🧵 dispelling some of last decade's talking points about Chinese clean tech

Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

For sure- I think not so much concision as econ-squashing a series of "my neighbor's second field is above mine, so when he irrigates the south corner of my main field get flooded..." type complex scenarios into "prices not work good"

Nice thread on an extremely important problem

I was on an AWD proposal with some folk a while back that didn't get funded, I think in part because part of our "sales pitch" was *it really depends on the local market structure for irrigation water whether this works*

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

Entire villages are being razed in southern Lebanon

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Good things still possible, happening

Energy and fertilizer shocks are pushing governments toward subsidies. But subsidies often favor wealthier households, who consume more. Cash transfers reach those who need them most, helping smallholders stay in production and stabilizing rural economies.
doi.org/10.4060/cd93...

Millions will go hungry if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed Expensive fuel and fertiliser will lead to smaller harvests and higher prices

The Economist on the brewing global food crisis

🎁 link

still preferable to the 73rd person pointing out Blackberry is Canadian

Thank you to the many dedicated Blueskiers pointing out that this analogy compares two things which differ in some respects.

Ford CEO Draws Line In Sand: Keep Chinese EVs Out Of US – 'Should Not Let Them Into Our Country' Ford Motor Company paused its electric-vehicle growth efforts, but is pivoting to a major push in 2027. With lower-cost production methods and new models in development, the legacy automaker’s CEO wan...

Imagine if Blackberry had successfully convinced the US government to forbid the sale of iPhones

IATA the latest to warn over European jet fuel shortages - Air Cargo News IATA has joined a growing chorus of voices warning that European flights could start to be cancelled in the coming weeks due to a jet fuel shortage as a result of the Iran War. Last week, concerns abo...

IATA has joined a growing chorus of voices warning that European flights could start to be cancelled in the coming weeks due to a jet fuel shortage as a result of the Iran War.

www.aircargonews.net/editorial/20...

"Comparisons are frequently drawn with the food price shocks of 2007-08 and 2022 [...] Yet the current moment differs from those earlier crises in one crucial respect. During the past two decades, Gulf monarchies have come to occupy a far more central place in the global food economy."

According to Tasnim, Iran has launched drone strikes on US naval vessels following the US attack and seizure of an Iranian cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

US Central Command has published a video said to show a guided-missile destroyer firing at an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz.

The USS Spruance fired several rounds into the Touska's engine room for 'violating the US blockade', before marines boarded it.

You price carbon or carbon prices you.

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Read the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers (Gift Article) Read 16 pages of internal deliberations from the Supreme Court that the New York Times has obtained, bringing the origins of the court’s “shadow docket” into the light.

The most striking bits of the Shadow Docket docs:

Lots of hand wringing over costs to power plants, not even a mention of the benefits of cutting CO₂ pollution.

Yes, the 5:4 SCOTUS majority doing the fossil industry's bidding, and not even trying to hide it

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

100%

does no one know hotels wash clothes for you

English muffin

I mean, that seems correct.

incredible

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

a play in three acts

I thought Zuck dropped all that.

To be clear this is I think way under-studied, but having followed this a bit I've not seen a journal article that does econony-wide modeling (what econs call "general equilibrium") which finds positive overall effects.

Not to say it couldn't work, but the evidence base isn't there yet afaik.

There are a lot of micro studies that show positive effects (for imo obvious reasons), but that's the basic income part. "Universal" requires you to model how it gets financed and the full range of effects. This is less studied and what I've seen tends to find negative overall welfare effects.