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As Fred Harter points out:
The UK’s electricity prices are the highest in the developed world. This doesn’t just pinch the pockets of consumers. It also makes British steel & other goods far more expensive than those produced in other countries'.
The answer is to continue to expand renewables, sorting out the UK's interconnection problems & getting (re)integrated into EU's energy trading system.
But also the UK's 'marginal pricing' model is dysfunctional!
#energy
https://observer.co.uk/news/the-sensemaker/article/why-uk-energy-costs-too-much
"The West is still promoting phoney “debates”, entirely confected by Israel, about whether Hamas is stealing aid, what constitutes sufficient aid, and how that aid should be delivered.
It is all meant as noise, to distract us from the only pertinent issue: that Israel is committing genocide by slaughtering and starving Gaza’s population, as the West has aided and abetted that genocide"
Jonathan Cook
I can think of many better uses for £1 billion of public money. The parent company would have got F all if British Steel had gone into liquidation. Sod the debts to the parent company. It seems to me an accounting trick to, yet again, transfer public wealth to private hands.
#JingYe #BritishSteel #UKPolitics
Ministers said to be considering bill to wipe out British Steel’s debts | British Steel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/22/ministers-reportedly-considering-legislation-to-wipe-out-british-steel-1bn-debts-chinese-owner-scunthorpe
"With the finishing line in sight for Israel’s programme of genocidal ethnic cleansing, the West’s Gaza script is being hastily rewritten. But make no mistake: it is the same web of self-serving lies"
Jonathan Cook
#Israel #Gaza
Ignore Starmer's theatrics. Gaza's trail of blood leads straight to his door
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/ignore-starmers-theatrics-gazas-trail
#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.
This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.
They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.
They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.
Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.
It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).
And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.
This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.
Take Part in the Wild Edibles Citizen Science Project
Nutrition scientists are recruiting an army of seed sowers to help them understand how Scotland could better exploit its underutilised – or “marginal” - lands. Researchers at the university’s Rowett Institute have been very busy filling small packs with dozens of sorrel seeds to send out to participants across the country. Now they are appealing for anyone with an interest in taking part in the Wild Edibles Citizen…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/05/22/take-part-in-the-wild-edibles-citizen-science-project/
The problem of the “unknown knowns”: the things which politicians, bankers, civil servants and corporate leaders have “complete knowledge of, but which they deny the truth about”.
Richard restricts his exploration of this categorisation to the way money works.
Which is a shame, because there’ll be a significant subset of those people who know it’s the basis of modernity too – the denial of thermodynamic consequences
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05/22/the-problem-of-the-unknown-knowns/
This is the opening paragraph of today's 'Letter from an American' by Heather Cox Richardson. Just after 1:00 this morning, the House Rules Committee began its hearing on what congressional Republicans have officially named The One Big, Beautiful Bill. If passed, this measure will put Trump’s wish list into law. Although...
Journalist Ken Klippenstein has obtained what he believes to be a true copy of the Israeli embassy shooter's manifesto. Elias Rodriguez has been named as the man who shot two Israeli Embassy staff dead yesterday. Here, he reproduces it in full.
#Israel #Gaza
The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto
Alot of #news and #videos pertaining to the ongoing atrocities in #Gaza are being shared on subs, but I think this belongs here so more people can see this.
#video #classwar #palestine #rafah #freepalestine #ausgov #politas #antinazi #antizionist #eattherich
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