FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear

Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …

At the end of last year, I wrote a blog post in which I dissected the word ‘enshittification’, a staple of AI slang. At the beginning of 2026, I want to do the same for enshittification’s conceptua…

Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …

Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …

Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

Somebody called Ihtesham Ali, with 29.5k followers on Twitter, posted an approximately nine hundred word hymn of praise for the Islamic mathematician, astronomer and geographer, Muhammad ibn Musa a…

Algorithms began as simple mathematical procedures, but today they shape what we see, buy and believe.

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture

Sam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.

A Russian drone has hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv today, killing at least one person. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko says three others were wounded in the attack. The SMC asked…

Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

In the early 2000s, during the dramatic but now almost forgotten outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle, I wrote about war metaphors and the issue of projecting control over an ‘out of …