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Tom Forth

@thomasforth

CTO and co-Founder @TheDataCity. Head of Data @OpenInnovates. Runs @imactivate. I block anons for even the slightest rudeness.

Leeds, Yorkshire, UK 가입일 Mart 2010
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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
@nouveaucolonial Before the famines Ireland population was following the English trajectory. I don't imagine it would have grown by as much, so I conservatively guessed at 30M Irish. All of Britain would have been richer and thus grown a bit more I think. Gets you to 120M. All just a guess.
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JonB@nouveaucolonial·
@thomasforth What is your evidence for that number ? Without for a minute wishing to minimise the horror or the long legacy of the famine on Irish population, England's population growth from C19-C20 was unusually high, compared to that of Scotland, Wales or many other European countries.
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@GjMcGowan Liverpool in 1800. And it would still be capital today.
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The more I've read and listened to Irish history, the more I see Irish independence less as an inevitability and more as a huge blunder, born of astonishing arrogance, laziness, and stupidity among elite Brits. And much of the same spirit lives on in the British capital today.
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@isthisit On top of that Sheffield is one of the weakest economies in the developed world. And Hamburg is one of the strongest economies in the world. Hamburg probably has at least twice as much money per person floating around and being spent in local government.
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
@isthisit And with very poor transport in Leeds and Sheffield vs. Hamburg the core residents (low income and student) are the same people as are on the streets. As a city there is much less mobility.
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
After three decades of building, Britain's large cities have densities -- both at their cores and overall -- that are comparable to their North European equivalents like Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Cologne, and Copenhagen.
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Increasing density further than what is already under construction and planned is unlikely to be necessary to support the dense public transport networks, high R&D investment, and local power that is more important in making those places much better off. tomforth.co.uk/densityisdone/
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
@OnTheWoolsack #fondmemories of learning you could get a crossbow at 16 and everyone at school responding to even mild banter/bullying by performatively adding people to their crossbow list.
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@michael_merrick The richest of your lookalikes, sadly also the most Protestant and literally King William of Orange. So ups and downs.
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If the AI Economics Institute is in London, Oxford, or Cambridge it will be a big cost to us and a big subsidy to our competitors. Manchester, Leeds, or Edinburgh and it's a big boost to us and many other companies like ours in the North. To govern is to choose.
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
Great news to see progress on this. Lots of government jobs so centrally in Manchester is great news for businesses like mine if they include really senior roles and institutes like the newly announced AI Economics Institute (which I'm keen to learn about) manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
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Jesse Peltan
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan·
Regardless of what happens in Europe and the U.S., the world is moving to EVs. There is nothing that western automakers can do to reverse this trend, and geopolitical risk in oil will only accelerate it. Either get good at EVs, or wither away.
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Assaad Razzouk@AssaadRazzouk

Emerging Asia is sprinting toward electric independence to crush fossil fuel fragility. Fossil fuel wars will only accelerate this trend ➡️Viet Nam: 38% EV sales share, ahead of EU ➡️Singapore: Leading the charge at 50%+ share ➡️Indonesia: 15% share, more than US ➡️Thailand: 21% share, leaving Japan (at 3%) in the rearview mirror ➡️India: Three-wheelers at 57% share, EVs rising rapidly and at 4%, already ahead of Japan ➡️China: Already banking $28b/year in avoided oil imports The era of being held hostage by oil chokepoints is coming to an end in multiple Asian countries, fast ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

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Jan Rosenow
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow·
Two technologies that competed for the future of heating and transport. The race is over. In 2025, 19m heat pumps were sold globally. Hydrogen-ready boilers: 237 units. The picture in transport is identical. 21m EVs were sold last year. Hydrogen fuel cell cars: ~10,000 units.
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