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Author: Peter Jukes
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Yes, Androids Do Dream of Electric Sheep
Peter Jukes explores how the hallucinations of AI reveal that machines can never match the power of the human unconscious
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair. Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu paid a visit ahead of its seminal by-election
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The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
Text has always been more a technology of control than true creativity, writes Peter Jukes
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Hedge Funds and Tech Bros: Reform UK James Orr’s Road to Damascus
How did Nigel Farage’s head of policy move from corporate law to political religiosity? Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed report
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Editorial – Eventful Times
As Byline Times enters its eighth year of publication, the need for independent, reader-funded journalism has never been more stark. While both the established press and social media become more concentrated in the hands of a billionaire class, the morbid symptoms of their malfunction mount.
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Machine Yearning: From God to Aliens to Chatbots – The Metaphysics of Loneliness
For those of us old enough to remember the Apollo missions, the sight of Artemis II blasting off towards the Moon may have brought back something a bit more complicated than Space Age tristesse or déjà vu.
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Editorial – Enough is Enough
Though it may take time to fully percolate through to London and Washington, the resounding defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian elections suggests the tide is turning after a 10-year surge of chaotic politics across Europe and the US.
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The Iconography of Destruction
Peter Jukes explores how the US President has spent his life riding the storm – but how much longer can he avoid reaping the whirlwind of his ‘American carnage’?
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The Epstein Files Reveal the‘Plot to Topple’ Theresa May
Far-right former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein worked with Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK, newly released messages in the Epstein Files show.
