Paul Halliwell
@paulhalliwell.bsky.social
Echoes of the dot com crash.
1 - over valued startups that left us nothing 2 - telcos that built stuff that outlasted the crash. Which one is AI?
And how did end? Ridiculous circular (Enron-like) financing. davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...? Mmm.
1 - over valued startups that left us nothing 2 - telcos that built stuff that outlasted the crash. Which one is AI?
And how did end? Ridiculous circular (Enron-like) financing. davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...? Mmm.
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
davekarpf.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Echoes of the dot com crash.
1 - over valued startups that left us nothing 2 - telcos that built stuff that outlasted the crash. Which one is AI?
And how did end? Ridiculous circular (Enron-like) financing. davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...? Mmm.
1 - over valued startups that left us nothing 2 - telcos that built stuff that outlasted the crash. Which one is AI?
And how did end? Ridiculous circular (Enron-like) financing. davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...? Mmm.
Glad I watched the 49er Worlds. I’m now sure that this is an awful (and un-entertaining) race format but also that 49ers tack loss make them very dull whatever the way of scoring. www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/290877/...
The Winner-Takes-All Race
The 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 World Championships just held in Cagliari, Italy, could well be the most important held in the class. Not just that, it may influence how sailing happens at the Olympics.
www.yachtsandyachting.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Glad I watched the 49er Worlds. I’m now sure that this is an awful (and un-entertaining) race format but also that 49ers tack loss make them very dull whatever the way of scoring. www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/290877/...
I always said Facebook was a bad idea ..... www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...
It’s the Internet, Stupid
What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.
www.persuasion.community
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I always said Facebook was a bad idea ..... www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminatin... I'd pay that.
Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap
Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminatin... I'd pay that.
www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/stra... Oh to have been a fly on wall when this brand equity destroying decision was made @garmin.com @strava
Strava Just Sued Garmin: Demands Garmin Stop Selling Devices
Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding that Garmin cease selling effectively all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as...
www.dcrainmaker.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/stra... Oh to have been a fly on wall when this brand equity destroying decision was made @garmin.com @strava
bit.ly/4nnyBGE
Quote re Teddington scheme -
“.. Thames is going to get hit .. you’re taking clean water out and you’re putting dirtier water back in ... If that was not the case, why wouldn’t they just take water from wastewater treatment works, put it through treatment, and use that for drinking.?”
Quote re Teddington scheme -
“.. Thames is going to get hit .. you’re taking clean water out and you’re putting dirtier water back in ... If that was not the case, why wouldn’t they just take water from wastewater treatment works, put it through treatment, and use that for drinking.?”
£500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years
Plant in Beckton has run only five times and has been beset by multiple problems since it was built
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
bit.ly/4nnyBGE
Quote re Teddington scheme -
“.. Thames is going to get hit .. you’re taking clean water out and you’re putting dirtier water back in ... If that was not the case, why wouldn’t they just take water from wastewater treatment works, put it through treatment, and use that for drinking.?”
Quote re Teddington scheme -
“.. Thames is going to get hit .. you’re taking clean water out and you’re putting dirtier water back in ... If that was not the case, why wouldn’t they just take water from wastewater treatment works, put it through treatment, and use that for drinking.?”
The key with non-doms leaving will be whether it is the working / tax paying or idle rich who do so. Last time (2017) it was the later. Interesting read. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @willdunn.bsky.social
Let the non-doms leave
Britain is better off without the do-nothing rich.
www.newstatesman.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The key with non-doms leaving will be whether it is the working / tax paying or idle rich who do so. Last time (2017) it was the later. Interesting read. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... @willdunn.bsky.social
AI and how we write and read www.newyorker.com/culture/open...? via @johnnaughton memex
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
AI and how we write and read www.newyorker.com/culture/open...? via @johnnaughton memex
"We’ve been focused on how students use AI to cheat. What we should be more concerned about is how AI cheats students." www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...?
The Myth of Automated Learning
AI's real threat to education.
www.newcartographies.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"We’ve been focused on how students use AI to cheat. What we should be more concerned about is how AI cheats students." www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-o...?
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“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”
Well done Hammersmith & Chiswick www.theguardian.com/society/2025...? 17th.
London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places
Sutton Trust’s ‘opportunity index’ measured six factors including children on free school meals passing GCSEs in maths and English
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Well done Hammersmith & Chiswick www.theguardian.com/society/2025...? 17th.
More FTP not working.
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
More FTP not working.
And they don't even help US manufacturing ...... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Shouldn’t Support Tariffs
Don't get sucked in by Trump's revenge mania
paulkrugman.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
And they don't even help US manufacturing ...... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Very much liking the idea that the best way of predicting what will happen next is think of how it could be done “in the most simplistic, laziest way possible.” They must be so proud. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/minimum-vi...
Minimum Viable Product
Keepin' it simplistic
mostfavourednation.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Very much liking the idea that the best way of predicting what will happen next is think of how it could be done “in the most simplistic, laziest way possible.” They must be so proud. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/minimum-vi...
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In these difficult days thank goodness for the Daily Star. Please share this with Trumpy friends
February 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In these difficult days thank goodness for the Daily Star. Please share this with Trumpy friends
I can't imagine that the discovery that low fertility rates in the western world has a correlation with low levels of male housework is going to play well in some political quarters. wapo.st/4hJy27d
Opinion | A Nobel Prize winner decodes why people aren’t having kids
Economist Claudia Goldin finds it largely comes down to societal expectations of how much men should do at home.
wapo.st
February 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I can't imagine that the discovery that low fertility rates in the western world has a correlation with low levels of male housework is going to play well in some political quarters. wapo.st/4hJy27d
Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... yet still Waitrose sell farmed salmon.
Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns, as campaigners say they feel pain
As the supermarket vows to introduce electrical stunning for its farmed prawns, campaigners call on others to follow suit
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... yet still Waitrose sell farmed salmon.
First person I know personally has sold their Tesla this week. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...? and some of the others are being submitted to a pretty constant barrage of teasing about owning a "swasticar" means. What does Tesla look like with no European or Chinese sales I wonder?
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
www.wired.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
First person I know personally has sold their Tesla this week. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...? and some of the others are being submitted to a pretty constant barrage of teasing about owning a "swasticar" means. What does Tesla look like with no European or Chinese sales I wonder?
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The 150 year olds on Social Security seems to be a Cobol thing. If the birth date is missing, the default in Cobol is 1875.
The fact that Musk and his programmers don't know this means they don't know what they're doing.
The fact that Musk and his programmers don't know this means they don't know what they're doing.
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The 150 year olds on Social Security seems to be a Cobol thing. If the birth date is missing, the default in Cobol is 1875.
The fact that Musk and his programmers don't know this means they don't know what they're doing.
The fact that Musk and his programmers don't know this means they don't know what they're doing.
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I’ve always known in my heart that if I had lived in Nazi Germany, I would’ve fought Hitler tooth and nail. But what’s happening here is pretty different and I’ve got bills to pay so…
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’ve always known in my heart that if I had lived in Nazi Germany, I would’ve fought Hitler tooth and nail. But what’s happening here is pretty different and I’ve got bills to pay so…
Quite.
Just as TikTok users were always terrible ambassadors for using the thing, they are now the most persuasive advocates for banning it.
January 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Quite.
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Took a look at data from the first week of congestion pricing in NYC, with @okr.bsky.social
Here's what we saw from bridges and tunnels, via rush hour traffic speed data from INRIX
Story here: on.ft.com/4agp8vj
Here's what we saw from bridges and tunnels, via rush hour traffic speed data from INRIX
Story here: on.ft.com/4agp8vj
January 16, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Took a look at data from the first week of congestion pricing in NYC, with @okr.bsky.social
Here's what we saw from bridges and tunnels, via rush hour traffic speed data from INRIX
Story here: on.ft.com/4agp8vj
Here's what we saw from bridges and tunnels, via rush hour traffic speed data from INRIX
Story here: on.ft.com/4agp8vj
You see a lot of companies and teams making CSR releases - most are guff but this from @sailgp.bsky.social team Emirates GBR is a bit different. They have actually done something :-) www.emiratesgbrsailgp.com/en/articles/...
Emirates GBR becomes first SailGP Team to release Environmental & Social Impact Report
Emirates GBR becomes first SailGP Team to release Environmental & Social Impact Report
www.emiratesgbrsailgp.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
You see a lot of companies and teams making CSR releases - most are guff but this from @sailgp.bsky.social team Emirates GBR is a bit different. They have actually done something :-) www.emiratesgbrsailgp.com/en/articles/...
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A bold take on podcasting from my (temporary) replacement Martin Wolf…
January 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A bold take on podcasting from my (temporary) replacement Martin Wolf…