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Ben Harris-Roxas

"“…we have a choice about who we want to be as a society. For me, that choice is clear. I want to live in a country where people seeking safety are not treated as risks to be managed, but as people to be protected. Because safety should not... benhr.xyz/2026/04/20/we-have-a-cho...

You’ve been using the same exams for seven years?

I’m not descended from gentry

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

An open red Viennetta Silver Server box sits on a wooden sideboard beside a glass jug and a decorative teacup. Inside the box is a silver-coloured serving spoon designed for serving Viennetta, a layered frozen dessert. It was widely marketed in the ‘80s and ‘90s as a slightly fancy dessert for family dinners and special occasions.

An open red Viennetta Silver Server box sits on a wooden sideboard beside a glass jug and a decorative teacup. Inside the box is a silver-coloured serving spoon designed for serving Viennetta, a layered frozen dessert. It was widely marketed in the ‘80s and ‘90s as a slightly fancy dessert for family dinners and special occasions.

One day, all this will be yours gestures at box

He’s the ASU cheerleader of Fabian shitposting.

Mini Therapy Horses on Instagram: "Black Pearl loves to wake up kids out of anesthesia with her keyboard 🎹 playing at Shriners for Children Medical Center. We welcome a donation of ANY SIZE to support... 4M likes, 25K comments - minitherapyhorses on July 19, 2025: "Black Pearl loves to wake up kids out of anesthesia with her keyboard 🎹 playing at Shriners for Children Medical Center. We welcome a dona...

To wit: this pony sucks at its trick www.instagram.com/reel/DMT20lB...

For some reason, I thought you were referring to Shane Warne

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nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

we know

Incredible value. I’m surprised it’s not in Swiss francs

Their article processing charges are chickenfeed

Why is the US threatening to block Iranian ports and how would it work? Threat has left markets in another period of uncertainty, with questions over how the blockade will be enforced

Turmoil has engulfed the [update]. The taxation of trade routes to [insert] is in dispute.
Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy [update] has stopped all shipping to [insert name].

Trump has said the US will begin a blockade of the strait of Hormuz

Regional Australia leads GP bulk-billing surge A new report shows regional and remote towns are rapidly lifting their GP bulk-billing rates while out-of-pocket costs rise across the country.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Future of Education – why critical thinking matters more than ever - Data Revolution Podcast Most educators are rushing to adapt to AI without fully grasping its implications – are we teaching students just to use technology, or to critically engage with it? Ben Harris-Roxas, a health systems...

I had a good time chatting with @kcar.me, mostly about AI and teaching. An interesting discussion, even if it feels like we have more answers than questions at the moment datarevolution.tech/2026/04/why-...

Not knowing what you’re actually referring to, it’s worth noting that this applies to only a small subset of academics. Most sensibly run a mile.

Text Shot: In March, research published in the international science journal Nature found that ocean levels had been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling. In some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100cm to 150cm higher than previously thought.

“World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’” - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/ng-int…

100% this. Their broader social and political curiosity is shrivelled.

Ben Harris-Roxas’s profile Ben uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 494 films watched. Favorites: Repo Man (1984), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), After Yang (2021), My Dinner with Andre (1981). Bio: “…we...

Prepare to be middlebrowed

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“Why don’t you like me any more?”

Sorry, wrong film.

printers are already terrible so I guess they see them as solved

Instead of disrupting art, illustration, graphic design, education, journalism, copywriting, marketing, translation, software development, legal services, accounting, voice acting, and music production, why don’t overconfident technology midwits disrupt PRINTERS

🖨️🏏

Then there really is no ethical consumption under capitalism

Data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons In the Philippines, BPO and AI workers say companies require them to report in person during disasters, citing client demands and safety compliance.

In the Philippines data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons

It’s a good question - I don’t know! Others will have a better idea. This, coupled with cognitive offloading, won’t make for an easy transition into the workforce for young people.

What will a researcher be? Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the epistemological bomb A paper published in Nature last week described an AI system that can conceive, execute, and write up research with no humans in the loop – and get it through peer review. This isn’t a …

An AI system just passed peer review with no humans in the loop. Researchers probably won't vanish (yet) but the early-career roles where people learn the craft will. Our institutions have no plan for this - more in the post.

You’re totally right

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...