Sam Howson

@MadsDavies How many of us are the absolute reverse? We believe in God and have very little faith in the church?

"William’s stance on his relationship with the Church, which he feels reflects the nation’s shifting attitudes towards Christianity . . .' Found this interesting - a focus on faith in the Church ('I might not be at church every day but I believe in it') rather than God.

@TukiFromKL We all carry phones, cows don't

🚨 Do you understand what Peter Thiel just funded.. the guy who built Palantir.. military-grade AI surveillance for the Pentagon, the CIA, ICE.. he just led a $2 billion round.. for a cow collar.. Halter.. a New Zealand startup that puts GPS collars on cows and herds them with vibrations and audio cues.. valued at two billion dollars.. they literally call it a "cowgorithm". the man who builds software that tracks humans across borders.. just decided tracking cows across fields is worth the same investment.. lol! cancer research gets defunded.. clean water startups can't close a seed round.. but a cow GPS backed by the guy who killed Gawker gets a $2B valuation.. VCs don't fund what matters anymore.. they fund what sounds good in a deck with "AI" on the cover slide..

Trot on @UKLabour, @Ed_Miliband could be wearing a red or blue tie, he's indistinguishable. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

🚨 Do you understand what this man just pulled off.. > a guy from North Carolina used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs.. uploaded them to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon.. then botted billions of streams on his own tracks and walked away with $8 million > 660,000 fake streams per day.. spread across thousands of AI songs so nobody noticed.. $1.2 million a year.. for music no human ever actually listened to real artists are out here grinding for 0.003 cents per stream.. promoting on TikTok.. begging for playlist placements.. and this guy just had AI make the music AND the audience first-ever criminal streaming fraud case.. he's paying back $8 million.. but the playbook is out there now.. and AI just got better since he started the music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy.. now they have to fight songs that don't exist being listened to by people who don't exist.

@Rgt71Robert Fantastic. Have a happy Easter!

Medical update: So the good news from my appointment at the Western Eye Hospital just now is that my retina is on the right trajectory to full reattachment. I do not need another operation. I should keep doing little until week after Easter. I need to have the oil removed in a few weeks. But that is it You have no idea how bloody ecstatic I am. I gave the consultant a high five. I have just been to Catholic Church at Spanish Place. I said the Angelus in thanksgiving. I lit five candles and prayed: O God of life O God of death O God of light O God of darkness, O God of joy O God of sorrow O God of suffering O God of healing…:. For healing begun. For sight restored. For a body finding wholeness: Thank you. For those in darkness: Bring light. For those losing sight: Bring hope. For those who suffer, quietly or loudly: Bring mercy. For my mum: Bring clarity, strength. dignity and peace. For Brian Devlin: Receive him in light. Comfort those who mourn. For your Church: Make it gentle. Make it just. Make it worthy of every soul it serves. Mary, hold us. Jesus, lead us. St James and all the saints, pray for us. God of grace Thank you.

I had the privilege of spending a couple of hours in conversation with Aidan Hart. We explored creativity through the lens of faith, not just as a starting point, but as something that shapes the entire journey through to the final work. youtu.be/QHz2tNF_c-M

@drstevelewis Thanks for the lesson- that's great to know

@samhowson They have overtly female names by custom 👍

‘named Karen, after Karen Harrison – one of the UK's first female train drivers.’

@AndrewGraystone One step back and if we really understand the root of the film, more simply, 'do not turn my Father's house into a house of trade'.

This 👇

A tech consultant in Sydney spent $3,000 and two months to do what Moderna has spent billions trying to scale. Paul Conyngham adopted Rosie, a staffy-Shar Pei cross, from a shelter in 2019. In 2024, tumors started growing on her back leg. Mast cell cancer, the most common skin cancer in dogs. He tried surgery, chemo, immunotherapy. Nothing shrank the tumors. Just slowed them down while the bills stacked into the tens of thousands. So he opened ChatGPT and asked it how to cure his dog’s cancer. The AI didn’t cure anything. What it did was compress months of literature review into hours. It suggested genomic sequencing, walked him through neoantigen identification, helped him build a research pipeline that would normally require a postdoc and a lab budget. He paid $3,000 to sequence Rosie’s tumor DNA at UNSW’s Ramaciotti Centre, then ran the mutations through AlphaFold to model the protein structures. A computational biology professor at UNSW saw his analysis and was, in his own words, gobsmacked that someone with zero biology training had assembled the whole thing. Then came the part nobody expects. The science was the easy half. Australian ethics approval to run a drug trial on your own pet took three months. Two hours every night after work, filling out a 100-page application. The red tape was harder than designing the vaccine. Once he cleared that, Páll Thordarson at the UNSW RNA Institute built a custom mRNA vaccine from Conyngham’s data. Sequencing to finished vaccine: less than two months. Conyngham drove 10 hours to deliver Rosie for her first injection in December. One month later, the tennis-ball-sized tumor on her leg had shrunk 75%. Here’s where the numbers get interesting. Moderna and Merck just reported five-year data on their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma. It encodes up to 34 neoantigens per patient. The Phase III trial is fully enrolled. Projected cost per patient: $100,000 to $300,000. Their pipeline is worth an estimated $2.3 billion in annual sales by 2031. Conyngham did a version of the same workflow for his dog. Sequenced the tumor. Identified the neoantigens. Built a custom mRNA construct. Total cost: $3,000 for sequencing plus university lab time. The gap between those two numbers is where AI is about to rearrange the entire cost structure of precision medicine. The regulatory moat is real. Conyngham could do this because veterinary experimental treatments face lighter scrutiny than human medicine. There’s no FDA Phase I-III gauntlet for a one-off compassionate use case on a dog. But the technical workflow, tumor sequencing to neoantigen prediction to mRNA synthesis, is converging toward something a motivated person with the right AI tools can orchestrate in weeks instead of years. One guy, a rescue dog, and a $20/month ChatGPT subscription just produced a proof of concept that the pharmaceutical industry has spent a decade and billions of dollars building toward. The vaccine worked. The tumor shrank. And the only reason it happened is because a dog owner loved his dog enough to spend three months fighting paperwork.

My Great (x4) Grandmother was the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. She was removed from the £5 note so Churchill could go on. Given her love of nature (and commitment to justice, peace & equality) I can't help wondering if she might approve of Churchill's replacement by a badger...

@Rgt71Robert @churchofengland @ArchbishopSarah They don't worship mammon, they are like newly made prefects excited to be invited into the staffroom. Welby couldn't keep the glee off his face during the coronation.

Paul Marshall is the totally unacceptable face of contemporary Christianity. He finances Holy Trinity Brompton. He finances St Mellitus the biggest theological training Institute @churchofengland He promotes hate and division And yet and yet @ArchbishopSarah & @CottrellStephen continually failed to stand up to him, his church and his media outlets. I can fully appreciate why some of my more cutting edge friends think that Sarah and Stephen just worship MAMMON and fall down before the golden calf..

.@MindhouseTV's Inside the Manosphere film with @louistheroux was a great insight into a very murky world. Throughout I wondered if Louis could pass the baton onto someone new? Or could he adopt a more hands on, cross-shooting approach with the crew - @nickbroomfield1 -esque?

@AgricastParts 'Scammers'

Farmers in Essex are being targeted by scammers posing as road workers who offer cheap pothole repairs before demanding up to £12,000 for work that was never agreed. champ.ly/-Uqwj3Zd

@ClaireCoutinho Thanks Claire for challenging misguided politics and good intentions and serving Tandridge so effectively.

A hijab used to hide the abuse of 10-year-old Sara Sharif at the hands of her father. Women forced into cousin marriages while the NHS praised its ‘benefits’. Children groomed by gangs while police and social workers looked the other way. In each of these cases public services turned a blind eye to the harm of women and girls because they were scared of being called Islamophobic. Labour’s Islamophobia definition will make this worse. If we put one group on a pedestal and make it harder for public services to do their jobs, then we will only foster more inequality and resentment.

@Rgt71Robert There's an aspect to the call to prayer which isn't simply a corporate expression of faith but a political ideal agreed. A healthy worldview isn't seeing everyone as we see the world, but understanding the world as others do.

The argument in this piece is that an iftar in a church is “misplaced hospitality”. I understand the instinct here, but the theologies of hospitality and saved space are broader than the other admits. Scripture is clear: God’s grace is encountered precisely in welcoming the stranger and before we fully understand who they are or what they believe: Abraham welcomes unknown guests at Mamre; Jesus eats with prostitutes and sinners; Hebrews says welcoming strangers is entertaining “angels unawares” A church building does not stop being Christian because generosity is shown within it. They are spaces where the life of the lo community meets the life of the ecclesia: feeding the hungry, sheltering the vulnerable, hosting civic gatherings, and sometimes making room for neighbours. Hosting an Iftar does not mean we are abandoning the Trinity or Creeds. It just means we recognise that living faithfully in a plural society requires friendship as well as conviction. In a place like #Kilburn the real scandal would not be hospitality that goes too far but rather a church so anxious about its identity that it cannot open its doors to its neighbours. Jesus border crossed. So should we.

BREAKING: The Word “Glitch” Is Doing the Heaviest Lifting in British Banking Today This morning, customers of Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland opened their banking apps and found themselves staring at the complete financial lives of total strangers. Transaction histories. Account numbers. Sort codes. National Insurance numbers. DWP benefit payments. English wages appearing in Scottish accounts. Pub tabs in Newcastle showing up in Wales. One Bank of Scotland customer cycled through six different people’s full account details in twenty minutes, each refresh serving a new stranger’s financial identity like a slot machine of personal data. The banks called it a “technical glitch” and told customers not to worry. Halifax’s official response on X was to suggest logging out and back in. Lloyds asked users to “bear with them.” Bank of Scotland said they were “investigating.” Let me translate this from institutional euphemism into plain language. A banking group serving over 26 million customers had a backend failure that served authenticated financial data, including government-issued identity numbers, to random sessions. In any jurisdiction with functioning data protection enforcement, this is not a glitch. This is a reportable data exposure event under UK GDPR. The Information Commissioner’s Office requires notification within 72 hours of any breach involving personal data that poses a risk to individuals’ rights. National Insurance numbers are the skeleton key to identity fraud in Britain. They unlock tax records, benefit claims, credit applications, and pension access. Every single NI number that appeared on a stranger’s screen this morning is now a compromised credential, regardless of whether the display bug has been “quickly resolved.” The precedent is instructive. In April 2018, TSB suffered a similar failure during an IT migration from the same parent infrastructure. Lloyds Banking Group’s systems. Customers could see other people’s accounts, access funds that were not theirs, and were locked out for months. The FCA and PRA fined TSB £48.65 million. Over 225,000 complaints were filed. £32.7 million in redress was paid. The CEO was forced out. And that failure originated in a planned migration with known risk parameters. This morning’s incident at Lloyds Banking Group was not a planned migration. It was a spontaneous failure in production systems that randomly distributed live financial identities to authenticated but unrelated sessions. The fact that it was brief does not reduce the severity. It increases it. A planned migration that goes wrong reveals poor execution. A production system that spontaneously begins serving random customer data to random sessions reveals something about the underlying architecture that no amount of “quickly resolved” can address. Every customer who saw a stranger’s NI number this morning received proof that the verification promise underpinning digital banking, the promise that authentication equals isolation, failed silently and completely. The banks say your account is safe. What they mean is the display error has been corrected. These are not the same statement. The question is not whether it was fixed. The question is whether anyone took screenshots during those twenty minutes. And whether the ICO and FCA will treat this as what it is.

@AlistairCarns He seems to be half the man of @jeremycorbyn and he lost my vote primarily because of his incompatible stance on geopolitics and defense

At a time when there is war in Europe and in the Middle East do we genuinely believe that this man can be trusted with our national security? #deluded

I talk Islam and Christianity with Yemeni @GhanimJohn youtu.be/KTIk9LyxpI0

@Rgt71Robert @ArchbishopSarah With all the stories I've heard I'm amazed good people remain in service and attendance

Another safeguarding complaint involving @ArchbishopSarah has been dismissed, with the tribunal ruling the survivor’s appeal “vexatious”!! Now perhaps that is legally correct. But the pattern is wearyingly familiar: the Church says the survivor was “let down by processes”… and yet somehow the processes fail while the powerful remain untouched. In @churchofengland & @dioceseoflondon safeguarding language is now impeccably polished: The statements are careful. The reviews are thorough. The tribunals are precise. But to the many of us in the church and those in the outside world it still looks like the same old ecclesiastical reflex: the institution absorbs the criticism and the hierarchy absorbs none of the responsibility. You cannot rebuild trust with survivors while the system still resembles bishops adjudicating the conduct of bishops. It’s pathetically amoral. Or, to put it plainly: If the Church keeps winning the legal case but losing the moral one, eventually people stop believing the verdict. I again call on Sarah Mullally to consider her position. Her moral authority is very low indeed. premierchristian.news/en/news/articl…