Tweets for the Week of 2019-08-04 to 2019-08-10

Say what? https://t.co/8UEwUpKOYa 07:50:50, 2019-08-10
RT @Eleven_Films: BREAKING: White Nationalist Domestic Terrorism
NOW PLAYING ACROSS AMERICA https://t.co/OX47ZRx6Xy 00:04:06, 2019-08-10
RT @MattBors: lol instagram put my cartoon back up after someone wrote about it. https://t.co/aDndkGNP3l 22:35:24, 2019-08-09
RT @MattBors: I'm trying to keep publishing work like this on a platform I own and operate where political cartoons can't be taken down whe… 22:35:16, 2019-08-09
RT @MattBors: Instagram removed this comic from my account for promoting violence and dangerous organizations. https://t.co/z4pXfr9bny 22:34:55, 2019-08-09
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: President Trump the kind of shit you read in a Fallout backstory 22:29:48, 2019-08-09
A libel against the world's many honest, compassionate sex workers. https://t.co/oKyMnJAI3R 22:19:48, 2019-08-09
@ericmbudd By a fascist who was inspired to murder them by the guy doing the smiling. I mean, maybe he really is ha… https://t.co/wPgeh6ZtL6 in reply to ericmbudd 21:55:49, 2019-08-09
And one of my all-time favorite live performance calculations, Smil on stage with @Revkin laying out the irreducibl… https://t.co/hIOIx2kOYB in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:46:52, 2019-08-09
Here's Smil, talking about the same dynamic in 2011. He's gotten kinda dark. Every talk of his I've seen has a "The… https://t.co/5ylmSpUQdh in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:42:45, 2019-08-09
@drvox If you haven't read it already, I can't recommend Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb highly… https://t.co/8POE3lVYo6 in reply to drvox 19:24:56, 2019-08-09
RT @wellerstein: Today is the 74th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Often overlooked, compared to Hiroshima, as merely the "second"… 19:19:33, 2019-08-09
Anyway, here's the pitch video that had me yelling at my computer.
I'm going to go find some rum.

https://t.co/6q2m2Bdylf in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:35:05, 2019-08-09
Preserving and expanding the social norm/ideal of high consumption, rather than exploring low-consumption prosperit… https://t.co/GnQzpccEZn in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:28:06, 2019-08-09
But we aren't allowed to explore this domain — this solution space is off limits. A high *quantity* of consumption… https://t.co/pvCf3ifGq5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:24:06, 2019-08-09
What if we're already there, and we're just not paying attention?
Vaclav Smil's book Energy at the Crossroads made… https://t.co/QFFAtIXRfA in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:20:29, 2019-08-09
Also what is "high energy" in this context? On a per-capita basis is it:
* 2kW (the global average)
* 5kW (EU/Japan… https://t.co/aSgrE4Xl0J in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:16:16, 2019-08-09
Or maybe we should remove our massive subsidies for meat and dairy production, increasing their end user costs, red… https://t.co/42eq5baJrc in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:12:51, 2019-08-09
Require Passive House energy efficiency w/ low embodied energy materials, ban gas hookups, eliminate parking, chang… https://t.co/Z8FYL7Yyq9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:08:31, 2019-08-09
Like hey this chunk of city right here has NEGATIVE cost, requires no new tech, improves health, safety, community,… https://t.co/iTiqiVisgd in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:03:53, 2019-08-09
ESPECIALLY when 4th gen nukes, carbon sequestration, direct air capture, advanced biofuels, geoengineering etc. are… https://t.co/i8swcAwXBP in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:01:47, 2019-08-09
Also, unlike some folks in this space, they're supportive of renewables.
However, they *specifically* limit their… https://t.co/Yy0IPfF5jp in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:59:20, 2019-08-09
This specifically includes nuclear energy, "decarbonized" fossil fuels, and atmospheric carbon removal. One of thei… https://t.co/XmZv17CLXC in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:56:14, 2019-08-09
An addendum to this thread:
I came across an energy & climate thinktank called the Clean Air Task Force. Their cen… https://t.co/WibpnA9UGd in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:54:33, 2019-08-09
RT @MaryHeglar: I think I know why the question is so annoying now. What’s they’re really asking usually is “can you give me some hope that… 17:02:03, 2019-08-09
@drvox @Quillette Ahhhh. I thought your RT of her a couple of days ago was… odd. in reply to drvox 14:44:05, 2019-08-09
@mateosfo WHY DO YOU HATE UTOPIA MATT. in reply to mateosfo 13:40:59, 2019-08-09
@thebmbennett @MaryHeglar @ibeannavo @rgunns @Jamie_Margolin Is there a good rhetorical response? How do you reach… https://t.co/75RC6FQw90 in reply to thebmbennett 13:06:19, 2019-08-09
@choldgraf Glad I'm not the only one with that response… We just spent a bunch of time trying to integrate Jira p… https://t.co/in6ktKU1s8 in reply to choldgraf 12:35:22, 2019-08-09
@thebmbennett @MaryHeglar @ibeannavo @rgunns @Jamie_Margolin Yes of course that's not surprising, but I am getting… https://t.co/2mHQVZoKEk in reply to thebmbennett 12:31:46, 2019-08-09
@arvindpawan1 @joshdr83 @cody_a_hill The same vehicle design elements that convey that feeling of power also kill p… https://t.co/y5LT0bhFkt in reply to arvindpawan1 12:29:52, 2019-08-09
@MaryHeglar @ibeannavo @rgunns @Jamie_Margolin I'd love to just ignore it and think it will go away b/c it feels aw… https://t.co/0MychOHkCC in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:26:58, 2019-08-09
@MaryHeglar @ibeannavo @rgunns @Jamie_Margolin There's an exclusionary regional sentiment in CO, framed in terms o… https://t.co/rcVyd6Ia6N 12:23:45, 2019-08-09
@drvox Well, it's hard to tell billionaires they're wrong to their face. in reply to drvox 12:06:44, 2019-08-09
A good piece on Portland/Casciadian regionalism as a localized form of exclusionary nationalism, by @ibeannavo. See… https://t.co/Z3BT4HmBsx 08:17:58, 2019-08-09
RT @BrentToderian: Look at this street. Are you telling me you wouldn’t love to have streets like this in your neighbourhood? When Amsterda… 23:24:43, 2019-08-08
@GR_G_R Fast Fourier The Win? in reply to GR_G_R 23:17:16, 2019-08-08
RT @girlziplocked: “Yeah well Medicare for All sounds nice but how are you going to pay for it?”
“LOL by dangling three randomly selected… 19:38:06, 2019-08-08
@gschivley @electronecon @choldgraf @joshdr83 @priyald17 @kirstie_j @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis But when the outcomes a… https://t.co/SZPhbEQGbp in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:33:11, 2019-08-08
@gschivley @electronecon @choldgraf @joshdr83 @priyald17 @kirstie_j @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis But what *is* fair?
I… https://t.co/AslkvIesmV in reply to gschivley 19:31:20, 2019-08-08
@choldgraf @gschivley @joshdr83 @priyald17 @kirstie_j @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis @electronecon I dunno if it's going t… https://t.co/ntpzDC8m1J in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:52:11, 2019-08-08
@choldgraf @gschivley @joshdr83 @priyald17 @kirstie_j @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis @electronecon I think it deffffinitel… https://t.co/mLA69dTMKF in reply to choldgraf 18:49:32, 2019-08-08
@joshdr83 @priyald17 @gschivley @kirstie_j @choldgraf @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis @electronecon @CatalystCoop I'm also… https://t.co/9XsyKaRIRc in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:53:06, 2019-08-08
@joshdr83 @priyald17 @gschivley @kirstie_j @choldgraf @PauliJllo @jfdecarolis @electronecon This would be… https://t.co/eHHxFMzKvr in reply to joshdr83 15:49:43, 2019-08-08
@tacosdedatos @ScipyLA @MxDatalab ¿En serio? Lo debería existe. in reply to tacosdedatos 13:03:22, 2019-08-08
Cc: @GalaCF @fperez_org @ladatamx @darkolina @AlbertoCairo @moaimx @natorro Gracias por cualquieres sugerencias! https://t.co/4PFNPil8mh 12:58:40, 2019-08-08
@ScipyLA @tacosdedatos @MxDatalab Hay un foro para compartir oportunidades de trabajo en la comunidad de PyData en… https://t.co/8jSgD8VqFO 12:52:21, 2019-08-08
This is not metaphorical! In some cases the weight of your vote is *directly tied* to the area or perimeter of the… https://t.co/EdviYgIomX 12:37:47, 2019-08-08
@ericmbudd Or a woman governor! in reply to ericmbudd 12:08:07, 2019-08-08
What's reasonable pay for some short-term open energy data wrangling and cleaning work in the public interest using… https://t.co/KwzFRX7rR0 10:30:54, 2019-08-08
It depresses me that we're going to replace cars with other more different cars but I'll still enjoy watching the o… https://t.co/VkGsQu8IDP 01:33:33, 2019-08-08
This is pretty amazing. I suspect I'll never own another stand-alone camera. Now if only there were decent open too… https://t.co/J3IxENK2iw 23:15:54, 2019-08-07
@sharethecities You knew!? Why didn't you tell me! in reply to sharethecities 23:08:50, 2019-08-07
Also how did I never hear about Gaussian prime numbers until today? I mean holycrap 5 can be factored but 11 can't.… https://t.co/vBiymwNUvG 22:57:14, 2019-08-07
How have we failed so utterly in the last 30 years to create any competing vision of dynamic, egalitarian prosperit… https://t.co/plCfrvAJFG in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:31, 2019-08-07
The things that make humans happy and healthy don't require a lot of resources. Technological innovation can contin… https://t.co/NuCnf5xvbo in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:31, 2019-08-07
It freaks me out that all these by now familiar responses seem to accept/assume that the Good Life™ depends on high… https://t.co/W9dE2k8Ksp in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:30, 2019-08-07
Then there's the technocornucopians: prosperity depends on hyperconsumption, and we can enable that indefinitely fo… https://t.co/pSMfgztjI6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:30, 2019-08-07
There's eco-fascist / NIMBY style Dark Green: prosperity depends on hyperconsumption, and the elitist solution is..… https://t.co/pqadD4HQ8M in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:29, 2019-08-07
There's Deep Green Resistance / Dark Mountain / Endgame style Dark Green: prosperity depends on hyperconsumption, a… https://t.co/87EQ61lmj6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:28, 2019-08-07
A thread:
There's no politics of the 21st century that doesn't eventually become "green." The question is, what *k… https://t.co/BujTFY1fl8 22:50:27, 2019-08-07
@drvox I remember tweeting the temperature of my compost pile every morning for a while back in the day. Fun times. in reply to drvox 22:26:49, 2019-08-07
RT @Carrasquillo: I truly think the scale of how horrified the Latino community is right now is not being understood, which is why the repo… 22:23:44, 2019-08-07
@ericmbudd And became a radical bike extremist 🙂 in reply to ericmbudd 21:37:26, 2019-08-07
California is allowing $1B in energy efficiency that can pit electricity directly against gas. SoCal Gas warns of "… https://t.co/e3jnjIeMQ2 17:28:50, 2019-08-07
@Jamie_Margolin @AmericanThinker @ThisIsZeroHour @ClimateReality @Greenpeace @SierraClub @PftP_int @350 @youthvgov… https://t.co/H9NLZnhG5t in reply to Jamie_Margolin 16:46:22, 2019-08-07
@ericmbudd @ColoradoSun @COindependent Oh wow, did he have a regular column there? I thought it was just a horrible one-off guest thing. in reply to ericmbudd 14:36:08, 2019-08-07
RT @AlecMacGillis: "Nowhere is the struggle to maintain a middle-class lifestyle more apparent than in cars. The average new-car price in t… 22:29:50, 2019-08-06
@unicorn C'mon Andrew, we all know zero people means zero carbon. in reply to unicorn 21:15:55, 2019-08-06
@joshdr83 @gschivley @cody_a_hill @westerngrid Maybe @RicOConnell8 from GridLab? in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:24:49, 2019-08-06
@joshdr83 @gschivley @cody_a_hill I bet someone in the @westerngrid WCEA group knows. https://t.co/I4hLdPNKLM in reply to joshdr83 19:18:32, 2019-08-06
RT @MBazilian: Pueblo,Colorado is undergoing a major transformation towards becoming a clean energy hub, with lessons for the whole country… 16:55:35, 2019-08-06
My god I had no idea that Monopoly was originally meant to teach the public about the *land* monopoly and Georgism.… https://t.co/DeThZVJvqa 16:27:46, 2019-08-06
RT @sarahrlnrd: Toni Morrison had the only good take on family.
This is from a TIME interview in 1989 (I first saw it excerpted in One Di… 11:39:29, 2019-08-06
If you'd told me in 1996, while I was taking AMa95 at @Caltech, that one day I would relax by watching videos about… https://t.co/YuXTUoD3Rr 10:44:08, 2019-08-06
RT @nhannahjones: This was a sermon. Every American should hear it. https://t.co/xRdKruXd8g 10:07:28, 2019-08-06
RT @erikhinton: This is from the editorial board of the New York Times in an editorial that purports to be censuring white supremacy. What… 10:04:56, 2019-08-06
RT @matthewstoller: A good chunk of Silicon Valley 'disruption' is at this point people in Silicon Valley just not knowing that law is a th… 07:17:04, 2019-08-06
I had no idea there was a whole genre of SETI dedicated to looking for messages encoded within DNA… ever since th… https://t.co/uzbYGrgn5C 23:26:32, 2019-08-05
@cbquist @sina_lana Peter Godfrey Smith's book Other Minds goes into this phenomena in cephalopods in some depth. I… https://t.co/FMspAXbaBU in reply to cbquist 23:24:12, 2019-08-05
Interesting interview on the possibility for a financial discontinuity around climate change realizations. But also… https://t.co/czDVHr9arj 20:43:16, 2019-08-05
RT @AOC: Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by – and often relies upon – the cowardice of mainstream i… 20:00:48, 2019-08-05
@joejoezz No I'm comparing total energy flux per unit time. 300km^2 of very efficient biofuel crops, averaged over… https://t.co/9bZdMatueU in reply to joejoezz 14:33:37, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd Reading about transportation policy from 100 years ago might seem kinda quaint. But it's so good! And disturbingly non-quaint! in reply to ericmbudd 12:48:48, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd Yeah. Nothing has brought this home to me harder than EVs. in reply to ericmbudd 12:36:38, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd Have you read Peter D. Norton's "Fighting Traffic" yet? No really, you gotta read it with this kind of… https://t.co/QXvZhtw2LC in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:35:17, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd Just like regular cars! in reply to ericmbudd 12:31:30, 2019-08-05
@joejoezz No, that's 300km^2 dedicated to keeping the fleet of 1500 Boeing 777s in the air 12 hours a day, for as l… https://t.co/VyynfIH3qb in reply to joejoezz 12:30:21, 2019-08-05
Jet engines have an *amazing* duty cycle. Thousands of flights w/o major overhauls. Say they run at 50% capacity on… https://t.co/jTXmNUTBke in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:56:59, 2019-08-05
@davidjcmackay Also, I can't tell if Boeing is making a threat or stating a goal with that paint job, given that th… https://t.co/SwjsMdswXk in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:47:22, 2019-08-05
Some useful constraints to consider in terms of biofuel availability, from @davidjcmackay's book. Energy crops stru… https://t.co/Cdxr9KIeie 11:43:49, 2019-08-05
RT @Pinboard: I am enjoying that Boeing is bragging about its less-polluting airliner by flying it around in circles with no passengers. ht… 11:39:07, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd It's much better with stopping 🙂 I slept in a ditch for several hours that time. @chaspinrad and I did… https://t.co/qY1EwWW1LJ in reply to ericmbudd 11:30:08, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd I'm not sure I could walk the next day. in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:49:15, 2019-08-05
@ericmbudd It's a great loop! I did it in the other direction in one go once. It took me 50 hours. There was a hot… https://t.co/oNRd4g65xG in reply to ericmbudd 10:48:25, 2019-08-05
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Me: “Is the world horrible in this way.”
Expert: “Oh no that’s a common misconception.”
Me: “Oh good.”
Experts: “It’s… 00:41:54, 2019-08-05
RT @ewarren: In March, I was asked about the increase in hate crimes since the election of Donald Trump. I want to be very clear: White sup… 00:19:32, 2019-08-05
RT @thehill: Sen. Bernie Sanders: "I think all over the world people are looking at the United States and wondering what is going on, what… 00:19:26, 2019-08-05
And yet somehow, incredibly, we would still find a way to use it to make… cars. https://t.co/uKzin7eZD4 23:48:59, 2019-08-04
Paging @GaryWockner
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RT @drvox: Fucking say it. 23:05:59, 2019-08-04
RT @ewarren: We need to call it out: Fox News is a hate-for-profit machine that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists. https://t.c… 21:55:43, 2019-08-04
RT @ChrisLu44: Overlooked stories this week:
-Three North Korean missile launches in one week

-500,000 kids will lose free school meals u… 21:30:28, 2019-08-04
RT @scullymike: He finally brought something to the floor. https://t.co/cv3yvFTvMC 21:28:20, 2019-08-04
Nothing like sinking your entire life's savings into a single, undiversified, illiquid, speculative asset. https://t.co/2CDbyXEK8x 21:16:18, 2019-08-04
RT @fdelatg: -Miles de “puntos de venta” y “shows” de armas en la frontera ?? ??
-250,000 armas anualmente son compradas en ?? para ser env… 21:07:40, 2019-08-04
RT @ericbradner: Beto O’Rourke on his way to his car was asked if there’s anything Trump can do now to make this better.
“What do you thin… 21:01:42, 2019-08-04
@ericmbudd @notFromShrek We now return you to your regularly scheduled dystopian nightmare. in reply to ericmbudd 19:47:22, 2019-08-04
This feels too familiar. https://t.co/r60Gz3No4N 18:16:33, 2019-08-04
@CHThiem Apparently the shooter was thinking the same thing. https://t.co/0XhZQBuDYF in reply to CHThiem 08:53:22, 2019-08-04
In the medium term, the reality and gravity of climate change will be self evident. There's a bunch of ways we can… https://t.co/E4sdBDEiun 08:36:58, 2019-08-04

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