Nick Foster

@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social Wonderful night in Wolverhampton. Think Mar-a-Lago by the Sea may become the permanent drinks break song! Beautiful a capella rendition of Other People in particular but I loved every minute. Great to see you back

To Gen Z: my feeling is that despite our increasingly strident efforts to do so, our generation is now deservedly losing power and is trying to hang on by making reverse centaurs of yours as a last ditch attempt to remain in control. Don't fall for it weknow0.co.uk/?p=2644

Zen Cho answering a question

Great session at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social tonight, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social covered everything from how to get shortlisted for a Hugo, to the difference between western fantasy and k-drama to how her favourite of her books to date is probably Black Water Sister

Still time to come along to tonight meeting and meet award-winning author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social From 7:45 pm at Birmingham Friends of Earth Warehouse or join us via Zoom

As a human-in-the-loop responsible for AI system output where errors are hard to spot and stop, you are the human scapegoat, "accountability sink” and “moral crumple zone” rolled into one. This is not where you want to be as an early career professional weknow0.co.uk/?p=2630

OCTOBER EVENT: This Fri 10th Oct, we are very excited to welcome award-winning fantasy & romance author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social. Come and join us at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us on Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite:
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Head shot of Zen Cho

This Friday 10 October the @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social are delighted to welcome Hugo and Ray Bradbury prize winner @zenaldehyde.bsky.social! It all kicks off at 7.45pm at the FoE Warehouse on 54-57 Allison Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5TH

It may be that the important language of the next century is already developing out of sight. And people developing it will have just as hard a time holding a conversation with our current rulers as we would have with someone from the 18th century weknow0.co.uk/?p=2622

We have one gymnasts' beam, supported by language fashioned for this purpose in the 1800s, along which we have been dancing ever since. If we now have a new dimension on the block, will it be time to abandon Flatland? And will it solve any of our problems? weknow0.co.uk/?p=2611

A discussion of Henry Farrell's latest piece on understanding AI as a social technology and how it changes the questions some of us were asking 8 or 9 years ago about the future of the actuarial profession and professions more generally weknow0.co.uk/?p=2607

@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social getting a mention here as an "innovative new outlet" 😊

I think there's likely to be a lot more of it. May be harder to find the good stuff 😊

Great evening at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social last night. Alastair Reynolds was so honest and personal throughout, which got us on to the human endeavour of writing and reading, which got us on to AI. It was quite an evening 😊

The industrial revolution required the lack of alternatives for most people and a reinvention of the language. This is why we cannot imagine the breakdown of capitalism. But if we focus on AI etc as the driver of 4IR, we may miss where the action really is weknow0.co.uk/?p=2582

Hi Christopher. I spotted this yesterday. It's by a different Nick Foster 😊

Ah thanks Richard. Will correct

Thanks Adrian!

My take on @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Service Model. So what should be the goal? Because the reason Service Model will stay with me for some time to come is that it shows us what happens if we don’t have one weknow0.co.uk/?p=2573

Hunger That Defeats Language “The hunger I’m experiencing now is not what I imagined. It’s not what you imagine, dear reader. It’s not just an empty feeling in your stomach. It’s a numbness that s…

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Nuclear weapons. We can't live with them indefinitely, but we don't appear to be able to live without them either weknow0.co.uk/?p=2564

Coming up at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social on 12 September at 7.45pm!

My bit on The Bubble and all the needles lining up to prick it weknow0.co.uk/?p=2555

Corporate Britain needs to do better than pseudo-scientific victim blaming. There are real issues here around the next generation’s relationship with work and much else which need to be met head on. Your future pension income may depend upon it weknow0.co.uk/?p=2550

Monochrome head shot of Alastair Reynolds looking straight to camera

Our next meeting of @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social is with Alastair Reynolds from 7.45pm on 12 Sept at the FoE Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham B5 5TH. Tickets £6 on the door for non-members or online available at the Eventbrite link below. All very welcome to what should be a great event

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

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Companies are jumping the gun on how the grand bargain is likely to be re-framed and adopting systems before all the evidence is in. This is not embracing the future so much as selling a futures contract before setting fire to the actual future weknow0.co.uk/?p=2537

Imagine your vote counted at the next election even if you weren’t in the majority. Imagine having a sympathetic MP they could write to about things that mattered to them. All this could be yours weknow0.co.uk/?p=2521

Why would we continue to support a voting system that serves neither the governed nor those who seek to govern us? weknow0.co.uk/?p=2518

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Add your name to call for a cap on political donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Early career professionals are seeing their pay, conditions and status under threat as their more senior colleagues protect their own positions at their expense weknow0.co.uk/?p=2498