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chrisvonsimson.bsky.social
Data, Analytics, Performance Management, but first the People, second the Process, and then the Technology. Family. Ecology. Born at 323 ppm CO2, 1326ppb CH4 I use Lists here extensively for my interests. Photo is dawn in Montana.
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protests for trump 2.0 dramatically outpacing trump 1.0 (the country's a lot more divided)

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

For all the discourse about the collapse of trust in public institutions, it really is a collapse of trust in professional politicians. Other bits - such as judge-led inquiries (against all experience) - in rosy health.

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 4 days ago • 2259 comments

Some numbers worth noting: Benefit fraud: £1.6bn per year *Unclaimed benefits: £17bn per year* **Tax avoidance: £122bn per year**

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 11 days ago • 133 comments

On the impact of masks in schools during Covid in 2022 "We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21,800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year." www.nber.org/papers/w33849

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

“.. experts now believe that Bitcoin’s community has less than a decade, even a handful of years, to put contingency plans in place.” @decrypt.co decrypt.co/323512/exist...

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

"This colossal 1.8 GW facility at Loch Earba aims to store excess renewable energy and provide electricity to as many as 1.4 million homes for nearly an entire day." #Scotland www.sustainability-times.com/energy/uk-un...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Some days with tough news makes me want a different name for the Like button. I’d want Acknowledge and Support for starters. Gratitude as well.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth. But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

It's so tragic what happens to businesses when streets are pedestrianized. Look at how empty and unpleasant this all is in New York's West Village! Businesses must be suffering without the 15 idle cars that could be taking up this space. <Stares in Urbanist Rage at Lincoln Ave, back home>

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

cc: CDU Berlin on.ft.com/3Fl0MFI

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

People: for once let me bring you some good global macro trends Work is just so much better than we expected it to be 25 years ago when we were all a bit Malthusian on.ft.com/3SXJl0S

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 21 days ago • 1149 comments

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

submitted 24 days ago • 121 comments

Brits (and others) in France are enjoying the updates in their lifelong learning accounts.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

In France part of our social security payments go into a “training” fund You can use it to do pretty much any kind of professional training from language learning to plumbing I just had a look at mine, expecting about 20 centimes & I’ve got over €1000 Result!

submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

submitted 23 days ago • 151 comments

www.propublica.org/article/hurr...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

It's a strange experience to encounter a pro fossil fuel article hidden in a pro-AI shell. Promotes the view: the future of AI is 1859 oil and gas discoveries.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Our latest report: 900,000 UK companies haven't a single UK director. That's currently lawful - but our analysis shows they're *17 times* more likely to show signs of fraud than companies with a UK director. It's a serious problem. But there's a simple fix. 🧵:

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

High activity: 50 actions in 79 working days.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Good lord. 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 382 comments

How Claude helped a patient "A.I. isn’t a magic bullet. But it uncovers hidden connections in data at speeds no human can match, freeing doctors to focus on what they do best: care." gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-h...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments