Graeme Edgeler
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Check on the Executive
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I'm still on the lookout for this, although I've had some leads.
My understanding so far is that this hasn't been studied, or written about, from an economic perspective yet.
My understanding so far is that this hasn't been studied, or written about, from an economic perspective yet.
Economists!
I am looking for someone to coauthor an article on the massive decline in costs of genome sequencing.
The science is all fine, but I'm interested in the economics of it all: the innovation, funding, prizes, patents, etc.
Does anyone come to mind? Thanks!
I am looking for someone to coauthor an article on the massive decline in costs of genome sequencing.
The science is all fine, but I'm interested in the economics of it all: the innovation, funding, prizes, patents, etc.
Does anyone come to mind? Thanks!
February 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
I'm still on the lookout for this, although I've had some leads.
My understanding so far is that this hasn't been studied, or written about, from an economic perspective yet.
My understanding so far is that this hasn't been studied, or written about, from an economic perspective yet.
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant
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Ngs dinnertime sewage chat: there's a surge protector on the outlet pipe (if sewage is pushed back up by waves, storm surges etc, it gets redirected out to the emergency bypass - the short pipe), and this should also work if the main pipe is blocked up...
My dad says multiple points of failure:
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
February 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Ngs dinnertime sewage chat: there's a surge protector on the outlet pipe (if sewage is pushed back up by waves, storm surges etc, it gets redirected out to the emergency bypass - the short pipe), and this should also work if the main pipe is blocked up...
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reg journalism: the headline is lies, the article is ~half true
tech journalism: the headline is lies, the article is screenshots of tweets spreading and reacting to the lies
tech journalism: the headline is lies, the article is screenshots of tweets spreading and reacting to the lies
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
reg journalism: the headline is lies, the article is ~half true
tech journalism: the headline is lies, the article is screenshots of tweets spreading and reacting to the lies
tech journalism: the headline is lies, the article is screenshots of tweets spreading and reacting to the lies
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My dad says multiple points of failure:
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
February 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
My dad says multiple points of failure:
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
* there are floor sensors everywhere, the plant operator should've known immediately
* there's an emergency overflow in the plant itself - why didn't that operate?
* The plant is on a damn hill - the wastewater is pumped *to* the treatment plant...
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One of the nicer celebs I met as a journalist. Doesn't always mean anything, but he was genuinely kind and interested in my work the couple of times we chatted. Loved him in Don't Trust the B----. RIP
James Van Der Beek, who has been battling cancer, has died.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
He was 48.
Per TMZ.
February 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
One of the nicer celebs I met as a journalist. Doesn't always mean anything, but he was genuinely kind and interested in my work the couple of times we chatted. Loved him in Don't Trust the B----. RIP
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there
Anyway the real heroes of Minnesota are the countless volunteers doing boring shifts where nothing happens. The mom of three delivering food to 40 families in her kids’ school. The dad standing at the door of an elementary with a whistle for hours. The drivers endlessly looping, seeing nothing.
February 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
What real heroism looks like is you drive past a school and it’s 7am and it’s -3 out and there are four dads posted at every door scanning every passing car to be sure it’s not someone coming to take the children. And you drive by at noon and they’re there. And you drive by at 3pm and they’re there
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some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...
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Incidentally, the Franks were a German refugee family who fled to the Netherlands in 1934. The moral challenges facing their Dutch neighbors were not entirely dissimilar to those facing Americans over whether to help a newly anti-refugee govt deport Somalis or Venezuelans to unsafe countries
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Incidentally, the Franks were a German refugee family who fled to the Netherlands in 1934. The moral challenges facing their Dutch neighbors were not entirely dissimilar to those facing Americans over whether to help a newly anti-refugee govt deport Somalis or Venezuelans to unsafe countries
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It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
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One of the most interesting aspects of leaderless organisation is discipline. Note the remarkable lack of violence by the ICE protesters movement so far.
It would be remarkable if a charismatic leader managed to maintain this level of discipline. But *nobody* is doing this, *everybody* is.
It would be remarkable if a charismatic leader managed to maintain this level of discipline. But *nobody* is doing this, *everybody* is.
January 28, 2026 at 12:29 AM
One of the most interesting aspects of leaderless organisation is discipline. Note the remarkable lack of violence by the ICE protesters movement so far.
It would be remarkable if a charismatic leader managed to maintain this level of discipline. But *nobody* is doing this, *everybody* is.
It would be remarkable if a charismatic leader managed to maintain this level of discipline. But *nobody* is doing this, *everybody* is.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
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'Jon Boutcher has now confirmed an extraordinary fact: the judge who heard the [Scappaticci] case did so after being secretly briefed on the real identity of Stakeknife... the government barrister who did the secret briefing was Philip Sales' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Murder and MI5: the extraordinary battle over what stays secret
Can the state, especially when it is implicated in killing, be trusted as the arbiter of what should remain confidential?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:56 AM
'Jon Boutcher has now confirmed an extraordinary fact: the judge who heard the [Scappaticci] case did so after being secretly briefed on the real identity of Stakeknife... the government barrister who did the secret briefing was Philip Sales' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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you’ll never guess what this was in reply to
This is the 2026 equivalent of when Walter Cronkite went on tv and said the Vietnam War was unwinnable
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
you’ll never guess what this was in reply to
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Succinct, accurate, well done sentence in @bloomberg.com story today by @steventdennis.bsky.social & @elwasson.bsky.social
January 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Succinct, accurate, well done sentence in @bloomberg.com story today by @steventdennis.bsky.social & @elwasson.bsky.social
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I'm glad Jim Reardon ended up being a very important Pixar person, with an Oscar nomination for writing the script to Wall-E. But it's pretty clear from this 1986 student short film why he ended up on The Simpsons first.
January 22, 2026 at 6:26 AM
I'm glad Jim Reardon ended up being a very important Pixar person, with an Oscar nomination for writing the script to Wall-E. But it's pretty clear from this 1986 student short film why he ended up on The Simpsons first.
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A key election date people don’t talk about enough is Writ Day (which for this election will be 4 October). If you’re enrolled at your current address by Writ Day you’ll be on the printed roll at voting places in your electorate, will be sent an EasyVote card, and can cast an ordinary vote.
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM
A key election date people don’t talk about enough is Writ Day (which for this election will be 4 October). If you’re enrolled at your current address by Writ Day you’ll be on the printed roll at voting places in your electorate, will be sent an EasyVote card, and can cast an ordinary vote.
Just finished rewatching season 1 of 30 Rock.
Watched every(?) episode when it aired, but haven't seen it since. Remembered the main characters, but like two plot points and no guest stars.
It's cool to basically see it new. And it's still really good.
Watched every(?) episode when it aired, but haven't seen it since. Remembered the main characters, but like two plot points and no guest stars.
It's cool to basically see it new. And it's still really good.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Just finished rewatching season 1 of 30 Rock.
Watched every(?) episode when it aired, but haven't seen it since. Remembered the main characters, but like two plot points and no guest stars.
It's cool to basically see it new. And it's still really good.
Watched every(?) episode when it aired, but haven't seen it since. Remembered the main characters, but like two plot points and no guest stars.
It's cool to basically see it new. And it's still really good.
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In the New Zealand justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and for some reason employees of private law firms who prosecute the offenders but aren't subject to the Official Information Act. These are their stories.
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
In the New Zealand justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and for some reason employees of private law firms who prosecute the offenders but aren't subject to the Official Information Act. These are their stories.
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Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
![Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters
For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22]
He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihmgl3sxrmb5t6edpjnixyanj2rvcf43zdv46mbifhl7hdtmz5u6y@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
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In their defence, this actually makes sense! The liquidation records are for last year, and the business confidence surveys asks whether you think things will be better in the next 12 months.
This is one of those "it can't get any worse" = "optimism" things.
This is one of those "it can't get any worse" = "optimism" things.
January 14, 2026 at 4:02 AM
In their defence, this actually makes sense! The liquidation records are for last year, and the business confidence surveys asks whether you think things will be better in the next 12 months.
This is one of those "it can't get any worse" = "optimism" things.
This is one of those "it can't get any worse" = "optimism" things.