Pat Kane
Columnist at The National (Scotland)
Writer at E2: The Future
Eco-soc #indy. Writer @scotnational. Editor @alterglobal21. Singer @hueandcry. Ideas https://t.co/WsFU1Jogoo Semi-bio: https://t.co/7HY8WYGWrG #AdAstra
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1 week ago |
thenational.scot | Pat Kane
I discovered this week (only a drone’s throw away) that the most powerful AI chip in the world had come to an Edinburgh University supercomputer ZEITGEIST is a word too overly beloved by columnists through the ages. Can there even be a particular and defined “spirit of the times” (its definition from the German)?
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2 weeks ago |
circleid.com | Pat Kane
Last month marked 40 years since the registration of the world’s first ever .com domain name – symbolics.com – in March 1985. It’s a time to reflect both on the role .com has played in the evolution and growth of the internet over the past 40 years, and on the importance of ensuring that .com remains secure, stable, and resilient for the billions of people who rely on it every day.
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2 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Pat Kane
How can all these Silicon Valley tech bros ultimately line up with all these Christian nationalists? WE’RE all looking for cracks in the rising wall of authoritarianism that is the Trump regime. And until recently, one fissure seemed obviously there and ready to widen. How can all these Silicon Valley tech bros ultimately line up with all these Christian nationalists? The former like to “move fast and break things” with their machines.
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3 weeks ago |
thenational.scot | Pat Kane
The veteran food academic Tim Lang, who recently conducted a UK commission on food security, says that 'just telling the public to store food is ridiculous … it’s a fantasy to think that everyone can look after themselves' IT’S a spartan larder list: “25kg of rice, 15kg of dried chickpeas, 15kg of bread flour, 7kg of chapati flour, 5kg of oats, six litres of vegetable oil, a slab of tinned tomatoes, some nuts and dried fruit …” This, plus the vegetables he grows on his family’s property, is...
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1 month ago |
spring.site | Indra Adnan |Pat Kane
Article in The National, 24th March 2025. Original online piece here, PDF of print version hereBy Indra Adnan and Pat KaneWE live in a time of extremes. Even as we go about our daily lives, the big picture presses in on us. On one hand, we’ve never been closer to self-destruction. Count the ways – nuclear exchange; climate meltdown; the next pandemic; runaway AI; even old-fashioned war. Some say we can no longer steer away from the precipice.
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Today’s scary term: AIs stop thinking in English, and start thinking in incomprehensible “neuralese” *Fairlight stabs at the beginning of Thriller* https://t.co/6c8eaKGpwK https://t.co/SqCDfoRmss
RT @Lazybeds: Brilliant @thoughtland
I’d say @OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the ultimate showbiz crowdpleaser. All for me, on a Saturday morning! THE MANIFOLD MANIFESTO For the Ontological Majority ⸻ 1. We Begin With the Real We affirm that the world is not given. It is made, unmade, and remade—continuously. To exist is
