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Suhaib Abdali

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Living in sunny Oakland, California.

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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
andrewmccalip.com/space-datace...
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Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
oaklandside.org/2025/07/24/h...
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Temple nightclub group buys historic Oakland Greyhound station
Three years after underground ravers took over the 1920s Beaux-Arts building, the former Greyhound station in downtown Oakland has been purchased by the team behind San Francisco’s Temple nightclub.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Björk : w/PJ Harvey - I Can't Get No Satisfaction 1994 BRIT Awards
YouTube video by Björk's Joyous Tunes
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
sfyimby.com/2025/05/addi...
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Additional Units Approved for Noodle Factory Development in Oakland
Revised plans were approved for an eight-story mixed-use building at 419 4th Street in Oakland’s Jack London neighborhood.
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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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”
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
oaklandside.org/2025/05/15/o...
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OakDOT plans to remove one lane on Grand Avenue to slow down dangerous traffic. Some rattled residents want more
At a meeting in the Adams Point neighborhood, a packed crowd argued with an OakDOT rep about the Grand Avenue Complete Streets Paving Project.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.adpresearch.com/high-paying-...
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High-paying jobs? They’re a dime a dozen - ADP Research
More than a million people in the United States earn $500,000 or more, and they might be closer to home than you think.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
oaklandside.org/2025/04/29/h...
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Here are the 19 new Bay Wheels locations in Oakland's flatlands
10 will be in East Oakland, but there are still no stations east of 71st Avenue.
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Linda Yueh @lindayueh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Over- versus under-representation of topics among right-leaning articles cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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This Classic Oakland Chinatown Restaurant Hits the Spot at 3 a.m.
New Gold Medal has long been a late-night favorite for no-frills Cantonese food.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence...
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Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/04/2025
NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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New poll shows Taylor leading Lee
Analysis of the Oakland special mayoral election with 19 days to Election Day: Report: Former AC Transit GM is moonlighting in Oregon while still receiving controversial $500k salary in the East Bay
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 19/03/2025
Global cereal production has grown much faster than population in the last half-century
This line chart shows the growth of global cereal production, yield, population, and land use for cereal production from 1961 to 2023, indexed to 1961. Cereal production increased by 250%, surpassing population growth, which rose by 164%. Cereal yield grew significantly, while land use for cereal production remained nearly constant. The chart highlights that higher yields, not expanded land use, drove most of the production increase. Data sources: UN FAO (2023), UN WPP (2024).
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
phys.org/news/2025-03...
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Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago
It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...
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A Bear Case: My Predictions Regarding AI Progress — LessWrong
This isn't really a "timeline", as such – I don't know the timings – but this is my current, fairly optimistic take on where we're heading. …
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Developer forever - The Era of Solopreneurs is Here
DeepSeek just dropped a bombshell: $200M in annual revenue with a 500%+ profit margin—all while charging 25x less than OpenAI. But DeepSeek didn’t just build another AI model. They wrote their own par...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.spur.org/news/2025-02...
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What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 2: Budget-Setting, Spending, and Revenues
Oakland city leaders must close a $129 million shortfall in this year’s budget and eliminate an additional $280 million deficit projected over the next two years. Now, policymakers, administrators, em...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.spur.org/news/2025-01...
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What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 1: How We Got Here
Oakland is at a pivotal moment as city leaders work to address a significant budget shortfall of $129 million this year, with an additional $280 million projected over the next two years. Solutions to...
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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...
We (the original researchers, not the poster) develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our index proxies for movements in policy-related economic uncertainty. Our US index spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt-ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy. Using firm-level data, we find that policy uncertainty is associated with greater stock price volatility and reduced investment and employment in policy-sensitive sectors like defense, healthcare, finance and infrastructure construction. At the macro level, innovations in policy uncertainty foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major economies. Extending our US index back to 1900, EPU rose dramatically in the 1930s (from late 1931) and has drifted upwards since the 1960s.

The index for January 2025 reached its highest point of any time since the mid 1990s, when the primary index begins. It's higher than during the worst months of the pandemic, when global trade and economic activity slowed abruptly, causing a massive global recession.

Greater policy uncertainty, or the degree to which markets and expert forecasters disagree about the likely trajectory of the economy, is known to delay investment and hiring (Bernanke 1983), reductions in spending by households and firms, and constrained credit, with more adverse effects for developing countries. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index measures the degree to which businesses, investors, and economic forecasters are uncertain about government policies related to fiscal and monetary policy, trade policy, and regulation. 

Link for data: https://www.policyuncertainty.com/.
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Elena Kadvany @elenakadvany.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
run don't walk for these fried chicken sandwiches from Hina Yakitori's chef www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
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A master of Japanese chicken is back in the Bay Area
Tommy Cleary of the acclaimed, now-closed Japanese fine dining restaurant Hina Yakitori, is popping up in Berkeley at Berkeley Bowl West.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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A New 1,000-Capacity Music Venue Is Coming to Oakland | KQED
Ceremony, opening in March, boasts a state-of-the-art sound system and a no-frills approach to live music.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.spur.org/news/2025-01...
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What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 1: How We Got Here
Oakland is at a pivotal moment as city leaders work to address a significant budget shortfall of $129 million this year, with an additional $280 million projected over the next two years. Solutions to...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/01/24/f...
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Big things are blooming at this hidden farm in Oakland
Community, commitment and passion (fruit) can all be found at Laurel's Fig Leaf Gardens, a backyard-turned-community-garden shaped by multiple generations of owners.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Native-Land.ca | Our home on native landMenuchevron-downchevron-downchevron-downchevron-downchevron-down
Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The median age of first-time homebuyers hit 38 last year, up from 29 in 1981. It’s not the only milestone once common by 30 that’s now delayed. While millennials face criticism for their choices, the truth lies in structural challenges today that didn’t exist for their parents in the 1980s.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
How households with at least one member taking GLP-1s are changing their shopping habits: overall grocery spending goes down ~6%, spending on chips/savory snacks falls ~11% wapo.st/3BSKbXY
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/12/2024
Re: “6 vacant homes for every homeless person,” the relationship between vacancy, housing affordability, and homelessness is straightforward: When housing demand increases relative to supply, vacancy rates drop and prices rise. When housing prices rise relative to incomes, homelessness rates go up.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/11/2024
We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
sf.eater.com/2024/12/11/2...
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Oakland Brunch Spot the Peach Opens With a Chef From Georgia
The owner of the embattled Jo’s Modern Thai hopes to reinvest in the Oakland community with his Asian-influenced brunch restaurant
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Pour One Out for Another Oakland Bar: The Kon-Tiki Is Closing
The Kon-Tiki’s last day of operation is Sunday, December 22
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Enormous Bay Area waterfront restaurant abruptly closes
Oakland's Left Bank Brasserie, the prominent French restaurant at Jack London Square, has closed.
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Amazing plot of the distribution of elite education backgrounds popularized by @novosad.bsky.social from this paper. 10% of global elites went to Harvard. 36% of Indian elites went to US Universities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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From the oakland community on Reddit: A little about Oakland's Tsunami Risk... from your friendly Sr. EPC at OFD
Explore this post and more from the oakland community
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Oakland’s 20-year-old ‘nuisance’ eviction law repealed
The law allowed the city to order landlords to evict tenants accused of illegal activity. Studies found racial disparities and overreach.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
Saagar Enjeti tweets: "Probably a cold take but IMO Tokyo is the male fashion capital of the world: whether it’s western wear, suits, street wear the aesthetic is refined to the highest possible level

From the salaryman to the rebel teen they are impeccably dressed

It also helps no one is fat"
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The Department of Economics, University of Toronto @econuoft.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When male physicians have daughters, their female patients experience better health outcomes. That's according to research conducted by @tianyiwang.bsky.social and his co-authors. The results are described in a new working paper newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/investigatin... #econsky
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Investigating the Power of Physicians’ Daughters
When male physicians have daughters, their female patients experience better health outcomes. A new working paper by Professor Tianyi Wang of the Department of Economics and his co-authors suggests th...
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024
Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Check out this visual essay by Lindsay Bremner and John Cook. It does very cool things bringing together deep time & political time. And for word-focused academics, it inspires other ways of thinking and presenting research and analysis. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/71f0...
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Anthropocene Desire Lines
A Coal Story
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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
SF rents are up a tad now, but note that both SF and Oakland rents are both below pre-pandemic values even in *nominal* terms, meaning very large real decreases in rents. Basically purely through large demand reductions due to remote work.
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Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The safest place in America (see fine print in chart footnote and accompanying column, gift link below) is ... Arlington, Virginia. By a wide margin. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Chart showing US counties with the lowest combined mortality rate from land-transport accidents and homicides from 2018 through 2023. Arlington County, Virginia, is lowest at 3.8 per 100,000 population.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
At least not in modern history. This is the thing every “inflation” and “the economy” explanation needs to be able to explain.
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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Saw a print that referenced Zora Neale Hurston's quote "No, I do not weep at the world, I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife," which just might become my mantra for the next few years. And then I found this breathtaking poem that builds on that line:
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Eve L. Ewing on “what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife”
Poets and translators on their work.
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
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Acclaimed Oakland restaurant in turmoil as owner lays off staff
Jo’s Modern Thai announced a temporary closure after both its celebrated head chef and longtime sous chef abruptly resigned.
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Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
U.S. opinion has turned sharply against grocery providers and the restaurant industry--blaming them for food inflation, and also for unhealthy food? Amazing data from Gallup, reposted here from the other site via Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social for the growing #FoodEconomics 📉📈crowd here.
Chart showing sharp turn in U.S. public opinion of the grocery industry since 2020 Chart showing a modest but potentially important turn against the restaurant industry in U.S. public opinion
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Suhaib Abdali @deeryard.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Teen charged with murder and robbery in the death of Oakland baker Jen Angel, whose friends called for 'restorative justice' after her death
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