Alan Hicks
@alanhickslondon.bsky.social
One thing often forgotten during a bubble is musical chairs. As no one can predict with accuracy is when, there is the fear of missing out. IMHO there's always more to get until there isn't. Correction or not.
Plus there's actual value here, it's real and will outlast any bumps along the journey.
Plus there's actual value here, it's real and will outlast any bumps along the journey.
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
One thing often forgotten during a bubble is musical chairs. As no one can predict with accuracy is when, there is the fear of missing out. IMHO there's always more to get until there isn't. Correction or not.
Plus there's actual value here, it's real and will outlast any bumps along the journey.
Plus there's actual value here, it's real and will outlast any bumps along the journey.
An evergreen warning:
Also an interesting tale of 1630s, Adriaen Pauw and Tulips
Also an interesting tale of 1630s, Adriaen Pauw and Tulips
The hall-of-mirrors economy: don't trade where you tweet!
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Don’t trade where you tweet
[FREE TO READ] Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
An evergreen warning:
Also an interesting tale of 1630s, Adriaen Pauw and Tulips
Also an interesting tale of 1630s, Adriaen Pauw and Tulips
How to inflate a bubble:
Bill Black used to call this sort of transaction "my dead horse for your dead cow"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bill Black used to call this sort of transaction "my dead horse for your dead cow"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Silicon Valley 'AI factory' at the heart of the tech race
The confusing question lingering over the AI hype is whether it could be a bubble at risk of bursting
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
How to inflate a bubble:
Bill Black used to call this sort of transaction "my dead horse for your dead cow"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bill Black used to call this sort of transaction "my dead horse for your dead cow"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The future is self learning "World Models"
youtube.com/watch?v=a4Iz...
youtube.com/watch?v=a4Iz...
Yann Le Cun leaves Meta, striking out his own future for AI • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The future is self learning "World Models"
youtube.com/watch?v=a4Iz...
youtube.com/watch?v=a4Iz...
IMHO $225k divide between the have yachts and the have nots is unsustainable:
"households with more than $225,000 in annual income are still spending freely. Those below have cut back dramatically on travel"
"households with more than $225,000 in annual income are still spending freely. Those below have cut back dramatically on travel"
Companies are working overtime to stratify consumers, separating the haves from both the have nots and the have yachts
on.ft.com/4p6brF8 How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
on.ft.com/4p6brF8 How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
[FREE TO READ] Big brands from Disney to American Express are profiting from economic divisions and making them wider
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November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
IMHO $225k divide between the have yachts and the have nots is unsustainable:
"households with more than $225,000 in annual income are still spending freely. Those below have cut back dramatically on travel"
"households with more than $225,000 in annual income are still spending freely. Those below have cut back dramatically on travel"
Reposted by Alan Hicks
This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Matt Godbolt’s blog
xania.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This December, I'll be posting an article & video each day until Christmas in the Advent of Compiler Optimisations! #AoCO2025
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Each day we'll explore a fun optimisation in C or C++; some low-level, x86 or ARM-specific, some high-level. Hope you'll join me!
YT: youtube.com/mattgodbolt
Blog: xania.org
Odlyzko may not be impressed by analogies between the railways and AI, but the latest generation are using AI in novel ways that will no doubt live on long after any bubble has burst.
Plus AI will likely evolve the way trains enabled local trams and high speed inter city travel.
Plus AI will likely evolve the way trains enabled local trams and high speed inter city travel.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Odlyzko may not be impressed by analogies between the railways and AI, but the latest generation are using AI in novel ways that will no doubt live on long after any bubble has burst.
Plus AI will likely evolve the way trains enabled local trams and high speed inter city travel.
Plus AI will likely evolve the way trains enabled local trams and high speed inter city travel.
Congratulations Zohran Mamdani
New York appreciates clear messages about the cost of living and quality of life
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
New York appreciates clear messages about the cost of living and quality of life
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
Mamdani will be the youngest New York mayor in a century, NBC News projects, after a rapid rise past Andrew Cuomo and other opponents.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Congratulations Zohran Mamdani
New York appreciates clear messages about the cost of living and quality of life
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
New York appreciates clear messages about the cost of living and quality of life
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
What makes Tax Tick
Great series with insights from those who make the decisions and those affected by them.
Highly recommend 👍
Great series with insights from those who make the decisions and those affected by them.
Highly recommend 👍
Why do we seem to find it so hard to have a rational conversation about how MUCH we pay in tax and HOW we pay it?
I'm exploring that in a new 3 part series for BBC Radio 4.
Episode 1 of The Tax Conundrum available here 🎧👇...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I'm exploring that in a new 3 part series for BBC Radio 4.
Episode 1 of The Tax Conundrum available here 🎧👇...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Tax Conundrum - Episode 1: The Problem - BBC Sounds
What's wrong with our tax system?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
What makes Tax Tick
Great series with insights from those who make the decisions and those affected by them.
Highly recommend 👍
Great series with insights from those who make the decisions and those affected by them.
Highly recommend 👍
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." – Greek Proverb
Thank you Anne Hidalgo for making Paris a great green and pleasant city to live, work and play 💚
Thank you Anne Hidalgo for making Paris a great green and pleasant city to live, work and play 💚
Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !
November 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." – Greek Proverb
Thank you Anne Hidalgo for making Paris a great green and pleasant city to live, work and play 💚
Thank you Anne Hidalgo for making Paris a great green and pleasant city to live, work and play 💚
Outrageous 😜
Must renew my subs
Essential reading
Must renew my subs
Essential reading
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Outrageous 😜
Must renew my subs
Essential reading
Must renew my subs
Essential reading
@python.org and @sovereign.tech need to speak to each other.
as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
October 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
@python.org and @sovereign.tech need to speak to each other.
It's only a matter of time, but good to know there are some things such as Astérix et Obélix that I grew up with that AI doesn't understand.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Astérix et Obélix font de la résistance contre la traduction par intelligence artificielle
Astérix et Obélix sont de retour au Portugal avec "Astérix en Lusitanie", publié le 23 octobre. L'album est paru dans 19 langues et dialectes dont l’anglais et l’allemand mais aussi le finnois et le b...
www.radiofrance.fr
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's only a matter of time, but good to know there are some things such as Astérix et Obélix that I grew up with that AI doesn't understand.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Predicting the future is easier if you remember the past.
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Predicting the future is easier if you remember the past.
I miss these four freedoms 😢
🧙♀️ Single Market Masters
The EU Single Market is one of Europe’s greatest achievements, empowering citizens and businesses alike.
It grants us four legendary superpowers. ⚡👇
The EU Single Market is one of Europe’s greatest achievements, empowering citizens and businesses alike.
It grants us four legendary superpowers. ⚡👇
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I miss these four freedoms 😢
Agreed: "The world we face today rewards speed, not hesitation"
Long live Europe
Long live Europe
This is an era of geoeconomics.
And we must use our geoeconomic weight to protect our strategic sectors and supply chains
It’s a matter of national security.
And Europe has what it takes to thrive in this new confrontational world ↓
link.europa.eu/hvyWFM
And we must use our geoeconomic weight to protect our strategic sectors and supply chains
It’s a matter of national security.
And Europe has what it takes to thrive in this new confrontational world ↓
link.europa.eu/hvyWFM
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Agreed: "The world we face today rewards speed, not hesitation"
Long live Europe
Long live Europe
"This isn't about the technology being old. It's about the people maintaining it being new"
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
www.theregister.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"This isn't about the technology being old. It's about the people maintaining it being new"
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
It'll never happen here
Oops - it happened 🤦♂️
Whatever happened to security analysis, risk reduction, diversity and contingencies 😢
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Oops - it happened 🤦♂️
Whatever happened to security analysis, risk reduction, diversity and contingencies 😢
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Louvre jewel theft: the latest in a long line of historic museum heists
The theft of eight priceless pieces of Napoleonic jewellery Sunday follows in a long tradition of daring art heists at museums across the world. Here are some of the most infamous art robberies of the...
www.france24.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
It'll never happen here
Oops - it happened 🤦♂️
Whatever happened to security analysis, risk reduction, diversity and contingencies 😢
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Oops - it happened 🤦♂️
Whatever happened to security analysis, risk reduction, diversity and contingencies 😢
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Highly recommend 👍
Today at 11am "The Tax Conundrum" starts on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Ahead of what will be another tax raising budget I ask in this new 3 part series why we seem to find it so hard to have a rational conversation about how MUCH we pay in tax and HOW we pay it... 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Ahead of what will be another tax raising budget I ask in this new 3 part series why we seem to find it so hard to have a rational conversation about how MUCH we pay in tax and HOW we pay it... 📻🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Tax Conundrum, Episode 1: The Problem
What's wrong with our tax system?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Highly recommend 👍
Thank you for calling it out 👍
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy
Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thank you for calling it out 👍
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If "This is China versus the world" I wonder who will win?
Britain fails Marshmallow test, USA muddling through.
The wall of tariffs around US economy led to more trade from China to Europe and Africa.
The US is reopening mines, and refining facilities.
Chinese dominance is decades in the making.
Britain fails Marshmallow test, USA muddling through.
The wall of tariffs around US economy led to more trade from China to Europe and Africa.
The US is reopening mines, and refining facilities.
Chinese dominance is decades in the making.
NEW
It’s China vs the world” says US Treasury Secretary but is it in fact the trade war vs the Nasdaq?
Mad week in America… trying to work out how the rest of the world, and markets work out what’s going on with US economic policy and markets…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s China vs the world” says US Treasury Secretary but is it in fact the trade war vs the Nasdaq?
Mad week in America… trying to work out how the rest of the world, and markets work out what’s going on with US economic policy and markets…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bankers on edge, a gilded cash room and US blaming China - my week at IMF
After five days talking to ministers, bankers and trade negotiators at the IMF, the BBC's Faisal Islam assesses the global outlook.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If "This is China versus the world" I wonder who will win?
Britain fails Marshmallow test, USA muddling through.
The wall of tariffs around US economy led to more trade from China to Europe and Africa.
The US is reopening mines, and refining facilities.
Chinese dominance is decades in the making.
Britain fails Marshmallow test, USA muddling through.
The wall of tariffs around US economy led to more trade from China to Europe and Africa.
The US is reopening mines, and refining facilities.
Chinese dominance is decades in the making.
Real life imitates art:
The Pink Panther (1963)
David Niven and Claudia Cardinale
m.imdb.com/title/tt0057...
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
m.imdb.com/title/tt0060...
The Pink Panther (1963)
David Niven and Claudia Cardinale
m.imdb.com/title/tt0057...
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
m.imdb.com/title/tt0060...
How to Steal a Million (1966) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Crime, Romance
2h 3m | Approved
m.imdb.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Real life imitates art:
The Pink Panther (1963)
David Niven and Claudia Cardinale
m.imdb.com/title/tt0057...
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
m.imdb.com/title/tt0060...
The Pink Panther (1963)
David Niven and Claudia Cardinale
m.imdb.com/title/tt0057...
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
m.imdb.com/title/tt0060...
Diversity is a strength: Build teams with all their quirks and align them to be greater than the sum of their individualities, it's worth it.
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
October 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Diversity is a strength: Build teams with all their quirks and align them to be greater than the sum of their individualities, it's worth it.
It's worth remembering TLS is free, you just need to configure it then you have secure communications free from evesdropping
Security is for everyone. If you haven't already done so, obtain or create a certificate (they're free) and configure it today.
p-o.co.uk/tech-article...
Security is for everyone. If you haven't already done so, obtain or create a certificate (they're free) and configure it today.
p-o.co.uk/tech-article...
Communicating safely in a hostile world with Transport Layer Security and x509
The internet is a hostile environment yet it's straightforward to communicate safely with Transport Layer Security and x509.
p-o.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It's worth remembering TLS is free, you just need to configure it then you have secure communications free from evesdropping
Security is for everyone. If you haven't already done so, obtain or create a certificate (they're free) and configure it today.
p-o.co.uk/tech-article...
Security is for everyone. If you haven't already done so, obtain or create a certificate (they're free) and configure it today.
p-o.co.uk/tech-article...
Someone had to call it out 🤣
October 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Someone had to call it out 🤣