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Multinational science Delphi:
- #COVID is airborne (100%);
- indoor areas drive transmission (100%);
- N95 masks help (96%);
- public health pushes false info by denying airborne (90%);
- vax alone can't end COVID (97%);
- false info undermines social cohesion for response (99%)
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 9
Jobs for every month of 2025 have been revised lower
Jan 9
More negative revisions:
October revised down by 68,000, from
-105,000 to -173,000,
November revised down by 8,000, from 64,000 to
56,000.
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
No-one is predicting a US recession in 2026 despite this simple indicator having a 100% track record of success. This time may well be different, but you've got to have a bloody good reason to ignore this. Are you feeling confident?
Société Générale's Albert Edwards points to a labor market chart with a flawless track record of predicting a recession since 1950. Is the US economy ignoring history, or is this time different? bit.ly/49cvvRp
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
The Briefing: By a 2-to-1 margin, Albertans support remaining in Canada over separation.
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 8
U.S. imports are now down by -21.1% from their peak ... only other times we've seen worse declines were during the pandemic and global financial crisis
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 8
Un de mes graphes préférés est arrivé pour 2025! Chaque point est une heure de production d’un pays: en abscisse la production, en ordonnée son intensité carbone. Chaque pays a une couleur différente. Bravo la France (en bleu)! Merci Thomas’s projects. bit.ly/45uDkiY
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 75k over the last year, & another 8k jobs were lost in December
Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood, and electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 8
Released this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ labor share of income for Q3 2025 is the lowest on record.
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 7
It turns out that my 2 TB thumb drive is composed of 1.9m 1 MB blocks and exfat formatting will allocate one file per block, meaning I had about a 70x storage overhead. I have literally never encountered this problem before, but then again, I've never built a recursive filesystem with over 200 million files which essentially is a decompression bomb.
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
Jan 9
It's not just that total manufacturing employment is shrinking. The number of manufacturing sub-sectors that are adding jobs is rapidly shrinking. Of the 72 different types of manufacturing tracked by the BLS, just 38.2% are still adding jobs. A year ago it was 47.2%
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
4 Nov 2025
$PLTR Alex Karp Total Estimated Sales Since January 2025: Over 10 million shares, valued at approximately $2 billion .
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
29 May 2025
Sigh, hate to always be sounding like a broken record, but it bears repeating at this point:
If it feels like your government is trying to kill you, it's probably because your government is trying to kill you.
28 May 2025
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. statnews.com/2025/05/28/mode…
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
26 May 2025
Why is America losing its allure to foreign researchers and science students? The most straightforward reason is money, or the looming lack of it as a result of Trump administration funding cuts econ.st/43uptr0
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
20 May 2025
The recent rise in long-term unemployment is concentrated in the 15-24-years age group, accounting for more than a fifth of the total long-term unemployed. This is becoming a real tragedy for Canada's youth. #cdnecon
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
11 Feb 2025
honestly incredible that JD Vance managed to fuck up theology so badly that the fucking Pope had to issue a statement saying he got it wrong. That's like fucking up your science fair model rocket so badly the administrator of NASA has to issue a statement calling you out on it.
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Those of us who called Trump a fascist from the start in mainstream outlets ended up with our articles hidden by paywalls. History blocked. This is what my 2016 Election Day article looks like now:
27 Oct 2024
Better late than never. But why on earth did it take until now for all these people with the power to shift public perception to come out and say what should have been said eight years ago?
bit.ly/4fdxtBH
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen retweeted
27 Oct 2024
Oh yeah.
And there are people stupid enough to call this bit 'the pandemic'.
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