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Randy D.
@randyd.bsky.social
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Urban and spatial economics burner account.
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davidzipper.bsky.social
New transit study: Service frequency and coverage both drive ridership, but frequency matters more.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
November 28, 2024 at 1:44 PM
randyd.bsky.social
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Cannot have a competitive economy without a functioning transportation system.
How High are Other Nations’ Gas Taxes?
The U.S. federal government funds infrastructure projects through the highway trust fund. How do gas taxes compare across OECD countries? Federal gas tax.
taxfoundation.org
November 16, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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maxnathan.bsky.social
The verdict is in on Help to Buy, and it’s … not good.

Great paper by Xiaolun Yu with Carozzi, Hilber ##EconSky 📉📈

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
Various conspiracy theories use different linguistic pathways to legitimize violence, e.g., Great Replacement uses anger, disgust, and planning language and False Flags use contempt, violence, threats, hate, and grievance language on Parler doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9wpre
Figure 1. Framework showing narrative evolutions towards violence legitimation and associated emotions. Figure 3. Mean percent of anger, contempt, and disgust words per post and significant differences between narratives. Bars left-to-right are in order of increasing associated violence. Error bars show standard error of the mean. Figure 4. Mean percent of violence, threat, hate, grievance, and paranoia words per post and significant differences between narratives. Bars left-to-right are in order of increasing associated violence. Error bars show standard error of the mean. Figure 5. Correlation heatmaps for each conspiracy narrative. A) Flat Earth, b) Anti-5G, c) False Flag, d) Anti-Vaccine, e) Great Replacement. Alpha = .01
December 19, 2023 at 3:32 PM
randyd.bsky.social
It is truly an amazing platform where you get blocked by the people you are trying to support
December 5, 2023 at 1:22 AM
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tiffanyclay.dev
+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
A screenshot of a tweet from San Antonio’s local newspaper, The Express News (@ExpressNews). The text reads, “Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.” Below the text is a link card featuring a photo of the aforementioned Cancun-loving demagogue, holding a microphone up to his undeniably punchable face.
December 1, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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jacobmays.bsky.social
Making my Bluesky debut with a new working paper, “Sequential Pricing of Electricity,” on price formation and resource remuneration in electricity markets with significant storage: optimization-online.org/2023/10/sequ...
October 11, 2023 at 11:01 PM
randyd.bsky.social
Racking my brain to think of an urban planning application for this database..
dasmith.bsky.social David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social · Nov 10
The final records of the database of smuggling prosecutions in 1720s Britain are now uploaded in the Dark Markets Observatory. Discover who was smuggling, what happened to them, and sometimes why - criminal gangs, international networks, the wild world of #18thc #smuggling 🗃️ #history #earlymod
Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
www.davidchansmith.net
November 10, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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hakonnordhagen.bsky.social
Norway is the climate leading yacht owner.
October 17, 2023 at 6:55 AM
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ecomarci.bsky.social
If anyone would like to buy a signed book copy, I have two!

I am in Michigan and can send by media mail.
Two copies of the author's book, The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution
October 5, 2023 at 8:55 PM
randyd.bsky.social
Since Stephanie Stancheva doesn’t yet seem to be over here I’m reposting this great thread on the political implications of zero sum thinking. x.com/s_stantcheva...
September 23, 2023 at 12:02 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
We're apparently removing ~6 billion tonnes of sand a year from the marine environment.

How does this removal impact the potential addition of alkalinity to the ocean from the weathering of that sand?
‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform
UN-developed Marine Sand Watch estimates 6bn tonnes dug up a year, well beyond rate at which it is replenished
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2023 at 10:48 PM