Ben Bowman
@bennosaurus.com
I research youth studies and environmental sociology: young people, climate action & climate justice, and I am a dinosaur from the internet.
👨🏭Senior Lecturer @ Manchester Met Uni
💚Quaker | #COYS | (he/him)
🔗 www.bennosaurus.com
👨🏭Senior Lecturer @ Manchester Met Uni
💚Quaker | #COYS | (he/him)
🔗 www.bennosaurus.com
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
"Xabi, we'd like you to think of Tottenham as a fixer-upper, with great character and a deceptively spacious creative midfield"
February 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
"Xabi, we'd like you to think of Tottenham as a fixer-upper, with great character and a deceptively spacious creative midfield"
Report has some graphic detail of brutal police violence. Strength to everyone resisting the authorities in the USA in this way
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 11, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Report has some graphic detail of brutal police violence. Strength to everyone resisting the authorities in the USA in this way
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Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc in 2025.
There's a push to boycott ChatGPT, that tool is now added to StopICEToday.com
There's a push to boycott ChatGPT, that tool is now added to StopICEToday.com
I gathered a few resources you can use & take action with to protect your communities from ICE:
stopicetoday.com
stopicetoday.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.
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France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:
February 4, 2026 at 10:33 AM
France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:
The number of white people who are fine with Epstein and fine with supporting Trump makes me think of what Frederick Douglass wrote, that irresponsible power poisons the soul, and that the slave system destroyed the spirit of the slaver as much as it destroyed the person who was enslaved
February 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The number of white people who are fine with Epstein and fine with supporting Trump makes me think of what Frederick Douglass wrote, that irresponsible power poisons the soul, and that the slave system destroyed the spirit of the slaver as much as it destroyed the person who was enslaved
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Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing zdnet.com/article/fran... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social
It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.
It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.
Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing
Aiming to replace all US videoconferencing services by 2027, the deployment is the EU's latest policy move in support of digital sovereignty. And there's more to come.
zdnet.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing zdnet.com/article/fran... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social
It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.
It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.
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I'm sorry is there a way to read this that isn't 'Microsoft is going to increase consumer confidence by making it illegal for you to be mad at them'
![Nathan Kalman-Lamb
@nkalamb.bsky.social
Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."
Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by
@mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
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January 29, 2026 at 7:59 PM
I'm sorry is there a way to read this that isn't 'Microsoft is going to increase consumer confidence by making it illegal for you to be mad at them'
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Greg Pollock and I weigh in on the Trump Administration's omission of climate change from the latest National Defense Strategy and why it is important. GIFT LINK foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/29/n...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Tries to Imagine Climate Change Away
Sycophancy and ideology have replaced realistic assessments of dangers.
foreignpolicy.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Greg Pollock and I weigh in on the Trump Administration's omission of climate change from the latest National Defense Strategy and why it is important. GIFT LINK foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/29/n...
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the government paid £4 million for a website that simply links out to AI training courses from other companies rather than using that money to make something actually bespoke
which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲
which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM
the government paid £4 million for a website that simply links out to AI training courses from other companies rather than using that money to make something actually bespoke
which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲
which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲
The digital world is almost completely US monopoly owned and eventually 90% of the world is going to pull the escape cord and go off alone.
If the UK knew what it was doing, we'd be encouraging immigration, encouraging higher ed and building funding for a European digital infrastructure
If the UK knew what it was doing, we'd be encouraging immigration, encouraging higher ed and building funding for a European digital infrastructure
January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
The digital world is almost completely US monopoly owned and eventually 90% of the world is going to pull the escape cord and go off alone.
If the UK knew what it was doing, we'd be encouraging immigration, encouraging higher ed and building funding for a European digital infrastructure
If the UK knew what it was doing, we'd be encouraging immigration, encouraging higher ed and building funding for a European digital infrastructure
How's Labour going to mention, in the AI tutor stuff, the growing number of tragic cases (& legal action) in which AI chatbots are described as encouraging children & young people to kill themselves and/or initiating sexually explicit conversations with children en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_...
January 29, 2026 at 11:33 AM
How's Labour going to mention, in the AI tutor stuff, the growing number of tragic cases (& legal action) in which AI chatbots are described as encouraging children & young people to kill themselves and/or initiating sexually explicit conversations with children en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_...
France moves away from US digital tools & will ban public officials from using US meeting software like Zoom & Teams
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
In a changing world, universities will need to do this too.
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
In a changing world, universities will need to do this too.
France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams
The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.
www.politico.eu
January 29, 2026 at 11:08 AM
France moves away from US digital tools & will ban public officials from using US meeting software like Zoom & Teams
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
In a changing world, universities will need to do this too.
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
In a changing world, universities will need to do this too.
I agree with tara bomp but also, if you want to get into a newspaper like this for free, you can paste the link URL into archive.today and it'll hack it for you #L337
January 29, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I agree with tara bomp but also, if you want to get into a newspaper like this for free, you can paste the link URL into archive.today and it'll hack it for you #L337
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Is smoking a cigar like that a secret signal that you're a wrong 'un?
January 29, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Is smoking a cigar like that a secret signal that you're a wrong 'un?
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QUE ISSO? GOLEIRO TRUBIN, DO BENFICA, FEZ GOL NO REAL MADRID
Benfica 4x2 Real Madrid
Benfica 4x2 Real Madrid
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
QUE ISSO? GOLEIRO TRUBIN, DO BENFICA, FEZ GOL NO REAL MADRID
Benfica 4x2 Real Madrid
Benfica 4x2 Real Madrid
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£10 bounty to anyone who can wind that loser up until he promises to eat a book again
January 28, 2026 at 7:48 AM
£10 bounty to anyone who can wind that loser up until he promises to eat a book again
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When it rains, it now rains more.
For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.
And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.
And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
When it rains, it now rains more.
For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.
And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall.
And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai, just checking you got the memo and
*bleep* Yeah, hi, it's Vinai again, I'm just calling because if you want to get here in time for training then
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai again, I just wanted to make sure you knew training started at the usual time today
*bleep* Yeah, hi, it's Vinai again, I'm just calling because if you want to get here in time for training then
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai again, I just wanted to make sure you knew training started at the usual time today
January 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai, just checking you got the memo and
*bleep* Yeah, hi, it's Vinai again, I'm just calling because if you want to get here in time for training then
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai again, I just wanted to make sure you knew training started at the usual time today
*bleep* Yeah, hi, it's Vinai again, I'm just calling because if you want to get here in time for training then
*bleep* Yeah, hi Ryan, it's Vinai again, I just wanted to make sure you knew training started at the usual time today