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Simon Schulte

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Researcher at University of Freiburg.

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 06/10/2026
On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Y'all are so lost
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Germany in 2023: "Enough with this EV obsession, focusing on ICEs that run on e-fuels will usher in a new export success made in Germany" Germany in 2026: "Why are the Chinese selling so many EVs on our market, this is unfair!"
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Where's Germany in these charts? Nowhere, for two reasons. The nuclear phase-out, obviously, but the country also failed to build renewables at scale, as we keep highlighting. Germany's status in people's (incl. many Germans') minds as renewables champion is a decade out of date.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You know how if you’re hit by a truck, the impact is 10 times harder than from a car going the same speed? Well, EV trucks are about to upend the freight industry, and the impact will be 10 times bigger than from EV cars. The scale of what is coming is HUGE: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Chinese Truck Drivers Are Going Electric as Gas Prices Soar
As electric car sales soften in China after years of breakneck growth, electric trucks are taking off, with the emerging industry expected to get a boost from the Iran war.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Any diesel experts out there? I've been looking into how battery prices are cutting into diesel generator use. I haven't seen anything recent on the cost breakdowns and with rising diesel prices, this could be another structural change in the works. One recent example.
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Nigeria's megachurches turn to solar amid frequent grid collapses: 'Burning diesel every Sunday wasn't just expensive ...'
"The peace of mind alone is worth it."
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
VERY BIG NEWS out of France a week ago: "French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Friday, April 10, a ban on installing gas heating systems "by year's end" in new buildings, including multi-unit housing, to curb France's dependence on fossil fuels." www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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France announces ban on gas boilers in new buildings starting in 2027
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also announced on Friday a doubling of support for electrification by 2030, from €5.5 billion to €10 billion annually.
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 20/04/2026
NEW | Record exports of solar, batteries and EVs last month 📈 China’s exports for the ‘new three’ industries reached a record high of $21.9bn in March 2026, up 70% year-on-year, in the wake of the US-Israel war with Iran and changing export rebates for solar and batteries.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We have a pretty good understanding of the differences between GHG emission estimates, but when it comes to some sectors (e.g., land), estimates seem all over the place! Why is this? @wflamb.bsky.social has you covered... essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... 1/
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Back in 2020, I wrote a big paper that explained why different datasets of global fossil CO₂ emissions gave different numbers. 📢Now @wflamb.bsky.social has hand-picked a crowd of experts and gone much further: "Differences in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions estimates explained", out today.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New from us: how Pakistan's solar boom is dampening the impact of the Hormuz crisis on the country. Solar power allowed LNG&diesel imports to fall after the previous gas crisis in 2021-22, with the solar boom set to avoid $7bn in fossil fuel import costs this year.
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The Red Terra @theredterra.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Fantastic thread about this idiotic war and how it’s all blowing up in Trump’s face.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The "AMOC is no longer a distant #climate scenario but a national & global security risk European defence analyses & new scientific research come to the same conclusion: this is a form of systemic risk that governments must plan for now" - Prof. Rockström & Iceland's Climate Minister Jóhannsson 🧵
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DN Debatt. ”Vi vet inte var tippningspunkten ligger – men den närmar sig”
Vad händer om Golfströmmen stannar av? Den senaste forskningen tyder på att vi kan närma oss så kallade tippningspunkter.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
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Cornelius W. M. Oettle @cwmo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Über unsere Autokrise schreibe ich in der aktuellen Kolumne. #Miosga
Ein Verbrenner, also eine Wärmekraftmaschine, verwandelt 70 Prozent der Energie in Wärme:
Das ist gut, wenn Sie eine Heizung auf Rädern brauchen, aber schlecht, wenn es um Bewegungsenergie geht. Und um die geht's halt beim Autofahren und eben weniger darum, auf der Motorhaube ein Omelett zu braten.
Umgekehrt würden Sie's auch nicht begrüßen, wenn zwei Drittel Ihrer Heizkosten dafür draufgingen, dass Ihr Heizkörper durch die Wohnung rollt.
Gerade wir sparsamen Schwaben hätten eigentlich die Ersten sein müssen, die sich vom Verbrenner verabschieden: Wenn Sie für 80 Euro volltanken, zahlen Sie gut 56 Euro davon einfach nur dafür, dass Ihr Motor heiß wird. Daran ändern auch E-Fuels nichts.
Verbrennungsmotoren sind Verschwendungsmotoren.
Die Erkenntnis quält, weil wir in Württemberg gut 100 Jahre lang zum Begriff "schwäbische Ingenieurskunst" onaniert haben, aber verglichen mit einem elektrischen Antrieb ist selbst der raffinierteste Verbrenner ein schlechter Witz.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Big China electricity&industial data update🧵for September: ➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year. ➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Personally I think it would be hard to steal a wind farm.
Ginormous mother of all wind turbine blades on a truck: "due to the massive 58.7m length of the phase three blades, and the massive 63.35m overall loaded length, their teams had to undertake meticulous planning ahead of the project....."
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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 17/10/2025
💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
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Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone
Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 12/09/2025
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 27/08/2025
"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #EnergySky ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa | Ember
There has been a major pick-up in solar panel imports into Africa over the last 12 months - a shift that is likely to impact almost every country on the continent.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
German Chancellor Merz today in parliament on climate policy. The media is already heralding this as a radical new course in climate policy, but really it's just one of the most trite "discourses of climate delay": whataboutism.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Mit der Aussage, dass ein klimaneutrales Deutschland bis 2045 mit der derzeitigen Politik nicht realistisch ist, hat Friedrich Merz ja völlig recht. Aber das Ziel aufzugeben, ist ja nicht die einzige Konsequenz, die man aus dieser Erkenntnis ziehen kann.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz “Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Chinese companies installed 93 GW of solar and 27 GW of wind in a single month in May. That's about 230 million solar panels and 5300 wind turbines. That's almost 100 solar panels every second, and a wind turbine every 10 minutes.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as: -Poland -Sweden -Norway -the UAE -North Carolina&Maryland or -Washington&Wyoming
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21/06/2025
NEW – Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities | @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social‬ Kostantsa Rangelova Read here: buff.ly/QqxebJM
Chart – Near-constant solar power is possible in many cities for around $100/MWh: Share of the time when a 6GW solar plus 17GWh storage system would deliver 1GW of power across 12 cities, %, based on average weather conditions over 2005-23. Source: Ember.
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Gibt es durch das neue Sondervermögen tatsächlich zusätzliches Geld für den Klimaschutz? Das Aufstellungsschreiben zum Haushalt 2025, das das @bmf-bund.de gestern verschickt hat, lässt Zweifel daran aufkommen. (1/x)
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Simon Schulte @simschul.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Anyways, as most calculations are basically Activity Data X Emission Factor and AD is mostly positively correlated with GDP, overreporting GDP implies overreporting emissions (not underreporting)
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Simon Schulte @simschul.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
There is probably a huge uncertainty on those numbers, but unlike GDP, the emissions were not reported by Chinese national statistics but are based on independent calculations (which of course partly use official statistics).
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Just released: Huge revision in Germany's official estimates of emissions/uptake from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector, now reflecting the spruce bark beetle outbreaks that started in 2018. 1/2
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Noah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today I'll be more provocative. If we put meaningless modeling results into reports like IPCCs and position them as scientific findings, how can we expect people to trust the other findings, that are based on very good science, in these same reports? rdcu.be/ecSMX
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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta @obumbratta.com · 25/11/2024
Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
Two maps of US unemployment rates by county. They are identical except that the legend in the second has been converted into a histogram.
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Simon Berlin @simon.berlin · 13/01/2025
Das ist spannend: "Free our Feeds" will auf Grundlage von Blueskys AT Protocol ein offenes Social-Media-Ökosystem bauen, das sicher vor der Einflussnahme von Milliardären ist (auch Bluesky ist ein privates Unternehmen). Die Initiatorinnen und Unterstützer klingen vielversprechend. freeourfeeds.com
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Planning permissions to build out the energy grid double in 2024 in Germany, to 1400 km. (The country had eased planning laws considerably for renewables and grid.) It does seem to matter who is in government. www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/n...
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Neuer Rekord erreicht: Bundesnetzagentur genehmigt 2024 rund 1400 Kilometer Stromleitungen
Laut dem Vorsitzenden Klaus Müller kommt man so bei der Energiewende weiter gut voran. Ein erneuter Anstieg der genehmigten Leitungskilometer im kommenden Jahr ist bereits in Planung.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 27/12/2024
Two weeks into the operation of hydrogen trains and 🥁 They have run out of hydrogen Who could POSSIBLY have imagined this*? * - yeah, well, anyone who has had half an eye on this could have foreseen this
Engpass in der Wasserstoffversorgung der Firma Enertrag führt zu Einschränkungen im #Netz #Ostbrandenburg. Um den Betrieb der RB27 zu sichern, fahren auf der #Heidekrautbahn Batteriezüge und Dieselzüge. Die Suche nach weiteren Wasserstoffquellen läuft!

Translation: A bottleneck in the supply of hydrogen to Enertrag is leading to restrictions in the #network #Ostbrandenburg. To ensure the operation of the RB27, battery trains and diesel trains run on the #Heidekrautbahn. The search for further sources of hydrogen is ongoing!
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
How to cheat at Codenames; cheating at board games more generally statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/25/h...
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How to cheat at Codenames; cheating at board games more generally | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Edgar Hertwich @edgarhertwich.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Fifteen years after @glenpeters.bsky.social and I published the first quantification of the #carbon_footprint of nations, the concept has become widely used and our method has become the standard for footprint calculations. Footprints are declining in Europe, but not fast enough.
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Edgar Hertwich on LinkedIn: #carbonfootprint #exiobase | 11 comments
Fifteen years after we published the Carbon Footprint of Nations study, Glen Peters and I have been recognized as leading researchers in the field of… | 11 comments on LinkedIn
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
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Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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