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How the EU’s plan to turbocharge Italy’s economy fell flat ft.trib.al/TSmCHvr

Today, we're excited to announce a major milestone in spatial transparency: the launch of annual, global commodity tree crop maps (coffee, cocoa, oil palm and rubber) built with Google’s Satellite Embedding dataset, part of Google Earth AI. goo.gle/4uAnDkY This dataset represents the first pan-tropical, open source, 10-meter resolution map for cocoa, coffee, and rubber, key commodity tree crops associated with deforestation. These maps are a core output of the Forest Data Partnership (FDaP), a global consortium dedicated to halting forest loss by collaboratively improving monitoring and supply chain tracking. By scaling our coverage from individual countries to the entire tropical belt, we’re closing a critical data gap that has hindered conservation efforts for decades.

checking linkedin to see what my palo alto HS valedictorian classmate is up to. jane street...i recoil. i cant even look at it. i will fucking destroy you. oh good, the real estate agent got back to me. "your series A stock is monopoly money and NOT a proof of asset. i am blocking your number now." what...the...fuck. i KNOW oai and ant employees are using their stock as proof of assets. how am i supposed to be a founder while living in this shit hole apartment? whatever. doesnt matter. wait, why is our website down? agents fix this. umm actually lets see here...uhh here we go, claude make full_stack_dev_cracked.md skills file then fix it. god im so cracked. goodbye to my 1099s. who the fuck is calling me while im on dnd? grandma? "亲爱的，你今天吃过饭了吗" blocked. she knows this is my focus block for deep work. claude write me a twitter thread summarizing the 5 things i learned from the latest dwarkesh pod

Tweets from the Qing Dynasty: "Who even lives here???😹"

Featured in the latest Digest: How Industrial Policies Shaped the Global Electric Vehicle Supply Chain nber.org/digest/202605/…

“I go to a top 3 school in Cambridge”

Global supply chain disruptions reshape monetary policy transmission. Bottlenecks steepen aggregate supply, amplifying price responses while muting output effects, from Xiwen Bai, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, @YiliangLi_, and @FZanettiOxford nber.org/papers/w35209

Henry’s Hunan in SF oh how I miss you…

Intern wearing arcteryx to the office

My doctor’s website is like perfectly concocted to look like a phishing form

Big if true

@saltwatersoph Spiritual unemployment rate and thrifting quality should have a near perfect positive correlation

Going to a small Japanese inspired spot in Heraldsburg

Leveraging the agrifood sector for jobs: A new knowledge agenda In last month's blog, Luc Christiaensen (@wb_research), @AntonyChapoto (@ANAPRI_info) & @ianchovichina discussed new research on agrifood employment across Africa and Asia: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

New working paper with @AmolRaswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.

wtf....... what happened to rand journal？ 1% acceptace ？

The locations of America’s Ivy League universities

NAIP is so beautiful

Using two regression discontinuity designs and data from 150,000 Indian village councils to find that expanding “hyperlocal” representation has limited effects on key governance outcomes, from Veda Narasimhan and @Jeff_Weaver_ nber.org/papers/w35217

I’m only a sophomore I still have time to pivot to grad school -