Anne Currie
@annecurrie.bsky.social
Scifi and non fiction tech author: O'Reilly's Building Green Software, The Cloud Native Attitude & the SciFi Panopticon series
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Anne Currie
@annecurrie.bsky.social
· Aug 29
annecurrie.blogspot.com
ChatGPT persuaded me to open source my SciFi novel
Aftter 6 years, Utopia Five gets a CC release annecurrie.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Have I lost my mind?
Aftter 6 years, Utopia Five gets a CC release annecurrie.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Have I lost my mind?
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Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Terrific, thought-provoking piece by @chrisdillow.bsky.social:
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Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Extraordinary day and historic for the wrong reasons - a cyber attack featured in the GDP figures
You have been able to do that for over 15 years with Photoshop and every commercial operation did. I was head of IT for a retailer in the mid noughties and we had a large team of graphics specialists heavily editing every photo like this. This makes it within everyone's ability. Is that worse?
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
You have been able to do that for over 15 years with Photoshop and every commercial operation did. I was head of IT for a retailer in the mid noughties and we had a large team of graphics specialists heavily editing every photo like this. This makes it within everyone's ability. Is that worse?
I'm starting to feel that my new role in life might be just to repeat what the computer says back to my elderly relatives
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I'm starting to feel that my new role in life might be just to repeat what the computer says back to my elderly relatives
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new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
new from me today: not all data centers are created environmentally equal — and building them in states with cleaner grids and more access to water could go a long way in preventing environmental catastrophe
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What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
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I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...
www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I can draw this cartoon for you, using as few lines as possible.
www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...
www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...
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Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Good news: more than 50% of the world’s economies have seen carbon emissions from fossil fuel power generation peaking. And with the speed of change in the electricity sector many more will join this growing list in coming years.
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Politics is just one place where the BBC has been poor recently. On security and hacking, a major issue for this country, the coverage has been fatalistic to say the least. The BBC was originally there to make the country better informed, not entertained at the expense of information.
Indeed. I feel like a lot of the reactions to the BBC exits are repeating the flaws of this era in BBC News, which is to go 'never mind the professionalism, let's focus on the politics'.
'Leave to one side for now the direct allegations about specific failures of BBC coverage' - you can't do that. That's ridiculous.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Politics is just one place where the BBC has been poor recently. On security and hacking, a major issue for this country, the coverage has been fatalistic to say the least. The BBC was originally there to make the country better informed, not entertained at the expense of information.
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Anyway, here's my slightly fuller fact-check - and rant about the media's constant failings - shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...
You did no fact checking, and I must scream
I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't tak...
shkspr.mobi
October 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Anyway, here's my slightly fuller fact-check - and rant about the media's constant failings - shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.
In Building Green Software from @oreilly.bsky.social we talk about how for large scale use cases, efficiency (performance) always needs to be combined with usability for developers. WASM has constantly been innovating in that area
An actually-performant way of running Linux in browser implementations of WASM could have some very interesting use cases. github.com/joelseverin/...
GitHub - joelseverin/linux-wasm: WebAssembly (Wasm) arch support for the Linux kernel
WebAssembly (Wasm) arch support for the Linux kernel - joelseverin/linux-wasm
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
In Building Green Software from @oreilly.bsky.social we talk about how for large scale use cases, efficiency (performance) always needs to be combined with usability for developers. WASM has constantly been innovating in that area
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One year ago today I posted this miniature Ant Man photo I created using real figures, lighting and homemade miniature sets
I digitally illustrated the Monopoly board from scratch and printed it out to large scale.
#antman #photography #miniatures
I digitally illustrated the Monopoly board from scratch and printed it out to large scale.
#antman #photography #miniatures
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
One year ago today I posted this miniature Ant Man photo I created using real figures, lighting and homemade miniature sets
I digitally illustrated the Monopoly board from scratch and printed it out to large scale.
#antman #photography #miniatures
I digitally illustrated the Monopoly board from scratch and printed it out to large scale.
#antman #photography #miniatures
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Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
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In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.
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For more on this new award for world building in books, games etc
thealdissaward.com
thealdissaward.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For more on this new award for world building in books, games etc
thealdissaward.com
thealdissaward.com
BTW we walk to Jaywick often. It's a nice place and one of the few in England where you can get a deep fried Mars Bar (definitely a destination foodstuff, according to my husband)
I feel this is a telling thing for Farage to say: "I'm doing what I can, but there's a limit to what one person can do." www.bbc.com/news/article... Farage is the head of a political party and the (our) local MP. Does he think of himself as one person with the equivalent reach?
England's most deprived areas named - with Jaywick topping list
Jaywick, a seaside town in Essex, has been named the most deprived area for a fourth time in a row.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
BTW we walk to Jaywick often. It's a nice place and one of the few in England where you can get a deep fried Mars Bar (definitely a destination foodstuff, according to my husband)
I feel this is a telling thing for Farage to say: "I'm doing what I can, but there's a limit to what one person can do." www.bbc.com/news/article... Farage is the head of a political party and the (our) local MP. Does he think of himself as one person with the equivalent reach?
England's most deprived areas named - with Jaywick topping list
Jaywick, a seaside town in Essex, has been named the most deprived area for a fourth time in a row.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I feel this is a telling thing for Farage to say: "I'm doing what I can, but there's a limit to what one person can do." www.bbc.com/news/article... Farage is the head of a political party and the (our) local MP. Does he think of himself as one person with the equivalent reach?
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If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you feel you must put this owl on the wall of your toilet, despair not, for I can draw one for you! www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
More evidence that octopii are more similar to humans than we tend to think www.scientificamerican.com/article/frea...
Freaky ‘Rubber Hand’ Illusion Works on Octopuses, Too
Octopuses’ response to a human illusion suggests a sense of body ownership
www.scientificamerican.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
More evidence that octopii are more similar to humans than we tend to think www.scientificamerican.com/article/frea...
The interesting thing here is is China going to power through the levels reached by Norway and Sweden or not? They have stalled somewhat as they hit the harder to electrify sectors like heavy industry and aviation
Europe is home to two of the most electrified countries in the world – Norway and Sweden.
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The interesting thing here is is China going to power through the levels reached by Norway and Sweden or not? They have stalled somewhat as they hit the harder to electrify sectors like heavy industry and aviation
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Europe is home to two of the most electrified countries in the world – Norway and Sweden.
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Europe is home to two of the most electrified countries in the world – Norway and Sweden.
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0
But others are least electrified. Only 15% of Romania and Lithuania’s final energy consumption comes from electricity.
https://loom.ly/wss-sI0