Tweets for the Week of 2019-08-11 to 2019-08-17

Techno-utopian: "We are become as gods!"
Dark green: "We're not gods, we're just smashing things and have no idea… https://t.co/yB4e5Q8Wrp 22:17:07, 2019-08-16
@joshdr83 Another (long) favorite, is the 17 mile King Lake loop from the Hessie trailhead (near Ned) up to the Con… https://t.co/TKZLYytuoY in reply to joshdr83 18:58:13, 2019-08-16
Is it just me or are a lot of the depopulating areas also the conservative areas? https://t.co/MYVVu9zaj8 18:56:05, 2019-08-16
@joshdr83 Have you been up to Pawnee Pass out of Brainard Lake yet? Great long day hike. Or a long weekend if you w… https://t.co/Qjtl97V3f9 in reply to joshdr83 18:51:11, 2019-08-16
@CHThiem @ericmbudd @rightlegpegged @sea_Baugruppe @AndrewMichler He sounds like some kind of transient. in reply to CHThiem 17:19:01, 2019-08-16
Wow. A new perspective on "The Global South" https://t.co/qmVs7Xt7h0 16:38:43, 2019-08-16
@elakdawalla https://t.co/hzbkzlHPTL 14:19:57, 2019-08-16
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: When it gets too hot in the warehouse I think about how much fun someone is going to have with this inflatable pool. T… 14:14:00, 2019-08-16
It's almost like they've codified the difference between intent and impact. https://t.co/kIyBivMgk2 12:11:45, 2019-08-16
@isaach @dfuzrindustries I can't tell if they keep bombs from blowing up, or remove lint from your clothing. in reply to isaach 11:19:43, 2019-08-16
@chaspinrad And all this time I thought we were getting rid of internal combustion engines. in reply to chaspinrad 09:48:39, 2019-08-16
@Revkin @GretaThunberg omg, that 'stache. in reply to Revkin 22:20:01, 2019-08-15
I'm a decade into my personal experiment with flying much less. It's been an intense experience. One big realizatio… https://t.co/DnpdApg8Uh 21:46:58, 2019-08-15
@Revkin @GretaThunberg Hah, the 2nd one reminds me of living in a housing co-op and sharing every space but a bedro… https://t.co/WcnJyxwFQO in reply to Revkin 21:32:54, 2019-08-15
This world we live in. I dunno. https://t.co/fZyzdcPVj3 20:48:20, 2019-08-15
@alexbaca Gah, I totally want one but they privatized the post office in Guatemala and they it went bankrupt so the… https://t.co/5DN4yTUfLg in reply to alexbaca 20:39:46, 2019-08-15
@CHThiem Of course it's a truck. in reply to CHThiem 17:11:14, 2019-08-15
@unicorn I don't suppose you happen to know anyone involved w/ @SWGuadalajara or @Makers_GDL or @DataLabMx? I'm thi… https://t.co/13n7zIDShy 16:59:25, 2019-08-15
@btx91 So especially for folks who want to see more competitive/efficient electricity markets, ERCOT is a demonstra… https://t.co/Ty2BN0xSXy in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:32:58, 2019-08-15
@btx91 But capacity markets are also… kind of awful, and have historically compensated utilities for keeping a bu… https://t.co/R5rvdJvKTM in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:31:23, 2019-08-15
@btx91 So, yeah, electricity costs $9000/MWh right now (rather than $25/MWh), but you can't earn a living like that… https://t.co/boiMXuQyQZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:30:09, 2019-08-15
@btx91 In some places there are capacity markets — where generators are compensated just for existing and being re… https://t.co/jfZMRzjonc in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:29:02, 2019-08-15
@btx91 So ERCOT is a fun experiment to watch. Whereas in many "markets", regulators would just say "Thou shalt keep… https://t.co/CxjomvpK7b in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:26:10, 2019-08-15
@btx91 In the US, ERCOT is a kind of extreme case — it's an "energy only" market, which means everyone's just trad… https://t.co/5pR9IfO4l8 in reply to btx91 15:24:05, 2019-08-15
@ERCOT_ISO Though if that means during the hottest few hours of the decade a bunch of poor people die of heat strok… https://t.co/inIQbNWkTu in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:25:23, 2019-08-15
@ERCOT_ISO Also — and seriously — might rolling brownouts be a better solution than maintaining billions of dolla… https://t.co/mEOyQPFwJ2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:20:57, 2019-08-15
At least @ERCOT_ISO has the guts to be honest about it, and give everyone the opportunity to *do* something in resp… https://t.co/Fcv3KWOZOr in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:14:51, 2019-08-15
The thing is… we *all* pay these prices already no matter what our local electricity market looks like.
Any syst… https://t.co/ZVMboFB2tV 14:10:42, 2019-08-15
@JMPyper @ERCOT_ISO I suspect you've already chatted with him, but @joshdr83 has been talking a lot about this kind… https://t.co/5aOZrHHWhy in reply to JMPyper 14:07:16, 2019-08-15
@cabrowns Tratando de introducir Python y las herramientas de datos grandes y códigos abiertos a algunos financiero… https://t.co/da3OGZuiKl in reply to cabrowns 12:57:06, 2019-08-15
@drvox I'm getting the sense we're in for a deep and terrible exploration of this space as a society. in reply to drvox 11:19:35, 2019-08-15
@elakdawalla I am so sorry to hear that. Obviously you already know this but your work is amazing and appreciated a… https://t.co/AOtZlvUseM in reply to elakdawalla 10:40:21, 2019-08-15
I'm a planetary geophysicist that provides energy data to activists fighting the xenoforming of our homeworld.
I s… https://t.co/mcycqERTV1 09:55:27, 2019-08-15
RT @elakdawalla: For this and lots of other reasons, it's time for conferences to go virtual. https://t.co/3P4EvmxL1o 09:43:14, 2019-08-15
@Noahpinion Meanwhile in Bakersfield… https://t.co/JriACLEDuA in reply to Noahpinion 09:41:13, 2019-08-15
Also I will bet you a burrito that within 3 years we discover that the bot-herders have been stoking this populatio… https://t.co/7dv1g1iW8D in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:10:55, 2019-08-15
The richest 10% of humans emit 50% of all GHGs. The poorest 50% emit 10% of all GHGs. If you want to get rid of peo… https://t.co/ue1PqtC3eW 09:09:22, 2019-08-15
@ericmbudd It would feel so good. https://t.co/KfJ5tsO6te in reply to ericmbudd 22:40:59, 2019-08-14
@ericmbudd Oh, *that's* why they're in the news. in reply to ericmbudd 22:16:16, 2019-08-14
An heiress to a $500M banking fortune secretly set up dozens of astroturf groups to push population control and sto… https://t.co/CUeSMZ8HDy 21:50:52, 2019-08-14
@ericmbudd It's the nametag. in reply to ericmbudd 20:11:25, 2019-08-14
@CostaSamaras @arvindpawan1 Don't worry. Eventually there will be an earthquake and they'll have to renovate Moscone again. in reply to CostaSamaras 17:19:08, 2019-08-14
@thebmbennett I fantasize that this is what it feels like to work at @Otherlab (except on the R&D side, rather than… https://t.co/PzJBxy3fC8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:41, 2019-08-14
Apparently I'm not going to rest until this commit touches literally every single python file in the @catalystcoop PUDL repository. 17:16:06, 2019-08-14
@thebmbennett It would feel so good. in reply to thebmbennett 17:12:36, 2019-08-14
@joshdr83 @ERCOT_ISO Dang. in reply to joshdr83 17:11:28, 2019-08-14
Embarrassed to admit that until last week I thought the Volt (SI-unit) was named after this guy, when really it was… https://t.co/V9by7PdYbQ 16:32:35, 2019-08-14
@ericmbudd @scottholton Okay but what does it *mean* — like, is the idea that they're so hell-bent on avoiding a r… https://t.co/a28vpaxsnD in reply to ericmbudd 16:06:23, 2019-08-14
@ericmbudd Can you explain this to me? https://t.co/NhFGwaI5Te 15:28:13, 2019-08-14
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS:
The most effective carbon offset (at least in the US) is… a political donation. I'm… https://t.co/2MlszfqvnB 15:20:32, 2019-08-14
@shwinnebego Do you know any good references talking about historical sustainable forestry practices? e.g. Tokugawa… https://t.co/B4nbUmIrh9 13:00:03, 2019-08-14
Some interesting high-level design patterns for thinking about scientific uses of and shared infrastructure for big… https://t.co/6tWiUBIkag 12:58:17, 2019-08-14
RT @maxwellstrachan: i spoke to a "die-hard" republican at the iowa state fair this weekend about elizabeth warren’s wealth tax.
the take… 11:06:16, 2019-08-14
This video on the US wealth distribution is heading for a decade old, but it doesn't seem like the message has real… https://t.co/satZ53ImE8 11:05:40, 2019-08-14
@jbouie This is heading for a decade old, but covers exactly that question: https://t.co/Cf6hvndMI6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:56:37, 2019-08-14
@jbouie We are *so bad* at intuitively grasping power laws and other non-linear distributions. in reply to jbouie 10:54:57, 2019-08-14
I do wonder whether there are still "quiet parts" that don't get said out loud, and if so, what *they* sound like. https://t.co/J12u4pSvmu 10:48:36, 2019-08-14
Maybe weapons systems are never really cancelled, just delayed. https://t.co/Q89XYsE3NK 23:38:46, 2019-08-13
@MichaelEWebber @ElephantEating Can highly recommend sleeping in the apricot & cherry orchards of Midi Pyrenées and… https://t.co/23fASXVp1z in reply to MichaelEWebber 23:24:02, 2019-08-13
RT @girlziplocked: Facebook mediates genocide.
https://t.co/8JrSPgDTLH https://t.co/WtL1bEyxBE 21:03:11, 2019-08-13
RT @business: BREAKING: Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, a… 21:02:59, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd His wife, also a chemist and a collaborator, killed herself when he refused to renounce the use of chemi… https://t.co/6OEb6sk8N5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:03:03, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd And then he had to flee the Nazis because of his hidden Jewish heritage, after developing Zyklon A (a pe… https://t.co/Kx8rfiFiOv in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:59:15, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd Though that discovery was kind of an accident on the way to making ammonium nitrate for Germany's muniti… https://t.co/bFjx9ugW2d in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:56:12, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd Kind of ironic given that Fritz Haber developed the means for industrial scale synthetic nitrogen fertil… https://t.co/j1LoZUHH4Z in reply to ericmbudd 15:54:07, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd https://t.co/sfmTqT5tK6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:19:11, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd Precious. Bodily. Fluids. in reply to ericmbudd 15:17:55, 2019-08-13
@ericmbudd Dumpster clean. in reply to ericmbudd 13:48:14, 2019-08-13
@alexbaca I think there's some studies of the land-tax-esque policies in Taiwan that are relevant. in reply to alexbaca 11:15:52, 2019-08-13
RT @AJEnglish: Right-wing Hindu groups are demanding a population control law, based on long-held belief that Muslims will outnumber Hindus… 01:03:09, 2019-08-13
RT @Noahpinion: Holy crap. The prime minister of Pakistan just called the prime minister of India a Nazi…on Twitter. https://t.co/rI23Ahz… 01:02:49, 2019-08-13
RT @TKavulla: "Midsommar" but for NIMBYs https://t.co/FWofrBKeEG 01:02:21, 2019-08-13
RT @baratunde: Historians will look at this as a key moment in the decline of the USA. Bulletproof backpack inserts for kids instead of rea… 01:01:12, 2019-08-13
RT @CNN: The Def Con Voting Village, a now-annual event at the US' largest hacking conference, gives hackers free rein to try to break into… 01:00:34, 2019-08-13
RT @zachsdorfman: There's a quasi-autonomous city-state fighting total absorption into the biggest and most powerful authoritarian country… 00:59:43, 2019-08-13
RT @CarlZha: People’s Armed Police deployed to Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong. Chinese state media CGTN now pretty explicit abo… 00:58:58, 2019-08-13
RT @davidenrich: Exclusive: @JamesStewartNYT visited Jeffrey Epstein at his home last year.
He said he didn't think having sex with teenag… 00:58:36, 2019-08-13
RT @ArmsControlWonk: This was fun to write. https://t.co/Cvnt7kUCk9 00:58:17, 2019-08-13
RT @i_ameztoy: One day of Siberian smoke plumes evolution through the eyes of #Himawari8 ?️ | That is a huge #wildfire area ? between Vanav… 00:58:03, 2019-08-13
@nils_gilman Natural photosynthetic efficiency is very low, so available area is a limiting factor rate of carbon r… https://t.co/p7u90M0Lx8 in reply to nils_gilman 22:34:07, 2019-08-12
@CHThiem Isn't the West side up there as-of-yet unannexed county land? Or not that far north? Seems like there's so… https://t.co/W12mypz7tT in reply to CHThiem 20:52:53, 2019-08-12
RT @Max_Fisher: Now live: Our monthslong project on YouTube radicalization.
As YouTube diverts more and more users down far-right rabbith… 12:31:23, 2019-08-12
Ah, so Буревестник is the Russian for Boaty McBoatface: https://t.co/2i8slHKdWY in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:08:12, 2019-08-12
Really all nuclear weapons programs should be named after underworld deities. Like Project Pluto, the 1960s era US… https://t.co/0uzovfgEFq 11:01:34, 2019-08-12
Is it possible to inspire an urgency and scale of action comparable to the global WWII war-effort, without also ins… https://t.co/PCGt5XUyAC 10:50:15, 2019-08-12
RT @CatalystCoop: A cool plugin for working with SQL more interactively inside @ProjectJupyter. Excited to see all of these modular improve… 10:42:11, 2019-08-12
@ericmbudd @AlanaSemuels omg "sharing economy" I am ready for that hijacked meme to die. in reply to ericmbudd 09:52:52, 2019-08-12
Yo @cmgosnell https://t.co/MOUddG4sCi 08:12:17, 2019-08-12
Love to watch old folks debate the finer points of "ecologically" justified xenophobia / wall-building on the statewide listserv. 22:47:16, 2019-08-11
@KaseyKlimes Also lets you schedule tweets, work with multiple accounts simultaneously, etc. Plus it's all in chron… https://t.co/Ou1B42Ja39 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:43:59, 2019-08-11
@KaseyKlimes It's an official interface maintained by Twitter. I think it only exists as a web-app at… https://t.co/ejz0elXAVy in reply to KaseyKlimes 22:42:30, 2019-08-11
@KaseyKlimes It's free on tweetdeck, and the better tweetdeck browser plugin gives you additional content controls. in reply to KaseyKlimes 22:35:15, 2019-08-11
@JMPyper @Apple Have you tried rebooting in safe mode? https://t.co/ul0jqbCyFX in reply to JMPyper 22:24:55, 2019-08-11
It's like some kind of capitalist-christian gulag. https://t.co/RcaCukBsBr 20:30:10, 2019-08-11
RT @MaryHeglar: Fuck this dude https://t.co/JSHelpd9rt 19:53:02, 2019-08-11
While hoping that monopolistic land value appreciation more than covers your losses. https://t.co/9YqGoLSTeE 19:40:46, 2019-08-11

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