Cennydd Bowles

@cennydd.com

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Philosopher · Thinking and writing about ethics, technology, design, the future, sport · See also @cennyddchess.bsky.social.

A black and white cat faces the camera on a wooden deck. Her paws are stretched out in front of her.
Page 1 of an article 'Symbolic Gestures' from Digital Frontier. A big headline reads 'Your job is to convey how the system works'.
View from the Compton stand at Lord’s cricket ground, looking towards the pavilion. The sun is beating down on an early April day. Middlesex are playing Lancashire.
Cennydd (wearing a red beanie) and Anna (blue beanie) in Nottingham’s Market Square, Christmas Day 2021.
Cover of universal methods of ethical design, in dark grey with hot pink and white writing
Screengrab from Trump’s new executive order. “It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
A wooden hut in front of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. Its sign reads ‘Krakauer’. The hut is decorated with your usual Xmas chintz: tinsel, pinecones, baubles. The sky is unseasonably blue.
A chess position from McWilliams–Bowles, 25 Nov 2024. Black is looking to trap the White light-squared bishop. In Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN): r1bq1rk1/4np1p/p5p1/1ppp4/5P2/1BPP1Q2/P1P3PP/R1B2RK1 b - - 1 15
Ding Liren shakes Gukesh D’s hand in front of a large black sign ‘FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SINGAPORE 2024’.
A rubber dinosaur with what appears to be lipstick overlooks three colonial-era plastic figurines. This is Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs.
Four Romanian stamps (1983). They show the forced smothered mate pattern (Black Kh8, pawns h7 g7, Rf8, White Qe6 and Nh6) and the three mating moves – i.e. Qg8+ Rxg8 Nf7# – from two different angles in alternating colour schemes, red and blue.
A meme. Top: the Facehugger from Alien, labelled 'A/B TESTING'. Bottom: the Chestburster, labelled 'DECEPTIVE PATTERN'.