Screen shot of key line from linked article: "This is not just a supply shock. It is a stress test of the system the energy transition is replacing."
Celine H's new substack on energy politics is proving essential reading right now...
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Have been getting my head round it / learning to double check before I pick someone
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8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”.
But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵
Bracing read from Celine Herweijer on the energy supply cliff we’re all being driven off by the Hormuz closure. open.substack.com/pub/powerofp...
“You can ask a lot of questions about Avebury but the answer you will get will depend on who you ask, when you ask them, and what time they answer from.”
I circle the stones: open.substack.com/pub/sillylit...
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Subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur have a wide consensus. The Gaza case is contested and under consideration. The Israeli rights group Btselem said its report "our genocide" is one it never imagined producing. Others contest its conclusion
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Grim to read how safeguarding legislation and AI were weoponised against a professional school librarian in this. I hope the person at the centre of this storm can find a new, more supportive employer.
The case for expanding domestic production has always been weaker than its proponents suggest.
UKCS output is too small to move international prices. What we can control is how much our economy needs to consume. This is less a question of price and more of volume.
In US, UK, Germany and Australia, research shows that around 70% of firms actively use AI, particularly younger, more productive firms. Firms report little impact of AI over the last three years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment or productivity
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A support package to combat rising fossil fuel costs is likely to be a political necessity, but this time around can the government please also deliver policies that help reduce the fossil fuel reliance causing the problem in the first place?
Maybe it helps at the margins with the tax base and energy security, and maybe it helps neutralise some of the political attacks on net zero (which is why some green figures are backing a rethink), but the suggestion it meaningfully improves UK energy independence is wishful thinking.
Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
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'it’s interesting to compare how hard it was to differentiate a web browser with how hard it is today to differentiate a chatbot'
Fab piece from @thebenedictevans.bsky.social asking hard Qs of OpenAI when its tech is similar to other labs and has no network effects www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...
Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”
Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"
An influential industry petition criticizing the European Union’s core climate policy implied its demands were supported by some 1,350 companies and associations.
Now some firms deny they signed up.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Common Peephole She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it. That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston
Pulp poetry.
I agree with this. The mistake Labour are making is leap-frogging the centre to try to attract Reform voters. I think a more ‘median voter’ targeting strategy would be more socially liberal and more pro-business than the one they currently have.
so I think "the AI can write its own code, and therefore hockey-stick to superintelligence" is sort of... *less* likely if it's more like "it just tries something until something works". mostly what works is not "create a supermassive brain".
Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Bucket theory is unglamorous but very important. @ersatzben.com is forensic here - a must read for those interested in UK research policy
www.ersatzben.com/p/the-bucket...
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