Keith Mansfield
@keithmansfield.bsky.social
Decentralist. Future dreamer, writer and publisher. Space and deep time. New book "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" out now!
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith-mansfield/50-ai-ideas-you-really-need-to-know/9781529438727/
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith-mansfield/50-ai-ideas-you-really-need-to-know/9781529438727/
Books change lives. Very occasionally, I've heard that of my own books, & it's the most wonderful thing for an author when that happens.
Yesterday I received this message out of the blue & of course it made my day.
If a book's made an impression on you, leave a great review. Let the author know.
Yesterday I received this message out of the blue & of course it made my day.
If a book's made an impression on you, leave a great review. Let the author know.
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Books change lives. Very occasionally, I've heard that of my own books, & it's the most wonderful thing for an author when that happens.
Yesterday I received this message out of the blue & of course it made my day.
If a book's made an impression on you, leave a great review. Let the author know.
Yesterday I received this message out of the blue & of course it made my day.
If a book's made an impression on you, leave a great review. Let the author know.
Reposted by Keith Mansfield
How many people actually approve of Kirk's murder, on BlueSky and on Twitter?
I got tired of anecdotes saying we are surrounded by bloodthirsty extremists, so I took a sample and counted.
www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/how-many-p...
I got tired of anecdotes saying we are surrounded by bloodthirsty extremists, so I took a sample and counted.
www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/how-many-p...
September 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
How many people actually approve of Kirk's murder, on BlueSky and on Twitter?
I got tired of anecdotes saying we are surrounded by bloodthirsty extremists, so I took a sample and counted.
www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/how-many-p...
I got tired of anecdotes saying we are surrounded by bloodthirsty extremists, so I took a sample and counted.
www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/how-many-p...
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50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know by Keith Mansfield mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781529...
July 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know by Keith Mansfield mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781529...
An extraordinary find in the history of computing. Alan Turing's personal collection of his papers!
"Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend"
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
"Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend"
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend
The papers, which include the wartime codebreaker's personal signed copy of his 1938 PhD dissertation, were found in the loft of the sister of his best friend
www.dailymail.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
An extraordinary find in the history of computing. Alan Turing's personal collection of his papers!
"Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend"
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
"Trove of Alan Turing's papers found in loft of WWII hero's best friend"
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
At this time every year I feel obliged to say I did once write the script for the Junior #EurovisionSongContest.
Good #Eurovision tonight from Switzerland. The UK song (WTH just Happened?) felt a bit too Taylor Swift in the fast parts, but those Remember Monday girls can sing. Hope they do well. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Good #Eurovision tonight from Switzerland. The UK song (WTH just Happened?) felt a bit too Taylor Swift in the fast parts, but those Remember Monday girls can sing. Hope they do well. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
May 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
At this time every year I feel obliged to say I did once write the script for the Junior #EurovisionSongContest.
Good #Eurovision tonight from Switzerland. The UK song (WTH just Happened?) felt a bit too Taylor Swift in the fast parts, but those Remember Monday girls can sing. Hope they do well. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Good #Eurovision tonight from Switzerland. The UK song (WTH just Happened?) felt a bit too Taylor Swift in the fast parts, but those Remember Monday girls can sing. Hope they do well. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Are we witnessing "one cosmic bound for AI"?
This small book by @keithmansfield.bsky.social about AI calls to mind the famous phrase said by Neil Armstrong on the Moon landing: “That’s one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind”
February 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Are we witnessing "one cosmic bound for AI"?
Reposted by Keith Mansfield
I've started a blog, 'Preserving Hope'.
It will track developments in the field of preservation for life extension, along with anything else I find interesting and relevant
If you enjoyed my book, this is where I'll keep new and related content coming
preservinghope.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
It will track developments in the field of preservation for life extension, along with anything else I find interesting and relevant
If you enjoyed my book, this is where I'll keep new and related content coming
preservinghope.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to 'Preserving Hope'
A newsletter tracking progress in turning fate into choice
preservinghope.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I've started a blog, 'Preserving Hope'.
It will track developments in the field of preservation for life extension, along with anything else I find interesting and relevant
If you enjoyed my book, this is where I'll keep new and related content coming
preservinghope.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
It will track developments in the field of preservation for life extension, along with anything else I find interesting and relevant
If you enjoyed my book, this is where I'll keep new and related content coming
preservinghope.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Fabulous #TedTalk from Lisa Kaltenegger (founding Director of Cornell's #CarlSagan Institute) on our new age of exploration, discovering whole new worlds every day. On which we have the ability to search for life! What if we're not alone? www.ted.com/talks/lisa_k...
#FermiParadox #JWST #AlienEarths
#FermiParadox #JWST #AlienEarths
Are we alone in the universe? We're close to finding out
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger explores the thrilling possibility of discovering life beyond Earth, highlighting how cutting-edge technology like the James Webb Space Telescope lets us analyze distan...
www.ted.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Fabulous #TedTalk from Lisa Kaltenegger (founding Director of Cornell's #CarlSagan Institute) on our new age of exploration, discovering whole new worlds every day. On which we have the ability to search for life! What if we're not alone? www.ted.com/talks/lisa_k...
#FermiParadox #JWST #AlienEarths
#FermiParadox #JWST #AlienEarths
10pm GMT (also very coolly known as Universal Time) should see #Flight7 of the mighty #Starship: a new variant, also despatching 10 simulated satellites from the payload bay. Earth's first fully reusable heavy launch rocket will cut the cost of access to space by x100. www.spacex.com/launches/mis...
SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
www.spacex.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
10pm GMT (also very coolly known as Universal Time) should see #Flight7 of the mighty #Starship: a new variant, also despatching 10 simulated satellites from the payload bay. Earth's first fully reusable heavy launch rocket will cut the cost of access to space by x100. www.spacex.com/launches/mis...
The launch window for the massive new #NewGlenn rocket opens in three and a half hours time (6am UK time). And lasts for three hours. I will be intrigued to find out how it's gone when I wake up. Wishing #BlueOrigin all the very best for the company's first ever orbital launch attempt, and landing!
I spoke with an affable, but anxious Jeff Bezos on the eve of his company's first orbital launch attempt.
arstechnica.com/uncategorize...
arstechnica.com/uncategorize...
Bezos on eve of New Glenn launch: ‘If something goes wrong, we’ll pick ourselves up’
“There are some things that can only be tested in flight.”…
arstechnica.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The launch window for the massive new #NewGlenn rocket opens in three and a half hours time (6am UK time). And lasts for three hours. I will be intrigued to find out how it's gone when I wake up. Wishing #BlueOrigin all the very best for the company's first ever orbital launch attempt, and landing!
The economic and military future of Humanity lies off-planet. Hence the goldrush of all these Chinese companies to be a part of it, always brilliantly documented by Andrew. A cause of sadness is that the UK and the rest of Europe are being left far behind, bereft of future technological sovereignty.
China has an impressive yet probably unsustainable number of new rockets heading for first launches in 2025. Should be wild. spacenews.com/china-to-deb...
China to debut new Long March and commercial rockets in 2025
HELSINKI — New Long March rockets and commercially-developed launch vehicles are expected to have their first flights in 2025, boosting China’s overall launch capabilities. The various launchers wi…
spacenews.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The economic and military future of Humanity lies off-planet. Hence the goldrush of all these Chinese companies to be a part of it, always brilliantly documented by Andrew. A cause of sadness is that the UK and the rest of Europe are being left far behind, bereft of future technological sovereignty.
#aurora across northern UK (and the rest of Europe) at the moment. Here's a live webcam from Shetland www.shetlandwebcams.com/eshaness-lig...
#NorthernLights
#NorthernLights
Eshaness Lighthouse | Shetland Webcams
Located on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean at Eshaness Lighthouse
www.shetlandwebcams.com
January 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#aurora across northern UK (and the rest of Europe) at the moment. Here's a live webcam from Shetland www.shetlandwebcams.com/eshaness-lig...
#NorthernLights
#NorthernLights
#Happy2025 and beyond! Surely this will be the year Humanity decides to take a step further out, and begins planning in earnest to become a spacefaring species. Ad astral!
January 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#Happy2025 and beyond! Surely this will be the year Humanity decides to take a step further out, and begins planning in earnest to become a spacefaring species. Ad astral!
Fascinating to be able to view the deep past, preserved here in letters written in cuneiform on clay tablets from thousands of years ago. An unrolled 22-tweet thread from @lefineder over there.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18731...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18731...
Thread by @lefineder on Thread Reader App
@lefineder: Just finished reading "Letters from Mesopotamia", here are some thousands of years old letters preserved in cuneiform. 1. "Mom buy me this" - Iddin-Sin to his mother 2. "Dad buy me this" -...
threadreaderapp.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Fascinating to be able to view the deep past, preserved here in letters written in cuneiform on clay tablets from thousands of years ago. An unrolled 22-tweet thread from @lefineder over there.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18731...
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18731...
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I believe such technical work is key to achieving our mission — making data easier for everyone to access and use.
But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work.
If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate
But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work.
If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate
December 19, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I believe such technical work is key to achieving our mission — making data easier for everyone to access and use.
But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work.
If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate
But it is extremely hard to find funding for technical work.
If you’d like to support us, we would very much appreciate if you support our non-profit work: ourworldindata.org/donate
#Nottingham #walkabout this Tuesday. Meet by the lions! Wish I could be there.
December’s Walkabout Nottingham will be on 17th, meeting at Leo the left lion outside the Council House in Old Market Square 6pm. We'll walk around the old Lacemarket area for abt an hour (hopefully with a few insights from a knowledgeable source) & end up in the Crafty Crow.
#walkabout #Nottingham
#walkabout #Nottingham
December 16, 2024 at 2:28 AM
#Nottingham #walkabout this Tuesday. Meet by the lions! Wish I could be there.
#SignedCopies of "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" at #London's @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly. For the perfect #StockingFiller, get yourselves to the 4th floor. Vital everyone understands #AI and how to use it as the pace of change continues unabated. #ArtificialIntelligence #Christmas
December 14, 2024 at 6:13 PM
#SignedCopies of "50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" at #London's @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly. For the perfect #StockingFiller, get yourselves to the 4th floor. Vital everyone understands #AI and how to use it as the pace of change continues unabated. #ArtificialIntelligence #Christmas
The heroine of my #wip is into #ExtremeSports and does #wingsuit #BASEJumping. Maybe she'd like her very own #FlyingCarpet?
youtu.be/0m6J3HkJU0E?...
#AmWriting
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#AmWriting
The only real Aladdin flying carpet fly with Fpv Drone 🪂Alladin_skylab
YouTube video by MLT Drone Pilots
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December 8, 2024 at 2:13 PM
The heroine of my #wip is into #ExtremeSports and does #wingsuit #BASEJumping. Maybe she'd like her very own #FlyingCarpet?
youtu.be/0m6J3HkJU0E?...
#AmWriting
youtu.be/0m6J3HkJU0E?...
#AmWriting
If you're struggling for #ChristmasPresent ideas, I do think my "50 #AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" book would be a lovely gift for people as we enter this new era. It's so important no one gets left behind, & everyone develops good instincts & understanding.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith...
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith...
December 8, 2024 at 12:28 PM
If you're struggling for #ChristmasPresent ideas, I do think my "50 #AI Ideas You Really Need to Know" book would be a lovely gift for people as we enter this new era. It's so important no one gets left behind, & everyone develops good instincts & understanding.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith...
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/keith...
Views inside a very large cave on the #Moon's surface that could prove suitable for Human settlement: blogs.esa.int/caves/2024/1... Once #Starship becomes proven it will be able to deliver large payloads to the lunar surface, which should include packs of robot dogs for exploring caves/lava tubes.
A shelter on the Moon – Caves & pangaea blog
blogs.esa.int
December 6, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Views inside a very large cave on the #Moon's surface that could prove suitable for Human settlement: blogs.esa.int/caves/2024/1... Once #Starship becomes proven it will be able to deliver large payloads to the lunar surface, which should include packs of robot dogs for exploring caves/lava tubes.
Magnitude 7.1 #earthquake off the #California coast just now. #Tsunami warning issued. Take care everyone.
December 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Magnitude 7.1 #earthquake off the #California coast just now. #Tsunami warning issued. Take care everyone.
Transformational long-range #WeatherForecasting in minutes using #AI rather than physics models running for hours on supercomputers. Welcome to #Gencast. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy
New AI model advances the prediction of weather uncertainties and risks, delivering faster, more accurate forecasts up to 15 days ahead
deepmind.google
December 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Transformational long-range #WeatherForecasting in minutes using #AI rather than physics models running for hours on supercomputers. Welcome to #Gencast. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Wonderful #space news that Trump has appointed Jared Isaacman to be the new #NASA Administrator. I simply could not think of anyone better. Jared is a mega successful businessman and test pilot who's been to space multiple times, including further than any Human since #Apollo. x.com/rookisaacman...
x.com
x.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Wonderful #space news that Trump has appointed Jared Isaacman to be the new #NASA Administrator. I simply could not think of anyone better. Jared is a mega successful businessman and test pilot who's been to space multiple times, including further than any Human since #Apollo. x.com/rookisaacman...
Can science abolish death? If in #London town tonight, starting from 7pm at the #RoyalInstitution, @arielzj.bsky.social will explain why #TheFutureLovesYou. With #Hatchards on hand if you want to grab a copy of his fabulous book.
December 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Can science abolish death? If in #London town tonight, starting from 7pm at the #RoyalInstitution, @arielzj.bsky.social will explain why #TheFutureLovesYou. With #Hatchards on hand if you want to grab a copy of his fabulous book.