Trey Menefee (🇭🇰 🇹🇭 🇺🇸)

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- 2y research postdoc contract
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- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵

The Concrete Currency: How Hong Kong Built a Financial System on Land How Real Estate Became Hong Kong’s Central Bank

New essay just dropped! Free on Substack

It's about how HK's fiscal policy IS it's land policy.
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The Concrete Currency: How Hong Kong Built a Financial System on Land How Real Estate Became Hong Kong’s Central Bank

New essay just dropped

open.substack.com/pub/comparat...

I read this in 2014 HK and kinda hate it for giving me false hope

The @economist.com on Europe’s task to preserve what’s left of the West. Remarkably strong words.

I’m going on record: Life first happened when an RNA fucked a metabolism.

This entire episode should go in a f'ing political museum as a perfect specimen of how Dems suck at politics.

You can whine about hypocrisy, whine about flip-flopping, whine about who did what, but the only thing millions of young voters are going to see is: Trump saved TikTok.

I’m just living for the moment that it finally dawns on Falun Gong that Trump isn’t going to save them from the CCP.

“On one hand, logging on here will make me mad while solving nothing and wasting valuable hours of my life I will never get back but on the other hand, that last skeet got 27 likes, so YOLO.” -my smooth cartoon brain

I once flew off an e-bike and caught myself with my hands and broke both my elbows. Went to a hospital 10 minutes away and it took 2 hours to explain to them that the other elbow was broken too. It wasn't a language issue.

Let me add to this that you will never see the same doctor twice, so you will need to repeatedly explain what’s wrong with you and what treatments you have received.

liberating men for the first time in a generation by calling women 'toots' and 'sweetcheeks' from my soapbox on the town square

As an example of this, the report cites advisors telling Trump about the "red mirage" effect where he might be ahead on election night before it got closer. Trump responded by saying he might declare victory earlier, which he ultimately did.

To state the obvious, if Alabama burned down and a Democratic Congress said they had to idk, learn to read or go 48 hours without saying a racial slur, it would be a national scandal.

I don’t think schools as we know them will survive what’s coming and that’s a net good think as is the emerging human ability to have almost limitless access to previously god-tier knowledge consumption and creation.

I used to teach the case for letting Malibu burn in my STS class but the bit that occasionally pops into my forebrain is his brief aside about the bubonic plague squirrels.

California’s Apocalyptic ‘Second Nature’ - RLS-NYC A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from the fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred. Our imaginations can barely encompass the speed or scale of the catas...

8/ If you read between historian Mike Davis' apocalyptic lines, policy advice for 2020s
-Move ppl out of fire prone, sprawling WUI zones to denser coasts
-Pay ppl to thin weeds, clear millions of dead trees & do prescribed burns
- Limit human ignition
- Cut CO2 FAST
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Shigatse Earthquake: Over 120 Dead as Rescuers Battle Cold and Rubble As officials warn of more tremors, rescue teams comb through collapsed homes in search of survivors, and medical experts and emergency supplies pour into the affected region.

As temperatures plunged to -16°C, survivors battled a brutal combination of freezing cold and thin air. “It’s unbearably cold. Seeing the weary faces of children and the frailty of the elderly filled me with sorrow,” a resident told Sixth Tone.

I think one of the things that's hard for Americans to understand because Facebook and the internet evolved separately here is how much Facebook was the internet in Myanmar. There's no Facebook free basics or whatever it was called eqivalent for US audiences

Great essay. Education systems like the NL offer strong vocational training but selects students too early, before their full potential can be assessed.

Cover of the book Island Tomorrow. It has a map of Taiwan with drawings of people working in computers

Island Tinkerers by @honghongtinn.bsky.social tells the story of how Taiwan has become a global leader in high-tech manufacturing. The book is out now

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First demonstration I see in HK since 2019. Of two

With Stakes High, Lebanese Lawmakers to Try Again to Choose a President Despite pressure by the United States and others to elect a president in order to receive financial support, a consensus candidate has yet to emerge who can clearly end Lebanon’s political gridlock.

Lebanon’s deeply divided Parliament is set Thursday to try to elect a new president, potentially ending a yearslong political vacuum and ushering in a degree of stability for a country reeling from its bloodiest war in decades.

Indonesia is in no position to stop a USN crossing their archipelagos waters for transit during wartime.

I mean they can try… they won’t

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There's nothing surprising about this. Hyman Minsky often discussed how, in rising markets, there was a systematic tendency for economic agents – businesses, households and even governments – to structure balance sheets in ways that exacerbated underlying volatility.