Fernando Barrio
@fernandobarrio.bsky.social
Academic and consultant on law and policy related to technology, AI and sustainability. UK based, with an eye in Latin America, but dealing with global regulatory and policy frameworks.
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Wouldn't it be great if data centres built in Scotland were forced to maximally use renewable energy, which we produce to a great extent? This should be part of govs various "pro innovation" outreaches click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.Xa...
New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport
Exclusive: emissions from power-hungry warehouses at Lincolnshire facility expected to be 850,000 tonnes a year
click.actionnetwork.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Wouldn't it be great if data centres built in Scotland were forced to maximally use renewable energy, which we produce to a great extent? This should be part of govs various "pro innovation" outreaches click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.Xa...
In the quest of finding the worst customer service in different airlines (I have only flown 27 international flights in the last two months and a half), I think that @vivaaerobus.bsky.social wins the first spot...rude and not knowing their own rules at Mexico Juarez airport
May 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
In the quest of finding the worst customer service in different airlines (I have only flown 27 international flights in the last two months and a half), I think that @vivaaerobus.bsky.social wins the first spot...rude and not knowing their own rules at Mexico Juarez airport
The last time I came to Doha, I used the @qatarwings.bsky.social Al Safwa lounge. Now they have a cheaply looking, not very well provided lounge exclusive for the alliance members. No more reason to fly Qatar Airways, as the onboard service is good but not excellent (and the food simply was bad)
April 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The last time I came to Doha, I used the @qatarwings.bsky.social Al Safwa lounge. Now they have a cheaply looking, not very well provided lounge exclusive for the alliance members. No more reason to fly Qatar Airways, as the onboard service is good but not excellent (and the food simply was bad)
Any similarity with the grandiose announcement of a "liberation day" is pure coincidence...
uk.news.yahoo.com/air-taxi-ove...?
uk.news.yahoo.com/air-taxi-ove...?
Air taxi overturns immediately after takeoff in botched flight
An air taxi failed a test flight in the Chinese region of Guangxi at the end of March: the aircraft overturned immediately, the pilot was lucky. A few days ago, China approved the first autonomous air...
uk.news.yahoo.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Any similarity with the grandiose announcement of a "liberation day" is pure coincidence...
uk.news.yahoo.com/air-taxi-ove...?
uk.news.yahoo.com/air-taxi-ove...?
Back in the US, all the drivers of the Ubers I took, all migrants, supported Trump and repeated the false statements said by the regime puppets...I arrived in UK, my driver fully agrees that we should join the EU #somehope
March 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Back in the US, all the drivers of the Ubers I took, all migrants, supported Trump and repeated the false statements said by the regime puppets...I arrived in UK, my driver fully agrees that we should join the EU #somehope
Just back from Berkeley, where I was part of the Inaugural Larsen Justice Conference on "Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology in the Administration of Justice"
March 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just back from Berkeley, where I was part of the Inaugural Larsen Justice Conference on "Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology in the Administration of Justice"
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A somehow balanced report about a nomination seemingly out of balance. Energy production and policies are a bit more complex than what using superlatives allow. Eg. "Drill, baby, drill" and the profits of those who fund you go down as fast as the CO2 go up #Energy
A somehow balanced report about a nomination seemingly out of balance. Energy production and policies are a bit more complex than what using superlatives allow. Eg. "Drill, baby, drill" and the profits of those who fund you go down as fast as the CO2 go up #Energy
Senate confirms fossil fuel CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary
The key post will promote President Trump's efforts to achieve U.S. "energy dominance" in the global market.
www.cbsnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
A somehow balanced report about a nomination seemingly out of balance. Energy production and policies are a bit more complex than what using superlatives allow. Eg. "Drill, baby, drill" and the profits of those who fund you go down as fast as the CO2 go up #Energy
A somehow balanced report about a nomination seemingly out of balance. Energy production and policies are a bit more complex than what using superlatives allow. Eg. "Drill, baby, drill" and the profits of those who fund you go down as fast as the CO2 go up #Energy
So, there it goes the relationship between AI and GDPR (and not about training). The adds for products with which you never interacted nor searched ever that address you by your name, get your personal data from...(?) #AImarketing #AIethics #AIGDPR
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
So, there it goes the relationship between AI and GDPR (and not about training). The adds for products with which you never interacted nor searched ever that address you by your name, get your personal data from...(?) #AImarketing #AIethics #AIGDPR
After a paradoxically challenging and rewarding year, here’s to stepping into the new year with resilience, clarity, and the courage to embrace both the expected and the unexpected.
Wishing you all a fulfilling and meaningful 2025.
Wishing you all a fulfilling and meaningful 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 3:47 PM
After a paradoxically challenging and rewarding year, here’s to stepping into the new year with resilience, clarity, and the courage to embrace both the expected and the unexpected.
Wishing you all a fulfilling and meaningful 2025.
Wishing you all a fulfilling and meaningful 2025.
It also applies to Reform UK's Nativity scene...
The GOP Nativity scene:
No unwed mothers, Middle Eastern people, refugees, and obviously no wise men.
No unwed mothers, Middle Eastern people, refugees, and obviously no wise men.
December 22, 2024 at 9:53 PM
It also applies to Reform UK's Nativity scene...
It is time we start demanding academic integrity from the teachers, so they focus on developing innovative assessments that evaluate how students can use AI to support and enhance their knowledge and skills.
December 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM
It is time we start demanding academic integrity from the teachers, so they focus on developing innovative assessments that evaluate how students can use AI to support and enhance their knowledge and skills.
A further prove that having money has nothing to do with being intelligent (and clearly with having a moral compass at all). What comes next for them, a band in the arm? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Elon Musk calls homelessness a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda’ — and Trump is listening
Trump and his billionaire allies are out of touch with a crisis facing more than 600,000 Americans, advocates tell Alex Woodward
www.independent.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 7:25 AM
A further prove that having money has nothing to do with being intelligent (and clearly with having a moral compass at all). What comes next for them, a band in the arm? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
A short take on COP29. There is still a lot to do (not likely to happen with the current governance system) www.qmul.ac.uk/gpi/news-and...
COP29: Falling short on climate action
Can the world afford another climate summit of compromises? Dr Fernando Barrio, Reader at the School of Business and Management and member of Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, dissects the outcomes ...
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 7:52 PM
A short take on COP29. There is still a lot to do (not likely to happen with the current governance system) www.qmul.ac.uk/gpi/news-and...
Not Skynet moment yet...(although the problem is in the humans we have in power too) #AI #Armagedon #Skynet
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
US, China agree machines must not control nuclear weapons
PLUS: LG struts catwalk in stretchy screen; Samsung’s strike nears end; Vietnam warns Chinese e-commerce players; and more
www.theregister.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Not Skynet moment yet...(although the problem is in the humans we have in power too) #AI #Armagedon #Skynet
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
The problem with flying too often is how easily annoyed one gets with fellow (inexperienced) passengers' lack of in-flight etiquette. Instead of the unnecessary (and more and more histrionic) safety videos, there should be one about how to behave on #gratuitousrant
November 23, 2024 at 2:18 PM
The problem with flying too often is how easily annoyed one gets with fellow (inexperienced) passengers' lack of in-flight etiquette. Instead of the unnecessary (and more and more histrionic) safety videos, there should be one about how to behave on #gratuitousrant
I bet that someone has the number, but what is the global energy consumption created by public spaces temperature dissonance? Vg, very cold shopping centres, etc, in very hot places, and very warm airports (COPs venues) in cold countries. Nobody likes to be sweating in a mall, but 18°C is not needed
November 23, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I bet that someone has the number, but what is the global energy consumption created by public spaces temperature dissonance? Vg, very cold shopping centres, etc, in very hot places, and very warm airports (COPs venues) in cold countries. Nobody likes to be sweating in a mall, but 18°C is not needed
I still haven't seen the posts about "at COPs they talk about #ClimateChange but there are dozens of thousands flying around the world to get there"...it wouldn't matter if hundred thousand fly over and over, the problem is that not much is achieved! #COP29 #UNFCCC
November 23, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I still haven't seen the posts about "at COPs they talk about #ClimateChange but there are dozens of thousands flying around the world to get there"...it wouldn't matter if hundred thousand fly over and over, the problem is that not much is achieved! #COP29 #UNFCCC
The climate change governance should include COPs logistics and limit warming at them...it's near 30°C inside the Baku Stadium! It would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to give coats to everyone instead of replicating a tropical temperature (AI could tell who needs one) #COP29
November 21, 2024 at 8:13 AM
The climate change governance should include COPs logistics and limit warming at them...it's near 30°C inside the Baku Stadium! It would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to give coats to everyone instead of replicating a tropical temperature (AI could tell who needs one) #COP29
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) Presidency’s draft decision text on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) was published earlier today, and it looks strange how so many well educated people from so many countries fail to understand the meaning of Quantified: the text has no number #COP29
November 21, 2024 at 8:05 AM
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) Presidency’s draft decision text on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) was published earlier today, and it looks strange how so many well educated people from so many countries fail to understand the meaning of Quantified: the text has no number #COP29
Just finished my presentation at COP29, explaining how AI can help with the increasing infatile reactions of some countries' leaders to Climate Change, but allowing multi-stakeholders governance models #AI4ClimateAction
November 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Just finished my presentation at COP29, explaining how AI can help with the increasing infatile reactions of some countries' leaders to Climate Change, but allowing multi-stakeholders governance models #AI4ClimateAction
Today at #COP29 Azerbaijan, as part of QMUL led side event, will be discussing Socio-economic, environmental, and technological aspects of climate change-fuelled land conflicts, with LCW (India), CSDevNet (Nigeria), PACJA (Burkina Faso) and chaired by Solange Bandiaky-Badji, RRI (USA)
November 20, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Today at #COP29 Azerbaijan, as part of QMUL led side event, will be discussing Socio-economic, environmental, and technological aspects of climate change-fuelled land conflicts, with LCW (India), CSDevNet (Nigeria), PACJA (Burkina Faso) and chaired by Solange Bandiaky-Badji, RRI (USA)
This COP seems a bit less of a fun fair compared to previous one/s, and there is some sense of more serious work, probably due to the anticipation created by COP30, next year in Brazil..not a good time to become irrelevant in a very relevant discussion #COP29 #Argentina
November 19, 2024 at 10:23 AM
This COP seems a bit less of a fun fair compared to previous one/s, and there is some sense of more serious work, probably due to the anticipation created by COP30, next year in Brazil..not a good time to become irrelevant in a very relevant discussion #COP29 #Argentina