Tony Haddon

Human. Designer. Space Nerd. Opinions may evolve as new evidence arises. Love a good spreadsheet.

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@SpaceX Incredible work, SpaceX. We’ve all been waiting a long time for this. You brought a tear to my eye. Well done and thanks for all your hard work!

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@DublinTunnel @GardaTraffic @DCCTraffic @DublinPortCo @DubFireBrigade @DublinAirport Always an hour before the theatres close. Why can’t all these closures start after north county people who have come to entertainments and dinners in the city have left?

[gaut @0xgaut]

My favorite video of the Olympics so far is the cameraman for the trampoline gymnastics

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

As is now tradition, to celebrate #YorkshireDay, here's Sean Bean saying 'Bastard' a lot.🔊🆙️

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

"42% of murders of women in Ireland is done by the 9% that are migrant men" is a made-up statistic.

It's spread to dehumanise immigrants as 'savages'.

I've compiled real stats on murders of women in Ireland, including prior criminal records, to counter this hatred and lies. /1

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@Niall_Beirne Nice mix

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@dj_mckeown @claireoconnell @EIRSAT1 Very exciting! Best of luck with it!

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

Whatever you feel about our current Taoiseach—do you stand by this sentiment? I do.

[Fine Gael @FineGael]

“We will be relentless in protecting our citizens and defending our people.”

—Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@brycedriesenga @ridd_design @Soengle @maheen_sohail @brian_lovin Ok ok. Individual Contributor. Got it.

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@brycedriesenga @ridd_design @Soengle @maheen_sohail @brian_lovin No but please, what’s an IC? Independent Contractor?

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@mattlesnake @AuthorOnTheSide @Rainmaker1973 Thanks. That’s helpful.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

I hope you learned something from this very extensive prompting guide.

It took me ~8 hours to write, and I'm so happy I can share this free. I only have 1 ask.

If you found this helpful, spare me a like/retweet/comment to support my content 🤝
https://t.co/y6NQTe7j0q

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy.

They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done.

Why?

Lack of stable long-term power, whether clean or dirty, is constraining Microsoft's growth. They need to build big data centers that consume electricity all the time and the old assumption that somebody else's reliable plants will always be around to firm up your wind and solar is falling apart.

It certainly helps that founder Bill Gates was one of the earliest big business converts to nuclear energy, investing his own money to develop new reactors.

But Microsoft, like many companies, was held back by what we might consider "Enron-ism" infecting its energy thinking: renewable energy credits plus markets plus cute little lies to the public about how electricity works. Greenwashed fossil/hydro/nuclear with the ESG stamp of approval.

The problem? Eventually you run out of other people's cheap firm power.

So Microsoft has recently become a leader in openly asserting that nuclear energy counts as clean energy, as opposed to the ongoing cowardice we see from the other big tech companies who lie to the public about being "100% renewable powered."

Sure, the lawyers said it was okay to lie, but the lie doesn't give you a permanent supply of cheap reliable energy. That comes from nuclear.

A world is coming where only the tech companies willing to become nuclear power developers may get to keep expanding their cloud businesses, and only countries open to new reactors get to host this expansion.

A world where tech companies with 50% margins become the only survival hope for traditional industrial concerns with 5% margins who need someone else to bootstrap a proper electricity supply.

Where diesel backup generators are replaced with microreactors reliable enough to be trusted to keep a cluster of facilities secure in the case of public grid failure.

The race is on.

[RareIrishStuff @RareIrishStuff]

This public payphone hung on the wall in the Shamrock Lodge pub in Finglas village for many a year, and as soon as that phone rang, there was a lot of heads turning, and a few shouts to the barman, “If that’s someone looking for me, I’m not here!”. This used to happen in a lot of pubs around the country that had the public payphone, and especially my local The Drake Inn in Finglas. There was always a hush when the phone rang in the Drake, just before the barman answered it, just in case it was for you, and in case whoever was phoning heard your voice in the background, and then you couldn’t deny that you were there. The barman would answer the phone while scanning the place, and if his eyes fixed on you then it was for you, he’d say to the person on the phone “Hold on and I’ll have a look”, and then give you the nod, which meant are you here or not? A shake of the head was good enough, as some people on the other end of that phone used to have supersonic hearing and would swear blind to the barman that they heard you talking. The phone call would end with the barman being called a liar and getting a load of abuse, and you didn’t even open your mouth, only to take a sup of your pint and a drag on your smoke. You knew it was time to go home when the barman gave you that look, and says “Go home, I’m not covering for you again!”. You might get away with upsetting the missus but jaysus don’t upset the barman!

Photo: Public phone in Shamrock Lodge, Finglas.
Story: Shay Burke

[Steve Gibson @SGgrc]

How are various organizations organized? Not tomorrow's picture of the week... but funny:

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@robertross @ResonanceTalks Looks great Rob. Nice work!

[Alex Kehr @alexkehr]

@TheJackForge It’ll work great on the Apple car

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@CraigGroves6 @historyinmemes Given that previously members of that people died after contact with outsiders, this seems a very irresponsible thing for anthropologists to do.

[Scribbles @Scribbles646]

Sweden🇸🇪🇪🇺 has announced plans to build as many as 10 new nuclear reactors in the next 20 years. This is a major shift in their energy policy, as they had previously aimed to limit and phase out nuclear power. What are the reasons behind this change? 🧵1/8

[Tony Haddon @tonyhaddon]

@NathanLands She takes the tubs back and reuses them?