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Alistair Munro
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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5h
On behalf of Alistairs, I approve.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 5h
Hyogo police executives have been punished over gifts and other favors from a company commissioned to provide services to the police, it was learned Wednesday.
Hyogo police executives punished over favors from contractor
The gifts included souvenirs, taxi fare money and free items while dining.
ebx.sh

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Charlie Loyd @vruba.bsky.social · 19h
I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
GitHub - celoyd/potato: A small pansharpening model
A small pansharpening model. Contribute to celoyd/potato development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Indeed and there are some simple apps that enable one to post the same message to multiple channels. X and BlueSky accounts could then be run in parallel for a while before the one becomes an ex.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
A chance for Japan to rejoin its uncertain path to NetZero

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d
Tepco prepares to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima
Tepco prepares to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors closed after the 2011 earthquake and ​tsunami crippled the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
www.japantimes.co.jp

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 2d
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹

They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.

A new scoop for The Reengineer!

www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro

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ECCHR - European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights @ecchr.bsky.social · 2d
|🎉 SIGNIFICANT VICTORY FOR INDONESIAN FISHERS 🌍|
For the first time ever has a Swiss court admitted a climate lawsuit brought by four Indonesian fishers against Holcim.
More about the case: bit.ly/49oCyGs

#ClimateJustice #ClimateLitigation #CallForClimateJustice #MakePollutersPay
ECCHR: Rising sea levels: An island fights against its demise
The people on Pari do not want to accept the demise of their homeland: they are taking legal action in Switzerland against one of the world’s largest emitters of climate-damaging greenhouse gases, the...
bit.ly

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 4d
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
Is this shrinkflation?
cluelesstoshika.bsky.social Clueless Toshika @cluelesstoshika.bsky.social · 5d
Tokyo: now 20% less likely to kill you by earthquake [*]

[*] compared to 12 years ago
nikkei.com 日経電子版 @nikkei.com · 5d
首都直下地震の死者1.8万人、半減目標に届かず　国が12年ぶり新想定（無料記事）
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...

死者数の想定は2割減にとどまりました。

初めて試算した災害関連死は最大4万1000人と推計しました。

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Clueless Toshika @cluelesstoshika.bsky.social · 5d
Tokyo: now 20% less likely to kill you by earthquake [*]

[*] compared to 12 years ago
nikkei.com 日経電子版 @nikkei.com · 5d
首都直下地震の死者1.8万人、半減目標に届かず　国が12年ぶり新想定（無料記事）
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...

死者数の想定は2割減にとどまりました。

初めて試算した災害関連死は最大4万1000人と推計しました。

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 5d
Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures.

📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday.

cgdev.org/publication/ch…

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
Yeh but, a Partridge in a Pear Tree is two things and Maids a Milking implies the presence of not just Maids, but also an unknown number of milkable objects.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
Reaction to Overtourism+global relaxation of anti-racism norms + Sanseito. Add bonus if you’re carrying a backpack on your back, pulling any kind of luggage, talking or looking like you might talk.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
How can anyone say that ChatGPT is sloppy?
Part of a confident response by ChatGPT to a third request to simplify and analyze the sign of an expression. (The first two were of equivalent quality).

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d
Technically, this appears to be only tested for morning parties.
The abstract from the original article which subjected participants to alcohol in the morning.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8d
And unlike the 97%, the government’s position is such poor economics.
sarahmay1.bsky.social Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 8d
Kendall says 'no clear consensus'. when 97% of people oppose a plan I think that's quite a clear majority. Unless she thinks we're in an anarchist cooperative and really wants full consensus before we take any decision
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 8d
Kendall says 'no clear consensus'. when 97% of people oppose a plan I think that's quite a clear majority. Unless she thinks we're in an anarchist cooperative and really wants full consensus before we take any decision
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue A campaign fronted by popstars including Elton John and Dua Lipa to protect artists’ works from being mined to train AI models without consent has received a boost after almost every respondent to a government consultation backed their case. Ninety-five per cent of the more than 10,000 people who had their say over how music, novels, films and other works should be protected from copyright infringements by tech companies called for copyright to be strengthened and a requirement for licensing in all cases or no change to copyright law. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 8d
I'm always fascinated by the story behind the making of any map, and this set of war damage maps, completed within six months of the end of the war, is extraordinary in that regard.

Here's Ueno Rokurō, then president of the Japan Chikei Company, who oversaw its creation:

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 8d
NEW: The most symbolic thing ever just happened in Guaíba, Brazil.

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Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social · 9d
Want to compare how dense cities are in Britain, France and Japan? You're in luck! @centreforcities.bsky.social just released our data

As you can see, British big cities are very flat compared to their international peers.

... 🧵

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d
Or maybe they could start plans to get out of gas.

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The Jerk Store called, they're running outta me @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 9d
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d
Who says that the private supply of public goods is sub-optimal?

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Tokyo Review @tokyoreview.net · 9d
"Japan’s low levels of street protest have not produced disengagement; participation has migrated online", Rina Komiya writes, as she explains how digital outrage increasingly manages to derail local inclusion policies in Japan.
How online outrage undermines local inclusion efforts in Japan
A specter is haunting local governance in Japan—the specter of the attention economy. Municipal officials, whose daily work usually revolves around routine community services, now find themselves conf...
www.tokyoreview.net

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d
Sunny Sidmouth

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Arthur Charpentier @freakonometrics.bsky.social · 10d
"Experimental mathematicians" xkcd.com/3180 by @xkcd.com

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 10d
That paper pointed out many flood events we identified seem to be driven by heavy rain compounded by high tide that limits drainage. That is a dynamic playing out in Miami that will only worsen with sea-level rise. Alex Hall also wrote on our paper at the time: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
In Miami, tweets about flooded streets come before the actual floods, a new study found
Miami notices flooding at lower levels than the official standard for floods, a study found. Residents start to tweet about flooding long before the NOAA threshold is hit because of how low-lying the ...
www.miamiherald.com

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 11d
One of the terrible things about the culture wars is how the older generation is harming the prospects of the younger. The recent Brexit poll, showing how so many Brexit voters have died, underlined this for me.