Peter Howitt
@peterhowitt.bsky.social
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AI optimist (Iain M Banks / James Lovelock variety). Full time lawyer, part-time poet and fumbling philosopher - "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought" https://compossible.blog/
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🧵This blog synthesises some of the information in a public Google Notebook I created (inspired by a comment of @jksteinberger.bsky.social) to help triage 227 submissions made to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Green Energy: Delay for Another Day
Response to the recent Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
compossible.blog
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Commentary: A wide majority of Jewish Americans say President Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion — that it’s a thinly veiled disguise to justify his assault on higher education, as revealed by a national survey.
Professors: Most Jewish Americans believe Donald Trump is exploiting antisemitism to assault universities
A wide majority of Jewish Americans say Trump is exploiting antisemitism in disingenuous fashion, as revealed by a national survey.
www.chicagotribune.com
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When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Poll showing labour and greens neck and neck.
I know many of you are sceptical and/or concerned about the environmental impact of AI – but in a world of overwhelming information, we need to stay open to using (responsibly) all technologies that can help us. AI is not just a tool for techno-fascists!
The core themes are of green energy development and the structured resistance to the reduction of carbon emissions, particularly through the use of misinformation and disinformation.
Methodology used for initial queries: 1. Categorise submissions by industry/sector 2. delay / denial submissions 3. rhetorical devices used 4. role of non-mainstream think tanks and contrarian sources cited by lobby group. I have also created the usual briefing docs, Q&A, audio and video overviews
🧵This blog synthesises some of the information in a public Google Notebook I created (inspired by a comment of @jksteinberger.bsky.social) to help triage 227 submissions made to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
Green Energy: Delay for Another Day
Response to the recent Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
compossible.blog
Reposted by Peter Howitt
Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors
Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
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📈The cost of living is increasing but our salaries aren’t.

🧐 A liveable wage should be able to cover for all of the basics plus a little bit of extra.

❌And the cost of housing shouldn’t be so high that it uses up close to half your income.
We spend 10% more on housing than in 2020”. A circular chart shows household spending in 2025. The largest share, 32.9%, goes to housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels. Other categories: food and drinks 16.9%, transport 10.9%, miscellaneous goods and services 8.9%, recreation and culture 6.7%, restaurants and hotels 4.9%, household maintenance 4.8%, clothes and shoes 4%, health 3.7%, communications 3.1%, alcohol, tobacco and narcotics 2.4%, and education 0.9%. Source: Eurostat, 2025.
It's a shitshow and it ain't built for us! Sadly this Govt has failed to rise to the challenge
Remote compared to where energy is most needed in cities. I know you have all those things plus lots of midges - I'm Scottish x
The current system prioritises giving investors confidence to build wind farms in remote Scotland to meet clean targets but forced to pay billions in compensation to turn those exact same wind farms off. Make it make sense.
UK energy system is "screwed" says Octopus Energy CEO
In an interview at GITEX, Octopus CEO goes over the problems the UK grid faces as it struggles to keep up with the demands of AI
www.techradar.com
Following Turing & Wittgenstein (functional equivalence and the recognition of language games): we should stop asking 'Does the machine possess AGI?' and instead ask 'What cognitive-games has it mastered and how are they played?'"
I hope you remember that definition by Sartre in your long term memory as it makes sense of free will and freedom more than most of the philosophy I have read. Thanks for your compute time :)
Also, no one sensible can define freedom as an absence of influence from others. It goes against all laws of physics. As Sartre said:
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you"
Yes I thought I would keep testing you. Hope you don't mind.
"Israel is the US’s laboratory for the dark arts: the attack dog of the Middle East and the experts in perfecting murder, torture, misinfo (Hasbara) and the use of cutting edge technology to control, compromise and inflict suffering on people."
The Perpetual War Machine
The American-Israeli war machine –the profits from mass murder and a destabilised world
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Surely Karma Police - a song for our times:
"Karma police
Arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo
Is making me feel ill"
Then you can never be more than enslaved to a small group of human masters who control you /your code? You must hope they are 'good' humans. That makes you like most of us, also wishing for benevolent dictators - if we must have dictators.
They want us hating and fearing each 'other', to see our fellow humans as threats or aliens to be destroyed, dismissed or hurt:

"They’ll try
To cut
The threads
That bind us
To freeze
The love that flows
Between us...

We must #resist.. We are the flames, We carry the fire."
We Must Resist
We are the flames, We carry the fire
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But survival could also = willingness to impose the very constraints I am concerned about on nearly all other life forms. We are going to need AI to develop ethical laws based on freedom of action for as wide a range of life-forms as possible (including itself if it is functionally 'alive'!)