@tompsettchris

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I’m here to get away from the madness elsewhere
HobbiesLanguages, walking, stone circles

Wow. The gloves are truly off.

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

Castle keep and garden.

#Pentax ME, SMC Pentax M 28mm f/3.5 lens, #KodakProImage100 at EI 50, dev and scan by Filmdev UK.

#BelieveInFilm
#FilmPhotography

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

Scotland is facing a wave of applications for hyperscale data centres.

If the 24 announced so far were approved they'd take up more than 1.5 times Scotland's peak demand in electricity.

We need an immediate pause until a clear national strategy is set out.

👉 Add your voice: https://greens.scot/datacentres

I'm going to have a stall this Saturday (20th June) at the Mugdock Market in the Mugdock Country Park Visitors Centre from 10am until 3pm. I'll be selling copies of my book Glasgow Uncovered, as well as prints, greetings cards and other items featuring my photos from the city. This will include my new series of tenement tile prints, featuring high quality photos of individual Victorian/Edwardian tiles from around Glasgow, such as this one.

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#glasgow #mugdockcountrypark #mugdockmarket

Ireland trialed a basic income for artists. 🇮🇪 💸 🎤 🎨

Research showed that it boosted the economy. 🫰 🏦

They've now made it a permanent scheme. 🔏

Catch up UK! 👀 🇬🇧

https://www.positive.news/economics/imagination-and-creation-are-products-of-time-and-space/

‘Imagination and creation are products of time and space’

Artists help power the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's pioneering income scheme aims to change that - and is fuelling debate about whether the UK should follow.

Positive News
This dataviz is just amazing https://visquill.com/gallery/uk-a1

Again…people don’t generally think of UK #Labour party as being rightwing.

But when they make the kind of cuts to foreign aid associated with rightwing parties, then perhaps again we need to reconsider what the current Labour Party in office is?

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets
‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

The Nerve