Kathryn Corrick
@kcorrick.bsky.social
Human centred strategy, data & innovation services
Loves teaching and making things happen
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer in digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Based in France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Loves teaching and making things happen
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer in digital innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Based in France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
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"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
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Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
March 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Here is an embarrassing graph I have just made for a report. Fun fact:
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
in 2020/21 Indian Railways added the equivalent of the UK’s *entire electrified railway network* (over 6000 route kilometers!) to their own electrified network - and then did this again in 2021/22
…and AGAIN in 2022/23! 🤯
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ICE “is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
ICE “is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.”
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The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place - on.ft.com/47Rn3Fb Bookmark for any time anyone wants to portray environmental concerns as unthinking nimbyism. Free link
The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place
Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups
on.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place - on.ft.com/47Rn3Fb Bookmark for any time anyone wants to portray environmental concerns as unthinking nimbyism. Free link
“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Though [CFO] Friar later walked back her suggestion, saying that she was advocating for structural support for AI in general, not just her company, it is likely true that some kind of huge subsidy or another is probably the only way that OpenAI’s preposterous business model […] can be sustained.”
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"They can only maintain this stance if they are able to convince enough people that irrational moves towards more climate chaos are in fact pragmatic, and that climate campaigners’ demands are unrealistic [...] grow a spine"
“Just because other crises are competing for attention, it does not follow that voters want climate targets abandoned,” writes Luisa Neubauer, a German climate activist, in a guest essay
The greenlash is built on lazy thinking, writes a climate activist
Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"They can only maintain this stance if they are able to convince enough people that irrational moves towards more climate chaos are in fact pragmatic, and that climate campaigners’ demands are unrealistic [...] grow a spine"
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Homes from straw, beer and bread from grains, clothes from beer brewing... That's a good amount of solution capacity from one crop.
Researchers extracted proteins from spent beer-brewing yeast and spun them into strong textile fibers that avoid the environmental impact of petroleum-based polymers, and the ethical as well as land- and water-use concerns of cotton and wool. cen.acs.org/materials/Br... #chemsky 🧪
Brewing waste: The solution to sustainable fashion?
Biodegradable fibers spun from yeast protein avoid the resource use and pollution of cotton, wool, and polyester
cen.acs.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Homes from straw, beer and bread from grains, clothes from beer brewing... That's a good amount of solution capacity from one crop.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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This is completely fascinating, and I do think the UK govt are likely to come a cropper on this in a similar way soon. Someone said to me the other day that more than 600 data centres are going through planning at the moment
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is completely fascinating, and I do think the UK govt are likely to come a cropper on this in a similar way soon. Someone said to me the other day that more than 600 data centres are going through planning at the moment
I'm still scratching my head on Tesla's market cap and *that* pay deal (which isn't quite what it seems, makes no business sense and will probably go to court), but in doing so I've found this incredibly detailed reporting of all the stats you might ever need www.honestjohn.co.uk/the-latest-t...
The Latest Tesla Statistics - Updated October 2025
Stay up-to-date with the latest Tesla statistics. From production to revenue, gain insights into the company leading the EV revolution.
www.honestjohn.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm still scratching my head on Tesla's market cap and *that* pay deal (which isn't quite what it seems, makes no business sense and will probably go to court), but in doing so I've found this incredibly detailed reporting of all the stats you might ever need www.honestjohn.co.uk/the-latest-t...
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This is #actuallyexistingsolarpunk: the realisation that the tools we already have to hand are far more transformative, and more ecologically beneficial in every sense, than all the speculation around novel digital technologies: bsky.app/profile/jame...
"Actually existing AI" is a phrase I use a lot, to separate reality from hype. "Actually existing solarpunk" is one I might start using. Because I genuinely believe that a general energy transition is *more possible* than general artificial intelligence, and more exciting and more equitable.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is #actuallyexistingsolarpunk: the realisation that the tools we already have to hand are far more transformative, and more ecologically beneficial in every sense, than all the speculation around novel digital technologies: bsky.app/profile/jame...
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This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
This is an excellent listen, and gives glimmers of hope. Definitely worth 35 mins of your time.
Venture capitalists want to eat the world.
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is an excellent listen, and gives glimmers of hope. Definitely worth 35 mins of your time.
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Venture capitalists want to eat the world.
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Venture capitalists want to eat the world.
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.
Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.
My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...
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I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right
The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...
An infuriating tale of national infrastructure meets local politics, but brilliantly told.
martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...
HT @jonnelledge.bsky.social
martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...
HT @jonnelledge.bsky.social
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
An infuriating tale of national infrastructure meets local politics, but brilliantly told.
martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...
HT @jonnelledge.bsky.social
martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...
HT @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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New register up, a few notes to follow
A new House of Commons register of interests has been released and uploaded to TheyWorkForYou https://www.theyworkforyou.com/interests
Register of Interests
Making it easy to keep an eye on the UK’s parliaments. Discover who represents you, how they’ve voted and what they’ve said in debates.
www.theyworkforyou.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New register up, a few notes to follow
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15yrs of GPS data on bison, bighorn sheep, moose, pronghorn, wolves, & cougars shows they adjust to higher temperatures more by moving than by adapting themselves. Thus it’s not enough to protect animals where they are. They need access to a variety of landscapes.
www.earth.com/news/large-m...
www.earth.com/news/large-m...
Large mammals are finding clever ways to beat the heat
Large mammals in Yellowstone adapt to summer heat by changing behavior—shaped more by landscape than biology, a new study finds.
www.earth.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
15yrs of GPS data on bison, bighorn sheep, moose, pronghorn, wolves, & cougars shows they adjust to higher temperatures more by moving than by adapting themselves. Thus it’s not enough to protect animals where they are. They need access to a variety of landscapes.
www.earth.com/news/large-m...
www.earth.com/news/large-m...
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I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics
jobportal.ku.dk
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Whoop! Mr @jonworth.eu has finished his BIG research project on #CrossChannelRail.
What will it take to get to/from more places in continental Europe to/from London (and maybe bits of Kent or Stratford)?
There's a launch in person and virtual.
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
What will it take to get to/from more places in continental Europe to/from London (and maybe bits of Kent or Stratford)?
There's a launch in person and virtual.
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
#CrossChannelRail Report Launch - 17 November, 12:30 CET (event in Brussels, and online) - #CrossBorderRail
In the research for my #CrossChannelRail project in spring 2025 I, Jon Worth, aimed to examine the future of high speed trains through the Channel Tunnel. That would encompass all the stations in cont...
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Whoop! Mr @jonworth.eu has finished his BIG research project on #CrossChannelRail.
What will it take to get to/from more places in continental Europe to/from London (and maybe bits of Kent or Stratford)?
There's a launch in person and virtual.
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
What will it take to get to/from more places in continental Europe to/from London (and maybe bits of Kent or Stratford)?
There's a launch in person and virtual.
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
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Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
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Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them.
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined @libertyhq.bsky.social and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined @libertyhq.bsky.social and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Human rights underpin our everyday lives, often in invisible ways but always there when you need them.
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined @libertyhq.bsky.social and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Easily sacrificed for political expediency. Hard felt by all of us when gone.
ORG joined @libertyhq.bsky.social and hundreds of groups to defend the ECHR ✊
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I'm doing a quick intro to open data as part of a wider course.
I just checked if the 5 star open data scheme would help explain 'technically open'.
Sadly not 5stardata.info/en/
Partly, as a PDF isn't technically #opendata and RDF & LOD are too much to explain, nor majority cases, unlike APIs.
I just checked if the 5 star open data scheme would help explain 'technically open'.
Sadly not 5stardata.info/en/
Partly, as a PDF isn't technically #opendata and RDF & LOD are too much to explain, nor majority cases, unlike APIs.
5-star Open Data
Information around Tim Berners-Lee's 5-star Open Data Plan
5stardata.info
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm doing a quick intro to open data as part of a wider course.
I just checked if the 5 star open data scheme would help explain 'technically open'.
Sadly not 5stardata.info/en/
Partly, as a PDF isn't technically #opendata and RDF & LOD are too much to explain, nor majority cases, unlike APIs.
I just checked if the 5 star open data scheme would help explain 'technically open'.
Sadly not 5stardata.info/en/
Partly, as a PDF isn't technically #opendata and RDF & LOD are too much to explain, nor majority cases, unlike APIs.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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