Reposted by Derrick FlakollIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026in an age of unlimited information, holy fuck, editing 0102
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comThe effects of changing electoral systems from first-past-the-post to single transferable vote: causal evidence from New Zealand - Public ChoiceThe 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... 033
Reposted by Derrick FlakollChaucer 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] 🎶 315640
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In other words Philips curve effects don’t show up if the fed or other policymakers anticipate and head off its effects 130
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Philips curve wasn’t around for like 10 years but early 2020s suggest it may be back 100
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Higher interest rates? Supply side interventions? Case-by-case? 110
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How do we balance that with inflation pressures from running the economy hot? 210
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 17/09/2026People 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 020
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Really nice geometry has a persuasive power all its own 010
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Damn now I need to both watch silo and read up on Howard 100
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Solar 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. 110
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/08/2026True 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 100
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026OH 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”nytimes.comHumans 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. 44312
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026To 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 120
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026All 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...universityofcalifornia.eduSolar-panel-covered canals have their day in the sun in CaliforniaCalifornia’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 ... 3470
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAbby @arobertswrites.com · 13/08/2026I like the Appalachians they are friendly. 3232
Reposted by Derrick FlakollSeva @seva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026imagine 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? 1640828
Reposted by Derrick FlakollMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 08/08/2026There’s no one here 518318
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAnn-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Post your faculty lounge Left: science | Right: humanities 062
Reposted by Derrick FlakollErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It’s gone too far. 812112
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Also heat pumps replacing earlier-generation, lower-efficiency electric heating 030
Reposted by Derrick FlakollMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 30/07/2026I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture. 181170159
Reposted by Derrick FlakollKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Timely... "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 risknature.comCanada’s 2023 wildfire smoke caused a 2.8 percent drop in solar power generation, costing two billion dollars - Communications Earth & EnvironmentWildfire 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 ... 36731
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/202621/ 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. 161
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/202620/ 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. 171
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/202619/ 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. 151
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/20269/ 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. 171
Reposted by Derrick FlakollJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/07/20268/ That speed causes real disruption independent of how the fairness question gets resolved. 151
Reposted by Derrick FlakollMarie 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? 120316
Reposted by Derrick FlakollHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I 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... 610533
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Europe 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. 06136
Reposted by Derrick FlakollDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Llyn-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 115625
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 25/07/202625,000 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 921099
Reposted by Derrick FlakollDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026St Vincent and Orchestra, Interlochen, Michigan 712611
Reposted by Derrick Flakoll"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026But 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. 330116
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There are also slightly different rules between auto parts and full auto imports, so it’s even more complicated tbh 021
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Canadian auto imports are USMCA-exempted *for their US-based content.* Canadian content in those imports is not 171
Reposted by Derrick FlakollRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Plenty 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" 1191
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Yes! 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? 🦛 1237
Reposted by Derrick FlakollAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Smile 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 221149274
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Tangent: 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 130