Derrick Flakoll
@dflakoll.bsky.social
Policy @BloombergNEF - US and Canadian industrial strategy, trade, regulations, etc. UNC and @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
alum. Category-5 brainstormer. Views are my own, likes & reposts are not endorsements, etc.
alum. Category-5 brainstormer. Views are my own, likes & reposts are not endorsements, etc.
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It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's hard enough even trying to be civil to myself
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Found this box of beautiful and haunting family photos in front of a house on 15th St NW in DC today. So curious whose they are—some date from around 1900 or earlier
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Found this box of beautiful and haunting family photos in front of a house on 15th St NW in DC today. So curious whose they are—some date from around 1900 or earlier
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So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So how are all my former gifted and talented kids who used to read several books a day and now rot their faculties doomscrolling while ignoring a TV show doing tonight
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The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
According to an employee with knowledge of the system, the password to the Louvre's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre" at the time of the robbery last month.
abcnews.go.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The password to the Louvre’s video surveillance system was “Louvre,” according to a museum employee
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Carmaker Stellantis pulls plug on supply deal with Australia's Alliance Nickel reut.rs/480tJlE
Carmaker Stellantis pulls plug on supply deal with Australia's Alliance Nickel
Australia's Alliance Nickel said on Friday carmaker Stellantis will terminate their supply deal for battery-grade nickel and cobalt from the NiWest project, effective December 3, citing missed milestone deadlines.
reut.rs
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Carmaker Stellantis pulls plug on supply deal with Australia's Alliance Nickel reut.rs/480tJlE
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Welcome to KM (Knowledge Mobilization) Compass: Helping You Share What You Know, Where It Matters Most. km.socialmedialab.ca Our new app is designed to help researchers like you turn ideas into impact.socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/02/n...
New KM Compass App From the Social Media Lab Helps Researchers Translate Knowledge Into Real-World Impact - Social Media Lab
TORONTO, ON – [October 02, 2025] — At a time when public trust in institutions is fragmented and misinformation spreads faster than evidence, researchers and experts face a critical challenge: how to ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Welcome to KM (Knowledge Mobilization) Compass: Helping You Share What You Know, Where It Matters Most. km.socialmedialab.ca Our new app is designed to help researchers like you turn ideas into impact.socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/02/n...
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FWIW, I love Parks and Rec because is a love letter to the people who, like Leslie Nope, show up every day to do the deeply unsexy work of making society function because they believe that their small contributions make the world a better place. In sufficient numbers, that’s exactly what they do.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
FWIW, I love Parks and Rec because is a love letter to the people who, like Leslie Nope, show up every day to do the deeply unsexy work of making society function because they believe that their small contributions make the world a better place. In sufficient numbers, that’s exactly what they do.
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Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪
BICAN: A cell census of the developing human brain
Building on their landmark efforts to create cell-type atlases of adult brains using single-cell and spatial genomics technologies, researchers in the BRAIN ...
go.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪
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This is a movie waiting to be made.
Japan sends troops to combat deadly wave of bear attacks reut.rs/4op6MOI
Japan sends troops to combat deadly wave of bear attacks
Japan's military deployed troops to the country's mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request from local authorities struggling to cope with a wave of attacks.
reut.rs
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This is a movie waiting to be made.
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Bitcoin and $TSLA dropping:
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Bitcoin and $TSLA dropping:
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Charlotte's transport referendum has won.
1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding:
—Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension
—Road projects (40%)
—Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)
1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding:
—Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension
—Road projects (40%)
—Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)
Just with early vote reporting, Charlotte's transportation sales tax referendum is currently up 55–45%. But I caution this is just the early vote!
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Charlotte's transport referendum has won.
1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding:
—Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension
—Road projects (40%)
—Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)
1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding:
—Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension
—Road projects (40%)
—Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)
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A practice I began keeping about 20 years ago has been a font of evergreen learning, and it's simple:
Every time I hear a person I respect use a term or technical phrase whose full meaning escapes me, I note it.
Every few months, I go thru that list, and track down straight-forward explanations.
Every time I hear a person I respect use a term or technical phrase whose full meaning escapes me, I note it.
Every few months, I go thru that list, and track down straight-forward explanations.
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A practice I began keeping about 20 years ago has been a font of evergreen learning, and it's simple:
Every time I hear a person I respect use a term or technical phrase whose full meaning escapes me, I note it.
Every few months, I go thru that list, and track down straight-forward explanations.
Every time I hear a person I respect use a term or technical phrase whose full meaning escapes me, I note it.
Every few months, I go thru that list, and track down straight-forward explanations.
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What I love about xkcd is that you read it and think "what a crazy story, that can't possibly be true" and then look it up and it's basically true
xkcd.com/3162/
xkcd.com/3162/
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
What I love about xkcd is that you read it and think "what a crazy story, that can't possibly be true" and then look it up and it's basically true
xkcd.com/3162/
xkcd.com/3162/
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“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
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2025-11-03 is #WorldJellyfishDay #JellyfishDay #WordCloud #WordCloudArt #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #Minimalism #Abstract #NegativeSpace
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Outstanding. This entry is a journey.
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Outstanding. This entry is a journey.
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Arendt's eulogy poem for Walter Benjamin:
November 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Arendt's eulogy poem for Walter Benjamin:
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BYD profit falls 33% as Chinese EV maker doubles down on overseas markets ft.trib.al/xpAVgnk
BYD profit falls 33% as Chinese EV maker doubles down on overseas markets
Analysts expect car group to unveil string of technological breakthroughs to combat slowdown in growth
ft.trib.al
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
BYD profit falls 33% as Chinese EV maker doubles down on overseas markets ft.trib.al/xpAVgnk
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Ugh too much stupid stuff, here are some lizards of varying evolutionary strategy
December 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Ugh too much stupid stuff, here are some lizards of varying evolutionary strategy
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This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying about having sailed in the same ship once owned by the legendary Theseus, yet when pressed he admitted that every part of the ship had been replaced at least once and therefore can one truly call it the same ship?
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying about having sailed in the same ship once owned by the legendary Theseus, yet when pressed he admitted that every part of the ship had been replaced at least once and therefore can one truly call it the same ship?
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My husband is extremely nice and got me these chocolates but they are almost too cute to eat. (Almost)
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
My husband is extremely nice and got me these chocolates but they are almost too cute to eat. (Almost)
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🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.
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The Mark Felt rule of anonymous government sources is that you should assume they have decided it serves their purposes for the truth to be known.
The corollary to that rule: being on the losing side of an internal struggle GREATLY reduces the fear and cost of kvetching to the press.
The corollary to that rule: being on the losing side of an internal struggle GREATLY reduces the fear and cost of kvetching to the press.
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Mark Felt rule of anonymous government sources is that you should assume they have decided it serves their purposes for the truth to be known.
The corollary to that rule: being on the losing side of an internal struggle GREATLY reduces the fear and cost of kvetching to the press.
The corollary to that rule: being on the losing side of an internal struggle GREATLY reduces the fear and cost of kvetching to the press.
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Vienna in Black and White. -- In the park, after dark. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria
October 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Vienna in Black and White. -- In the park, after dark. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria