Astrophysicist @adambecker.bsky.social dispels the ridiculous idea of data centers in space on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. This was such a fun conversation. Check out episode 73: "Data Centers in Space!?” (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

I'm not an Instagram user, so no idea how many users are aware of this, therefore just in case... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Long time overdue, good news. As part of wider reform that, "marks the first time that government has attempted to assess how best to use farmland, nature reserves and areas of degraded land to help balance competing needs for land for food production, housing, energy and industry."

Did you know I've created an online course in user-centred design? It's modular, self-paced, and currently on offer at £55 until 31 March. Share it with your CEO! Or a team lead with spare training budget to use up? #UCD #DigitalTransformation #Agile #UsersFirst #UserNeeds #Design #UserResearch

New service for bulk EPC data for England and Wales: Get energy performance of buildings data get-energy-performance-data.communities.gov.uk Guidance get-energy-performance-data.communities.gov.uk/guidance Access requires a GOV​.UK One Login account #energyperformance #energydata #opendata -ish

This can't be said often enough.

This is the key point. On Sunday UK government announced changes to plug-in solar policies, including for balconies. This is positive, but there were few details regarding safety/conformity and no date for roll out. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Good thread, this is the key point. Far too many people in British politics seem to not understand that ultimately the thing causing the energy price shock is...the world doesn't have as much energy as it did before Trump invaded Iran, something with real and deadly consequences.

2/ Spain, used to have among Europe's highest electricity bills, now they are one of the lowest - and less volatility from recent shocks: www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

Countries that *did* deploy a lot of renewables & electrification are already faring better than they otherwise would have . Here are some examples: 1/ Pakistan, still highly exposed to Gulf LNG supply crunch BUT estimated to save $12 billion due to solar boom: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauri-...

Other states — including Illinois, Montana and Ohio — have issued cease-and-desist orders to Kalshi, and the company is facing civil lawsuits in Maryland, New Jersey and Nevada. Arizona is the first to pursue criminal charges against the company. via @azmirror.com

Oh those crazy greenies. Well, it turns out that solar and wind need not pass the Hormuz strait. Strategic autonomy in action. The most self-destructive thing Europe could do now is abandon the green transition. And that’s only on geopolitical grounds. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@edent.tel I assume you've seen this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When you're battling poor navigation, inexplicable naming conventions, AND poor AI* to find a feature of a web service. Looking at you CloudFlare. *Where the AI is just as confused as you are and provides 404 links to non-existent pages.

“Since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has added over 3 GW of new renewable energy capacity. Wind and solar arrays with independent transmission lines are scattered over the landscape, which makes them harder to hit and easier to repair”

Most excellent.

Portugal's Army in 1974, enacted a coup d'ètat which destroyed the Oliveira-Salazar & Caetano Dictatorship, and brought Democracy & elections back to Portugal!

It is absolutely imperative that European countries, including the UK, do absolutely nothing to prolong or escalate Operation Epic Insanity. And once we are in there will be no way out. This is on the US and Israel.

I can write this SNCF TGVs too large for Italian tunnels story jonworth.eu/confirmed-sn... thanks to a few things 1) Having been to these places, I have an idea how the lines work 2) Tenacity digging into the issues but *MOSTLY* 3) An amazingly knowledgeable network of people to help - thanks all!

Companies House is really having a bad week. First they accidentally exposed millions of business owners to having possible ID theft (etc), and now their media email account appears to have been hacked by a swan

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/4bbc9gw

Speaking as a former buzzfeed employee – and one who didn't sign an exit deal with a partial NDA – is it probably worth noting AI was just one of a long line of pivots for a media company posing as a tech company. Buzzfeed was largely finished long before the AI move.

This is an excellent explainer by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org on why gas sets the price of electricity, why the UK is particularly vulnerable to this*, and what alternatives there maybe. * "One widely cited academic analysis found that gas set the price of power 97% of the time in the UK in 2021."

NHS England ran an open competition for the £330M contract Palantir won. Critically, though, the US spy-tech company was allowed to carry over work from the covid-era NHS system it built (£60M in awards, no competition) creating an unfair advantage, critics have pointed out.

This is amazing research. I recommend reading the paper. “Coffee waste can be turned into a high-quality insulation material that performs as well as common plastic foam.” “This new material is completely biodegradable, meaning it can break down naturally without harming the environment.”

Blog now out about how our hairdressers as everyday influencers on climate change inspired a really cool art installation in Germany! Really recommend looking at the blog to see the photos. bsky.app/profile/brio...

Public engagement and climate change: exploring the role of hairdressers as everyday influencers ⭐New paper!⭐ Two research projects exploring the influence that hairdressers—as widespread professionals in conversational spaces—have w/ clients about climate & sustainability. doi.org/10.1057/s415...

We then did something else. the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 created a new way to strike out defamation claims if they were "SLAPPs" - litigation intended to chill free speech. It had never been used. We used it.

An excellent thread on the in-balances of power in how UK libel law operates.

Amazing. #openscience HOA “currently provides access to: - 56 organs (307 full 3D datasets from 25 donors) - 11 organ types, including brain, heart, lung, kidney, liver, colon, spleen, placenta, uterus, prostate, and testis - Multiscale scans, from whole-organ views down to near-cellular resolution”

To every poltician pushing back on electrification and decarbonisation we should say: Why do you want to make Europe dependent on others? Why do you want Europeans to pay higher bills?

“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬

The hereditary peers go out in the most British way possible: a step towards democratising the state is achieved only by taking a half step backwards at the same time.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Only just catching up on this. Great news and well done to @bengoldacre.bsky.social and team!

Should you wish to know how the AI at @thedatacity.bsky.social works, but not so well you can copy us, please do come to Applied AI at Parallax in Leeds on 17 March at 6pm where I'll be giving a talk on exactly that! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/applied-ai...

This summary post is so tame, compared to the details in the article. This is bleak, bleak, bleak.

Usually timber buildings have a 'dirty secret' or let's say remnants of the old world, concrete stairs, floors etc. See here how a wooden elevator shaft is going in fast like it's nothing: www.linkedin.com/posts/markus...

Spotlight on Migration, a report by the @womeninmigration.bsky.social is out! spotlightreportmigration.org/wp-content/u... I wrote about crucial issues on the use of surveillance tech against people on the move and to learn about migrant communities choosing to resist, and care for each other.

on May 01, 2003, George W Bush gave a "Mission Accomplished" speech on an aircraft carrier: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed" the actual Iraq war ended in 2011

The BIG problem is because of massive car manufacturing influence, most media and political energy is going to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars and less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, since it’s the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good.

Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)

A good investigation, not surprising to anyone who's been following these companies or UK gov AI policy, but nevertheless, infuriating: Dr Kat Jones, director of charity APRS, said the claimed plans for 1GW of on-site renewable energy “are total pie-in-the-sky. Where is this going to come from?”

Coverage of measures highlighted last week in my posts above: UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech without parliamentary scrutiny www.politico.eu/article/uk-e... ("Regulating tech" = blocking content and discussion) #OnlineSafetyAct #socialmediaban #genAI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

New OSA clause: the UK Government plans to give ministers a broad power to make regulations amending the Online Safety Act re "illegal AI-generated content" and AI services etc. – without further primary legislation bills.parliament.uk/publications... (pg 12) #genAI #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

“Recent studies have shown that when satellites reach the end of their lives and burn up upon reentry, they leave behind metals like aluminum and lithium. The consequences of this are not yet known. But that's [only one thing that] concerns scientists…” www.cbc.ca/news/science...

It’s rather bleak out there, so here is a story of hope from the alps about our bearded vultures. One of the earliest birds released back into the wild in the 1980s was found alive last year: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

“100 online users account for 68% of conspiratorial posts, capturing 90% of views and 86% of likes. The same users generally promote multiple conspiratorial claims, particularly about the deep state, election fraud, and media-elite collusion […] by posting around high-profile events.”

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

celebrating #IWD by reading a book about how women were forced out of tech in the late twentieth-century programmedinequality.com