Tweets for the Week of 2019-09-08 to 2019-09-14

@ericmbudd @BoulderCoopFood Awwwwww, that makes me happy. in reply to ericmbudd 19:51:33, 2019-09-14
RT @nils_gilman: To be in the Global One Percent for income, you need a salary of $32,400. To reach the Global One Percent in terms of weal… 09:37:12, 2019-09-14
RT @Ajeshh: @googlefi your coverage in Guatemala might have been impacted 2 days ago. A lot of us lost coverage and cannot connect to any n… 13:24:43, 2019-09-13
RT @SarahGtwts: Going on over a week with no @googlefi service in Guatemala. Now paying for two services(Claro and Fi) so that I can commun… 13:24:22, 2019-09-13
RT @Limabo88: Hey @googlefi when are you going to remove Guatemala from your countries you provide service in so people stop going their ex… 13:24:06, 2019-09-13
RT @Reinder_Prins: @googlefi – when can I expect your service in Guatemala to function again? Has been down for quite a few days now, as pe… 13:24:02, 2019-09-13
RT @Ajeshh: @googlefi Nope, doesn't work. And it's not just me. I know a few other folks in Guatemala facing the same issue at the same tim… 13:23:55, 2019-09-13
RT @SarahGtwts: My @googlefi service has been down for 3 days in Guatemala. Would like to know whats going on because it's causing issues… 13:23:51, 2019-09-13
@googlefi It's mostly been a great service over the last year, and moving between countries has been almost seamles… https://t.co/dO2LybnTB0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:22:30, 2019-09-13
@googlefi (It really is impossible to tell if it's a human or a bot)
I do not believe that @googlefi has no idea w… https://t.co/4Wl3xv0AUt in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:20:04, 2019-09-13
All @googlefi mobile service cut out in Guatemala 2 weeks ago, and nobody has been given any info as to why, or if/… https://t.co/05dQzMS92H 13:15:49, 2019-09-13
@ericmbudd It does seem to be a self-evident scam. I hope they waited just a liiiiiitle too long to IPO and it implodes on them. in reply to ericmbudd 11:04:15, 2019-09-13
@joshdr83 @VibrantCE Nice retro terminal settings man. in reply to joshdr83 12:17:27, 2019-09-12
@dylan20 @GreatDismal That's certainly true. Speeding up in fact! And about 7/8ths of all CO2 emissions have happen… https://t.co/3JLNCrj33O in reply to dylan20 09:02:29, 2019-09-12
RT @ianbassin: This tweet is far more disturbing then it appears on the surface (which is already disturbing). Let me explain with a thread… 00:35:29, 2019-09-12
@dylan20 @GreatDismal This is not true. It's more like since the Berlin Wall came down: https://t.co/vmBgbdPXiv https://t.co/RTwOkS9cgi in reply to dylan20 00:27:18, 2019-09-12
Some time in the next few months, a US soldier who was born after 9/11 will ship out to Afghanistan. https://t.co/EQi9AAdMcS 20:10:19, 2019-09-11
@welcomehomebldr @CostaSamaras @AaronBrockett12 @ericmbudd Yeah, same. in reply to welcomehomebldr 19:55:16, 2019-09-11
My god I don't know what it is exactly but damn I love this woman. https://t.co/7DpCdK4r1Y 18:50:49, 2019-09-11
@chaspinrad Oh noooooes! ? in reply to chaspinrad 17:28:16, 2019-09-11
@joshdr83 I mean the bizzaro thing here is they would already make more (lose less) money if they just stopped oper… https://t.co/rSH5a3aZeW in reply to joshdr83 16:22:08, 2019-09-11
@ericmbudd ?????? in reply to ericmbudd 15:56:52, 2019-09-11
@MichaelWWara @MBazilian Given how atrocious the prediction record is, I am always amazed at how fervently the fore… https://t.co/tb1VCCZfRa in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:53:34, 2019-09-11
@MichaelWWara @MBazilian It's a *great* justification for providing longer term forecasts. Especially if you're get… https://t.co/kG6c6zA2K1 in reply to MichaelWWara 15:51:11, 2019-09-11
@MichaelWWara @MBazilian Maybe because the depreciation schedule for a lot of capital intensive energy infrastructure is longer term? in reply to MichaelWWara 14:24:36, 2019-09-11
Big Brother Is Watching. https://t.co/zghrdynI5r 14:18:56, 2019-09-11
Burtynsky's work is so amazing because it at least *starts* to get people thinking about the global, hyperconsumpti… https://t.co/EG8EECTqTS in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:47:39, 2019-09-11
European biodiesel initiatives can deforest Indonesia for palm oil. Corn based ethanol in the US has a net negative… https://t.co/WkFgdD9QaJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:46:23, 2019-09-11
We don't know, as a society, that cement and steel and synthetic fertilizers are some of the biggest (and hardest t… https://t.co/aqrX0UTAFF in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:41:50, 2019-09-11
We don't even *have* decent stories for most of the important resource systems sustaining us day-to-day. It doesn't… https://t.co/TDKfZc0e6A in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:38:46, 2019-09-11
Growing enough of your own tomatoes to entertain yourself on summer weekends, and growing enough food to sustain yo… https://t.co/xDeg6XgM4O in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:36:08, 2019-09-11
We can *imagine* a solution to the moral dilemma of slaughtering an animal for food — we imagine having the animal… https://t.co/qanw72vd9Q in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:33:01, 2019-09-11
I mean, if you're not willing to mine your own coltan in the Congo, should you really be using a smartphone?
https://t.co/C1yODgXNum in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:30:55, 2019-09-11
Weirdly it's the middle-distance of (not) slaughtering your own backyard chicken or butchering a pig that gets atte… https://t.co/WqBHsAdPrf in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:28:13, 2019-09-11
But the same general critique can be leveled at: iron & coal mining, paper mills, gas and oil extraction, ewaste re… https://t.co/EVoBs0ge1t in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:26:01, 2019-09-11
An example of this which comes up frequently: eating meat.
If you aren't willing and able to look an animal in the… https://t.co/mJoqxj30ZL in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:23:13, 2019-09-11
If you live in the US — or any even middle-class nation — the tendrils of your consumptive existence unavoidably… https://t.co/WLYP0tCNKr 13:14:49, 2019-09-11
RT @KateNocera: NOAA chief scientist just really going for it https://t.co/74WLYs5WOu 10:46:35, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras @AaronBrockett12 @ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr And to be perfectly honest.. I'm also in this camp. I th… https://t.co/qWintf5tB9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:46:40, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras @AaronBrockett12 @ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr Another constituency that links robocars to reduced park… https://t.co/Jack2c29JR in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:44:09, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras To my knowledge the parking requirements still have not been reduced (and it felt like AMPS seemed to… https://t.co/m6URNYotXT in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:46:33, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras (even without robocars) in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:43:14, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras The hired a consultant to actually observe parking utilization, and compare it to requirements, and f… https://t.co/RgO0fjasdd in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:42:48, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras This came up as part of the Access Management and Parking Services study process in 2014-2015: https://t.co/aHVgBh2OJu in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:38:36, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras IIRC, there were at least two different constituencies making this argument — downtown business owne… https://t.co/ziLpaZheiv in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:35:45, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras However, in both of these cases I think the people making the arguments already didn't like parking a… https://t.co/1H56AmqAyR in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:33:22, 2019-09-11
@CostaSamaras Robocars were definitely used to argue against public investments in parking in Boulder, Colorado, an… https://t.co/GDEaTI1AgD in reply to CostaSamaras 07:31:16, 2019-09-11
We have to learn how to plan for uncertain futures. Often it seems like forecasts make that harder, not easier. https://t.co/FDq92SXHvo 15:27:34, 2019-09-10
TACTICAL DISARRAY FTW https://t.co/z4ipKslivy 15:21:21, 2019-09-10
@Thatmushroom Interesting but…. I'm not sure I totally buy it. The things that make NY and CA exclusive are large… https://t.co/KHYbuHK7Zz in reply to Thatmushroom 11:21:47, 2019-09-10
So Boomer NIMBYism in popular cities in liberal states is actually a clever strategy to force young people to turn… https://t.co/xUs95E6lhA 09:00:32, 2019-09-10
@cmgosnell Vicki's writing seems relevant to our @CatalystCoop work… and also she's in Philly! https://t.co/2JOGQSk8RG 07:00:10, 2019-09-10
@MarkyV @BolderNatalie @ericmbudd @1MarkMcIntyre @wjrigler @sueprant @elemdoubleu @ryemdoubleu @bhalsey The problem… https://t.co/VHnXLd1G9l in reply to MarkyV 06:42:08, 2019-09-10
@ProjectJupyter @pangeo_data @NSF Moving chunks of the economy from the Market into the Commons also addresses the… https://t.co/hh4m9vfX9S in reply to ZaneSelvans 06:31:33, 2019-09-10
This is one reason I'm stoked to see @ProjectJupyter and @pangeo_data getting some direct @NSF support. Open knowle… https://t.co/OBnJX3T9W0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:46:23, 2019-09-09
However, our conception of how The Economy™ works treats The Commons (CC-BY) as a rounding error. As/If the proport… https://t.co/TTvqPcQRxa in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:40:39, 2019-09-09
Lots of echoes of @KateRaworth's Doughnut Economics in this piece from *checks notes* McKinsey & Company? (found vi… https://t.co/YF7RSg7wcW 21:31:16, 2019-09-09
A digital commons can eat the market, and that's okay.
"Many virtual services, like email, generate unmeasured ben… https://t.co/wJqgsjvLmP 21:26:10, 2019-09-09
@ericmbudd @serlindsipity Dedicated right of way for buses is cheaper, takes less space, and is faster to build tha… https://t.co/fytTudSWYO in reply to ericmbudd 20:47:46, 2019-09-09
@ericmbudd @1MarkMcIntyre @wjrigler @sueprant @elemdoubleu @ryemdoubleu @BolderNatalie @MarkyV @bhalsey I feel like… https://t.co/oIP9Ui9wgR in reply to ericmbudd 19:23:54, 2019-09-09
@ericmbudd @1MarkMcIntyre @wjrigler @sueprant @elemdoubleu @ryemdoubleu @BolderNatalie @MarkyV @bhalsey Has Randall retired yet? in reply to ericmbudd 19:19:58, 2019-09-09
RT @CatalystCoop: Great news! Good to see open computational infrastructure getting some direct funding. The commons benefits everyone, and… 17:01:45, 2019-09-09
RT @computerfact: genie: i will grant you three wishes
aladdin: ok
genie: but before each wish you must watch an ad
aladdin: what
genie: to… 13:18:22, 2019-09-09
This irrigation system in Sichuan has been in continuous use since the Warring States period — even before the Qin… https://t.co/dI72rjpNF3 09:21:00, 2019-09-09
I'm reading Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization. I'm unused to thinking about human muscles as meaningful prime m… https://t.co/OexvufZJZL 21:04:00, 2019-09-08
@ericmbudd my god I thought it was satire. in reply to ericmbudd 19:20:38, 2019-09-08

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