Announcements 📢
I have unexpected professional news to share – Announcement #2
I am going back to academia
Olivier Simard-Casanova
French Organizational Economist
Articles: Explainers 📄
A world of unprecedented wealth, but unevenly distributed — Explainer #1b
An illustration of the limits of aggregating data
Notes 🗒️
Bluesky significantly improves how it displays threads — Note #2
Discover the features of version 1.86, a major update of the platform
Plots 📊
How has solar photovoltaic power price evolved? — Plot #1
In fifty years, the price per Watt of solar photovoltaic power has fallen dramatically
Notes 🗒️
The difference between moderation and censorship – Note #1
Some claim to be “censored” by social media platforms. They are not.
Articles: Explainers 📄
Humans have never been richer and more numerous — Explainer #1a
Discover the fascinating exponential phenomena that have transformed humanity over the last three centuries
Plus ⭐️
Let's say connected with a new audio format - Plus #1
A new format so that you don't miss any of the behind-the-scenes stories of my popular science work.
Notes 🗒️
In the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X
Matt Navarra on Threads, citing a Business Insider article, reports that in the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X, formerly Twitter. In April 2024, Threads has 28 million daily active users, X has 22 million. Threads has 100 million monthly active users, X has 140 million.
Notes 🗒️
2024 has already broken multiple temperature records
Carbon Brief has published a comprehensive article containing multiple visualizations of global temperature data. The visualizations show that 2024 has already broken multiple temperature records. As shown in Figure 1, the first four months of 2024 have seen the largest temperature anomaly since the 1940s. The temperature anomaly is the
Notes 🗒️
Joe Biden's campaign is raising a lot more money than Donald Trump's campaign
Figure 1 is an interesting plot shared on Bluesky by Jacob T. Levy. It shows the cumulative total of funds raised by the campaigns of Donald Trump (in red) and Joe Biden (in blue), in 2020 (dotted line) and 2024 (solid line), between 600 days before Election Day and Election
Notes 🗒️
Threads likely to show ads as soon as the second half of 2024
As a reminder, Threads is Meta's Instagram-backed Twitter competitor. According to Digiday, Meta has been promoting Threads' upcoming advertising features to a selection of executives working in the advertising industry. The advertising features would arrive in the second half of 2024, a bit more than a year
Notes 🗒️
post.news is shutting down
Noam Bardin, CEO of the social network post.news: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We