Kevin Williamson

Fair points. Also, the majority of the reading public cant be trusted. Sunday Times bestsellers list doesnt lie.

Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction/Futurist Fiction is 100x better than Crime Fiction/Crime Noir as a genre. Much more interesting and imaginative. Yay or nay?

A wholly inadequate tourist board of its day. Took our book to boost Edinburgh to its current level of tourist popularity.

This story is shockingly stupid even for @nytimes.com
‬⁩—where they always promote AI. Take this insanity: “Asking help from a chatbot,you’re going to get empathy,”Ms. Rowe said, “but you’re not going to get help.”

You’re going to get EMPATHY?

It’s a f*cking machine.

It’s mimicking “empathy”.

Just 2 days to go until my first Robert Burns Not In My Name show. The show this Monday is sold out but there are still some tickets left for the show on Mon 18th August (see link below). Be nice to see any of you there.

Jings!

Tomorrow, Edinburgh, noon

If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway

Highest sulfur pollution in Reykjavík since start of volcanic unrest Monitoring stations in the capital area have this morning recorded the highest levels of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) since volcanic activity began on the Reykjanes Peninsula. According to the City of R...

Judi Dench in Reykjavik 🌋

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Quite the opposite. The UK govt is cutting red tape so that fresh water cooled data centres can be rolled out fast across the country.

Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI Artificial intelligence will deliver a decade of national renewal, as part of a new plan announced today (13 January 2025).

As hot weather necessitates a hose pipe ban in England what happens when more and more of our fresh water is diverted to cool "ramped up" data centres? These data centres will have Priority Use contracts over domestic users. The fresh water problems have barely begun.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

This morning I've mostly been thinking about tech unicorns in the UK (168 of them all valued at £1bn+) and the 3,700 AI companies in the UK (valued at £72bn in 2024).

And, Who is asking the difficult eco/energy Qs about scaling up data centres to host all this?

www.business.gov.uk/campaign/gro...

Two Enormous Mystery Structures Beneath Africa Have Left Scientists Stunned Two giant, mysterious structures have been discovered beneath Africa, and scientists are struggling to understand what they are.

dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/two-...

Scientists Discover the Explosive Power of Earth's Mysterious BLOBS – Is an Eruption Coming? What if deadly volcanic eruptions are caused by structures deep inside Earth?

This morning I've been mainly thinking about BLOBS deep in our planet's lower mantle and their relationship to mantle plumes and volcanic eruptions

#volcano 🌋

dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/expl...

Remember that grief metafiction published in The Guardian on 12 Mar which Sam Altman claimed was written by AI? What happened to this amazing literary software? Also, where was the transparency of the prompt sheets used? Also, if I need stardust to throw in investors eyes where can I get some?

A few weeks ago I was in Hamburg and went to see an Ian Hamilton Findlay exhibition inspired by the French Revolution #BastilleDay 🇫🇷

Not so much a State of the Nation address but a state of the nations summary. Well worth a read. #wherearewenow

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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

How the US tops volcano list - Te Awamutu News Last week, I covered how volcanically active Indonesia is, noting that it ranks fourth globally for the number of active volcanoes. So, let’s talk about who comes in at number one. That title goes to....

Q. Which country has the most active volcanoes?

A. USA with 165 active volcanoes, 42 of which have erupted since 1950.

#volcanostats 🌋

www.teawamutunews.nz/2025/07/how-...

Robert Burns: Not In My Name
11 & 18 Aug, Edinburgh – tickets from £9.38

Showcasing the radical subversive poetry of Robert Burns: the stuff he couldn’t put his name to during his lifetime. A performance by @kevwilliamson.bsky.social with films by Alastair Cook
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-bur...

ROBERT BURNS NOT IN MY NAME

Heads up to say I'm gonna perform Robert Burns Not In My Name at Leith Depot for 2 nights only. Mon 11th + Mon 18th Aug at 7.30pm. Burns as you've never heard him before. With films by Alastair Cook. You're all welcome. Details:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-bur...

Welcome back! Edinburgh has missed you. Delighted to see my favourite indy cinema reopen. 🎬

Not read that one but will definitely check it out. Geoff Dyer is the best of the eclecticists. Even wrote a fantastic book on Tarkovsky's Stalker I like to go back to now and again.

Agree 100%. The dishwasher was AI's advance guard in Big Tech's plan to eradicate human agency. Hot soapy water will kill the machines.

Respect to Palestinian Action for taking nonviolent direct action against the British military. Starmer & his Govt are 100% complicit in this genocide yet their only response seems to be to double down on Israeli terrorism. Never thought I'd despise a British PM more than Thatcher but here we are.

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.

It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

Earthquake swarm at Italy’s Campi Flegrei supervolcano sparks eruption fears

trans: Mibbes aye mibbes naw.

news.az/news/earthqu...

Wow. Is that every short story translated by CG?

Agreed. CG translations of Chekhov's short stories bring them alive. That story is something else. A beauty. If there was a Top 10 of long short stories...