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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 4h

Education is the necessary first step: "The confusion over why bills are going up is pushing voters to learn more about the power grid than they ever cared to know."
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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

“Christmas tree liberalism” is actually a critique of liberals but sounds like WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

If “Korean bbq brisket taco” liberalism is how we describe a multiethnic coalition, count me in.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with critiquing “everything-bagel-liberalism” is that everything-bagels are far and away the best flavor.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe in the short term, since there’s not much the governor can do to affect rates except short-term spending. In the long term it would matter because the Republican supports Trump’s arbitrary & capricious revocation of permits for offshore wind, which could help lower energy costs in the future.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

No, rising electricity costs are actually happening and have been for awhile.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

... following all of these earlier.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 2d

Many more articles like this are coming across the US .... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

22% Jump in Electricity Rates Dominates New Jersey Governor’s Race

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 5d

This is uniquely-California-weird: wapo.st/4q5wR6S

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 5d

A thoughtful appreciation of slow science and “plodding curiosity”. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 6d

TFW you are sorting your time-stamped project files, and realize that the project started six years ago ....

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 6d

Do they jump in on other issues or are e-bikes especially salient to them somehow?

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 7d

The work winning this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is science-fiction-like-materials-wizardry, but this insight about people from one of the winners (also a UCB alumnus!) is particularly profound: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 8d

Two delightful geographic aspects of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum tunneling:

1. Award to an American, a Brit, and a Frenchman (sounds like a WW2 movie or joke)
2. All 3 affiliated with the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara)!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 9d

Nobel Prize Week, a great week to celebrate how scientific research can improve everyone's lives and how discovery helps to understand our place in the universe. I'm especially excited by prizes given to multiple countries, a reminder to work together. wapo.st/3WmtESD

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 21d

I was a reader of his for many years. Rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Five Pearls of Wisdom From a Legend of Financial Writing

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 21d

Trump administration chooses the nuclear option. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Iranian Diplomats in the U.S. Are Barred From Shopping at Costco

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · 26d

I haven’t been on social media much lately, but where can I read coherent reactions to, and thoughts about, this article? (Coherent, so not the comments section)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 14

Very satisfying to overhaul the bike I ride everyday. Everything wore out at once, so I replaced the front rim; tires; grips; brake pads, levers, and cables; and chain. Rides like a dream now!

Picture of a blue Brompton folding bicycle.

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 11

So much good food there also.

David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 9

Goodbye for a couple of days.

Picture of hardcover copy of Mick Herron’s new novel, “Clown Town”

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 8

I don't think I'm spoiling the last line by quoting it, from this fine essay:

"We need to get up from under our desks and persuade our fellow citizens that the institutions that they have helped create with their tax dollars are incredibly precious and important." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 8

(Unknown to me, but maybe you, the Babylonians, and their followers knew all along)

David Hsu @dhsu.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice to see the NYT building such nice interactive tools. I clicked on it out of curiosity; the architecture of the article, links, and graphics drew me in; and now I find that I would have been the previously unknown 13th Babylonian sign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article)

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

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