Favorites December 10th 2022

December 2022, Shoreline Park. There’s been rain finally, finally some green

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Wow, more fish come from aquaculture (fish farming) than wild capture nowadays!

Wow, I had not realized so much fish farming was done inland now. For some reason I thought farmed fish had higher rates of heavy metal contamination, but a quick check right now indicates that at least for salmon, it's lower (although still very low either way)

Jason Furman @jasonfurman

The bond market appears to have abandoned the immaculate disinflation view. TIPS & swaps pricing is consistent with 2.0% PCE inflation in 2023 (consistent w/ 2.3% CPI). But it expects this to happen because of a recession--the largest yield curve inversion in four decades.

Yea, I don't like the look of that, this is part of a longer thread on the macroeconomic situation.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Ideological bias and partisan propaganda are different things and often in considerable tension — Fox News doesn’t actually broadcast very much hard-right policy content, that’s actually part of what makes it efficacious propaganda.

If you're wondering, this is also why I tend to think that unbanning right-wing nutjobs from Twitter is probably bad for Republicans as a whole. Although of course it's bad for Twitter the platform because it makes it a less pleasant place to be.

Eric Topol @EricTopol

I wrote about the new anti-obesity drugs—semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro)—that represent one of the most important breakthroughs in medicine

erictopol.substack.comThe New Obesity Breakthrough DrugsI’m not using the term breakthrough lightly

From the article: "we cannot miss that this represents one of the most important, biggest medical breakthroughs in history"

Dhaaruni ✨✨✨ @dhaaruni

Kinda niche meme

Threads

• Thread about recent progress in nuclear fusion, arguing it's closer than you might think. Although, I only just heard about how the next problem we're going to have once we get net positive reactions is that the neutrons coming off the reaction are going to quickly damage the containment vessel. What we'll really need is aneutronic fusion.