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Nick Holliman retweeted
“Where’s the return?”
BREAKING: US Total Factor Productivity (TFP) rose +1.10% in the 12 months ending Q2 2026, the lowest growth rate since Q2 2025.
TFP is a key measure of underlying economic productivity, capturing how efficiently labor and capital are used to produce goods and services.
This follows +1.61% growth over the 12 months ending Q1 2026.
Since ChatGPT's release, total factor productivity has increased +2.45%.
By comparison, TFP over the same period following Netscape Navigator's 1994 release, one of the first widely adopted web browsers, grew +7.50%, more than 3x the current AI-era pace.
Meanwhile, utilization-adjusted TFP, which removes the impact of changes in how intensively workers and machines are used, fell -0.42% in the 12 months ending Q2 2026, its weakest reading since Q1 2023.
This may be a better measure of productivity because it shows whether output is rising from genuine efficiency gains, rather than simply from workers and machines being utilized more.
The AI Revolution has yet to translate into a meaningful productivity boom.
We are still early.
Nick Holliman retweeted
NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone
Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power.
Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
Nick Holliman retweeted
Column: "climate change is real and the Right needs to get serious about it,"
It's killing everything we claim to love - landscape, tradition, millions of poor chickens - so why do some conservatives still call it a hoax?!
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07…
Nick Holliman retweeted
Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity
34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs
48% – EU
37% – China
26% – US
24% – India
Nick Holliman retweeted
Spanish families save £120 a year in electricity bills thanks to renewables, a report concludes. And bills fell even when the cost of gas soared because - unlike in the UK - gas prices o longer set electricity ones. When will we learn?
theguardian.com/world/2026/j…
Nick Holliman retweeted
The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.
Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:
"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."
He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.
His point is something most people are too afraid to say.
AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?
He also flagged something nobody is talking about.
AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.
"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."
And his final warning was the sharpest of all.
"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."
The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.
Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.
Full interview here:
thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-p…
Nick Holliman retweeted
The net zero economy now supports 1.1m UK jobs and generates £105bn in economic value - proof that tackling climate change & growing the economy can go hand in hand.
Carbon Budget 7 laid in Parliament today provides certainty to help unlock more investment and energy security.
Nick Holliman retweeted
1/ NEW: The net zero economy is now supporting:
✅Over 1m jobs
✅£105bn in GVA
✅22,000 small businesses
This analysis from @CBItweets is a reminder that net zero is a great British success story. And exactly why this Government is doubling down.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Nick Holliman retweeted
Europe saved 51 billion euros last year by replacing oil and gas with wind and solar, the blue-chip international Energy Agency has concluded. It will doubtless be far more this year, as a result of the price hikes from the Iran War.
euronews.com/2026/05/30/clea…
Nick Holliman retweeted
NEW: @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom announced the completion of a first-of-its-kind solar-covered canal in the Central Valley. ☀️💧
This cutting-edge project is generating clean electricity, cutting evaporation before water reaches farms and homes, and helping strengthen California’s water infrastructure for a hotter, drier future.
Nick Holliman retweeted
This week on Keeping Up with the LLMs:
wolfram.com/llm-benchmarking…
ALT Using Wolfram Language to benchmark the performance of major LLMs.
Nick Holliman retweeted
This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years.
More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow
Nick Holliman retweeted
Something big happened this week: a judge for the first time used Labour's reforms to Judicial Review to halt time-wasting NIMBY objections to a big solar farm. Process slashed from 24 months to 4. First of many. #BuildBabyBuild
Nick Holliman retweeted
My first onshore sites designed for 20 years are still running at 30+ years. My first Offshore site Scroby Sands running quite happily at 22 years will no decommissioning plans. Every decommissioned site I worked on was re-powered with significantly larger capacities.
Nick Holliman retweeted
"We Europeans doubt ourselves too much. The world looks to us as people who respect the rule of law and international order, full of innovation. Let's believe in ourselves more !"
Macron's passionate plea for more European self-confidence today in Greece 🇪🇺💪
My English s/t 👇
Nick Holliman retweeted
We’re facing the second fossil fuel shock in less than 5 years.
Events far away are once again impacting families and businesses here at home.
We can’t go on leaving our country so exposed.
The solution lies in clean homegrown power we control.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79j…
Nick Holliman retweeted
Freedom of expression, academic freedom, and creative liberty should never be taken for granted.
It's a collective achievement, reflected in your everyday actions.
In the EU, you have the space to speak your mind without having to shrink who you are.
#ProtectWhatMatters🛡️🇪🇺
ALT The image shows a group of people, mostly young adults, gathered outdoors. Overlaid on the image is a blue sign with the words 'FREE SPEECH' in large white letters and 'PROTECT WHAT MATTERS' in smaller white letters below it. The sign also features a circle of yellow stars representing the EU flag.
