Mr Jester

occasionally I retweet things

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN https://t.co/IIx9JsWrT6 this is a great essay on this exact topic and if honestly never really thought about it before watching it but it's so hard not to notice the tends afterwards

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN I actually liked the first game better than the sequel

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Donald Trump didn’t look close enough at that reflection before posting this.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN I grabbed this months ago but finally started playing it. A) beautiful job on the repack, runs like a dream. And 2) This game really has no business being as good as it is. Combat is so satisfying

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN I almost t whiplash during the stream from how excited to repulsed I became from the multiplayer bit.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@DeusExHub @EliasToufexis any studio you'd like to work with for this kind of thing?

[RPCS3 @rpcs3]

PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.

We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.

These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.

Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.

We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN Is there a chance of a repak of this? Or is it still on sale somewhere?

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

Here is the map of data centres in Ireland - over 130 of them.

Data centres now consume 22% of Ireland’s electricity

[Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🕊🇵🇸🌻🇮🇪♿️ @CheallaighNiamh]

Should our president, who's sister was kidnapped by Israel be expected to shake the hands of the Israeli team? Do we want the Israeli flag in our stadium? Do we want Israeli fan sitting in our stadium? Well said @RichieSadlier
No we don't. The very idea is sickening.

[John Crotty @itsjohncrotty]

The lies told about Ireland - no particular order:

Ireland has seen a staggering amount of online interest and interference over the last 5 years, to the point it now has the worlds highest external malicious bot traffic - 71%, versus 35% in the U.S for example

Here are some of the regular falsehoods:

'A famine (scarcity of food) caused 1 million+ deaths in Ireland 1845-1851':

Over 4000 ships carried food from Ireland in 1847 alone, the famines worst year (Black ‘47).
Over 3 million livestock were exported 1846-1850.
6 million quarters of grain left 1845-1847 (about 1 million tonnes)
While avoiding all deaths was unlikely, access and entitlement to food, rather than its scarcity, was a primary factor.

'Ireland was pro-Nazi in WW2'':

Ireland was exclusively and extensively pro-Allied in WW2.
It violated neutrality in the Allies favour completely, across dozens of ways, any of which would have led to war with Germany if they became known.
9% of the Irish population voluntarily joined the UK war effort. Zero went to Germany.
The Irish state is the only neutral to exclusively aid the Allies and openly criticise Nazi actions.
Ireland had lowest far right uptake in Europe.
Britain's MI5 said at wars end ‘Ireland was of more use neutral’

'Before the Anglo-Norman arrival, Ireland was not unified or coherent':

Irish identity and island wide culture formed from about 500BC.
No later they 500AD they called themselves Irish, differentiated foreigners and shared an island wide society and identity that worked as one on laws, language, religion, culture, origin myths & legends.
They even met up to compete in national inter-kingdom sports days. Many tribes, but one people.

'Before the Anglo-Norman arrival, Gaelic Ireland was uncivilised':

Ireland had the most advanced law system in Europe, a restorative learned profession with divorce, animal welfare laws & rare execution.
All-Island assemblies created laws like 'The law of the Innocents', 697AD, that gave protection to women and children in times of war.
Irish monasteries were a shining light amid Europe's dark ages, returning & advancing literacy & learning.
A complex all-island society placed immense importance on culture.
Claims of cannibalism & backwards barbarity were fabricated or exaggerated by Anglo-Normans propagandist, Gerald of Wales, to justify colonisation.

'Ireland has an inflated history of antisemitism / racism':

Ireland has had the lowest levels of antisemitism in Europe since the first Jewish arrivals in the 11th century.
Zero expulsions. No pogroms. No exclusion from government/societal roles.
Irelands most important politician, Daniel O’Connell, fought for Jewish rights in the 1800’s.
Ireland enshrined Jewish right of practise in its 1937 Constitution, a unique action in an antiemetic age.
Claims Ireland exclusively excluded Jews in WW2 are false - all refugee entries were minimised. Jews made up 20% of those left in, likely the largest cohort of a small number.
Ireland has no history of large scale, organised racially motivated groups or state segregation
(of course racism and antisemitism existed in Ireland as everywhere)

'The IRA & its tactics represent all Irish':

The Irish Republican Army fought a popular campaign for Irish independence 1919 - 1921, achieving partial independence for the country.
Since then, the groups popularity waned as violent tactics were at odds with a desire for political advancement of Republican ideals.
By World War Two, the group had just 2k members from a population of 3 million and were deeply unpopular with the Irish public for their tactics.
Many Irish remained / remain Republicans, and desirous of a reunited Ireland, but not via violent means.

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Bloke that was sacked at the 11th hour by the Tories because he sent dick pics to councillors.

Standing next to the woman who gets angry when she sees black people on TV.

Standing next to the bloke who posted a whole host of creepy misogyny, homophobia and hate on his deleted and suspended accounts.

Reform UK is a circus.

[Christopher Barrett @oryxeleven]

Reflecting on an amazing run for a franchise. I hope it continues to live on, if not in its current form, in people’s friendships and memories.
I thought it would be nice to share a few of my favorite Destiny concepts that I was fortunate enough to help bring to life. Featuring the incredible talents of Jaime Jones, Dorje Bellbrook, Joseph Cross, Mark Goldsworthy - 1/6

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️BREAKING:

The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in the March 23 Israeli attack on an ambulance and fire truck in Gaza.

The reports show that most victims—paramedics and rescue workers—were killed by gunshots to the head, chest, or back. Four were shot directly in the head [executed]. Others had shrapnel wounds. Despite wearing medical uniforms and traveling in marked vehicles with sirens, they were shot multiple times at close range.

Israel initially lied about the crime committed then later took responsibility once the lies were exposed. The 15 victims included 14 rescue workers and a UN employee. Israeli soldiers buried the bodies in a mass grave and crushed and buried the ambulances, fire truck, and UN vehicle.

[Des Topia @LeftistDad]

On the Six One News Minister McEntee spoke about being horrified at the treatment of Irish citizens and called for sanctions on Israel.
Two hours later she voted against sanctions on Israel.
Enough said.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@EliasToufexis I'm a grown ass man and if a new Deus Ex is announced with you at the helm again I will legitimately tear up with joy. We deserve at least one more trip with Jensen, give us a nice rounded trilogy.

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@Deadlydill @Drift0r No True Scotsman fallacy detected

[Mr Jester @JR_4557]

@RohanKarMooN Horror games absolutely banging in the indie space

[Gabriel @gabriel_horwitz]

You open ChatGPT. You type the question. A clean, structured answer comes back in three seconds. You read it, it makes sense, you move on. You feel like you learned something.

Forty-five days later, a professor walks in and hands you a test you weren't expecting. You don't remember most of it.

André Barcaui at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ran the experiment to find out if the feeling was accurate. 120 undergraduate business students, ages 18 to 24. All told to spend two weeks researching AI concepts, ethics, societal impacts, technical foundations, and prepare a 10-minute presentation.

Sixty used ChatGPT freely. Sixty used textbooks, library databases, articles, and standard web search. Then, 45 days later, with no warning, a retention test.

The ChatGPT group scored 57.5%. The traditional group scored 68.5%. Cohen's d was 0.68, a medium-to-large effect. In most grading systems, that's the difference between passing and failing.

This is called cognitive offloading. When your brain delegates thinking to an external tool, it reduces the mental effort required during encoding. Effort is what makes memories durable. Struggling to find, synthesize, and connect information is not an inefficiency in the learning process. It is the learning process. ChatGPT removes the struggle and takes the encoding with it.

Barcaui calls what the AI group experienced "borrowed competence." The answer was structured, the vocabulary was right, the reasoning felt sound. It just wasn't theirs. And 45 days later, it was gone.

The AI group's forgetting curve was steeper and didn't stabilize the way the traditional group's did. The memories weren't just smaller. They were more fragile from the start.

You didn't learn it. You borrowed it.