Pat Kane

New Alternative Weekiy out mailchi.mp/2951056b57a9... Editorial on reckoning with AI. Plus: Zurich’s coops solving Europe’s housing crisis; carbon overshoot likely, climate storytelling mobilises youth. From www.spring.site: wind-wealth coming, Glasgow supperclubs here. RT!

The cancellation of a “hyperscale” data centre in Edinburgh is a triumph for campaigners—& a pause button for those of us interested in AI. If used for liberating humans into a post-work world, could we then agree how best to power it? My @ScotNational col thenational.scot/news/25834578.…

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d76a2d000dc2... Our editorial nails it: “Fascism won’t win”. Also: amazing mutual aid in Minnesota, & a new era for US activism; UK govt’s climate gloom revealed; why tears aren’t to be trusted—& more. + News from www.spring.site Share!

Reform’s Lord Offord (aka Big Jock) made a terrible bid to harness @deaconbluemusic’s song Dignity to his far-right cause. But he’s in a long tradition of politicians hijacking pop songs to juice up their campaigns—Trump preeminently. My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

New Alternative Weekly newsletter mailchi.mp/3ddee2991714... Applying advanced democracy, emotional literacy and youthful leadership to the climate crisis; Scottish community wealth building; & what’s “street epistemology”? Also www.spring.site stuff. Enjoy & please share

I’ve watched 5 of the 10 for “Best Picture” @TheAcademy Oscars. They exemplify the basic power of great films, as defined by Deleuze: “The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in this world”. What does Gilles mean? Read on at my @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/culture/2579...

Four Alternative Weekly reports on our SOLD-OUT #PowerShift “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest last Sunday—as well as clean energy biz beating Trump; effectively tackling dis/misinformation; blueprints for impact crowdfunding—and much more. Please sign up and share! mailchi.mp/6efdd9474b2a...

We had a SELL-OUT gig for #PowerShift at Celtic Connections this Sunday—a whirl of song, improvisation, facilitation, poetry and expertise, around the topic of communities and renewables. Let’s take it forward here: www.spring.site/powershift

For digital idealists, Grok’s “undressing” AI software is dispiriting. But if we reconfirm our human community—like we suggest at Sunday’s @ccfest #PowerShift event [https://www.spring.site]—can we put this computation to better use? My @scotnational col www.thenational.scot/news/2577342...

Just a few tickets left for our #PowerShift event at @CCfest / Celtic Connections, tomorrow 3pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... see you there! 💨💨💨

LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…

LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare 2b idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…

Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...

Renewable energy and community control: discussion with @patkane.bsky.social -very interesting new dimension at Celtic Connections.

Power Shift: The Real Energy Question (at Celtic Connections) — Spring Power Shift: The Real Energy Question ( event at Celtic Connections ) With: Scotland’s Makar Peter Mackay, improviser Pippa Evans , Bella Caledonia’s Mike Small , futuris...

Assa, we’d love to see you there! Bring pals! spring.site/blog/power-s...

Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...

My @scotnational col today is about Scotland facing the oligarchs—& how communities generating their own energy defy the gangsters’ diktat www.thenational.scot/politics/257... Our #PowerShift event at @ccfest next Sunday deep dives into all this. For more, & tickets: spring.site

Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!

Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #Powershift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!

Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...

Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...

So the “settled will” of the Scottish people heaves towards independence. Did anybody ever imagine its main opposition would be an far-right grift operation, vehemently anti-immigration & anti-net-zero?

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

My usual 2026 preview of events & anniversaries & culture, for @ScotNational. America on its 250th—so is Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. China’s next 5 year plan commences—but will Grand Theft Auto VI finally be out in Sept? & much, much more www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/0ac9c2d03e87... Editorial on new paradigm artivism. Also: what cheap clothes cost the planet; how AI can turn against capitalism; the calming power of the polyvagal nerve—& much more. Details too of our @ccfest event, Jan 18th, 3pm. Come!

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

We’re in a podcast moment—immersed in conversations and personalities, with some even wanting to start their own. It’s rich, thick, blethery—and may be a better medium than social media for Indy activism and persuasion. My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

New Alternative Weekly out! Editorial on young men vs. war itself. Also: Integral politics is “deeper, wider, longer”; we need weird stories 4 a warming world; u-lab cultivating planetary coherence—& much more. + spring.site stories. Sign up! mailchi.mp/8df79378f4d0...