Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-27 to 2020-10-03

RT @McKelvie: That guy in the zombie movie hiding the bite on his arm and endangering the whole group, except every member of the group is… 22:10:38, 2020-10-03
Hoooboy. Mood.
"I feel as if I'm on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit and I can't find the ho… https://t.co/PsZmalmADX 22:10:03, 2020-10-03
@JadeResurrected ¿Conoces a @Fungi_Cosas? in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:19:03, 2020-10-03
The problem is there would be riots if they did. https://t.co/Tpx21QORpF 16:41:19, 2020-10-03
(by the way this is the book that coined the phrase Conventional Wisdom and the chapter that does so is hilarious) in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:18:01, 2020-10-03
Anyway, I wrote up some more thoughts over here: Cooperative Capital Formation https://t.co/b67TKm2fll in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:14:55, 2020-10-03
Individuals, households, cooperatives, foundations, companies, cities, states, nations… there are a lot of places… https://t.co/InkUZGFY10 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:14:10, 2020-10-03
It seems like the capacity for capital formation is just as much a function of successfully limiting consumption as… https://t.co/zT0IfJequq in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:11:40, 2020-10-03
Okay but why would this require concentration? Because only the wealthy have leftovers that can be re-invested. But… https://t.co/STUrlMFvhp in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:10:05, 2020-10-03
"Capital formation" is just surplus wealth piling up somewhere and then being productively re-invested in the econo… https://t.co/XjR8lekuOG in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:08:48, 2020-10-03
I've been reading Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" and one crazy idea that he casts as part of the Conventional W… https://t.co/66hTuxAnDG 16:06:14, 2020-10-03
@electprogress This is snark, but this really was my instinctual interpretation of these emails, in the back of my… https://t.co/HMf4FWov6E in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:53:23, 2020-10-03
@JadeResurrected It is pretty nice down here. I'm sure Mexican summer missed you too. in reply to JadeResurrected 11:49:48, 2020-10-03
To be fair they are really tiny and hard to see. https://t.co/IPqaGablwA 23:43:42, 2020-10-02
RT @TheClassicalCon: Was Marcus Brutus justified in assassinating Caesar? 23:34:59, 2020-10-02
Just makes me think of discount rates. https://t.co/ONcgzCp9YF https://t.co/iK7g9JxGdW 23:33:24, 2020-10-02
RT @acvalens: “Be kind to those that aren’t to you” or whatever is for like, giving your cranky colleague a condolence letter when he loses… 23:29:05, 2020-10-02
Oh right and then also somebody has to take care of the nukes. How could I forget? https://t.co/6WPaaZfrdj 23:26:21, 2020-10-02
RT @nycsouthpaw: Unless I forgot someone, as of tonight, every Trump campaign manager in history has either been taken into police custody… 23:21:56, 2020-10-02
RT @BeijingPalmer: Chernobyl, but the entire Politburo goes on a public tour of Pripyat. https://t.co/SPc81O50XK 22:51:25, 2020-10-02
Another City Is Possible. Maybe even especially now. https://t.co/RN7QUqcgne 22:47:22, 2020-10-02
RT @JeremyKonyndyk: The amazing thing is that it took this long.
There had been a lot of near misses: 22:45:23, 2020-10-02
@Sammy_Roth Aren't those "short medieval droughts" the ones that wiped out the indigenous canyon dwelling civilization of the US Southwest? in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:30:11, 2020-10-02
Mmm, speleothems. "Our data suggest that extreme Middle Holocene aridity is more severe than the short medieval dro… https://t.co/e5NfkLbzed 22:27:36, 2020-10-02
To be fair God's always like this, but hey at least he's consistent https://t.co/x0sGmVUn5T 22:16:20, 2020-10-02
RT @screaminbutcalm: Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. 22:13:01, 2020-10-02
RT @hashbrownbeach: Trump took out a full page ad in the NYT saying 5 black kids should get the death penalty for a crime they didn't commi… 22:11:41, 2020-10-02
RT @CindyOtis_: I don’t know, folks. It kind of seems like viruses don’t actually care if people believe in them or not, that science might… 22:10:40, 2020-10-02
I've been locked in a little concrete room alone for the last 7 months and now I just can't stop cackling. AITA? 22:06:48, 2020-10-02
Is the endless barrage of Boomer clickbait & phishing spam from @electprogress trying to lure me into a web of fake… https://t.co/0XRA4uKnJq 22:02:36, 2020-10-02
This is crass and horrible and I suspect nobody is actually doing it right now.
But these guys really *did* do it… https://t.co/Cxza1yP09A 21:38:58, 2020-10-02
"Over 2,000 lines handpicked from Moby Dick, one at a time in random order." https://t.co/IucaNVSQfq 21:34:52, 2020-10-02
@cityatlas Masque of the Red Death for sure. in reply to cityatlas 21:21:28, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd The zombie tweets are about to get more numerous. in reply to ericmbudd 21:17:50, 2020-10-02
@kevpluck Check out @LeechBlockNG https://t.co/ObrArOOwDB in reply to kevpluck 20:37:22, 2020-10-02
RT @NuclearAnthro: This is me looking at my study species’s (that’d be humans!) utterly insufficient responses to existential threats inclu… 19:53:31, 2020-10-02
"Some people will say that words like *scum* and *rotten* are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but… https://t.co/Wk7WGqJTDL 18:42:37, 2020-10-02
RT @realDonaldTrump: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! 17:01:58, 2020-10-02
Is it bad that I keep hoping @PaulMMCooper will do a @Fall_of_Civ_Pod episode about the present day? Our entangled,… https://t.co/zpejeTHXB5 17:00:50, 2020-10-02
Furies FTW: "female chthonic deities that take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath" in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:29:59, 2020-10-02
Does it feel like we're trapped in an ill-advised 21st century reboot of a lost Euripides play? Is this just a kind… https://t.co/QRcjSA5cwr 16:25:39, 2020-10-02
Seriously how am I supposed to focus on Python packaging now? 16:06:17, 2020-10-02
Germophobe president bent on destroying public healthcare access ends up infected, and is sent to a public hospital… https://t.co/IDMnB7Xbxo 16:00:26, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd If they'd actually implemented it, it would have ended wildland-urban-interface development in Colorado.… https://t.co/c93ghRfkxV in reply to ericmbudd 15:41:43, 2020-10-02
@drvox Am I the only one who thinks of The Watchmen whenever someone says "Dr. Atlas?" in reply to drvox 15:40:21, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd They wanted a mandatory property risk rating for all real estate transactions, risk-based fees on proper… https://t.co/YivYGdKZXJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:38:09, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd I refreshed the link to the actual report (which was ignored). You can find it here: https://t.co/UxhcRhNCUp in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:36:10, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd https://t.co/WMG0ixtBzT in reply to ericmbudd 15:02:14, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd https://t.co/DWwhDoTm7v in reply to ericmbudd 15:00:14, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd Have you read the CO wildfire plan that Hickenlooper buried because all of the measures it suggested were politically toxic? in reply to ericmbudd 14:58:48, 2020-10-02
I feel bad for all the interns and functionaries who are completely screwed, but this seems like willful, poetic, s… https://t.co/djCLXCSXKZ 13:17:52, 2020-10-02
Totally. Under. Control.
https://t.co/RpZsW97zQh 12:29:51, 2020-10-02
I have lost count of the number of awesome, ambitious young women I know who are dead set against getting married o… https://t.co/HINgsYTdoB 12:18:01, 2020-10-02
RT @tarah: Bertrand Russell was an incredibly accomplished person. He also had a starter wife, a sexy wife, a nanny wife, and a caretaker w… 12:14:41, 2020-10-02
@drvox Imagine thinking your constituents are this stupid. in reply to drvox 12:11:41, 2020-10-02
RT @nils_gilman: Just you wait for November, my dude. https://t.co/jWtSHxSYvC 07:15:56, 2020-10-02
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Yes, being an American feels as dumb as you think 00:04:00, 2020-10-02
"The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine." https://t.co/SElKFPCZy5 23:59:02, 2020-10-01
@Hegemommy Wine is hydrating right? in reply to Hegemommy 21:50:35, 2020-10-01
RT @edelstudio: https://t.co/cXW3lkUfdB 21:27:56, 2020-10-01
@spudiscool It is truly unreasonable. And then the build and testing and software packaging and dependency manageme… https://t.co/qulnd83vDo in reply to spudiscool 21:27:02, 2020-10-01
RT @Wwm_Shakespeare: Sickness is catching 21:17:21, 2020-10-01
@joshdr83 I have the right to remain silent. in reply to joshdr83 20:34:39, 2020-10-01
And it's not just law schools! If you're an engineering/science student graduating from Caltech, MIT, Stanford, etc… https://t.co/d0HgnD6Xni 18:56:48, 2020-10-01
RT @Mafalda_sv: "En esta familia no hay jefes, somos una cooperativa"… #Mafalda https://t.co/YDKaUr5ydc 18:42:15, 2020-10-01
@MattFrommer @WillToor How much of their ability to incentivize this rapid transition flows from the $200K/person o… https://t.co/smRsELrwPb in reply to MattFrommer 13:53:33, 2020-10-01
The first solar roads to make any sense at all. https://t.co/jnq7lAVplZ 08:44:08, 2020-10-01
This is insane. https://t.co/z8bD1Y52aH 23:16:05, 2020-09-30
Feels like I might be on Linux permanently. https://t.co/JujhtGwYZD 19:57:25, 2020-09-30
😭 too real https://t.co/zhBvV4Ujt7 16:03:24, 2020-09-30
@thebmbennett 😭 in reply to thebmbennett 16:01:59, 2020-09-30
@ericmbudd I think it says 1/3 of 18-24 year old women are not straight. in reply to ericmbudd 11:23:03, 2020-09-30
Seriously who in their right mind would date men. https://t.co/r6kBDsZzIK 11:20:01, 2020-09-30
RT @sarahcpr: Chris Wallace: How will you ensure we have a free and fair election?
The President of the United States: IT’S GONNA BE RIGG… 20:50:50, 2020-09-29
RT @UFWupdates: Tequila is made from blue agave (agave azul) or tequila agave. Stalks are cut off from the plants so more nutrients feed th… 20:44:51, 2020-09-29
@joshdr83 I mean my mind feels more like mush now than it did before so I guess that's a "change" in reply to joshdr83 20:42:08, 2020-09-29
@ericmbudd So there's really going to be 3 more of these huh? in reply to ericmbudd 20:41:17, 2020-09-29
@ericmbudd Is it safe to come back now? in reply to ericmbudd 20:40:07, 2020-09-29
RT @andrea_arzaba: Puro chisme #Debates2020 19:58:38, 2020-09-29
Man you watch a couple of videos about nuclear reactor designs and suddenly the Tube of You starts serving up stuff… https://t.co/WnHyjD89em 19:51:02, 2020-09-29
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: All I have is vodka and if I try to drink it straight I'll throw up but I'll be looking at a toilet instead of the TV… 19:39:21, 2020-09-29
RT @sa0un: Anyone else a masochist here?
#PresidentialDebate #Debates2020 https://t.co/dl0fEY2XPU 19:37:04, 2020-09-29
RT @xuhulk: i don’t want to kinkshame but wtf are y’all doing 19:36:58, 2020-09-29
Maybe I'll just watch this video entitled Climate Doom as a pleasant distraction https://t.co/TKqIFfNqrZ 19:27:07, 2020-09-29
RT @EffinBirds: https://t.co/VAEmU2LOsG 19:20:26, 2020-09-29
RT @sa0un: Watching the #PresidentialDebate2020. We’re barely 10 minutes in and it’s already a total disaster.
Why am I doing this to mys… 19:18:33, 2020-09-29
RT @meganstielstra: https://t.co/ck4BwNrMq5 19:14:42, 2020-09-29
RT @joshuarolson: https://t.co/sibwP6bfUX 19:09:34, 2020-09-29
RT @infinite_scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 19:08:21, 2020-09-29
I feel like the widespread appeal of the "alternate timeline" framing of our current debacle says something interes… https://t.co/mi3qNkmcmO 18:57:06, 2020-09-29
RT @CostaSamaras: What is the best low-carbon transportation solution and why is it spelled e-bike 18:54:36, 2020-09-29
RT @JaneAFlegal: I — and I cannot stress this enough — *hate* this. https://t.co/fRy6XIakfP 18:54:29, 2020-09-29
Apropos of nothing in particular. #2020 https://t.co/aEurZWxZdX 18:51:41, 2020-09-29
@erinoverturf Random Energy Lawyer for President! in reply to erinoverturf 17:07:51, 2020-09-29
Honestly I don't know how anybody could attend these debates sober. https://t.co/tVASPxYouI 17:05:00, 2020-09-29
Why is there no video in this story. https://t.co/NJPiL24OmX 17:00:04, 2020-09-29
@jgkoomey @JesseJenkins This is a good white paper on the technical and licensing issues surrounding open electrici… https://t.co/WHBEbMufru in reply to jgkoomey 10:33:11, 2020-09-29
@subnaughtsounds https://t.co/uyNvmgHgOS 00:14:10, 2020-09-29
@thebmbennett holyshit 700k engagements? in reply to thebmbennett 21:41:30, 2020-09-28
@Olivia_R_Will Or maybe everybody has an upset nervous stomach for some totally inexplicable reason. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 11:44:54, 2020-09-28
@KenCaldeira @Aiannucci @johnaugust But like, a fictional series. in reply to KenCaldeira 21:54:19, 2020-09-27
In its 5th season, @WeAreDrilled & @amywestervelt look at what happens when, after ~30 years, you finally win a $9… https://t.co/EHqxVnGVJJ 19:24:31, 2020-09-27
@JadeResurrected ¡De nada! in reply to JadeResurrected 16:32:40, 2020-09-27
@JadeResurrected There are some widths at which the hamburger shows up on the lighter colored portion of the wall (… https://t.co/Etosp1o5ep in reply to JadeResurrected 15:52:23, 2020-09-27
*finally* https://t.co/VfOyGyJVtZ 15:34:59, 2020-09-27
@AnimaAnandkumar @FelixHill84 @AlanBOCallaghan It makes me sad to lose childhood heroes like this. But man over tim… https://t.co/urxTwzRJ9R in reply to AnimaAnandkumar 13:45:51, 2020-09-27
I'm sure there are very fine algorithms on both sides. https://t.co/n4hnEMZQaB 13:34:52, 2020-09-27
There's something seriously dark about universities luring students back to school knowing full well outbreaks will… https://t.co/V4cRDCmMAN 07:26:21, 2020-09-27
I went out to the produce market yesterday. The city was busier than it has been. Masks and plastic barriers seem t… https://t.co/xWuuEBNUSL 07:16:22, 2020-09-27

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