Paul Johnston
Multi CTO, Climate, Data, Governance, Government, NED, advisor, strategist, ex AWS and GDS
Chair of Milton Keynes Community Energy
Chair of Milton Keynes Green Party
Other: ADHD/Leadership/Christianity
M: @pauldjohnston@mastodon.green
X: @pauldjohnston
- I need to have a blog again, just for me. I *REALLY* don't want to host my own blog, and I *REALLY* don't want to rely on services that are there to monetise above all else e.g. medium My old blog is on medium, before that it was elsewhere, and I see a lot of "old style blogging" on linkedin.
- I get the point. But the impact of the built environment is not just the small bit of land it's on. It's water use, vehicles, noise, some types of habitat loss and so on. But I do agree that building regulations are not as important as reforming farming and nature. But planning needs reform to
- This is a good take. I see something slightly different. I see a generation of developers who are going to be using regeneration as the norm, not bug fixing. It's not now, but it's coming
- This Labour Govt has royally screwed up
- EXCLUSIVE: Peter Mandelson sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein on setting up his advisory firm, Global Counsel, including how to target potential new clients such as the Chinese government. www.ft.com/content/13d2...
- I've been messing around with Claude Code and other LLM tools for coding. Since I know AWS and specifically serverless very well, I wanted to see what happens when I try to deploy a simple backend app with a web frontend. It's... interesting to say the least.
- Traitors Ireland has the best player videos. Turn to camera... LOOK NORMAL... NOOORMAAAALLLL. ah forget it.
- This is fascinating. The huge increase in demand for data centres for AI has led to a massive problem for energy grids and therefore consumers. This problem has been coming for a while. Interesting response to try to get the tech companies to pay for new power plants...
- Can somebody *PLEASE* tell me what the accepted definition of "class" is in terms of working class, middle class and so on? It's a term that is used so often with completely different contexts that it has become unusable. e.g. I've seen UK politicians and journalists claim they are working class
- This is called "polarization" and it's far worse in the US than most other countries.
- I am seriously considering going back to X and posting there again, but in a "broadcast" not a "social" way. This place is great but it's not where my network has moved.
- Fantastic analysis
- Your Party should rename itself as the Judean People's Front.
- This is entirely because the BBC have reviewed everything in light of the recent issues and resignations. The BBC is having a crisis of governance at the moment.
