Richard Clarke
@rgclarke.bsky.social
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1/14
While there are indeed a number of things China can do to retaliate against the prospect of a worsening trade conflict with the US, and these are things the US and the world should worry about, this article makes the common mistake of...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
While there are indeed a number of things China can do to retaliate against the prospect of a worsening trade conflict with the US, and these are things the US and the world should worry about, this article makes the common mistake of...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How China Can Hit Back at Trump: Target US Firms, Turn to India, Africa
China wields new powers as it confronts the prospect of another trade conflict with the US, expanding its retaliatory reach in recent years to include tools capable of wreaking havoc on global commerc...
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:55 AM
1/14
While there are indeed a number of things China can do to retaliate against the prospect of a worsening trade conflict with the US, and these are things the US and the world should worry about, this article makes the common mistake of...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
While there are indeed a number of things China can do to retaliate against the prospect of a worsening trade conflict with the US, and these are things the US and the world should worry about, this article makes the common mistake of...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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1/9
It's easy to see why many BRICS countries are wary of seeking an alternative to the dollar. The nine-nation group consists of 5 surplus economies and 4 deficit economies, with surpluses in 2023 collectively amounting to...
www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
It's easy to see why many BRICS countries are wary of seeking an alternative to the dollar. The nine-nation group consists of 5 surplus economies and 4 deficit economies, with surpluses in 2023 collectively amounting to...
www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
Why not all the Brics players back Russia’s bid for a de-dollarised world
The bloc is expanding its footprint with new members and partners but it does not always fall on common ground.
www.scmp.com
October 26, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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It's easy to see why many BRICS countries are wary of seeking an alternative to the dollar. The nine-nation group consists of 5 surplus economies and 4 deficit economies, with surpluses in 2023 collectively amounting to...
www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
It's easy to see why many BRICS countries are wary of seeking an alternative to the dollar. The nine-nation group consists of 5 surplus economies and 4 deficit economies, with surpluses in 2023 collectively amounting to...
www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
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How did Britain vote in 2024 by supermarket, I hear you ask?
October 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM
How did Britain vote in 2024 by supermarket, I hear you ask?
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A great tool for understanding the dynamics of the war at sea in the Second World War. The visualisation across time gives a sense of operations, their progression, in the maritime domain - what are perpetually crucial waters, how campaigns change hot stops etc.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4...
Resurfacing the past
More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all — and is uncovering untold stories along the way.
storymaps.arcgis.com
October 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
A great tool for understanding the dynamics of the war at sea in the Second World War. The visualisation across time gives a sense of operations, their progression, in the maritime domain - what are perpetually crucial waters, how campaigns change hot stops etc.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4...
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This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
June 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
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An AI impersonation of David Attenborough, apparently! Disturbingly convincing (and very funny)
r/CyberStuck: the community for Cybertruck memes and laughs
If you, too, enjoy laughing at Cybertrucks and all things Elon Musk, check out r/CyberStuck on your next lunch break.
boingboing.net
September 22, 2024 at 4:22 AM
An AI impersonation of David Attenborough, apparently! Disturbingly convincing (and very funny)
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In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.
September 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM
In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.
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Looking at the Kennedys, it's amazing that America found a way to have a crazy aristocratic family, of a type that usually takes several hundred years of inbreeding to get that way, in under half a century. That's American ingenuity and efficiency right there.
August 25, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Looking at the Kennedys, it's amazing that America found a way to have a crazy aristocratic family, of a type that usually takes several hundred years of inbreeding to get that way, in under half a century. That's American ingenuity and efficiency right there.
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SIDEBAR: Sicily becoming the Royal Navy's giant citrus farm ends up accidentally being a key contributor to the rise of the Mafia, but that's a story for another day.
Good paper on it here. Anyway. Back to scurvy. /9 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Good paper on it here. Anyway. Back to scurvy. /9 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons - Volume 77 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
August 22, 2024 at 9:51 AM
SIDEBAR: Sicily becoming the Royal Navy's giant citrus farm ends up accidentally being a key contributor to the rise of the Mafia, but that's a story for another day.
Good paper on it here. Anyway. Back to scurvy. /9 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Good paper on it here. Anyway. Back to scurvy. /9 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This is Buddo. The earliest depiction of a human figure found anywhere in the British Isles. It is made out of whale bone and can be found in the Stromness Museum on Orkney. At 4,900 years old it comes from a time when mammoths still walked the Earth 🦣 . #neolithic #Orkney
August 20, 2024 at 11:10 PM
This is Buddo. The earliest depiction of a human figure found anywhere in the British Isles. It is made out of whale bone and can be found in the Stromness Museum on Orkney. At 4,900 years old it comes from a time when mammoths still walked the Earth 🦣 . #neolithic #Orkney
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MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN was released 45 years ago today. The second entry in the Monty Python film series, and regarded among the great British comedies, the story of how it was made will have you asking what have the Romans ever done for us…?
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August 17, 2024 at 9:51 AM
MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN was released 45 years ago today. The second entry in the Monty Python film series, and regarded among the great British comedies, the story of how it was made will have you asking what have the Romans ever done for us…?
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to celebrate the arrival of the british, I thought I'd try my hand at making a traditional full english breakfast. how'd I do?
August 14, 2024 at 1:29 AM
to celebrate the arrival of the british, I thought I'd try my hand at making a traditional full english breakfast. how'd I do?
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The inventor of tiramisu has died, which is as good an excuse as any to post one of the greatest pieces of journalism the FT has ever published:
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
[FREE TO READ] From panettone to tiramisu, many ‘classics’ are in fact recent inventions, as Alberto Grandi has shown
on.ft.com
July 29, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The inventor of tiramisu has died, which is as good an excuse as any to post one of the greatest pieces of journalism the FT has ever published:
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I’ll see your ‘one of the greatest pieces of journalism the FT has ever produced’ and raise you another one:
on.ft.com/3cQK7WF
on.ft.com/3cQK7WF
July 29, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I’ll see your ‘one of the greatest pieces of journalism the FT has ever produced’ and raise you another one:
on.ft.com/3cQK7WF
on.ft.com/3cQK7WF
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every artbutmakeitsports post makes me feel like the pootie too good scene in pootie tang
The Castle of the Pyrenees, by René Magritte, 1959, 📸 by @BrouilletJerome
July 29, 2024 at 8:39 PM
every artbutmakeitsports post makes me feel like the pootie too good scene in pootie tang
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The Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) is a robust determination of the ENSO phase... and with June's data in, the latest value is +0.39C, which is neutral. La Nina here we come.
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/oni/
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/oni/
July 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
The Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) is a robust determination of the ENSO phase... and with June's data in, the latest value is +0.39C, which is neutral. La Nina here we come.
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/oni/
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/oni/
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The visualizations in this (also very well written) article by Bartosz Ciechanowski are 👨🍳🤌💋.
Not sure if they are roll-your-own or what, but wow.
ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
Not sure if they are roll-your-own or what, but wow.
ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
ciechanow.ski
June 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The visualizations in this (also very well written) article by Bartosz Ciechanowski are 👨🍳🤌💋.
Not sure if they are roll-your-own or what, but wow.
ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
Not sure if they are roll-your-own or what, but wow.
ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
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A new open access paper in the journal Landslides (Brook and Nicoll 2024) describes mass movements triggered by the record-breaking 2023 storms in Auckland, New Zealand. Two storms triggered over 140,000 landslides, costing 3.4% of New Zealand's GDP.
eos.org/thelandslide...
Image by GNS Science
eos.org/thelandslide...
Image by GNS Science
April 29, 2024 at 7:14 AM
A new open access paper in the journal Landslides (Brook and Nicoll 2024) describes mass movements triggered by the record-breaking 2023 storms in Auckland, New Zealand. Two storms triggered over 140,000 landslides, costing 3.4% of New Zealand's GDP.
eos.org/thelandslide...
Image by GNS Science
eos.org/thelandslide...
Image by GNS Science
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Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art
April 26, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art
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In 2023, 10 critically endangered Kākāpō were reintroduced to mainland New Zealand—the first time in nearly four decades. But it hasn't gone quite as planned.
Read my latest for Audubon magazine about the early challenges and what's next for the flightless parrot:
www.audubon.org/magazine/mai...
Read my latest for Audubon magazine about the early challenges and what's next for the flightless parrot:
www.audubon.org/magazine/mai...
On Mainland New Zealand, Crafty Kākāpō Are Thwarting Reintroduction Efforts
Ten of the critically endangered parrots were released into a sanctuary in 2023 with hopes of eventually establishing a wild population. The only problem? The birds keep escaping.
www.audubon.org
April 17, 2024 at 4:19 PM
In 2023, 10 critically endangered Kākāpō were reintroduced to mainland New Zealand—the first time in nearly four decades. But it hasn't gone quite as planned.
Read my latest for Audubon magazine about the early challenges and what's next for the flightless parrot:
www.audubon.org/magazine/mai...
Read my latest for Audubon magazine about the early challenges and what's next for the flightless parrot:
www.audubon.org/magazine/mai...
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The 1746 John Rocque map of London is available in high resolution from the LOC.
Download this, and fall in love with its details.
I promise you'll be lost in it for days.
www.loc.gov/item/766...
#c18th 🗃️ #maps #london
Download this, and fall in love with its details.
I promise you'll be lost in it for days.
www.loc.gov/item/766...
#c18th 🗃️ #maps #london
December 27, 2023 at 5:01 PM
The 1746 John Rocque map of London is available in high resolution from the LOC.
Download this, and fall in love with its details.
I promise you'll be lost in it for days.
www.loc.gov/item/766...
#c18th 🗃️ #maps #london
Download this, and fall in love with its details.
I promise you'll be lost in it for days.
www.loc.gov/item/766...
#c18th 🗃️ #maps #london
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Why do ketchup bottles write "tomato" ketchup? Isn't this redundant? No! There are many ketchups that have nothing to do with tomatoes. Tomato ketchup is actually quite recent! Ultimately, the word probably goes back to Hokkien (kê-chiap 膎汁). It's trajectory is mindboggling 🤯: 1/2
October 30, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Why do ketchup bottles write "tomato" ketchup? Isn't this redundant? No! There are many ketchups that have nothing to do with tomatoes. Tomato ketchup is actually quite recent! Ultimately, the word probably goes back to Hokkien (kê-chiap 膎汁). It's trajectory is mindboggling 🤯: 1/2