Graham Walker
@grahamwalkernrg.bsky.social
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Research @ VaasaETT Previously @ Petrologica Alum University of Essex Views inevitably my own.
"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."
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about 1 month ago
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Super battery realistic? Or chemistry atrocious?
#greensky
#energysky
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about 1 month ago
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Didn't you recently trust it to batch code a load of qualitative data recently, though?
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3 months ago
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Southend born and bred and University of Essex alum (although at the Colchester campus) - what a shame, and what a waste.
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3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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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!
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3 months ago
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Interesting that it focuses on the objection side - surely there is a similar potential issue on the application side?
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3 months ago
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Used to live a mile or so from St Mary's Lawford, nice to see
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3 months ago
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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
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4 months ago
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My "only Labour can stop Reform" billboard has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the billboard.
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4 months ago
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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"
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4 months ago
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Only one letter away from being statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson's census entry ("random walker")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pe...
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4 months ago
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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
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5 months ago
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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.
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5 months ago
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Also most likely not economic, so there's that.
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5 months ago
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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.
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5 months ago
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Canadians have called this genre "Norwailing" when applied to the failure of Alberta/Canada to create a sovereign wealth fund.
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6 months ago
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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"...
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6 months ago
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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.
6 months ago
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This is the face of a king who has just realised the opponent has mate in 5.
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6 months ago
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....is Twitter welcoming?
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6 months ago
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Did you honestly send a guy from Brisbane to Olkiluoto just to say how great nuclear is at saving emissions?
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6 months ago
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Worth noting also that "Ei kivikausi päättynyt siihen, että kivet loppuivat" originates in the oil industry.
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7 months ago
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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.
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7 months ago
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New influencer fad diet just dropped.
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8 months ago
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Conversations with me are already like this.
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8 months ago
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All the people in this thread would love The Return of the Obra Dinn
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8 months ago
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reposted by
Graham Walker
Jo Wolff
8 months ago
Hobbes: Human beings are naturally selfish. Rousseau: Listen. You’ve only studied human beings in captivity.
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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.
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9 months ago
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G Elliott Morris
9 months ago
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
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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
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10 months ago
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Not the main thing there, but "almost immediate electrical/energy hookups and approvals" is....not what is happening in the US
#energysky
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11 months ago
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"But he deserves a third term because the American people should not be deprived of choice"
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11 months ago
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Seemed difficult, here is something that explores a little deeper
bsky.app/profile/adam...
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11 months ago
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The Essex school political theory word for this is "agonism"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonism
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12 months ago
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They're on to you, mate
@jmkorhonen.fi
I realise KAJ are not everyone's cup of tea, but this seems excessive
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12 months ago
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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
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https://www.affarsvarlden.se/artikel/afv-avslojar-vattenfalls-interna-tidsplan-for-ny-karnkraft
12 months ago
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reposted by
Graham Walker
jh
about 1 year ago
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.
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@dsquareddigest.bsky.social
this is the attitude "network governance" launders into political theory, that we were talking about a while ago.
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about 1 year ago
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Dan Davies
about 1 year 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
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