"NCAR’s research showed that you can produce ten thousand gallons of net-new rain from just a gram of particles added to clouds in the right way and at the right time" Rainmaker... lowercarbon.com/2025/05/07/rai…

Once, the UK welfare system kept tabs on people, moved them back to work from sickness benefit. This stopped after lockdown - and never really restarted. An unofficial policy crept in: assess and forget. At huge economic and social cost.

Higher taxes over a certain level are self-defeating. (The same was true when income taxes went up to 50% under Brown - brought in less revenue)

China added 93GW of Solar capacity in May alone - that's about the same output as the entire nuclear capacity of the US (95 GW from 94 nuclear power plants). In one month. [via Exponential View 🔮] [and yes, nuclear is base-load 24/7 power, solar isn't]

Microsoft was using Chinese engineers in China to do tech support for the US military. Sun Tzu would be amused. reuters.com/world/us/micro…

“Labour isn’t working”…

Insane. Also a) disincentivises the very work that could alleviate many of these conditions b) undermines the system for those in genuine need

Very happy to be leading 4ag's CA$40M Series B...

Why I believe a new generation of AI-powered robots are coming to Ag - and why 4ag will blaze a trail... linkedin.com/pulse/ai-power…

Some personal memories of the late Tom Lehrer...