Forget memos circulating on the Reform threat, I suspect this (vg) advert www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7H... might represent the problem better. I live in Farage's constituency and I was travelling across the US during the last election...

Was chatting to my local fisherman in the mouth of the Colne estuary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... the warm water (and other things??) has led to a significant change in the fish. Far fewer. New species like tuna now being caught in the Thames. Loads of spider crabs, which tangle up their nets

China has successfully flown the world’s largest and most powerful airborne wind turbine The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet? www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Re-watching Ever Decreasing Circles whilst coincidentally re-watching Billions. It feels oddly like the same show in two wildly different contexts - like Billions is the Comic Strip Presents Ever Decreasing Circles - a wildly Hollywoodized version of the premise. Have I gone mad? @markoneill.org

NEW SHIFT KEY Nobody in the West Knows How to Respond to the ‘Electrotech Revolution’ A really fun one. We chat with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social about his new report on the new electricity tech stack, solar vs coal, and what it all means for US/EU climate policy. shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...

This is delightful

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

There are hardly any burglaries anymore. I reassure myself with this stat all the time ;-) Because our home is in a holiday area, we sometimes get woken by drunken lost people stumbling around in our garden, trying to get out via our side gate in the middle of the night. Which is fine..

Hmm Pondering on the effect of this. I had an H1B in the 90's to work on Exchange V1 for a few months out in Redmond. I learned more in that time about software engineering than in any other period in my 30y career. It was of benefit all round, as travel & exchange always is

In alternative history culture, every time Google/Youtube serves me I Saved The World Today by the Eurythmics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf05... I immediately switch to a universe in which it was the theme to another Pierce Brosnan Bond movie called The Point of No Return. I wonder what it was about?

The future is clean, cheap energy ☀️

Blink and you'll miss it. The EV revolution is taking off. 🚗 Even high growth rates provide small increases early on. Then it happens all of a sudden, all at once.

Fossil fuels waste 2/3 of their energy — 380 EJ lost as heat, worth $5T every year. Electrotech flips the script: 1️⃣ 3x more efficient than fossil fuels 2️⃣ Taps the sun directly, with 100x more potential Full slidedeck 👉 http://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-revolution

Even thought the books has been out for a year and a half, it is still so surreal to have it in my book shelf! Our book! 💚🦜 In English, Spanish and Korean @annecurrie.bsky.social

15/ Bill McKibben (!) on our NZIPL report "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the US, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Rainy Sunday afternoon? Why not read a book? Utopia Five is now available under a CC license as a PDF download www.annecurrie.com. A take on modern AI, big data, surveillance, climate change, security and everything else, in the form of a fun thriller.

As a little meta exercise for the weekend, why not try talking to ChatGPT about my novel Utopia Five? Now it is available under a CC license you can upload it to chatbots. As what Lee would think about ChatGPT. It's quite eye opening. www.annecurrie.com/book-downloads

Rainy Sunday afternoon? Why not read a book? Utopia Five is now available under a CC license as a PDF download www.annecurrie.com. A take on modern AI, big data, surveillance, climate change, security and everything else, in the form of a fun thriller.

Utopia Five is now available as a PDF download. www.annecurrie.com/book-downloads. A tech ethics guide masquerading as a mystery! @hannahfoxwell.net & I will discuss it next week at AI For The Rest of Us Meetup in London www.meetup.com/ai-for-the-r... with plenty of readers. Read a chapter by then!

It's here folks. Part II of the Pragmatic Climate Reset. Prepare to be provoked! about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

At AI for The Rest of Us meetup in London next week www.meetup.com/ai-for-the-r... hosted by the brilliant @hannahfoxwell.net I'll be reading from my upcoming creative commons alternative history novel, Utopia Five. You can download a PDF tomorrow www.annecurrie.com or buy it on Kindle for 99p ...

I live near Jaywick & visit all the time. Fab beach www.theguardian.com/environment/... It's so cheap. Easy walk to Clacton and the train to Essex University or to London in 90 mins. Houses for £50K (!) It always feels ripe for young folk to make a go of. That beach is perfect for watersports

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

This is a really good piece, in part because it's a really good example of how to let the reader into the conversations you have with the people you are writing about and how that shapes your thinking:

Why is Blade Runner even called Blade Runner? A question from my past finally answered ;-) collider.com/blade-runner... (tldr, no real reason at all) I would strongly recommend "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" BTW. I only read it for the first time this year and it's a really good one...

Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre. This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now. bsky.app/profile/keta...

Certainly something you should read

I wish...

I'm thinking on BlueSky and how uninteractive it is for me. My friend @lizrice.com is here. I never see her stuff. I see loads of interesting things from strangers. I like them. Occasionally comment. We never interact. You do have to live in somewhat of a bubble or you live in a void.

Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary ☀️⚡️ Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Graph of the day. (OK, it was posted two days ago but I'm not a time traveller so today will have to do).

At the GreenIO conference in London in September I'll be keynoting on why we are where we are with AI and how we align it with our energy interests

New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed. The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology. electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...

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I couldn't agree more. The urgent need for AI media literacy is the reason I am making my scifi series free to read under creative commons from 12th September annecurrie.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... It's why I wrote the series which is based on a course I created for the University of Hertfordshire

ChatGPT persuaded me to open source my SciFi novel Aftter 6 years, Utopia Five gets a CC release annecurrie.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... Have I lost my mind?

Something big is coming for Panopticon fans… www.annecurrie.com/book-downloads

We've just announced September's meetup! The amazing @annecurrie.bsky.social will join us to talk about a future with AI! 📆 Thursday 18th Sept, 18:00 - 21:00 📍 Tessl HQ, Kings Cross, London (Thanks @tessl.io ) 🎟️ Register here: www.meetup.com/ai-for-the-r...

Last book I read: The Golden Bough by James Fraser. How human societies work from magic to religion to science. I think about it all the time now Current book: To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey. Surprisingly good ;-) Next read? Working on Shadow Earth the finale of the Panopticon series

Kneel before Zod

Husband & I discussing whether social change really comes down to extreme right or wealth redistribution (just listened to interview with Gary Stevenson on @therestpolitics.bsky.social) when this cloud appeared behind us. An interesting interjection by the universe... (real BTW)

As a SciFi author/technologist, I have a side interest in scifi where the author has done a lot of thinking about something potentially analogous to current events. One I'm enjoying right now is not of the usual suspects. Anne Mccaffrey's Talent series. I'd forgotten she was so thoughtful

😥 Sad that @cncf.io hosting for KCDs only promotes speaker social links if they are on X. Time to let us add links to BlueSky / Mastodon / whatever socials we want to be on! community.cncf.io/events/detai...

Low emissions zones work to protect public health. Since the scheme was introduced in Glasgow: - Pollution levels have reduced by a third in the city centre. - There has been a 21% reduction in harmful pollutants outside the LEZ area. - It has met legal limits for the first time in three decades.

There is a lot of patronizing in the response to this. Even I felt a bit sad at the replacement of the cheerful and giddy ChatGPT4 with something better but different. Implying people are silly if they do so is saying folk are silly if they feel sad at the end of a novel or the death of a character

Fascinating bbc.co.uk/news/article... immediately reminded me of Prof Richard Wiseman's excellent book The Luck Factor, which emphasises the importance of acting on your hunches not suppressing them. AKA don't have lunch with someone you very strongly suspect is a poisoner