Tweets for the Week of 2018-12-09 to 2018-12-15

@nils_gilman If Caesar is declared a tyrant, all his acts and appointments are nullified. Seems like we might need something analogous. in reply to nils_gilman 13:18:20, 2018-12-15
As a lifelong atheist and anti-consumer, even I am surprised by how much I enjoy being somewhere without Christmas for Christmas season. 12:14:02, 2018-12-14
The scientific publishing copyright cartels are fundamentally illegitimate. https://t.co/s51YyWKK3n 05:10:02, 2018-12-14
A paper explaining the Open Power System Data project in the EU, which is similar to @CatalystCoop's Public Utility… https://t.co/UfZ6X4PVZC 03:21:38, 2018-12-14
@nworbmot @JesseJenkins @AukeHoekstra @Daniel_W_See @openmod @jfdecarolis @KenCaldeira @MattBakerEnergy… https://t.co/64wTTbLES7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:52:38, 2018-12-13
@nworbmot @JesseJenkins @AukeHoekstra @Daniel_W_See @openmod @jfdecarolis @KenCaldeira Personally I would love to g… https://t.co/8BTndy3X8r in reply to nworbmot 10:47:39, 2018-12-13
RT @GregoryMcKelvey: I had a police officer stationed in my high school. At one point he got a warrant to investigate me for a stolen calcu… 01:43:30, 2018-12-13
@carnegiescience @KenCaldeira @CarnegieEcology @CarnegiePres Will a video of it be posted anywhere online? in reply to carnegiescience 14:35:56, 2018-12-12
A catastrophic mismatch between the law & physics. via @drvox
"CA’s 2030 target is an annual, not a cumulative em… https://t.co/21ntE2DXuu 13:56:57, 2018-12-12
@drvox Dave it's only Wednesday. I thought you had these things on a strict Friday afternoon release schedule. in reply to drvox 13:12:30, 2018-12-12
@schmangee It does seem like they've got some good stuff going on there! in reply to schmangee 13:09:38, 2018-12-12
@MattCropp https://t.co/dB0Jg6vMeL 09:39:22, 2018-12-12
It's also (like, uh… all papers) available for free on @Sci_Hub, if you're interested in deep decarbonization of… https://t.co/phGNdEHwAp 14:30:54, 2018-12-11
@nikkibot My shoulder just froze up on its own. No real reason other than we're just ghosts trapped in very slow ti… https://t.co/brSdXp6EWE in reply to nikkibot 14:07:45, 2018-12-11
"Ciudades han sido planificadas para el día y restringidas durante la noche." ¡Soy un noctámbulo! Un buen ensayo so… https://t.co/uRDU9F2B72 14:01:47, 2018-12-11
RT @alicegoldfuss: seriously I need a name for the boundless joy of encroaching on rich people spaces looking like a half-shaved gutter chi… 04:44:50, 2018-12-11
@drvox I don't get the constant self-hating on your own long-form journalism Dave. It's your niche. Honestly I tend… https://t.co/81vmZaMpho in reply to drvox 00:55:09, 2018-12-11
The view every morning. For weeks. I think my shoulder is getting better, but it's hard to really tell. However, I'… https://t.co/xiKuj6UipN 00:46:33, 2018-12-11
@elemdoubleu @duolingo @memrise @tatoeba_org @notesinspanish It seems like the beginner and intermediate ones are o… https://t.co/x0jOmni3LK in reply to elemdoubleu 13:21:42, 2018-12-10
@CHThiem One nice thing you can do is translate sentences from German into English, if they don't already have tran… https://t.co/2JDgGKm2Bg in reply to CHThiem 04:50:42, 2018-12-10
Another interesting resource, word frequency lists in a bunch of different languages. Not as clean or comprehensive… https://t.co/njcsxfDM8O in reply to ZaneSelvans 05:06:01, 2018-12-09
.@tatoeba_org is a beautiful example of the kinds of things open platforms & open data can enable. Eventually it ca… https://t.co/qihht9I1wT 05:03:54, 2018-12-09
One thing I don't feel liek I've really come across yet, which would be nice, is more grammar and verb resources. S… https://t.co/HYBAZrIje9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:54:31, 2018-12-09
The thing I'm obviously not doing much of (in Turkey) is *speaking* Spanish. But all this work does feel productive… https://t.co/SnEv6bhndc in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:52:49, 2018-12-09
@radioambulante Tweets are a great length for practicing language (though the abbreviations and shorthand are rough… https://t.co/IgvY9ojg2e in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:35:10, 2018-12-09
@Patreon I've struggled to fully understand episodes of @npr's @ThisAmerLife like Spanish language podcast,… https://t.co/pXQqC5kGcb in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:30:52, 2018-12-09
They also have additional resources associated with each episode online (worksheets, vocab lists, etc.) if you supp… https://t.co/i2OiinOJVb in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:27:23, 2018-12-09
@duolingo @memrise @tatoeba_org To get spoken Spanish in context, I've been listening to podcasts from… https://t.co/loJZHc5YjG in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:26:12, 2018-12-09
@duolingo @memrise …when I needed to start making my own content beyond the beginnger scope I didn't want my cont… https://t.co/QjHLLIBBdO in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:15:10, 2018-12-09
I started out on this self-study binge in the fall of 2016, racing through the @duolingo and @memrise Spanish cours… https://t.co/mP492dLNO2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:13:24, 2018-12-09
To find example sentences to study @tatoeba_org is an amazing open, multi-lingual resource. Short sentences are muc… https://t.co/vc07iJoKjA in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:09:09, 2018-12-09
Having the application on my phone also makes it easy to add new words when I come across them — when I hear somet… https://t.co/DkdXdVMcvY in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:05:33, 2018-12-09
I mostly add content to my vocabulary decks on the desktop version, but having it on my phone makes it easy to do d… https://t.co/OBgO0EA6G1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:03:47, 2018-12-09
To memorize new vocabulary, idioms, or phrases, I use Anki, a free, open source spaced repetition flashcard applica… https://t.co/KAnQzSx48M in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:59:50, 2018-12-09
It took me a while to understand what the Wiktionary is. It's not like a normal dictionary. For a given string (wor… https://t.co/W58TYSKvhm in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:53:59, 2018-12-09
To get a more complete sense of the word, and the different ways it can be used and related words — or if I'm susp… https://t.co/wstIgYxcgp in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:52:00, 2018-12-09
If you highlight individual words it will also offer alternative translations, and give you information about the f… https://t.co/Hb3M7xRByW in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:50:03, 2018-12-09
Then I'll give Google the sentence in English and see what it would have come up with in Spanish. While this is imp… https://t.co/W8VfRTdzpg in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:48:50, 2018-12-09
Obviously there's Google translate. It's not perfect, but if it's better than you are, it's still helpful. I often… https://t.co/qkkvO8b4z1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:47:12, 2018-12-09
I've been spending some time every day studying Spanish on my own, and exploring the landscape of online tools. At… https://t.co/DxB4RtPmOC 02:45:19, 2018-12-09
@priyald17 @inesliaz @zicokolter Glad to hear it. 🙂 I'm especially interested in how "private" internal costs coul… https://t.co/yPWUg7Lu9r in reply to priyald17 01:27:39, 2018-12-09

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