NEW - and I think quite timely!!! - piece from me on the incredible air con system, still largely intact, that made Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital a cooling pioneer. The origins of AC are in public health. share.google/2lOWbSiOFzcV...

A Great man. We need Great People in this age of darkness.

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Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

What Thiel does here is transpose both the 17th Century struggle between King and Parliament and the 19th Century evolution to a merely ceremonial monarchy, onto the 18th Century where the Hanoverian kings really were major players in the English political system - and thus gets it completely wrong.

Excellent cartoon from @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social as well.

Burnham should learn from a European country that is performing well. The transformation of Greece’s crisis-era privatisation fund into an innovative national investment fund shows the value of actively managing public balance sheets to deliver public net worth. My latest

Energy is the foundation of every economy on Planet Earth. There is only one option we all have, to ramp up electrification where we can, and ramp up making our own electrofuels (hydrogen + H2 derivatives) from renewable energy sources. Energy Independence is not theory, it is mission critical.

I think it's unfair to discount a deep tech when it's still in development for not reaching adoption. CCU (utilisation) is maturing and is just now ready to commence scaling. MCi Australia have proven their CO2 into sustainable building materials tech. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/h...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

This is interesting, Sodium batteries are now hitting Tesla lithium cell benchmarks, still some work to be done re cold weather and density, but for reducing battery prices, its fantastic! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

The “collapse” of the “AMOC” circulation (a confusing term first used in the 2000s) has become a source of confusion and hype for years. This is a good overview of the science, without hype, and shows that it may far more resilient than some say. An important read. www.science.org/content/arti...

Closure of city's only gay club widened Hobart drag kings' audience

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

This might be the best video ever

June 6, 1944. D-Day. Always try to remember you live in freedom because of the sacrifice of others. www.iwm.org.uk/history/seco...

Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to Anthony Head: "'Tell Giles I figured it out and I'm ok.' Well I don't have it figured out and I'm not ok. But I know I'm the lucky one because I knew you. Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world."

Care work is often treated as somehow less "real" than making tangible goods. Nonsense. It's physically demanding, emotionally demanding, and often highly skilled. That's real work, mate.⁣ ⁣ Check out the full analysis here: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-pink-collar-economy-is-here⁣

Got to see a super innovative closed loop pumped hydro development by Idemitsu in the Hunter yesterday as part of the MELT Engage program. I back of the envelope worked out that this 400 MW / 3200 MWh (8 hour) battery will cost about $625/kWh fully installed, which is lower cost than Lithium 8hr.

This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He's located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10

Love is infinite and all powerful. 😭😭😭

Two very good pieces documenting the dismantling of U.S. Science. The first one by Philipp Markolin: www.protagonist-scie... 1/3

Who do I need to lobby at @cityofsydney.bsky.social to get Andrew Boy Charlton pool opened over winter. It's ABSOLUTELY INSANE that they still close for four full months when it's like a solid 23°C during the day. And it's a heated pool 😭😭😭.

“The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100” 🤯 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pope Leo is so gangsta. The absolute Chicago swagger he has. What a legend.

Sobering to realise that the updated estimate for emissions released is 79 giga tonnes CO2e up from around 60 gtCO2e 😭😭😭. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

I can't believe there's like 6 weeks left of jet fuel in Europe and Asia... I don't think people really appreciate the deep shit we're in and how much just in time logistics happens by plane. Pricing also doesn't seem to factor in major reports from key bodies. 💀💀💀 www.iata.org/en/pressroom...

There is a major learning here, which is that scalable tech (has always been, and) continues to increase in its leveling power between small and big armies. This is a new era in history where sheer numbers of flighting personnel is not necessarily the deciding factor in a war, but innovation.

Zelensky Says Kyiv Seized a Russian Position With Drones and Robots. Psych impact: For Russians in trenches, being forced to surrender by swarms of robots and FPV drones is demoralizing and weird in a new way. For Ukrainians, it’s a rare, clean “future is ours” narrative in a grinding war.

Exactly one year ago today:

Something we need to wrangle with as a planet is the extreme energy water and carbon intensity of Generative AI/LLMs. 80 million tonnes of CO2e in 2025. 30% growth rate which means by 2035, without any change, AI will emit more than the global shipping industry. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

1 TO 👀 IN MONTHS AHEAD Graph below indicating sea surface temp anomalies in 3.4 Nino region of the tropical Pacific possibly surpassing +2C-a developing El Nino, could become strongest so far this century..a 'super' El Nino Could have widespread implications for global weather

“We use 40 yrs of global data to demonstrate that TCs experiencing Rapid Intensification during Marine Heat Waves resulted in 60% more billion-dollar disasters… produced consistently higher maximum wind speeds, storm surges, and precipitation rates.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

that those in possession of the evidence must get out there and communicate it. Without action, the risks — and costs — will continue to rise."

🧵🧪💵"Two decades on from the Stern Review, one key lesson is clearer than ever: delaying action only increases the costs for future generations. But another is ... doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Holy crap Jeremy Hansen! @canadianspace.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Proud to have led the Australian arm of HyZEM with UK partners Steamology, NCC, OREC, DuoDrive and Chartwell Marine for the development of a new hydrogen CTV, with 1.5 tonne-H2 storage, giving enormous record breaking 3 day duty cycle/range equivalent to diesel. www.nccuk.com/insight-impa...

Iconic that NASA woke up the #Artemis II crew with Pink Pony Club

«What Karp [Palantir CEO] eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It shatters.» Whooah, what a piece!

Reducing CO2 emissions is paramount. But reducing methane is necessary for avoiding critical warming thresholds. Warning we could soon cross these limits while downplaying the importance of methane reductions is hypocritical.

Being Good Bois and Good Gurls for 16,000 years 😭😭😭

I am losing my shit over how good this is for Australia. We have just joined the largest tech development+ deployment ecosystem on the planet, involving EU+++++++ many other countries. Really proud of the Australian DFAT + DISR team behind this massive win. www.startupdaily.net/topic/politi...