Favorites July 8th 2022

San Diego, Balboa Park, June 2022

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s wild that the PRC is somehow authoritarian enough to have Uighurs in gulags and shut all of Shanghai down for weeks but can’t manage to run a mass vaccination campaign. https://t.co/QGrP1ayPtx

Sofia Horta e Costa @SofiaHCBBG

A rare backdown. Beijing cancels China's first Covid vaccine mandate after less than 48 hours. The capital's residents had called the requirement an illegal limitation on their freedom and questioned how effective the vaccines are against omicron. 3/10 https://t.co/81vrku5bcy

I sorta imagine if they weren't so restrictive on the other stuff, they'd be able to run a better mandatory vaccination program. But who knows.

Dominic Chu @TheDomino

The "soft" data points to recession...the "hard" data still shows a relatively strong economy...markets are trying to reconcile the two in real time...

Chris Jansing @ChrisJansing

The jobs market is defying recession fears - new job growth numbers better than expected. https://t.co/DTK4IcvD0Z

If we are on the verge of a recession, these numbers are quite strange. Employment continues to grow, no sign of wage-inflation spiral.

sam @sam_d_1995

Environmentalists stop shutting down carbon-free nuclear power and replacing it with coal challenge

Mark Lynas @mark_lynas

It's over for nuclear in Germany. The SDP-Green coalition has won a vote in the Bundestag backing more coal burning so that the three remaining nuclear plants can be switched off as planned this year. Climate targets may have to be abandoned as a result. https://t.co/OAmexhAuUR

Well this is an absolute bummer, going in the wrong direction.

Domenico @AvatarDomy2

Wildlife conservationist placing baby burrowing owls 🦉 back in their burrow.

Threads

• Thread about improvements in Hydrogen production and storage technologies. Short version is that the standard of 76% efficient production and conversion back to energy 54% is no longer accurate, the newest systems look like they'll achive 90%, 70% respectively.