Tweets for the Week of 2019-12-29 to 2020-01-04

RT @infinite_scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 20:53:06, 2020-01-04
Come *on* I don't care how much it costs, I don't care if it's legal, I don't care how "bad" he was. End the Foreve… https://t.co/X7QG35IB2j 19:18:01, 2020-01-04
Uhhhh, espero que no. https://t.co/vYDm1j9vj8 15:29:23, 2020-01-04
@SheilaG36880996 @DavidQuammen FYI David this Sheila G account has been identified as a trollbot by @BotSentinel in reply to SheilaG36880996 22:49:20, 2020-01-03
@Thatmushroom @gschivley @joshdr83 @priyald17 @edrubin and @tweedsio and @grant_mcdermott would know better! in reply to Thatmushroom 22:23:18, 2020-01-03
@CareyWKing @MichaelEWebber I *want* to believe that past improvements in human development are primarily due to im… https://t.co/V40VmKnuA3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:36:48, 2020-01-03
@CareyWKing @MichaelEWebber Is anybody trying to discern how much of what we've historically called "economic growt… https://t.co/hOqh90rSNb in reply to CareyWKing 21:33:23, 2020-01-03
An account of white supremacist violence and black resistance in 1919 makes me think about how we choose what to re… https://t.co/ENc0558LW5 19:51:05, 2020-01-03
This piece in the Journal of the American Planning Association reminds me of climate scientists finally coming arou… https://t.co/B8aqYPELKh 17:29:02, 2020-01-03
Anyone else from #energytwitter working with data and machine learning tools gonna attend TWEEDS March 27-28 in Por… https://t.co/Kkx0pFjNMs 17:19:47, 2020-01-03
@jasonhickel Is there hope for more long-term historical SDI data? I would *love* to see what the full universe of… https://t.co/zKYnkZIrh0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:40:38, 2020-01-03
Meanwhile, Mexico is at ~$18,000 per capita, but still slowly and steadily trending upward. Curious how income dist… https://t.co/abnATJfwg7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:39:14, 2020-01-03
India is now approaching the level of SDI at which China started declining. China per-capita income in 2008 was $76… https://t.co/vU0UElPBZf in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:36:12, 2020-01-03
Really interesting to look at how SDI evolves over time for different countries — would love a longer time series!… https://t.co/2I0TP4yGXp in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:13:09, 2020-01-03
The original paper (which I've posted before) outlining the SDI and reasoning behind it, is up here: https://t.co/z6w6OihJSI in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:54:24, 2020-01-03
A website for exploring the sustainable development index — a kind of resource normalized human development index,… https://t.co/uE5cxL9WjY 08:21:00, 2020-01-03
I feel really lucky both to have been born into one of the de facto global languages, and to be able to immerse mys… https://t.co/2STr9tzwFR in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:04:33, 2020-01-02
Great piece on the challenges of dealing with the legal process of seeking asylum as someone who only speaks a (rel… https://t.co/8LI9owiKkR 23:01:53, 2020-01-02
RT @IlhanMN: So what if Trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the distraction?
Real question is, will those with congressiona… 21:16:33, 2020-01-02
My god why is everything is so willfully dumb. It's like we want to fail, and take everything beautiful down with u… https://t.co/seMp3Olu29 20:08:08, 2020-01-02
Same color scheme even. https://t.co/cbyJBLZKkv in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:02:22, 2020-01-02
@thebmbennett Do you have any favorite lightweight CRM solutions? Or resources for how to think about organizing th… https://t.co/XyP8RDgfEa in reply to thebmbennett 17:46:29, 2020-01-02
"On the Beach"
https://t.co/ccXjIOlP4z https://t.co/aD0h6qzqDo 17:43:05, 2020-01-02
Private platform monopolies aggressively *prevent* any kind of useful innovation. You can't build anything with / o… https://t.co/jIIzXHjxli 17:15:19, 2020-01-02
I want to believe. https://t.co/PhIcc2bFV5 15:48:56, 2020-01-02
@ericmbudd Avast matey, thar be other lamentable solutions to ye problem too. ☠️ in reply to ericmbudd 15:38:04, 2020-01-02
Tener ningun agua potable ni comida en la casa por días de fiesta: no una idea tan genial. 17:56:17, 2020-01-01
@ericmbudd Oy and that was like 6 weeks ago. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:20:14, 2019-12-31
@ericmbudd Hopefully not like this https://t.co/0Emo7xoBJE in reply to ericmbudd 16:19:53, 2019-12-31
How about an alcohol tax to fund overnight transit service year round?
I wonder how the cost would compare to the… https://t.co/IOZUhVk9kb 15:09:18, 2019-12-31
@grquetin Cf: https://t.co/6uLQkifuEf in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:04:38, 2019-12-31
@grquetin But if the question is about somewhere with the population density of Wyoming or Montana or Nebraska… I… https://t.co/JMmvGBoTeE in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:03:45, 2019-12-31
@grquetin E.g. LA+Orange+Ventura counties in SoCal have the same population and land area as the Netherlands, but a… https://t.co/ssDzsdjmc0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:01:46, 2019-12-31
@grquetin I think it probably looks/feels a lot like Switzerland or the Netherlands or Southern France. In a lot of… https://t.co/jnZFuHUm2L in reply to grquetin 15:00:12, 2019-12-31
@CHThiem Oy. That kid's gonna see 2100. in reply to CHThiem 14:05:58, 2019-12-31
@ericmbudd Is it not in ur tweets? in reply to ericmbudd 14:03:55, 2019-12-31
@ericmbudd The answer, my friend, is twisting in the wind. in reply to ericmbudd 09:02:24, 2019-12-31
RT @AmyThunig: If you’re not in Australia, let me explain – this is mid morning, the sun has risen, it is 9:30am in Summer. Yet the sky is… 22:00:11, 2019-12-30
@CHThiem https://t.co/Bf3hgvM8wC in reply to CHThiem 21:55:20, 2019-12-30
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight.
Red sky at 2pm who the hell knows wha… https://t.co/LvwW3Xkb0G 21:03:09, 2019-12-30
My god debugging things that take 5-10 minutes to run is like mental torture. Slow enough to be boooooring, but not… https://t.co/pAoWn3J1Qb 20:59:59, 2019-12-30
Was dealing with end-of-year portfolio rebalancing. Am pretty creeped out by how well the markets are doing, given… https://t.co/chaBGYtWsP 17:00:03, 2019-12-30
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in't! https://t.co/VRggHCYTKA 16:57:31, 2019-12-30
Y por los muchos años, incluso siglos, que siguen, también.
Cc: @tacosdedatos @PauliJllo Parece que habrá oportuni… https://t.co/JhKTGJ6cfP 15:35:43, 2019-12-30
@ericmbudd And he's on the @BoulderCoopFood board too! in reply to ericmbudd 14:16:56, 2019-12-30
@CFEmx @NuScale_Power @anes_oficial “en la última subasta el precio al que CFE adquirió electricidad fue 50% más ba… https://t.co/Fpdic3nJbY in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:18:13, 2019-12-30
@CFEmx @NuScale_Power Mientras teniendo este peleo con la industria solar, via @anes_oficial: https://t.co/xmeFK5qZi6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:15:48, 2019-12-30
Home was an hour long walk from school in a rural area, but I walked all over town. At 14 I started biking the 12 m… https://t.co/xBZg8opQje 11:47:21, 2019-12-30
It has already slipped away. We need the courage to admit where we are in this long, long game.
Mitigate for 2°C.… https://t.co/pdj3bKv0Be 11:40:58, 2019-12-30
@JanetMaxLive @detroithrbarbie @charles_gaba Weird, I did look back but didn't see it. Maybe it was on a little bra… https://t.co/0kW2mhbhtk in reply to JanetMaxLive 11:32:26, 2019-12-30
Interesante, @CFEmx está estudiando la posibilidad de construir nuevas plantas nucleares, incluso algunos de los SM… https://t.co/488cTxGUI2 11:14:01, 2019-12-30
I mean seriously, the GOP is basically the Gilead legislature at this point. https://t.co/quVxfilQ0Y 10:05:40, 2019-12-30
@CHThiem I'm happy for you that you're finally chucking it! I *wish* I had been able to quit when I tried. You're t… https://t.co/ZGpk2o43GX in reply to CHThiem 10:03:08, 2019-12-30
One of these things is not like the others. https://t.co/quVxfilQ0Y 08:47:48, 2019-12-30
Una buena exploración de como sería una ciudad construido por y para mujeres, con ejemplos de las esfuerzas de Barc… https://t.co/COZPLX0tPh 08:21:00, 2019-12-30
@charles_gaba It would be really interesting to see these compared to the actual demographic breakdown of adults in… https://t.co/pH4HWuzFbH in reply to charles_gaba 00:06:44, 2019-12-30
RT @TheOnion: GOP Lawmakers Watch Silently As Trump Strangles Each Of Their Loved Ones In Turn https://t.co/sygtdPer8w #OurAnnualYear2019 h… 22:28:18, 2019-12-29
Y también sobre los certificaciones de energía limpia (como RECs): https://t.co/WH4gzUyfiC in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:15:37, 2019-12-29
Me parece que hay una lucha entre CFE y los generadores independientes. https://t.co/2dAAHWpZQO 21:13:18, 2019-12-29
@CHThiem There must be a statute of limitations or something! in reply to CHThiem 21:11:43, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen If you like this genre, and you like thinking about the feedback loops that link policy, infrastru… https://t.co/FqqHzNZ3RE in reply to michael_nielsen 20:03:23, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen Another book I loved in the "too dense for any normal person and yet not actually a textbook" genr… https://t.co/J8XkTuvhYB in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:53:24, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen @EnergyInnovLLC Incredibly frustrating that we have zero or even negative real interest rates righ… https://t.co/D3PprmJGtL in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:50:06, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen Saul Griffith from @otherlab has been giving a lot of good talks / interviews about this issue lat… https://t.co/RsI01bcWhV in reply to michael_nielsen 19:45:56, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen It's much more focused on technical issues, but does get into waste disposal, reprocessing, altern… https://t.co/FR01pbXO8J in reply to michael_nielsen 19:43:07, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen @EnergyInnovLLC Big financing and regulatory reforms / tools needed, but in different ways in buil… https://t.co/WVpz2mD0VP in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:41:23, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen Another issue here is that even when solar+storage do make the most economic sense, they don't aut… https://t.co/389BUn1rPr in reply to michael_nielsen 19:38:19, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen There's some other examples of countries w/ different development priorities that are much more pa… https://t.co/Crt2dfPHSt in reply to michael_nielsen 19:33:59, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen @VitalikButerin @zhitzig @glenweyl I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but if <2°C warmi… https://t.co/eAofLHvWFl in reply to michael_nielsen 19:31:09, 2019-12-29
@michael_nielsen @VitalikButerin @zhitzig @glenweyl I found David Bodansky's "Nuclear Energy" really helpful as a b… https://t.co/0Km74DK3Da in reply to michael_nielsen 19:27:22, 2019-12-29
China-sized family separation. https://t.co/rIP51wK9jg 18:51:12, 2019-12-29
It's almost like the whole "reading and writing" thing hasn't really taken off. We have all these zettabytes of ext… https://t.co/2egbgRAEWM 17:49:18, 2019-12-29
?‍♂️ https://t.co/uZM9B5utXL 17:40:21, 2019-12-29
It shouldn't be radical to ask whether there are better economic development paths. We only just industrialized at… https://t.co/CkqhgHVdzn in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:43:55, 2019-12-29
The big spread in wealth and resource consumption for countries with similar real quality of life metrics is huge.… https://t.co/CIoQ36dcxc in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:36:32, 2019-12-29
When we've tried sit down and think through what we want our economies and development to *do*, it usually doesn't… https://t.co/enW9TnoYDA in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:31:37, 2019-12-29
Some countries, like Costa Rica and Sri Lanka, have gotten *far* more human development per unit resource consumpti… https://t.co/iUCNWADdnW in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:13:44, 2019-12-29
But to me the challenge of climbing that slope also begs the question of *what is development for* in the first pla… https://t.co/J9vSWTyx6g in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:10:49, 2019-12-29
@leahstokes' "Narwhal Slope" gives some idea of what truly globalizing this kind of industrialization and economic… https://t.co/rc3SI0F8ts in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:58:24, 2019-12-29
It's cliche at this point, but the future that's already here *really* is not evenly distributed. And if we believe… https://t.co/RUThJeZSYl in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:54:12, 2019-12-29
But the mass consumption side of industrialization didn't take off until post-WWII, and even then only in a few pla… https://t.co/pzV5cgbAJa in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:49:51, 2019-12-29
My grandmother was born in 1909. Draft animals were still the engines of agriculture and local transportation. The… https://t.co/SpXXpQcmNY in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:45:27, 2019-12-29
But the more I read, the more it seems like we weren't fundamentally limited by our need for fossil energy resource… https://t.co/BFJdeK75Kb in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:39:02, 2019-12-29
And then eventually, this cautious civilization discovers nuclear physics, and the possibility of essentially unlim… https://t.co/FT9WcsT6AX in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:35:50, 2019-12-29
And along the way, I imagined the need to use local and relativley constrained resources, and a couple of serious b… https://t.co/l3NYKD70WS in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:33:26, 2019-12-29
Especially, places with easy access to hydroelectric power early on, and later wind, and concentrating solar for th… https://t.co/Ooqhg96mwr in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:31:34, 2019-12-29
I imagined a story in which humanity develops the ideas of industrialization, but runs into resource limitations ea… https://t.co/lvKLSHGEGf in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:28:13, 2019-12-29
The lag between knowing how to do a thing in theory, and doing it at civilization scale is a long running theme in… https://t.co/ZFkJjy5FSW in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:24:57, 2019-12-29
@VaclavSmil In retrospect (of course) this shouldn't have been so surprising — CO2 emissions are a decent proxy fo… https://t.co/Ae1CL953Ml in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:16:03, 2019-12-29
@VaclavSmil Before I started looking into it, I imagined that this alternative history would branch off in the 1700… https://t.co/0001k7xCK7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:13:05, 2019-12-29
@VaclavSmil In popular depictions (at least the PBS & BBC ones I was exposed to as a kid) the historical lens seems… https://t.co/qizWAOW5WW in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:10:38, 2019-12-29
@VaclavSmil More than anything, I've been shocked at *just how recent* the act of industrialization is. The act as… https://t.co/V4Sm7Zpo1F in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:07:50, 2019-12-29
I was inspired to start my (most recent) @VaclavSmil reading binge because of this idea about an alternative histor… https://t.co/gDcB25OFsS 15:03:14, 2019-12-29
@VaclavSmil Another summary, if you aren't keen on a whole book about prime movers… https://t.co/7VbUX946B0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:05:46, 2019-12-29
In 1893 he inventor of diesel engines believed they would enable small-scale, decentralized industrial production a… https://t.co/8AajcLcSNF 13:04:10, 2019-12-29
I really gotta take care of this no-coffee-at-home situation. Where even do the mornings go? 12:51:54, 2019-12-29

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