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This is perhaps the greatest takeaway of the book, that the prospect of ‘stranded assets,’ or fossil fuel projects rendered unprofitable before the end of their expected economic lives, are the primary force holding the world back from beating #climatechange. A comprehensive review of Overshoot.
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"… make full use of our natural advantage", the official says. Geopolitics returns, as described by @nielswerber.bsky.social‬. I enjoyed this (now unlocked!) #NYTimes piece on #Malaysia, #chips, #datacenter industries, and how to benefit from #Trump. #Vietnam tries to do similar things. #tradewar‬
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The nomination didn’t last even a full Scaramucci. So we’re back in that kind of era again. Funny, truly funny, of course. But I will not follow all the small scandals as was common during the last time. What are they thinking. As someone once uttered, You Banbury cheese! #us #trump
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Consider yourself in a wildfire, casually enjoying the fire. Breathe. That’ll be a fine particle, aka PM 2.5 #airpollution of ~1000. Translated to the Air Quality Index, it’ll be an #AQI of ~2000. #Delhi recently had an AQI of over 1,700. It’s spiralling. 5 is healthy, 100 dangerous, 300 hazardous.
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20 years of #GoogleScholar, holy cow. It’s all nice and weird but what happens when they pull the plug of this very much neglected project? #google #tech Shooting for new public infrastructure would be nice, and there are interesting things out there like OpenAlex or SemanticScholar. #degoogling
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Devaluation and society are closely entangled – my chapter contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society. This new volume is the result of our valuation studies group, but in a way the book also feels like a tribute to the late Hilmar Schäfer. #waste #sociology #sts
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Die #FDP mit einer billigen Show, die ihr jetzt kosten könnte. Was nun folgt, ist ein Ausbruch des Parteichefs, der bei einigen in der Runde lange nachhallt: Die FDP müsse da raus, die Ampel müsse enden. Er könne diese Fressen einfach nicht mehr sehen, soll Lindner gerufen haben. www.zeit.de/politik/d…
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#Bluesky wächst und wächst. Ihr flieht von #X. No personal information that you submit will be available to any user…specified by…your privacy settings. Das war 2005, #Facebook vs #MySpace. Viele Versprechen. 2024, Bluesky hat als Hauptinvestor “Blockchain Capital”. Wo soll das enden