Paul Dempsey
@pmdempsey
Tech journalist. DC-based again after a decade in Asia. Occasionally cranky. Too much #AI, #semiconductors, #EDA, socmed, climate and way too much Sino-US rivalry. Dogs, horses and #MUFC. #COYBIG Did some footy finance thing many moons ago.
Is there anything in running a Kalshi market for which tabloid gets to Kobbie's brother first?
Every time some clot does it, I hear, "Norman Stanley Fletcher, you are a habitual criminal..." Though to be fair, it is thievin' yer pomposity from one of the greatest sitcoms ever.
"My World Domination League has completed its nuclear deterrent and trained 43 squadrons of killer bees bridging the River Piddle. I believe this also qualifies my good self for pecuniary sustenance."
He is showing the same respect for the Six Principles that have largely defined the US-TW relationship since Reagan as he has for his responsibilities under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which Ukraine gave up nukes in return for US-supported guarantees of its sovereignty and borders. They are:
I'm curious to see what, if any, political use Starmer will make of us. Given the economic damage already done, he could snipe back aggressively and likely regain a few of those lost pointing the polls. Cynical? Oh, you betcha.
In the battle between Le Carre and Deighton, we had a trump card: "But Le Carre never wrote a cookbook." The nine-book Bernard Samson sequence is one of the highlights of popular 20th-century fiction, regardless of genre, but there are so many other crackers. RIP Len
For all the bluster, Team Trump is terrified of the EU because Brussels' strategy to play AI lawmaker gives it control over whether OpenAI et al can scale to profitability (debatable at any rate). This isn't about innovation (and OpenClaw, cited here, is a security nightmare), just money.
Re Ratbag: Seen a few people quoting Tony Wilson's 'This is Manchester. We do things differently here'? But did he ever say that? What he did say was, 'You're entitled to your opinion but your opinion is shit.' Which works much better. #MUFC
Even more appropriately than in the original image, they are all sitting on a beam with no visible means of support. (And why have they bifurcated Fei-Fei Li?)
In Cade Metz's NYT piece today, we have this from Open AI's spokesman. Is he aware all three of the sectors he cites had major investment bubbles? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
🧵 A fifth of new energy projects supporting the AI data center boom risk delay, according to the World Energy Outlook 2025 from the International Energy Agency, suggesting that capital costs could rise by 20-30% It is the benchmark used by governments and NGOs in economic projections. 1/5
For no good reason I can think of, here is a 2023 picture of the Carlton Tavern in Kilburn, London. Demolished without proper authority in 2015, the local council forced the developer to rebuild the pub "brick-by-brick" and the work was completed for a reopening in 2021. (Thanks to 'the wub')
'Colossus 2' - very droll. This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.'