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Alex Turnbull
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Climate / energy / materials / climate dad / Sneaky Sasquatch / in 🇸🇬. Posts are on rolling delete. syncretica.substack.com https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Vg7PNIAAAAJ&hl=en
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22h
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 1d
Battery technology and maybe batteries themselves to be limited in exports. Though one interview says it is a paperwork process to get licenses to export, how ever others have suggested these limit could be strategically implemented to affect drone warfare.
www.reuters.com
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 1d
You got to hand it to this admin, sometimes being a little devious goes a long way versus pearl clutching.
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 1d
Appears US admin used Pakistan as a workaround on rare earths which preciptated the China meltdown @arnabdatta.bsky.social
Pakistan delivers rare earth elements and critical minerals to USSM
Pakistan delivers its first enriched rare earth elements and critical minerals to USSM, marking a milestone for US-Pakistan supply chains.
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 1d
Brazil, Australia, Uganda would be my top three of rare earth deposit havers that want tariffs dropped
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 1d
I imagine there is going to be a portfolio approach here
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 1d
Appears US admin used Pakistan as a workaround on rare earths which preciptated the China meltdown @arnabdatta.bsky.social
Pakistan delivers rare earth elements and critical minerals to USSM
Pakistan delivers its first enriched rare earth elements and critical minerals to USSM, marking a milestone for US-Pakistan supply chains.
www.fastmarkets.com
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 2d
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/26/s...
Silver price surge drives PV makers to cut silver usage further
The price of silver rose above $44 per ounce this week after gaining more than 30% in six months, with silver expert Philip Newman telling <b>pv magazine</b> it could exceed $50 per ounce next year, r...
www.pv-magazine.com
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 2d
People have no idea how much silver is going to get ripped out of solar - plenty of data in industry rags nobody reads.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 6d
My colleagues and I are SUPER excited about this: The amazing @crampell.bsky.social is joining our team at The Bulwark.

www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
Screenshot of an excerpt from a Max Tani article for Semafor dated 5 October 2025. TEXT: A high-profile columnist who left The Washington Post amid the paper’s ongoing editorial upheaval is joining a growing anti-Trump digital news startup. Former Washington Post opinion columnist Catherine Rampell is joining The Bulwark, where she will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter while contributing to the company’s podcasts and YouTube channels. In a telephone interview on Friday, Rampell said that although she had spent her career at traditional media institutions like The New York Times and the Post, she was encouraged by The Bulwark’s growth and felt committed to its editorial mission, which emphasizes supporting America’s democratic principles and institutions. “It’s very mission-oriented as an institution, and within that mission, there’s obviously room for a lot of other views,” Rampell said. “All of those things were appealing, and it’s a pretty kickass group of people.” “The Bulwark is a written, video, and audio product. And as we grow, we are looking for people who can excel across all those mediums,” CEO Sarah Longwell said in a statement. “Catherine is not just one of those people — she’s one of the best of those people. She also brings a unique expertise in economics and a mission aligned worldview. We’re beyond thrilled she’s decided to join us.”
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d
exit, voice, loyalty
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6d
I increasingly think the subreddit model is the best conceptual way to structure a social media platform, even if actually existing Reddit I’m pretty meh about. You gotta let people enforce their own community norms, but those norms have to be opt-in
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anime.robin0 @animerobin0.bsky.social · 6d
a lot of people want bluesky to be run like a small subreddit
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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 7d
lol
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8d
People in the Trump WH are upset that the Sec'y of Commerce suggested that Trump's former Sec'y of Labor has access to videos of Epstein's massage room and that everyone who spent time with Epstein knew he was gross but he bribed them all into silence with said videos. zeteo.com/p/trump-jeff...
Howard Lutnick Enrages Trump Officials With Jeffrey Epstein ‘Blackmail’ Remarks
The Trump administration claims Jeffrey Epstein didn’t blackmail anyone. His commerce secretary just called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever.’
zeteo.com
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d
History repeats.
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 8d
I think @nosunkcosts.bsky.social has pointed this out but if the bull case on Openai is they are after everybody then you need to assume we go full Snowcrash economy or that the dynamics at this size and scale are a lot more zero sum than currently implied.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10d
🔥 In September, 14 SBS regiment hit 19 Russian refineries or energy targets, - Magyar's report
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10d
That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...
Russia to import gasoline from Asia as nearly 40% of refining capacity shuts down, media reports
Russia is considering importing fuel from China, South Korea, and Singapore to stabilize its domestic market, according to Kommersant.
kyivindependent.com
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10d
a trad on here got mad at me for saying this but i have a strong feeling the curia genuinely was like "we need lib JPII to do for America what JPII did for Poland"
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Thomas Harvell-DeGolier, ABD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 11d
Man I am starting to think that Leão being American in that he understands the divisions and politics of the American hierarchy was a plus to the conclave mainly because Leão himself was not a part of the American hierarchy and network
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 10d
ServiceNow - makers of a tool even more hated than Jira - released the open weights of Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker.

An open-weights multimodal reasoning model that hits frontier-level performance with just a fraction of the compute.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d
I love you, Bluesky.
Your Hegseth Insult About Mouth-Breathing I saw a meme on BlueSky where you are quoted calling Pete Hegseth a "mouth- breathing dipshit." Seriously? That's the best you can do? I would have thought that anyone teaching at Princeton would have a better vocabulary, be more creative, and have more intelligence than to use "mouth-breathing" as an insult. That is an ignorant attempt at an insult that has been around for far too long and it needs to stop being used. To begin with, singers, brass and woodwind players breathe through their mouths most of the time because it is most efficient, takes in more breath more quickly, and is part of our technique. In addition many people with sinus and allergy issues often have to breathe through their mouths. Equating mouth breathing with lower intelligence is just flat out stupid and beneath someone of your stature. I guarantee that most professional musicians like myself are probably smarter than most people and we don't use ignorant insults that are inaccurate and stupid! We use more accurate insults. Sometimes we get more creative, but in Hegseth's case, he's not
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 11d
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 11d
And direct deposition! www.nexwafe.com
The Next Generation of Solar Wafers | Nexwafe
High efficiency, low cost photovoltaic wafers. NexWafe’s breakthrough manufacturing process delivers unmatched competitive advantage to our partners.
www.nexwafe.com
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 11d
By 2050, total greenhouse gas emissions from polysilicon production are projected to exceed those of the entire aluminum industry, underscoring the importance of developing low-carbon solar supply chains.
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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 11d
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11d
If you will excuse me for some light public gooning after being pancaked by a comically large piano falling out of a skyscraper for the past month, the past week has started to feel like an inflection point in markets where gravity is finally catching up to some things (after they're +100% lol)
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 11d
I kinda think this has become the better “second screen” sports posting network. X is so asynchronous that there’s no experience of shared now-ness anymore.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11d
I think this is a new record of sports posting on here, a good sign all around
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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 11d
Double glazing and EVs are good, actually. #EnergySky
The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
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