Tweets for the Week of 2020-10-04 to 2020-10-10

Indoor dining literally had to become lethal for the US to figure this out. https://t.co/7qXSyHCbVD 22:28:05, 2020-10-10
It is bizarre how activity is basically outlawed in most public spaces in the US. Somehow street food manages to ma… https://t.co/qfa1Y2oYCJ 22:25:00, 2020-10-10
The Pirate Queen of Science. https://t.co/R3rg8EdWtG 20:03:12, 2020-10-10
And I don't mean that in an *entirely* pejorative sense. Reasonable people pay ransoms all the time. For instance,… https://t.co/rtfFqHJI9i in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:02:15, 2020-10-10
My god it seems entirely possible that FORTRAN will last a century. https://t.co/ahf2bN31GJ 17:16:47, 2020-10-10
@drvox Have you read @econnaturalist's "Under the Influence?" Lots of exploration of the perverse incentives that g… https://t.co/wH9aWrLedJ in reply to drvox 14:34:00, 2020-10-10
@cityatlas @JKSteinberger Where are you seeing the 1.7kW current / 1kW potential target in that "Absolute Zero" doc? in reply to cityatlas 14:29:15, 2020-10-10
@cityatlas @JKSteinberger Oh wait okay, 2kW final energy. Which is going to be more like 4-6kW primary energy right… https://t.co/KoBAjeOnbM in reply to cityatlas 14:18:41, 2020-10-10
@cityatlas @JKSteinberger That… seems extremely hard to believe. in reply to cityatlas 14:15:51, 2020-10-10
And then there's also @liliproj "Living Well Within Limits" https://t.co/69O17sooeI in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:12:23, 2020-10-10
@JKSteinberger IIRC, from Smil's Energy at the Crossroads, it seemed like even in the early 2000s, most real qualit… https://t.co/Fj8TyQVlZD in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:10:17, 2020-10-10
Another interesting @JKSteinberger paper / project from a couple of years ago: "A Good Life For All Without Within… https://t.co/GM6FZP4Sdp in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:08:08, 2020-10-10
@JKSteinberger I guess that doesn't seem crazy. It's a bit lower than the "2000 Watt Society" but assumes deploymen… https://t.co/qGBODuakLD in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:03:53, 2020-10-10
A paper from @JKSteinberger et al. trying to estimate the minimum energy required to provide a decent standard of l… https://t.co/dhwH1uFd8b 14:00:39, 2020-10-10
@astrocrash @KenCaldeira For sure! I'm just feeling lazy right now, and don't know where I would find a GDP/km^2 ge… https://t.co/NYUgNW5SFF in reply to astrocrash 13:55:09, 2020-10-10
@cityatlas @leahstokes I've heard both of them make their respective cases, and on different days I feel different… https://t.co/B59rc14VY5 in reply to cityatlas 13:29:42, 2020-10-10
@leahstokes I would have guessed they'd take the opposite positions — that having seen the power fossil fuel inter… https://t.co/ti3KOxZbnn in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:01:57, 2020-10-10
@leahstokes It's interesting that Stokes (political scientist) seems to have the more combative position: that the… https://t.co/sg00Ypa6Kq in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:59:57, 2020-10-10
I've been reading & listening to a lot of @leahstokes & Saul Griffith lately. They seem to converge on a strategy o… https://t.co/wQ2Ppdfr2Y 12:57:45, 2020-10-10
@KenCaldeira Of course this isn't a *new* result. Just an old result we keep ignoring. in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:03, 2020-10-10
@leahstokes There's a lot of different ways to do this kind of low-cost, up-front debt financing. One of them is fo… https://t.co/x1jO1fTVhY in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:43:35, 2020-10-10
@vermilionvixxxn Ooooh ouch! Hope you heal up quickly and are happy with the new bod. in reply to vermilionvixxxn 12:21:03, 2020-10-10
@rebleber Ew. Red meat salad. in reply to rebleber 12:10:52, 2020-10-10
@leahstokes It seems like financing big up-front climate investments with low-interest debt matches the costs and b… https://t.co/bN32L6JLYS in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:09:55, 2020-10-10
.@leahstokes on carbon pricing in the Boston Review:
"This combination of clear, concentrated costs and opaque, di… https://t.co/nALX1rF972 12:07:37, 2020-10-10
@KenCaldeira I wish they'd used the same map projection on both of these so you could flip between them and see th… https://t.co/0xkMiZXzhq in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:20:37, 2020-10-10
An open dataset estimating CO2 emissions for every square km of the US. Note that generally emissions per unit area… https://t.co/YVNqN7cyjI 10:57:25, 2020-10-10
I guess once you've contracted the virus it makes some kind of sense to try and infect your opponent. https://t.co/2PCUmbPTQ8 08:55:39, 2020-10-10
Rural, agricultural California has its own distinct brand of racial segregation. https://t.co/4mV9iuwrQj 08:43:31, 2020-10-10
Those little interludes where the world falls away somehow are so nice. And then there's the feeling when an awaren… https://t.co/CKQs2413xx 22:48:43, 2020-10-09
Do folks modeling election outcomes based on polling data apply corrections for how effective voter suppression wil… https://t.co/wctKBXVjMQ 19:16:33, 2020-10-09
Remember back at the end of August when we were upset about the idea of *any* campaign event happening at the White… https://t.co/sfGyuO5La1 18:45:25, 2020-10-09
We have to do this, and a bunch of other things, forever. https://t.co/gKsc1w415J 17:33:47, 2020-10-09
Sounds like software development. https://t.co/TiIsvBee40 15:57:15, 2020-10-09
@joshdr83 bi-directional power flow in the distribution system, micro syncrophasors, HVDC transmission, automated d… https://t.co/gp3CfQH4L3 in reply to joshdr83 15:46:18, 2020-10-09
@CHThiem https://t.co/d0GBOE4C1j in reply to CHThiem 14:53:45, 2020-10-09
@lilscientista @frictionlessd8a It seems to be telling me that none of my records satisfy foreign key constraints w… https://t.co/WaBhDMo4uQ in reply to lilscientista 11:44:13, 2020-10-09
@lilscientista @frictionlessd8a Ahh, okay it does have foreign-key. Hmm. I had come across https://t.co/k6OtxDX7vm… https://t.co/TlJBKe0DWS in reply to lilscientista 11:42:12, 2020-10-09
@frictionlessd8a @lilscientista Where is the list of checks that one can run using goodtables hiding? Need to valid… https://t.co/J45dmMWrcT 11:32:16, 2020-10-09
Be still my eutectic heart. https://t.co/cog1ieZp4e 08:12:14, 2020-10-09
@Thatmushroom https://t.co/Au7YwqEml2 in reply to Thatmushroom 22:32:29, 2020-10-08
@ericmbudd I know I'm a hard sell on this generally but… that was not convincing. in reply to ericmbudd 22:18:30, 2020-10-08
@drvox The part that confuses me is the constantly posting about it on Facebook. https://t.co/jVb73NnS6s in reply to drvox 22:09:54, 2020-10-08
Was today really both #InternationalOctopusDay AND #internationalLesdbianDay? Does this happen every year? I have questions. 22:06:28, 2020-10-08
@Thatmushroom Maybe I should have stuck with the big blue elephant. in reply to Thatmushroom 22:05:34, 2020-10-08
Are we sure this isn't some kind of Facebook PsyOps to try and convince liberals it's actually *good* that they're… https://t.co/DqWkjup6fe 20:57:18, 2020-10-08
OMFG. SQLite doesn't check foreign key constraints unless you "PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;" every single time you conne… https://t.co/qafsRQpFj5 20:42:22, 2020-10-08
@drvox It Mexico it feels like foreign owned small businesses will fare better than locally owned ones. Gringo consolidation. in reply to drvox 16:07:29, 2020-10-08
This data is so FERCed. But it doesn't show up publicly anywhere else so into the muck we go once again. https://t.co/VKktAryzfw 11:44:37, 2020-10-08
Also he's almost certainly just lying. https://t.co/VRVvsbfPEC 23:08:56, 2020-10-07
Looks like a lot of interesting cooperative & structural ownership issues being explored here. Cc: @Olivia_R_Will… https://t.co/7FmWwogfEZ 15:03:15, 2020-10-07
@CHThiem Ohmygod. Not again. in reply to CHThiem 14:54:17, 2020-10-07
Also, Vladimir Putin's parents were in Leningrad during the siege. Their first son starved to death. Putin's mother… https://t.co/mtPwbQ6z9d in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:43:06, 2020-10-07
@CHThiem Sometimes I feel like I'm listening to a podcast made by another version of me from some parallel universe. in reply to CHThiem 09:27:21, 2020-10-07
Sobbing into my coffee listening to the story of the seed potatoes of Leningrad. Crop scientists in hiding starved… https://t.co/A2LyYyzsPh 08:33:02, 2020-10-07
It's reminding me of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. https://t.co/pRz4MREyyU 07:54:03, 2020-10-07
@ericmbudd There's gonna be some totally wild man-in, er, robot-in-the-middle attacks. in reply to ericmbudd 17:31:02, 2020-10-06
@ericmbudd Seems like it's all just B0RKEN. now. in reply to ericmbudd 17:28:20, 2020-10-06
Long-ish thread on our attempt to provide ourselves (and others) with stable, versioned access to frequently revise… https://t.co/fwtHsnIR9f 11:33:07, 2020-10-06
Hi, my name is Zane, and today I'll be liberating US energy data using hands that are covered in dozens of suppurating sandfly bites. 08:37:02, 2020-10-06
Plutes gonna plute. https://t.co/2HyiPJ3OEH 08:35:43, 2020-10-06
This is like some kind of Edgar Allen Poe / Big Brother crossover episode. 18:22:17, 2020-10-05
@MaxCRoser @thebmbennett 🙀 in reply to MaxCRoser 11:11:10, 2020-10-05
So. Many. Tools. https://t.co/QVHhnCdFLG 08:56:33, 2020-10-05
Also: Caligula. in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:35:52, 2020-10-05
The constant reckless endangerment of the Secret Service members reminds me of this TMBG song: https://t.co/vJTXD9EgNo 00:27:06, 2020-10-05
Oh right and then just as it was getting dark I wore out my front brake pads and had to replace them by headlamp.
Just, man. What a day. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:18:15, 2020-10-04
Biked 1000m up into the mountains for an overnight camp out. Road under construction. Town closed. Dropped 500m dow… https://t.co/f6pqZrBhEM 21:13:07, 2020-10-04
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Aww, it's cozying up nice. in reply to ericmbudd 21:06:34, 2020-10-04

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