Wrong on so many levels: Dante's 'Inferno'

Did Justin Cormack succeed in re-creating Amazon s3 in his spare room? In a fascinating episode of Asynchronous & Unreliable, ex Docker CTO talks about experiments with large scale AI produced code, eventual consistency, and the role of language choice in steering AI code generation.

There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.

‘I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from Google’s latest climate report, but holy hell, I did not expect this. The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025.”<unsustainable. How much is due to AI slop? ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Amazon and Google just reported emissions jumps of 16% and 18%, respectively, in 2025 compared to 2024. The main driver is not hard to guess: data centers and AI. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable | Henry Durand

Very nice table of per-country data centre power consumption. US has 0.9 MWh / capita, China has 0.1 MWh / capita (US: 6.6%, China 1.9% of total power gen) All the hand-wringing about 'beating China in the AI race'.....China clearly isn't panicking about data centre construction the way US is

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

In this week's episode of tech podcast Asynchronous and Unreliable, @hollycummins.com and I chat about Lightswitch Ops, operational efficiency, security, Cloud Native architectures and the unexpectedly emergent superpower of turning things off and on again

As I wrote in 2019, AR is not going to get banned. We might need another way? www.annecurrie.com/utopia-five-...

Sounds like the Panopticon series www.annecurrie.com/utopia-five-...

I wrote a novel about this exact situation back in 2019. www.annecurrie.com/utopia-five-... it's now CC. You won't like the answer but it did make for a great series premise ;-)

Very relatable. If you want to get a heat pump, don't wait until your boiler fails!

Much to enjoy here, but my favourite bit are the 20 goalies, only two of which really want to be there.

I think aircon was my best ever unintended benefit. I fitted a2a electrified heating and got aircon as a side benefit that I wasn't even looking for. The purpose was to transition away from the gas boiler for heating

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

as promised, here is my post on AI and ethics. I think unilateral disarmament in the face of powerful new tools is neither wise nor effective. I think those of us in tech have a particular responsibility to engage, participate and build better solutions. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-bo...

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

When I recently had to replace a few radiators I went instead for an air 2 air heat pump. Great for heating and as a result I am currently sitting in a lovely air conditioned room (have solar panels so totally free)

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

So Frank Herbert was a SciFi writer we didn't discuss @adrianmouat.com. I will say that when those folk embraced human thinking they didn't use it to create the greatest setup. Paul Atreides. Nigel Farage in space? And the hero?! (which he does himself point out is a bad idea)

Current world dystopia rankings

Thanks to @annecurrie.bsky.social for having me on the Asynchronous and Unreliable podcast. It was a enjoyable chat about AI, Mythos, Athena and various sci-fi authors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCqb...

I have a2a heat pumps and they're amazing. Aircon (from solar on roof) and the air heating is also vastly superior: fast and warm

Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator. Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.

This is a critical understanding of the issues around Mythos being pulled by the US Government. You do not control the service. You cannot assume access.

Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...

was it Paddington?

@chainguard.dev have announced the Athena coalition. www.chainguard.dev/athena This is a pivotal moment in software security and it's awesome that Chainguard are at the heart of it.

This is related to the argument we make in Building Green Software - it's just better software. More resilient, cheaper, faster

Our most popular episode of Asynchronous and Unreliable podcast so far, by far, has been my interview with Martin Davidson on his experiments with using AI to generate the kind of software that we would probably label mission critical links below

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Dutch branch of German discount supermarket Lidl is bringing forward its goal of achieving 100% electric transport by 2030 to 2027. From next year, all stores will receive deliveries exclusively by battery-electric trucks.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Thought for the day: The Daleks, the Smash Martians, and Zippy are alternative history versions - all voiced by the same person - clearly the same character What if the Daleks had been made of felt? - Zippy What if the Daleks had been obsessed with mashed potatoes? The Smash Martians

Another major advance vs cancer! @ascocancer.bsky.social #ASCO26 Personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccine 5 year follow-up vs metastatic melanoma reduced recurrence and death by 49% (on top of Keytruda) ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

Renewable energy is completely inevitable everywhere that isn’t a high latitude country with very short winter days. That’s why the graphs look like this from www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-iea...

The 1970s, when a temperature of 23C saw front page stories of "sizzling" Britain.

I was interested by how much "what does Andy Burnham even stand for? No one knows!" political commentary there is. I therefore thought I should read the 2024 book he wrote on what he stands for: "Head North". Whether you like them or not, he makes arguments, posits problems & proposes solutions

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Here's the bottom line. We not only need better emissions controls on the generators that are permitted at data centers, but we need to move quickly to get *non-emitting* backup options in place - like battery storage - and ensure that "flexibility" doesn't just mean on-site fossil. (9/9)

Sting looks to be about to create the Daleks www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m... What a backstory there @soapyfrogs.bsky.social

China's oil inventories and buffers give the country enough runway that it could cut consumption structurally, through electrification and paring back low-value industry, to a level that matches current seaborne imports without ever going back to pre-crisis import volumes.

While Tony Blair is trashing UK govt energy policy, NESTA analysis finds "early signs [it] may be working" 2022: Gas prices went up 100%, electricity 83% (roughly 1:1) 2026: Gas +28%, elec 6% (5:1 = "electricity beginning to decouple from gas") www.nesta.org.uk/blo...

I speak to loads of folks outside of tech about AI and the most common use cases for AI I see are - write emails - summarise emails - interpret contracts - write contracts - summarise/interpret financial statements

"So far 51 cases have been confirmed in the DRC in the northern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, including in the cities of Bunia and Goma, although we know the scale of the epidemic in DRC is much larger", says @drtedros.who.int at @who.int presser on #Ebola outbreak.

Data centres can be part of the solution instead of the problem but we need to TRY and EXPECT IT

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote