"What would you do if the Yankees invade, would you send a brigade or three? Lend me your lads for a small escapade in the Arctic, and I guess we might see."

Super battery realistic? Or chemistry atrocious? #greensky #energysky

Didn't you recently trust it to batch code a load of qualitative data recently, though?

Southend born and bred and University of Essex alum (although at the Colchester campus) - what a shame, and what a waste.

But always - do not forget this, Charlie Brown - always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

Curious about the difference btwn prompting "You are now a political scientist/survey scientist. Think very hard about your answer." and not. Also not clear to me that the methods framing here ("qualitative researchers have biases") does not apply to an LLM. Interesting work though!

Interesting that it focuses on the objection side - surely there is a similar potential issue on the application side?

Used to live a mile or so from St Mary's Lawford, nice to see

The parallels drawn here are with mortgage-backed securities, canals, fibre optics etc. but I think a more useful parallel bubble missed is fracking through to around 2016. Fracked wells have the same short lifetime as chips #energysky #greensky

My "only Labour can stop Reform" billboard has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the billboard.

Anyone with the first understanding of collective action problems will realise pitting the media literacy of individuals up against campaigns leveraging the best insights of experts will only have one winner, with the same result as "willpower vs tobacco or gambling companies"

Only one letter away from being statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson's census entry ("random walker") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pe...

Playing this as a busking opener is not only that it is hugely recognisable, but also surely a function of its first note being a gliss

I mean this is in line with my priors of course (we were expecting a slightly earlier peak of shale pre-COVID than is actually happening), but I would also point out that the Dallas Fed survey is full of terrible takes, so should really just be ignored.

Also most likely not economic, so there's that.

I guess the other side of this, from political science, comes down to a basic question: what are politicians for? Communication and agenda-setting is usually considered in their basic skillset, notwithstanding that the press can be hostile.

Canadians have called this genre "Norwailing" when applied to the failure of Alberta/Canada to create a sovereign wealth fund.

We read Dahl at @universityofessex.bsky.social under Anthony King in the 2000s. I had the privilege of being a TA on that course in the 2010s while he was still lecturing and Dahl was still the set text. Amongst the most mainstream theorists of democracy. If even he is considered "seditious"...

Good to see that the Loneliness Party scored 14x the votes of the Communist party in the Norwegian elections. Hopefully they found some friends during the campaign.

This is the face of a king who has just realised the opponent has mate in 5.

....is Twitter welcoming?

Did you honestly send a guy from Brisbane to Olkiluoto just to say how great nuclear is at saving emissions?

Worth noting also that "Ei kivikausi päättynyt siihen, että kivet loppuivat" originates in the oil industry.

Nuclear has had political consensus backing it for 20 years (since Blair's 2005 "back with a vengeance"). Hinkley Point C has had its CfD in place for 12 years. Weird to say the UK has focused on "expensive" tech in offshore wind, but then say the solution was a *more expensive* bit of tech.

New influencer fad diet just dropped.

Conversations with me are already like this.

All the people in this thread would love The Return of the Obra Dinn

Hobbes: Human beings are naturally selfish. Rousseau: Listen. You’ve only studied human beings in captivity.

I get the point and I broadly agree, but disagree that "it used to be OK, now it isn't" - democracy grew up in the age of hand bills and tiny news sheets. Democracy entrenched while magnates bought up all the papers.

The key to winning at both politics and elections is realizing that future opinions — "latent opinion" — is different from what we can measure about public opinion using polls _today_. Future opinion is downstream of both what leaders do *and* don't do today. The future is not exogenous

Interesting thread from @ketanjoshi.co - graph in the bottom left certainly shows seasonality to nuclear output, albeit especially low output this April. Something is not adding up with the "low prices" explanation just yet - the whole point of nukes is to run at high capacity factor. #energysky

Not the main thing there, but "almost immediate electrical/energy hookups and approvals" is....not what is happening in the US #energysky

"But he deserves a third term because the American people should not be deprived of choice"

Seemed difficult, here is something that explores a little deeper bsky.app/profile/adam...

The Essex school political theory word for this is "agonism" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonism

They're on to you, mate @jmkorhonen.fi I realise KAJ are not everyone's cup of tea, but this seems excessive

Interesting that Vattenfall thinks it can build (most likely) 2 PWRs in 6 years. Coincidentally, doing so would enable it to meet the Swedish government's target of "2.5 GW of new nuclear by 2035" #greensky #energysky www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/afv-...

Yes, and I also couldn't resist "the crowned moomintroll rampant" 🙂. So the text could be: Gules, sémy of nine roses Argent, a crowned moomintroll rampant Or armed of the same trampling a sabre Argent hilted and pommeled Or, his sinister forepaw bearing aloft a sword Argent hilted and pommeled Or.

CC @dsquareddigest.bsky.social this is the attitude "network governance" launders into political theory, that we were talking about a while ago.

how does regulation support growth? * by stopping good business practices from losing market share to bad ones * by ensuring competition takes place on grounds of price and quality, rather than incumbent advantage * by preventing confusing pricing structures or bad contracts acting as moats