Kind of bummed that this petition against a monstrous AI data center has not yet broken 6,000 signatures.
“One of the world’s largest AI data centres is being planned next to Auchtertool village in Fife, Scotland. The height of six double decker buses and length of 100 football pitches. An estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy will be consumed by this.”
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-ai-data-centre-near-auchtertool-fife
FACTCHECK: A guide to manufacturing headlines, by the Times
1) highlight upfront costs of an “eco” home (EV, heat pump, solar)
2) pretend that petrol cars and gas boilers are free (yes really)
3) count upfront “eco” costs twice, for good measure
4) that’s it!
Never a dull day in Newcastle - walked down to the Millennium Bridge on my lunch, and there’s a guy in a (fake) astronaut suit being photographed. 🚀 Could be rehearsing for #EMFcamp!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Thayer/116002682012736788
To follow up on the situation where non consensual NHS AI got my medical notes wrong: it is possible to have AI removed from your NHS note taking that's on by default. You have to request it in writing from your GP. I have now managed after a request in Feb, and have it confirmed in writing. Recommend you do to!!!
The plan for a day of music studies this month has collapsed. The tutor cancelled.
I hope the evenings of #music and #poetry will still happen, but it's looking like no instrumentalists. Even for money.
You're all invited. Please suggest dates. The music-room is available for every evening from 12 July to 1 September.
Some accommodation offered.
[ Mood = woeful but hopeful ]
If any institution is crowdfunding, count me in for a donation. Some generous donor must be able to fork out £32k for such unique historical objects to be kept for the nation.
Happy 250th birthday to the US.
Maybe it's time to sort out shit like this
https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116857755926130975
Loving this bit of design fun from IKEA https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/26/ikea-canada-flag-campaign/ #design #photography
If anyone has any opportunities for work experience students within a Legal department or Legal firm in Newcastle upon Tyne or nearby, let me know. I’ve just spoken to some very enterprising young people visit our office today to ask if we had anything.
#WorkExperience #Student #Law #Legal #NewcastleUponTyne #NorthEastEngland
A Why Is This Interesting post on the UK long wave radio shutdown https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-turning-off-long-wave-edition #radio #technology
Several folks I know are heading to #EMFcamp which means I’ll be in very good company already and although this is my first one I know it will be fantastic. There’s @alistairmacdonald
@coldclimate
@Leeky
@jtruk
@Documentally
- anyone else I’ve missed? ☺️
(And of course my other half @Hobbs will be joining on the Friday)
So, for absolute clarity:
Yes, switching to decentralized, independent alternatives is important. Long-term. I'm not against it.
No, I'm not stupid, ignorant, or a sellout just because I haven't left yet. I simply have other priorities and real hurdles, for fuck's sake.
No, I won't let people who have never been in my situation tell me how to distribute my art.
And yes, I'm afraid of AI. But I'm even more afraid of a community that leaves me hanging while I'm fighting against the wall.
If you want to boycott Bandcamp – go ahead. That's your right. But please, please stop punishing us artists for still being there. Why not just ask us what we need? Offer help instead of accusations. Support us in other ways (buy directly from us, share our links, send us Faircamp tutorials, offer to help us with deployment). That would be real activism. Not this mindless shouting.
"If it's agreed by the FCC, this will be deeply regrettable. This will say that we are in a world where large corporations can determine the view of the sky above our heads, just as they can transform the environment on Earth."
We are hosting NE1 and Northumbria Police in our building today as they present their City Safe initiative and report that crime and anti social behaviour has fallen in the city centre. #NewcastleUponTyne
So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢
I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.
Thank you!
Trainable: discover places to visit in Scotland within walking distance of a train station
Various #FusedGlass artwork experiments I made in my last class, fresh from the kiln! Enamel, powder and Glassline paints as well as some tack-fused frit.
#ArtGlass #Glass
BBC's long wave service, which went on air in 1934, is in its final hours. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo
Can we all agree not to use this?
(No, we probably can't... also I've already heard from people in the US that some carriers auto-swap over to Starlink sometimes)
The direct-to-cell satellites are the worst for light pollution (they're huge and on low orbits), likely sat working lifetimes will be even shorter than Starlink's 5 yrs (because they're constantly orbit-raising due to friction with atmosphere), and thus more pollution from chucking them into the atmosphere
Psychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s infrastructure. And right now, it’s being demolished at scale. When the companies reduce headcount and remaining employees have to absorb the work, while living with higher fear and lower trust. People go in survival mode, and risk burning out.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/we-took-away-psychological-safety-and-then-told-everyone-to-be-more-productive-47ed1fac491c