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🚨 Mind blowing interview with Turing award-winning Yoshua Bengio for BBC Newsnight one of the three founding fathers of AI, is now warning: “The worst-case scenario is human extinction.” AI isn’t just risky — it could end us. 1/10 🧵 📺 youtu.be/c4Zx849dOiY?t=0

Mermaid plaques, Chandraketugarh, Bengal, India from Shunga Period (187-75 BCE) These are some of the earliest depictions of mermaids in history! The first plaque depicts the mermaid/Matsyakanya being spotted by the locals & the local chieftain being informed! The second one...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Seamus Heaney’s North. Heaney was already a major poet, but #North took him to a new height of literary recognition—in its lyrical convergence of the archaic & the contemporary, the mythic & the historic, the local & universal

AI skills drive in schools to put power in hands of next generation - Starmer | Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

Och #Wales. What a shame #BELWAL

Prof Bob Davis My dissertation compared the way Heaney and Keats used history in their poetry; I more or less wore out my copy of this book. It brings back happy memories!

come along to the Bloomsbury Theatre on the 2nd of July for a night of poetry, performance and brains, with some amazing guests, and the wonderful Will Eaves, into whose brain we will be taking a deep dive with Dr Saloni Krishnan!

Two sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where and when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. More:

I enjoyed the chance to revisit Muriel Spark while reviewing Frances Wilson's new life of her for Prospect. (Link in quoted tweet.)

This is untrue and misleading. It should be entirely disregarded. Disappointed in The Telegraph.

Great loss of a popular musical genius & innovator #BrianWilson RIP bbc.com/news/articles/…

Devastated to learn of the death of Brian Wilson. He is the musical genius of my lifetime. Almost everything I have written has his music, reaching out to God, in the background. He brought so much happiness into my life, and I vividly recall his Oxford concert in 2004. RIP.

Don’t miss this my friends. #StrawberryMoon & the 18.6 year cycle … bbc.co.uk/weather/articl…

A final reminder that my online book launch will be taking place in 40 mins- I'll be chatting about the book's origins and the research process among other things! Also LSU will be making a code available that will allow you to avail of a 40% discount :-) fb.me/e/36Zx1D2wQ

Well another big milestone on our major Economic and Social Research Council project on Digital Citizenship, under David Lundie—as we move into our Impact Acceleration phase in partnership with our Community of Practice. Some of the best teachers, practitioners, technologists with whom I have ever worked

Astonishing to think that this and Eleanor Rigby were written by young men of that age at roughly the same time. Both admired, and competed with, one another.