Adam Hardy

I fully admit I am a plastic surfer. Plastic surfer as in the Gen X meaning: I support Surfers Against Sewage but can't surf a real wave to save my life 🤔 Not a surfer of plastic. So I can cross these places off my bucket list. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ebay.io/m/Tnr4aa I somehow managed to buy two of these and eBay is telling me to advertise the second one here because apparently this is a highly competitive market. It's actually a great book, assuming you like nature 🐻‍❄️

“Goodnight, my son,” said Zuckerberg, his voice a whisper as he took a deep breath to steel himself and gazed down upon the impossibly smooth, round face of the avatar, which slumbered peacefully in its twin-sized bed.

Is it because those areas are burning?

Grumpy old Devon farmer going against the Jeremy Clarkson vein. Thank God, old white men need all the reputation boost they can get. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/news...

I'll take any good news on offer today. Fingers crossed for a fourth year, but the odds are not good :(

But according to Energy UK, “any increase in gas supply will not have a direct or material impact on energy prices”. Andy Burnham was a big question mark even before he came out with this - now we know: meet the new boss, same as the old boss. inews.co.uk/news/andy-bu...

Climate Grammar: we talk about climate in the conditional with "ifs" and "when". We experience it in the indicative, present and active. We have to start talking about it in the imperative.

This makes South Korea's structural demographic issues look like fun. If my Gen Z kids are to be believed, the UK is going to delete itself. Hopefully Musk is right about an army of robots taking over, let's just hope he programs them well for geriatric care.

YouTube is full of awesome videos of blades on trucks. Here’s one with the blade mounted on a hydraulic controller, going through the mountains. youtu.be/9dtUrY8_1CM?...

Big Tech is trying to break the rules - again. Google and Musk were held accountable, but lobbyists now want to weaken the laws that protect our safety, privacy, and money online ✍️Tell EU leaders: protect people, not billionaires! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Somewhere in the universe, a 75-page layout needed screen-readable, correctly ordered text. Without using AI, this would not have happened, I would have got eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Krall before getting the budget. But we wrote prompts, a designer created designs, it worked. Guilty?

Actually Douglas Adams is buried there too. I was trying to think up something ironic/satirical to say about this and failed. Mainly because I have no idea what climate change would do to a cemetery. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This looks great on Monday 18th - my old college friend and adventurer Lee White should give an entertaining talk: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Thought carbon footprints were a challenge? Sunday is International Dawn Chorus Day. If you can get outside at 6:00AM you will get a fix of nature to last you all week - if in London, you'd better make the most of it. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 🎶🐦‍⬛

Hey, want some black market clean energy? Real cheap...

Train spotter heaven, carbon footprint nightmare. So if any of our carbon footprinting group start demanding the ability to enter electric train vs diesel train, they can get the data themselves. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/rail-elect...

I would love to know what they are going to do in Santa Maria, Colombia, and what the result will be. On a slightly different note, interesting to see the visual associations that the BBC is making in their choice of headline images. Not sure what I would have chosen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So my question would be, what happens if you live in London, you sign this and then the London Met give Palantir the contract anyway? Personally I think real privacy is dead either way, and I always think I've got nothing to hide, but I'm still going to sign it. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/keep-pal...

EcoCore has been saying this for a while and will carry on saying it - the carbon markets need upgrading, desperately, and there are sound, effective, equitable policies to make it happen: our ideal being Carbon Accounts for businesses and organisations as well as citizens.

In Jan 2024, Die „Letzte Generation“ staged a climate protest in Leipzig where they sat on toy tractors so they'd be treated the same as these other protestors The police were not fooled

Just spent an hour writing a recap on an event, and found that Eventbrite is only going to send it to 8 people out of the 20 who signed up 🤯 so I'll post it here as well. Actually there are some v. useful links about AI in it. ecocounts.community/ai-us-recap/

ecocounts.community/easter-eggs-... Are you feeling wealthy enough to afford a real chocolate Easter Egg? Price have surged by 50%+ and cocoa content has plummeted.

I'd love to have a conversation with this philosopher. Is he a doomer? In fact, I'd love to have a conversation with Daniel Kahneman, who famously said that climate change is the perfect storm that the human mind just can't deal with. theconversation.com/why-long-ter...

Love Germany. Can't imagine Sadiq Khan getting behind this: reasonstobecheerful.world/tubingen-ger...

We're doing another evening - this one on AI and some facts amidst all the hype and hysteria: St Luke's Church N7 9PJ on Monday 9th 18:00 - sign up on Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983882951...

Living in an age of total information collapse. Great run-down and stock-take: www.youtube.com/live/I2R-Hoy...

This looks v. good but I can't go: Thurs Mar 5, 6pm @ St Luke's N7, Islington. Planetary Boundaries - find out what makes our planet habitable, discover the global environmental challenges we face, & discuss systemic solutions to avoid planetary overshoot 1erdegre.glide.page/dl/3b1bc8/s/...

We're holding an event on Monday Mar 2nd in St Luke's West Holloway 6:00pm on growing your own in London - free entry, free seeds & seedlings, free food & refreshments, free green fingers. Sign up on eventbrite. www.which.co.uk/reviews/grow... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983396165...

Whoah. This hits hard: unreplug.com/blog/dear-mi...

I am going to be attending this workshop as a noob who manages to kill most things I ever get to grow from seed. The workshop facilitator will have his work cut out 😆 North London Mon 2nd March 18:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-windo...

AI is everywhere, yet ordinary people aren't being consulted about how it's implemented. We're going to change that. 🤖 March Against The Machines 🗓️ Sat 28th Feb ⏰ 12pm 📍 London, outside OpenAI's offices 😎 Register: pulltheplug.uk/matm-sign-up/ #pulltheplug #ai #bigtech #olympics #stoptheslop

The March Against The Machines is just around the corner... it's time to get crafty! Sign up here: pulltheplug.uk/banner-making... 🎨 #pulltheplug #ai #bigtech #marchagainstthemachines

OK you mad causal mapper @stevepowell99.bsky.social what LLM would you choose if you were forced to ditch Gemini? (for English and general knowledge rather than coding) You are not allowed to choose ChatGPT - sorry, I make the rules to this quiz. No wrong answers - just invalid ones 😆