Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-14 to 2019-07-20

@panamaredhat @ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Absolutely! It's the combination of trumpeting fight-to-the-death to… https://t.co/UvBJFe8ptv in reply to panamaredhat 23:56:47, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado But these measures (and many others!) that actually work are often unpopular with… https://t.co/tGqASZQ2k5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:26:58, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Especially when other more powerful and cost-effective policies — like allowing a… https://t.co/Aiyw5ovn52 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:19:45, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado One might go as far as to say overly stringent energy standards are used as a cyni… https://t.co/dIbrKaybsY in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:15:51, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado In many cases simply lifting the ban on apartment buildings would be better for em… https://t.co/KCJXRdjdMJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:06:23, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Berkeley, Boulder & many other green liberal bastions are infamous for their restr… https://t.co/qIKL9zGs9D in reply to ShellyMBoulder 23:00:23, 2019-07-20
Fun talk by Richard B. Alley on the last few hundred million years of linkage between CO2 and Earth's climate, prim… https://t.co/HsjexRxKus 19:38:02, 2019-07-20
@YIMBY_Princeton It was awful, and I was the chair of the city's Transportation Board for the whole thing. One of m… https://t.co/iZKxGY7lRx in reply to YIMBY_Princeton 19:34:17, 2019-07-20
I got into bike advocacy (by coincidence) as oil prices were rising in the mid-aughts. Change seemed possible. Inev… https://t.co/Gai6nclLON 19:03:58, 2019-07-20
Now if only they hadn't banned new homes first. https://t.co/1uYHYVncsc 18:49:32, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Though it will be both deeply ironic and not particularly helpful if we only get c… https://t.co/5HJuXvOe12 in reply to ShellyMBoulder 18:46:49, 2019-07-20
Another reason I think knowledge-based wealth is almost unlimited: We could be *so* much better at teaching… almo… https://t.co/9ZFPjZdIJs 14:01:04, 2019-07-20
@blobbyapple Yeah, WTF would we have done 100 years ago w/o the Haber-Bosch process. in reply to blobbyapple 13:44:53, 2019-07-20
Technological development tends to follow paths of least resistance. Fossil fuels were one. Silicon semiconductors… https://t.co/vsF5qhdgyM in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:39:14, 2019-07-20
Ironically in contrast to the tweet from @binarybits that inspired this rant, I think our economic growth is more l… https://t.co/Yxm4cAGYgq in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:29:23, 2019-07-20
Nuclear war. Synthetic pandemics. Malevolent superintelligence. Re-directed asteroids. Geoengineering gone horribly… https://t.co/IfiIOYxJeM in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:23:53, 2019-07-20
I think the more likely long-term limit to economic growth in a world where prosperity flows from knowledge, and no… https://t.co/HBPIc4JGJ1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:17:25, 2019-07-20
So maybe "too much" of humanity is blissed out and "not enough" people want to strive to create new knowledge and t… https://t.co/44CgeKYfeL in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:15:48, 2019-07-20
We could still *do stuff* at that point. Explore the solar system, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, cure a… https://t.co/gY0wBpV98I in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:10:07, 2019-07-20
And what is economic growth even *for*? What if everyone just has access to a comfortable life with clean water, pl… https://t.co/RrHBWt3VoY in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:03:51, 2019-07-20
Are we going to run out of new things to know, or useful new applications of things we know? Like we're suddenly go… https://t.co/31bCoJafFJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:59:03, 2019-07-20
@otherlab @ARPAE If what we want is economic growth, and in the long run that growth depends on the knowledge we ac… https://t.co/H0KE0bp4Cr in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:51:36, 2019-07-20
And this long piece from Saul Griffith at @otherlab on the need for and utility of longer term energy R&D funding a… https://t.co/qyIETacife in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:47:32, 2019-07-20
Fossil fuels are so easy, we haven't even made a half-assed attempt to do anything else. Look at what the US spends… https://t.co/mXUkai18QN in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:42:30, 2019-07-20
@blobbyapple I've looked, and I haven't been able to find it. Might be interesting to set it in the time when this… https://t.co/aTyWLSrjQn in reply to blobbyapple 12:30:03, 2019-07-20
Returning to cement… mollusks make a similar material, precipitating CaCO3 out of seawater w/ <1% protein scaffol… https://t.co/C7WCSxAfxl in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:17:14, 2019-07-20
This is why I still have some sliver of optimism even while the world literally burns. There are other ways for us… https://t.co/6YYEs6cnq0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:05:51, 2019-07-20
We experienced a positive feedback loop between resource consumption and technological development, but in the abs… https://t.co/PhPOs1Y3Vh in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:02:40, 2019-07-20
To what extent has our relative wealth and comfort been derived from using more resources, vs. our improved empiric… https://t.co/w2A5jwtzSN in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:59:19, 2019-07-20
What would we have tried instead? Is there any reason to think that would have been *fundamentally* limited by the… https://t.co/2nbWDtxBhO in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:56:06, 2019-07-20
But back to the original point: Can you really imagine humanity gaining a profound new understanding of how the nat… https://t.co/rt21Hg5L3M in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:53:25, 2019-07-20
@welcomehomebldr Ironically it seems like there's a good chance we're going to burn them anyway, by drying out both… https://t.co/SifawvsOlC in reply to welcomehomebldr 11:48:19, 2019-07-20
Electrified rail can do intercity cargo and passenger transport.
If there's no bunker fuel to burn, how big can yo… https://t.co/hONwZLyFdw in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:17:12, 2019-07-20
Without petroleum, we never would have built the kind of transportation systems we have now.
We built pedestrian c… https://t.co/UhFbIBQxuv in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:13:40, 2019-07-20
Abundant fossil fuels have made us lazy about energy. Why bother trying to be efficient when you can just dig up mo… https://t.co/7xFMRBqMuO in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:07:05, 2019-07-20
Maybe the Arabian peninsula and the Sahara and the Atacama and the Southwest US would be heavily industrialized cen… https://t.co/qXrXzIOIJR in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:04:02, 2019-07-20
Without access to fossil fuels, maybe we would have developed solar furnaces to supply process heat for smelting or… https://t.co/04fa05H8vY in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:00:18, 2019-07-20
@welcomehomebldr Yeah, probably in most places, but there are some counterexamples like Japan (beginning w/ the Tok… https://t.co/L6u3j8rJRE in reply to welcomehomebldr 10:35:14, 2019-07-20
People were fooling around with electricity, magnetism & calculus in the 18th century. We would have gotten hydroel… https://t.co/slyLDevuuA in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:28:03, 2019-07-20
I think we still would have seen a long run of economic growth, but the driver of that growth would have been much… https://t.co/2wVy8U2SCz in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:06:34, 2019-07-20
Another thought experiment in the same vein is to imagine technological civilization developing on a world whose bi… https://t.co/gbH32F9VO1 09:48:05, 2019-07-20
A decade ago I would totally have been on the side of the telescope. Now I can't help but think "Would I want to in… https://t.co/fPsc4Oj7wu 21:52:39, 2019-07-19
Ooof. Glacier: Ok. Not. https://t.co/uMRKopqhSS 20:51:56, 2019-07-19
Seems like a good time to re-up this @planetmoney episode on why US electronic payments take 3 days, while in the U… https://t.co/AkVei1DO9W 18:15:59, 2019-07-19
@MichaelEWebber Organic. "Locavore", "Urban Ag." Yuppie farmers markets. Maybe less branded, but no less obsessive.… https://t.co/WjxeH5ltM5 in reply to MichaelEWebber 17:12:15, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd God why can't he just run for senate what is wrong with him. in reply to ericmbudd 15:07:05, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd Which is why they should continue getting chewed out in primaries in those "safe" districts. in reply to ericmbudd 13:56:33, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd I'm afraid it will dissuade progressive voters from participating, and generally poison the base's perce… https://t.co/jSJHw2Bb63 in reply to ericmbudd 13:30:30, 2019-07-19
@PauliJllo @jfdecarolis Have y'all seen the new code + data rerpoducibility requirements from @AeaData? Are there a… https://t.co/6dc3TxemqN 00:19:25, 2019-07-19
@moaimx @MxDatalab Sería muy interesante para comparar esta con algunas medidas más cantidadativas en cada ciudad también. in reply to moaimx 00:12:48, 2019-07-19
RT @GernotWagner: FaceApp for Florida. You can bet Russia knows about this one, too. https://t.co/isZMHxgqfX 22:35:02, 2019-07-18
@ericmbudd Maybe it should be more like the World Cup, where they pair off and half of them are eliminated in each round. in reply to ericmbudd 19:11:27, 2019-07-18
RT @rgunns: do y'all have good, READABLE resources on financial instruments like equity, securitization, bonds, commodity markets, etc? we'… 16:18:39, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC @EricGimon @lausanbo also knows a *ton* about the subject, but I don't think she's On Here much. in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:03:31, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC I'm sure Uday Varadarajan at RMI would have some resources to offer. @EricGimon might as well. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:54:29, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC Bonds confused me for a long time. I found William Bernstein's books on retirement investin… https://t.co/hlPWUBbgMm in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:53:06, 2019-07-18
@rgunns I've probably already shared these, but, specifically in the context of retiring fossil generation and othe… https://t.co/S4nBZi1ke2 in reply to rgunns 14:50:30, 2019-07-18
If only there were some way to reallocate these resources for use in the public's interest. https://t.co/0AShNMFCRv 12:35:00, 2019-07-18
RT @daveweigel: This Tom Friedman line is a perfect encapsulation of this CW, and it never handles the central problem: Democrats nominated… 12:28:51, 2019-07-18
At what point does a person become responsible for mitigating their own (very predictable) cognitive biases? And wh… https://t.co/zFfmOfXrpj 12:20:37, 2019-07-18
Congrats to @jfdecarolis and @PauliJllo! This will be a fun project, and should add some much needed transparency a… https://t.co/L00KSdXtbY 11:15:37, 2019-07-18
RT @Dogen: Say what now
#日本 https://t.co/JnP7fHMG7P 22:09:21, 2019-07-17
There's nothing any human can do that's worth a billion dollars. Beyond a certain point wealth is just an artefact… https://t.co/NkMHlmPuPC 21:28:33, 2019-07-17
RT @Pinboard: @HirokoTabuchi @sfchronicle Twist: there are no new homes in Berkeley 21:17:37, 2019-07-17
RT @jbouie: It’s not routine, it’s ritual. A communal performance and affirmation of shared values. And you don’t have to look particularly… 20:32:28, 2019-07-17
RT @CarlosLozadaWP: The move from “lock her up” in 2016 to “send her back” today is the move from strongman lawlessness to white nationalis… 20:26:22, 2019-07-17
RT @BreeNewsome: An openly racist president targeting members of Congress for violence, overemphasizing the pronunciation of their names to… 20:25:31, 2019-07-17
A tiny ode to deep time. https://t.co/AtB8dq1Cq5 20:25:02, 2019-07-17
RT @rgunns: this is disgusting. and actively endangering her and her family. again.
WHERE IS THE FUCKING LINE https://t.co/906JlWZWw8 20:21:08, 2019-07-17
@ericmbudd You can do the hot yoga outside. Finally. in reply to ericmbudd 18:08:40, 2019-07-17
So long and thanks for all the fish. https://t.co/D9bOxgJr1e 17:48:59, 2019-07-17
Listening to my music in alphabetical order by artist.
The transition directly from Jefferson Airplane's "Triad" t… https://t.co/JruTLtJVIk 15:57:21, 2019-07-17
@MasynMoyer @shayshinecastle They do like the unanimous votes. Sometimes I wish A-Aron was a little more ornery. Bu… https://t.co/dzYC2X9Ruu in reply to MasynMoyer 15:11:46, 2019-07-17
@WhoresofYore https://t.co/qUU8m1lwVt 13:43:25, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle It would be nice if there were more calling of bullshit during the happytalk phase, with reference… https://t.co/U85wq8BEKF in reply to shayshinecastle 13:40:36, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle Do you think they really ever meant it though? It just feels too easy to say those nice things whe… https://t.co/RRgrlaAj79 in reply to shayshinecastle 12:06:45, 2019-07-17
@electronecon @brendanpierpont @RCHohenstein @mehdyson I would think this would be extractable form something like… https://t.co/w9WstTtx32 in reply to electronecon 11:57:13, 2019-07-17
RT @zachdcarter: Hard to escape the conclusion that Facebook is totally unprepared to defend Libra before Congress https://t.co/8Sn5LO6ETH 11:53:13, 2019-07-17
@CHThiem @ericmbudd Yeah, that was pretty awful. in reply to CHThiem 07:57:24, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle City campground. Gotta be a city campground. Fair weather housing for the unhoused. in reply to shayshinecastle 20:34:09, 2019-07-16
Also… remember that if the results of an extensive public engagement process are deemed politically inconvenient… https://t.co/0fJtzLpcXn 17:53:46, 2019-07-16
@alixtrot Yeah. The "official story" is slow to change. :-/ Looking back at the album now I see there were only 4 w… https://t.co/8Bie5eoigU in reply to alixtrot 10:38:14, 2019-07-16
@alixtrot There's a an album called "26 Scientists" by the band Artichoke — it's short musical biographies, one fo… https://t.co/Os9mpCWdoP in reply to alixtrot 08:57:13, 2019-07-16
RT @Karnythia: Individual choices cannot & will not solve a crisis created & sustained by governments and businesses. All exhortations to… 08:52:34, 2019-07-16
This is an amazing endorsement! Keep up the good work @ewarren. https://t.co/NZX6g5FjeZ 08:50:51, 2019-07-16
Never once in my life have I had health insurance that I felt like I could actually use. https://t.co/41MwN0KW1Z 21:13:58, 2019-07-15
@drvox "I don't mean it's difficult to grow beans, or air conditioning bills are inconveniently high. I mean, if yo… https://t.co/Ruy9U6ijdl in reply to drvox 17:07:02, 2019-07-15
@ideapete https://t.co/AxyBNP3o6X in reply to ideapete 12:38:33, 2019-07-15
En otras noticias… estoy planeando para andar en bicicleta desde Antigua a Oaxaca en el otoño que viene, después… https://t.co/Sb5tBBBD2a 00:09:45, 2019-07-15
More good thoughts here on the value of being very clear about whether you are generating content, or editing it, p… https://t.co/Kdkh73SQBw in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:03:23, 2019-07-15
I desperately want to write more long-form stuff, but have gotten trapped in this perfect sentence loop so many tim… https://t.co/8Ey1nJGR36 00:02:09, 2019-07-15
"I'm not against school integration, just busing as the means." sounds an awful lot like "I'm not against affordabl… https://t.co/JhJL1DD94g 22:07:14, 2019-07-14
@ericmbudd Yeah so who is on the hook for "maintenance" again? Was that the P3 or CDOT? in reply to ericmbudd 22:01:24, 2019-07-14
@ericmbudd I bet Ken Beitel could make up a great story about this! in reply to ericmbudd 21:57:59, 2019-07-14
@Madisonkanna @thebmbennett Too real. Too real. in reply to Madisonkanna 21:30:39, 2019-07-14
@Sammy_Roth @ByIanJames Have you read Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee? in reply to Sammy_Roth 17:55:04, 2019-07-14
I'm still haunted by this thread from a year ago, about the shockingly fast and lawful transition to apartheid gove… https://t.co/yDF68A7Q93 00:34:20, 2019-07-14
@Noahpinion There was this thread about the transition into apartheid in S. Africa, which seems like another intere… https://t.co/vj1C61rCSe in reply to Noahpinion 00:31:47, 2019-07-14

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