Tweets for the Week of 2018-09-09 to 2018-09-15

RT @sehurlburt: I am noticing a trend in women age 18-22 I’m mentoring— they try to network and get mentoring and go to meetups and literal… 17:41:02, 2018-09-15
@erinoverturf I got through the first Oryx & Crake book but it was kind of a struggle. It didn't draw me in somehow… https://t.co/dKFLqUcV2G in reply to erinoverturf 17:40:00, 2018-09-15
@chrisnelder I would love to! But I'm near Zürich and will hopefully be asleep by then. in reply to chrisnelder 17:15:25, 2018-09-15
@erinoverturf It would be great to see depictions of a future where it's just a (difficult) fact of life, off in th… https://t.co/wNIDwnsMYU in reply to erinoverturf 16:57:00, 2018-09-15
@erinoverturf Earth, seen from afar as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilo… https://t.co/qsus0TnrBF in reply to erinoverturf 16:53:00, 2018-09-15
RT @erinoverturf: Something I’ve been chewing on: why does so little of our popular culture address or even acknowledge climate change? (… 16:50:53, 2018-09-15
@erinoverturf The Only Lovers Left Alive, about a vampire couple having a long distance relationship (Detroit-Tangi… https://t.co/WL86jV2Qlp in reply to erinoverturf 14:29:18, 2018-09-15
Discuss. https://t.co/uPggQ0ZBaO 00:47:05, 2018-09-15
I've been testing out the @OKFN #frictionlessdata packaging tools and @datahubio platform for @CatalystCoop, using… https://t.co/2bEGZcrXqR 17:02:15, 2018-09-14
@drvox I find it confusing that Holthaus has like 5x this many followers. Obviously I don't understand people. in reply to drvox 15:37:24, 2018-09-13
@nami_knows So this would be like when USDOT holds highway funds ransom, unless your state makes the drinking age 21 and the speed limit 55. in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:31:09, 2018-09-13
@nami_knows I was thinking of the CDBG and HOME funds which I thought just went to housing (but maybe that's just m… https://t.co/5w4jYXAXXh in reply to nami_knows 07:30:05, 2018-09-13
@nami_knows I wonder if tying HUD funds to looser zoning would just effectively de-fund affordable housing in hot/e… https://t.co/itI3mihtkU in reply to nami_knows 04:42:42, 2018-09-13
@kimmaicutler @ericmbudd Ugh, now I feel dirty. in reply to kimmaicutler 00:47:44, 2018-09-13
@drvox I look forward to an endless stream of 3000+ word pieces on the subject. in reply to drvox 16:57:37, 2018-09-12
Standardization and partial off-site assembly have been making mass production of housing fast and economical for a… https://t.co/oaQdmhyaFB 05:00:00, 2018-09-12
@tpfliss Oh I could definitely see the local shop being superior for a specialized kind of bike like that. Though,… https://t.co/GMZkTAlLPd in reply to tpfliss 04:52:35, 2018-09-12
RT @GreatDismal: Success of an asymmetric (“terror”) attack is measured by the extent of reactive self-injury it ultimately induces on the… 12:16:12, 2018-09-11
But you can't return the bike to a different location at any time of day. And now I've been here 20 minutes waiting… https://t.co/nnPEEOGr3v in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:43:32, 2018-09-11
I was gonna be here for a week, and wanted to bike around kinda the whole time, so I rented a bike from a local sho… https://t.co/orqOkti1iD 08:41:19, 2018-09-11
Thanks for having me @ENKLAVEde, it's been a nice productive week. https://t.co/wi6RD77WH6 08:00:00, 2018-09-11
The @RockyMtnInst has a very readable exploration of the different financial/policy mechanisms for taking existing… https://t.co/bHXqk1TOub 03:28:30, 2018-09-11
@drvox I really appreciate that they let you write about a bunch of different things, not just climate and energy. in reply to drvox 12:56:03, 2018-09-10
@ericmbudd Whiskey is for drinking… in reply to ericmbudd 12:53:05, 2018-09-10
I was wrong, it holds six kiddos! And the table in the middle folds up to make loading easier. It was part of a pre… https://t.co/zxdyvOBb22 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:49:35, 2018-09-10
@chaspinrad A little 4 kid push-bus. Could imagine hooking it up as a bike trailer too. ? https://t.co/XARs8aeAbO 02:29:14, 2018-09-10
Happy @CatalystCoop is working with folks at @RockyMtnInst compiling usable open coal finance data for the US. https://t.co/sLJLoAtM9S 00:37:51, 2018-09-10
Suggests that while a strong bike culture can help build good infrastructure, and good infrastructure can help buil… https://t.co/teM1qTsSVi in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:16:14, 2018-09-10
Berlin's bike infrastructure is a bit spotty and cobblestones are ubiquitous, but the culture of utilitarian city b… https://t.co/sCXGDALBUL 00:13:29, 2018-09-10
@welcomehomebldr But it would ensure that if/when the city is revived, many residents will be displaced. Whereas if… https://t.co/CAPQ4I3aF9 in reply to welcomehomebldr 13:06:19, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr And unfortunately it sounds like 1990s Berlin did largely sell off the inherited housing stock at… https://t.co/nkgOyiwBVC in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:49:29, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr In the scenario I'm thinking of, the replacement cost is higher than the market value, but it won'… https://t.co/TdltUHWIiu in reply to welcomehomebldr 12:45:56, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr But I think the weird housing market failure modes or excursions from the norm that we might want… https://t.co/zeL9m3JciZ in reply to welcomehomebldr 12:42:39, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr Or the "free buildings" that existed in E. Germany after the wall came down, and people's confusio… https://t.co/TbnSwfSYYL in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:35:11, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr E.g. the insane teardown cycle in Vancouver, BC where like 30% of single family zoned lots derive… https://t.co/UkixLEeXhR in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:33:02, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr I think this generalization obscures a lot of interesting dynamics that exist when locational valu… https://t.co/Y2DXZhQljk in reply to welcomehomebldr 12:31:09, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr *Housing* supply elasticity is extremely high (or, well, it could be anyway), but that's different from the land. in reply to welcomehomebldr 12:26:36, 2018-09-09
@CostaSamaras That thread is whacked. in reply to CostaSamaras 11:20:32, 2018-09-09
Summer Sunday Afternoon, Tempelhofer Feld https://t.co/zOahb7J4jU 07:53:11, 2018-09-09
In the same way that cheap old mortgages distort homeowner expectations about what is affordable today, decades of… https://t.co/uJ0DDMnzX8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:38:45, 2018-09-09
What's the right thing for a city to do when it inherits a bunch of decent housing with a book value well below the… https://t.co/BP2ZVA1455 07:33:27, 2018-09-09
@ericmbudd Which is in turn a consequence of a system which unfairly privatizes increasing land values which are at… https://t.co/DEhkC5RxXq in reply to ericmbudd 01:41:33, 2018-09-09
@welcomehomebldr But it's different land, both in terms of the time, cost, and energy involved in accessing it, and… https://t.co/BP8L7QGsRY in reply to welcomehomebldr 01:29:42, 2018-09-09

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