Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-20 to 2020-09-26

@ericmbudd Wait, what's burning now? I thought it snowed? in reply to ericmbudd 19:57:37, 2020-09-26
@ChazTeplin Unfortunately a lot of the advocates have been kind of awful and dismissive of concerns. And a lot of t… https://t.co/1dHTrU7dS1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:53:24, 2020-09-26
@ChazTeplin David Bodansky convinced me to take nuclear energy seriously in 2009: https://t.co/jXEP7VGAz4 in reply to ChazTeplin 19:48:15, 2020-09-26
Since you have to heat up an intermediary loop anyway… it can also be used for energy storage, increasing the pla… https://t.co/B8x5ZbfhnE in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:09:17, 2020-09-26
One thing they've done here is take a costly disadvantage of sodium fast reactors — the need for a non-reactive in… https://t.co/aRtHbDo8Qh 18:58:56, 2020-09-26
RT @taraghuveer: Holy shit. In the largest self-organized housing takeover in the country, 50 unhoused mothers and children JUST WON their… 18:44:25, 2020-09-26
God it's nice to see something inspiring in the TL these days: https://t.co/5Cx2fVuGdp 18:31:33, 2020-09-26
I think I had to see this come across my feed like 10 times before I got the poll / pole pun. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/XjGkdq55FP 16:33:37, 2020-09-26
@CHThiem In we-hate-sidewalks rural North Boulder?! in reply to CHThiem 16:23:13, 2020-09-26
We should really remember and celebrate the people who choose not to end the world. https://t.co/zu2kPgcRG6 09:56:45, 2020-09-26
RT @GernotWagner: @EricGimon @business @climate More where this came from, yes. And that's indeed the truly scary part. https://t.co/DKUNbm… 09:50:13, 2020-09-26
It's weird to think about the super-human senses that these things have. Watching. https://t.co/iL8RYuQfF5 23:17:26, 2020-09-25
RT @joshtpm: take a bat to these motherfuckers while we still can, folks https://t.co/NiYK5TVqgi 22:32:09, 2020-09-25
RT @1Lcampesino: How many years away do you think we are from being hunted down by Boston Dynamics robot dogs for protesting the government… 20:34:22, 2020-09-25
I'm sure the Spanish Flu would never consider going out before 10 pm. https://t.co/SXke6vzRC5 18:01:12, 2020-09-25
@fmanjoo The left gets the three-letter-individuals, and the right gets the three-letter-agencies… CIA, FBI, DEA, etc. in reply to fmanjoo 17:27:39, 2020-09-25
@thebmbennett Power corrupts! in reply to thebmbennett 17:22:53, 2020-09-25
@joshdr83 Just find you a red dwarf that'll burn for 10 trillion years. https://t.co/oAJjBz65mP in reply to joshdr83 16:26:34, 2020-09-25
I don't know that 😡 has ever really been one for "flirting" — he likes to brag about his more direct and non-conse… https://t.co/y5stAMeTxI 16:22:15, 2020-09-25
@ericmbudd 10 tacos al pastor for about $2.50 on Mondays an Tuesday at La Piñita just down the block… in reply to ericmbudd 16:20:09, 2020-09-25
@ericmbudd Wait are you being literal about the mutation thing? Or is the new symptom that republicans take their masks off? in reply to ericmbudd 16:14:40, 2020-09-25
@drvox @TheEnergyCraig @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ The Ergodox EZ doesn't have the curved keywells, which I liked a lot… https://t.co/1YryqRkrB6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:57:46, 2020-09-25
@drvox @TheEnergyCraig @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ It took me 1-2 weeks to adjust, with most of my days spent typing. A… https://t.co/vKP6Zfi1gm in reply to drvox 13:56:14, 2020-09-25
Is it just me, or does this look like Godzilla walking to the right while shooting rainbows out of his eyes? https://t.co/cYos34NJlr 12:38:12, 2020-09-25
@drvox I've used both @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ mechanical split keyboards and they're great. Not cheap, but they do last a long time. in reply to drvox 12:36:01, 2020-09-25
If "conservative" clean energy is cost-competitive dispatchable zero-carbon nuclear generation that's designed to w… https://t.co/ur8XKBWWR9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:07:29, 2020-09-25
More in-depth background on the design imperatives & constraints of Gen IV reactors in this video from last year: https://t.co/vb31ScCy2N in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:02:18, 2020-09-25
Also great to see nuclear folks designing to work with renewables, and admitting that they need to be able to compe… https://t.co/Kz60Nrd0QD in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:01:10, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira The idea is that by putting as much of the infrastructure outside of the nuclear site, cos… https://t.co/WThCXWmFEY in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:59:25, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira The thermal storage + generation facility is largely based on solar-thermal systems that h… https://t.co/aS3E0vq1VZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:36, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira It's a sodium cooled fast reactor that operates at atmospheric pressure, and supplies heat… https://t.co/DxyAV1a3Re in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:57:33, 2020-09-25
A talk on an interesting GenIV nuclear reactor design from @TerraPower that tries to optimize for supporting variab… https://t.co/tIx4NOrt11 10:55:26, 2020-09-25
Meanwhile, on planet Earth. https://t.co/cYos34NJlr 19:57:18, 2020-09-24
RT @CatalystCoop: Some of us have been reading @leahstokes book Short Circuiting Policy, and are gonna talk about it Wednesday, October 14t… 12:30:25, 2020-09-24
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? https://t.co/pKHnQDaX5Q 12:10:52, 2020-09-24
What could have been a reasonable policy 20-30 years ago has now become for the most part a dangerous distraction,… https://t.co/fNf78G0ryM 10:52:29, 2020-09-24
Pyro. Mania. https://t.co/wHlKhTNVPP 17:02:02, 2020-09-23
@cmgosnell if we did want to take on transportation data integration at @CatalystCoop Costa is definitely the perso… https://t.co/l0YIU21di4 16:25:39, 2020-09-23
@drvox 😂Abolish this ICE too😂 in reply to drvox 15:02:56, 2020-09-23
@otherlab Which to me reaaaaaaally suggests that reducing overall VMT through better urban design & inclusive non-a… https://t.co/PE24tVKzb9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:07:45, 2020-09-23
Historic and important. And also, according to analysis by @otherlab founder Saul Griffith, we need a ~100% adoptio… https://t.co/PjDOWdDD7i 13:01:38, 2020-09-23
That said, the richest global 1% (~78 million people) does still emit *more than twice* as much CO2 overall as the… https://t.co/XSvQkfnoli in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:42:32, 2020-09-23
This is incorrect. I mistakenly thought that figure 5, showing proportions of GHG emissions by sector for the 1%, r… https://t.co/bYvi0W4uHC 10:38:47, 2020-09-23
🔰 I feel seen. 🔰
"And, in fact, the mood of Henry George's followers was often one of misanthropic or frustrated r… https://t.co/ucCIeWgyYr 10:36:57, 2020-09-23
@DaddyD0dd @stevebloom55 @ericmbudd And for sure the top 1% in the EU are going to be much wealthier and more flighty than the global top 1% in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:33:38, 2020-09-23
@DaddyD0dd @stevebloom55 @ericmbudd I got this by comparing the proportion of emissions coming from aviation for th… https://t.co/UIN1HMVH6w in reply to DaddyD0dd 10:33:04, 2020-09-23
@ericmbudd The richest 1% of humanity (income > $100k/yr) emits as much CO2 just from flying as the poorest 50% rel… https://t.co/Gr8s4NxE1z in reply to ericmbudd 23:20:12, 2020-09-22
tfw when millennials start getting elected to city council. https://t.co/cggkXxx7w0 22:01:41, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd Which I guess we already knew but it's something else to see it happen in agonizing real time. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:26:25, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd It is looking pretty grim. 🙁
Seems like basically anything can be normalized. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:25:55, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd I was all like "I'll just spin up an instance on GCP to download and process this data and it'll done in no time!" but no. in reply to ericmbudd 19:23:10, 2020-09-22
Ah, I see. The slow internet connection is on the EPA server's end, not the WiFi in Mexico I share with 4 other houses. 19:18:37, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd Not really "predict" — just the general idea of the trajectory of society and the economy, prosperity, etc. in reply to ericmbudd 15:29:16, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd I'm reading this econ book from the 1950s and wooooooow we are sooooooo far off track from that paleofuture. in reply to ericmbudd 13:53:48, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd more like ambululz in reply to ericmbudd 13:52:17, 2020-09-22
Oh hey it's just like how in Boulder if you try to save for retirement the city will kick you out of affordable hou… https://t.co/GHldEiQNuf 07:39:18, 2020-09-22
@Olivia_R_Will *sigh* in reply to Olivia_R_Will 07:34:33, 2020-09-22
Feels like there's lessons one could learn from this election:
"By a quirk of the First Past the Post system the N… https://t.co/TMDS25gGKx 21:21:31, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd Ezra Klein interviewed David French, who is advocating for a kind of soft secession outcome and it was a… https://t.co/AzSjPIjNyM in reply to ericmbudd 21:11:22, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd Uh huh. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:01:37, 2020-09-21
@Olivia_R_Will Is there no right of first refusal or some other way for the CLT to intervene? In Boulder the City h… https://t.co/VyrAN1z1ks in reply to Olivia_R_Will 17:54:56, 2020-09-21
@drvox Man throughout that whole book I felt like Griffith was yelling "Don't worry, we can solve climate without s… https://t.co/EtMOtI2e95 in reply to drvox 17:51:34, 2020-09-21
Finally an app automates the hard work of turning the economically dispossessed against each other. https://t.co/KW0pvTl8Cl 14:29:11, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd And I thought I was being pessimistic with the 9/15 bet. in reply to ericmbudd 11:09:22, 2020-09-21
Cooped up in a (fairly comfortable) little concrete box alone in southern Mexico for the last 203 days, I feel like… https://t.co/kGI31SxX6i 22:56:15, 2020-09-20
@GalaCF It's so purposefully broken. in reply to GalaCF 18:28:43, 2020-09-20
Today I sent in my electronic overseas ballot within 24 hours of it becoming available. Now I just wait for the tex… https://t.co/9VA4yC63be 16:24:05, 2020-09-20
Man. That Alfred P. Sloan. How has the foundation ended up funding so much cool stuff, given where the money came… https://t.co/u2F3XVpQRW 16:13:44, 2020-09-20
Awww shit. I wonder if he just read that Transition Integrity Project thing from @nils_gilman… https://t.co/TMdTn1SoYg 14:44:33, 2020-09-20
And of course a boring straight Democratic party ticket on the federal, state, and local offices.
Plus a big YES o… https://t.co/BGPgjSEKZb in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:59:39, 2020-09-20
Amendment C: something something charitable bingo or whatever. Voted for it based on who the supporters were. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:57:05, 2020-09-20
Amendment B: repealing the Gallagher Amendment, which is part of a set of interlocking anti-tax measures in Colorad… https://t.co/6cSbylTlH7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:55:36, 2020-09-20
Proposition 118: establishing a paid medical and family leave program in Colorado: HECK YES.
Proposition EE: tobac… https://t.co/fDN6qUZtar in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:52:15, 2020-09-20
Prop 115: yet another attempt at an abortion ban: NOPE.
Prop 116: reducing the state income tax as the state heads… https://t.co/0fyfvsShDZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:51:08, 2020-09-20
Proposition 114 would re-introduce gray wolves on public lands in Colorado. I'm a big YES on re-wilding. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:48:06, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Proposition 113, a referendum on Colorado joining the @NatlPopularVote compact. The legislature alread… https://t.co/JRSCv3jpeQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:47:10, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Amendment 77 would allow gambling with unlimited betting limits and additional types of games. I voted… https://t.co/uhAV1Cgnpi in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:45:20, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Amendment 76 attempts to prevent local jurisdictions from potentially allowing non-citizens to vote on… https://t.co/cZpAg5isK6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:43:04, 2020-09-20
Also thank goodness for @ballotpedia because man the ballot measures are out of control this year: https://t.co/NuVb1VMne8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:40:29, 2020-09-20
Welp, everybody got unanimous votes for retention from the judicial review board so I guess they can stay: https://t.co/bqs868ygGG in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:38:44, 2020-09-20
Oh man I just got my overseas ballot and I just want to vote the shit out of it but I never know what to do with all these judges. 10:13:45, 2020-09-20
Imagine a world in which we all develop our own coping mechanisms for hitting the wall that we all know is coming 6… https://t.co/7EyAB72is6 10:11:05, 2020-09-20
This is what I think of when people say "Tech." https://t.co/b5eLkyTH0Q 08:59:13, 2020-09-20
tfw you discover someone like minded from another era who confirms your biases about confirmation bias. Nice to mee… https://t.co/EsWE0HEcsz 08:52:52, 2020-09-20

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