Alex Goodall
@alexinternational.bsky.social
International historian at UCL. Author of Loyalty and Liberty (2013) and The Open Door Era (2017). Current project is on late-nineteenth-century US imperialism in the Caribbean from the bottom up.
In just three years, powered by AI craziness, Nvidia's has gone from a value of $400bn to becoming the world's first $5 trillion dollar company
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October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In just three years, powered by AI craziness, Nvidia's has gone from a value of $400bn to becoming the world's first $5 trillion dollar company
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Seen at Russell Square today
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Seen at Russell Square today
My autumn chilli haul is starting to look like a military arsenal!
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My autumn chilli haul is starting to look like a military arsenal!
Hitchcock eat your heart out
October 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hitchcock eat your heart out
FT article about how OpenAI has been valued at $500bn, making it the most valuable start up ever... immediately followed by video on the "graduate jobpocalypse", where grads can't find employment anymore ... hmm, transfer of wealth anyone?
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
October 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
FT article about how OpenAI has been valued at $500bn, making it the most valuable start up ever... immediately followed by video on the "graduate jobpocalypse", where grads can't find employment anymore ... hmm, transfer of wealth anyone?
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
www.ft.com/content/f6be...
Last visit it was the orange inflatable "baby Donald." This time, "Protesters have already laid out a tennis court-sized image of Trump and the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the lawn facing Windsor Castle, where he will spend Wednesday night..."
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on.ft.com/47NMUj8 via @FT
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Last visit it was the orange inflatable "baby Donald." This time, "Protesters have already laid out a tennis court-sized image of Trump and the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the lawn facing Windsor Castle, where he will spend Wednesday night..."
on.ft.com/47NMUj8 via @FT
on.ft.com/47NMUj8 via @FT
Grappling with this excellent essay on Heidegger's thinking of technology...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Grappling with this excellent essay on Heidegger's thinking of technology...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
True wisdom for the social media era...
August 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
True wisdom for the social media era...
Jemima's Bumble match is also a real charmer...
August 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Jemima's Bumble match is also a real charmer...
According to a Microsoft-sponsored study (make of that what you will), the occupations find AI will most significantly impact are translators and interpreters - then historians ... 😳
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
According to a Microsoft-sponsored study (make of that what you will), the occupations find AI will most significantly impact are translators and interpreters - then historians ... 😳
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
Did Trump-Musk manage to blow up even quicker than Trump-Bannon? Guys, think we might be aiming for a record here...
June 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Did Trump-Musk manage to blow up even quicker than Trump-Bannon? Guys, think we might be aiming for a record here...
MS Outlook has just added "Copilot", its bizarre 2025 rainbow Clippy, to my sidebar without requesting. This is after Meta did the same move with WhatsApp's idiot circle - and also made it impossible to uninstall.
AI has become the next force-install iPhone U2 album, magnified a hundredfold...
AI has become the next force-install iPhone U2 album, magnified a hundredfold...
May 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
MS Outlook has just added "Copilot", its bizarre 2025 rainbow Clippy, to my sidebar without requesting. This is after Meta did the same move with WhatsApp's idiot circle - and also made it impossible to uninstall.
AI has become the next force-install iPhone U2 album, magnified a hundredfold...
AI has become the next force-install iPhone U2 album, magnified a hundredfold...
The UK academic sector jobs market in History is now so poor that my jobs.ac.uk account has emailed me to suggest I search for something else... 🤷♂️
May 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The UK academic sector jobs market in History is now so poor that my jobs.ac.uk account has emailed me to suggest I search for something else... 🤷♂️
The David-Monthan 'Boneyard' in Tucson, Arizona. Home to over 4,200 US military aircraft. Absolutely enormous! I think Don de Lillo wrote about one of these in _Underworld_, where one of the characters would go and paint disused B-52s...?
www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-montha...
www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-montha...
May 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The David-Monthan 'Boneyard' in Tucson, Arizona. Home to over 4,200 US military aircraft. Absolutely enormous! I think Don de Lillo wrote about one of these in _Underworld_, where one of the characters would go and paint disused B-52s...?
www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-montha...
www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-montha...
FBI & US Marshalls arrest a county judge in Milwaukee.
Kash Patel originally said Dugan was arrested "on suspicion that she 'intentionally misdirected federal agents away from' an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities." He later deleted the post.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Kash Patel originally said Dugan was arrested "on suspicion that she 'intentionally misdirected federal agents away from' an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities." He later deleted the post.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
April 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
FBI & US Marshalls arrest a county judge in Milwaukee.
Kash Patel originally said Dugan was arrested "on suspicion that she 'intentionally misdirected federal agents away from' an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities." He later deleted the post.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Kash Patel originally said Dugan was arrested "on suspicion that she 'intentionally misdirected federal agents away from' an immigrant being pursued by federal authorities." He later deleted the post.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
"Six-year-old Freddie Kessell is taking part in the Mini London Marathon to raise money, inspired by his best friend, Robyn Bolton, also six, who has been living with a brain tumour since May 2022."
Read more about Freddie and Robyn here: mailchi.mp/braintumourr...
Read more about Freddie and Robyn here: mailchi.mp/braintumourr...
April 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
"Six-year-old Freddie Kessell is taking part in the Mini London Marathon to raise money, inspired by his best friend, Robyn Bolton, also six, who has been living with a brain tumour since May 2022."
Read more about Freddie and Robyn here: mailchi.mp/braintumourr...
Read more about Freddie and Robyn here: mailchi.mp/braintumourr...
Princeton University press is giving Trump's administration a bit of the side-eye today, I see...
April 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Princeton University press is giving Trump's administration a bit of the side-eye today, I see...
Blue Origin's All-Female Space Crew Slammed as Tone-Deaf Stunt by Olivia Wilde, Amy Schumer
www.inkl.com/news/blue-or...
www.inkl.com/news/blue-or...
April 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Blue Origin's All-Female Space Crew Slammed as Tone-Deaf Stunt by Olivia Wilde, Amy Schumer
www.inkl.com/news/blue-or...
www.inkl.com/news/blue-or...
Seriously, how much are these titans paid to only figure this out three months in?
How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong - on.ft.com/44xA1aW via @FT
How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong - on.ft.com/44xA1aW via @FT
April 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Seriously, how much are these titans paid to only figure this out three months in?
How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong - on.ft.com/44xA1aW via @FT
How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong - on.ft.com/44xA1aW via @FT
Descanse en paz MVL
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 - on.ft.com/4ctJdiC via @FT
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 - on.ft.com/4ctJdiC via @FT
April 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Descanse en paz MVL
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 - on.ft.com/4ctJdiC via @FT
Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 - on.ft.com/4ctJdiC via @FT
"In just two months [Trump] has destroyed the reputation of the US, shown one way by diminished travel from the EU to the US,” said Paul English, co-founder of travel website Kayak. This “could take generations to repair.”
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April 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"In just two months [Trump] has destroyed the reputation of the US, shown one way by diminished travel from the EU to the US,” said Paul English, co-founder of travel website Kayak. This “could take generations to repair.”
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on.ft.com/42Imlsr
... though it seems the McWhirter twins were a little bit fash. Ah, the 1970s...
April 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
... though it seems the McWhirter twins were a little bit fash. Ah, the 1970s...
Record Breakers - a fearless uncoverer of the truth!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Record Breakers - a fearless uncoverer of the truth!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...