Favorites December 24th 2022

San Francisco, November 2021

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter

I'm still staring at this graph showing UK wage collapse since 2010 vs peer nations. It's absolutely staggering.

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

And of course the impacts of a conscious erosion of state capacity extend well beyond health. Real wages are below where they were 18 years ago. There has not been a single year since austerity began when the average wage has matched the peak under the last Labour government. https://t.co/lQ3oBrMySN

Wow, the Torys are horrible. I admit I didn't need much convincing, but if you want to see more, check out the underlying thread from the beginning. There are a lot more graphs along these lines.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Not ideal that the main source of heat doesn’t work when it’s cold

I'll admit, I did not know that Natural Gas extraction slows so much when temperatures drop below freezing.

Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell

This is a real time-lapse video of planets orbiting the star HR 8799, 133 light years away: four super-Jupiter worlds dancing around their sun. Amazing! Images collected at the Keck Observatory, processed by William Thompson (@AstroWrt). arxiv.org/abs/2210.14213 #astronomy #space

Threads

• Long Thread about COVID in China on the ground right now. Looks pretty grim, one scary item was that seniors who finally want to be vaccinated are afraid to go outside. Vaccination rates are up at least, but they still won't approve mRNA vaccines.

• Thread summarizing a really bad court outcome that will make CEQA lawsuits far more effective at blocking development in California.