Paul Dempsey
@pmdempsey.com
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.
Did some footy finance thing many moons ago.
Did some footy finance thing many moons ago.
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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.
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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.
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I can see the point behind creating a more common #AI leverageable platform in Trump's Genesis Mission but even if you can get all these federal fields to cooperate (no easy task), putting the data in an ML usable state is going to be a horrific slog.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I can see the point behind creating a more common #AI leverageable platform in Trump's Genesis Mission but even if you can get all these federal fields to cooperate (no easy task), putting the data in an ML usable state is going to be a horrific slog.
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I want, just once, to see RA doing his nut on the touchline. Sticking with three CBs was a bit mental but most of that was on the players - only Mount put in something approaching a shift; the rest were careless, absent minded and slothful. RA needs to deliver some big in-game bollockings.
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I want, just once, to see RA doing his nut on the touchline. Sticking with three CBs was a bit mental but most of that was on the players - only Mount put in something approaching a shift; the rest were careless, absent minded and slothful. RA needs to deliver some big in-game bollockings.
United need to get Mainoo and Mount on.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
United need to get Mainoo and Mount on.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
Fascinating 🧵
Richard Feynman once wrote about "Cargo Cult Science" - "they follow all the apparent precepts and forms, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land." I wonder if we currently have a Cargo Cult model of messaging and media management in British politics
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fascinating 🧵
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in jail for taking bribes as part of a pro-Russia influence campaign
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in European Parliament, where he was an MEP
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...
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🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
🧪Let’s set the record straight. AGAIN
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
Andrew Wakefield’s paper was RETRACTED by The Lancet in Feb 2010.
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Some 23,000 people died unnecessarily from Covid because the British government’s response to the pandemic was “too little, too late”, a damning official report has concluded
23,000 died because government Covid response ‘too little, too late’
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Some 23,000 people died unnecessarily from Covid because the British government’s response to the pandemic was “too little, too late”, a damning official report has concluded
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OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
The Pope got to meet Dario Argento! I wonder which of the Three Mothers trilogy is Leo's fav, I'm gonna say Inferno, cos this Pope doesn't seem like a Suspiria kinda guy.
The Pope welcomed a number of Hollywood film stars to the Vatican, where he called cinema a "vehicle of hope".
More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
jrnl.ie/6875825
More than 100 film industry professionals were received at the Apostolic Palace, including Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie and Viggo Mortensen.
jrnl.ie/6875825
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.
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Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’
Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but with a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.
Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
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Who is OpenAI’s auditor? on.ft.com/4pl31Kr
Who is OpenAI’s auditor?
Just asking
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Who is OpenAI’s auditor? on.ft.com/4pl31Kr
Worth remembering that Larry Summers was tapped for the OpenAI board to steady the ship after the Altman-sacking debacle.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Worth remembering that Larry Summers was tapped for the OpenAI board to steady the ship after the Altman-sacking debacle.
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This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is...sort of brilliant.
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This, because fuck A.I.!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This, because fuck A.I.!!!
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finally we have made Chucky from the beloved children's movie CHILD'S PLAY
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
finally we have made Chucky from the beloved children's movie CHILD'S PLAY
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.
Remember, the point of 'The Nuremberg Defense' is that it is no defense.
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Remember, the point of 'The Nuremberg Defense' is that it is no defense.
I've always loved this.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I've always loved this.
It boggles the mind that neither Mahmood herself nor anyone on her team could see the truly horrific echoes of the concentration camps in this appalling idea.
The collapse in generational memory is horrific.
The collapse in generational memory is horrific.
"I know there are a lot of MPs who are deeply uncomfortable at the idea of frisking people at the border to see if we can remove their jewellery," says Stella Creasy.
"That's not the way we want to manage somebody who is a victim of torture"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"That's not the way we want to manage somebody who is a victim of torture"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
Labour’s new immigration plan 'not progressive, or practical', says Stella Creasy | The News Agents
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced tough new measures to deter asylum seekers from attempting to enter the UK. Will her methods be enough, or is this simply an attempt to win back support…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It boggles the mind that neither Mahmood herself nor anyone on her team could see the truly horrific echoes of the concentration camps in this appalling idea.
The collapse in generational memory is horrific.
The collapse in generational memory is horrific.
Nuremberg is excellent and timely. Beyond the superb performances, it reminded me in all the best ways of Sidney Lumet's work - disciplined, thematically tight and with an effortless simplicity that is anything but.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Nuremberg is excellent and timely. Beyond the superb performances, it reminded me in all the best ways of Sidney Lumet's work - disciplined, thematically tight and with an effortless simplicity that is anything but.