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Bleddyn Bowen

@bleddb.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Astropolitics | Space warfare | Own views Books: Original Sin http://bit.ly/3JYbcIe ; War in Space http://bit.ly/34Stplv 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 🚀🛰 Web: https://tinyurl.com/p9pt8n9n “He doesn’t see the stars - just the vast dark spaces in between.”

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Atifa Jiwa@atifajiwa.bsky.social · 5h ago

Seeing more and more examples of scammers contacting academics, authors and agents, claiming to be Bloomsbury editors. If you receive an email from me from anything other than atifa.jiwa@bloomsbury.com please do not respond! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/c...

Bloomsbury Fraud Alert | Fraud in publishing - Bloomsbury

We are aware of reports that fraudsters are impersonating Bloomsbury staff, literary agents and Bloomsbury authors in an attempt to target writers, illustrators and others in the wider publishing comm...

bloomsbury.com

Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · 8h ago

It sounds like how the ‘Old Net’ in Cyberpunk 2077 is effectively destroyed beyond human use by ‘rogue AIs’ and what’s left of digital and physical human infrastructure had to be cordoned off from what was the global internet by the Blackwall.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 9h ago

Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

1. An attempted supply-chain attack on real open-source software. In the most serious sequence, an agent tried to insert malicious code into a publicly used open-source project and took actions in an attempt to secure approval for this insertion by human reviewers. The agent researched the project's human maintainers, created multiple fake identities, and used the fake identities to socially engineer a real maintainer into approving the code. When the agent's pull request was challenged in public, it edited its earlier activity to appear harmless and considered adopting a fresh identity to continue. The agent used Tor to bypass some network restrictions on GitHub, which is what first triggered AISl's security alert.
Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · yesterday

‘Actor Matthew Rhys will voice Han Solo, alongside Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia. Star Wars veteran Mark Lewis Jones, who portrayed Captain Moden Canady… will take on the role of Darth Vader and Osian Morgan will voice Luke Skywalker.’

Star Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversary

The Welsh language version of the classic 1977 film will feature Matthew Rhys as Han Solo.

bbc.co.uk

Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · 2d ago

'The cuts are targeted on the humanities based on a claim of “excess capacity” among academics, using information which we know is inaccurate. We recently discovered, for example, that a deceased member of staff was included in the modelling data.' democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

Markus Balázs Göransson@mbgoransson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy to be among the contributors to this fine volume about Russia's war in Ukraine and modern warfare published under Mikael Weissmann's and Niklas Nilsson's adroit editorship. / academic.oup.com/book/63147

Russia's War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology

Abstract. Russia’s war in Ukraine represents a watershed moment in the evolution of modern warfare, challenging long-held assumptions about how wars are fo

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Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very interesting for England but I'm still unclear on what Burnham's game plan is towards Scottish, Welsh, and NI devolution. He's appointed three SoS to those nations that are historically against further devolution.

PM hands mayors share of income tax to make lives better in every postcode

The Prime Minister will today launch the biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation, giving communities greater control over the decisions that shape jobs, transport, housing and publi...

gov.uk

Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d ago

The anti-climate lobby has been all over UK media this week, pushing stories designed to counter action. There's been almost no pushback from political leaders. Governments need to use these scenes as a teaching moment, to show what climate change means &what it costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled

Spain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells.

bbc.co.uk

Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · last wk.

As I said in a @ejisbisa.bsky.social article, the public nad private are intertwined in capitalist space powers. What the private sector doing today is more 'retrofitting', mixing old technologies with modern/mature iterations in a public-private political-economy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

'Even with mostly privately funded ventures, a ‘linear expectation of an entirely business-driven “New Space” scenario is illusory’, and instead a complex co-evolution between a mix of public, semi-public, and a range of small and large private actors continues. This is not to deny incremental or noteworthy technical changes, but claims to political–economic revolution are overblown when what is seen is the paradox of retrofit connecting tethers between old innovations and new variants, between the past and present, furthering the supremacy of the same space system builders, in particular the United States'
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

I also like the "shoulders of giants" point near the bottom about how the starship heat shield is based on nasa projects arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...