Tweets for the Week of 2020-02-09 to 2020-02-15

RT @Bakari_Sellers: This @Trevornoah clip is very Baldwin-esque. So much truth. Here is your 4 minute weekend viewing. https://t.co/FqcfPsW… 23:44:58, 2020-02-15
RT @elizaorlins: Isn’t it amazing when old videos of the candidate you love and support surface from 2005 and you get to see that they are… 23:42:34, 2020-02-15
RT @FAKEGRIMLOCK: THIS MIGHT BE BIGGEST TWEET YOU READ TODAY.
OR EVER. https://t.co/qaimrIZm8l 22:06:34, 2020-02-15
RT @Viejo_Cthulhu: Soy un monstruo grotesco y horrible, pero por lo menos no ataco a una activista que ha luchado por las mujeres violentad… 21:57:19, 2020-02-15
RT @Viejo_Cthulhu: ¿En tu ciudad de arquitectura no euclidiana sumergida eternamente en el fondo del océano o en la mía? 21:53:35, 2020-02-15
It's like, our superpower / curse. https://t.co/h36S52qv1R 21:31:00, 2020-02-15
@patbahn I kinda feel like Wall Street (and the equity side of tech) is this whole other thing. Where it's not real… https://t.co/pazazgAHjs in reply to patbahn 21:23:59, 2020-02-15
@joshdr83 Ah, would correlate perfectly with the days that bikes aren't allowed on the Betasso loop. Would be good for trail running. 🙂 in reply to joshdr83 21:21:17, 2020-02-15
RT @evacide: More evidence that we are in one of the weirder timelines. https://t.co/dtnCyfxPTY 16:52:31, 2020-02-15
@GreatDismal Standard Hitachi Magic Wand on the other hand… in reply to GreatDismal 15:09:11, 2020-02-15
When we're funded, we pay ourselves $35/hr at Catalyst. Adjusted for inflation, that's exactly what I earned at my… https://t.co/Nmw3AlNwGe in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:04:54, 2020-02-15
RT @Samantharhill: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpo… 14:44:17, 2020-02-15
But like, systemically, it seems dicey to depend on attracting top talent with warm-fuzzies when the habitability o… https://t.co/FqyCkMpB1n in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:18:12, 2020-02-15
And I'm not *complaining* about not making an "industry" salary here. I love the autonomy that we have at… https://t.co/PYeJmu2A9p in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:15:58, 2020-02-15
And I'm sure a lot of the folks working on these problems are paid well. But for some reason it seems like collecti… https://t.co/HHhuAi3gQU in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:09:11, 2020-02-15
Or pre-fabricated modular structural insulating panels (SIPs) and the super-efficient windows and doors required to… https://t.co/vfRHGCmIKl in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:05:11, 2020-02-15
How much do engineers at Vestas designing 15MW floating offshore wind turbines make? Or the folks building bullet t… https://t.co/u54DRW2Mhr in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:03:09, 2020-02-15
Or how about more efficient and automated mass timber fabrication techniques? Small modular and/or high temperature… https://t.co/r1b9TwPUVd in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:00:41, 2020-02-15
I'd love to see the salaries of folks working on better heat pumps for domestic thermal applications, carbon-free i… https://t.co/InSvBXdHIr in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:57:37, 2020-02-15
It just seems weird that we're okay with an economy that prioritizes (mostly) useless smartphone app production ove… https://t.co/GuntPzxFwY in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:54:30, 2020-02-15
Screwed this up late last night by looking at the wrong line on my taxes.
?: BS CS, PhD Geophysics
⏳: 5 years
?️:… https://t.co/34GcWOeMKX 13:52:07, 2020-02-15
#BelieveMen https://t.co/BXpXWAFb0Y 11:31:00, 2020-02-15
@interfluidity Beyond the basic necessities "prosperity" is so wildly subjective and socially mediated! 3 cars? 500… https://t.co/ixJYeVn1Te in reply to interfluidity 00:39:44, 2020-02-15
Wow, ni siquiera un "AMLO?" https://t.co/nQkK4wts9w 00:32:33, 2020-02-15
@Caltech @CUBoulder *geophysics, I meant. Oy. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:50:02, 2020-02-14
@thebmbennett @Caltech @CUBoulder Just imagine what the world would be like if folks could make a decent living doing useful things! in reply to thebmbennett 22:48:53, 2020-02-14
@ericmbudd But c'mon, it's ~3 weeks of "lost output" but at a *non-surge* price of ~$10k/day (if ventilated, in the… https://t.co/quRbbyDE4N in reply to ericmbudd 22:27:38, 2020-02-14
Why is it only "stoking class warfare" when the poor do it? 21:51:14, 2020-02-14
@SwiftOnSecurity Seriously, what's the best password manager? in reply to SwiftOnSecurity 21:50:20, 2020-02-14
RT @DrJenGunter: THE HPV VACCINE WE CAN ELIMINATE CETVICAL CANCER IN MY LIFETIME https://t.co/yd2tJnvzGu 21:46:04, 2020-02-14
@ericmbudd @shawncreed https://t.co/hCCO0IARXh in reply to ericmbudd 21:38:13, 2020-02-14
@shawncreed @ericmbudd Just because there's a person behind the name doesn't mean they aren't a bot. A human being… https://t.co/XG7Rr9RKAN in reply to shawncreed 21:31:16, 2020-02-14
I mean just think of opportunities for surge pricing on ICU beds! in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:25:08, 2020-02-14
But great for GDP or no? https://t.co/3e3824nGJJ 21:19:58, 2020-02-14
And I see a burning, melting world from a distance. populated with zombies, xenoformers, and hedonists. in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:30:35, 2020-02-14
They came home when my dad got yellow fever. He spent the 8th grade bedridden. And has since been consumed by Fox N… https://t.co/Z5rlal42B2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:27:33, 2020-02-14
My great grandparents were 7th Day Adventist missionaries in Guangzhou, and my grandmother grew up speaking Cantone… https://t.co/Yze9bNYmuk in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:25:11, 2020-02-14
Believing anything so fervently that you *act* on that belief is an isolating experience. Refusing to have your tru… https://t.co/2FtlD2DvR5 15:10:50, 2020-02-14
@ericmbudd "Plutes gonna plute." in reply to ericmbudd 14:51:33, 2020-02-14
RT @janburtonco: Great housing article, by the greatest housing journalist: @conordougherty "People …have to accept it’s hypocritical to… 14:33:50, 2020-02-14
RT @interfluidity: bloomberg is a real test of the soul the the United States’ professional class. https://t.co/yOZXR1Ba7g 11:27:19, 2020-02-14
RT @KhaledBeydoun: "Mike Bloomberg isn’t running against Trump. Mike Bloomberg is running against Bernie Sanders."
– @lsarsour 23:02:03, 2020-02-13
RT @ElBloombito: Gentrificatioño es just rojo-liñing para los ricos. #SiSePayday 22:17:19, 2020-02-13
@ericmbudd Hmm. I can think of some worse scenarios. in reply to ericmbudd 16:49:06, 2020-02-13
I imagine @marazepeda @ntnsndr @marjorie_kelly @jwpcPBC @dhh @operaqueenie @matthewstoller might have interesting t… https://t.co/ZY2bi4GuQB 16:47:54, 2020-02-13
RT @AnandWrites: I'm worried Bloomberg is going to start using "Plutes gonna plute" as a campaign mantra because he doesn't realize it's a… 11:34:55, 2020-02-13
Unicorn density seems like it could also be an indicator of who allows platform monopolies to capture rents. Or tax… https://t.co/7iNJZVeKHp 09:49:44, 2020-02-13
RT @blakezeff: The degree to which Michael Bloomberg is using his fortune to fundamentally alter & manipulate U.S. politics to his personal… 08:57:00, 2020-02-13
Man, I didn't think it was possible, but if there were *one* way to get me not to vote in November, it might be by… https://t.co/l7GMEuPFuy 08:15:46, 2020-02-13
RT @willwilkinson: That so many people are desperate for a mega-multi-billionaire to save us from mob boss authoritarianism by buying an el… 08:14:42, 2020-02-13
RT @profcarroll: Warren is the only candidate hammering Trump’s criminality and that’s why the media can’t deal with her because running he… 22:44:13, 2020-02-12
RT @VanityFair: “If Trump could get away with locking up his political opponents, that’s exactly what he’d do,” says a former U.S. attorney… 22:44:07, 2020-02-12
@LiaraRoux @marjorie_kelly You and @nonprofit_hoe might enjoy each others company if you haven't crossed paths already. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:14:32, 2020-02-12
@LiaraRoux @marjorie_kelly It's such an enormous and rich space of possibilities to explore, but it seems like a weird niche in the US. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:12:15, 2020-02-12
@LiaraRoux I also really liked "Owning Our Future" by @marjorie_kelly which is a relatively quick read on how owner… https://t.co/w3pXa95HpF in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:10:51, 2020-02-12
@LiaraRoux An interesting collection of essays from various employee ownership advocates / organizers on the demutu… https://t.co/aDU8UdRul4 in reply to LiaraRoux 21:08:55, 2020-02-12
RT @LiaraRoux: I spend way too much time thinking about how, in order for employees to be properly compensated by business owners, they nee… 21:06:46, 2020-02-12
RT @nhannahjones: Redlining was an explicitly racist policy that ensured that until 1968 98 % of federally insured loans went to white Amer… 19:56:26, 2020-02-12
Hmmm. https://t.co/MVtsdT9PRe 19:55:58, 2020-02-12
????? https://t.co/MXIhj8kyZ3 19:38:48, 2020-02-12
But if you have to choose between Caligula and Augustus, there's really no contest.
Lol you don't get to choose. https://t.co/101RRcKNkv 18:23:02, 2020-02-12
I mean, if you're say, Guatemala, there's a pretty good case to be made that others (especially the US) have impose… https://t.co/MmRrodjZHO in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:06:17, 2020-02-12
It's a bummer that the US has *chosen* to be a country with poverty, has *decided* that poorer sick people should d… https://t.co/SlDd5LOL8G 17:03:14, 2020-02-12
Idaho: Ignorance Is Strength. https://t.co/R0YgKXoVgE 15:34:20, 2020-02-12
Like seriously guys, when you've been a bad actor on an issue for 30 years… maybe it should take 30 more years of… https://t.co/HM6kMQNJ3E 09:52:52, 2020-02-12
No no no, it's *beyond* beyond petroleum! B2P! https://t.co/VQyxqY80V1 09:04:50, 2020-02-12
RT @DrSimEvans: The global oil & gas industry has doubled the share of its investment going towards renewables & CCS…
…as of 2019, it only… 08:32:09, 2020-02-12
RT @DrSimEvans: Very occasionally, this most hated of #dataviz tools (the humble pie chart) is actually a good way to tell the story of oil… 08:31:43, 2020-02-12
RT @JKSteinberger: Honestly, I feel as though I'm losing my everloving mind. Does no one else remember that BP has done this kind of re-bra… 08:31:36, 2020-02-12
My feed seems weirdly divided on the BP "net zero" announcement, between snark and adulation. 07:28:45, 2020-02-12
@DrJaneFlegal It kind of reminds me of all those AAA-rated mortgage backed securities where the risk had been offloaded onto someone else. in reply to DrJaneFlegal 07:24:22, 2020-02-12
Like this, but with CYBER. https://t.co/6y9J5wLYbc 23:31:14, 2020-02-11
RT @Sammy_Roth: Seems the Democrats are hellbent on repeating the Republican mistakes of 2016, when GOP voters failed to coalesce around an… 23:29:19, 2020-02-11
@CHThiem @MarkyV The decaplex. The do-decaplex. The duodecaplexathon! in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:27:48, 2020-02-11
@CHThiem @MarkyV Oh yeah, the ? OctoPlex ? in reply to CHThiem 23:06:13, 2020-02-11
RT @alvarombedoya: Um here’s a couple
1) Deny unanimous consent. The Senate schedule runs on the assumption that not 1 senator will object… 22:34:44, 2020-02-11
I imagine that following the US elections while living outside the US feels like being into soccer while living ins… https://t.co/Qw9Ccvpuo1 21:23:05, 2020-02-11
RT @JillFilipovic: Can we just do an extra-super Tuesday where every registered Democratic in the country casts their ballot on the same da… 21:19:58, 2020-02-11
@CHThiem ?️ in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:58:36, 2020-02-11
@CHThiem No but maybe sexplex? in reply to CHThiem 18:55:31, 2020-02-11
RT @dobbyloca: "Todos nosotros, si estamos razonablemente cómodos, sanos y seguros, tenemos enormes deudas con el pasado. No hay forma, por… 16:19:54, 2020-02-11
@ericmbudd How about "Candidates whose commonly used moniker begins with B." in reply to ericmbudd 13:31:41, 2020-02-11
RT @socialistshawty: the sprint and t-mobile merger is great news for consumers who are looking to pay a little more in exchange for less i… 11:51:36, 2020-02-11
RT @TheOnion: Sprint, T-Mobile CEOs Merge Into Grotesque Executive Hybrid https://t.co/5v0l2d6qQ7 https://t.co/EijGYX1sVk 11:51:30, 2020-02-11
I want to believe. https://t.co/QtnHpcrSLT 11:19:52, 2020-02-11
300 MB is the equivalent of what, 75,000 pages of text? Tens of thousands of pages worth of "notes on financial sta… https://t.co/GNssI4RAm0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:11:07, 2020-02-11
It seems nutso to me that all this official regulatory data is published, and then apparently substantially modifie… https://t.co/gIj0cLsCmA in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:02:15, 2020-02-11
@CatalystCoop Weirdly, it seems that at some point in the last 2 years, @FERC has swapped out their published datab… https://t.co/DaeqB09cDN in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:00:38, 2020-02-11
So I was about to wipe out my stale local PUDL datastore and replace it with the files we just published in the fir… https://t.co/o6vioyEsIP 10:57:23, 2020-02-11
I have so much email to do but man do I not want to do it. 10:29:46, 2020-02-11
RT @MLiebreich: In Dec 2019, I said onshore wind and solar would see world record LCOEs below $10/MWh by 2030. Based on what I'm hearing no… 01:12:54, 2020-02-11
RT @AkshatRathi: All the catastrophic fire headlines from 2019 add up to this: 7.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
After generally declin… 01:09:59, 2020-02-11
RT @CarbonBrief: NEW – Guest post: Could the Atlantic Overturning Circulation ‘shut down’? | @metoffice https://t.co/ZGJpR2ZBsN https://t.c… 01:08:22, 2020-02-11
RT @dwallacewells: “Over five months, bushfires along the south-east coast of Australia have blackened an area bigger than Ireland.
They ha… 01:05:42, 2020-02-11
RT @jbouie: I am at a Pete event and I kid you not, I spoke to an older gentleman who says Buttigieg is “on his wavelength” and whose Mille… 01:02:02, 2020-02-11
RT @MattBors: Sanders is too divisive and extreme. We need to put forth a billionaire who stumped for Bush and will tear apart the democrat… 00:58:49, 2020-02-11
RT @CIAGoFundMe: OCTOBER 2020 debate roundup
Pete Buttigieg: my fifteen point plan to eliminate the deficit starts with cutting social sec… 00:58:33, 2020-02-11
Reagan. We were forced to watch his 2nd swearing in at school. I was in the 3rd grade. https://t.co/cxMiEY16Sq 23:40:55, 2020-02-10
The US has built a system where the more money you steal, and the more people you cheat and harm, the less likely i… https://t.co/Dr7Sf1RGZR 22:58:21, 2020-02-10
@ericmbudd @MarkyV https://t.co/iYyZH3JbtD in reply to ericmbudd 22:14:55, 2020-02-10
@MarkyV @ericmbudd https://t.co/I4vBgtxIce in reply to MarkyV 22:07:49, 2020-02-10
At this rate, he'll get to 100% in the polls after spending as much as Warren's wealth tax would have cost him over… https://t.co/JIsLwpmW8H 22:02:36, 2020-02-10
Of the 40 people that @Twitter currently suggests I might want to follow, 37 of them appear to be male. I wish ther… https://t.co/wFZ5j1g63W 21:55:55, 2020-02-10
@ericmbudd https://t.co/poNu6lf8lS in reply to ericmbudd 21:49:47, 2020-02-10
RT @erinoverturf: The @EnergyFdn is hiring a Program Director, West Campaigns to build public support for clean energy and climate policies… 21:46:43, 2020-02-10
@erinoverturf @EnergyFdn @MeredithinCO in reply to erinoverturf 21:46:22, 2020-02-10
@ericmbudd But will they continue to lose comparable ground to his $2 billion in spending? in reply to ericmbudd 21:39:44, 2020-02-10
So is it going to be an Oligarch Battle Royale then? The Fossil Barrons vs. The Surveillance Capitalists? Seems lik… https://t.co/inQM8PxtAK 20:45:57, 2020-02-10
@interfluidity @TrumpWasHere He loved Big Brother. in reply to interfluidity 20:41:53, 2020-02-10
@ericmbudd March is the snowiest month.
April is the 2nd snowiest month. in reply to ericmbudd 19:34:20, 2020-02-10
Curious what the climate-focused #YIMBY contingent on here would think about this kind of thing. https://t.co/0SbBGtDkWn 17:58:03, 2020-02-10
7 years after @billmckibben's "Terrifying New Math" this remains both a desperate and useful framing of our task. A… https://t.co/WCPeOD3DRS 13:11:36, 2020-02-10
RT @SarahJamieLewis: @La__Cuen “When [a journalist] asked if I was an activist or a researcher, I told them I was a witch"
One of the thos… 10:39:14, 2020-02-10
As promised Friday… here are some more details on what all is in the data release, and how you might go about acc… https://t.co/HK1ZOw1YOD 10:30:56, 2020-02-10
Folks like to quote Justice Brandeis on how the "states are laboratories of democracy" but most people haven't done… https://t.co/94A8zyPVQf 09:39:32, 2020-02-10
@Yubico Your linked plugin to set up @WordPress for 2FA seems like it might be a bit dated. 400 users, no updates i… https://t.co/5nKiyJuzVd 22:52:07, 2020-02-09
@drvox tbh this chipper alternative you has been disconcerting. in reply to drvox 21:40:22, 2020-02-09
The concentration of wealth & CO2 are both problems of stocks and flows.
The structure of the system is set up to… https://t.co/Vqj1Hnn1Ge in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:10:57, 2020-02-09
Like that "normal" thing that some people want to go back to, it's gone. Tyler doesn't live here any more!
Also, i… https://t.co/47RkpN1gYr in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:04:26, 2020-02-09
I once spent an evening binge-watching home birth videos on YouTube with a lover. Definitely intense!
Then we move… https://t.co/8YnLwCAi62 18:32:02, 2020-02-09
This is one of the things I like about both Warren and Bernie. They're ready for a fight, and we need to have a fig… https://t.co/bxSDTm2Fws 18:24:40, 2020-02-09
As a nerdy atheist kid, I could not get out of small town America fast enough. Left at 17 and never looked back. https://t.co/MlIeoADPNA 18:13:08, 2020-02-09
RT @vitaincerta: New #HealthDisparities research @JAMANetworkOpen thread ? 1/
7 callers made 804 calls to randomly selected primary care… 18:03:56, 2020-02-09
So the more money we borrow for the next 10 years, the more fiscally responsible we're being. Right? Especially if… https://t.co/JSx9QlLzbq in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:05:27, 2020-02-09
Looks like they're negative out to 10 years. 0.15% at 20 years. 0.31% at 30 years… https://t.co/6Cwi8LjoXu in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:55:34, 2020-02-09
Also aren't real interest rates for the federal government approximately zero? And don't we have a few trillion dol… https://t.co/eecKlqHdwm 16:49:20, 2020-02-09
@erinoverturf @joshdr83 I've been working on it for a few weeks on the recommendation of a few folks I respect, but… https://t.co/SmW6hCPxl6 in reply to erinoverturf 16:44:39, 2020-02-09
@ericmbudd ??️??️ in reply to ericmbudd 15:35:53, 2020-02-09
@drvox Or maybe he likes the trap. Maybe he's part of the trap. Maybe the trap is bipartisan. in reply to drvox 15:35:10, 2020-02-09
@ericmbudd @CarinaJulig @Denverite Not a turnoff! in reply to ericmbudd 15:30:41, 2020-02-09
Hice un pozole rojo de Instapot. ¡Este país es un paraíso de chiles! https://t.co/5RXVs9lJg3 14:29:23, 2020-02-09
@gschivley And an annual all-country, all-transit (bus, train, gondola, ferry, etc.) pass costs like $3500 — less… https://t.co/9cJL43cAtP in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:33:25, 2020-02-09
RT @destenienock: @TheDeviantDev @BlackWomenPhDs @CarnegieMellon @UMassAmherst 2/2 – The question of merit vs AA never crossed my mind. @ e… 13:27:42, 2020-02-09
RT @destenienock: @TheDeviantDev @BlackWomenPhDs @CarnegieMellon @UMassAmherst I think the hiring was because I had a 4.0 GPA in electrical… 13:27:04, 2020-02-09
RT @BlackWomenPhDs: @DestenieNock is an Asst Professor @CarnegieMellon in Engineering & Public Policy. She’s the 1st black woman to be tenu… 13:24:07, 2020-02-09
RT @destenienock: @TheDeviantDev @BlackWomenPhDs @CarnegieMellon @UMassAmherst 1/2 – You would need to ask my department chair and each per… 13:23:29, 2020-02-09
@erinoverturf I love cooperative games and wish I'd had them when I was a kid! The competition aspect really put me off games early on. in reply to erinoverturf 13:19:03, 2020-02-09
@gschivley I really appreciated how in Switzerland, you can take the train and gondolas to and from the skiing. in reply to gschivley 13:13:36, 2020-02-09
@ericmbudd Episode 12,678. in reply to ericmbudd 12:53:14, 2020-02-09
@ericmbudd Reminds me of that Bernard Montessier book "Cape Horn: The Logical Route" in reply to ericmbudd 12:52:48, 2020-02-09
@ericmbudd Wut? Is this not the whole point of the event? in reply to ericmbudd 12:49:52, 2020-02-09
A Mexican street performer playing Andean pan pipes while wearing a feather headdress and clothes of North American… https://t.co/1zl6lslLLz 10:52:55, 2020-02-09
RT @CatalystCoop: If you happen to be at @NARUC this week and want to talk about open US electricity data and the new stakeholders it can b… 08:33:15, 2020-02-09
[Narrator] It was not cool. https://t.co/1eTfo3dKkE 07:59:32, 2020-02-09
@drvox Ha, sounds like US healthcare too. in reply to drvox 07:58:24, 2020-02-09

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