I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
@lemonde.fr êtes vous sûr des chiffres ? “46,2 millions d’embauches recensées en 2024, 21,1 millions l’ont été en CDD, 20,7 millions en intérim et seulement 4,4 millions en CDI” ça parait enorme et ne colle pas vraiment avec les chiffres d’embauches envisagés www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Fantastic essay: "Why the ATM didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did." davidoks.blog/p/why-the-at...
Key point: "it is paradigm replacement, not task automation, that actually displaces workers." In this sense, we're still in the early days of AI's effect on the economy.
Graph showing global average temperature anomaly from 1850 through 2025. The graph combines five datasets, each derived independently. Temperatures stayed fairly consistent from 1850 to about 1920, then started rising. This matches the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. Temperatures cooled slightly from about 1950 to 1970, the result of a rise in aerosols (also predominantly released by the burning of fossil fuels). Below the graph is a portion of the Earth (North America) as seen by the EPIC instrument on the DSCOVR satellite.
New for @climate.us — five instrumental global temperature records aligned to the same pre-industrial baseline. Original data from the UK Met Office & JMA:
climate.metoffice.cloud/temperature....
ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/prod...
Globe by DSCOVR:EPIC: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
#climate #dataviz
Clearly there’s a need for regulation and the realisation that being good at something does not make you good at everything.
Congratulations it looks good but will need a bit more time to explore its richness. @jerthorp.bsky.social will surely appreciate this work. @yan-holtz.bsky.social a good fit your new project ;)
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
A map of Europe showing the percentage of ultra-processed foods in the diets of different countries. The colors represent different ranges: Blue: Under 25%, Yellow: Over 25%, Orange: Over 50%. The map highlights countries with high consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as the UK, Ireland, and Belgium, and those with lower consumption, such as Portugal and Greece.
Consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). WTF UK?
(via @Guardian)
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s really good! You feel compel to watch it till the end.
Le futur se construit aujourd’hui. Le manque de vision globale des politiques actuels pour le territoire dans son ensemble peut s’inquiéter. Les grands projets sont inexistants et la décentralisation sert a ajuster le budget entraînant une lente cassure sociale www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
An interesting open dataset dropped this month with very accurate footprints of almost every building on Earth, and also critically, the heights of the buildings, so they can be extruded into 3D.
Interactive map: tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de
Paper: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
"Voir le monde depuis le Japon" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/86309 (un billet d'économie pour finir la semaine)
Quand Arthur Charpentier @freakonometrics.bsky.social voyage entre Tokyo et Kyoto, ça envoie du 38 tonnes... freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/85443 #BonneChanceMonPapa
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Double page d'ouverture de l'article de La Croix Hebdo "ces jeunes Français qui rêvent d'un pouvoir autoritaire".
Prenez quelques minutes de votre week-end pour lire le long format de @marieboeton.bsky.social dans La Croix Hebdo sur "ces jeunes Français qui rêvent d'un pouvoir autoritaire".
Et faites-le lire, aussi, aux jeunes de votre entourage.
Hahahah what
it reminds me of a project I had a go at. Visualizing the trees and their varieties
gitvfd.github.io/Trees-in-the...
Scottish police do not know where their sensitive data is going, because they trusted it to an American multinational (Microsoft) which simply refuses to tell them.
Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.
La creme dans la carbonara la rend elle normande?
An example of unusual data gathering - Compromise! To listen to the weekly Top 40 from the past 20 years would take 96 days and nights Just the No.1 singles would take 17 hours Listening until the first chorus should only take 5 hours So we listened… and got our chart
I have a slide about an unusual data request I once got: can we show that song choruses are appearing earlier due to the economics of streaming (gotta hook people in early to get paid)? I joked that it's not as if anyone's got a database of song structures. But it turns out that someone has...
Je me demande juste et ça doit se trouver assez facilement quel sera le mix énergétique futur et si l’eau en moindre quantité causera des pbs sur l’approvisionnement en électricité d’origine nucléaire lors des pics estivaux
Ce thread - publié à point nommé - de @laydgeur.bsky.social a grandement aidé bsky.app/profile/layd...
Je suis loin d’être anti Clim mais j’ai toujours l’impression que que nous poussons plus les solutions d’adaptation plutôt que d’essayer véritablement d’infléchir le réchauffement. En tout cas ce thread m’a poussé à regarder un peu plus les l’impact de la climatisation
Well, on the upside, it did allow a billionaire Nazi complete access all the data of the U.S. government.
