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Cennydd Bowles

@cennydd.com
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Philosopher of design and technology · Former design guy · Doctoral researcher, IDEA: The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds

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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 20/07/2025
Our sweet, silly cat Beemo died yesterday. One of those slowly-then-quickly illnesses turned out to be an irreversible kidney problem. She was loving, easygoing and vocal, and a dear companion to us both. We’re in bits – but this is the price of love. Hug your nonhuman friends, all.
A black and white cat faces the camera on a wooden deck. Her paws are stretched out in front of her.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 28/04/2025
Couple of grabs here, but I recommend getting the actual magazine from digitalfrontier.newsstand.co.uk
Page 1 of an article 'Symbolic Gestures' from Digital Frontier. A big headline reads 'Your job is to convey how the system works'.Page 2 of the Digital Frontier article. Pullquotes read 'Awful and mawkish visual cues' and 'We value not just the content of the book but also the experience of turning the page'Page 3 of the Digital Frontier article. Pullquote: 'This is just what happens with culture. It gets remixed. It gets adapted.'
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 04/04/2025
Opening day of the cricket season. Usually I’m quad-layered, shivering, clutching an outsized hot chocolate. Today, 21 °C, sunburn. Hasn’t rained in a month. Early April. Probably fine.
View from the Compton stand at Lord’s cricket ground, looking towards the pavilion. The sun is beating down on an early April day. Middlesex are playing Lancashire.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 04/04/2025
Married ten years today. Life tip: marry the kindest person you know.
Cennydd (wearing a red beanie) and Anna (blue beanie) in Nottingham’s Market Square, Christmas Day 2021.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 11/03/2025
Glad to receive a copy of Universal Methods of Ethical Design, feat. 100 methods and frameworks to help designers consider ethical impacts. Obviously, responsible design needs policies, processes & infrastructure too, but IMO this is now your best resource for versatile tools. Recommended.
Cover of universal methods of ethical design, in dark grey with hot pink and white writingTable of contents page for universal methods of ethical design featuring 50 design toolPage of universal method of ethical design, featuring Spotify ethics assessment to
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 23/01/2025
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 23/01/2025
Because nothing says ‘human flourishing’ quite like ‘global technological dominance’
Screengrab from Trump’s new executive order. “It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 26/11/2024
Has anyone done a socioeconomic analysis of why Bavarian-style Xmas markets have exploded into every city in the last decade? It can’t just be the shadowy influence of Big Glühwein.
A wooden hut in front of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. Its sign reads ‘Krakauer’. The hut is decorated with your usual Xmas chintz: tinsel, pinecones, baubles. The sky is unseasonably blue.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 26/11/2024
Tactic from last night’s game. Playing Black, I realise I can’t trap the bishop without dropping my rook. So… let’s drop my rook. 15…c4!? 16. dxc4 dxc4 17. Qxa8 Qb6+ 18. Kh1 Bb7 19. Be3 Qc6! wins. Computer says the sacrifice isn’t entirely sound, but I’m happy with it as a practical shot.
A chess position from McWilliams–Bowles, 25 Nov 2024. Black is looking to trap the White light-squared bishop. In Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN): r1bq1rk1/4np1p/p5p1/1ppp4/5P2/1BPP1Q2/P1P3PP/R1B2RK1 b - - 1 15
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 25/11/2024
The World Chess Championship starts in ten minutes and I am *psyched* for it.
Ding Liren shakes Gukesh D’s hand in front of a large black sign ‘FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SINGAPORE 2024’.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 21/11/2024
Defended my year-long Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs title despite flagrant collusion between my sister and my wife. You come for the king, etc.
A rubber dinosaur with what appears to be lipstick overlooks three colonial-era plastic figurines. This is Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 13/11/2024
21…Qxc3! Obvious tbh, but my took my guy by surprise
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 11/11/2024
Chapeau to the publisher of these Romanian stamps, which depict the full smothered mate sequence from multiple angles. Advanced chess player bait.
Four Romanian stamps (1983). They show the forced smothered mate pattern (Black Kh8, pawns h7 g7, Rf8, White Qe6 and Nh6) and the three mating moves – i.e. Qg8+ Rxg8 Nf7# – from two different angles in alternating colour schemes, red and blue.
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 20/10/2024
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Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com · 03/09/2024
A meme. Top: the Facehugger from Alien, labelled 'A/B TESTING'. Bottom: the Chestburster, labelled 'DECEPTIVE PATTERN'.
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