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“the economic return on federal funding for research has been staggering. According to one recent estimate, government investment in research and development accounted for at least 20 percent of American productivity growth since World War II…” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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FT Alphaville team confirms that US tariffs are indeed based on primary school maths: on.ft.com/4iVuZts Reciprocal tariffs: you won’t believe how they came up with the numbers

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Laughed way more than I should have at this, it’s been a long day

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Nnnnnnnnnnggggghhhhh

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Quite astonishing. US is setting tariffs to target bilateral trade balance with every country, "assuming no exchange rate or general equilibrium effects." Hard to overstae how bonkers this calculation is. ustr.gov/issue-areas/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

I think it's fair to call 24% tariffs on Japan's exports to the United States a foreign policy crisis. Will Ishiba survive it? Short thread 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Oh ffs

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Terrific piece www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

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Why are so few people aware that we'll likely reach 2°C of global warming next decade? A stable climate is only the prerequisite for global ecosystems, food production, and for some form of civilization. Right?

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I hope this Samset et al. preprint can be updated with 2024 data. As the preprint 'Global Warming has Accelerated Significantly' by Grant Foster and @rahmstorf.bsky.social states: "It indicates that the most recent 10-year trend is significantly steeper than any previous, at ≈ 0.4°C per decade"

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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

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The jarring omission here is the fact that the use of Signal isn’t sloppy or careless: it’s part of a coordinated attempt to avoid accountability. I’m not sure why media reporting doesn’t reference Project 2025 more, given that it’s clearly being used as the playbook ftedit.ft.com/Ju3k/gj540wfn

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“opsec”

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The “insult toward life itself” line keeps twanging for a long time after it skewers the target. And the Dwango guy’s response: the look upward as if to catch a glimpse of his soul leaving his body, and the protestation that “it’s just an experiment”, like a little boy caught doing something naughty

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The full clip of Hayao Miyazaki reading AI engineers for fucking filth so hard their ancestors felt the burning shame back in 2016

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

This is exactly what Starmer should be saying to our electorate. Because Carney is describing the exact same world. The difference is that Carney is calling it as it is and asking his people to go with him. Starmer is obscuring the challenge we face and the nature of the threat from Trump.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

UK Labour Party might want to mull a few of the points here about welfare state vs defence

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A Lithuanian equivalent to “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” is nemokamas sūris tik pelėkautuose. It means “the only free cheese is in a mousetrap” * read on for more international cheese phrases (this thread may not turn out grate, but hopefully it will be gouda ‘nuff)…

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Shifting the boundaries of cringe, one freedom seed at a time

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This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

submitted 9 days ago • 336 comments

Havong my own personal version of the Signal hearings rn. The young finance dudebro nepo baby in front of me on the DLR right is on his phone loudly admitting to crimes. Sounds like it's coming crashing down on him. Which is fun.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

I’d like to ask Joey the follow-up q of why they did add Goldberg to the chat, but I fear his answer might make the universe implode

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Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

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'Researchers have reported signs of recovery, including an increase in the populations of lobster, brown crab, angelshark and short-snouted seahorse.' After a new ban on trawling coastal areas along the south coast of the UK 2021, wildlife has been returning! 🐟🥳🌊🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

submitted 11 days ago • 426 comments

Oh.

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

submitted 12 days ago • 195 comments

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

submitted 12 days ago • 278 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 206 comments

Every country should structure its legal and regulatory systems as a series of traps that guarantee someone like Elon Musk would end up in prison before he ever got rich

submitted 13 days ago • 119 comments

Well, he wanted to go to Mars, so—

submitted 14 days ago • 128 comments

This is the most intuitively acceptable and coherent framing I’ve seen, I think.

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This is a cheap shot, but the capitals make me hear this statement in Hitler Voice.

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Ngl “I can’t be racist, some of my best friends were slaves” is a good bit.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

"Biden inspired prices" is everything vibes now

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99-0. Every single senator voted to confirm this ghoul.

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

pure speculative fiction in NYT here - no pretense even that there is a source for this “what if” paragraph other than the writers’ desperate desire to explain away inexplicably reckless insanity

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

Absolute insanity

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This is just horrifying, both the individual story and the fact that this production-line immiseration is a business www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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