Tweets for the Week of 2020-01-26 to 2020-02-01

And the link is here, btw: https://t.co/YlxjLS7UMJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:43:44, 2020-02-01
RT @bobwyman: "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." – W. Edwards Deming https://t.co/2u0Gu8RTQ0 23:42:10, 2020-02-01
RT @KendraWrites: Anyway, friendly reminder that economic systems are supposed to serve human wellbeing not the other way round.
We tend… 23:36:21, 2020-02-01
RT @ThadCulley: Hot take on 2050 announcements part 3:
IOU: Hey everyone, we are going on a diet! We are going to lose 50 pounds in the… 19:20:07, 2020-02-01
RT @ElephantEating: I know energy people complain about this (energy source vs. energy carrier) all the time, but it is the same as if some… 18:50:40, 2020-02-01
RT @croselund: Last night at the hotel bar I hung out with a couple of oil and gas guys. "Horizontal drilling"; shale is what brought them… 18:46:06, 2020-02-01
RT @ZackBergerMDPhD: Good health wishes to everyone in China including the million Muslims in concentration camps
祝却中国人健康好，包括在集中营的穆斯林 17:21:28, 2020-02-01
@drvox @mattyglesias Y'all should get together and do a satirical one for Trump as well. in reply to drvox 17:13:58, 2020-02-01
"Coal production off the charts in 2020!"
But in a good way. https://t.co/MmQy9Mg1qF 17:13:11, 2020-02-01
@ElephantEating Wow, best repurposing of pointlessly high ceilings ever! in reply to ElephantEating 16:35:07, 2020-02-01
Same. https://t.co/3ILlFhDLTi 16:24:49, 2020-02-01
For years I thought this didn't apply if you had somewhat more complicated taxes like I did — self employment inco… https://t.co/aAZ3PSJfLE 14:47:35, 2020-02-01
@arvindpawan1 @gschivley @RichardMeyerDC Ha, "logic" in reply to arvindpawan1 13:06:25, 2020-02-01
@arvindpawan1 @gschivley @RichardMeyerDC MMmmmmBTU too. Because M is the Roman numeral for "thousand" so MM is a thousand thousand, right? in reply to arvindpawan1 13:01:26, 2020-02-01
Maybe even more, it's the institutions and centers of economic and political power that have grown up around, and o… https://t.co/V11c1l4pJy in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:11:25, 2020-02-01
And usually, what we have to change isn't just our mindset — it's the rules and norms that have oozed out into our… https://t.co/oO4e8UT9Y9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:08:39, 2020-02-01
And doing so *relative to the status quo* looks unfair to some people. But the status quo advantages some things, a… https://t.co/sTL9Gggtru in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:06:50, 2020-02-01
There are other internally self-consistent policy universes that can and do exist, where cooperatives and other kin… https://t.co/LEnEzsyryz in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:04:38, 2020-02-01
When we give easy financing and tax breaks to private equity and other extractive capital enterprises, and design o… https://t.co/KBR1lLDU07 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:01:52, 2020-02-01
In the long run the loan guarantees would have been pretty much zero cost, and would have enabled member-focused in… https://t.co/Vkjso47Lcr in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:59:23, 2020-02-01
And then second, after a couple of years, they just cancelled all the loan guarantees, rendering all the health ins… https://t.co/kDDPlrQIb7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:56:19, 2020-02-01
GOP sabotaged all this in at least 2 ways. First, they made it illegal for the co-ops to use any of these startup f… https://t.co/0Y8OPHWpky in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:55:03, 2020-02-01
So to start up a new insurer, you need a mountain of cash — or at least access to a mountain of cash in the event… https://t.co/1rvbhW4Gyy in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:53:13, 2020-02-01
Being an insurance company means having a pile of assets from which you can pay claims. Inflow of premiums needs –… https://t.co/PAS8Ykg2LU in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:50:38, 2020-02-01
One (sad) example of this that I went through: the ACA enabled health insurance cooperatives, like @COHealthOP, whi… https://t.co/2yAYJc89ik in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:48:29, 2020-02-01
And sometimes that means bootstrapping new institutions into existence — there are things that can persist and thr… https://t.co/cufUUexc8T in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:45:07, 2020-02-01
Like it's not just that people don't think or want to create co-ops or employee owned companies, or work with credi… https://t.co/rQcCeCNzYF in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:43:21, 2020-02-01
It'd be great to have this kind of diversity in the institutions that and orgs that make up our economy, and I thin… https://t.co/uZIpsHX4h1 10:39:50, 2020-02-01
"As we think about how to deal with climate change, the line between ambition and delusion is not at all sharp." –… https://t.co/PPHqAbMlCp 08:46:16, 2020-02-01
It's all just so Roman. Sycophants in the Senate making procedural motions and fawning speeches about Caesar, Frien… https://t.co/nOoJrebzC0 20:57:43, 2020-01-31
RT @maryannehitt: This is bananas. Duke Energy can’t get a closely watched solar project on the grid b/c it can’t get permission *from itse… 20:47:32, 2020-01-31
@tweedsio @CatalystCoop And then by happy coincidence, @YIMBYtown is happening the very next week, in the same chur… https://t.co/32H6KEWRyz in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:37:41, 2020-01-31
Excited to be heading to @tweedsio in #PDX March 27-28 to present on @CatalystCoop's PUDL project and learn from a… https://t.co/nBqm7zwU6r 17:35:47, 2020-01-31
@bitsweat Man that all sounds so nice, and like things I've never really known. in reply to bitsweat 16:50:54, 2020-01-31
@interfluidity Somebody needs a nice new aluminum baseball bat for Christmas. in reply to interfluidity 16:06:52, 2020-01-31
@JacquelynGill And they sound so magical in the long subarctic twilights. *swloooon* in reply to JacquelynGill 13:28:09, 2020-01-31
*sigh* https://t.co/RFabtcuMQC 13:04:20, 2020-01-31
@kevpluck Wow, that seems kinda short. I wonder how long my pants last. in reply to kevpluck 10:15:04, 2020-01-31
Burn 'em to the ground and salt the earth. https://t.co/jgzaFT85zc 21:52:15, 2020-01-30
@MaryHeglar @amywestervelt Well y'all must be doing something right then! in reply to MaryHeglar 16:55:20, 2020-01-30
Now I get a cookie. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:42:50, 2020-01-30
@drvox Sounded like a decent porn intro there for a sec. in reply to drvox 14:40:59, 2020-01-30
Well, Happy Birthday to me. https://t.co/G5k04lp9ij 14:23:49, 2020-01-30
It does seem like cheating is frequently the rational thing to do, if we learn from those who've done well anyway. https://t.co/Z4OqN5s9mh 09:31:24, 2020-01-30
I think this is esp. interesting in the context of fossil fuel divestment convo: as w/ tobacco, divestment *could*… https://t.co/vEA7LTyI8W 08:45:21, 2020-01-30
RT @grescoe: To hell, where it belongs. https://t.co/uMA5scEG4V 08:40:45, 2020-01-30
@ericmbudd Who needs addresses when Amazon just uses your GPS coordinates to select the nearest delivery kiosk, and… https://t.co/476ZhGGqgI in reply to ericmbudd 08:32:33, 2020-01-30
@ericmbudd thousands? in reply to ericmbudd 19:44:49, 2020-01-29
If you thought *losing* a 25 year long lawsuit against a $200+ billion corporation would be unpleasant, well, this… https://t.co/EPLMLs4UeN 16:07:10, 2020-01-29
Just from the point of view of pedagogy, having the same number of senators as there are "percents" is very confusi… https://t.co/xZBcVbV2Wu 12:37:33, 2020-01-29
On one hand, it seems odd to freak out about a disease that's infected ~10,000 & killed ~100, when (say) cars will… https://t.co/3VKwK1dIUw 11:25:13, 2020-01-29
Interesting look at Exxon financials from @ieefa_institute explaining how you can tell dropping stock price is beca… https://t.co/TReBsno4Oa 10:33:37, 2020-01-29
It's like we're scamming ourselves. https://t.co/ESyuJxnFrJ 09:30:49, 2020-01-29
@DoctorVive @annajanejoyner Whenever I start getting into long discussions about it with someone newly interested -… https://t.co/CLZw3Ft3we in reply to DoctorVive 14:58:44, 2020-01-28
RT @ANARTAME5344335: Oaxaca capital https://t.co/YArqsL5yga 11:59:06, 2020-01-28
@ericmbudd @bouldercounty Boooooooooo. in reply to ericmbudd 09:59:49, 2020-01-28
@ericmbudd Especially given that they are the chipper, shining faces of a totalitarian, technocratic, consumer oligarchy. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:41:28, 2020-01-28
@ericmbudd I think this is only going to get weirder. These shared collective artificial personalities that million… https://t.co/cl7ipacWF2 in reply to ericmbudd 09:40:23, 2020-01-28
Things like this seem outrageous. But then later, they often somehow end up seeming normal. How far can we slide in… https://t.co/TWmbJqbzd0 09:23:37, 2020-01-28
RT @ntnsndr: @fileneresearch @MehrsaBaradaran For instance: a revenue-neutral public fund that lends to credit unions for organizing campai… 21:21:18, 2020-01-27
RT @claytoncubitt: "To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have… 17:32:42, 2020-01-27
@drvox Solar panels. in reply to drvox 15:39:01, 2020-01-27
Todavía me sorpresa de cuales cosas me dan el sentido de que estoy *viviendo* y no viajando en el extranjero. Espec… https://t.co/xGCQXiRkIQ 14:43:00, 2020-01-27
@tweedsio hey, do y'all have any sense of when decisions might be made on who gets to attend in Portland? Feeling a… https://t.co/fGeMbZEF7P 14:05:27, 2020-01-27
@ericmbudd @AaronBrockett12 If only we could prioritize "local" food in the sense that… you can walk to get it. in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:48:32, 2020-01-27
@ericmbudd @AaronBrockett12 Bummer. Esp. given that driving to/from grocery store emits about the same GHGs as all… https://t.co/sdy9GPE8Nn in reply to ericmbudd 13:00:41, 2020-01-27
@ericmbudd Especially nutty w/ the 50% affordable Holiday 'hood right up there. in reply to ericmbudd 12:58:01, 2020-01-27
An ortholinear split ergonomic keyboard in a solid maple case? Niche manufacturing generates a bunch of interesting… https://t.co/arfsOk8mLD 12:00:12, 2020-01-27
@ericmbudd Well that will help with the plague of jobs I guess. in reply to ericmbudd 11:56:59, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix @Caltech @Oxitec All of which reminds me… I really need to get a mosquito net for my bed. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:04:25, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix @Caltech @Oxitec There was a good @longnow debate between @DrewEndy and Jim Thomas (in which it… https://t.co/GgdlwYDXIt in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:59:19, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix @Caltech @Oxitec Some research suggests that mosquito-borne illnesses have killed half of all t… https://t.co/BDLChV9Ftx in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:30, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix @Caltech @Oxitec But it would be surprising to me if there *weren't* some unexpected consequenc… https://t.co/5Pz1iDso3W in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:50:16, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix @Caltech @Oxitec I don't think it's the kind of thing that we can prevent from being done, long… https://t.co/0L729LMme6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:47:50, 2020-01-27
@a66mike99 @netflix I have friends who have been working on it, first at @Caltech in Bruce Hay's lab, and now at… https://t.co/PxIszuJwLe in reply to a66mike99 10:45:48, 2020-01-27
The @Netflix #Pandemic series is eerily well timed, and so far an interesting exploration of vaccine research, vari… https://t.co/RbhhVYZyOs 08:43:35, 2020-01-27
RT @MaryHeglar: In order to “adapt” to a climate that has warmed by 1.5 degrees, you have to hold it to 1.5 degrees. Same for 2 degrees. Or… 08:32:47, 2020-01-27
Okay like this but for infrastructure. https://t.co/Dc2b2BpC31 22:38:12, 2020-01-26
@MaryHeglar As close to aliens as we're gonna get in this lifetime! in reply to MaryHeglar 22:36:58, 2020-01-26
@ericmbudd But isn't there some overall conservation of wealth? Or is wealth going to be destroyed? Or is it just t… https://t.co/5A6W7SHHny in reply to ericmbudd 11:32:16, 2020-01-26

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