James

Can anybody recommend a really good edition of St Ignatius of Loyola’s ‘Spiritual Exercises’. (I mean, super excellent.)

I’m not particularly after anything with a commentary tacked on, but I’d like a good and full text. ✝️⚓️

A small child dressed as Alex from A Clockwork Orange

A small child dressed as Patrick Bateman

My favourite genre of world book day posts is kids in age inappropriate costumes

Amen to that 😆

What I completely agree with you on is that we should call them out on it, be public in our condemnation of their views, and stand up for justice as explicitly in Jesus’ name as they call for hatred.

The implication of Matthew 25 is that there will be Christians who miss the point of what Jesus taught and find out the hard way.

I don’t think the goats are not Christian as such; they are self-confessed Christians who have got it so catastrophically wrong that Jesus denies association with them.

Oh absolutely, I don’t agree with their arguments, I am just very cautious about deciding who is and who is not a Christian; ultimately that is not my decision, and in any case they would argue that *they* are the real Christians and I’m not!

Saying “these people aren’t Christian” doesn’t address the problem that they think they are and that their interpretation is the right one.

Obviously I think they’re wrong, but I don’t think denying their faith helps in the slightest.

If you accept the premise that there are no genuine refugees, but rather an army of fighting age men invading the country - you can argue that the Christian thing to do is to protect the weak and vulnerable in their path.

There are absolutely some cosplayers out there, waving crosses about for clout whilst never stepping foot in a church.

But actually a lot of the shouty far right Christians are affiliated with (or at least, regularly attend) church.

I agree that supporting refugees is the right (and Christian) thing to do.

But rejecting refugees doesn’t make someone not a Christian. A bad Christian, yes - but not not a Christian.

There’s nothing that historians love more than a good argument! 😆

Arguably America’s involvement was irrelevant to the global nature of the two conflicts, because the minute Britain got involved, every inhabited continent was.

Glad to be of service 😊

My preference for things like this is a webpage (so blog post would do it). If you were sharing it privately via email I’d go PDF, but if you’re wanting general public free-for-all, a blog post would work best.

The replies to this have some good sources re: environmental concerns, and helpfully includes people arguing both that AI is really bad for the environment, and that it's not as bad as some people make out, so you get some debate / comparison.

This is worth a read too

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

Article not a book, but this is a really interesting summary of them impact of AI on work:
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

The Digital Republic: Taking Back Control of Technology Taking Back Control of Technology

The Digital Republic - again, not AI specific, but touches on ideas of the consequences of unregulated tech
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Your Computer Is on Fire Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book s

Okay, here goes:
(Slight disclaimer, these are from my TBR so I've not read them, but have saved them to get round to later!)

Your Computer is on Fire - not about AI specifically, but covers some of the wider issues with computing & ethics.
direct.mit.edu/books/edited...

I’m pretty sure I have some book recommendations saved somewhere too but I’d need to look them out 😅

AI As Your Overlord: Assimilation, Acceptance or Resistance? - YouTube “I apologize for being unable to satisfy a lot of people’s expectations . . . I kind of felt powerless” so said Lee Sedol, Grand Master, on losing to DeepMin...

Okay - sounds like you could end up down a fascinating rabbit hole!

As a starting point, @greshamcollege.bsky.social have had a few good lecture series on AI, its ethics and issues, which are worth checking out:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Counterpoint: people are currently writing and sharing clickbait about blood rain, and this is a reliable and timely fact-check / explainer.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Yes.

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

It is also a traditional way of erasing women too. Cooking, cleaning, managing a home, raising children etc. do not count as real work under this definition.

What kind of things are you looking for? Technical stuff about how it works? Analysis of its impacts? Do you mean true Artificial Intelligence in the classic sense (i.e. actual sentience), or the contemporary "anything complex a computer can do"?

IIRC you can’t copyright a title, so there is literally nothing to stop someone publishing another book with an identical title.

It’s intended so that multiple people can legitimately write books entitled “The Tudors”, but inadvertently allows this bullshit.

I read this last year and really enjoyed it. I could also hear her voice in my head as I read it 😆

Worcestershire horse in stable condition after River Stour rescue Mitchell the horse became stuck in fast flowing water in the River Stour, and had to be lifted out.

Horse in stable condition after river rescue.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah okay. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, this seems to have gone from “division” to actual schism. I can’t say I’m surprised, but it is sad to see.