Research Fellow, University of Oxford | Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kurī, Ngāi Tūāhuriri | PhD (York), BA/MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon) @lyndondrake@me.dm
Joined November 2019
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
Jun 14
Very sad to see my colleague Lauren Edwards MP bringing the deeply flawed and unsafe Assisted Dying Bill back as a PMB. If it was safe and brilliant why did the Lords sponsor of the bill bring 77 amendments in the Lords? It cannot just be brought back as it is and forced through.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
Jun 14
A question for the parliamentarians pushing the AS bill again:
What do you know that the people below don’t?
Jun 14
We have debated this deeply divisive and flawed Bill for over a year and nothing has changed nothing.
This Bill will hand sweeping, unchecked powers over life and death and our NHS to future governments..whoever they are.
Insane stuff.
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Jun 12
This clip is just amazing. If it was in a work of fiction I’d think it was a bit unrealistic. So depressing that it’s real
Peter Kyle: the plan is great
Naga Munchetty: have you seen the plan?
Kyle: no
Munchetty: So how do you know its great?
Peter Kyle: "Because I have faith in a PM.. to fund the plan & design a plan & lead a plan, of course & he is the PM that is fit for the moment we're in"
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
Jun 5
"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."
Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.
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May 28
For the Chair of the Trustees of the British Museum to cast people’s legitimate concerns as ‘speculating’ is a deeply unhelpful framing which vividly illustrates the depth of the problem
May 27
Worth reading before speculating britishmuseum.org/about-us/p…
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May 28
Feel free to DM me or email if you’d like me to add your name:
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
May 28
Oh, I thought, maybe this isn’t about antisemitic thuggery closing down a public educational event: maybe I’m missing something. But no, that’s what it is. If the situation is more than the @britishmuseum can handle, call in as many police officers as necessary (& make arrests).
May 28
For the Chair of the Trustees of the British Museum to cast people’s legitimate concerns as ‘speculating’ is a deeply unhelpful framing which vividly illustrates the depth of the problem
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May 27
If this is what it seems like, I would love to be part of a group to attend in solidarity, and as both a priest and a scholar
May 27
It’s is a really dark day when a talk about the history of ancient Israel and Judah is cancelled by the British Museum because of ‘security concerns’.
Is this what we do now? We cave in?
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
May 27
On 15 June, Christ Church’s Andrew Davison will deliver his inaugural lecture as Oxford’s Regius Professor of Divinity – a position bestowed by HRH King Charles III.
schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk/wh…
@ChChCathedralOx @OU_TheoReligion #PublicLecture
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May 27
If you can make it to this, I have every confidence it will be worth the time. Grab a ticket while there is still space!
May 27
Reservation for my inaugural lecture was showing ‘sold out’. I’ve got some extra places released. It’s free and there aren’t many seats left, so do book if you are interested.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
News || Dr Lyndon Drake speaks to BBC News and Radio 4 on Pope Leo’s AI encyclical
Read the news here: theology.ox.ac.uk/article/dr…
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May 21
This seems pretty impressive
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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May 20
Just astonishing. And both a feat of engineering and beautiful
May 18
This isn't AI, it's the Huajiang Canyon Bridge in Guizhou, China, the world's highest bridge at 625 meters above the river beneath it.
It features a man-made waterfall created by diverting karst spring water discovered during tunnel construction.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
May 17
Don't let anyone talk you out of buying that 1 book at the bookstore. Those 3 books could be the most life-changing 10 books you've ever gotten.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
May 12
frog told the LLM "do not hallucinate"
"there," he said, "now the LLM will not make mistakes"
"but the LLM can still hallucinate" said toad
"that is true" said frog
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May 12
This was a brilliant seminar
Professor Meron Piotrkowski delivered a brilliant lecture in yesterday’s Hebrew Bible/Old Testament seminar about history and numismatics, covering the Persian and Hellenistic periods. It was very exciting to learn about history and creativity through material culture.
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
🔔 Event Alert | Inaugural Lecture by Professor Andrew Davison, Regius Professor of Divinity, ‘The Creed in Music: A Thousand Years of Setting Christian Theology to Music’, with live performances by the @ChChCathedralOx Choir!
Registration is free!
🔗 theology.ox.ac.uk/event/inau…
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Dr Lyndon Drake retweeted
May 2
As I have written and commented on several times I am amazed that Europe in general and the UK in particular behaves as if it has no idea what’s in store for it if the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed though May (which it will).
May 2
We’re now four weeks out from an insane energy shock. It will likely lead to the collapse of several European governments. 🛢️⏳
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