Tweets for the Week of 2020-12-27 to 2021-01-02

It's all just such a multidimensional social train wreck. Totally off the rails, but with the same antisocial asymm… https://t.co/npGd1OAS0T 23:24:49, 2021-01-02
RT @bubblbu_: hot take: all of these are perfectly fine reasons to cite https://t.co/AILmh7Wp5C 22:46:17, 2021-01-02
Geographically decoupling work and social life has the same kind of advantages for social life that it has for work… https://t.co/IggWdON0D4 21:18:12, 2021-01-02
I feel like @drgigglefactory might like this video. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:33:43, 2021-01-02
@Contextify1 Wait, did that already exist? in reply to Contextify1 20:14:42, 2021-01-02
them: What did you do during the pandemic?
me: Oh, I got really into wood turning.

Wait, you had a wood shop?

Oh… https://t.co/EqtDKwFCBE 20:13:54, 2021-01-02
@thebmbennett Are you toying with me?
Part of the problem is we wanted to keep the gazillion zipfiles in their ori… https://t.co/Ei0poCadpc in reply to thebmbennett 18:56:36, 2021-01-02
Tens of thousands of CSVs inside of Zipfiles inside of Zipfiles WHYYY can't it just be Parquet. 😭 18:50:23, 2021-01-02
FAANG makes so much sense now. https://t.co/KOzhqTythr 18:48:01, 2021-01-02
@thebmbennett *sigh* landlords. in reply to thebmbennett 18:22:42, 2021-01-02
@J_Lovering 🤦‍♂️ in reply to J_Lovering 15:36:48, 2021-01-02
También estoy viendo más extranjeros deambulando por Oaxaca cada día. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/RBnzvu1hcP 15:31:40, 2021-01-02
Like seriously can you imagine where we'd be today if we forced every physics student to rediscover calculus on the… https://t.co/fAkKCP80F9 15:15:08, 2021-01-02
@ericmbudd https://t.co/CmZYpgIVy0 in reply to ericmbudd 08:58:12, 2021-01-02
@thebmbennett In the aftermath it'll be so weird to have these different clumps of experiences that are mostly bad… https://t.co/ll0zZmGIjD in reply to thebmbennett 18:18:34, 2021-01-01
omg when did the official @github dark mode drop and why did nobody tell me sooner? https://t.co/8314T3lxv8 18:13:41, 2021-01-01
@rabernat @choldgraf Yeah, the teaching power of a big library of examples is huge! in reply to rabernat 14:16:34, 2021-01-01
@choldgraf @rabernat It would be, but whenever I try and write about this stuff I feel like I become an asshole bec… https://t.co/QUg2gMp2bQ in reply to choldgraf 11:18:34, 2021-01-01
Oh this does not bode well. https://t.co/70vC8H0HEU 08:43:35, 2021-01-01
@choldgraf @rabernat Though if we're depositing clean outputs into cloud storage, and Pangeo Forge has a well known… https://t.co/vzrpVuKIai in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:22:12, 2021-01-01
@choldgraf @rabernat My god the contrast between the climate chroniclers (NASA/NOAA) and the climate changers (FERC… https://t.co/ZkB6NeEVzC in reply to choldgraf 08:16:48, 2021-01-01
@choldgraf @rabernat But for the long tables (EPA CEMS hourly & FERC EQR) it seemed like it might be appropriate. A… https://t.co/Faklwp0Tjg in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:44:26, 2021-01-01
@choldgraf Yes! @rabernat poked me about it a few days ago. It seemed like they're aiming at datasets that are both… https://t.co/55zUMoFPTn in reply to choldgraf 07:42:48, 2021-01-01
Late night ranting. https://t.co/JFUYRziVUv 07:27:28, 2021-01-01
"A GSN encapsulates the cross-cutting relationships between a number of geologic features, as well as their geograp… https://t.co/6K4AO3BdIP in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:02:22, 2021-01-01
Oh yeah, Geological Superposition Networks: https://t.co/RWaHI6KH0M in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:57:01, 2021-01-01
(Note: I literally spent like a year in grad school just thinking about how points and lines intersect on spheres.… https://t.co/WrZg9NYDuy in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:54:43, 2021-01-01
It's almost like they've been purposefully denigrated in Western Culture for sounding too much like Socialist Propaganda. in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:47:28, 2021-01-01
We've got plenty of stories about "We collectively fucked it up." (social collapse) and also "HE fucked it up!" (ev… https://t.co/a8uLMV0tNO in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:45:40, 2021-01-01
We need more stories about times when we came together and *collectively* decided not to destroy civilization. Stor… https://t.co/P4AP6qzI2n in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:42:16, 2021-01-01
And that means sometimes we'll have to avoid catastrophes that aren't there. And that's okay! Globally we already s… https://t.co/l8unAmJ6PS in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:40:22, 2021-01-01
We have to be able to avoid catastrophe, even when we're not sure that the catastrophe is waiting for us. Because o… https://t.co/gkC02yWdFl in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:36:46, 2021-01-01
And so maybe this is *especially* what it felt like. They didn't know how things were going to turn out. Gutians st… https://t.co/qNtiDHvCbO in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:34:12, 2021-01-01
But usually you only realize it was a collapse in retrospect. At the time you don't know. It's just a rough patch.… https://t.co/XaCeLGlUKO in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:28:21, 2021-01-01
Like the wealthy Romans in the suburbs of Londinium , who decided not to leave when the Empire did. Partying in the… https://t.co/lcQcI0JxRB in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:25:30, 2021-01-01
I imagine this is how civilizational forgetting feels too. Like everyone doesn't forget at once. There are still pe… https://t.co/2isDfF5Zlf in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:23:02, 2021-01-01
From the outside, if the aliens are watching, boy it sure does look like not knowing!
What else do we think we kno… https://t.co/jmwlvEoqE9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:09:31, 2021-01-01
This whole year is an exploration of what it means to know something or not know something collectively. Like at th… https://t.co/DLNJNS2cmf in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:05:46, 2021-01-01
"What follows is a series of gruesome worst-case scenarios, crumpling together every conceivable social and ethical… https://t.co/hgHi8W0kxo in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:00:09, 2021-01-01
"We also got to experience the downside of contact tracing." Haha nope. https://t.co/NyBbmi6TFm in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:55:56, 2020-12-31
"Selfish and selfless behavior, often in the same person," they said.
"It's mutated," they said. https://t.co/eiJC97Vejr in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:54:16, 2020-12-31
"gigantic public mood swings, amplified by the internet," they said. https://t.co/t8uiKzGqcl in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:52:39, 2020-12-31
Man, this NYTimes review is really something. https://t.co/dR7uUvWBIT in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:50:43, 2020-12-31
Okay partly I got a blender because I wanted to learn Mexican salsas, and the first recipe I got already taught me… https://t.co/YM1BsUTMJr 23:41:38, 2020-12-31
RT @ficovh: @pinodebate @LagarrapataS22 @efektoaguila @HLGatell @AlfredoBrena @MLS_censura @ETDEdo1 @TodoSoCiAlIsTic @SSO_GobOax @Donato_Ca… 23:32:08, 2020-12-31
RT @pinodebate: @ficovh @LagarrapataS22 @efektoaguila @HLGatell @AlfredoBrena @MLS_censura @ETDEdo1 @TodoSoCiAlIsTic @SSO_GobOax @Donato_Ca… 23:31:00, 2020-12-31
RT @ANARTAME5344335: Cohetes, cohetes, cohetes, balazos, balazos, cohetes, balazos, cohetes, cohetes, balazos identificando que es 23:29:26, 2020-12-31
Y escucho que México se ha explotado. 🎆 23:07:15, 2020-12-31
You could wander around the sphere forever and never run into the point. But the long lines cut it all up into piec… https://t.co/lze4we7CA5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:59:54, 2020-12-31
I like this album cover. A single point of human technology, surrounded by the green and the sky and the water. Poi… https://t.co/f7XfeCTah3 22:57:03, 2020-12-31
RT @jessenoller: https://t.co/zUnfaF3s1f 22:46:32, 2020-12-31
Tonight was so not a party, but I haven't felt this into a new year since Y2K. https://t.co/iep8Qk5Xwh 22:45:43, 2020-12-31
Okay but wait, didn't this part *ALSO* happen in Contagion? https://t.co/KamYkFIZtP 22:34:03, 2020-12-31
RT @lesbrains: In all seriousness, what a sad night. What a sad year. 22:29:24, 2020-12-31
@Olivia_R_Will "And then we moved in together In the US. And then we flew to Alaska and went kayaking alone in the wilderness for 3 months." in reply to Olivia_R_Will 22:14:12, 2020-12-31
Or it's even just literally being thrown into a mass grave, depending where you happened to be this year. https://t.co/ClLTBzeM7e 22:03:03, 2020-12-31
@Olivia_R_Will Oh man, on NYE 2000 in Barcelona, I got engaged to someone I hadn't seen in years, but had gone to h… https://t.co/Z1c70mnWu8 in reply to Olivia_R_Will 22:01:04, 2020-12-31
The more I learn about software testing, the more it feels like tests are reflections of their parent (sibling?) so… https://t.co/ikrj5ybTmx in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:57:15, 2020-12-31
Maybe tests are like the software's conscience. And software without a conscience. Who knows what it might do.
Or… https://t.co/RweydPqJYd in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:54:39, 2020-12-31
RT @SICKOFWOLVES: GLIDING OPTIMISTICALLY INTO THE NEW YEAR LIKE A BIRD TOWARDS A WINDOW 21:06:02, 2020-12-31
Interesting how The Expanse TV show downsized the number of deaths from the asteroid attacks in the books to be abo… https://t.co/QQ4dnKwPBk 20:38:21, 2020-12-31
Remember the first time we broke the sky, and the result was 300,000,000 years of ice? https://t.co/u2PmMALsB3 18:37:47, 2020-12-31
LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED. https://t.co/LIFFis4iCP 16:57:44, 2020-12-31
NASA & NOAA, agencies that chronicle climate change in excruciating detail, are doing an amazing job at making thei… https://t.co/wXKCVv9KJa 16:54:11, 2020-12-31
@YearOnEarth It wigs me out when you say "Final" like as if there aren't going to be new and exciting periods for h… https://t.co/eelBa9XmfT in reply to YearOnEarth 12:07:32, 2020-12-31
@thebmbennett SO UNFORTUNATE! <3 in reply to thebmbennett 11:36:40, 2020-12-31
@seancllns @ericmbudd I mean like, what, you gotta get R back up to ~1.0 somehow or you'll never attain herd immunity? in reply to seancllns 11:26:34, 2020-12-31
@ericmbudd But wait didn't the UK strain just show up in CO? in reply to ericmbudd 11:23:59, 2020-12-31
@joshdr83 One word Josh: Hubris. in reply to joshdr83 11:21:32, 2020-12-31
@thebmbennett I've kind of been wondering if the use of "boyfriend" was ironic. It almost feels like it hearkens back to some bygone era. in reply to thebmbennett 11:20:42, 2020-12-31
At the US minimum wage, this is when Jeff Bezos would have had to start saving 100% of his pay to accumulate his cu… https://t.co/t632ccmpMP 06:54:48, 2020-12-31
@Revkin At the US minimum wage, he would have to work full-time for more than 13 million years to earn his current fortune. in reply to Revkin 06:45:10, 2020-12-31
@NickStoler @YearOnEarth I guess I have a soft spot for the Earth's early works. I used to date Hadean zircons, and… https://t.co/PcdgoH9UVP in reply to NickStoler 06:33:31, 2020-12-31
Meanwhile, on planet Earth.
I wanna to live to see the day when CO2 concentration goes down from one year to the n… https://t.co/APqvpwkVHq 21:55:02, 2020-12-30
@drvolts @dcullenward @daveregrets Absolutely the
Best
Degree. in reply to drvolts 21:50:00, 2020-12-30
@daveregrets @CostaSamaras @dcullenward Haven't you seen the "@DrVolts: Origins" trailer? in reply to daveregrets 21:47:11, 2020-12-30
@CostaSamaras Feds be like https://t.co/bRzvlPhTpF in reply to CostaSamaras 21:44:12, 2020-12-30
@YearOnEarth Will you restart and run again next year? I only found you in mid-December! in reply to YearOnEarth 18:00:53, 2020-12-30
RT @CatalystCoop: Also from the Coleridge Initiative at @NYUWagner, a free online textbook on using "Big Data" (and also not so big data!)… 16:56:03, 2020-12-30
RT @CatalystCoop: This project to infer who has used a dataset, using what tools, and what outputs they produced, based on natural language… 16:49:45, 2020-12-30
RT @CatalystCoop: This is a fantastic writeup from @ChekosWH about using @datasetteproj to make public policing data accessible in Californ… 16:48:28, 2020-12-30
Y, claro, no es solo un problema de México — es casi lo mismo en los EEUU. Muchas veces para comprar un dispositiv… https://t.co/JTvxfdLv3W in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:20:09, 2020-12-30
Pero detrás, en los detalles, me dice… "este refri es apenas legal." El "ahorro" es solo 5% mejor que el limite l… https://t.co/JINj2OB6Rp in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:15:35, 2020-12-30
Mi refri se murió, y tuve que reemplazarlo de repente. No me encantaba esta experiencia.
"Garantía de ahorro de e… https://t.co/lKVWsImBMU 08:10:09, 2020-12-30
@gschivley @priyald17 @thebmbennett The line between knowing and not knowing people that you've only ever interacte… https://t.co/5lbQ47Zgq9 in reply to gschivley 07:58:45, 2020-12-30
Wow. Dijo senadora Silvia Sapag: “Cuando yo nací las mujeres no votábamos, no heredábamos, no podíamos ir a la univ… https://t.co/tyX7HD6Ko6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:57:23, 2020-12-30
Esta mañana mi Tuíter Mexicano es un río continuo de 💚💚💚💚💚. ¡¡Felicitaciones a Argentina, y el movimiento feminista… https://t.co/lcfWXBRaHa 07:49:35, 2020-12-30
@priyald17 @thebmbennett @gschivley And I didn't know you knew @thebmbennett!
I feel like BAO! should be used in i… https://t.co/WFwJMrjEy0 in reply to priyald17 21:48:52, 2020-12-29
@thebmbennett @ryxcommar That seems bonkers. in reply to thebmbennett 19:07:36, 2020-12-29
Okay. Mi refri está muriendo. ¿Como encuentro uno de bajo uso de energía que mide 60cm de anchura en Oaxaca? 19:09:50, 2020-12-28
I wonder if @priyald17 or anyone else at @ClimateChangeAI would be interested in this. Though I wonder if there are… https://t.co/SfesM8gX7s in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:29:59, 2020-12-28
And regardless of whether words have meaning, are there other predictors? Can you look at fossil fuel reserve write… https://t.co/X03R7sZRCR in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:14:07, 2020-12-28
Do words even have meaning? How much predictive power do commitments have? What's their information content? Does i… https://t.co/97l3GzTM0I 15:11:12, 2020-12-28
I love the point that's being made here also, man, I wish we could exemplify industry with something other than mak… https://t.co/ZV5uibzapO 10:20:24, 2020-12-28
RT @cal_gif: “you don’t need to wear a mask around me” sweet thanks for letting me know that I especially need to wear a mask around you 10:15:26, 2020-12-28
I will never not retweet Elizabeth Magie and The Landlord's Game. https://t.co/hA8b97lwbF 23:15:39, 2020-12-27
How is the whole Fama & French luck vs. skill in mutual fund performance finding holding up these days? https://t.co/IMbF0qAIDu in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:23:17, 2020-12-27
"Financial sophistication, financial information, and entrepreneurial talent are also important. These characteris… https://t.co/pqRWWJQ2mI in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:19:52, 2020-12-27
Oh wait no sorry it's skills & meritocracy: "For given portfolio allocation, individuals who are wealthier are more… https://t.co/C5JrdVM87L in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:19:26, 2020-12-27
Okay I haven't read the article, but before I do, I'm going to guess they say it's like, economies of scale or some… https://t.co/iSRWfbYbny in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:12:16, 2020-12-27
Wait so you're saying the rich not only get richer, but on average they get *richer faster* than everyone else? I w… https://t.co/DmAjJbHI3f 21:15:19, 2020-12-27
Just realized the tiny ants who completely freak out if the smallest little bit of meat from a taco remains on my c… https://t.co/WDyUYqHszL 18:27:16, 2020-12-27
RT @YearOnEarth: The Eocene has been quite warm, with CO2 levels at least 1000ppm and resulting temperatures warm enough for tropical fores… 18:24:18, 2020-12-27
@CHThiem Wow after this summer that takes guts. in reply to CHThiem 18:17:54, 2020-12-27
@subnaughtsounds Biked to another neighborhood to get some outside time, and ended up getting tacos at a guanajuate… https://t.co/BkldGfr2ce 17:01:39, 2020-12-27
If $5 million is good, why not $25 million? https://t.co/rjM70OZJPd 14:55:53, 2020-12-27
@CHThiem @sepzilla Then again people sometimes shut down and stop listening when you're like "The idea that one can… https://t.co/QYVLkYM9la in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:39:24, 2020-12-27
RT @kissane: Sympathy to everyone else coming out of the holidays soaked in numb dread. 12:36:21, 2020-12-27
@CHThiem @sepzilla I think it all has to be totally explicit. The power of and incentives for self-delusion are way… https://t.co/FvZWLA1zrF in reply to CHThiem 12:24:46, 2020-12-27
@CHThiem Wow, was he just completely lost in the national red-v-blue wars, and unaware of the deep, vicious, duplic… https://t.co/3t5uRrBaAR in reply to CHThiem 11:19:43, 2020-12-27
Real US per-capita GDP increased about 350% between 1958 ($16,800) and 2020 ($58,500) so…. yeah. That whole spiri… https://t.co/drHdqiQvOo in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:47:19, 2020-12-27
Interestingly, that book was published at the same time as Galbraith's The Affluent Society, which had a remarkably… https://t.co/o67NOLz07X in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:41:29, 2020-12-27
"With greater security of social wellbeing the stage will surely be reached when the differences between the good a… https://t.co/8XKV0ufzDw in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:40:00, 2020-12-27
"…since, first of all, the goods they are now able to purchase represent the fulfillment of a long-felt want, or… https://t.co/lSLN4UAhz4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:37:12, 2020-12-27
Even the (understandably) hard-core post-WWII German growth advocate Ludwig Erhard had this to say: "Those sectors… https://t.co/ArKKeFwvmq in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:36:04, 2020-12-27
Also: just how common the idea that once our material needs were satisfied, we'd just hop off the perpetual growth… https://t.co/fp4Y2VYg51 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:31:28, 2020-12-27
It's wild to me how many of the people involved in the invention of GDP were either like: "Yo, trying to boil every… https://t.co/DdDYpe3mRK in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:26:03, 2020-12-27
All these quotes are from "The Power of a Single Number" a history of how GDP came to be the primary metric of our… https://t.co/2IYdt772Qb in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:23:16, 2020-12-27
@evacide 🎄Yule crash logs.🎄 in reply to evacide 00:53:33, 2020-12-27

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