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Policy @BloombergNEF - US and Canadian industrial strategy, trade, regulations, etc. UNC and @harvardkennedy.bsky.social alum. Category-5 brainstormer. Views are my own, likes & reposts are not endorsements, etc.
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I watched hundreds of thousands of bats fly out from under a bridge in Austin Texas

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1. Now that China is cutting economic ties, new research on why China opted for technological self-reliance. The good stuff discussed below is down to my co-authors rather than me - but it _is_ good stuff. We have lots of NLP data that helps us map out China's debates about technological dependence.

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My reaction to this news

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this is the kind of thing i receive on signal.

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*philosophers of science audibly sweating*

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

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I had a joke about Procrustes, but it was a stretch.

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anyone else’s dishwasher just randomly produce killer beats

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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 5 days ago • 394 comments

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

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Follow me for investing advice

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The State Department is outraged that people are being rounded up and threatened with deportation based on their political speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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The Doug Burgum and Chris Wright sideplot

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Mutuals we are in tariff time

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Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

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IT WAS BUILT ATOP THE BORDER ON PURPOSE The library gets its oil from Vermont, its electricity from Quebec; loans books in English and French; pays taxes to both countries. For 120 years, it was a much-loved symbol of international friendship. Until now, Amanda Coletta reports wapo.st/42koPvM

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

for no particular reason, fyi - any US citizen can request a passport card, which serves as proof of US citizenship and is small enough to carry in a wallet or tuck away in your bag travel.state.gov/content/trav...

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

BREAKING: The federal appeals court in DC has *unfired* members of the NLRB and MSPB that Donald Trump has been trying to remove despite laws protecting them from removal without cause. Panel was divided 7-4. Supreme Court could be next. Details TK www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The perfect dog has logged on

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Hard to imagine hyperscalers maintaining US data center capex plans in this environment, not least due to cost impact on equipment & materials and likely pullback in consumer spending on generative AI toys…

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Science is getting more expensive just as funding is getting cut.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 8 days ago • 1116 comments

Every one of these is fantastic but this is my favorite. Probably because it is so relatable. 😄 We all deserve something nice today, so good ahead and enjoy this thread.

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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 10 days ago • 337 comments

My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

I think I have a pretty good plan to fix all of this.

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BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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