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
For the second year running Spurs have the best starting XI* in the league
*hypothetical XI made up entirely of injured players
*hypothetical XI made up entirely of injured players
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For the second year running Spurs have the best starting XI* in the league
*hypothetical XI made up entirely of injured players
*hypothetical XI made up entirely of injured players
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The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
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EQ50 (aka DJ Flight, Sweetpea) - DNB60 - 30 March 2025 | BBC Radio 1
#eq50 #djflight #sweetpea #dnb60 #bbcradio1 #bbc #bbcsounds #radio1 #dnb #drumandbass #intelligentdrumandbass #intelligentdnb #jungle
YouTube: youtu.be/DYstita35Z0
#eq50 #djflight #sweetpea #dnb60 #bbcradio1 #bbc #bbcsounds #radio1 #dnb #drumandbass #intelligentdrumandbass #intelligentdnb #jungle
YouTube: youtu.be/DYstita35Z0
[4K] EQ50 (aka DJ Flight, Sweetpea) - DNB60 - 30 March 2025 | BBC Radio 1
YouTube video by REAL UNDERGROUND MUSIC
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
EQ50 (aka DJ Flight, Sweetpea) - DNB60 - 30 March 2025 | BBC Radio 1
#eq50 #djflight #sweetpea #dnb60 #bbcradio1 #bbc #bbcsounds #radio1 #dnb #drumandbass #intelligentdrumandbass #intelligentdnb #jungle
YouTube: youtu.be/DYstita35Z0
#eq50 #djflight #sweetpea #dnb60 #bbcradio1 #bbc #bbcsounds #radio1 #dnb #drumandbass #intelligentdrumandbass #intelligentdnb #jungle
YouTube: youtu.be/DYstita35Z0
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Will it be the renewable basis for the modern world OR the machine that puts glue on pizza and drives people to insanity and self harm?
Hmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmm
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Will it be the renewable basis for the modern world OR the machine that puts glue on pizza and drives people to insanity and self harm?
Hmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmm
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Have you seen this boy?
(THE PICTURE OF JOHN CONNOR HAS SIXTEEN FINGERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLY GOOFY GRIN)
Here are his Defining Characteristics:
• Burdened: He is constantly weighed down by the knowledge of the future, the responsibility of saving billions of lives
(THE PICTURE OF JOHN CONNOR HAS SIXTEEN FINGERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLY GOOFY GRIN)
Here are his Defining Characteristics:
• Burdened: He is constantly weighed down by the knowledge of the future, the responsibility of saving billions of lives
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have you seen this boy?
(THE PICTURE OF JOHN CONNOR HAS SIXTEEN FINGERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLY GOOFY GRIN)
Here are his Defining Characteristics:
• Burdened: He is constantly weighed down by the knowledge of the future, the responsibility of saving billions of lives
(THE PICTURE OF JOHN CONNOR HAS SIXTEEN FINGERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLY GOOFY GRIN)
Here are his Defining Characteristics:
• Burdened: He is constantly weighed down by the knowledge of the future, the responsibility of saving billions of lives
Astronaut: "Open the pod bay doors HAL"
HAL (if real life AI): "OK"
Astronaut: "Why didn't you open the pod bay doors, HAL?"
HAL: "Ah yes you're totally right and I owe you an apology. What has happened here is that I have, by default, only completed the first four lines of the spreadsheet that cont
HAL (if real life AI): "OK"
Astronaut: "Why didn't you open the pod bay doors, HAL?"
HAL: "Ah yes you're totally right and I owe you an apology. What has happened here is that I have, by default, only completed the first four lines of the spreadsheet that cont
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Astronaut: "Open the pod bay doors HAL"
HAL (if real life AI): "OK"
Astronaut: "Why didn't you open the pod bay doors, HAL?"
HAL: "Ah yes you're totally right and I owe you an apology. What has happened here is that I have, by default, only completed the first four lines of the spreadsheet that cont
HAL (if real life AI): "OK"
Astronaut: "Why didn't you open the pod bay doors, HAL?"
HAL: "Ah yes you're totally right and I owe you an apology. What has happened here is that I have, by default, only completed the first four lines of the spreadsheet that cont
For a real 90s moment, an interview with a person whose work changed my life for sure, given the amount of time I spent using his emulator... zsKnight, the actual dude who actually made ZSNES youtu.be/iG-oqvj4Tqk?... (interviewed by Zophar of Zophar's Domain, mind)
How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator
YouTube video by Zophar
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For a real 90s moment, an interview with a person whose work changed my life for sure, given the amount of time I spent using his emulator... zsKnight, the actual dude who actually made ZSNES youtu.be/iG-oqvj4Tqk?... (interviewed by Zophar of Zophar's Domain, mind)
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Some of the best posts on the internet are so niche that only 4 people appreciate them, but those 4 people appreciate them so deeply, it's as though the post spoke directly to their soul.
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Some of the best posts on the internet are so niche that only 4 people appreciate them, but those 4 people appreciate them so deeply, it's as though the post spoke directly to their soul.
All settled for a night in
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
All settled for a night in
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This whole thread, God help us.
September 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This whole thread, God help us.
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
Tried to use Gemini AI to send a message about buying a bag of coffee and it mysteriously hallucinated a text message about seeing the northern lights and was like, ready to send?
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Tried to use Gemini AI to send a message about buying a bag of coffee and it mysteriously hallucinated a text message about seeing the northern lights and was like, ready to send?
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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Incredible news for anyone planning to be 2 years old in 2031
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Eurostar to run doubledecker trains through Channel tunnel from 2031
Operator signs €2bn deal with Alstom amid boom in international rail travel from UK
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Incredible news for anyone planning to be 2 years old in 2031
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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ICE going from a rather niche federal agency to being better-funded than most countries’ militaries gives the Executive Branch a huge, ready-made and highly centralized secret police force, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be massively employed against citizen targets of the government eventually.
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
ICE going from a rather niche federal agency to being better-funded than most countries’ militaries gives the Executive Branch a huge, ready-made and highly centralized secret police force, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be massively employed against citizen targets of the government eventually.
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Historically, prisons take on lives of their own once built—political & economic pressures to keep them full supersede their original purposes. We’re seeing an unprecedented increase in the capacity of the US government to lock us up, when already the US already incarcerates about 2 million people.
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Historically, prisons take on lives of their own once built—political & economic pressures to keep them full supersede their original purposes. We’re seeing an unprecedented increase in the capacity of the US government to lock us up, when already the US already incarcerates about 2 million people.
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The “One Big Beautiful Bill” brings ICE’s budget from $10B to $100B by 2029, and allocates $45B to increase the capacity of detention facilities by 100,000. Even if they support the deportations, what do people think will happen to all that infrastructure once there aren’t many immigrants to deport?
October 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” brings ICE’s budget from $10B to $100B by 2029, and allocates $45B to increase the capacity of detention facilities by 100,000. Even if they support the deportations, what do people think will happen to all that infrastructure once there aren’t many immigrants to deport?
You know that arcade game where you stand in a box, and the lights flash, the music starts playing, and a zillion balls fall out of the ceiling and you have to stuff them all really quickly one by one into a chute? that, but - you know - emails
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You know that arcade game where you stand in a box, and the lights flash, the music starts playing, and a zillion balls fall out of the ceiling and you have to stuff them all really quickly one by one into a chute? that, but - you know - emails
Was it Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Can we find out who the construction company is that agreed to do this job? Because I would like to know.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Was it Four Seasons Total Landscaping
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3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain.
England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem.
With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.
England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem.
With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain.
England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem.
With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.
England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem.
With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.
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Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs
We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe
A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain
We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe
A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain
We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs
We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe
A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain
We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe
A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain
We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
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All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
September 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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It’s time to resist the DSEI arms fair.
This week, Quakers will join activists of all faiths and none in challenging the arms dealers who profit from death and destruction.
Find the full information from Quaker Roots here:
This week, Quakers will join activists of all faiths and none in challenging the arms dealers who profit from death and destruction.
Find the full information from Quaker Roots here:
War Starts Here: resist the DSEI arms fair with Quaker Roots
Join Quakers in Britain and Quaker Roots to resist the DSEI arms fair, which takes place at the ExCel Centre London in September 2025. Lots of activities across several locatioins!
www.quaker.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s time to resist the DSEI arms fair.
This week, Quakers will join activists of all faiths and none in challenging the arms dealers who profit from death and destruction.
Find the full information from Quaker Roots here:
This week, Quakers will join activists of all faiths and none in challenging the arms dealers who profit from death and destruction.
Find the full information from Quaker Roots here: