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  • 1 week ago | backofmind.substack.com | Dan Davies

    Alright – I’m in a funny mood today so let’s do this week’s post in the form of thinly fictionalised nonfiction. Imagine it’s the 1970s, and we’re looking at a town in the Northwest of England, rugby league country, just at the point in time when the word “post-industrial” is beginning to be coined. The town council isn’t called a Corporation any more, but it still acts like one. Our main character is a likely lad who works for the environmental health department.

  • 3 weeks ago | zenodo.org | Anthony Onwuli |Alex Moriarty |Dan Davies |Aron Walsh

    <!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at master --> What's Changed SMACT Metallicity Handling Enhancements by @ryannduma in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/367 Changes to the smact_validity function to allow for early short-circuiting resolving issue #378 by @ryannduma in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/379 Merge develop into master branch by @AntObi in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/392 Updated oxidation.py and its tests by @KingaMas...

  • 3 weeks ago | niskanencenter.org | Dan Davies

    Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and an analyst for several investment banks. He is the author of The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money, and has written for publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. Thanks to Steven Teles, David Dagan, and Henry Farrell for their helpful and insightful comments. “Let’s play a little game here … Let’s all get up and stretch.

  • 4 weeks ago | backofmind.substack.com | Dan Davies

    I’ve been trailing this for a while, but my Niskanen Center White Paper is nearly out, and the summary essay for it has now been published along with a load of others, in a collection called “The Law Of Abundance”. That title is meant to be a contrast to “The Law of Constraint”, in its sense meaning the way that administrative law is currently set up to stop the government from doing things.

  • 1 month ago | sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Dan Davies |Rupert Cocke

    Stafford Beer at der Universität St.Gallen (HSG). Media uploaded by HSG are released under CC-BY-SA 4.0.Populism - defined as anti-pluralism - has exploded throughout the West in recent years. Although populists often stand a fighting chance in one of the two major games of politics (winning elections), they tend to crash and burn at the second game (governing competently). Why do populist narratives begin to resonate with large sections of the voting public around the 2010s?

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24 Nov 23

I was in charge of the Friday work quiz today and pulled in the assistance of DALL-E to design me some musical tees for #TShirtDay. How many can you get? "Say what you see" etc. https://t.co/txVQckR15J https://t.co/0FKvwPQ09K

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2 Mar 22

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