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Heiner Salomon

@heinersalomon.bsky.social

[On Hiatus] Doctoral researcher at the research cluster for Global Social Policy Dynamics at @unibremen.bsky.social. Interested in quantitative social sciences, social protection, anti-racist and climate activism and cycling (not in that order).

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Heiner Salomon@heinersalomon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Also, 528 Megawatts?!? I just did a quick google search and that is roughly equivalent to the smallest nuclear power plant in the US. Just for this one data centre.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Now Google says they need 497% more diesel tanks than they originally lied about needing and also they need 547% more diesel generators than they lied about needing and our city & county leaders are gonna pretend to think about it then say lol ok obviously sure www.wane.com/top-stories/...

Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters. equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties

How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

equitablegrowth.org

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

CNN@cnn.com · 11mo ago

The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM

Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 11mo ago

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛@thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

Bluesky doesn’t get to position itself as an alternative to the Nazi app and suspend Black women for being flippant about someone who was a MAJOR factor in attacks on our well being and livelihood, while his own folks actually killed him is still frying my brain. And you’re gonna hear about it.

Anthony Zacharzewski@anthonyzach.be · 11mo ago

Big shout out to the Austrian politicians who are destroying Schengen because they're too scared to stand up to a bunch of racist Facebook Uncles. I hate you all. Related: 10 minutes of pointless security theatre at the SLO/AT border and I've lost the first connection on a 14 hour journey home.

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the former president tried to reverse his 2022 election loss with a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

washingtonpost.com

Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 11mo ago

All of us—including myself—should publish fewer but better papers. And we should spend more of our time on scrutinizing existing work, so we know which claims can be trusted. But that's hard work with little recognition. Thanks @sophieehill.bsky.social for doing it. Impressive 🕵️‍♀️ work. Fun to read.

Sophie E. Hill@sophieehill.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/... TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself! This suggests manual editing of results tables. Which is not good... 🧵

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 11mo ago

CH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲

Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 11mo ago

My provocation: By 2035, methane - not carbon dioxide - will be the main driver of climate change. Absent significant policy intervention, fossil fuel infrastructure will continue to emit methane at high rates even if fossil fuel combustion, and associated carbon dioxide emissions, drop sharply.