Tim Pearsall

Actual human

AI has no conscience.
AI is not your friend.
Are we the fools dancing while the ship goes down?

Choose humanity.

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

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[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🚨 Water crisis? Depends who you are.

Southern England is in drought. Yet reports claim a US billionaire is trucking up to 13,000 gallons of water a day to his Wiltshire estate - despite a ban on tankers filling up from nearby mains.

The estate sits within the Environment Agency's southern England drought area, where rivers are under growing pressure after one of the driest summers on record.

Britain's water system has one rule for the public. Another for the powerful.

Last week, River Action revealed that Britain still has more than 14,000 commercial abstraction licences, allowing businesses to take up to 43 TRILLION litres of water every year. Meanwhile, water companies continue to lose nearly two billion litres of treated drinking water every day through leaking pipes.

It's time to stop asking the public to pay the price for a broken water system - and start fixing it.

We need a Government with a credible National Water Resilience Plan: fix leaking infrastructure, restore rivers and wetlands, reform outdated abstraction licences, and manage water like the precious resource it is - not wait until the next drought to act.

https://t.co/qw7Cc34IgZ

[Nastia @Nastia1890]

Visions of Gran Canaria,
Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre
#Art

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

"...baking inequality into the timetable."

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Andy Burnham is right, but we need to call this what it was: state-sanctioned vandalism.

The Conservatives systematically stripped sport, music, and drama from state school timetables, dismissing them as frivolous extras while preserving them for elite private schools. They treated working-class children as industrial units to be tested and processed, not young people who deserve a full, rich life.

The defense from the educational establishment was always economic efficiency. Teach the basics, pump up the league tables, ignore the rest. It was a narrow, philistine view of education that left an entire generation poorer for it.

Every child deserves access to sport, instruments, and the arts, not as a luxury, but as a birthright. If we only teach state school kids to read and count while private schools teach theirs to create, perform, and lead, we are simply baking inequality into the timetable.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Thames Water's creditors are desperately trying to ward off the company being taken into special administration

Here is why their latest proposal is nothing but a stalling tactic

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It is the worship of money that I wish to consider: the belief that all values may be measured in terms of money, and that money is the ultimate test of success in life.

This belief is held in fact, if not in words, by multitudes of men and women, and yet it is not in harmony with human nature, since it ignores vital needs and the instinctive tendency towards some specific kind of growth.

It makes men treat as unimportant those of their desires which run counter to the acquisition of money, and yet such desires are, as a rule, more important to well-being than any increase of income.

It leads men to mutilate their own natures from a mistaken theory of what constitutes success, and to give admiration to enterprises which add nothing to human welfare.

It promotes a dead uniformity of character and purpose, a diminution in the joy of life, and a stress and strain which leaves whole communities weary, discouraged, and disillusioned.”

— Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

We need hundreds of volunteers. We did it in Gorton and Denton, and we can do it in Greater Manchester."

Join co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali in Manchester this Saturday.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.

This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

— Albert Einstein

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We can yet make amends, manage our impact and once again become a species in harmony with nature. All we require is the will to do so.”

— Sir David Attenborough

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The NHS turns 78 today!

If everyone who has been grateful for the NHS in that time followed and retweeted we’d reach a million in minutes.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Remember in 2019, when Jeremy Corbyn warned that a Boris Johnson trade deal with the US would force the NHS to pay far more for drugs, and was laughably accused of getting the documents from Russia?

Well, as usual, Corbyn was right—but in the end, it was Starmer who did it.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

— Edward Abbey

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Government™ has made an ad about #Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics.

This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs.

From my speech in Parliament today.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

‘The Green Party is about making change for ordinary people, that’s what a Green Mayor of Greater Manchester will do’
@MothinAli out on the campaign trail to stop Reform and get Geraldine Coggins elected.

Get involved via the link in our bio 💪

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

— Carl Sagan

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Greater Manchester mayoral race is Greens vs. Reform.
On the 30th July, we plan to stop Reform again.

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

@Andrew_Maj42 Then it came back and nicked his chips.

[Tim Pearsall @TimothyPearsall]

"...irrational eruptions of collective hate."

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“There is perhaps a special danger in democratic abuses of power, namely, that being collective they are stimulated by mob hysteria. The man who has the art of arousing the witch-hunting instincts of the mob has a quite peculiar power for evil in a democracy where the habit of the exercise of power by the majority has produced that intoxication and impulse to tyranny which the exercise of authority almost invariably produces sooner or later. Against this danger, the chief protection is a sound education designed to combat the tendency to irrational eruptions of collective hate.”

— Bertrand Russell