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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Porting a useful thread over from twitter: The key thing most have trouble internalizing is that so much economic commentary of various levels of sophistication takes the price mechanism for granted that its missed that the "price mechanism" is actually quite a complicated & convoluted notion.
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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Thanks to all the contributors! @annakornbluh.bsky.social, @lclaberge.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, @quinnslobodian.com, @anniemcc.bsky.social, @blanqui.bsky.social 1/2
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model... fortune.com/article/mack...
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MacKenzie Scott's game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: 'Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability'
"What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s typically not what she is doing.”
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nealj.bsky.social @nealj.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulhK...
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Jimmy Carter says YES !!!
YouTube video by Moses Nathan
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19/12/2024
in cars we are traffic to one another—dangerous, frustrating—when if we were on foot, we would be liveliness, buzz.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The main conference centre in Lusaka (built in 1970 to host the third Non-Aligned Movement conference) features a scale model of the open pit mine at Chingola. It even has tiny model dumper trucks in the pit.
Flat table with a glass top enclosing a wooden model of a mine. The model has a hole at one side and a small town with industrial buildings on the other.
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