Hilary Jennings

Hmm, wonder if there's any research out there.

Nuts in a car is definitely more scary than nuts on foot.

Most of us use multiple modes - do you think cars make people more nuts? Or is it just transport!

Anyone on a bike knows (and fears) this fact.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

AI and human intelligence are drastically different—here’s how Putting humans and LLMs head-to-head in classic tests of judgment from human psychology underscores the differences between them

Treat large language models as sophisticated linguistic instruments that require human oversight precisely because they lack access to the domain that judgment ultimately depends on: the world itself.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-a...

Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

It's #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek! Around the world, people are coming together to demand an economy that puts people and planet first - and showing how it's already being done.

Sign the petition calling on leaders to redesign our economies to put people and planet at the centre: vist.ly/4p5xr

NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending.

Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now
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Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply.

'Then comes a knock on the door and we look up, returning to the everyday works in which bodies look like bodies.'

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn

Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Or we may simply degrade into a genetic cul-de-sac: a brief, unmistakable stratum in the fossil record, marking a civilisation that could chart its own collapse with exquisite precision, issue increasingly urgent warnings to itself, and still choose, again and again, not to listen."

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

www.newyorker.com/humor/sketch...

When clothing was the predominant insulation From the archives: a look at how "improving clothing insulation is obviously the cheapest, easiest and fastest way” to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Why heat the whole room when you can warm the layer of air next to your skin? Here’s a look at the value of clothing as insulation. lloydalter.substack.com/p/when-cloth...

'Tis the season of New Year's resolutions! But, if you, like me, are guessing that 2026 will be full of uncertainty and disruption I'd offer a slight twist. Think about how, in the year to come, you can invest in your coping capacity.

The Beatles stayed in my house in Tooting when they played at the local Granada Cinema in 1963. At the time I was a baby in the North of England.

Britain’s Leaders Are Hiding From AMOC Disaster The plan was to stand outside the Houses of Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day with a large inflatable bomb. The protesters would then leaflet MPs as they

Although given the potential for a collapse of the AMOC we may be facing more sow than we can handle... znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

Singing 'In the bleak midwinter' really gets to me these days.

'snow was falling, snow on snow, snow on snow...'

Elon Musk’s net worth has now surpassed $600 billion, just weeks after Tesla approved his 10-year, $1 trillion pay package.

That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

I really know we've never been at global lower levels of Holding Two Ideas In Your Head At Once but please: consider it skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…

We need your help to get the Government to respond to our petition calling for a National Resilience Plan to protect communities from climate change impacts. Sign now (and share with your family, friends and colleagues).

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either. YouTube video by Oli Frost

Today’s fun tax tip…

(It’s a similarly daft situation that railways pay tax on fuel/energy but airlines don’t pay any tax on their aviation fuel, a huge hidden subsidy)

youtu.be/dr9MH0NuUtg?...

In 2021, the Gov warned we “could lose control of our climate for good” beyond 1.5°C.

Now, the CCC says “prepare for 2°C by 2050”

This huge shift in just 4 years calls for a new plan.

MPs can only make sound decisions to protect us if they’re briefed.

Is your MP attending?
www.nebriefing.org

Fantastic resource from @thierryaaron.bsky.social

Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.

This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.

Find and send your MP’s invite:

#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I think it's complicated. Probably too complicated for this kind of exchange.

No, just that different people respond differently in the same context. Which is what I was exploring in my original comment. Some politicians might resign, some might stay but compromise, some might be corrupt, most probably not.

Did all your colleagues also resign?