Tweets for the Week of 2020-12-13 to 2020-12-19

All the way down to the 🍑emoji🍆 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:53:17, 2020-12-19
Instagram is going to delete your account for even *thinking* about sex while using the platform.
The platform whe… https://t.co/6vPUwcwU8M 22:51:40, 2020-12-19
But then you look around and there's a bunch of other nominally more "responsible" countries out there that have al… https://t.co/SULTL7q2yv in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:27:44, 2020-12-19
Sometimes it seems like they've always just been part of Team Virus. I mean, if anyone helped a foreign invader as… https://t.co/EEoc12onfR 22:24:36, 2020-12-19
Climate has a similar thing going on — where we think and speak years, but the problem is written in tons. All yea… https://t.co/j157hNZbj3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:18:53, 2020-12-19
It's as if the virus is scaling up a giant biocompute cluster and our cells are the CPUs. Failing to control infect… https://t.co/tzGNE0nS77 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:09:34, 2020-12-19
It seems like the amount of new stuff the virus gets to try out doesn't go up linearly with time, but is proportion… https://t.co/WiN3Lp8wvJ 22:04:50, 2020-12-19
Ah, so now we're at the round of Pandemic Legacy where the virus mutates and starts creating the Faded. https://t.co/f3bsl7GiLn 21:53:34, 2020-12-19
RT @hdevalence: the bot pulls the latest image from a random camera, but this camera was never deregistered, so every few weeks it reposts… 21:47:21, 2020-12-19
Wait whut? https://t.co/G4Cs2LUa7P 17:28:50, 2020-12-19
This is like if Boulder's porta potty peeper creeper dude was upset that somebody put a sign on the door warning wo… https://t.co/aJO9SONCHE 18:35:36, 2020-12-18
@gschivley Looks like they've got a bastardized Federation (TNG) logo there too. in reply to gschivley 18:09:07, 2020-12-18
RT @CatalystCoop: So say you wanted to know which utilities really like hiding stuff in FERC's "miscellaneous general expenses" category, a… 16:33:23, 2020-12-18
@DavidPomerantz And it looks like it has: https://t.co/pPqWIxv7aD in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:12:12, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Note that there's a big potential caveat in this calculation, which is that line 192 may not have a… https://t.co/LZ0n1yRvTL in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:09:54, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Summing up all of these expenses by respondent across all available years: https://t.co/fYtNaHI1n1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:08:10, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz So dang, Consolidated Edison NY and Centerpoint Energy Houston really do like their miscellaneous expenses. in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:04:54, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Editing the SQL directly we can rename some stuff to be more readable, and get rid of the extraneou… https://t.co/G4lio2GQNi in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:03:20, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz To sort in descending order by current year amount, you can click on the gear at the top of that co… https://t.co/xBIZD5nqrk in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:53:36, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz If we just want to look at the most recent year (2019), we can add report_year=2019 with the little… https://t.co/8HjMS3viLV in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:51:55, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz The line numbers correspond to row_number in the database, so selecting any record where row_number… https://t.co/6zxA6vm9lA in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:50:05, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Heading over to that table online: https://t.co/FGM6Gz8QDS in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:48:22, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz On line 26, you can see that pages 320-323 correspond to the f1_elc_op_mnt_expn table: https://t.co/cjIaEluAJH in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:47:32, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz I'll outline how I find that information for you here… First, I'll look at this table, which maps… https://t.co/zb273zSWId in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:45:47, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Yeah where the heck do they get those page numbers anyways? in reply to DavidPomerantz 17:44:22, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz The FERC1 site has links to some helpful information on this, the blank form and a table showing ho… https://t.co/Z6a7Y7mLGB in reply to DavidPomerantz 15:03:12, 2020-12-17
@DavidPomerantz Is 930.1 a FERC account number? Do you know what table it's reported on? Or what "page" of the Form… https://t.co/IFLZAGiIZO in reply to DavidPomerantz 15:00:16, 2020-12-17
Would really like to understand what is going on in the back rooms behind the AQCC's reversal on these early coal p… https://t.co/RYLeIcN1mz 06:32:05, 2020-12-17
Does it learn something about itself, even if it doesn't learn how solve the problems it suffers from?
What if we… https://t.co/9jExOyXCCe in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:56:00, 2020-12-16
What if we this kind of problem stacks up, and becomes a background norm, and we don't get better at solving them?… https://t.co/bU7lFKdHj0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:53:53, 2020-12-16
We're susceptible to the War Story. Collective triumph over the Other. We're good at it. But we kind of suck at the… https://t.co/0N94wIoqeE in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:51:19, 2020-12-16
We have all these stories about when we did Great Things together. United against, something. Someone. The Revoluti… https://t.co/1KeBB1vrUk 21:48:21, 2020-12-16
@thebmbennett Okay well that and being alone for the last 291 days. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:32:14, 2020-12-16
@thebmbennett my god this has literally brought me to tears in the last month 😭 in reply to thebmbennett 20:29:22, 2020-12-16
Boy I sure do hate sending emails when I'm depressed. 18:36:45, 2020-12-16
@emilygrubert Seems like there should be some kind of transitive rule of spam. in reply to emilygrubert 18:35:16, 2020-12-16
@thebmbennett @matsonj UTF8FTW🎉 in reply to thebmbennett 18:32:51, 2020-12-16
Sometimes the contrast between different snapshots of the world is just weird and blinding when they're side-by-sid… https://t.co/3QEJ0B4cQC 08:25:26, 2020-12-16
Seriously am I really going to make a second batch of coffee before 9am? 07:41:56, 2020-12-16
@SarahdawnH 😻🎉🚲 in reply to SarahdawnH 06:36:43, 2020-12-16
The call is definitely coming from inside the house. https://t.co/ZBTmqZp7ew 06:32:24, 2020-12-16
https://t.co/8nUZ2NPp62 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:45:42, 2020-12-15
@gschivley At what point does the camera begin to know what it's looking at? And how does make Facebook always watc… https://t.co/nqaJngTl5W in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:40:19, 2020-12-15
Oh man is this an evergreen tweet or what? https://t.co/63yTgiw8Mw 21:33:32, 2020-12-15
@gschivley This is a great overview of the basic computational photography techniques: https://t.co/8S4blNf55u in reply to gschivley 20:32:21, 2020-12-15
@thebmbennett It's been shockingly satisfying to wrap our SQLite DBs up inside of a live @datasetteproj instance, a… https://t.co/uLBRXRzxHZ in reply to thebmbennett 18:55:41, 2020-12-15
RT @emilymbadger: Housing twitter, who knows a whole lot about limited equity co-ops? 14:46:16, 2020-12-15
@ericmbudd Advanced nuclear R&D seems like a great medium-term (20 year?) hedge, but I personally have yet to see s… https://t.co/WvE8TEZ0qV in reply to ericmbudd 14:03:12, 2020-12-15
@emilymbadger I bet @DanielKayHertz also knows people. in reply to emilymbadger 12:14:11, 2020-12-15
@emilymbadger @TobiBernet @urban_coop @purpose_economy @lacolarq I wrote up a bunch of german-speaking-world housin… https://t.co/e9PlcDtVVt in reply to emilymbadger 12:12:07, 2020-12-15
@emilymbadger @JanelleOrsi @EBPREC in reply to emilymbadger 12:06:34, 2020-12-15
@emilymbadger Also @Olivia_R_Will in reply to emilymbadger 12:05:14, 2020-12-15
There's a reason it's called Surveillance Capitalism!
https://t.co/ECFskMdE2r https://t.co/UaJOXjCKDk 08:03:36, 2020-12-15
@Olivia_R_Will Haaahahahahaha, they don't call it "Surveillance Capitalism" for nothing! Jeebus. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 08:02:18, 2020-12-15
.@99piorg has a great series on what the Actually Existing programs to address homelessness in the US look like tod… https://t.co/r5C5zr8BvZ 08:01:57, 2020-12-15
@gschivley It's like a baby prison yard. in reply to gschivley 07:56:04, 2020-12-15
Funny, this sounds a lot like "states rights." https://t.co/IFiG1DvVTg 07:52:00, 2020-12-15
@WillToor So why are Xcel, Colorado Springs, Tri-State, and PRPA asking the AQCC to reconsider their regional haze… https://t.co/5wVGPtxdod in reply to WillToor 21:15:28, 2020-12-14
@markgelband I want to spend some time in Spain when the current mess has subsided. I wonder what will feel more fa… https://t.co/YPE2ma7oNO in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:14:45, 2020-12-14
@markgelband Oh, well, siding with the colonizers then are you? in reply to markgelband 20:13:04, 2020-12-14
@ericmbudd You'd think he'd be sick and tired of winning after winning this much. in reply to ericmbudd 15:52:36, 2020-12-14
@markgelband Okay so what part of Mexico are you coming to first? in reply to markgelband 15:50:39, 2020-12-14
@CHThiem Gnutella. in reply to CHThiem 15:49:39, 2020-12-14
@CHThiem 7-grain hot cereal on the left, and whole wheat (or maybe rye?) berries on the right? in reply to CHThiem 14:04:43, 2020-12-14
@thebmbennett Network effects. in reply to thebmbennett 11:09:15, 2020-12-14
RT @2i2c_org: ✨We are hiring an Open Source Infrastructure Engineer✨
This person will work on 💯 open source cloud infra for research and e… 08:30:10, 2020-12-14
I guess he's in contempt of Corp. 🤣
Great long-form reporting from @amywestervelt on @WeAreDrilled this season, ab… https://t.co/kYpQwXJQO4 22:23:48, 2020-12-13
Mood: https://t.co/nzvHlSf7G0 22:15:11, 2020-12-13
@interfluidity @amywestervelt has spent a whole season of the @WeAreDrilled podcast reporting on the case. It is in… https://t.co/bUhmRUIL1L in reply to interfluidity 22:11:09, 2020-12-13
It's funny that when I search for a topic in one language a few times, The Algorithm learns that I want to see that… https://t.co/b5Su3dzuei 20:01:57, 2020-12-13
@interfluidity @mdslock Well, Steven Danziger has been under house arrest for contempt for more than a year. But th… https://t.co/Rgh6wu6W0G in reply to interfluidity 19:04:30, 2020-12-13
The geographic distribution of the 8 extant species of Great Apes. Man, one of these is not like the others. https://t.co/BFeU8aFwVU 17:09:17, 2020-12-13
Huh, so maybe I will get a Chinese vaccine. Fascinating politics. https://t.co/iithS4CrhA 16:46:39, 2020-12-13
Update: ya la compré. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:28:13, 2020-12-13
RT @manwhohasitall: A small but not unimportant matter. What should a man with a doctorate call himself? Without sounding comic and fraudul… 15:45:41, 2020-12-13
Side note: like 99% of the cyclists being turned back at the end of the path were locals. There's still essentially zero tourism happening. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:52:53, 2020-12-13
RT @CostaSamaras: this is the way https://t.co/cfg89A9zWj 14:50:14, 2020-12-13
@Mbussonn @mrocklin I have one running Linux and the Thinkpad trackpads are unfortunately still a far cry from the… https://t.co/ohTZtPF5Cv in reply to Mbussonn 14:27:58, 2020-12-13
RT @interfluidity: we talk about a school to prison pipeline, but those of us with gentler upbringings forget it is more a school/prison su… 13:28:02, 2020-12-13
So, yeah. I hate everything. in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:37, 2020-12-13
And then also… the fact that it might not even be entirely crazy. If cyclists really *don't* buy stuff, even if t… https://t.co/mJss3ys0Oc in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:14, 2020-12-13
The explicit prioritization of consumption over a free activity that promotes well-being in a bunch of ways. in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:56:01, 2020-12-13
The banning of a relatively safe activity (outdoors, passing through briefly at a distance) alongside the encourage… https://t.co/F0rfH7wwKE in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:54:43, 2020-12-13
Of course they have the right to regulate their town however they want but wow this bugs me. The assumption that cy… https://t.co/zjKbMUizqX in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:53, 2020-12-13
The police officer at the blockade on the path explained that they only wanted people who were going to shop or eat… https://t.co/kFUqEsh8k8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:50:13, 2020-12-13
Finally dragged myself out of the house and went on a bike ride. Only to discover that the next town over (which is… https://t.co/Mggjj9Jf28 10:48:43, 2020-12-13
@welcomehomebldr Nice double entendre there. in reply to welcomehomebldr 10:43:59, 2020-12-13
I always love this analogy because we should talk more about banning cars in cities, and the US rate of death-by-ve… https://t.co/doeFn0B3wW 10:41:52, 2020-12-13
RT @Olivia_R_Will: When I used to book flights in the BeforeTimes, I loved that I could pick "Dr." from a list of gendered titles. I dont n… 10:33:19, 2020-12-13

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