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18 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Does is make a difference that tennis isn't fundamentally a team sport, so its stars tend to speak their minds whereas the likes of the NBA were more easily cowed?
The counterpoint is the John Cena thing, but professional wrestling isn't exactly famous for its performers' fierce independence from the system: cbsnews.com/news/john-cena…
The other factor is that this is being led by sports*women*, and is not just a China thing but a #metoo thing too.
Though credit to Steve Simon of the WTA as well: wtatennis.com/news/2356029/s…

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17 Nov
Very excited about Party Down coming back! This was such a great show. deadline.com/2021/11/party-…
Lizzie Caplan will be missed but having both Jane Lynch AND Megan Mullally onscreen at the same time will be 🔥🔥🔥
Party Down is IMO the best evidence that America does British sitcoms better than the British
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14 Nov
The story of the rise and fall of General Electric isn't just a story of technological innovation.

It's from the start a story of financial innovation that's little less than a history of American capitalism.

Here's a column and thread:

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
We think of the founder of GE as the great inventor Thomas Edison, but its true founder was just as much (if not more so) another crucial figure of America's Gilded Age, John Pierpont Morgan, the founder of JPMorgan.
Edison attracted Morgan's interest when he installed electricity in the financier's 5th Avenue house. J.P. Morgan was an archetypal early adopter of this brand-new technology, and quickly glimpsed its potential.
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11 Nov
This is possibly the most depressing line I've read out of #COP26 so far: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image
Worth remembering that a near-term emissions peak, by 2025 or so, is very much in line with China's own internal plans around its power and heavy-emitting industries.

The fact that we have seen no advance of the pre-Paris Agreement target of 2030 is incredibly telling.
Really worth remembering that "2030 peak" wasn't a new thing from Xi's 2020 UNGA speech, it dates all the way back to 2015: reuters.com/article/us-fra…
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9 Nov
Another fun detail in this documents: One of the key responses proposed was to release oil by fracturing tight domestic rock formations, ie. fracking.

Small twist: The fracking technology they suggested was NUCLEAR BOMBS. 🤯
"The AEC still believes that it would be relatively easy physically to open up gas resources at the rate of one trillion cubic feet per year with the explosion of one hundred nuclear devices a year."

Simples!

history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
"The problem is essentially one of public resistance to the nuclear detonations which would be required."
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9 Nov
Quiz time. Who said this, and when?

"I’ve become convinced that the oil companies are politically irresponsible and, in fact, idiots. They are concerned only with profits."
We have a winner!

That correct answer was dazzlingly quick!

history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
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4 Nov
A side-story to this (very welcome) news:

Calculating global fossil-fuel emissions is something a numerate teenager can do on a laptop.

Calculating global land-use emissions? We're mostly just staggering around in semi-darkness.
We know how much carbon there is in fossil fuels and how much CO2 they produce when burned. These are global commodities whose production volumes are well-known.

Multiply the two and you have a good-enough number for FF emissions. The best analysis merely refines this sum.
Whereas calculating land-use emissions involve multiple calculations about the carbon cycles of different ecosystems, and how those ecosystems link up, and are being changed by climate change itself, etc. etc. There's an awful lot that we don't know in all of this!
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