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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new essay in the newly relaunched IPPR Progressive Journal. It’s intended as a sober assessment of the political economy of Britain’s energy challenge, as we move from the old, dying fossil fuel system to the new world of electrification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Screenshot of journal article How Britain Can Eacape Its Energy Trap: Heat and Light at the End of the Tunnel

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: "Just build more solar and batteries" I see this comment many times in my social media feed. The problem: The slogan undersells the problem. It also undersells the solution. The good news: we already have most of the tools we need. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-proble...

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The problem with "just build solar and batteries"

Why the easiest story about the energy transition is misleading.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I couldn't agree more with this article. The executive is responsible for a culture and processes that lead to industrial "accidents" and we know how to reduce those - transparency Culture is what you tolerate, as they say. Or I think there's a meme of a guy dressed as a hotdog

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, woke up thinking this. The #AILaunch is likely to be a politically staged event where some number of companies claim they are so deficient at #devops (expressed by Anthropic as "so overworked") that they couldn't prevent an industrial "accident," one they may claim is sentient. #giftArticle

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Opinion | The AI frontier can pace itself

Dario Amodei’s proposal has the unmistakable whiff of rent-seeking.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026

I have a pod coming out in a couple of weeks with a company that builds data centers that are quieter than libraries, use 99% less water than conventional DCs, & are specifically designed to be useful to grid managers to bring down power prices... & it has reduced public opposition approximately 0%.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

Just so it's absolutely clear for everyone: the rate of renewable growth and the rate of fossil fuel phase-out is nowhere near high enough right now. Shrugging it all off because 'renewables are inevitable' = complacency and failure. We need to do way, way more www.wri.org/research/sta...

a screenshot of a table with many 'right direction but off track' items for climtae action

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Looking forward to giving the opening keynote on Sunday of the BSDCon EU conference in Brussels 2026.eurobsdcon.org Who is going to save the world from AI's excessive energy use? I imply Sarah Connor but it should clearly have been Tintin

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EuroBSDCon 2026 will be held in Brussels, Belgium; September 09-13, 2026.

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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This excellent piece is worth a read. I'm so frustrated with the data centre debate. Almost everything gets solved with decarbonising the grid and mandating water use **if it's even needed** using closed loop systems. The US political debate doesn't transfer here in the way many think.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These AI DCs have huge potential to be grid balancing but clearly only if they are forced to do so. Left to their own devices it's FF

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Prepping 101. Don't take the labels off your tins for instagram purposes

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's plug-in solar day! You can now buy your own balcony/garden solar set-ups in GB (not NI) and install them without an electrician, provided the devices are 'compliant'. Let me know if anyone here is planning to do it and how you get on

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jon Berger discusses the power of internal training and conferences to deliver all kinds of good stuff. Not just education, but culture, cross-fertilization, new ideas. Progress! I've seen the benefit of this at many companies including the Financial Times

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

mRNA vaccines vs cancer success —melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today) —triple negative breast cancer —pancreatic cancer —non-small cell lung cancer —glioblastoma

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

AI has accelerated the rate at which organisations need to learn and react. On the latest episode 22 of Asynchronous and Unreliable weekly tech podcast, Matthew Skelton, co-author of bestseller Team Topologies and I discuss alignment. Why is it so important and how can businesses do it? Links below

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StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They are in Turnpike Lane London. The prosperous half of Haringey has two Waterstones and an indie. This half, All Good Bookshop and chain, the Works, which lists books NINTH in its front window display of what they do and sells only selected big publisher paperbacks.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Which is your favourite Diana Wynne Jones? So hard to choose (in fact you can't, they are all good in such different ways) but I'm controversially going to go for The Homeward Bounders

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Which Nemo is NVIDIA's new model actually named after? Captain Nemo or Nemo from my long running scifi AI series the Panopticon (which I uploaded to the AIs years ago so introduces a significant correlation between AIs and the name Nemo). www.amazon.co.uk/Utopia-Five-...

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Utopia Five (Panopticon Book 1)

Utopia Five (Panopticon Book 1) eBook : Currie, A.E.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Binface had no ground game. The place is awash with Farage banners. I couldn't even buy a binface T shirt from his website. One of the other religious candidates was driving round in a motorcycle sidecar with a whistle and a sandwich board waving at everyone (I waved back). Looks like he came 3rd

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I do obviously want a pair of Kurt Vonnegut sandals

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I completely love Bruce Campbell. Ash Vs Evil Dead was brilliant. Plus now I have relatives in an old folks home it reveals a lot of nuance in Bubba Hotep!! Who knew?

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Photo editors: combine exam results day with the Clacton by-election day by showing a group of elderly white voters leaping into the air clutching a ballot paper.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Making a killing in the Berlin (or nearby) tech scene, but longing for the prestige of being a @hertieschool.bsky.social adjunct? Come teach something like "Machine Learning Operations, • Geospatial Analysis, • LLMs from Scratch" @hertiedatascience.bsky.social! www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/5_...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

July made it three months in a row where solar was the single largest source of electricity in the EU 🇪🇺 May: 23.5% June: 25.0% July: 24.9% All fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil etc.) combined were just narrowly higher in July at 25.4%.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Why are people worried about AGI scifi and not ecological sustainability, which is definitionally necessary if we are to persist?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Don’t know if this is a real Banksy - but I hope it is

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Le Corbusier's housing was also famously often a disaster in the rain. It's almost a cliche of style over substance. Used to have a Le Corbusier chaise that I got from Heals at huge expense. Looked amazing, never sat on. Basically a sculpture. Gave it away in the end.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/08/2026

Headline from....the Daily Mail.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

in Asynchronous & Unreliable I talk to CEO of possibly the greenest AI data centre company Neuralwatt about what they're doing to create DCs that aren't evil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmJc... It's possible, so DCs that don't do it should not be accepted. Back pressure needs to be applied here

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Ep 20: How to Make AI Data Centers Sustainable with Neuralwatt CEO Chad Gibson

YouTube video by Asynchronous and Unreliable with Anne Currie

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 05/08/2026

15. Recommend and review a book My recommendations tend to be highly tailored to their recipients, but I believe many mutuals might enjoy reading @annecurrie.bsky.social 's Panopticon series, for its mix of climate fiction, mass surveillance, and techno-optimism of a kind

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Can AI ever be green? How do we raise the efficiency of AI data centres? In a fascinating Ep 20 of Asynchronous & Unreliable podcast I talk to Chad Gibson, CEO and co-founder of AI host and infrastructure company Neuralwatt about how AI can be (and is being) aligned with the energy transition.

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Anne Currie @annecurrie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Apparently UK solar capacity is ~23 GW. On a sunny day like today, that is the equivalent of 23 extra nuclear power stations. That seems unbelievable???? Although my roof is currently putting >3 Kw into the local grid...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There were 27,391 new UK solar installations in June 2026, the second highest monthly installations volume on record, adding 132 MW of capacity And we've got plug-in solar coming at the end of August! www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/31/u...

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UK solar capacity hits 22.8 GW as market prepares for plug-in launch - pv magazine Global

The UK added over 2 GW of solar capacity in the 12 months to the end of June 2026. With new plug-in solar regulations soon to take effect, a UK wholesaler boss tells pv magazine plug-in solar is a gre...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Energy abundance is not the same as abundant energy. Nice to see The Hill run with electrofficiency, a term I coined this year: electrify an end use and you cut the energy needed to deliver the same service. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

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Energy abundance is not the same thing as abundant energy

We’re living in an energy hellscape.

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