UHI Students Field Trips…...Artificial Intelligence…..The Dark Is Rising - Boris Johnson’s Legacy…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:34 on 02 April 2023
UHI Students Field Trips…
If you study Archaeology at the UHI Archaeology Institute, you might get to go on groovy field trips…..
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/04/01/2023-easter-fieldtrip/
The Grey Cairns of Camster are…..something else…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/03/31/something-about-sound/
…for that matter, so is Helmsdale – in lots of different kinds of ways…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/10/08/bernie-bell-bernie-mikes-road-trip-spring-2017-10/
And then they went to…
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/04/02/easter-fieldtrip-2023-2/
I’ve never been to these places – so little time, so much to see….
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Artificial Intelligence…..
From the, archaeologically, sublime - to the frankly disturbing…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65147841
I never thought I’d agree with Elon Musk!
My tuppenceworths…
https://theorkneynews.scot/?s=Artificial+Intelligence+Bernie+Bell
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/05/03/i-discover-isaac-asimov/
And, most recently….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16027
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The Dark Is Rising - Boris Johnson’s Legacy…..
We watched a television programme about 1980’s videos, which included ‘Through the Barricades’ by Spandau Ballet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Barricades_(song)
And I thought – that was in the ‘80’s - not that long ago – since then there has been the Peace Process, and the Good Friday Agreement. People in The North have been able to live their lives relatively peacefully - but now un-rest is beginning again, prompted at least in part by Brexit and the convoluted arrangements developing between England and Northern Ireland.
I see this as being part of Boris Johnson’s legacy. While he was in power his actions – and inaction - were responsible for the deaths of a lot of people - and the illness and unhappiness of many more.
Those actions also laid the ground-work for the present Government’s continuing contribution to the hardship experienced and the despair felt by the population of what is known as the Four Nations of the UK ( not my terminology!).
In ‘The Dark is Rising’ by Susan Cooper there is an idea presented of The Dark - all that is hurtful, harmful and negative in our world -and how it can rise by feeding on what is hurtful, harmful and negative.
Boris Johnson’s ‘reign’ and his legacy are all those things – and he's still there, still has power.
The Dark is Rising.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/10/22/every-little-helps-or-hinders/
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