More entertainment from the peeps at The Spectator
No, I don't mean that picture I found of Andrew Neil with one of the Barclays Blondes which I've posted much about..
Both with Geordie Greig - Ghislaine Maxwell's 'friend'.. I mean..
I mean this hilarious article by Matthew Parris :
"Mass paranoia is plainly a strand in the anti-vax movement ..Jon Ronson looks into the rise of the weird and shocking ‘QAnon’ phenomenon in America .. hidden paedophile conspiracy.." 🤔
" Parris was correspondence secretary to Margaret Thatcher. He was awarded an RSPCA medal (presented by Thatcher, then Leader of the Opposition), for jumping into the River Thames and rescuing a dog " 😇
He has said that an early reading of Animal Farm made him a Conservative, as "An admiration for [the pigs'] intelligence and sense of order dawned in me." 😂
No doubt our learned journo also read 1984 then..
"Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson , leaving his London home, was described as "certainly" gay by homosexual former Tory MP Matthew Parris " - Getty Images
"Bluebloods from Denmark, Spain and Sweden attend the marriage ceremony of 40-year-old former prince Nicholas to Tatiana Blatnik , a 29-year-old event planner for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg " - Getty
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.
"The intellectual arc of William Sims Bainbridge’s career confirms that his studies of 20thC religious cults & his 21st-century engineering of digital architectures are part of the exact same continuity: the systematic mapping, prediction, & control of collective human behavior.
There is a direct chronological and thematic intersection between the concepts in William Sims Bainbridge’s eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (published in 2013) and the Gamergate controversy, which erupted just one year later in 2014. 🤔