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#Oban #Scotland

"Provenances of... species from more southerly latitudes have... been found to outperform local provenances... However, survival and stem form can be compromised if the transfer distance is too large, or if the transfer is made from an area with a continental climate"
So, if you're planting trees in #Scotland and you think we're heading for 2° warming, you want to be sour…

Who's got a Saltire out at #tramem? Has Edinburgh got a team in the running?
#Scotland #trams

Sorry, but this is NOT #ai
This is 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland 🐑 🦬 💚

#Oban Inn, #Scotland

#Debian releases in a 2nd hand store in #Oban, #Scotland. 😎

"Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise"
#Scotland #Technology #AI

Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’

#Oban #Whisky distillery
One of the oldest whisky distilleries of the world, the smallest in #Scotland

"‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom'
#Scotland #Technology #DataCentres

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond

No idea what's going on here. Sound up #Scotland

I've written a wee blog post about the parlous state of #LocalDemocracy in #Scotland. I've also written to the Dear Leader, John #Swinney, in a slightly more diplomatic tone.

Of size, and governance, revisited
Malta has sixty eight local government regions; Luxembourg one hundred and two; Iceland sixty one; Norway, with a population comparable to our own, three hundred and seventy two. The average number of inhabitants of a municipality across the whole of the EU is 22,455. Thus the average Scottish local authority has more than six times the population of the average European equivalent, and more than one hundred times the population of one in Czechia. Czechia is not really an outlier; France, with …

In case you had any doubts about regulatory capture in #Scotland, the SNP Programme for Government specifically proposes a national "AI for Scotland" as an "flagship international programme" that "builds public trust and confidence in AI". (p. 24)
There is time to push back on this, but if we don't make a heck of a fuss, the SNP is going to follow Westminster r…

Reading in front of the Forth Bridge.
#SilentSunday #Scotland

"Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires"
#Scotland #Wildfires #Climate

Swathes of Cairngorms unrecognisable after 12 days of ‘cataclysmic’ wildfires
With large areas still burning, damage from national park’s worst blaze could take decades, if not longer, to put right

#nogenAI #noDataCenters #UK #Scotland
Hi all, if you agree that we need to

"Scottish government told to take sewage 'crisis' seriously after record 100,000 spills"
#Scotland #Sewage #Environment

"Scottish gannet chick hunt blocked for first time in 400 years"
#Scotland #Animals #Birds

Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years
NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed

A question for my #FediScot friends: if you were to shortly be driving around Scotland (specifically western Highlands) in an #EV - what apps and maps would you use to find and load up at public chargers?
#AskFedi #Scotland

"Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy"
#Scotland #Technolgy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy
Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentres

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Scotland.Traditional, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Singers:
🎵 Auld Lang Syne
#ScotlandTraditional #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #SakariOramo #BBCSymphonyChorus #BBCSingers
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