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Geek. Retired. Born at 319 ppm. Teach. Talk. Write. Read. Code. Smile. #DigitalStrategy #CompSci #AI #RAFOfficer #ElectronicWarfare @UniOfOxford @RadleyPhysics

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If the bread and wine of the Sacrament—as offered —are merely earthly symbols of a spiritual process, then it can’t possibly matter how those earthly symbols are manufactured @ChurchOfEngland
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The new Entry-Exit System for British travellers entering the European Union is now set for Nov 2025 No promises …
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#ReadThis #AGI “The future will be coming at us in a way that is impossible to ignore, and the long-term changes to our #Society and #Economy will be huge.”
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@tonythorne007 You're right: it's a strangely generous interpretation of the politics of the current Putinist regime
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Winning headline Spoiler: the story isn't quite as excitimg as it sounds
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As ever, there are plenty of depressing temporal stories in today’s newspapers But this is of greater, err, gravity … “Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring, revealing warping of #Space#SpaceTime
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AI - like all tools - can be a loyal Servant but a dangerous Master Misplaced confidence in GenAl allows people to abandon their critical facilities Those with greater confidence in their field of enquiry tend to maintain #CriticalThinking
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@GoodwinMJ We surely don’t think that everything in America is going the right way, do we? I understand that a DEI agenda can drift towards being a bureaucratic burden—but surely encouraging Diversity in the face of statistical mis-distribution is a sensible approach? Votes for Women?
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@GoodwinMJ You surely don’t think that everything in America is going the right way, do you? I understand that the DEI agenda can drift towards being a bureaucratic burden but surely encouraging Diversity in the face of statistical mis-distribution is a sensible approach? Votes for Women?
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Busy evening presenting at the Hinton Saint George Wine Club #Retirement #Somerset #Wine #Charente #France
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You have no #Privacy. Get over it.
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@implausibleblog @lewis_goodall The problem is that ‘social’ and ‘media’ are both utterly pervasive Any attempt to ban #SocialMedia will simply produce unexpected outcomes on previously ‘safe’ platforms Instead of stopping all ‘Information and Communication Technologies’ we need to be keeping #Teenagers busy
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RT @PhysInHistory: The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. - Richard Feynman
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“For those of us who instinctively tilt towards subtlety and gradation, it's time to stop nuance mongering and call Nazi salutes, purges and forced removal of people for what they are.” — from the ever reliable @MrHenryMorris
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“January marked the 18th month of the past 19 to record global-average surface temperatures above the 1.5C preindustrial level.” #ClimateChallenge
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