ENERGY. AI is colliding with the grid. Data centers are forcing delayed coal retirements and new gas buildout. We are increasing emissions to power “the future,” even as clean distributed energy is the fastest path to power. That contradiction will not survive daylight. AFFORDABILITY. Rising AI energy demand pushes up utility bills. This is aContinue reading "AI Davos: The hope is that the public does not connect the dots too quickly"
Is the BBC really for ordinary UK citizens or a US Big Tech collaborator?
On November 6 2025 i wrote this email to BBC Radio 4 Feedback Dear Feedback, Why do the Today and PM programmes mention the commercial product chatGPT so often? And regularly promote chatGPT’s latest multiple new products? It almost feels as if the BBC Radio 4 is the advertising arm for openAI and Microsoft ratherContinue reading "Is the BBC really for ordinary UK citizens or a US Big Tech collaborator?"
Regulation or a ban on social media for kids? – I smell a divide and conquer strategy
I don’t think it is an either / or - a regulation or a ban - 1. A ban would give us breathing space and leverage whilst Governments catch up on regulation.2. Big Tech has over the decades shown complete contempt for ordinary people and the tech power imbalance has become ingrained - no algorithmicContinue reading "Regulation or a ban on social media for kids? – I smell a divide and conquer strategy"
A ban on dodgy tech bros and their mates accessing children in their bedrooms: why so controversial?
Elon Musk's xAI is facing a huuuuuuuge backlash again. This time, it's because Grok, the AI chatbot integrated with social network X, enabled users to generate and spread explicit images all over the platform. The AI-generated images included nonconsensual intimate images, and images depicting child sexual abuse, known as NCII and CSAM in trust &Continue reading "A ban on dodgy tech bros and their mates accessing children in their bedrooms: why so controversial?"
AI = Civilisational Erasure….they let the cat out of the bag!
When Trump’s administration made the ‘Civilisational erasure’ comment in their National Security Strategy in November 2025- it struck me this is what AI is: Hoovering up an incredibly diverse, nuanced, creative, imaginative human cultural knowledge and spitting it out as mono culture of meaninglessness Converting the nutritious richness of human lived experience into ultra-processed sloppification.Continue reading "AI = Civilisational Erasure….they let the cat out of the bag!"
AI fraud bailout?
1. Beware the bailout of AI fraud by sovereign democratic taxpayer public money to AI bubble private corporations / tech bros2. via cost of living increases in utility bills (electricity and water in particular)3. or ‘investing’ public money in the AI pyramid / ponzi style scam Michael Burry, the famed investor from The Big Short, justContinue reading "AI fraud bailout?"
Honeybot
OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its 'popular' chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman says the BBC 'Written erotica does not require age verification in the UK under the Online Safety Act so children under 18 will be ableContinue reading "Honeybot"
How AI psychopaths want to engineer extinction – Homo sapiens will be disempowered, marginalised, and eventually eliminated
Silicon Valley AI psychopaths believe we should engineer extinction - I know most ordinary people would struggle to understand this but unfortunately these people have accumulated money and power,. so it is important to understand and acknowledge this madness so we can collectively work out how to counter it. Some of the people referenced inContinue reading "How AI psychopaths want to engineer extinction – Homo sapiens will be disempowered, marginalised, and eventually eliminated"
Electronically tagged via Digital ID
Oracle built Beijing's surveillance architecture. A sophisticated instrument of absolute observation where citizens are graded like products, where jaywalking costs travel rights, where the wrong word on social media vanishes job prospects, where your score becomes your cage.Now Oracle sells that cage to democracies, gift-wrapped as public safety.Jatin Modi “We don’t advocate for technology solutionsContinue reading "Electronically tagged via Digital ID"
There’s a difference between pretending to care and caring
Or is there in the AI world? I didn’t know much about Tim Berners-Lee until i read this passage from The New Yorker profile - Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It After the presentation at M.I.T., the conversation turned to A.I.’s trustworthiness.“I use some language model daily,” [Deb]Continue reading "There’s a difference between pretending to care and caring"
Resist AI 