Harrison Pim
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head of data science at climatepolicyradar.org | harrisonpim.com
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NEW | Solar power surge in 2025 stalls rise in fossil electricity worldwide ⚡📈
Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️
ember-energy.org/lat...
Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️
ember-energy.org/lat...
April 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM
NEW | Solar power surge in 2025 stalls rise in fossil electricity worldwide ⚡📈
Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️
ember-energy.org/lat...
Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️
ember-energy.org/lat...
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Call for papers 📢 We are co-editing a special edition of Climatic Change on how #NLP & AI are being used to drive real #ClimateAction. Edited by researchers working at this intersection inc CPR's Anne Sietsma @franticpedantic.bsky.social. Submit by 30 June: link.springer.com/collections/igbiebchhh
April 2, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Call for papers 📢 We are co-editing a special edition of Climatic Change on how #NLP & AI are being used to drive real #ClimateAction. Edited by researchers working at this intersection inc CPR's Anne Sietsma @franticpedantic.bsky.social. Submit by 30 June: link.springer.com/collections/igbiebchhh
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This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.
Starting this collaborative blog was the best decision I’ve made this year. Carla Sbrocchi puts to words the uncomfortable feeling I have and explains how to move forward on the data centre environmental issue
open.substack.com/pub/vitaexma...
open.substack.com/pub/vitaexma...
Should researchers feel guilty about data centres that power their AI usage?
We have a window now to advocate for environmentally responsible AI development
open.substack.com
March 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is super interesting to read because I was very concerned about the water and AI thing so I went to my one scientist friend who literally worked on water reg/quality/usage and asked her about AI, data centers, water etc. She was far more concerned with agriculture abuses than AI.
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Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026
YouTube video by unprompted
m.youtube.com
March 29, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel
He also seems very worried about “the next few months”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...
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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2026 at 7:01 AM
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
absolutely baffled by the fact that there seems to be no way of staging individual line changes (rather than whole files) in git without going through an interactive/GUI mode 🥴
why why why can i not `git add my_file.txt --lines=5-10` ???
why why why can i not `git add my_file.txt --lines=5-10` ???
March 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
absolutely baffled by the fact that there seems to be no way of staging individual line changes (rather than whole files) in git without going through an interactive/GUI mode 🥴
why why why can i not `git add my_file.txt --lines=5-10` ???
why why why can i not `git add my_file.txt --lines=5-10` ???
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what are we even doing here man
March 7, 2026 at 7:01 AM
what are we even doing here man
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the longer your look at this the worse it gets
March 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
the longer your look at this the worse it gets
absolutely buzzzzzzing about the doc-to-lora stuff here. sakana use a hypernetwork to adapt an LLM to doc-specific knowledge in a single forward pass 🤯
We are excited to introduce Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA, two related papers exploring how to make LLM customization faster. By training a hypernetwork to generate LoRA adapters on the fly, models instantly internalize new info.
Blog: pub.sakana.ai/doc-to-lora/
Doc-to-LoRA: arxiv.org/abs/2602.15902
Blog: pub.sakana.ai/doc-to-lora/
Doc-to-LoRA: arxiv.org/abs/2602.15902
March 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
absolutely buzzzzzzing about the doc-to-lora stuff here. sakana use a hypernetwork to adapt an LLM to doc-specific knowledge in a single forward pass 🤯
Another brilliant explainer on the on different arcs that countries have taken towards decarbonisation from @simonoxfphys.com, using data from @carbonbrief.org and @ember-energy.org 😍
India is taking a shortcut
YouTube video by Simon Clark
youtu.be
March 1, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Another brilliant explainer on the on different arcs that countries have taken towards decarbonisation from @simonoxfphys.com, using data from @carbonbrief.org and @ember-energy.org 😍
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Amazing offer. Free Claude Max 20x for maintainers of large OSS projects
February 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Amazing offer. Free Claude Max 20x for maintainers of large OSS projects
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Sunflowers, by Joan Mitchell, 1990-91, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
February 21, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Sunflowers, by Joan Mitchell, 1990-91, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
February 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM
You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.)
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.
16,000 tokens per second is CRAZY. well worth trying the demo linked in the post
16000 tokens per second on a decent model. This type of speed is the future. Opens up an entirely new class of user experiences
From the LocalLLaMA community on Reddit: Free ASIC Llama 3.1 8B inference at 16,000 tok/s - no, not a joke
Explore this post and more from the LocalLLaMA community
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February 20, 2026 at 6:47 AM
16,000 tokens per second is CRAZY. well worth trying the demo linked in the post
FARTS and SCIENCES
Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs.
- 0.9B model (GLM-OCR)
~$0.002/page
~$5 total on an L4 GPU
Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After
- 0.9B model (GLM-OCR)
~$0.002/page
~$5 total on an L4 GPU
Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After
February 19, 2026 at 12:46 PM
FARTS and SCIENCES
33 minutes of big danny's wet computer
Danny L Harle – Cerulean (Full Film)
YouTube video by NTS
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February 13, 2026 at 9:54 AM
33 minutes of big danny's wet computer
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NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
February 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @belindaschaepe.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
Read here: buff.ly/M7N4yjx
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Huge water consumer, destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, mostly a negative for their consumers. Something must be done. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to do something about cows.
January 29, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Huge water consumer, destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, mostly a negative for their consumers. Something must be done. Yes, that’s right, it’s time to do something about cows.
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
NEW – Q&A: What UK’s record auction for offshore wind means for bills and clean power by 2030 | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
Read here: buff.ly/uEBxzdK
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We took a look at the UK's biggest ever offshore wind auction, and dug into what it will mean for energy bills and the "clean power 2030" plan ⬇️
excellent, excellent round up of all things energy/decarbonisation in 2025. there are a couple of really exciting narratives in here!
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
excellent, excellent round up of all things energy/decarbonisation in 2025. there are a couple of really exciting narratives in here!
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Lol, and furthermore, lmao
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Lol, and furthermore, lmao
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What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
www.southampton.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...