Tweets for the Week of 2018-02-04 to 2018-02-10

It reminds me of this passage from The Ethics of Belief: https://t.co/jDu0mKjP5A in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:59:51, 2018-02-10
And plenty of folks earnestly believe it. The parking. The traffic. The "owl preserve". The property values. The ra… https://t.co/GobyyC8IBQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:53:52, 2018-02-10
There exists overtly racist & classist motivation, but separating the intent and impact allows all kinds of otherwi… https://t.co/MGUH954WEf in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:43:41, 2018-02-10
Willful intent vs. impact blindness opens up all kinds of nefarious strategies. Using good reasons, but selectively… https://t.co/o4spvpYrXJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:37:30, 2018-02-10
@ztuylime @Picklebric Out. Of. Control. in reply to ztuylime 21:59:38, 2018-02-10
Biking around the plains, even within just a couple days ride of Boulder, is like stepping into another country. https://t.co/fFFCCUBPYu 21:59:11, 2018-02-10
RT @Picklebric: As soon as we moved in, some neighbors called Code Enforcement because our house had a formerly licensed ADU. In the remove… 20:29:23, 2018-02-10
RT @ColinJCarlson: you're never really "alone on valentine's day" if you think about all the parasitic microorganisms cohabitating your cor… 20:05:40, 2018-02-10
@AlexSteffen Highly recommend Peter Godfrey-Smith’s book Other Minds about cephalopods. We’ve been apart for 600+ m… https://t.co/9O9AgXnR9B in reply to AlexSteffen 19:44:10, 2018-02-10
@jessesingal https://t.co/2lNoQVr6Gh in reply to jessesingal 19:41:55, 2018-02-10
@NathalieOttawa @AltCarb Any other favorites to recommend? I recently discovered the BBC’s (pretty violent)… https://t.co/7Xg6hylcWF in reply to NathalieOttawa 19:38:48, 2018-02-10
@soniagupta504 @GR_G_R @Match Heaven for the climate, hell for the company. in reply to soniagupta504 19:04:56, 2018-02-10
But by god, at least they use the metric system. https://t.co/fE6ewUqkyj 19:00:51, 2018-02-10
@vb_jens But at least your ridiculous zoning regulations use metric! in reply to vb_jens 18:58:36, 2018-02-10
A huge amount of racist policy in the US has been enabled by judicial requirements of *explicit* racist intent by l… https://t.co/mYMnlat9MV 18:57:46, 2018-02-10
@chaspinrad It’s more impulsive than thought out, and probably not really a good idea. 🙂 in reply to chaspinrad 17:57:27, 2018-02-10
@chaspinrad Hmm, to me “trolling” has a specific connotation of not someone who is not interested in a genuine dial… https://t.co/eiWiEyJHjd in reply to chaspinrad 16:15:11, 2018-02-10
@chaspinrad And it seems like trolls are often identifiable within a couple of tweets. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:42:15, 2018-02-10
@chaspinrad Ah, if I think they’re trolling, I don’t tend to engage. Unless I’m counter-trolling. in reply to chaspinrad 14:41:34, 2018-02-10
Public meeting about whether to continue @RideRTD EcoPass programs: Feb. 15, 6-7:30 pm, at Louisville Public Librar… https://t.co/ArjKj8pyIC 13:49:38, 2018-02-10
@markgelband @Picklebric @JonesZan This copy was was a gift from @alanawlsn to @MehdiHeris which I’m just borrowing… https://t.co/LLsJBK3Nbk in reply to markgelband 13:38:10, 2018-02-10
Great discussion of fine vs. coarse grained urbanism from @AndrewAPrice, and the benefits of keeping the scale of i… https://t.co/QlyID8Z5RP 13:36:25, 2018-02-10
@10salamanders https://t.co/PRYYbad91r 12:18:29, 2018-02-10
Snowy cozy Saturday with a fire in the stove and a bunch of reading and working and pancakes at @Picklebric https://t.co/HINxqcwrcE 12:14:03, 2018-02-10
Ooooooh. @Jamie_Woodward_ https://t.co/FC75crC8pT 11:27:50, 2018-02-10
@YIMBYsea Wow. Couldn’t disagree more. Minimizing my housing consumption has been a huge source of freedom and autonomy! in reply to YIMBYsea 11:20:56, 2018-02-10
@chaspinrad Oooh, really depends on the quality of the interaction. in reply to chaspinrad 11:18:23, 2018-02-10
RT @WeNeedFeminlsm: I love this ☺️☺️ https://t.co/rNF0Zjcxm6 23:17:44, 2018-02-09
Land rents: “that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and… https://t.co/AjY03Ag8SF 22:43:03, 2018-02-09
RT @drschweitzer: Valid if snottily worded question: "Does it do any good to bring up policies that seem infeasible?" Like value capture A… 22:31:35, 2018-02-09
@bolderbekah Nope, it just dead ends into the middle of this giant street! (Santa Fe) in reply to bolderbekah 20:04:20, 2018-02-09
@bolderbekah Unfortunately it just leads to the end of the median! in reply to bolderbekah 19:02:43, 2018-02-09
Hmm. What’s wrong with this sidewalk? https://t.co/Ju3SkonnFO 16:50:34, 2018-02-09
@nami_knows Nope. It’s a spare home. in reply to nami_knows 12:33:49, 2018-02-09
@nami_knows If I understand correctly, the monsters are the only full time inhabitants of the house. in reply to nami_knows 11:18:34, 2018-02-09
In the 1940s a housing coop near Stanford tried to create an integrated neighborhood, but the feds were not up for… https://t.co/Pu2i1d2TJE 11:06:29, 2018-02-09
@alex_burness @AldoSvaldi There’s no way they can get this on the ballot, is there? in reply to alex_burness 22:00:35, 2018-02-08
RT @bouldergobldr: Bike to Work Day is tomorrow! Where will you be stopping? Plan your route with this map: https://t.co/e26viobCHQ
#wint… 12:26:53, 2018-02-08
A profile of the recently completed mixed-use Kalkbreite Co-op & how similar projects are fueling Zürich's Cooperat… https://t.co/aTkOZvHpij 12:14:01, 2018-02-08
RT @yvryimby: 1. Outlaw a 5000 year history of mixed use
2. Wait 100 years
3. Allow mixed use again but only on very tiny and expensive spe… 11:18:11, 2018-02-08
RT @Noahpinion: Bitcoin's price history is a fractal of the "stages of a bubble" graph.
Here are the Bitcoin bubbles so far: https://t.co/… 23:55:51, 2018-02-07
@VAAquarium @stevenjgibbons Who are the stars of cephalopod twitter? I want to follow them. in reply to VAAquarium 23:55:12, 2018-02-07
#BoulderProblems https://t.co/caeKiPt0of 23:52:07, 2018-02-07
@10salamanders I thought the first step was admitting you have a problem? in reply to 10salamanders 22:59:20, 2018-02-07
What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/poITAL68Uz 21:51:19, 2018-02-07
RT @alex_burness: Boulder's co-op law gets an update that should make it easier for prospective co-op-ers to organize: https://t.co/fw1u0rX… 21:42:54, 2018-02-07
Housing co-ops have been prominent in Zürich for 100+ years, but have experienced a big resurgence since the early… https://t.co/AAnEP3eGO1 18:29:05, 2018-02-07
RT @furrygirl: The choice is obvious. https://t.co/5NbPUqXPaY 13:55:42, 2018-02-07
A cool @VDM_News exhibition from last year on the architecture of collective housing worldwide. Looks like there's… https://t.co/SxOY5e4LH9 12:14:03, 2018-02-07
The @NYTimes on Colorado's recent jaw-droppingly low renewable bids. Biggest issues now are getting fossil plants o… https://t.co/E2gIpy5fir 09:21:04, 2018-02-07
RT @vb_jens: This is fun, classifying and delineating cities by their densities. https://t.co/vUM7tlGhW8 https://t.co/TbPqM9xw0n 23:41:25, 2018-02-06
RT @LiaraRoux: One big issue with @Twitter shadowbanning sex workers (we don't show up in trending tags) is that it we basically can't part… 23:13:14, 2018-02-06
Or biking, more likely. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:08:02, 2018-02-06
RT @MusicFanDPA: NO!!!!! WTF @facebook?! No more censorship of #harmreduction & drug policy information!! ? Everyone: support & follow @Ses… 22:59:06, 2018-02-06
She’s running. https://t.co/ezbmQPtOX0 22:53:06, 2018-02-06
@alex_burness Which will certainly be neither long nor complex. in reply to alex_burness 21:59:56, 2018-02-06
RT @welcomehomebldr: Or as in Boulder, 7000 sq ft. https://t.co/phHt4re54B 20:20:22, 2018-02-06
Wow. https://t.co/BY9dacieiJ 18:57:49, 2018-02-06
@alex_burness @cj_artist Formerly known as @midwayjourney https://t.co/O6r8ptwGmn in reply to alex_burness 18:51:50, 2018-02-06
@alex_burness Highly recommend @cj_artist film Albatross https://t.co/ZpyqcI8qLq in reply to alex_burness 18:36:15, 2018-02-06
RT @Limericking: Mr. Musk, whose ambition is Mars,
Is raising all manner of bars.
He’s dazzled by space,
A wondrous place
In which to aband… 18:13:03, 2018-02-06
The arc of the moral universe is long. And bendy. 14:28:51, 2018-02-06
RT @Noahpinion: CHAOS GODS, ROUSE FROM THY SLUMBER https://t.co/ocNfI0XZju 12:58:53, 2018-02-06
And these interchanges process only ~3x as many cars as an intersection between two streets that each have two lane… https://t.co/PO2K3lBKuQ 20:18:11, 2018-02-05
RT @awalkerinLA: Have the kid. Get rid of your cars. https://t.co/oiedwKI1NN 20:14:29, 2018-02-05
RT @AlexSteffen: Worth remembering that longevity is now a bigger driver of population growth and it's environmental impacts than fertility… 20:08:55, 2018-02-05
I think this was pretty much Buckminster Fuller’s take on the future. https://t.co/nFmJUwWY36 10:09:30, 2018-02-05
How to build some of the world’s most energy efficient buildings for as little as $150/sf. https://t.co/NzX0ocdVaE 07:42:14, 2018-02-05
There’s got to be some good cephalopod science fiction out there somewhere (please suggest it if you know!)
But fo… https://t.co/S4YrDlC03b in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:08:32, 2018-02-05
@AaronBrockett12 Last night got a little weird. I might have to make that into a blog post. in reply to AaronBrockett12 00:02:21, 2018-02-05
What if like some other mollusks they lived for hundreds of years? Or found the right environment to evolve social… https://t.co/HwT8EV3tnf in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:01:10, 2018-02-05
@AaronBrockett12 @GR_G_R @soniagupta504 It’s almost like PDS & Division of Housing. in reply to AaronBrockett12 23:52:48, 2018-02-04
They recognize individual people, and decide that they like some, and dislike others. They can remember that they w… https://t.co/OPWdgcBX6W in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:46:12, 2018-02-04
Octopi hunt collaboratively with other species. They build armor around themselves with shells to hide and protect… https://t.co/cSLLRFmfY2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:44:51, 2018-02-04
Meanwhile the cephalopods have a multi-megapixel display enveloping them, and apparently nobody picking up the sign… https://t.co/RqSPzQ1jgf in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:39:39, 2018-02-04
@AaronBrockett12 To me it seemed almost like an anarchist nervous system. Much less centralized. More based on volu… https://t.co/KFIMwK8gs7 in reply to AaronBrockett12 23:36:59, 2018-02-04
(scientists tricked baboons into thinking these things had happened by replaying the calls with hidden speakers, to… https://t.co/5Js5BaZsyV in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:35:59, 2018-02-04
If a baboon issues a vocal challenge within the hierarchy, and a surprising outcome is overheard (out of sight), ev… https://t.co/RFwNWDX410 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:34:54, 2018-02-04
@AaronBrockett12 Or alternatively, that the arms are always kind of on autopilot, unless the somewhat centralized a… https://t.co/2YHUYb4ynu in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:32:10, 2018-02-04
@AaronBrockett12 It appears that the body may be semi-autonomous. Like, maybe (if you’re an octopus) you give an ar… https://t.co/bMgKfxAoQq in reply to AaronBrockett12 23:30:43, 2018-02-04
He gives a contrasting example of baboons, which appear to have a vocabulary of only a few recognized calls. But th… https://t.co/MrlMIu9guk in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:29:13, 2018-02-04
But they live for only a year or two, and mostly their minds are solitary, not engaged in social organization and complexity. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:27:24, 2018-02-04
And yet even though our last common bilateraian ancestor from the Ediacaran era more than half a billion years ago… https://t.co/oqAE6fmY9J in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:25:32, 2018-02-04
The book asks the question: did their intelligence arise from a more somatic nervous system — one that evolved firs… https://t.co/VSVEL2pi6l in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:21:09, 2018-02-04
Unlike us, most of an octopus’ nervous system isn’t centralized. The whole body is densely suffused with neurons. T… https://t.co/Y4YP52cFHg in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:19:24, 2018-02-04
And because there are three colors of chromatophore, they can synthesize three color vision *with their skin* since… https://t.co/ELZhd6XziT in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:16:09, 2018-02-04
It turns out they have the *same* single type of photoreceptor in their skins. They also have a layer of skin with… https://t.co/nN5iytlU6r in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:13:46, 2018-02-04
However, cephalopods have only monochromatic vision. Their eyes have only a single type of photosensitive pigment.… https://t.co/lSTlvhCQVx in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:11:03, 2018-02-04
Nerves from our retinal sensors run over the light-sensing surface of our retina (oops) while cephalopod retinal ne… https://t.co/KGHdFVKe5G in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:04:51, 2018-02-04
Three separate animal lineages have eyes as complex as ours — some arthropods, cephalopods, and the vertebrates. Hi… https://t.co/rxwpdFxaQD in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:03:10, 2018-02-04
I just finished reading Peter Godfrey-Smith’s book Other Minds, about the neurology of cephalopods, and now I’m kin… https://t.co/uleAg9EEwW 23:00:21, 2018-02-04
RT @naziejoon_: Activists are using this moment to call attention to the murder of Black people by police and to the City of Minneapolis’ b… 22:28:07, 2018-02-04
RT @ClimateWest: ICYMI, @TriStateGT's policies are keeping its members locked into paying for costly and dirty #fossilfuels, there's a bett… 17:39:26, 2018-02-04
@piacsm v76 was spontaneously disconnecting from the VPN frequently, also giving authentication errors, and then ye… https://t.co/scTB2w0IHs in reply to piacsm 07:52:43, 2018-02-04
God it is so weird to read national press about where I grew up. https://t.co/5OZZxtEe0Y 00:22:53, 2018-02-04

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