Bleddyn Bowen
@bleddb.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views
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“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
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“He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”
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I think we’ve missed a trick in Welsh by using ‘Deallusrwydd Artiffisial’ (DA) for AI when ‘Deallusrwydd Ffug’ (DFF) was right there - ‘fake intelligence’.
‘DA’ is also the word for ‘good’ so it adds to the problem. I read the below as a ‘good growth zone’.
‘DA’ is also the word for ‘good’ so it adds to the problem. I read the below as a ‘good growth zone’.
This is a great day for Wales – for jobs, businesses, and community.
Bydd y prosiectau hyn yn sicrhau bod Cymru ar flaen y gad o ran datblygiadau technolegol trawsnewidiol.
I am committed to continuing to do all I can to create more days like these for us all.
Bydd y prosiectau hyn yn sicrhau bod Cymru ar flaen y gad o ran datblygiadau technolegol trawsnewidiol.
I am committed to continuing to do all I can to create more days like these for us all.
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I think we’ve missed a trick in Welsh by using ‘Deallusrwydd Artiffisial’ (DA) for AI when ‘Deallusrwydd Ffug’ (DFF) was right there - ‘fake intelligence’.
‘DA’ is also the word for ‘good’ so it adds to the problem. I read the below as a ‘good growth zone’.
‘DA’ is also the word for ‘good’ so it adds to the problem. I read the below as a ‘good growth zone’.
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Macron's speech on French national space strategy starts with an overview of military space. Mentions competitors have operational ground-based directed energy weapons, and the russian plan for nuking low earth orbit
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Macron's speech on French national space strategy starts with an overview of military space. Mentions competitors have operational ground-based directed energy weapons, and the russian plan for nuking low earth orbit
Today in British politics
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today in British politics
The New Bond is obvious.
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The New Bond is obvious.
New York billionaires flying past UK billionaires over the Atlantic
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New York billionaires flying past UK billionaires over the Atlantic
And it’s all just about the BBC.
Okay we've got fours hours until this place is just a flood of posts about 'The Dems' again. Let's enjoy it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
And it’s all just about the BBC.
This ramping up of missile production is more important than any of the hyperbolic coverage Chinese hypersonic glide missiles, AI, and quantum innovations. We are still living in an industrial world no matter what people tell you about the ‘information age’.
‘A new arms race’: Satellite images, maps and records reveal huge surge in China’s missile production sites – CNN: ‘CNN’s findings also suggest that China’s missile production spiked in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022’
‘A new arms race’: Satellite images, maps and records reveal huge surge in China’s missile production sites | CNN
China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN...
edition.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This ramping up of missile production is more important than any of the hyperbolic coverage Chinese hypersonic glide missiles, AI, and quantum innovations. We are still living in an industrial world no matter what people tell you about the ‘information age’.
At this rate everyone will be driving electric cars before UK Gov has electrified the rail network.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
At this rate everyone will be driving electric cars before UK Gov has electrified the rail network.
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Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I've been talking about this on here for a while. We just assume it will always rain enough, so the management of water in the UK is totally disastrous. Now, after a relatively few dry months, we are approaching a calamity. We have done it to ourselves. Yet again. We are a deeply unserious country.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've been talking about this on here for a while. We just assume it will always rain enough, so the management of water in the UK is totally disastrous. Now, after a relatively few dry months, we are approaching a calamity. We have done it to ourselves. Yet again. We are a deeply unserious country.
Canada will have to spend a lot more than $60m CAD a year if it wants a domestic space launch capability.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Canada will have to spend a lot more than $60m CAD a year if it wants a domestic space launch capability.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
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As the situation in Pokrovsk becomes critical, and AFU reinforces the pocket to stabilize the flanks, there's considerable attention now to how this battle is unfolding. A few thoughts on the situation. 1/ (DeepStateMap)
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
As the situation in Pokrovsk becomes critical, and AFU reinforces the pocket to stabilize the flanks, there's considerable attention now to how this battle is unfolding. A few thoughts on the situation. 1/ (DeepStateMap)
What if I told you some of Napoleon’s most lasting legacies in strategy and military force was in the bureaucracy?
Hegseth: "We must wage an all-out campaign to streamline the Pentagon's process, to unshackle our people from unproductive work and to shift our resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. Our objection is simple: transform the entire acquisition system to operate on a wartime footing."
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What if I told you some of Napoleon’s most lasting legacies in strategy and military force was in the bureaucracy?
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Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
People will still watch TV if they make good TV.
More than 11 million viewers for #TheCelebrityTraitors finale last night.
That's up three million on the previous episode, with iPlayer viewership still to come. Bloody hell.
That's up three million on the previous episode, with iPlayer viewership still to come. Bloody hell.
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
People will still watch TV if they make good TV.
“Before you leave the castle, please reveal whether you are an Orthodox, or a Critical.”
Now do the show but only with senior academics.
The Traitors is a very different game when the players are either friends already or in an industry where, if you’re making a project together, you are used to quickly bonding and making fast friends for the duration.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“Before you leave the castle, please reveal whether you are an Orthodox, or a Critical.”
Even if they had a very cunning CEO and if we ignore Musk’s toxicity to the brand, I’m not sure how Tesla would compete effectively with the scaled benefits Chinese industry has in the entire, global EV supply chain.
What's deeply funny about this:
It's mostly tied to 10 year targets around robo taxis and Tesla sales figures he has zero chance of meeting.
So it's just pure delusion on all sides. 12 year old brains doing 12 year old 'cool' things all round.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's mostly tied to 10 year targets around robo taxis and Tesla sales figures he has zero chance of meeting.
So it's just pure delusion on all sides. 12 year old brains doing 12 year old 'cool' things all round.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Even if they had a very cunning CEO and if we ignore Musk’s toxicity to the brand, I’m not sure how Tesla would compete effectively with the scaled benefits Chinese industry has in the entire, global EV supply chain.
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One day, the people who hyped "AI" in education will pretend it never happened, and will suffer no consequences for this, just as the people who hyped MOOCs, and franchising, and unregulated recruitment, and every other rolling disaster, have suffered no consequences.
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One day, the people who hyped "AI" in education will pretend it never happened, and will suffer no consequences for this, just as the people who hyped MOOCs, and franchising, and unregulated recruitment, and every other rolling disaster, have suffered no consequences.