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Taking his time to even say the point. It's like it's being dragged kicking and screaming from his mouth.

This isn't the first time I've been attacked by members of the Green Party (of which I am a member) for stating an opinion. I've been attacked twice here because of the assumption of the position I'd taken. I had not stated my position either time. First was trans rights. Today was Israel.

For the avoidance of doubt, I still think the post uses racist and abusive language. If you don't think it's abusive or racist, fine. The problem here is that even the *perception* is unhelpful. Learn to write so that you're being as unambiguous as possible.

This is fascinating. The longer the war in Iran goes on, the more likely it is that the transition to renewables will be accelerated.

If anything proves my point it's the response to this post

GB News owner makes 25 false or misleading claims about climate. Not a surprise

It's over 3 months since I've had any paid work. In the last few weeks I've watched AI discussion in the tech community ramp up significantly. Mainly around Claude Code. I've watched CTOs start talking about "pausing" hiring while they figure out how to use AI tooling in their companies.

I couldn't attend conference (family). This post epitomises one of the problems I have with certain parts of the Green Party. Small but vocal parts. This post uses racist and abusive language to berate the party for not passing a motion. Whatever the motion is, this is not how to act.

I used to have huge numbers of browser tabs open on my phone. Then I just gave up and switched to DuckDuckGo browser, and search engine, and set it up to delete all browsing data after 10 minutes away. I've now trained myself to save information straight away or it's gone. Much much easier.

"Invalid handle" has two meanings Started by Nadhim Zahawi...

This is why I hate WiFi in a Victorian terraced house... The various routers and access points should be finding the empty space on the spectrum but they don't because everyone else shifts too. I'm right next to my router and it's still not the most powerful signal. Back to cables.

here's what I taught someone about B2B SaaS today: don't sell that your sword has 10% more titanium, sell the story of the knight who went to slay the dragon only to have his sword shatter on the dragon's scales. and that's why you want your swords to have more titanium in them.

This is fascinating Greens are going to get a lot of seats. My question is, have the Green Party become a more likely vote than Reform in the last few months? Beyond even this

@zackpolanski.bsky.social living his best life

It really doesn't help when the Govt doesn't actually use plausible information to generate emissions calculations. This is a farce.

71 proposed new data centres in the UK would require... 20GW of electricity. The average UK electricity demand in 2025 was... 37GW. It is unacceptable that this single industry should not be liable for the build of energy infrastructure it is going to require. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-co2...

I keep hearing that "critical thinking" is in decline, and that AI is making it worse. The more I look, the less I think this is true. The underlying assumption is that if you apply "critical thinking" then you'll "think the way I do". That's a huge fallacy, and a failure of discourse.

Really looking forward to giving the keynote speech at the National Education Union conference tomorrow. Education deserves ambition, not austerity. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

This is... worth a read. Even if he is a Labour MP. He is, in fact, my MP too. Always willing to listen

Who knew that reducing speed on urban roads would mean fewer people died? Everybody

Why did they make it look like it was made by haribo?

So either we should only talk about the environment... or if we try and, you know, develop policies that may be necessary if we get into power, maybe we have to consider a bunch of stuff including the environment. I mean... Maybe. Or should parties only care about one issue? Idiots.

Attacking a politician like this is counter productive. It just gives them oxygen. It's why you shouldn't get angry on social media about the fascists, but amplify the things you want to see go wider. Zack is awesome.

Who would have think it? That Farage and Matt Badloss talked a lot of nonsense about being cheated when they just, er, lost? Wasting police time anyone ?

The choice of "words and imagery" not being obviously hate-filled is not the point and never was. It's the choice of campaigns they take on. It's the constant sniping at Christianity. It's the fact that the org seems to only get noticed for anti Christian stuff. No need to project motive.

I really don't like this organisation. It feels very anti Christian in a lot of its output. I do have a Christian background but I've also been active in supporting many people who have been hurt/abused by various different churches and been a voice of significant criticism. This feels petty.

The way that private companies don't have to provide a way for people to verify their age via non-digital means is bonkers. The UK Govt is better at this stuff. The UK Govt has "Good Practice Guides" (GPG) e.g. GPG45 "How to prove and verify someone's identity" www.gov.uk/government/p...

Everyone in the US realising how fragile their democracy (if it is indeed a democracy) really is. It's quite scary to watch a country built on economic gain for the wealthy few realise that the wealthy few are still in control.

It's not a joke. It's just not.

For those of you into using Amazon, you can buy my NEW book on the Labour Party under Tony Blair, 'forward not back', 'prudence with a purpose' and the Third Way for just £16.24... What a bargain! www.amazon.co.uk/New-Labour-B...

Fascinating to watch a bunch of tech people discover what are in essence the principles of serverless development we were all learning 10 years ago... Functions that do one thing well and using event driven principles is a really good way to architect vibe coded solutions.

Just goes to show that the trend has been to look as young as possible for as long as possible... ... and men are not immune (see hair transplants).

How unbelievably rude towards a party with 200k members

Calling her a camel is a bit harsh

Three types of company: 1. those that make enough money to pay everyone in the company 2. those that make more money than they spend and are therefore profitable 3. those that tell a good enough story to raise funding to keep operating Anti-AI people make a category error.

Sora being pulled is not "the death of AI" and anyone that thinks it is, doesn't understand the breadth of reach of GenAI or where the value most likely lies. If anything it is OpenAI signalling a tightening of focus. It may mean less data centre growth than expected too.

While I'm glad that Sora is being killed (Is killedbyopenai.com available?) I don't think this shows that the AI bubble is bursting. Gen AI for video is and always was a bit of a niche, and the cost of doing anything is so prohibitive for both user and service provider. No surprise here.

"Will Mr. Matt Yglesias, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Mr. Matt Yglesias, please pick up the white courtesy phone, thank you."

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

A new House of Commons register of interests has been released and uploaded to TheyWorkForYou https://www.theyworkforyou.com/interests

Nelson was a military genius and a bit of a git to his family. Still, fun fact given recent politics.

I'm seeing a lot of universities buying AI. I see a lot of academics pushing back too. The burden on academia to change is significant and very hard. Banning AI is almost certainly wrong though. It's prohibition. You just end up with everyone using a speak easy (!) and not seeing the harms.

Worst bit about agentic AI and having ADHD is that waiting for stuff to happen means I can end up... elsewhere... and not realise the agents are done. It's actually quite annoying.

Or: Grok's climate impact is about 20 Pornhubs (I should make this a standard metric)

The important point in my most recent thread

On AI, politics, free speech & social media. I stopped posting on twitter a while back and switched to Mastodon and Bluesky hoping to find a similar community to early Twitter. Last week I live... posted... a conference and realised that I used to live tweet at every conference I went to.

It's really got to a bad place when Luigi is doing actual plumbing

Every country should put a "Strait of Hormuz" tariff on the US.