@AlanMonie
 Linlithgow, Scotland
Joined May 2011
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The UK has done well with driving fossil fuels out of electricity year by year. But more than 90% of our heating still comes from fossil fuels - mainly fossil gas. To meet the UK climate goals ambitious policies are needed.
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It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26. All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.
Susan Swartz@beadmomsw11 Jul 2024
11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy.
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10000% this. Aaron was persecuted whilst AI just hoover data and sell it on. Where's the justice?
Bilawal Sidhu
@bilawalsidhu12 Jul 2024
It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26. All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.
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I love how @TheBoysTV turned @simonpegg into a brain dead Zombie in their universe! Brilliant 🧠
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Apple rolled out Private Cloud Compute to the fanfare around Privacy, and now OpenAI has added the former chief of the NSA to its board of directors. Apple can’t continue to roll out Apple Intelligence with its optional link to ChatGPT when the NSA is the opposite of privacy
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Very eye-opening to see who's leading the way on clean energy investment – and who's leading on fossil fuels China: Clean energy investment 3.7x fossil fuels Europe: 5.5x more in clean energy N America: Biggest investor in fossil fuels Middle East: 5.4x more on fossil fuels
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Dan Neidle
@DanNeidle11 Jan 2024
The Post Office's compensation scheme is designed to minimise payouts. One postmaster received £15.75. That isn't a typo. I count nine ways the Post Office's HSS compensation scheme is rigged:
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Climate change emergency is already impacting levels of Taylor available worldwide 🥺
Pop Base
@PopBase18 Nov 2023
Taylor Swift has postponed her show in Brazil tonight due to extreme temperatures.
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Speaking of food waste. Why are the fresh Lasagna sheets sold in packs of 10? What psycho uses 10 sheets to make a Lasagna? Got to be food waste there. 12 would be nice for 3 layers. Or if you really want to annoy us, you could try a prime number?!
Tesco
@Tesco30 Oct 2023
Replying to @Nicola2019
We're working hard to combat food waste and we've found that removing the dates has encouraged customers to reduce this by trusting their own sense of a product still being good. There are still dates for the store to do stock checks though. I hope that this helps! Kim
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This is what the world will look like over the next 100 years...if we fail to act. We have no time for business as usual. No time to waste, no planet B. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climate #energy #tech #solar #wind #GreenNewDeal
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Oh well, you tried Elon. It’s still called Twitter!
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Back To You, Huw! youtu.be/rLFKcYphPCM

Back To You, Huw!

It's none of my business and it's none of your's either. For ti...

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Hi all, As most of us cannot attend the funeral in Cyprus, there will be a memorial pub meeting to reminisce and pay our respects for MasterVic, at 14:00 on Sunday 26th March at the below address. All are welcome, hackers, co-workers, friends, etc. Please share widely.
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Greg Jackson
@g__j12 Feb 2023
One reason we need dynamic local pricing for electricity- Scots people would get bonkers cheap stuff when it's windy & the people of England would not be paying wind farms to generate nothing. Energy-intensive industries could benefit from locating where elec is abundant & cheap
Cyril🌱Matvech🔻@Cyril_Matvech10 Feb 2023
Replying to @BritainRemade
Scotland produces over 100% of its energy needs from cheap Green renewal with a Tidal Base load. Scots are forced to pay four times the cost of its own energies to fund the high cost of England imports from Eight Nations.
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Good grief.
Brexitshambles@brexit_sham2 Feb 2023
You hear it but you can't quite believe it. Johnson, a key player in the devastating Brexit heist that's causing massive disruption, political turmoil and hundreds of billions of pounds damage to the UK, states that after their conflict with Russia, Ukraine should join the EU!
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🧵 Data in two new reports from @BEIS-funded #ElectrificationOfHeat project.. 1⃣ Participant Recruitment 2⃣ Home Survey & Install ..show cross-sector innovation needed to overcome challenges to heat pump adoption. @EON @OVO @Warmworks @LcpEnergy es.catapult.org.uk/news/mass… 1/12
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NASA
@NASA29 Nov 2022
On flight day 13 of the #Artemis I mission, @NASA_Orion reached its maximum distance from Earth, 268,563 miles away from home. Orion has now traveled farther than any other spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space & safely return them to Earth. go.nasa.gov/3Fd8hf1
The Orion spacecraft stands out against the blackness of space. It shines bright with white, silver, and blue colors with a large red NASA logo in the middle. The Moon and Earth can be seen in the distance; the Moon is grey, and Earth is white and blue swirls. Credit: NASA

ALT The Orion spacecraft stands out against the blackness of space. It shines bright with white, silver, and blue colors with a large red NASA logo in the middle. The Moon and Earth can be seen in the distance; the Moon is grey, and Earth is white and blue swirls. Credit: NASA

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Does this cause increased drag on the vehicles? It is basically a fossil fuel powered wind turbine?
Mashable
@mashable21 Oct 2022
Meet the roadside wind turbine turning traffic into energy #FutureBlink

Meet the roadside wind turbine turning traffic into energy

ENLIL is a roadside turbine designed to capture wind power from highway traffic.

Whiny Billionaire & the world's richest man says… “SpaceX cannot keep funding Ukraine Starlink” God forbid he don’t make any money out of this horrific situation. What an asshole. 😐 bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana…

Musk says SpaceX will keep funding Ukraine Starlink internet

The tycoon reverses his earlier decision to stop funding a vital internet service for Ukraine.

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Imagine being worth $200B and complaining about $20M. He could personally fund it for over 800 years! #TaxTheRich
Elon Musk
@elonmusk19 Oct 2022
Replying to @alex_avoigt
No money from DoD, but several other countries, orgs & individuals are paying for ~11k/25k terminals (thanks!). SpaceX is losing ~$20M/month due to unpaid service & costs related to enhanced security measures for cyberwar defense, but we’ll keep doing it (sigh).
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