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Derrick Flakoll

@dflakoll.bsky.social
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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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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
in an age of unlimited information, holy fuck, editing
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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The effects of changing electoral systems from first-past-the-post to single transferable vote: causal evidence from New Zealand - Public Choice
The literature on electoral systems suggests that a shift from first-past-the-post (FPP) to the Single Transferable Vote (STV) should lead to several changes in electoral outcomes, including increased...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [WICKED LUTE SOLO] 🎶
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
*typos but you get the point
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In other words Philips curve effects don’t show up if the fed or other policymakers anticipate and head off its effects
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Philips curve wasn’t around for like 10 years but early 2020s suggest it may be back
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Higher interest rates? Supply side interventions? Case-by-case?
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How do we balance that with inflation pressures from running the economy hot?
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People compare to their recent past and what they have become accustomed to — changes up and down — not to a past period many first-time homebuyers today were not alive for
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a man sitting at a restaurant table. He is sweating. He says "Y-you have beautiful eyes".
The second panel zooms in on the man's face. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm just so nervous."
In panel three we see that a biblically accurate angel is sitting on the other side of the table.
In panel four we zoom in on the angel's face, who says "BE NOT AFRAID".
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Really nice geometry has a persuasive power all its own
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Damn now I need to both watch silo and read up on Howard
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Solar canals would probably make most sense as second-best policy in cases where utility-scale solar development is constrained and where support for water conservation/evaporation prevention creates a coalition strong enough to push solar *just for canals* through. Grid constraints remain, though.
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
True but from a pure solar perspective you’d probably get more efficiency with a utility scale development and from a preventing evaporation perspective simpler coverings (tarps?) are probably even cheaper and likely require less environmental review than solar coverings. Solar covering cool, though
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
OH MY GOD “”There’s one case where a macaque monkey formed a very strong social bond with a chicken that accidentally appeared in its enclosure,” Dr. Grueter said, & another where a troop of capuchin monkeys adopted a baby marmoset…it seems to be a common phenomenon in both wild & captive animals”
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Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too. (Gift Article)
We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To say nothing of actually building grid to deliver the solar power somewhere… I can hear my colleague’s complaints about the inefficiency of balcony solar, community solar and agrivoltaics echoing in my head
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
All that evaporation is just begging for some solar covering (caveat: view my own, not a hydrologic engineer, bracing to be flogged for crimes against biodiversity or some such) www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/solar-p...
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Solar-panel-covered canals have their day in the sun in California
California’s first solar-over-canal project goes online with the commissioning of the narrow and wide span arrays in the Turlock Irrigation District, bringing to life the ultimate “why didn’t I think ...
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 13/08/2026
I like the Appalachians they are friendly.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
imagine the arrogance it takes to be a marine mammal. you crawl out of the vast dark ocean and onto green sunny land and decide to crawl back in again?
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 08/08/2026
There’s no one here
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Post your faculty lounge Left: science | Right: humanities
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s gone too far.
Papier mache Version of Jimothy sitting on the counter at the gym next to a sign reading, “”Stop! Have you signed up for marathon month yet? ❤️Jimothy
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Long pork crudo
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Also heat pumps replacing earlier-generation, lower-efficiency electric heating
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sounds very utahn then
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Salt Woke City was *right there*
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 30/07/2026
I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Timely... "Canada’s 2023 wildfire smoke caused a 2.8 percent drop in solar power generation, costing two billion dollars" Follows the @costasamaras.com rule where you know exactly what you get from the title Haven't gotten to do this in a minute: Physical risk 🤝 Transition risk
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Canada’s 2023 wildfire smoke caused a 2.8 percent drop in solar power generation, costing two billion dollars - Communications Earth & Environment
Wildfire smoke caused a 6.38 ± 8.86 terawatt hour solar power loss (2.8 percent) and about 1.88-billion-dollar cost, according to an Earth system model comparing simulations with and without wildfire ...
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/2026
21/ For the West, the useful question isn't blanket decoupling, it's sequencing — we can't reduce dependence on China everywhere at once. That isn't a values question, it's a capacity constraint on the policy system itself.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/2026
20/ The world is unlikely to accept Chinese dominance across every supply chain, whatever the underlying cause. That reaction is coming regardless of how precisely the overcapacity term gets defined.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/2026
19/ There's also a soft-power problem the paper doesn't solve. China needs buyers for all this output, and insisting that nothing is wrong does little to manage how the export surge is received abroad.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/2026
9/ At the same time, Chinese competitiveness in these sectors is often genuine. Two decades of sustained R&D, dense supplier clusters, brutal domestic price competition — these produce real advantages, not just subsidized ones.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/2026
8/ That speed causes real disruption independent of how the fairness question gets resolved.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026
[looking at pictures of friends doing something I would have had absolutely no interest in doing]: wow, without ME?
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I wrote this the other day arguing AI means the humanities become even more important in an age where AI can solve questions that are defined and data rich, leaving the wicked issues where we can’t even agree on the nature of the problem… www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Given AI's exponentially growing ability to solve well-defined, data-rich problems, it is plausible that employers will place more of a premium on the skills the humanities offer, such as critical and creative thinking.
Anthropic's co-founder Daniela Amodei recently said: "I actually think studying the humanities is going to be more important than ever... this idea that there are things that make us uniquely human - understanding ourselves, understanding history, understanding what makes us tick
- I think that will always be really, really important."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average. Climate change makes extreme fire weather more likely and intense — drying fuels, extending seasons, and turning landscapes into tinderboxes. Wildfires are burning more land, more fiercely, from California to Canada to the Mediterranean.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Llyn-y-Cau, glacial lake near summit of Cader Idris, North Wales, oil on canvas, 1774, by ‘the Welsh Claude’, Richard Wilson 1714-1782; inspired by travel to Italy & Claude Lorraine’s landscapes, he returned to Wales to paint sublime scenery; inspired Constable, Crome & Turner. Tate Britain
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
25,000 evacuated near Madrid today. It could be your city tomorrow. Climate hazards know no boundaries, no visas, no wealth filters. We need: Early warning systems Forest management & controlled burns Radical emissions cuts Climate adaptation funding NOW
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
St Vincent and Orchestra, Interlochen, Michigan
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Long-range drones?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
But of course these games aren't about fighting peer opponents, they're about the fantasy of leveraging endless firepower against opponents too weak to meaningfully fight back. And the fantasy that just dumping more munitions from the air can actually produce victory - it hasn't yet.
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There are also slightly different rules between auto parts and full auto imports, so it’s even more complicated tbh
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Correct, a partial USMCA exemption
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Canadian auto imports are USMCA-exempted *for their US-based content.* Canadian content in those imports is not
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Plenty of art is not especially artful Making use of the unique qualities of the medium is a very high and refined level of artfulness; it is not in any way a necessary condition of "being art"
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yes! I’ve seen William! Ancient Egyptian blue hippos are favourites of mine! 🦛 😍 Here’s a collage of some of the blue hippos I’ve seen in museums. Can you spot William? 🦛
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Smile it’s the weekend! A liitle blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (the top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with stylised images of Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
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Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tangent: the *ghul* thing, plus the whole Abdul al-hazred thing, make me wonder if there been any Arabic/MENA/SWANA responses to lovecraft, in the same way Lovecraft Country tries to have an African American response to lovecraft. A riposte to dune from MENA would have similar raison d’etre
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