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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Open Letter to every Edinburgh City Councillor ... Oppose AI Data Centres In Edinburgh bellacaledonia.org.uk/.../oppose-a...

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Haven't been on here for ages but felt a need to share this email I've written to Edinburgh City Councillors who are going to take a momentous decision tomorrow on AI Data Centres which could have long term consequences for everyone in Edinburgh/Scotland. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/03/o...

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Fair points. Also, the majority of the reading public cant be trusted. Sunday Times bestsellers list doesnt lie.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction/Futurist Fiction is 100x better than Crime Fiction/Crime Noir as a genre. Much more interesting and imaginative. Yay or nay?

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A wholly inadequate tourist board of its day. Took our book to boost Edinburgh to its current level of tourist popularity.

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This story is shockingly stupid even for @nytimes.com ‬⁩—where they always promote AI. Take this insanity: “Asking help from a chatbot,you’re going to get empathy,”Ms. Rowe said, “but you’re not going to get help.” You’re going to get EMPATHY? It’s a f*cking machine. It’s mimicking “empathy”.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Just 2 days to go until my first Robert Burns Not In My Name show. The show this Monday is sold out but there are still some tickets left for the show on Mon 18th August (see link below). Be nice to see any of you there.

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Tomorrow, Edinburgh, noon

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Quite the opposite. The UK govt is cutting red tape so that fresh water cooled data centres can be rolled out fast across the country.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

As hot weather necessitates a hose pipe ban in England what happens when more and more of our fresh water is diverted to cool "ramped up" data centres? These data centres will have Priority Use contracts over domestic users. The fresh water problems have barely begun. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI

Artificial intelligence will deliver a decade of national renewal, as part of a new plan announced today (13 January 2025).

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This morning I've mostly been thinking about tech unicorns in the UK (168 of them all valued at £1bn+) and the 3,700 AI companies in the UK (valued at £72bn in 2024). And, Who is asking the difficult eco/energy Qs about scaling up data centres to host all this? www.business.gov.uk/campaign/gro...

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Artificial Intelligence

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This morning I've been mainly thinking about BLOBS deep in our planet's lower mantle and their relationship to mantle plumes and volcanic eruptions #volcano 🌋 dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/expl...

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Scientists Discover the Explosive Power of Earth's Mysterious BLOBS – Is an Eruption Coming?

What if deadly volcanic eruptions are caused by structures deep inside Earth?

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Remember that grief metafiction published in The Guardian on 12 Mar which Sam Altman claimed was written by AI? What happened to this amazing literary software? Also, where was the transparency of the prompt sheets used? Also, if I need stardust to throw in investors eyes where can I get some?

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg and went to see an Ian Hamilton Findlay exhibition inspired by the French Revolution #BastilleDay 🇫🇷

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Not so much a State of the Nation address but a state of the nations summary. Well worth a read. #wherearewenow

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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/07/2025

Robert Burns: Not In My Name 11 & 18 Aug, Edinburgh – tickets from £9.38 Showcasing the radical subversive poetry of Robert Burns: the stuff he couldn’t put his name to during his lifetime. A performance by @kevwilliamson.bsky.social with films by Alastair Cook www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-bur...

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ROBERT BURNS: NOT IN MY NAME

A performance by Kevin Williamson with films by Alastair Cook

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

ROBERT BURNS NOT IN MY NAME Heads up to say I'm gonna perform Robert Burns Not In My Name at Leith Depot for 2 nights only. Mon 11th + Mon 18th Aug at 7.30pm. Burns as you've never heard him before. With films by Alastair Cook. You're all welcome. Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-bur...

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ROBERT BURNS: NOT IN MY NAME

A performance by Kevin Williamson with films by Alastair Cook

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Welcome back! Edinburgh has missed you. Delighted to see my favourite indy cinema reopen. 🎬

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Not read that one but will definitely check it out. Geoff Dyer is the best of the eclecticists. Even wrote a fantastic book on Tarkovsky's Stalker I like to go back to now and again.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Agree 100%. The dishwasher was AI's advance guard in Big Tech's plan to eradicate human agency. Hot soapy water will kill the machines.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Respect to Palestinian Action for taking nonviolent direct action against the British military. Starmer & his Govt are 100% complicit in this genocide yet their only response seems to be to double down on Israeli terrorism. Never thought I'd despise a British PM more than Thatcher but here we are.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/06/2025

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Earthquake swarm at Italy’s Campi Flegrei supervolcano sparks eruption fears trans: Mibbes aye mibbes naw. news.az/news/earthqu...

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Wow. Is that every short story translated by CG?

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Agreed. CG translations of Chekhov's short stories bring them alive. That story is something else. A beauty. If there was a Top 10 of long short stories...

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Watched Episode 7 of #TheLastofUs last night and thought wow. Cliff hanger. Cant wait to find out what happens next week. Only to find out that was end of Season 2. Season 3 not till 2027. WTAF? No consideration for Gen Short Attention Span. Also world could end before that in AI-Eco apocalypse.

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a woman is smiling with the words i 'm not in the mood for this behind her

ALT: a woman is smiling with the words i 'm not in the mood for this behind her

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Issue 12 of The Poets' Republic has arrived. As a lifelong hater of fluffy puffs this snippet from Hugh McMillan's article makes me feel seen. Bless you Shug.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

MAN V MACHINE Learning to distinguish between AI writing & human writing is easy enough. AI has its digital fingerprints & a generic gooey blandness to it 🤮 and worse, erodes users of literacy skills & critical thinking/analytical skills. This post was human generated. www.earth.com/news/man-vs-...

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Man vs. machine: Why students still write better than AI

Essays written by ChatGPT or other AI tools feel distant and lack literacy. Researchers see AI as only a tutor, not a substitute for humans.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I doubt if anything genuinely transformative will arise from any mainstream political party.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Unreal. These ideas act like memes and like most memes that are passed on folk dont always know their origins. Thats my way of looking at it!

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

... or they embraced the triumphal British nationalism that followed WW2. The cultural racism of the postwar war period was 'relatively' low level during economic upswing but after 1970 kaboom. Out came the old racial slurs once more, promoted by 70s TV, 70s culture, mass media. And here we are...

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Scotland too has been deeply infected by its ruling class's greed, which leapt on board the imperial bandwagon, and this too leaves racist scars. Scotland's independence movement, essentially anti-colonialist at heart, is counter weight that England doesnt have. So Reform has strong opposition here.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

England, like the USA, had vast span of the post war decades to educate their own peoples, especially through the education system and mass media, about the evils of empire, slavery and colonialism and the scars of prejudice left behind. Instead both countries STILL choose to embrace colonialism.

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Like the USA, England has never faced up honestly to its colonialist past, its history of Slavery & Empire, nor acknowledged the psychological legacy of racism/racial superiority this leaves deeply embedded in its culture, which is easily triggered by current events. Then along comes Reform Party..

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Still shocks me when I see authors promoting their books on Amazon.

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Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

💚✊🏾

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Wirklich? (that's me answer to everything!)

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Duolingo only takes you so far. I know how to say hallo in German. I know how to order food and drink. I know how to ask if someone reads books. Should cover most bases. I'm almost ready for a trip to Deutschland and full linguistic immersion. "Ich heiße Kevin. Ich kann nur ein bisschen Deutsch." ✔️

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Never buy a book from Amazon. Never promote a book on Amazon. No exceptions. 🚫

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today is Shakespeare's birthday and these are some words he invented: Eyeball, courtship, blushing, kissing, hint, bedroom, hurry, undress, exposure, majestic, arouse, excitement, bump, push, obscene, yelping, varied, generous, tranquil, dawn, unpregnant, gossip. You're welcome!

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a black and white portrait of martin droeshout with a collar

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Head up to the Scottish Poetry Library and have a shot of these AI machines. Unique poetry receipts! ChatGPT's love rival! Poetry translation problems solved!

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

How to read a poem properly

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Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hard to say Ruth. So much hype and greed and AI fantasies from the Techbros of Silicon Valley its tricky to separate fact from metafiction.

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