Parallax @Parallax0601

Cambridge, MA Joined October 2010

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Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_

2 years ago

Canada’s worst fire season on record visualized using NASA’s GEOS-FP model and FIRMS fire data. Just unfathomable. - 18.5 million hectares of forest scorched - 5% of Canada's forest area burned - Approx. 200,000 people evacuated - A total of over 6,500 fires

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

2 years ago

I am also afraid of this: theatlantic.com/international/… "Israel Is Walking Into a Trap"

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francesca mannocchi @mannocchia

2 years ago

Ho scritto di Gaza per @LaStampa di oggi Gaza ignorata da tutti negli ultimi 20 anni pagherà col sangue la fine di Netanyahu - La Stampa lastampa.it/esteri/2023/10…

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Parallax @Parallax0601

2 years ago

via @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/10/01/pod…

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells

2 years ago

“Jonathan Donges of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says that ‘to effectively prevent all tipping risks, the global mean temperature increase would need to be limited to no more than one degree – we are currently already at about 1.2°C.’” thebulletin.org/2023/09/bettin…

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Jeff Masters @DrJeffMasters

2 years ago

“The entire water crisis in the American West comes down to cows eating alfalfa in a landscape where neither belongs. The delta of the Colorado could be reborn with the water that today goes to produce a third of 1% of the nation’s cattle production. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

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Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta

2 years ago

🧵In a recent piece for @guardian @lieven_anatol warned that #Russia’s defeat in #Ukraine could bring about the emergence of a post-Putin regime in Moscow that would replicate the trauma of Weimar Germany, implying we might end up with someone more dangerous than Putin. 1/7

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Parallax @Parallax0601

2 years ago

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Parallax @Parallax0601

2 years ago

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Francesco Sylos Labini @fsyloslab

2 years ago

La scoperta del polipropilene, la plastica più prodotta al mondo, trova le sue radici presso un laboratorio di ricerca pubblico italiano. La principale azienda europea di semiconduttori (STMicroelectronics) fu sviluppata da un’impresa pubblica italiana. 1/

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Parallax @Parallax0601

2 years ago

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

2 years ago

"This was the most remarkable aspect of the whole day: Nobody seemed to mind, particularly, that a brutal new warlord had arrived to replace the existing regime—not the security services, not the army, and not the general public" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Giulia Pompili @giuliapompili

2 years ago

Caccia alla volpe cinese in Italia - oggi su @ilfoglio_it 🧵 “Mi hanno telefonato dicendo che dovevano fare una consegna con Glovo, e volevano che gli dicessi il mio indirizzo preciso”, racconta al Foglio il professore Lee, conosciuto su Twitter come @whyyoutouzhele

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james crabtree @jamescrabtree

2 years ago

Richard Maude on excellent form explaining why China won’t engage on "guardrails" — and thus that "competition with guardrails" ain't going to work. Says AUS + SEA nations et al to call China out on this. It's behind the paywall. Some quotes 🧵 afr.com/policy/foreign…

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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

2 years ago

1/13 Zhiwu Chen writes that "Wall Street, the Western media and economists" who every few years make "predictions of Chinese financial doom" have always gotten it wrong because they don't understand the Chinese financial system. nytimes.com/2023/03/26/opi…

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Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev

3 years ago

🧵🇨🇳🇷🇺 Does China distance itself from Russia because of war against Ukraine? A terrific @FT piece helps to understand how Beijing wants its policy towards Moscow to be seen in Western capitals. Spoiler alert: the real policy might be very different. Let me help to unpack it. 1/

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Dario D'Angelo @dariodangelo91

3 years ago

1/n Difficile stabilire quale fra le diverse bombe giornalistiche sganciate dall'inchiesta del New York Times sulla catastrofe russa nella guerra in #Ucraina sia la più clamorosa. Sapevamo di soldati russi inviati al fronte privi di addestramento ed equipaggiamento adeguati. Non

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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

3 years ago

1/3 Because I've been devouring books and papers on financial history for over 30 years, I thought understood from fairly early on how risky the crypto space was and how likely to be filled with scammers and pyramid schemes. wsj.com/articles/sam-b… via @WSJ

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Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder

3 years ago

If it was once your fate to claim that Russia had to invade Ukraine because of NATO or Nazis, it now falls to you to explain that Russia did so because of Satan.