Tweets for the Week of 2021-03-28 to 2021-04-03

Almost all human genetic diversity resides in the people of sub-Saharan Africa. I imagine that the germ-line editin… https://t.co/h0ZNOLgEG3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:39:56, 2021-04-03
Will insurance companies make coverage contingent on having a baseline level of fixes installed? Or maybe premiums… https://t.co/Z9BQVAAhX2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:21:36, 2021-04-03
Maybe propagation in the wild will simply be outlawed. All enhanced humans will be sterile, allowed to reproduce on… https://t.co/IVBvtdCRhG in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:18:45, 2021-04-03
What kind of predatory lending practices will be devised to help people pay for their children's genomes? What will… https://t.co/xj3oEWi9xA in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:17:17, 2021-04-03
If gene editing becomes cheap and widespread, how will corporations encourage its mass consumption? Will they activ… https://t.co/Jje7NolJUD in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:15:40, 2021-04-03
Would you just be prohibited from migrating? Would you be forcibly sterilized or required to go on long-term birth… https://t.co/xWclv54OWS in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:13:51, 2021-04-03
What if the edits your parents have made are legal where you're born, but later you want to immigrate to a place wh… https://t.co/njF2t06QA5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:12:48, 2021-04-03
Also worth noting: your genome is not private information. We shed copies everywhere we go. It will be easy for doc… https://t.co/0ko0CbTdyR in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:10:24, 2021-04-03
Like what if there are two different ecosystems of enhancements, and they're purposefully made incompatible? You de… https://t.co/ebWf1uR5TH in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:08:51, 2021-04-03
Will companies try to keep the gene editing tech artificially expensive through patents and other IP? Will it be ma… https://t.co/nJwRzOHpbY in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:06:48, 2021-04-03
Similarly, different classes of people face different penalties for the same basic crimes. Think crack vs. powdered… https://t.co/5GOfDCPz3i in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:04:53, 2021-04-03
For one, prohibition doesn't affect everyone equally. When abortion is illegal, the rich have access and the poor d… https://t.co/qPfQ6XYObD in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:03:21, 2021-04-03
Anyway, I'm not an expert, and maybe these weirder, harder conversations *are* happening, just outside of popular m… https://t.co/5k5ldmeDlt in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:01:33, 2021-04-03
And we should also hear from the people who are typically on the receiving end of systemic societal abuses. They'll… https://t.co/fc1K6NVixq in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:59:53, 2021-04-03
But there's people who study how we fail, and try to understand how corporations cheat and warp regulations, and lo… https://t.co/h2ZHak48Id in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:58:04, 2021-04-03
Fossil fuel interests have blocked climate action for 30+ years. The Pirate Bay has been up for 18 years. We have y… https://t.co/JutKqp1np2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:54:57, 2021-04-03
Seriously, after the last year (or 30) how can anybody think we're going to do a good job of regulating this global… https://t.co/tjlsc2a70S in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:52:21, 2021-04-03
And corporations are going to do bad things with it. They'll try and lock up the IP, create platform monopolies, av… https://t.co/fClSPw3PEd in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:48:27, 2021-04-03
And, spoiler alert: rich people will get preferential access. Just like they do to housing, education, healthcare,… https://t.co/g9e1fAwf8q in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:45:59, 2021-04-03
We can probably affect the rate at which the technology is developed, and to some degree who ends up developing it,… https://t.co/LC6jObjomH in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:42:26, 2021-04-03
@ezraklein These aren't bad questions to start with! But I think we gotta move on to harder, weirder, more specific… https://t.co/6C4tUsqwMM in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:37:51, 2021-04-03
@ezraklein * Where's the line between fixing a defect and making an enhancement?
* What if only the rich have acces… https://t.co/8PitGy0afp in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:36:37, 2021-04-03
I listened to @ezraklein interviewing a biographer of CRISPR & Jennifer Doudna this morning, and a lot of the discu… https://t.co/PYlabpuMOD in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:33:43, 2021-04-03
I feel like every piece on CRISPR includes an obligatory but superficial ethics and policy discussion and they all… https://t.co/7sYjh1Xc7K 21:32:03, 2021-04-03
@shwinnebego No man, the whole book is an argument that carbon pricing is structurally doomed for political reasons… https://t.co/gPPIZE96DV in reply to shwinnebego 11:21:36, 2021-04-03
@shwinnebego I don't disagree. I want to help make this argument stronger by poking (friendly) holes in it if I see them. in reply to shwinnebego 11:08:53, 2021-04-03
It seems like a weird, exaggerated baseline of potential revenues to compare against. It's the theoretical maximum… https://t.co/VkXfIohwQn in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:07:35, 2021-04-03
@dcullenward Like isn't the *whole idea* of pricing emissions that there are abatement opportunities that cost *les… https://t.co/Xy7qFPUKEM in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:02:17, 2021-04-03
@dcullenward 1st: the market price is far below the social cost of carbon; 2nd: the ETS only covers 40% of emission… https://t.co/lo54bqD7c0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:57:39, 2021-04-03
This comes to mind b/c I'm confused by an argument from @dcullenward in Making Climate Policy Work — that the 40x… https://t.co/Oew0BnsIYO in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:54:45, 2021-04-03
The idea of a price on carbon could still be useful as a way to prioritize actions and allocate resources, but the… https://t.co/l3DRIAz68G in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:15, 2021-04-03
I've come to kind of hate the idea of a social cost of carbon. You can make it whatever you want with the right cho… https://t.co/r7lrzmiDT8 10:49:46, 2021-04-03
@bruces https://t.co/cjOe0Qp6My in reply to bruces 09:08:40, 2021-04-03
Paging #Boulder's Housing Advisory Board. https://t.co/6LatkqEGYi 01:19:56, 2021-04-03
No one knows everything, but together we may know less than we thought we did. 00:08:37, 2021-04-03
Sometimes, they don't care one way or the other about the problem, but really don't like the obvious solutions. And… https://t.co/rFT4G2Zp5m in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:50:04, 2021-04-02
There are so many cases where we know how to solve a problem, and yet we keep choosing not to do it.
It seems lik… https://t.co/vbpucUj5o8 19:44:47, 2021-04-02
@ericmbudd But what if — now hear me out — the delay *is* the action? 🤯 in reply to ericmbudd 22:27:25, 2021-04-01
Nomadland feels a little too familiar. Western vistas and economic precarity. Making do with less until there's not… https://t.co/NVxy1f51zv 22:13:48, 2021-04-01
RT @furrygirl: Nomadland is my most recommended read of the year, the way it shows where America is headed. The fact that the end of societ… 20:41:36, 2021-04-01
Happy Easter! https://t.co/0L29IZ4nrT 18:25:25, 2021-04-01
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod Do we know enough about the Indus Valley / Harappan civilization for it to get an episode in the p… https://t.co/VkN5CLj7Fj 08:16:42, 2021-04-01
@leahstokes A cute birthday coincidence on my TL: https://t.co/pahWH4OyHX in reply to leahstokes 22:37:04, 2021-03-31
@interfluidity @LucioMM1 Hah, the silicon valley One Ring To Rule Them All sense. in reply to interfluidity 12:59:27, 2021-03-31
I love seeing everyone excited about this, and maybe I'm being dumb, but doesn't Congress have to vote on this stuf… https://t.co/tPtwb3iDUo 10:27:00, 2021-03-31
@MichaelWWara I love this post from @DanielKayHertz that uses the bay area to illustrate the contradiction between… https://t.co/GkqUwXtRq5 in reply to MichaelWWara 10:24:27, 2021-03-31
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras But then of course Electric Autopia still be like… https://t.co/HBDUSPbNNV in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:02:53, 2021-03-30
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras IF HYPOTHETICALLY ONE COULD DEFICIT SPEND WITH LOW INTEREST RATES OMG COME… https://t.co/iphVj9phmj in reply to dcullenward 22:57:12, 2021-03-30
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras Yeah, just saying it seems like there's hope that we can make it into a mo… https://t.co/otEuQVxykX in reply to dcullenward 22:55:11, 2021-03-30
@daveregrets 😭 in reply to daveregrets 22:39:34, 2021-03-30
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras And it seems like we don't have to wait for the whole market to electrify… https://t.co/KtsPVGUodA in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:38:06, 2021-03-30
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras On top of which, transport is the biggest emitter in many places, and EVs… https://t.co/tx3VVdTDJZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:35:11, 2021-03-30
@dcullenward @JesseJenkins @CostaSamaras The more I think about it, the more electrifying transport seems like a hu… https://t.co/4nwCI1k5H8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:31:27, 2021-03-30
@CathyReisenwitz Probably the sex would also be better, what with people learning stuff from each other even if the… https://t.co/10zUzT2ZBD in reply to CathyReisenwitz 22:25:33, 2021-03-30
I am so, so sorry that the late 20th century US foisted this idea of what infrastructure investment looks like on t… https://t.co/aBEo5Wmnfw 22:23:13, 2021-03-30
@simonw Eeek, I wonder if it's in a little shard at the boundary between two polygons weren't forced to behave them… https://t.co/QJWouioCX2 in reply to simonw 21:32:55, 2021-03-30
@CathyReisenwitz I spent the whole day going back and forth like "I wanna retweet this" and then "uhhh, this feels… https://t.co/OM6yG3DKTl in reply to CathyReisenwitz 20:02:12, 2021-03-30
It's also totally possible to talk about sex with someone and have it be interesting and fun and not expect to have… https://t.co/Xi6NNxX582 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:45:09, 2021-03-30
Which maybe part of a bunch of other pathologies too, like the inability to talk about sex with teenagers.
It's to… https://t.co/Kh56oJNTKH in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:42:13, 2021-03-30
I like this sentiment, but it also makes me uncomfortable and I'm not sure why.
I think it has to do with how our… https://t.co/D4Oe4SQOfu 18:36:55, 2021-03-30
As far as I can tell, this is not a problem Mexico has. https://t.co/Pez2CdTkum 18:14:38, 2021-03-30
@leahstokes @HirokoTabuchi Maybe I'm being weird but a deadly plague sweeping the land out of control does sound mo… https://t.co/o93bUG9IWa in reply to leahstokes 18:11:39, 2021-03-30
@thebmbennett I haven't actually followed them (or… anyone) on Twitch but I sometimes find the @itsgfreviews chan… https://t.co/RAydkhy2HD in reply to thebmbennett 18:07:46, 2021-03-30
Yes cocaine is *also* stardust. https://t.co/6ApsKDEQAw 12:13:11, 2021-03-30
RT @graceyswer: A friendly reminder that your daughter is not your property https://t.co/IcCnNG5Dpr 12:08:12, 2021-03-30
Great thread on how people talk themselves into working at EvilCorp, and how maybe sometimes you can nudge them int… https://t.co/w976RaJyBb 07:33:44, 2021-03-30
"I support affordable housing, just not *this* project in my neighborhood." https://t.co/KOIe74l79u 07:31:55, 2021-03-30
Cc: @BoulderBedrooms in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:24:45, 2021-03-30
This was definitely my experience. https://t.co/7DAJBT3XYK 07:24:16, 2021-03-30
I feel like there are some days when all of the technology just turns against me and refuses to work in a coordinat… https://t.co/FK8zABfels 20:57:23, 2021-03-29
RT @samolovely: Reminder that xenophobia is very real in Mexico against Central Americans. This is so heartbreaking. https://t.co/zx4tsADP3Z 20:28:54, 2021-03-29
Or: "Sorry your cancer diagnosis was wrong, but nobody really felt like cleaning the training data." in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:44:01, 2021-03-29
"Everybody wants a revolution, but nobody wants to do the dishes," data science edition:
"Everyone wants to do the… https://t.co/8qRrgbwr2t 16:42:51, 2021-03-29
@firefox omg if you are going to hang constantly *please* can you give some indication as to why? What tab or brows… https://t.co/OmxCTkdqfS 13:11:18, 2021-03-29
@ericmbudd Why just why wtf. in reply to ericmbudd 22:45:28, 2021-03-28
It's like as a society we thought we knew things because individuals knew things, but then it turned out collective… https://t.co/5kFtULO0Xo 21:23:53, 2021-03-28
@ericmbudd @Climeworks @99piorg Well, at least they're trying to do it right! Something that's cheap and scalable a… https://t.co/TleIv4f1hJ in reply to ericmbudd 21:05:39, 2021-03-28
@Climeworks Their response to the Microsoft RFP offered ~10^6 tons of sequestration. If that's per year, then to sc… https://t.co/lBVnunWkqI in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:46:54, 2021-03-28
@bprest @JesseJenkins @dcullenward @ericmbudd I think it's got a status-quo bias helping it out. Drivers like to im… https://t.co/GgrXpBvOlW in reply to bprest 19:22:08, 2021-03-28
@bprest @JesseJenkins @dcullenward @ericmbudd Sure I think they'd count, but mostly I was thinking things to compar… https://t.co/qzyg9NKKnY in reply to bprest 19:13:25, 2021-03-28
The one and only 5-star project, @climeworks in Iceland, with 1000+ year mineralized geologic sequestration powered… https://t.co/knPDGwngA7 19:10:50, 2021-03-28
@bprest @JesseJenkins @dcullenward @ericmbudd Maybe not the most encouraging example. Notoriously unpopular and has… https://t.co/Sxu36okcOB in reply to bprest 16:24:01, 2021-03-28

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