Huw Harries
@huwharries.bsky.social
Just Stanning SF writers and progressive politics, doing my best to remember I don't actually live in America and those guys can sort out their own country
Is AI Serving the Planet—or Just the Bottom Line?
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Is AI Serving the Planet—or Just the Bottom Line?
Artificial intelligence is being hailed as a tool that can help us survive the climate crisis.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Is AI Serving the Planet—or Just the Bottom Line?
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Normally when Bad History is Happening in the background I can't write but right now I'm being attacked by the opening of a new novel I don't have time to write and I've got to say, shoving a loveable heist caper team into a chainsaw death trap catacomb and butchering them is REMARKABLY therapeutic.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Normally when Bad History is Happening in the background I can't write but right now I'm being attacked by the opening of a new novel I don't have time to write and I've got to say, shoving a loveable heist caper team into a chainsaw death trap catacomb and butchering them is REMARKABLY therapeutic.
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The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
April 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
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Just don't do it. By the time you're accessing that money all this will have passed. Don't torture yourself.
April 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just don't do it. By the time you're accessing that money all this will have passed. Don't torture yourself.
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Don't look at your pension, whatever you do.
April 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Don't look at your pension, whatever you do.
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Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
April 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
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Bloody hell. What a point.
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
April 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Bloody hell. What a point.
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Yup. It feels cruel to deny deluded Brexiters their tiny sliver of a ‘win’ but, on the other hand, fuck ‘em. Weakening a country *before* an attack like this is an act of obvious treachery. We would, by any measure, be better off *in* the the EU *with* the 20% basic tariff rate.
And the 25% on car parts from, inter alia, the UK is still in place, right? Or not?
April 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Yup. It feels cruel to deny deluded Brexiters their tiny sliver of a ‘win’ but, on the other hand, fuck ‘em. Weakening a country *before* an attack like this is an act of obvious treachery. We would, by any measure, be better off *in* the the EU *with* the 20% basic tariff rate.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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Of course the **awkward** truth for many on the Remain side was they were just as much motivated by their sense of social belonging and emotive factors as the Leave voters.
(Which is also one of the difficulties the Rejoin movement will have)
(Which is also one of the difficulties the Rejoin movement will have)
Genuinely amazing to me that this point still has to be made, in the Year of Our Lord 2025.
Demonstration that motivated reasoning is powerful everywhere in politics. Brexiteers cannot by made to see economic costs. Remainiacs cannot be made to see that economic costs aren't why they lost.
Demonstration that motivated reasoning is powerful everywhere in politics. Brexiteers cannot by made to see economic costs. Remainiacs cannot be made to see that economic costs aren't why they lost.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Of course the **awkward** truth for many on the Remain side was they were just as much motivated by their sense of social belonging and emotive factors as the Leave voters.
(Which is also one of the difficulties the Rejoin movement will have)
(Which is also one of the difficulties the Rejoin movement will have)
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I did not ask for this gift of prophecy... and lacked the imagination to fully grasp the scale of the visions granted unto me.
Things are going to be so stupid for the forseeable future.
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I did not ask for this gift of prophecy... and lacked the imagination to fully grasp the scale of the visions granted unto me.
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Meanwhile... The Liberal Democrats kick off their local election campaign.
This went on for 10 minutes and was carried live on Sky News. I love British politics and am ashamed of it, in precisely equal measure. ~AA
This went on for 10 minutes and was carried live on Sky News. I love British politics and am ashamed of it, in precisely equal measure. ~AA
March 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Meanwhile... The Liberal Democrats kick off their local election campaign.
This went on for 10 minutes and was carried live on Sky News. I love British politics and am ashamed of it, in precisely equal measure. ~AA
This went on for 10 minutes and was carried live on Sky News. I love British politics and am ashamed of it, in precisely equal measure. ~AA
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Blue Peter is an example of why the BBC is so cursed (and potentially blessed) by its history, a broadcaster absolutely stuffed with shows/things they feel they have to keep making in a certain way for fear of harrumphing while audiences are off mainlining content crack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC's Blue Peter ends live episodes after 67 years
The longest-running children's show in the world will move to a pre-recorded format, the BBC says.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Blue Peter is an example of why the BBC is so cursed (and potentially blessed) by its history, a broadcaster absolutely stuffed with shows/things they feel they have to keep making in a certain way for fear of harrumphing while audiences are off mainlining content crack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?
March 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?
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Not every BTL comment in the FT is from a bot. Not sure that I’d call Ratcliffe (or the Glazers) an oligarch but he has a track record of securing public money to underpin his businesses
March 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Not every BTL comment in the FT is from a bot. Not sure that I’d call Ratcliffe (or the Glazers) an oligarch but he has a track record of securing public money to underpin his businesses
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if I were to be Somewhat Spiky I'd also argue that if your thinking is "god wasn't my life nicer when there was a killer virus and we weren't legally allowed to leave the house" then maybe your conclusion ought to be "holy shit maybe I should make some life changes", not "aww, nostalgia :)"
Could really do without the torrent of weird almost nostalgia for the start of lockdown. It was a shit time. My mum died. I want to put it behind me and move forward, thanks. Would rather celebrate the fact that we created and delivered effective Covid vaccines that saved and continue to save lives.
March 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
if I were to be Somewhat Spiky I'd also argue that if your thinking is "god wasn't my life nicer when there was a killer virus and we weren't legally allowed to leave the house" then maybe your conclusion ought to be "holy shit maybe I should make some life changes", not "aww, nostalgia :)"
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Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime is stand out funny... cannot recommend it highly enough (if you have it) and it's a reminder of the outstanding comedy talent we have here... you just want to see these people in something more than just game and panel shows.
March 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime is stand out funny... cannot recommend it highly enough (if you have it) and it's a reminder of the outstanding comedy talent we have here... you just want to see these people in something more than just game and panel shows.
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The @esa.int Euclid mission has today released its first survey data, which include images of 26 million galaxies from three deep-field surveys. ⚛️ 🧪 🔭☄️
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Lensing Candidates Stand Out in Euclid Mission’s First Data Release
The Euclid satellite released its first trove of galaxy data based on seven days of deep-field observations in three sky areas.
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March 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The @esa.int Euclid mission has today released its first survey data, which include images of 26 million galaxies from three deep-field surveys. ⚛️ 🧪 🔭☄️
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
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the idea that oswald was a free agent — that despite all the machinations, JFK was killed as a result of random chance — is so intolerable to so many people they have to believe the conspiracies are true
The cosmic absurdity is that Oswald was the singular free agent in what was otherwise a network of strange and baroque machinations
March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
the idea that oswald was a free agent — that despite all the machinations, JFK was killed as a result of random chance — is so intolerable to so many people they have to believe the conspiracies are true
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March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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New @strangehorizons.bsky.social review to start the week: @marinaberlin.bsky.social on the strange potential of the odd bit of contemporary SF television known as Dune: Prophecy.
Dune: Prophecy
What is this show about?
www.strangehorizons.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New @strangehorizons.bsky.social review to start the week: @marinaberlin.bsky.social on the strange potential of the odd bit of contemporary SF television known as Dune: Prophecy.
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Review here of the recent Dune TV series, not positive. One big problem being it's set 1000s of years before Dune, and yet all the talking points of Dune are already in place - Atreides, Harkonnen, same Imperial family etc. So somehow there are millennia passing but.. really very little changes...
New @strangehorizons.bsky.social review to start the week: @marinaberlin.bsky.social on the strange potential of the odd bit of contemporary SF television known as Dune: Prophecy.
Dune: Prophecy
What is this show about?
www.strangehorizons.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Review here of the recent Dune TV series, not positive. One big problem being it's set 1000s of years before Dune, and yet all the talking points of Dune are already in place - Atreides, Harkonnen, same Imperial family etc. So somehow there are millennia passing but.. really very little changes...
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