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I’m not convinced by the supposed cooling advantages of data centers in space.

When you’re on the night side of the Earth, then sure, there's no sunlight, and yoiu can dump heat by radiating it away. Not because space is "cold" (it very much isn’t), but because there’s nothing around to stop infraredfrom streaming off into the void.

But let the Sun get a clean line of sight to you and things turn real ugly, real fast.

You have to actively move heat away from sun-exposed components using heat pipes or liquid loops, shepherd it around to carefully oriented radiator panels, and then politely ask deep space to take it away. All the while your servers are generating yet more heat.

So yes, you can cool a data center in space. Spacecraft have been doing thermal gymnastics like this for decades. But the idea that space itself is some kind of free, bottomless heat sink is a category error.

Interesting program following Steve Rosenberg doing his job as BBC Moscow correspondent. He's one of the best the BBC has and obviously has to walk a tightrope a lot of the time. But he's always clear and always appears decent. I don't know about making himself the story though. It seems a little narcissistic for someone with his quality

They were talking about the programme this morning on Today. It was Panorama who approached him and the Moscow BBC team and he initially didn’t want to do it as they are so busy and a small team but Panorama really wanted to see his perspective as a British journo in Moscow who has such a long connection and so can engage with the country well. So the point of the story was intended to be as much about him as Russia by design of Panorama.

And he learnt Russian at the country's finest university.

https://x.com/alexrogerssky/status/2018395506360168448

Labour MP: “Consistent failures by Morgan McSweeney have damaged our media operation and left the public unaware of much of what we’ve achieved in government.

“The Mandelson saga has only made things worse, and if Keir doesn’t make changes soon, the PLP will.

“We’ve had enough.”

Not applying enough polish to the turd.

It's possible that Labour are successfully delivering things - now I don't believe they are but if the excuse you are hearing is poor media communications you may want to give them a chance to fix that before sacking the manager.

Personally Starmer and Reeves arrived without a plan and that's utterly unacceptable...

Attacking McSweeney is just a way of attacking Starmer whilst endeavouring to appear loyal. These Labour MPs should grow some balls.

Maybe, or it is a way of resolving cognitive dissonance and staying loyal to the dear leader, like all those old Soviets convinced that Uncle Joe would see them right if only he knew how bad things were.

Either if those things may be true.

But it also seems true that McSweeney is a pretty toxic individual who contributes little that is positive to government.

New article in the Telegraph.

"Sean Thomas
There are no nice areas left for Londoners to live in
A pervasive sense of decline and disorder lingers over the capital" (£)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/02/there-are-no-nice-areas-left-for-londoners-to-live-in/

That's simply not true: there are lots of nice areas for Londoners to live in.

Here in California, for example, there's Brentwood in Los Angeles. That's a nice area for Londoners -like me- to live in,

I thought Brentwood was on the Elizabeth Line, just over the Essex border

Come to rural Essex, for the price of a flat in central London you can buy a mansion here and in Summer it is beautiful, great pubs and walks and Fetes and shows and cricket on greens in summer and easy to get into London anyway just a short drive to a tube or train station.

I would still live in Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Hampstead or Richmond Park if I could afford it (and if I was Jewish Golders Green) but yes anywhere else in London you are better off living in a nice part of the home counties in my view once you reach your 30s and beyond

OMG! White Supremacist MAGA ghouls are going to lose their shit when they discover White American citizen Alex Pretti was summarily executed by a pair of ICE Hispanics.

Likewise privileged white liberals when they discover that the ICE agents weren't Okies from Muskogee.

No I don't believe that is true. I suspect white liberal traitors are simply critical of performative cruelty against women and children and the execution of American citizens irrespective of the ethnicity of the perpetrators.

Nope. This kind of thing is very common:

https://x.com/BlueWave2026/status/2018306124361892114

Hispanic ICE agents are race traitors.

I do not say this lightly and I will not apologize for this.