Tweets for the Week of 2018-02-11 to 2018-02-17

RT @baratunde: I'm reading the Mueller indictments in the original PDF-legalease format. All the way through, because I'm not a Republican… 17:31:24, 2018-02-17
RT @baratunde: It's like the Russians took two great U.S. innovations: advertising and marketing, and turned it against us with analytical… 17:28:05, 2018-02-17
RT @enjohnston: @YIMBYsea @bruteforceblog @jessepiedfort @wa46dems @frontandcenterd @ThisIsZeroHour @psr_washington @CalebHeeringa Thread:… 14:45:46, 2018-02-17
@jesslynnrose Programming the little drawing turtle in LOGO on a Radio Shack TRS80. in reply to jesslynnrose 14:43:19, 2018-02-17
RT @kcbecker: If you are served by United Power (Northern Front Range) there is a Candidate Forum on Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 AM at the C… 13:04:29, 2018-02-17
@shortxstack @Walmart At first I thought this was kudos for marketing dresses in an ungendered way. in reply to shortxstack 13:03:53, 2018-02-17
RT @PaulMMCooper: I love that when Plato complains about the spread of the written word in 370 BC, he sounds like my granddad complaining a… 12:34:15, 2018-02-17
The "great puzzle" of modern city housing? How is it different from traditional cities? Build mixed uses densely. L… https://t.co/nIaCq7ZmyG 12:14:08, 2018-02-17
So many of the arguments made against allowing shared housing in Boulder’s low density areas sound like echoes of o… https://t.co/JnWOPHWpay 11:34:54, 2018-02-17
#streetoftheday, a Narrow Street For People, with mamachari! https://t.co/lBjqKYbqgt 10:32:21, 2018-02-17
@drvox ¡WITH OTTERS! in reply to drvox 10:26:08, 2018-02-17
RT @erinoverturf: It is your patriotic duty as an American to read every word of this document. https://t.co/pvQ79TtRj3 10:18:20, 2018-02-17
Reading the Mueller indictments. It’s interesting that we have a law like FARA for agents of nation states, but not… https://t.co/hectY0x7AL 10:11:22, 2018-02-17
RT @such_A_frknlady: hello. neuroscientist here. this is dangerously inaccurate. good day. https://t.co/MJ2u7ltHIy 09:52:43, 2018-02-17
RT @nami_knows: Here’s a list of all #BIFF movies abt not white normative characters or plots
Two Trains Running
Bending the Arc
My Enemy,… 09:50:34, 2018-02-17
@ideapete But at least at that point it’s the public taking advantage of itself, and not an extraction of value by someone else. in reply to ideapete 09:48:23, 2018-02-17
Fossil fuel extraction & renewable energy would look more similar as investments if we required mine & well operato… https://t.co/M5LTSZ90ep 09:21:01, 2018-02-17
@eclisham @highcountrynews Problem appears to the that the bonds that do exist are too small — in some cases by a f… https://t.co/b8AphWoekp in reply to eclisham 00:39:24, 2018-02-17
@drvox So much of finance and capital markets is just smuggling money through time. We can pull piles of it back *f… https://t.co/vUUvjH4K3c in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:08:37, 2018-02-16
@drvox The public takes on the environmental / cleanup cost at the outset, rather than internalizing those costs wi… https://t.co/OjHl5WHI6W in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:05:20, 2018-02-16
@drvox And the only rational thing to do at that point is to walk away. That’s what bankruptcy is for. But in this… https://t.co/DRVCDLbN7v in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:00:58, 2018-02-16
@drvox From an extractor’s point of view, putting the reclamation costs at the end makes them unimportant, because… https://t.co/cWPXxs6eon in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:59:37, 2018-02-16
@drvox Having just learned about TF-IDF I now see that using cute animals in dense (but potentially valuable long-t… https://t.co/Bllvyo9Qmt 21:56:03, 2018-02-16
Even if these things all add up to the same dollar value, the time distribution matters, because capital often just… https://t.co/D4r0bzvdhK in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:51:48, 2018-02-16
@highcountrynews You can slosh the costs & profits around through PPAs and other arrangements, but at a basic level… https://t.co/VtpCATg4of in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:48:13, 2018-02-16
@highcountrynews Big reclamation bonds would look like part of a big up front investment, which is then followed by… https://t.co/2vbQzhkbS6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:46:59, 2018-02-16
@highcountrynews If the bond amounts were 10x larger, the $ vs. time curve of a methane well or coal mine would sta… https://t.co/NVhlANApg7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:44:44, 2018-02-16
@highcountrynews The same problem exists with reclamation bonds covering coal mines on federal land in Wyoming, exc… https://t.co/tbKShV0GsS in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:42:28, 2018-02-16
@highcountrynews Well operators have to put a bond up to get a permit, but the bond isn’t enough to cover cleanup c… https://t.co/u9mBL23z67 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:41:01, 2018-02-16
Thread.
Good @highcountrynews story about the problem of orphaned methane wells in Colorado & Wyoming. Well operat… https://t.co/QFZWc4jbKo 21:37:37, 2018-02-16
RT @sarahchad_: To the politicians saying this isn’t about guns, and that we shouldn’t be discussing this rn:
We were literally being shot… 21:18:21, 2018-02-16
This is kind of wild.
Parkland students made connections in real time with far away school shooting survivors.

Ca… https://t.co/LFdiY22EKW 19:29:24, 2018-02-16
RT @JamesFallows: I remember following these accounts in real time in 2016, and thinking: C’mon!
As it turned out, Jill Stein vote in MI w… 19:04:42, 2018-02-16
RT @AlexSteffen: I wrote about this in December 2016:
https://t.co/d3RiuXfaHp 19:03:36, 2018-02-16
RT @JoyAnnReid: James Risen goes there, says if Trump colluded with a foreign power to take control of the U.S. government, then "that's th… 19:03:28, 2018-02-16
Do your part to reduce food waste! https://t.co/EsXmIy23oG https://t.co/fVXX0UiCet 18:01:43, 2018-02-16
@jamespugjones @ttaubert Thank you for your work bringing hardware authentication to @firefox! Looking forward to p… https://t.co/9ID6djgI6w 17:38:35, 2018-02-16
@amytoast @milkysa BTW Patagonia made army surplus sports bras are a great deal on eBay if you don’t mind coyote ta… https://t.co/5OTr4SXQ1w in reply to amytoast 15:24:58, 2018-02-16
@amytoast @milkysa Or remember Rich Zitola? With his middle name included… Iron Clitoris Hazard. in reply to amytoast 15:23:19, 2018-02-16
@amytoast @milkysa No dwarf craze. in reply to amytoast 15:21:53, 2018-02-16
@schmangee Seems like there’s almost a perverse incentives here. Folks want a relatable analogy (hey, we all drive!… https://t.co/GzhppPP0Fc in reply to schmangee 15:18:57, 2018-02-16
@alex_burness Another co-oper who believes in stuff and works on it. 🙂 in reply to alex_burness 15:15:17, 2018-02-16
RT @alex_burness: Ben Pardo is walking today from Boulder to Cory Gardner's office in Denver "to try and swing another vote for the congres… 15:13:48, 2018-02-16
RT @500womensci: Have you been harassed on Twitter? If so, was it related to being a woman or a scientist? 07:39:25, 2018-02-16
RT @TheOnion: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/AiYGBQLaGW https://t.co/Zr0X8qcDqJ 00:23:03, 2018-02-16
Excited to finally have a reason to dig into sklearn! Which also feels silly. But whatever. I’m just going to enjoy… https://t.co/euLfgrpFb6 22:47:51, 2018-02-15
Arboreal Dwelling Unit https://t.co/xuDqUGUzsq 12:14:07, 2018-02-15
RT @Scott_Wiener: I don’t think it’s radical to say: “Hey, let’s allow more housing near transit. Let’s stop banning apartment buildings ne… 10:36:22, 2018-02-15
@alex_burness And now I wonder if Alex is even old enough to get that reference. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:41:29, 2018-02-15
@nils_gilman I think we're having a little bit of an epistemological crisis right now, and anything helps us unders… https://t.co/7ZiVnCOa4u in reply to nils_gilman 09:40:13, 2018-02-15
A little bit of meta-history from @nils_gilman. History is like religion: true, false, or useful, depending on your… https://t.co/ppe5ZUXgbf 09:21:07, 2018-02-15
RT @PPS_Placemaking: Let's “forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” (Lewis Mumford). Read up on the 5 indicat… 07:49:20, 2018-02-15
RT @kellyoshea: I'm so done with "inspiring" white girls and students of color to like physics. Have you talked to these kids? They are pre… 00:39:31, 2018-02-15
RT @RVAwonk: daaaaaamn @NYDailyNews. https://t.co/Yhv2JN4j7K 00:30:21, 2018-02-15
RT @mcnees: Wholly owned by the NRA.
•John McCain: $7.7m
•Richard Burr: $7m
•Roy Blunt: $4.6m
•Thom Tillis: $4.4m
•Cory Gardner: $3.9m
•Mar… 00:30:15, 2018-02-15
@nils_gilman Oh right, it’s this future. https://t.co/4fY4ucTJOJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:51:20, 2018-02-14
RT @bessbell: God have mercy on your NRA-kept souls:
Richard Burr
$6,986,620

Roy Blunt
$4,551,146

Thom Tillis
$4,418,012

Cory Gardner… 22:48:47, 2018-02-14
@alex_burness You misunderestimate us. in reply to alex_burness 22:39:46, 2018-02-14
@alex_burness OMG Alex, this is why you *live* tweet it. You can’t get five hours in and then start. in reply to alex_burness 22:36:37, 2018-02-14
I went to read this @nils_gilman interview on society-warping fake history. Salon noticed I was running… https://t.co/ZTYTzPuvZI 22:31:13, 2018-02-14
RT @COSenDem: Lifetime financial support from the NRA: $3,879,064 https://t.co/vGohfnCduu 22:17:10, 2018-02-14
RT @FAKEGRIMLOCK: ARE YOU MAD, EVIL, OR ASLEEP? 22:10:20, 2018-02-14
It’d be silly to think that this disinformation campaign hasn’t *also* affected the perceptions & behavior of folks… https://t.co/aWPTVCqXQ5 22:02:49, 2018-02-14
@MarketUrbanism @stephenjudkins @bouldercolorado No no no. We’re looking at doing a front range wide 1% housing gro… https://t.co/E53eIIMGUy in reply to MarketUrbanism 16:53:48, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism And there’s a square footage limit. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:41:22, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism And you have to get a rental license, even if it’s owner occupied. in reply to stephenjudkins 16:40:51, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism @bouldercolorado In the past year alone we’ve shut down about 100 unpermitted ADUs. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:39:03, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism In 2015 we passed a law to make it easier to enforce the occupancy limits, and… https://t.co/70nvuuGePs in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:37:56, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism (Despite the acronym) in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:35:54, 2018-02-14
@stephenjudkins @MarketUrbanism Boulder only allows 3 unrelated people per dwelling unit. Adding an ADU doesn’t create a new dwelling unit. in reply to stephenjudkins 16:34:32, 2018-02-14
In Boulder’s older, centrally located (walkable, transit accesible) low density residential neighborhoods property… https://t.co/bFTQ81IEWJ 16:31:12, 2018-02-14
@MarketUrbanism We have every restriction you could think of. Parking, owner occupancy, square footage, no addition… https://t.co/GjiXLdpdmy in reply to MarketUrbanism 16:28:25, 2018-02-14
ADUs were first legalized in Boulder 34 years ago in 1983. Since then 205 have been created. About 6 per year on average. 16:24:42, 2018-02-14
@AaronBrockett12 @ericmbudd I do feel like there’s a bit of a double entendre here too though. There are other cour… https://t.co/8DZTU8OaD6 in reply to AaronBrockett12 15:22:37, 2018-02-14
Epic Costco run for @BoulderCoopFood with @alanawlsn using the @Picklebric car. We make one trip every 2 weeks to s… https://t.co/LBKDwFFJQf 15:20:52, 2018-02-14
RT @schmangee: Parks over and under highways are a bad idea because:
#1. As a rule, places by highways are terrible/unhealthy places to ha… 13:40:23, 2018-02-14
The normalization of extractive economic relationships also makes it hard for us to recognize and participate in co… https://t.co/G0WqQTGF9o 09:26:26, 2018-02-14
@shwinnebego Delete your account. in reply to shwinnebego 09:15:35, 2018-02-14
"Affordable housing *as a home* not only apartments." 14:51:33, 2018-02-13
@alanawlsn Ah, log scales get me every time! in reply to alanawlsn 14:31:13, 2018-02-13
RT @Lola_Davina: I don't say this often enough–> pay for your porn. You like getting hard/wet? Someone worked hard to make you that way. V… 02:37:24, 2018-02-13
RT @BristolCathedra: Please note that, due to Ash Wednesday falling on 14 February this year, the Feast Day of Saint Valentine is transferr… 02:36:31, 2018-02-13
This couch contains 40% more co-op members than were allowed to live in the whole house a few months ago. https://t.co/Po1VZd3wH6 01:31:54, 2018-02-13
The strings we attach to financing are powerful. I wish this wasn’t what we’d used them for. I’m gonna have to read… https://t.co/MPztYVCEbx 01:29:15, 2018-02-13
@sashaperigo @SonjaTrauss Thank you and congratulations 🙂 in reply to sashaperigo 01:04:45, 2018-02-13
RT @iamjoonlee: an american family https://t.co/p7JNKqomzK 01:04:03, 2018-02-13
@YIMBYsea @ballard4every1 @bruteforceblog @seattle4every1 @UrbanistOrg @HDC_SeaKC @WelcomingWally @seatech4housing… https://t.co/dmCN0QASUj in reply to YIMBYsea 00:56:05, 2018-02-13
Boulder, this testimony so much but for climbing & hiking & biking & ultramarathon running & geo-nerding & fermenti… https://t.co/3D7THGM7Pt 00:48:30, 2018-02-13
The people in the neighborhood or city will definitely change over time. The culture will evolve over time no matte… https://t.co/HS8fG2z5Tc in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:38:55, 2018-02-13
And somehow change ends up being the fault of both the young n00bs who are okay with things changing physically but… https://t.co/02Dx5wFMFl in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:30:59, 2018-02-13
At the same time, the kind of people they were when they got here, can’t be here any more. And the folks who *can*… https://t.co/tmY6aO9neC in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:27:05, 2018-02-13
It feels like there’s a disconnect, that folks who don’t want the city to change physically, associate this urban f… https://t.co/Xsotc55iSt in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:24:43, 2018-02-13
But when the systems change, and the people change. Especially when they both change and the thing forgets itself,… https://t.co/qjIUYNry9w in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:20:39, 2018-02-13
The container can be fancy or simple. New or old. The container can change over time. The contents can get moved fr… https://t.co/I9Rrzrg3pg in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:17:29, 2018-02-13
It seems like there’s something similar at the neighborhood level. Or the city as a whole. The house is just a cont… https://t.co/gKPdYiLVke in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:15:16, 2018-02-13
It feels weird when a prospective co-op member comes over to dinner and is really focused on the house itself. On t… https://t.co/zZn0u75vcm 00:11:05, 2018-02-13
Related side-effect: We also don’t expect men to do the emotional work of considering how it might feel *not* to en… https://t.co/3z8lFdBvgi 00:03:12, 2018-02-13
RT @DavidL206: So proud of all the YIMBYs in both Seattle and San Francisco who showed up to support desperately needed housing tonight. Th… 23:56:59, 2018-02-12
@AaronBrockett12 @thehappycity Okay okay. My guess is you will probably like it too. in reply to AaronBrockett12 22:56:16, 2018-02-12
@AaronBrockett12 @thehappycity Have you finished the book yet? I really appreciated the surprise ending. 🙂 in reply to AaronBrockett12 22:53:09, 2018-02-12
Highly recommend @thehappycity! Especially the bits about @Penalosa_G, Bogotá and what’s possible when we design ci… https://t.co/mCwYxLMjOM 22:52:29, 2018-02-12
Same. https://t.co/nduw64PeBB 22:42:32, 2018-02-12
RT @shaadieali: OVERPOPULATION IS A MYTH. Western powers consume disproportionately, then use colonialism/the IMF to impose their unsustain… 18:09:30, 2018-02-12
This @dailycamera piece from December gives some more context on the current discussion: https://t.co/Owy4Vo8IAU https://t.co/j0CV3aNIy9 13:17:44, 2018-02-12
@drvox Though I wonder if the sheer (geographic) scale of this NIMBYism might go beyond creating additional sprawl… https://t.co/ZWE26j6FTi in reply to drvox 12:23:00, 2018-02-12
RT @CatalystCoop: Scaling up wind power in Colorado is good for our rural economies. Great OpEd in the @denverpost from some folks on the e… 12:21:00, 2018-02-12
RT @RideRTD: @ZaneSelvans @bouldergobldr There is, the Ecopass program has their contact information posted here and will appreciate the fe… 11:44:06, 2018-02-12
@RideRTD @bouldergobldr Is there really no way to provide policy feedback related to the EcoPass programs directly?… https://t.co/b6Pwn9lLF1 in reply to RideRTD 10:54:02, 2018-02-12
We’ve often joked about getting around the “unrelated persons” rules in some cities that have exceptions for servan… https://t.co/gT0F9yZftM 17:06:04, 2018-02-11
RT @markvalli: It's hard to find opposition to single family zoning from the period when it was originated in the late 1910s and early 1920… 14:09:19, 2018-02-11
50 years since the Fair Housing Act was passed, and our cities are still segregated https://t.co/fsk4pfnaZG https://t.co/RKLAbLSczy 14:03:03, 2018-02-11
US average per capita home water use is about 350 liters per day. https://t.co/nZBWjEXcrr 12:37:18, 2018-02-11
We’ve finally polished off the 25lb bags of whole millet, buckwheat, and spelt flour that were also part of the “ex… https://t.co/Ipkz2AiRyD 11:37:19, 2018-02-11
Or a quadcopter. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:40:40, 2018-02-11
RT @JesseJenkins: "The cooling effect of aerosols is so large that it has masked as much as half of the warming effect from greenhouse gase… 09:34:10, 2018-02-11
It will be interesting if this moves forward and Boulder is forced to confront the motivations behind this strangel… https://t.co/5ytSU3hvS2 09:24:52, 2018-02-11
Snowy dawn in Chautauqua. Everyone in the meadow has a tripod. https://t.co/rHUQuXDTNW 06:43:03, 2018-02-11
@gobo_social @EthanZ @civicMIT @cmgosnell it has a “mute all men” button. in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:00:47, 2018-02-11
.@gobo_social is a tool to usurp and personalize the algorithms that filter your information from @EthanZ &… https://t.co/tUvP7GhXBJ 00:57:52, 2018-02-11
You’d think I could just RT this as like, an informational feelgood thing. But it feels more like “Fight me." https://t.co/ezxtQc8XPg 00:23:21, 2018-02-11

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