Bleddyn Bowen

📢We have kicked off todays @astropoliticswg.bsky.social workshop at Durham University!

☄️We started the day with an introduction on the intersection between space and international politics from James Osborne, director of Durham's Space Research Centre (SPARC)

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Efficiency! Productivity gainz!

And also with American warheads as our bombs are only for the Trident missiles on the V-class subs.

Nuclear capable F-35 As… so same problem.

A strong earthquake has just jolted northern Japan. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Well… about that UK nuclear weapons programme…

Got to wonder how many more permutations of ‘LLMs are bullshit machines’ is needed for the tech bubble to burst and professionals to respect themselves enough to not use them as anything other than a conversational and less reliable internet search engine.

Hey wait I thought industry already trained and assessed entry level graduate staff to tailor their skills to what their jobs actually need?

You don't have to be on board with all of the English and Welsh Green agenda (I'm not) to come to terms with the possibility that they are now a much more strategically serious and shrewd force than any predecessors on the UK Left.

It is a force that UK defence and FP networks need to engage with

Too late. University senior managers have read the White Paper and are already drawing up hit-lists of non-core research and subjects to close.

A tiny crack in a spacecraft window triggered China’s first-ever emergency launch to Tiangong space station. A CCTV article reveals what happened over 20 intense days, and why a piece of space debris smaller than 1 mm forced the emergency response.

Don’t worry, we in the UK have NIGHTFALL on the way!

Also, when you say NIGHTFALL, in has to be sung like Skyfall.

www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/96bd4...

These people fetishise military power

Leaked Welsh Labour report lays bare divides Plus we quizzed the UK minister who told Wales to "be grateful"

Big news:

1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.

2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.

3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.

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YouTube video by The Tiberian Sons Dual Wielder - Ace Combat 7 - Epic Rock Cover

I think this track has been on my ‘most played’ list for two years now. That entire album by @thetiberiansons.bsky.social is great

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The hysteria over the civilisationalist guff in the Trump Security Strategy is as ridiculous as the document itself

But if there is one aspect worth monitoring it is in how its framing of economic policy would destabilise aspects of globalisation that are foundations of US power

Remember that time when Farage was outraged about some throwaway comments Obama made about Brexit?

Second - that said, it's been made clear once again that Ireland's de facto refusal to have a defence policy and capability has gone from simply being an issue of freeriding off of European collective security to actively undermining it. /2

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I got Alec Guinness/George Smiley vibes from him in that show.

Another one for the 'it was a scarily prophetic warning not a blueprint' pile.

This chapter needs to be thrown in the face of every European official who has spent the last 12 months optimistically saying things are the same.

Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.

He was excellent in The Man in the High Castle.

Don't ignore the crisis at the British Library In 2023, one of the world's most significant libraries was hit with a cyber attack that destroyed multiple systems, requiring that its entire technology infrastructure be rebuilt and costing millions. Staff at the British Library say that the attack undermined the working environment, and more than 300 are on strike. The Library's chief executive has resigned, less than a year after she took the position. And some material is still not available to scholars. "Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them," argues Hetan Shah, the chief executive of The British Academy. "The nation rightly values scientific infrastructure, but it pays extraordinarily little attention to what is happening at our national library." Museums Journal | 3 min read & City AM | 4 min read

This is a good note to end the week. The plight of @britishlibrary.bsky.social has been picked up in @nature.com’s influential daily briefing. Thanks everyone (including @floragraham.bsky.social)
who is getting the word out there about our national library
us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...

this story isn’t going away

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He probably wants them on his golf courses