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rest in peace Mr. Lynch 🤍

"Historically, the frontier was very healthy and not at all genocidal"

"Wars fuelled by expansionist politics are fine, actually" - War Profiteer

Here's my 2024 in haikus xox gabrielburrow.com/2024/12/31/hai…

It's part of a course called "Climate Change in Science Fiction: Film, Literature and Gaming". Find out more: conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/climat…

Sneak preview of a lecture on how SF games and graphic narratives represent climate change, which I'll be giving at @UniofOxford in the new year: gabrielburrow.com/2024/12/20/cli…

@EHuanglu Looks pretty uncanny to me, pal.

Hunyuan AI video demo 2: Taj Mahal Prompt: [front view of Taj Mahal, a stylish couple from Paris are walking towards camera talking, there are crowded tourists walking around them and looking at them, we can see Taj Mahal in background]

Today, AI changed forever. Hunyuan AI has shattered the uncanny valley. It’s so real and I’m stunned. Can you tell it’s AI? Because I can’t! 14 Examples:

Pleased to share that I'll be in sunny Lancaster in April for @TheBSLS 2025, presenting a paper on science fiction and modelling.

Grab a digital copy (and indeed a print copy) while you can!

The final moments of Palestinian Doctor Adnan Al-Bursh's life have been revealed through claims made in new testimony by an inmate at the Israeli prison where he died. Sky’s John Sparks has been speaking to those who saw him in his final days. ➡️ trib.al/AssGt4O

(gabrielburrow.bsky.social FWIW)

The tuition fee increase will not stop the crisis in higher education. Labour must provide a sustainable, long-term public funding solution.

Honoured to be the token literary scholar on @histmat's panel tackling State Repression, Mass Incarceration, and Radical Alternatives with a group of fantastic researchers / activists / lawyers. A lively, wide-ranging discussion - especially for 10am on a Sunday (and day FOUR).

Haiku of the day 🐈‍⬛ A black cat crackles Foot of the bed’s dawn chorus Toes, mice in a barn

@DrAnnahita @hanachronism @ThePhilosoCave @TheProfRog P.S. the associated collection at the Peltz Gallery - Otherworldly - is great. It's free and running until December: bbk.ac.uk/research/centr…

@DrAnnahita @hanachronism @ThePhilosoCave @TheProfRog • Eastern religions would generally take it in their stride • If we discover alien life exists, astrobiology becomes another subset of biology • More needs to be done to prevent extractivist and/or colonial ways of thinking from dominating human space exploration

Fascinating panel tonight with experts in psychology (@DrAnnahita), linguistics (@hanachronism), philosophy and religion (@ThePhilosoCave), and astrobiology (Prof. Ian Crawford) addressing the prospect of alien life. Chaired artfully by @TheProfRog.