Paul Connell
@paulcconnell.bsky.social
Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data. Also #MDANT Life is for living - let's get on with it.
I've written a long blog post about AI Agents and the need for those running services to prepare - technically, operationally, commercially, strategically, legally and in terms of policy. AI Agents could be a properly huge deal. There. I wrote it. loosemore.com/2026/08/04/k...
Know Your Agent: Why you should act now, to avoid playing catch-up later
Back in March, I was beaten by the bins. I’d spent a happy few evenings (and a great many tokens) trying to build a simple web app: share any UK address, find out which bins to put out, and w…
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Part of Todays ride 😬🚲😎https://climbfinder.com/en/climbs/the-struggle-ambleside
The Struggle from Ambleside - Profile of the ascent
The Struggle from Ambleside is a climb in the region Lake District. It is 4.5 km long and bridges 385 m of vertical ascent with an average gradient of 8.5%, res
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This matters most because of who lost the most: Middleton, Belle Isle, Hunslet, Harehills and Chapeltown. In 1957, the city’s best infrastructure catered to its poorest residents. Read Samuel's full analysis now.
Leeds buried its tram network. Did it shrink the city?
We crunched the numbers: Leeds' population is much bigger than in 1957, but it's far harder to actually get into the centre
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If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
Pure loving this No10 North Schizzle. @andyburnham.bsky.social 👊🏼👍🏼✊🏼
Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire. SpaceX stock is down 50% from its peak, Tesla is also cratering www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Looking for 2 Green Man Festival 2026 tickets 🙏 ta tixel.com/u/paulc446
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Happy 35th birthday to De La Soul’s A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”, released on this day in 1991. Here’s playlist featuring the joyous track plus the 8 tunes it samples 🛼▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2aL...
Vox Pops aaaggghhh!! Lazy pointless and of no value. Journalists do some actual work and understate thing, stop outsourcing it !
