Mastodawn

It’s absolutely insane that people are saying we must “choose between AI [funnelling money to billionaires and propping up the fossil fuel industry] and climate goals [desperately trying to minimise the number of millions of people who will die as their world becomes uninhabitable]”, and assuming that the correct option is the former.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

POLITICO

@gurkan @dalias
Now with alt text

Kerry Buckley 3d ago

Starmer: “ The question being asked now is not who was best placed to change the Labour party, to take us into power and to begin the vital work of improving lives for millions of people. Those questions have been answered.”

Oh, I know this one! Was the answer “Jeremy Corbyn”?

Kerry Buckley 3d ago

Weeknotes 2026-25: weasel encounter.

https://www.kerrybuckley.org/2026/06/21/weeknotes-2026-25/

Weeknotes 2026-25 « Kerry Buckley

Kerry Buckley 3d ago

I was out for a run today, following the coast path along the Orwell estuary to Felixstowe. I’d stopped to check the map, and heard a rustling sound; when I looked down, there was a weasel (or possibly a stoat). I think it was as surprised as I was, and promptly dropped the dead mouse it had been carrying at my feet and ran away. I’m used to getting dead rodent presents from my cats, but not from other wildlife!

Kerry Buckley 5d ago

“We estimated the work would take X months and cost Y, but it took 30% less using ‘AI’, therefore AI made us 30% more efficient.” <sigh>

Kerry Buckley 5d ago

Dare Obasanjo 5d ago

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Kerry Buckley 5d ago

Today I had another go at switching from ElixirLS to Expert for the Elixir LSP in Neovim (last time I tried it seemed a bit flaky). So far it seems solid and blazingly fast compared to ElixirLS, which in a big project often took many seconds to catch up with file changes (I assume expert is making full use of the incremental compilation features in recent Elixir versions). Recommend. #MyElixirStatus

Kerry Buckley 6d ago

Nat Pryce 6d ago

A brilliant use of game design to communicate a real-world political issue https://gerrymandle.cc/

Gerrymandle

Draw districts and win the election. A new puzzle every day.

Kerry Buckley Jun 18

I wanted to increase the value in the expression `to_timeout(second: 5)` to `to_timeout(second: 10)`, and being in neovim I naturally just typed 5 followed by ctrl-a.

Unfortunately my cursor was on the word “second”, and it unexpectedly changed it to `to_timeout(seventh: 5)` instead.

#vim #TooCleverForItsOwnGood

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