Ed Miliband was probably the most effective minister over the last two years. Would have thought given most of the net zero work needed to be front loaded with planning etc he's probably going to have done more for the decarbonisation of Britain than any other politician ever. Thanks Ed.

I see Labour MPs still announcing stuff on X, a platform specifically designed to make people hate them, 100% shaped to push them out of public life and which would ideally see many of them in prison. Funny old world.

I know it's not the biggest news of the day, but I just spotted this... One of Keir Starmer's last acts in Govt is this: Laying legislation that will legalise 'plug-in solar' (aka balcony solar) panels in Britain It means plug-in solar panels do not (legally) have to be wired in by an electrician.

This article highlights the issue itself, barely mentions any practical applications for AI at all, how & why should businesses utilise it - it's not a switch Document curation. Summaries. Process analysis. Audits. Digitisation. Meeting notes. Onboarding. Data extraction www.ft.com/content/1ab0...

Solid speech.

One more domain name. Just a year. Why shouldn't I.

Football won.

5 minutes of extra extra time. Totally normal.

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That BBC ad was amazing. Remake of a stone cold classic. youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?...

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I do love Bluesky on a Sunday morning. It’s like the old days when you would get the massive Sunday paper and just deep dive on the previous week’s issues and musings.

Rewound the game to watch again the English and French players be absolutely wonderful towards one and other. This is football. This is winning. Legends all of them.

What an incredible huddle that is

Get in.

Love football.

Make a tapestry about this game.

This Saka guy seems good. Shame he wasn’t available after the hydration break in the last game.

Fuck yeah Saka.

Nice to see two football teams play football. Gives Argentina the side eye.

Feels like there is a more than slim chance RAM prices absolutely crash due to massive unused glut on the market after a crash & small local utility AI models become much more viable Meta selling off compute. SpaceX / IBM falling off a cliff. Feels like things could move very quickly.

If he thinks this is a good idea (in a climate crisis) he is wrong. If he thinks this is a bad idea but will get the right wing press off his back or appeal to right wing voters he is also wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I use this tumblr post constantly (at least partially because it amuses me to use a tumblr post at work), to talk about the impact of small steps. But fighting to take small steps can distract us from where we are going and etc, so I also often talk about reflecting on if you are also…

I am a climate scientist and, same.

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I think that’s how (should) journalism works. A co-ordinated probing until one tells the truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m hearing Bluesky are attempting to trademark it. www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/first-a...

Heh, achievement unlocked:

Yet another moment when I think oh AI will make some of my life easier, then I am 18 layers deep in trying to understand content negotiation on edge caches. The more you understand etc etc.

Lord Khan sounds pretty badass.

You’re telling me that an IPO based on breaking the laws of thermo-dynamics was flawed?!!!!

The not even bothering to even slightly obscure this is crazy. 1 million for 5 years to replace 5 million of potential income. Either they didn’t think they would get caught or didn’t care.

Keir Starmer’s parting words to Kemi Badenoch at his final PMQs

Heh, remembering that time I accidentally walked into the set of Les Misérables when it was being filmed in Greenwich

I appear to have got my semver a little off: 1.2.668

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By @andrewtghill.ft.com and me

This piece on the "load-bearing internet people" and how AI-code writing is overwhelming the web's unheralded maintainers by @samlearner.bsky.social is absolutely terrific: brilliantly accessible without being patronising:

PSA.

This is the Solar farm I part own! So so frustrating. The original org went bust and now we've had to shut down in the first year. This should be an excellent model for renewables, but so far have not had the support we need. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woooo. The WordPress plugin I help maintain has 100(+) installs since May!

I think at the end of the day it’s nice ITV matched the conditions and pace of the game with their commentary

wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

4/ Irony number three. Running AC affordably depends on exactly what this crowd attacks: cheap solar (which peaks precisely when cooling demand does), a modern grid, efficient electric technology.

If you read the Sunday Times article fully it’s much more like a dossier than an exclusive www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every so often I look up to see 24 hour news playing somewhere and it’s like the backdrop to the beginning of a zombie movie.

Wrote a three-part series on why we keep making the same mistakes in designing and building systems for people - and why those same mistakes are now feeding the AI tools. Fifty Years, Same Argument - Part 1 of 3: dgw.ltd/2026/07/04/f...