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"Rooted in the landscape" Our baby rural datacentre. Closed loop water cooling where we can use free-air cooling for most of the year, well, until global warming nixes it. Environment agency wouldn't let us use the canal as our heatsink :(

We've rebuilt. New website. Restored database. And an interactive map that tracks people, organizations, institutions and events, and every link between them. Some records are incomplete. Some profiles are missing. Some connections are offline. New data comes in every week. #SPC

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record. October 7, 2026: 30.000°C. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

Who orders narrow racks with such obscenely fat PDUs? We're power and cooling limited not space... Gimme chonky racks where we can properly reverse mount switches. Alternatively, make the rails take the switches backwards.

England water companies want dynamic pricing. Charge more for drinking water, cleaning, showering, flushing toilet during drought. Health epidemics would follow. They lose over a trillion litres a year to leaks; paid dividends, neglected investment. Putting profits before people archive.ph/9oSCf

This cloud appeared 10 mins before the maxium #eclipse and was gone 10 mins after with it's job done.

An investigation by OpenDemocracy found that Palantir has paid very little UK tax, despite receiving over £670m in UK public contracts. How? By booking profits overseas, and using tax loopholes for paying staff with stocks to reduce their corporation tax bill.

The Government has absolutely no mandate to do this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury - a move which will place us on a path toward authoritarian justice youtu.be/x6NIiM9G5ag?...

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The preliminary global sea-surface temperature for March 22 just set a new daily record at 21.126°C, breaking the previous record set in 2024 towards the end of the 2023-24 El Nino. 2024 and 2026 are the only years on record with SSTs above 21.10°C.

We are approaching a climate catastrophe that will be unprecedented... #climate_emergency 🌎🔥🌧️🌨️🌪️⛈️💀💀

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For only the second year since 1982, global sea-surface temperatures have hit 21.10°C (preliminary). The all-time record was on April 24, 2024, when SSTs peaked at 21.173°C. Will this record be broken later this year? The Climate 8-Ball says: "f&%kery ahead!"

Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 2, 2026 ~ The day after tomorrow. "Meteorologists are raising alarms about an unusually early Arctic breakdown forming in February, driven by atmospheric signals that experts say have not been seen in decades." vocal.media/earth/meteor...

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

Clusterf&%k alert! The 3-year running average for the global surface temperature anomaly is now 1.52°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. This is likely the hottest 3-year running mean in over 120,000 years.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Think my freezer is on the way out :( - ice-cream came out more like cold custard. #homeassistant showing a clear progression to abnormal power usage.

Computing Insight UK 2025 will take place in Manchester 4-5 December 2025 with the theme "Computing Unites" with an exhibition of hardware and software, presentations and breakout sessions, a poster competition, and the 4th annual CIUK Student Cluster Challenge​. www.sc.stfc.ac.uk/computing-in...

It's that time of year again! #ciuk #stfc

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Not the highest draw we've seen, but did our part during the #octopus free sessions.

Day 2 of #HPC-SIG hosted here at #Hartree

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

We are so sick of this… In what world is a ‘double-tap’ a mishap?

Which government ministers have received donations or donations-in-kind from lobbying firms? 🚨🚨🚨

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this. So would you do us a favour and share? UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

NEW: Our latest research shows that pay gaps at the largest UK companies between CEOs and their employees are as wide now as they were 5 years ago, with a FTSE 100 CEO paid 78 times more than their median employee. Has the time come for a maximum wage? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I told you we’d be back

Since our comms team are still not on here for some reason, #Hartree Centre's new #hpc debuts at 62 in the #top500 list! #marycoombs #supercomputer

Last year, the northwest's water company, United Utilities, doubled its profits & hiked bills. Since privatisation, water companies have failed to build a single new reservoir. This is the reality of privatisation. Shareholders gain; we suffer the pain of a climate crisis & growing drought risk.

Maximus, UK arm of a US contractor, that tests whether some people should receive disability benefits reported 23% hike in pre-tax profits, from £23.6m to £29.1m. It has £800m govt contracts. US CEO got $10.2m paypacket. Public services increasingly privatised. We pay more, get less in return.

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

Thames Water & Anglian Water face 53 criminal investigations over sewage dumping. TW already has over 187 convictions, AW 128; water companies total 1,135. Still fleecing customers, dumping sewage, paying dividends. No company shut down, no exec prosecuted. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise

The latest paper from our Quantum Applications team and partners at Hartree Centre improves resource estimates for codebreaking of binary elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Shor's algorithm helps our team benchmark resource estimates for commercial applications. www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...

#Hartree's new HPC has completed its first few perf testing runs. Few more to go as compiler options are tweaked, but we're pretty happy. Official top500 announcement at #ISC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... nothing to see here, just #unitedutilities taking the piss (and dumping it in the river). #nationalise our water now.

A reminder that Eurovision banned Russia while Israel continues to participate. Meanwhile the Israeli government has killed at least 140 ppl in 24h and has been openly starving Gaza for over two months. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#Eurovision is tonight, and here's a hilarious fun fact about it: Israel has started a massive offensive against civilian populations in Gaza with the explicit aim of conquering the entire territory and ethnically cleansing its population, and Eurovision has aggressively refused to give a shit.

In England if your dog poos on the beach you get fined £1000. If the Water Companies dump record sewage and let the network fall apart, YOU get fined £2bn a year.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Trump is assisting two war criminals and genocides at once. It is backing Russia against Ukraine and Israel against Gaza. His actions are leading to the increasing mass death of civilians at the hands of Putin and Netanyahu. Never forget.

On top of the duopoly's rollout of 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports, which contravene EU rules on State aid, amongst many more regulations which protect workers, food production, and the environment Thread www.theguardian.com/business/com...

You know you've been in the zone when you get out to find you're the last one there.