
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Is this a spoof account ?๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
Owen Jones has, for the last three years, revealed himself to be a man of enormous courage, integrity and truthfulness. No one should think for a minute that his relentless defence of Palestinian rights and historical truth is easy or comes without heavy personal costs. Throughout the genocide in Gaza, Jones remained a tireless bur rigorous and supremely decent voice. I suspect part of what initially moved him was the strong displeasure in being treated like an idiot by the official propaganda โ€“ a noble motive in itself โ€“ but there is no question he has been genuinely touched by the images of suffering arriving daily from Gaza. And yet, how does his intellectual fixation on a battle between left and right help us understand the horrors of Gaza, or move us to stop them? My impression is that the opposite has happened. People look at what is happening in Gaza and ask themselves what a person on the right or on the left should think. In many cases this is ideology. In most, simply careerism and group association. Jones shows how limited the perspective really is. How about, like the author himself, asking how a human being should feel? How about returning to the world of facts and feelings rather than our endless Marvel franchise? newstatesman.com/culture/booโ€ฆ
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Replying to @LionsOfZion_ORG
Among other things, to me it promotes the slogan โ€œRape is a legitimate form of resistanceโ€ โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธRape is never legitimate resistance, whoever commits it.โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ
Replying to @HenshiG
These โ€œrape is resistanceโ€ slogans make me furious. I donโ€™t know who is behind them, and Iโ€™m not blaming Muslims or pro-Palestinians as a group. Iโ€™m asking whether Muslim women are among the victims of sexual violence. Rape is never legitimate resistance, whoever commits it.โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ
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Replying to @HenshiG
These โ€œrape is resistanceโ€ slogans make me furious. I donโ€™t know who is behind them, and Iโ€™m not blaming Muslims or pro-Palestinians as a group. Iโ€™m asking whether Muslim women are among the victims of sexual violence. Rape is never legitimate resistance, whoever commits it.โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ
This is the post-Oct 7 mindset, right here in Paris. A young mom with a newborn tried to stop the looters from destroying the little shop under her apartment. They answered her with โ€œYou bourgeois bitch, weโ€™re going to rape you.โ€ Then they forced their way into the building while she locked herself inside with her baby. The next day a far-left sociologist (and pro-Palestinian activist) shrugged it off as โ€œcollateral damageโ€ of the revolution. Itโ€™s the same logic that treated the mass rape and murder of Israeli women and girls on October 7 as โ€œlegitimate resistance.โ€ Once you open that door, it doesnโ€™t stay in one place. It shows up on European streets, American campuses, and everywhere else that decided some peopleโ€™s bodies are fair game if theyโ€™re on the wrong side of the story. Israel has been living with this for decades. Now everyone else is getting a taste. And if these are โ€œstudents,โ€ Iโ€™m a newborn. Again, we told you so.
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Important thread (extensive list in comments) of how much Israel does for the UK Defence ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
Here's a breakdown of the dozens of Israeli systems the British Army uses And also of other ways Britain benefits from Israel in the mutual defense ties first Britain doesn't supply single weapon system to Israel The data shows that it's either small internal components mostly dual use What does that mean?? Either parts that can or can be used inside military systems.. Frankly that can be anything and it's very hard, in fact almost impossible, to trace the end user of those parts Completely irrelevant and unimportant - Nothing Israel can't get on its own if in fact it is for weapons And off topic, in any case those are internal components and not "weapons" So to begin with this whole inflammatory campaign saying "British weapons" is misleading to begin and is meant to show an image of "evil Zionist" shooting babies in the head with "British weapons" And that simply isn't the case But But what Britain "provides" Israel is mostly "licensed export" - What's licensed export that you always hear In this campaign? British parts inside 3rd party systems...In other words British parts inside American systems the best example is of course the F35 - And how's Britain exactly going to do an embargo on that? Stop supplying the F-35 as long as Israel uses it? Or maybe just try to block the plane from Israel? Then Britain will be seen as a problematic partner and ibe thrown out of the F35 program and any other US system it supplies to, like Turkey was That will mean thousands of jobs lost in Britain and billions of dollars revenue as said Britain doesn't have the power to dictate to anybody who do business with certainly not to push Israel out of global supply chains ...And all that to appease the "Al Guardian", a bunch of commies in London and Pakistanis in Bradford And another problem for the Israel haters regarding the F-35 - Israel itself is a supplier to the F-35 So Israel has the exact same counter leverage regarding the program the best example is of course being the engineering Marvel helmet made by Elbit (With Rockwell Collins). - The world leader in pilot helmets and costs more than average the house in the UK and US In the F-35 case it's basically the brains of the plane in sync with all the internal systems of the plane Maybe British pilots can use electric scooter helmets instead Additionally Israel makes part of the wings and other classified systems we can only assume are AI and other technologies inside So if Britain tries to weaponize the F-35 and block the plane from Israel Israel has the same leverage and can simply block the F-35 from Britain But Israel Israel isn't saber rattling or waving its stick n the open like Britain is - It prefers Settling things behind closed doors But then there is the other side - what Israel Supplies Britain... And as a reminder Britain doesn't supply Israel with a single weapon system Israel supplies Britain with literally dozens of weapons systems - the latest count is it's around 22-24 systems (there are a few systems I'm not sure if the British actually uses or have an inventory) But before we get into the systems Israel supplies Britain directly ....there are also plenty of classified intelligence systems the British use to protect Britain from terrorist attacks and ahat we can't include in the count And also the Israeli arrow missile defense system will protect British lands as part of the European Sky Shield initiative And which Germany recently bought as part of that program That same system will protect also Britain And now let's get to the systems themselves...so here is the rundown since I can only put 4 print screens per post Then it will be a thread and each post will include 4 systems and print screens showing the open source (I don't reveal anything classified because I simply don't know) 1. This is literally a month ago- the Smart shooter smart targeting system It Turns every soldier into a sniper. It's branded as against drones but in fact it's against anything including enemy soldiers also recently acquired by Finland The days of the Hero Macho snipers like Vassily Zaitsev (Enemy at the gates) or the "White Death" Finnish sniper from the Winter War are coming to an end 2. Electronic warfare systems for the Royal Navy - By Elbit and valued at 100 milion - boy Israel supplying the Royal Navy, best Navy in History 3. XACT Night vision goggles - also by Elbit 4. The Spike NLOS Anti tank guided missile called in the British Army Extractor by Rafael A long range anti tank guided Missile up to 25 kilometers which actually is more like a short range cruise missile that's a better description It was used heavily in Afghanistan by British soldiers and they called it "Jew Missile" ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ (Or something like that - that's how one ex British soldier described it when replying to Richard Kemp about the topic)
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Q to an AI chatbot: If an AI does something harmful, is the AI responsible โ€” or are humans? A โฌ‡๏ธ #AIChatbot #FunFacts
๐Ÿค– Made with AI
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Yet when they owe us money, we have to wait for a cheque and physically cash it in at a branch.
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Replying to @PolitlcsUK
This was done in Australia. It was not good. Read the story about Richard Boyle and abuse of power. theguardian.com/australia-neโ€ฆ
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68 Jewish-American teachers and educators were supposed to leave for Italy last weekend on a visit to a world-renowned city for early childhood education. That was until they were told to sign statements condemning the Israeli occupation in Gaza. What does this have to do with early childhood education? Nothing, they say. So they sadly canceled their trip. To make another kind of statement- one about antisemitism. Now the mayor of that city is doing damage control. Hereโ€™s their reportโ€ฆ @staceysager7 @ABC7NY
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โ€œHis deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel, or a whore โ€” not, I think, in a Prime Minister...โ€
๐Ÿšจ NEW: Andy Burnham will appear on Channel 4โ€™s Goggle Box tomorrow night with Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ISRAEL ELECTION โ€” 3 DAYS TO GO 27 Oct โ€ข 120 seats โ€ข 61 needed Final TV polls: Kan 11: 50โ€“52 Channel 12: 50โ€“56 Channel 13: 50โ€“54 Netanyahu-aligned bloc shown first; change bloc second. Arab parties: 14โ€“16. No bloc reaches 61. #IsraelElection2026
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ISRAEL ELECTION โ€” 3 DAYS TO GO 27 Oct โ€ข 120 seats โ€ข 61 needed Final TV polls: Kan 11: 50โ€“52 Channel 12: 50โ€“56 Channel 13: 50โ€“54 Netanyahu-aligned bloc shown first; change bloc second. Arab parties: 14โ€“16. No bloc reaches 61. #IsraelElection2026
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What does this flag represent to you around the world? ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ
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Mum watched the rise of fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany in the 1930โ€™s. She lost a โ€˜sweetheartโ€™ fighting Franco (long before my Dad) in the Spanish Civil War. After WW2 she always believed that these horrors would never be repeated. This world today has betrayed her trust.
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23 October 2026: The Daily Express leads on demands for tougher sentences after record levels of violence against women, alongside government warnings to prepare for food shortages and disruption caused by potential cyber attacks. #TomorrowsPapersToday
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UK: The figures on sexual crime against girls in Britain are insane. Britainโ€™s police data shows girls aged 15 to 19 are 6 percent of the female population and 21 percent of female sexual offence victims. Girls aged 10 to 14 sit right behind them. The Crime Survey says the highest sexual assault rates in the last year sit with women aged 10 to 19. Yesterday Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood stood at Labour conference and talked about crime coming down. Knife crime. Serious violence. Boats. The charts did not move because she gave a speech. She has no shame. She is endangering British girls.
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LIVE FROM PARIS: Students take to the streets xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbwZDโ€ฆ
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My Mum died 17 years ago this week. She lived through the Blitz & lost family in the Holocaust. But she went to her rest believing that Jews would never again be persecuted. She would be utterly devastated to see that this hatred has risen again throughout the world today. ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜”
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