Kevin Beynon

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Film composer Bebe Barron in her electronic recording studio

Answer #4, March 8, 2026:
Bebe Barron (and Louis Barron), FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
4/5

Not the gum, but the candy. Taste / user experience has been described as "Sambuca spiked with Vicks VapoRub."

Notable ingredients, chrysanthemum extract, niacin, caffeine, millet jelly, MSG. (Niacin? Yes, niacin)

Very much the effect of a strong “throat drop,” clears nasal passages.

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Today on International Women's Day I thought about my lost girlhood and womanhood in Baghdad. How my youth was wasted.
I'll turn 40 years old this year and I am left with the horrifying realisation that I've spent the past 40 years in Baghdad just trying to survive. I haven't actually lived at all.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

This problem really pisses me off. Eating from the supermarket feels necessary for a lot of people. It's a bit cheaper. It's less time consuming than sourcing food around the country. Than attempting to garden in our short growing season. But we, as consumers, need to also consider our food choices.

Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again Yesterday evening, 5 March 2026, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there, on the...

The police and MPs have unwittingly activated the Quakers. Quakerism was built with peaceful protest as one of its foundations.

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The dark green Plaid constituencies at the heart of the Valleys is purely down to my force of will and influence.

I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.

Dorsey's blunt AI warning sharpens debate over jobs and profits Jack Dorsey is not the first chief executive to say artificial intelligence will transform work. He may be among the first to act as if it already has - and to say so openly.

AI is not the only 'tool' in this article.

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

There we are, the little nugget of truth:

"GEL will also be able to extract lithium carbonate, as well as heat, from the fluid underground – the first commercial source of the 'critical mineral' in the UK and crucial for the production of electric batteries."

Children with autism encouraged to “Hunger Games it out” for school support The Government has announced a bold, innovative and low-key evil approach to SEND funding for school students, the Education Secretary revealed yesterday. As part of measures to protect the nation's m...

As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.

BBC cut 'free Palestine' remark from Baftas – but not racial slur

The BBC have cut a 'Free Palestine' call from their 2026 Bafta coverage, despite not cutting a racial slur from a man with Tourette's syndrome

Okay, I'm saying it now.

The palace are promoting the idea of Andrew's 'mental health' story to ensure there's a suitable explanation when he's 'suicided'.

Which is intended to end the whole episode and ensure no other family members, past or present, are called to account for their actions.

Photo of me inking a wolf monster on a wall

Me inking on a wall as part of the Cheltenham paint festival a few years ago which I’m hoping is back on this year. It’s a street art festival where the public can walk around town and see the artists make art in real time! I used Posca pens and I think it took about 12 hours

Poem 'Epitaph on a tyrant' by WH Auden

W H Auden (1939) responding to the rise of fascism

The final couplet is brutal and brilliant

The juxtaposition of laughing & crying, his tears are not empathy but triggers of violence

Not naming the tyrants make this feel less like history, more like prophecy

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#AntiFascist

Social Media Addiction: Facebook Whistleblower Says Big Tech Has Known & Ignored Problem for Years We continue our conversation with attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett and victim advocates Lori Schott and Lennon Torres about their fight to hold tech giants accountable for the damaging and even deadly e...

Despite longstanding concerns that social media platforms are too addictive and harming young users, "they continue to optimize for spending more and more time on these platforms," says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.

Update 39: Submissions Closing Date · They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) Several people have been asking when submissions will close for They Are Still Here. We will be closing submissions on Saturday 21st March at Midnight UK time.We wanted to give a few pointers as to wh...

An update about They Are Still Here - when we close, and what we're still looking for. You've got a month, pobl!
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It’s very illuminating to hit the edges of this kind of class and realize they think socializing over dinner or talking on the phone on a treadmill is “work”

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Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’ French president rejects US criticism as António Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies

"Research ... by Unicef and Interpol across 11 countries found at least 1.2 million children reported having their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year. In some countries, one in 25 children – the equivalent of one child in every classroom – had been affected."

An educational graphic with the title "Why learn about birds and dataviz in the age of AI?" overlaid on a stylized, radial blue background. Below the text, several species of birds are shown, including one with its tail feathers fanned out, with anatomical labels "Tail" and "Rump" pointing to its body parts.

A large, detailed bird in the foreground, labeled with anatomical terms like Crown, Eye, Bill, Wing, and Nape, is shown in profile. In the background, a smaller yellow and olive bird is also visible. Above them, the text reads: "Noticing is an essential skill. Researchers have shown that cultivating a birding practice strengthens memory and improves ability to notice detail.

Why learn about birds and data in the age of AI?

My Binoculars to Binomials course is all about noticing, observation and care.

Spring cohorts start in a month!

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How PFAS harm our health — and why they're everywhere - Horizons What do non-stick pans, firefighting foam and many of our couches, carpets and cosmetics have in common? They’re all made with PFAS. The so-called forever chemicals helped spur innovation, but they’re...

PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," helped spur innovation. But they're also insidious to human health. https://to.pbs.org/4qRXD2m

Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.

Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.

The computer hardware shortage continues:

2024: GPU
2025: GPU, Memory, and Storage
2026: GPU, Memory, Storage, and CPU

The Driver: Reinforcement Learning now requires 10,000s of concurrent VMs to simulate, verify, and "roll out" agentic reasoning. Furthermore, there is this rise of AI agents...

Apart from government reluctance to burden industry with finding a solution, the whole PFAS issue reminds me of the banning of illegal street drugs.

Change the formulation slightly, and you're back to square one, which suggests the incremental method of banning will be ineffective.