Tweets for the Week of 2019-08-25 to 2019-08-31

@ericmbudd tfw Stiglitz, Friedman and Adam Smith all agree on something… and yet somehow, it still hasn't gotten… https://t.co/sY6HnfOQxB in reply to ericmbudd 23:06:44, 2019-08-30
RT @AstroKatie: This thread is a reminder that astronomers (amateur and professional) watch the stuff that’s watching us, if only to keep i… 21:08:31, 2019-08-30
@ericmbudd https://t.co/8NfQOZ2v8H in reply to ericmbudd 19:39:49, 2019-08-30
@gueroTX Fair enough. in reply to gueroTX 19:32:19, 2019-08-30
TIL the US burns like 10x as much "black liquor" as petroleum for electricity production. It's a byproduct of paper… https://t.co/VnGjAcqfkP 16:23:38, 2019-08-30
CEO of a company where 95% of employees have "volunteered" to be chipped envisions an "Internet of People". Is that… https://t.co/E9JYpMTrBT 16:03:49, 2019-08-30
@ericmbudd Sigh. in reply to ericmbudd 15:12:58, 2019-08-30
@alexbaca @MoreNeighbors I thought this was @alfred_twu's job! in reply to alexbaca 14:04:54, 2019-08-30
@Vanguard_Group Why is it that I can't use my @Yubico hardware security key with @firefox on your site? It works on… https://t.co/1qxbCTlRQC 14:02:51, 2019-08-30
@thmscwlls Yeah well. So does investing in low-energy land-use patterns and transportation systems that improve air… https://t.co/Ifd0ElM2WM in reply to thmscwlls 13:47:07, 2019-08-30
@ericmbudd @CHThiem @AndySayler @RideRTD @bouldergobldr @ViaColorado The combination of recession *and* high oil pr… https://t.co/ufNviZog8F in reply to ericmbudd 13:43:52, 2019-08-30
@thmscwlls Closely related: "I'll just write my own tool from scratch. It'll be faster!"
I've gotten stuck at time… https://t.co/e7rwIqscVq in reply to thmscwlls 13:42:24, 2019-08-30
@ElephantEating I too would feel more secure in a city with no vehicles! in reply to ElephantEating 13:33:48, 2019-08-30
The chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grammes. https://t.co/sprA5vA01t 13:32:21, 2019-08-30
RT @econjared: As we head out for Labor Day wkend, consider this @hshierholz figure showing 100 yrs of unions and inequality. Their correla… 13:25:06, 2019-08-30
@drvox @fmanjoo @ublockorigin @NordVPN Yeah, for sure it's slower. But I want the VPN for other reasons too so I'm… https://t.co/YFLnKSnWZT in reply to drvox 13:22:55, 2019-08-30
@drvox @fmanjoo The combination of @ublockorigin and @nordvpn have been very effective for me. But I'd definitely l… https://t.co/ZBEB6FfAPm in reply to drvox 11:32:53, 2019-08-30
Guy next to me at the co-working space has a book entitled "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits."
Like setting up a r… https://t.co/Wm4oTF2Btm 10:55:08, 2019-08-30
Good hour long talk giving an overview of @KateRaworth's book re-imagining an economics for the 21st century, aimed… https://t.co/zG8LJ9QTc4 10:25:00, 2019-08-30
@psskow @darkolina Me parece que esto es la naturaleza del "comercio" hoy en día. ? in reply to psskow 10:01:59, 2019-08-30
When hundreds of millions of people are carrying around devices recording their entire lives, it's hard for state a… https://t.co/w4NaTMt4Oz 09:21:00, 2019-08-30
@AndySayler @1MarkMcIntyre @RideRTD I don't think the city can get out of RTD without an act of the state legislatu… https://t.co/K4gYh6psoQ in reply to AndySayler 08:53:27, 2019-08-30
@AndySayler @RideRTD @bouldergobldr @ViaColorado @bouldercolorado Oh ha. I totally transposed names. in reply to AndySayler 08:49:12, 2019-08-30
@AndySayler @RideRTD IIRC, the Hop is one of the lines that @bouldergobldr buys up substantial increases in service… https://t.co/MB7XLhnrWY in reply to AndySayler 08:45:29, 2019-08-30
@CHThiem But are you sure it's not the fruity cousin of blood pudding? in reply to CHThiem 07:21:40, 2019-08-30
@bolderbekah The houses themselves may well have negative value! in reply to bolderbekah 21:53:52, 2019-08-29
@thmscwlls @mitchellbyars If it had been me, there would have been more high explosives. in reply to thmscwlls 21:40:08, 2019-08-29
In which I needlessly re-traumatize myself over housing affordability in Boulder before going back to reading… https://t.co/EK97l5JVKA 21:39:00, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan No permits until rails is: no permits. Just like 100% affordable housing is: 100% of zero housing. in reply to dorriker 21:34:36, 2019-08-29
@bkeegan @dorriker Some good books:
* Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
* Crabgrass Frontier
* Happy Cit… https://t.co/VEkbZMbIDW in reply to bkeegan 21:32:58, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan They're not singularly responsible for it. But they're also perfectly happy to see it not change… https://t.co/1mmpkrivtx in reply to dorriker 21:29:59, 2019-08-29
@bkeegan @dorriker The entire US is a complete clusterfuck on this. Radical structural change is required to fix it… https://t.co/NossAyC3aQ in reply to bkeegan 21:28:21, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan Housing is not cheap. The best you can do is to minimize land costs + appreciation, build small… https://t.co/Q3waelFB7B in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:24:40, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan If you want it to be permanently affordable, without ongoing public capital infusions, then you… https://t.co/xq1f6sMmb6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:21:00, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan If you want a bunch of *temporarily* affordable housing, you can let housing built on land that… https://t.co/urt5gYPbkh in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:18:40, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan …but nothing brand new — especially with current land prices — will be able to compete with… https://t.co/5bOWKZMmai in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:11:06, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan Upzoning contingent upon public land value capture allows you to minimize per-unit land costs, a… https://t.co/lhg7FJHXRk in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:09:10, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan Boulder requires new development to build infrastructure. And pay into the affordable housing fu… https://t.co/ZN4Scvc7jb in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:07:12, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan When we were looking at doing the affordable co-op + co-housing in Boulder Junction on the Polla… https://t.co/DVn5kb2HPW in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:05:04, 2019-08-29
@dorriker @bkeegan New. Housing. Is. Expensive. It just is. Even with *zero* land costs, in CO it's hard to build a… https://t.co/8kRHiJSAJf in reply to dorriker 21:03:35, 2019-08-29
RT @aussiastronomer: Start watching for this at your next large meeting. Keep track of who you interrupt, or who gets interrupted a lot. Yo… 20:10:32, 2019-08-29
@aussiastronomer Maybe you've already come across it but the @GenderTimer app is fun if you want to collect some related data. in reply to aussiastronomer 20:08:24, 2019-08-29
This is climate denial. https://t.co/aM6vDMRa1G https://t.co/zwRuwq7J72 19:40:33, 2019-08-29
@markgelband @shayshinecastle (1 is 0.25% of 400 mark) in reply to markgelband 19:38:25, 2019-08-29
@ericmbudd Oh right duh. in reply to ericmbudd 19:34:42, 2019-08-29
@ericmbudd My god is Bob really the only incumbent running? in reply to ericmbudd 19:31:01, 2019-08-29
@bkeegan And while Barcelona isn't exactly affordable… if one puts land value capture policies in place *before*… https://t.co/go0BQwAz9b in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:18:55, 2019-08-29
@bkeegan But then again, who would want to live in an urban hellhole like Barcelona. https://t.co/K1V9qi8IF8 https://t.co/2TuE7T9xVG in reply to bkeegan 18:16:56, 2019-08-29
A nice straightforward response. https://t.co/BnmoRLOsTz 18:12:22, 2019-08-29
Oh. Maybe identity politics *is* the problem after all. https://t.co/1TllQ5DnwC 13:07:05, 2019-08-29
@choldgraf @readthedocs Is there an obvious way to get RTD to report to GitHub on branch doc build status? I feel l… https://t.co/ZMmpiwrScI in reply to choldgraf 10:51:51, 2019-08-29
@joshdr83 Shovel ready project at cleansing atomic fire sale prices! in reply to joshdr83 10:25:37, 2019-08-29
An interesting new (to CA) model of affordable limited-equity cooperative housing in the East Bay, from @EBPREC. Cu… https://t.co/tyI0nqqIzz 10:24:33, 2019-08-29
@ericmbudd @attnhomes "Housing is key to addressing homelessness" Like how is this a controversial policy point in… https://t.co/5MPk7vk69b in reply to ericmbudd 09:35:57, 2019-08-29
@joshdr83 omg. It just won't die. ?‍♂️⚛️ in reply to joshdr83 09:34:24, 2019-08-29
@umbut @ARPAE @otherlab The financial participation and the control over the IP that's generated are completely separable. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:31:17, 2019-08-29
@umbut @ARPAE @otherlab I'm thinking more of a purely financial stake — if VCs or other funders put money into a c… https://t.co/pOXlnXdQig in reply to umbut 09:29:13, 2019-08-29
@nami_knows ?‍♂️ in reply to nami_knows 07:05:52, 2019-08-29
RT @beep: Police departments in 405 cities have “partnered” with Amazon Ring, allowing them to automatically request footage recorded by ho… 00:06:12, 2019-08-29
"A lucky few manage to land day jobs that allow them to work on open source. But most folks have to be more creativ… https://t.co/8UmGBkjwpt 23:40:35, 2019-08-28
@ericmbudd I'm on an economics reading binge apparently. in reply to ericmbudd 23:21:15, 2019-08-28
Is there a reason why the public doesn't get an equity stake in companies and/or IP that result from early stage go… https://t.co/6TQJGdCqnK 23:20:30, 2019-08-28
@ericmbudd Pretty should Boulder would be richer without it. in reply to ericmbudd 23:08:42, 2019-08-28
@ericmbudd Whether or not it applies to servicemembers, the form sure makes it seem like it would apply to say… me. in reply to ericmbudd 15:31:50, 2019-08-28
Not that I'm planning to have any kids but… this feels extra weird because it would affect me. Looks like it app… https://t.co/gjkqYROfOg 15:30:13, 2019-08-28
@welcomehomebldr @thmscwlls @bouldergobldr @1MarkMcIntyre @AaronBrockett12 @sueprant Did anyone get good pictures o… https://t.co/aF3NBdzpuI in reply to welcomehomebldr 11:15:02, 2019-08-28
@thmscwlls @bouldergobldr @1MarkMcIntyre @AaronBrockett12 @sueprant Are they actually glued down? in reply to thmscwlls 11:12:28, 2019-08-28
@welcomehomebldr @shayshinecastle Plus then Boulder could grade itself on a curve, which seems like something it wo… https://t.co/QaRwdHsnRJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:13:37, 2019-08-28
@welcomehomebldr @shayshinecastle Would be interesting to just look at an income-based proxy estimate, since that's… https://t.co/nkgnRWTfRx in reply to welcomehomebldr 23:10:22, 2019-08-27
@shayshinecastle Definitely better after vaping. in reply to shayshinecastle 23:06:59, 2019-08-27
@welcomehomebldr @shayshinecastle The often cited US average is like 16-17 tons/yr. I would have guessed Boulder wa… https://t.co/ciqgu64XZE in reply to welcomehomebldr 23:03:11, 2019-08-27
@shayshinecastle Dude's clearly been trapped in Boulder too long. in reply to shayshinecastle 21:50:36, 2019-08-27
A textbook case of predatory delay. https://t.co/9GsFNKnd8P 21:48:44, 2019-08-27
@CHThiem @shayshinecastle As does the single apartment complex at 3100 Pearl! in reply to CHThiem 21:47:15, 2019-08-27
Whenever they say this I can't help but imagine a bell ding-ding-dinging in a boxing ring and
"ARE YOU READY TO RU… https://t.co/W7hHjgdpYz 21:45:10, 2019-08-27
@sfiscience I'd love to watch this lecture, but it's coming up as "private" on YouTube. Will it be available for widespread viewing later? in reply to sfiscience 20:55:30, 2019-08-27
It seems like they're planning to move the nominal capital… but Jakarta (a ~30 million person metro region) proba… https://t.co/CwKH5lqjBr 20:18:02, 2019-08-27
@CHThiem Also, why do they keep referring to the people they serve as "customers?" in reply to CHThiem 20:14:50, 2019-08-27
@shayshinecastle They come up a lot in climate policy too. Good overview from @drvox here: https://t.co/ONcgzCp9YF in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:02:06, 2019-08-27
@shayshinecastle Discount rates are kind of like interest rates. They help you compare amounts of money at differen… https://t.co/xfrocVQJ2a in reply to shayshinecastle 20:01:07, 2019-08-27
Meanwhile, the city-state is doubling the scale of the subway system in the next 10 years. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:14:30, 2019-08-27
They auction off new vehicle permits every year, which ends up tripling or quadrupling the cost of a vehicle. And l… https://t.co/pw8LTsartH in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:13:17, 2019-08-27
Singapore with the correct and obvious take on Tesla and all private EVs in cities, via @AdamMinter "It's just ano… https://t.co/rNlyMJlYVm 19:06:29, 2019-08-27
@drvox I bet @sea_Baugruppe and @PassiveHouseBB have thoughts. in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:06:53, 2019-08-27
@drvox My sense from Smil's Making the Modern World, which is all about global material resource consumption, is th… https://t.co/ZyKnQ3Kk0Q in reply to drvox 15:04:25, 2019-08-27
@JasenThorpe @EcoBuildInc Arglebargle "plague of jobs" in reply to JasenThorpe 14:40:27, 2019-08-27
@drvox @BillGates He's been hanging out with Smil again I bet. He's got a whole book just on the Haber-Bosch process! in reply to drvox 14:35:35, 2019-08-27
@drvox If we do the rational/necessary thing and dispense with the arguments, in favor of simply taking power, will… https://t.co/kzcgi9TUAo in reply to drvox 12:13:14, 2019-08-27
@markgelband My understanding is that this is baked into the state constitution in CO — that home rule cities like… https://t.co/UG7SKxarPM in reply to markgelband 10:45:50, 2019-08-27
@ericmbudd Did you read Happy City? Some of the discussion of transportation equity policies in Bogotá brought me to tears. in reply to ericmbudd 10:31:35, 2019-08-27
I was shocked by how much this movie affected me. It's filled with too many familiar childhood things I've tried to… https://t.co/I2SYkh2lwv 09:15:48, 2019-08-27
@welcomehomebldr @CHThiem @bhalsey @ericmbudd @AaronBrockett12 This is the future liberals want. in reply to welcomehomebldr 08:45:38, 2019-08-27
omg really this is leaking into the real world outside of Twitter? https://t.co/VrUAoJVGrV 08:44:05, 2019-08-27
RT @furrygirl: A piece of wisdom I wish I could impart on young women is to refuse to pour energy into supporting partners' ambitions and c… 00:25:15, 2019-08-27
@NumFOCUS Didn't this happen 11 days ago? in reply to NumFOCUS 00:16:15, 2019-08-27
And ~85% of all emissions have been released since WWII. We didn't inherit this problem. It's ours. https://t.co/MgbWejQT9L 00:06:17, 2019-08-27
I've heard from friends there's also a booming video gaming industry — collecting gold and goods in-game and excha… https://t.co/chWvzVq1Ls 21:55:03, 2019-08-26
RT @AoDespair: WTF. You had this your feed 10 days ago, and now you've narced on some college professor because he called you..checks notes… 21:51:02, 2019-08-26
RT @Hegemommy: I step away for like an hour and what now https://t.co/nP8CriAihB 21:49:22, 2019-08-26
RT @sannewman: Perhaps Bret has been struggling to break it to his wife and kids for years. Like, Dave gets there and the door's opened by… 21:49:13, 2019-08-26
RT @ClaraJeffery: I mean I’ve had people send me snuff shots and threaten to rape me and then gut my child in front of me, I mean being jo… 21:19:41, 2019-08-26
RT @JessicaValenti: Looks like someone needs a safe space https://t.co/9hdFkMbwJx 21:19:24, 2019-08-26
RT @leahstokes: I watched a professor grope and harass fellow students when I was an undergraduate. We reported it. No one listened. I left… 21:12:21, 2019-08-26
Ah, remember the good old days? https://t.co/L2dXCPgis7 20:55:50, 2019-08-26
I had no idea that Adam Smith was raised by a single mother… whom he moved back in with at the age of 43 to write… https://t.co/uKxbfio1uj 17:47:59, 2019-08-26
Clearly we need more juice. https://t.co/AyFLzZwVKM 16:29:49, 2019-08-26
Entonces… estoy aplicando para mi residencia temporal, y esperando que podre encontrar algunos desarrolladores de… https://t.co/aU8HYP4XT4 11:30:28, 2019-08-26
@ericmbudd Technical debt? in reply to ericmbudd 11:13:43, 2019-08-26
Good piece & thread about the ongoing coal implosion. It's a classic example of the natural resource extraction bus… https://t.co/hsjV0XgElR 11:09:02, 2019-08-26
Whodathunkit? https://t.co/0r55EaBe3n 10:46:34, 2019-08-26
Why is it so hard to get an accessible explanation of Paul Romer's endogenous growth theory? I'm finding this espec… https://t.co/elw4POIHKO 22:54:24, 2019-08-25
Hey I know let's bet our civilization and the stability of the terrestrial biosphere on negative emissions working… https://t.co/cYFMbeENyK 22:40:55, 2019-08-25
@paulmromer @ProjectJupyter @Wikipedia Good lord. English has 40 sounds that can be spelled 1000 different ways. It… https://t.co/ZGN8uoJ93A in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:37:35, 2019-08-25
@paulmromer @ProjectJupyter @Wikipedia One tidbit: English spelling is… not rational. Italian is. As a consequenc… https://t.co/Snvh3NWPXR in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:27:14, 2019-08-25
A talk from @paulmromer on Unicode, @ProjectJupyter notebooks, disinformation campaigns, @Wikipedia, English spelli… https://t.co/WhLk8ZawHU 22:23:10, 2019-08-25
This century we'll build more city than we've built in the last 10,000 years. Human population will stabilize, or e… https://t.co/lTvwsDsk7l 21:33:33, 2019-08-25
If there's anything good that could come out of this era, it would be a renewed sense of caution around giving powe… https://t.co/C1YotLS32p 20:32:31, 2019-08-25
@nils_gilman Have you read The Peripheral by @GreatDismal? This sounds like part of the origin story for the Klept. in reply to nils_gilman 19:50:07, 2019-08-25
@nils_gilman I like the analogy of data to uranium instead: not a good idea collect too much of it in one place, or… https://t.co/obbGBeN1To in reply to nils_gilman 19:48:15, 2019-08-25
RT @stewartbrand: A benign effect of transnational urbanization. https://t.co/ADvAztz4GB 19:45:08, 2019-08-25
A completely normal and healthy aspect of the US economy. https://t.co/zRyS4vi7Er 13:18:28, 2019-08-25
@Revkin @JaneGoodallInst @VaclavSmil Do you know if Paul Romer and Smil have ever had a debate/conversation on the… https://t.co/CWpdnVhODz in reply to Revkin 09:17:01, 2019-08-25
@shwinnebego do you have any long reads that you would suggest as background on all this? https://t.co/rzejim8yYW 08:37:39, 2019-08-25
@ericmbudd So why is the DNC's calculation apparently so different? Even than their own *candidates*? in reply to ericmbudd 08:36:30, 2019-08-25

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