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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 29

Touching this bird can result in numbness & tingling in extremities. Eating it can result in paralysis or death ☠️.

Let's talk about neurotoxic birds 🐦.

(📷: Ben G Freeman, benjamingfreeman.com)

A bird with black head and wings but red-orange body is slightly annoyed to be touched by a human hand, beak semi-open in protest, as if about to complain. In the background is a lush forest scene.

Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) YUS Conservation area on the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
CREDIT: Ben Freeman.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooded_Pitohui_3.jpg

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: People with facial differences are being shut out of essential services due to the proliferation of face recognition tech—and at best forced to experience further rejection due to technological failures. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/when-f...

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 15h

Paper curto bacana do Christian Lehmann (Unb): pq diabos Mao - na melhor das hipóteses- não combateu a Grande Fome e seus 45 milhões de mortes?
Explicação: sob condições específicas, eliminar a população rural aumenta o produto industrial
www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2021...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Idle, Mark Hamill & Harrison Ford in 1979.

Whilst filming 'The Empire Strikes Back', Carrie Fisher rented Eric's apartment while he was in Tunisia filming ‘The Life of Brian’.

They were partying there when Eric happened to drop in. (The Rolling Stones turned up later)

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 19h

#EconSky With "creative destruction" back in fashion, Economics in the Rear-view Mirror offers a glance at advanced economic theory taught at Harvard in 1948-49 by Joseph Schumpeter. His course reading lists included nine future Nobel laureates. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-adva...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 16h

Kubrick's ‘The Shining’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ were filming next door to each other at Elstree Studios, and that’s how Danny Lloyd got to visit and hang with Kermit in 1979.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17h

I don't care what conventions your discipline has, descending author order by who (most) needs the publication is almost always right

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 1d

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 1d

Zuckerberg é muito frouxo

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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Ouriço de Cartola 🎩 @ouricodecarto.la · 1d

Todas as cidades que resolveram o problema do trânsito (p ex, Amsterdam, Nova Iorque) o fizeram transformando dirigir em algo super inconveniente (Amsterdam proibiu estacionar na rua na maior parte da cidade) ou caro (NYC tem um pedágio que fica mais caro quanto maior o trânsito no momento)

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

I think i went back in time to the middle ages or roman times my best bet would be to blow them away with rudimentary perspective drawing

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2d

Krugman is on the money here. Demented Donald is going to get his (our) butts kicked in his trade war with China paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Romulo Dias @romulobdias.bsky.social · 1d

E a prefeitura de SP pagou quase UM MILHÃO para familiar de secretário cantar em quermesse.

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 2d

Campos de golfe gastam muuuuito mais água do que data centers

Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 2d

On AI & water usage, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone.

So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf courses.

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 2d

We’re just normal men

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2d

Aghion (et al) have a paper on China, they recognised long ago & before many that the Chinese model departs from the East Asia model in having a Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition of firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs Schumpeterian growth theory w the economics of industrial policy

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2d

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 2d

Mais um Nobel para história econômica (Mokyr)!

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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Epidurals are rare in Japan, where some believe that women who endure childbirth without pain-relief enjoy closer bonds with their children. Hoping to nudge up the number of babies being born, Tokyo govt has begun rolling out subsidies to help women pay for epidurals and chip away at that stigma

To Tackle a Baby Shortage, Tokyo Tries Easing the Pain of Childbirth

The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often encouraged to endure the pain of delivery.

www.wsj.com

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 3d

Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe

Full map: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 3d

Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Unless your query is actually about AI, you can also skip the AI overview by adding "-ai" to your Google search terms. But I guess that wouldn't make for good clickbait

How can I avoid using AI?

AI overview has a "profanity trigger". If you ask Google "What is AI?", its Gemini AI interface will deliver you a potted (and sometimes inaccurate) answer. It's functioning as an"answer engine" rather than a “search engine”.

But if you ask "What the fuck is AI?", you will be delivered straight search results, linking to other pages.

There are various browser extensions that can block AI sites, images and content.

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 3d

Não caia do papo de que a rejeição da MP 1303 foi uma conspiração dos ricos, uma sabotagem.
A oposição fez o papel de oposição e a MP ampliava as distorções e poderia até piorar a situação fiscal.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/marc...

www1.folha.uol.com.br

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 4d

Quanto tempo até sair o primeiro paper sobre o efeito da redução de consumo de destilados no Brasil de 2025? Não duvido que o choque apareça nos dados de violência ou acidentes

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The Economist @economist.com · 4d

A rift between American farmers and their Chinese clients as a result of Donald Trump’s trade war has allowed Brazil to cement its place as the world’s soyabean superpower

American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

Donald Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soyabean superpower

econ.st

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 4d

Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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