Richard Harris
@beeblebrox.com
Climate, complexity, data & cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
Climate & Ecosystem Data Intelligence. Born at 315ppm, now 426.6. Social tech innovator/entrepreneur, writer, photographer, ecologist, motorcyclist, cyclist, skier. Ex-CTO of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Owned by cats
…identity management and transparency. Networks with global reach make this—as we’ve seen—a civilisation-defining issue, not just a ‘little local difficulty’. BlueSky isn’t much better in that regard - it just happens to have (to date) attracted a more truth-focused crowd. 3/3
#social #identity
#social #identity
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
…to that core ID. Because, if you didn’t, you were laying your network wide open to misinformation from and subversion by bad players. We got hit by the dotcom crash before we could roll that out but all social networks since have demonstrated the folly of SNs that are not designed with robust… 2/3
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
…to that core ID. Because, if you didn’t, you were laying your network wide open to misinformation from and subversion by bad players. We got hit by the dotcom crash before we could roll that out but all social networks since have demonstrated the folly of SNs that are not designed with robust… 2/3
The Thirty-Nine Steps
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Thirty-Nine Steps
And this is why, after more than 40 years, I just stopped watching or following F1 after the 2021 debacle
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
And this is why, after more than 40 years, I just stopped watching or following F1 after the 2021 debacle
More depressing linear thinking: the assumption there being that, at 2.3°C+, things are no less stable than they would be at +1.5°C, just a bit warmer. Which is absolutely not the case, and it’s incredibly dangerous to pretend otherwise
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
More depressing linear thinking: the assumption there being that, at 2.3°C+, things are no less stable than they would be at +1.5°C, just a bit warmer. Which is absolutely not the case, and it’s incredibly dangerous to pretend otherwise
Sad, but entirely as expected. Whilst we leave governments and NGOs to set what policy they can, we each need to do what we can in our own lives and communities: big change as the outcome of millions of tiny changes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Sad, but entirely as expected. Whilst we leave governments and NGOs to set what policy they can, we each need to do what we can in our own lives and communities: big change as the outcome of millions of tiny changes.
I missed the obvious there, didn’t I? To stuff a plushie bear into the vent with his arse sticking out (and take pics). Must be losing my touch…
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I missed the obvious there, didn’t I? To stuff a plushie bear into the vent with his arse sticking out (and take pics). Must be losing my touch…
Even for a politician, that’s a pretty disingenuous and misleading piece of sophistry. All it does is obfuscate and misleading, just as we’ve seen for the last 30+ years
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Even for a politician, that’s a pretty disingenuous and misleading piece of sophistry. All it does is obfuscate and misleading, just as we’ve seen for the last 30+ years
Listening to most Americans talking about socialism or social democracy is one of my biggest facepalm moments. They. Have. Not. Got. A. Clue.
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Listening to most Americans talking about socialism or social democracy is one of my biggest facepalm moments. They. Have. Not. Got. A. Clue.
I wondered whilst reading it, but peak energy delivery is a secondary measure for the benefits of a storage system, and when it does use GWh towards the end, it appears to be in the same context as the rest of the piece. Hmm…
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I wondered whilst reading it, but peak energy delivery is a secondary measure for the benefits of a storage system, and when it does use GWh towards the end, it appears to be in the same context as the rest of the piece. Hmm…
I confess to having trouble giving credibility to a news source that doesn’t appear to be able to tell its GW from its GWh. Expressing storage installation in terms of delivery rather than storage makes zero sense
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I confess to having trouble giving credibility to a news source that doesn’t appear to be able to tell its GW from its GWh. Expressing storage installation in terms of delivery rather than storage makes zero sense
If anyone in the world needed more evidence that Agent Krasnov is, and always has been, an active Russian asset…
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If anyone in the world needed more evidence that Agent Krasnov is, and always has been, an active Russian asset…
It’s quite fun, getting meta-updates on the Archers via BlueSky outrage 😆 A formerly avid listener, I gave up when they threw Nigel off the roof.
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It’s quite fun, getting meta-updates on the Archers via BlueSky outrage 😆 A formerly avid listener, I gave up when they threw Nigel off the roof.
Meanwhile, the UK's fearful and complacent refusal to act against egregious misinformation and oligarchy has given us Brexit, Reform and the wholesale handover of critical national data and infrastructure to authoritarian and potentially hostile foreign entities, most notably Palantir.
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Meanwhile, the UK's fearful and complacent refusal to act against egregious misinformation and oligarchy has given us Brexit, Reform and the wholesale handover of critical national data and infrastructure to authoritarian and potentially hostile foreign entities, most notably Palantir.
The cookie law was one of the most utterly stupid legislative moves in the history of the internet
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The cookie law was one of the most utterly stupid legislative moves in the history of the internet
For some reason, governments and corporations are largely populated by linear thinkers: they simply cannot seem to get their heads around the simple fact that “the worse things get, the faster things get worse”, which is the most basic truth of climate change
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
For some reason, governments and corporations are largely populated by linear thinkers: they simply cannot seem to get their heads around the simple fact that “the worse things get, the faster things get worse”, which is the most basic truth of climate change
I was the architect of h2g2.com - the hitchhiker’s guide made real. The fictional original was supposed to be the opinionated counterpart to the Encyclopaedia Galactica. If we were designing it now, we’d complement Wikipedia. But NEVER any X product - they’re fundamentally oppositional to truth
h2g2 - The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything
h2g2, the Unconventional Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
h2g2.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I was the architect of h2g2.com - the hitchhiker’s guide made real. The fictional original was supposed to be the opinionated counterpart to the Encyclopaedia Galactica. If we were designing it now, we’d complement Wikipedia. But NEVER any X product - they’re fundamentally oppositional to truth
Indeed it won’t. Using ‘proper’ non-deterministic ML to help model & test safety-critical systems: fine. Using LLMs trained on 4Chan & Twatter for the same purpose: what could possibly go wrong?
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Indeed it won’t. Using ‘proper’ non-deterministic ML to help model & test safety-critical systems: fine. Using LLMs trained on 4Chan & Twatter for the same purpose: what could possibly go wrong?
It’s the level of let-down that’s at the heart of this rotten government: anyone with an gramme of political awareness assumed that a Johnson-fronted Tory government would lie through its teeth about everything, and they met expectations. The countries voted for - and expected better of - Labour
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It’s the level of let-down that’s at the heart of this rotten government: anyone with an gramme of political awareness assumed that a Johnson-fronted Tory government would lie through its teeth about everything, and they met expectations. The countries voted for - and expected better of - Labour