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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Yes, if you’re an idiot chemist with no common sense, you can turn hydrocarbons into carbohydrates and proteins. Except doing that uses a fuckton of energy and intermediates more than say, growing some shrimp. tl;dr It’s amazing what you can do when you have free energy and externalise all your wastes.

@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz Not much to doubt there.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st And they’ll blow right past that £1.8b with no provision for dumping of successive cores, or decommissioning, or the inevitable change orders on their defective, untested, design. Unlike the wind turbines and grid batteries that are ready to go.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social And so say all of us.

@Geri@veganism.social Excellent news. So happy for you 😃

@davep@infosec.exchange @Nickiquote@mstdn.social Re plastics: looking ahead to how we scale down to a minimum of recyclable plastics with near-zero new oil input, and avoiding too much plastic turning to CO2 when reformed. Enzyme-catalysed plastic restructuring? I do wonder if the push for biodegradable plastics is what’s led to microplastic fragmentation and mass loss into the environment. Maybe we should be avoiding self-degrading plastics, but keep 100% of them in circulation to be fully recycled.

@2legged@mastodon.ie For the Farage-voting segment that’s confined to a Facebook walled garden with no other news, they’re unreachable. But for everyone else, this will get way more shares and laughs than Nigel’s shitty TikToks. The essential message content is that Farage is a loser, and you wouldn’t vote for a humourless loser, would you? The trad policy message is entirely irrelevant.

@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz I have said before that unlike the other sciences, computing has never gone through an ethical crisis that shaped what was acceptable and what must be avoided. Chemistry obviously had WWI & Haber, physics had WWII and Teller, medicine had the Nazi camps, genetics tried to get ahead of the problem with Asilomar. But computing, surveillance, data, control misuse has just gone from strength to strength.

@cstross@wandering.shop Janey Godley giving them a thumbs-up from somewhere …

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Ok, stage #2. Someone, definitely not you, needs to find out which vc /banks are funding this, and which insurer is planning to underwrite the launch. Cause them enough pain to drop any connection with this abomination. More broadly, if the FCC is arguing it is not competent to be the regulator, fine, let ESA start pressure for the UN to take over that role.

@Geri@veganism.social @PaulNickson@mastodon.social And the big benefit there is the NCA can crawl over every bit of Reform funding and Caymans company accounts. Take down the whole lot of them. It will also starve Reform immediately, as any payments from today will be followed back to the donor.

@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz Did the ethical altruists never have a moral sense, or did they just have it removed as an inconvenience? This is all too Eichmann in Jerusalem.

@afewbugs@social.coop I’m not sure a large part of this isn’t UKRI punching science in the face while sucking up to govt AI bullshit.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Others might like to comment, but to me, this looks like UKRI choosing to punch science in the face while sucking up to the late govt’s bullshit AI targets. No wonder Vallance resigned.

@fulelo@journa.host Now let’s do this to GB News …

@ravensrod@mstdn.social @PaulNickson@mastodon.social @Geri@veganism.social Should be more of an Achilles heel if anything, can climb up the arse of all the directors and persons of significant control. Don’t forget all of these slimeballs are directors or nonexec directors of many companies. Cut that off, and their lifestyle goes straight down the toilet.

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Definitely a ‘no royal road to knowledge’ story. Let alone wisdom or understanding …

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Is Springer’s motto ‘Be Evil’?

@2legged@mastodon.ie Still 2) that interests me. Why has it taken so, so long to join Point A, extensive rightwing corruption, to Point B, the NCA, rather than covering it back up?

@PaulNickson@mastodon.social @ravensrod@mstdn.social @Geri@veganism.social Can you have a ratking of arseholes?

@gcvsa@mstdn.plus @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us (Any lawyers who wish to comment, please …) I’d say that normally that would be the case. But Britain has long realised the benefit of breaking the rules by claiming terrorism, and passing cases to a compliant judge. Much the same as the US does all the time under national security provisions.

@quadrivial@beige.party @josh0@babka.social @kibcol1049@mstdn.social @paco@infosec.exchange You may need to say what the temperature is to estimate the molecular velocity profile relative to escape velocity.

@Wen@mastodon.scot Springer still want top dollar for all their papers, while they spend nothing on their archive management except for unrevised AI nonsense.

@shezza_t@mastodon.ie Thanks for that.

@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden Being the Hull university librarian can obviously get you down …

@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net I like that thought. Might cause a price rise in decent pencils, though.

@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden That is not a cheery thought.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Good luck to her, she’ll need it.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us There’s a tendency for larger HR depts to lead to a Mexican standoff of fingerpointing and a lack of accountability. Show me a company where the HR dept is assessed on the improvements to staff, rather than their cheapness in doing whatever they’re told.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I think OneWeb is still part-owned and controlled by the UK govt, they should be more lobbyable than the FCC. Not to say they won’t be just as happy to trash the global commons as the US, of course …

@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu @bmacDonald94@hostux.social Thanks, Anne. This was a great article at the time, sadly it’s become only more relevant.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Bring it on!

@garius@mastodon.me.uk Property is theft, therefore …?

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk When their claims turn out to be bullshit, NESO should immediately pull their reservation and move up something that would actually benefit domestic consumers.

@nusher@mastodon.scot @Wen@mastodon.scot Sure Wes’s media team are gnashing their teeth with all their carefully planted stories for today being relegated to page 11.

@WCOW@beige.party @thearchers@a.gup.pe Depending on who the mysterious foreign investors are (there’s an old trope), Justin might shoot to the top of the list. Especially if they want to build a massive datacentre, soak up all of Ambridge’s electricity for power, boil the Am for cooling, while using the rewilding as greenwashing. #theArchers

@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot If this is a local planning issue, and hasn’t been called in for further scrutiny, I’m sure Google knew exactly what they were doing, hoping that the local overstretched planning dept would miss the deceit buried in an appendix. If they’ve tried this on two separate applications, all of their current applications nationally should be halted and examined for fraud. And then kicked out.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I’m going to revisit my comment of yesterday. Clearly some folks in govt can write a contract, and actually enforce it.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us "if you don't like that, if you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave" Should just about fit on the Labour tombstone.

@RabBrucesSpider1@mastodon.scot @GeofCox@climatejustice.social Clearly they still think there’s mileage in their Reform MSs in the Senedd, but have given up on anything beyond bullshit in Holyrood.

@rainynight65@aus.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Yes, it is, it’s like knotweed.

@tayfonay@beige.party @clew@ecoevo.social Shit. Stay safe.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz Unbelievable and unnecessary stupidity.

@Sheril@mastodon.social Lemurs are lovely.

@MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz Why exactly does the Foreign Office need a Global Research and Technology division? And is it merely a way to redirect what used to be the aid budget to the military of pariah nations?

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Thanks, it was just a thought. It would be an interesting comparison to France, where the canal network sprang up for intercity trade, and to feed the maw of Paris with wood and food, then was hit over the head by the railways, who all hated each other … (and to forestall the military comments, yes, rapid mobilisation and logistics on the canals and then the railways was a factor important for France but absent in Britain)

@solar_chase@mastodon.green I’d add a slight dark side, alliances have to be able to protect the eggs from other geese sneaking in to break and eat the eggs.

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Have you come across a good paper on the canal craze and the stranded investment when attention switched to railways? (Then, of course, insane competition meant the railways disrupted each other, rather than the canals)

@garius@mastodon.me.uk The problem with this is that your sense of what should be ethically possible goes out the window, as you repeat ‘surely not … not intentionally …’