Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Tiniest violin for the CCP leaders who realized Xi is a screw-up a year too late to put together an effective opposition to his bid to become dictator-for-life 🎻
Bloomberg Economics @economics
Xi has just a few months to make sure that mounting problems at home and abroad don’t overshadow his greatest achievement yet: securing a precedent-breaking third term as China's leader https://t.co/I0WmOBijx8
9:11 AM · Aug 19, 2022
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Brian Potter@_brianpotter
This week on Construction Physics I try to understand how NEPA works
constructionphysics.substack.com
How NEPA works
1:25 PM · Aug 19, 2022
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Fifty Shades of Whey@davenewworld_2
Find the duck 🦆
10:09 PM · Aug 18, 2022
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Ryan Moulton@moultano
This from @ZLabe has got to be one of the most powerful pieces of data visualization ever made. I can't tell you how many climate change skeptics I've shown it to who have been immediately taken aback and had to rethink things.
4:06 PM · Aug 19, 2022
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Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
One exciting option that might be technologically/economically feasible (but needs to be explored more):
Extracting lithium from geothermal brine in the Salton Sea:
cnbc.com
The Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithium, if new extraction technologies work
5:58 PM · Aug 19, 2022
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Heather Hoff@Heather_mom4nuk
Sign this to support diablo canyon:
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isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke
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6:13 PM · Aug 19, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
The USSR spent decades building up millions of artillery shells, and now Russia is running down those stocks of artillery shells just to level a bunch of suburbs in the former USSR.
Emma Burrows @EJ_Burrows
NEW: Western intelligence official says Russians are starting to 'run out of ammunition.' 'We have a large range of evidence to suggest munitions are being depleted...inc munitions coming out of deep storage.'
6:43 PM · Aug 19, 2022
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Daniel Hemel@DanielJHemel
@binarybits @arbakr
3:43 AM · Aug 20, 2022
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Noah Mullins@NoahMullins
@IDoTheThinking I present to you the Toronto labor market: betterdwelling.com/the-toronto-re…
4:22 AM · Aug 20, 2022
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