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David Dayen

ddayen

The "it's just an index fund" people obscure BlackRock's habit of placing officials in top government positions around the world, to conjure up business for the company from scratchBut Matt

Paul Eastwood

pauleastwd

A brief history of the rise and fall of coal in the UK, and also a timeline of UK power generation, by @RobinMcKie.- First large-scale use of coal- First civil

ACCO

CounteringCrime

THREAD: Facebook joins coalitions—only in name—so they can appear to be acting on criminal content like endangered species trafficking when they are in fact doing nothing.Today just an hour before

🇺🇸 3Days3Nights 🇺🇸

3days3nights

1. Let’s talk about moon bases. @realDonaldTrump RT’d this post about setting up a base on the moon. POTUS never does anything without a reason, so let’s presume we might

Hongli Lai

honglilai

Many people see the Chinese govt's deficiencies as a result of "evil". I don't really subscribe to that. I think it has more to do with "incompetence". Building a large

Sandeep Mall

SandeepMall

This is a thread to compare working atmosphere between companies in India and Europe & USA. This will make you understand why most of large Indian companies are setting up

Bryan

NuclearBryan

#NuclearEnergyStill not much info on the event at the Belarusian nuclear plant. But, people are freaking out, and many are calling it an "accident". In technical fields, words have specific

j2 Dumfounded 🤯

j2dumfounded

ThreadAt 1:34 Cotton talks about eastern Arkansas having one of the biggest steel production areas in the country.Now, you may have read about Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich buying up

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deathimself_

Visitors Part 3 - minted 22nd November 2020 https://twitter.com/deathimself_/status/1330593544105586688/1 When I painted this one, I wanted more chaos, more alien life, more weirdness. I also decided to change the palette

Bryan

NuclearBryan

Time for another thread on nuclear power, this time on how the reactor core is protected from major casualties, and what the law says about it. So, we'll start with

Peter Ungphakorn

CoppetainPU

The report on food standards & trade is here: https://www.sustainweb.org/resources/files/reports/Future%20British%20Standards%20Coalition%20-%20Safeguarding%20Standards.pdf As expected it argues to keep high standards on UK imports.But

JAMES MORAN

MORANEnv

1/... Very interesting paper from Scotland on net carbon balances in forestry. Would be interesting to do similar analysis in Ireland but imagine broad conclusions would be sameNot seeing the

Steve Cicala

SteveCicala

This is tricky, but I'd like to make an observation about incentives for #TexasBlackout w/o accusations: We usually worry about generators exercising market power during times of peak demand. An

Cody Hill

cody_a_hill

Since several of my favorite twitter persons expressed an interest, and these numbers are routinely presented in the trade press without proper context, here is a quick thread on what

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

For today's #WednesdayWisdom a tale of an unintentionally radical publisher. It only produced 42 books between 1968-9, but it caught the hedonistic, solipsistic, free love mood of the West Coast

Gwendoline Pepper

gwen_pepp

A thread about textile production and seasonality (1/13) (2/13) It's undeniable that 2020 has been a trash-fire of a year, but one thing I do appreciate is that this year

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