Tweets for the Week of 2021-04-18 to 2021-04-24

RT @VincentRK: This is a plea to the US government to help India. What you can do:
-Help with Oxygen & Oxygen generators
-Release Astra Ze… 19:08:35, 2021-04-24
RT @KetanJ0: If covid is climate at super speed, we're surely in the future of climate change now, right?
Feels like 'rich western countr… 19:05:42, 2021-04-24
@abshaww @bolderbekah @BoulderBedrooms Yeah, they didn't want adding an ADU to effectively mean "creating a duplex"… https://t.co/9nN4LtubVE in reply to abshaww 19:01:51, 2021-04-24
Pro tip: when you find yourself embarrassed to take your clothes to the full-service laundromat on the corner becau… https://t.co/cnjXRw8hAs 11:02:37, 2021-04-24
Holy shit. https://t.co/c4VKmHlH6V 09:01:21, 2021-04-24
Peter Godfrey-Smith reads like Carl Sagan if he'd been a marine biologist. He manages to get across the mystical wo… https://t.co/sT0vhOX9WG 08:58:22, 2021-04-24
@gvwilson @HeyChelseaTroy are there any online software engineering courses y'all would particularly recommend? Esp… https://t.co/u3mr0RXxS7 07:59:57, 2021-04-24
@GalaCF I feel like collecting a taxonomy of nomenclature is honestly one of the biggest benefits of textbook-style… https://t.co/2TKfM2eLM1 in reply to GalaCF 00:45:31, 2021-04-24
@SamanthaZeitlin Sometimes it feels an endless rabbit hole of tweaks, which maybe never end up getting integrated i… https://t.co/3S9vznjWv0 in reply to SamanthaZeitlin 00:39:34, 2021-04-24
It's both rewarding and frustrating to hear someone explain something and be like "Oooooh, that's what I was actual… https://t.co/P46HYvygiR 23:08:24, 2021-04-23
De nuevo. Lo mismo, pero distinto. https://t.co/zmziVsU0gb 22:57:32, 2021-04-23
I'm watching videos about machine learning algorithms, which are being recommended to me by a machine learning algo… https://t.co/hvNSDwcMJh 22:46:26, 2021-04-23
@emilygrubert Hah yeah "aftermarket" utilities are fun. I remember ripping a huge tangle of telephone landlines, co… https://t.co/DLXAT1Bo3y in reply to emilygrubert 20:44:14, 2021-04-23
@emilygrubert Seriously. I've had great luck with Phillips LED bulbs. I don't think I've ever had to replace one.… https://t.co/XtqfUVJ4PG in reply to emilygrubert 19:10:17, 2021-04-23
We should all be so lucky.
Cc: @TheOctoNation https://t.co/83lX9bCyEv 18:40:02, 2021-04-23
@ericmbudd And yet the forgetting has already begun. in reply to ericmbudd 18:19:41, 2021-04-23
Are we even halfway through the dying yet? https://t.co/za0CUZ0Kty 18:09:50, 2021-04-23
@yuvipanda I'm so sorry man. It seems like we just can't learn, no matter how many times the same sequence of event… https://t.co/YFfBR4mkGz in reply to yuvipanda 16:52:28, 2021-04-23
Many popular, reasonable polices never get implemented because the US isn't particularly democratic. https://t.co/sTDfoqNieJ 08:08:35, 2021-04-23
This just doesn't compute for me. I don't understand how you can get anybody to work for more than 4 years with the… https://t.co/tOa1Rzn1dV 23:12:26, 2021-04-22
@MaryHeglar It just made me do a captcha, which hasn't happened in years. in reply to MaryHeglar 20:49:34, 2021-04-22
@ericmbudd FINISH HIM in reply to ericmbudd 19:42:41, 2021-04-22
As climate goals get more ambitious and have shorter timelines, at least it gets easier to quickly tell if you're f… https://t.co/oNG48gMLMZ 08:02:27, 2021-04-22
Well this was enjoyable. https://t.co/fy54hvL4n9 22:50:06, 2021-04-21
I've had ads and so many other annoying automated things blocked for so long that brushing up against the bots with… https://t.co/qd6bqog7Ab 18:56:34, 2021-04-21
Do these not exist in an officially archived form online? Or am I just failing to google correctly? https://t.co/zerReG6CZa 15:31:04, 2021-04-21
@STCActionFund Literally at the same time like in two different windows? in reply to STCActionFund 15:21:45, 2021-04-21
RT @harlanyu: This is straight 🔥🔥
@moxie found ways to exploit software vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED, a popular tool used by cops to… 14:17:40, 2021-04-21
Yet another reason to hate Elsevier as if I needed one. https://t.co/fgAqxZZdd8 11:36:11, 2021-04-21
RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums,… 07:39:03, 2021-04-21
Then I'm going to read The Hidden Life of Trees, and Entangled Life (Fungi).
Apparently I find Natural (and Ancient) History soothing. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:37:26, 2021-04-20
I'm sure this is coming up because I'm reading Peter Godfrey-Smith's book "Metazoa" about what it means to be an an… https://t.co/fH3TNLNoXW in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:35:58, 2021-04-20
Do algorithms get herded like bots? Or are they cultivated like a garden? Are they more like animals or plants? Wil… https://t.co/aozSnGehMM in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:31:46, 2021-04-20
There's a very individual depersonification happening too, of The Boss. If there's a particular person at work who… https://t.co/0StMsrsgL0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:27:25, 2021-04-20
How long until we see a company plead not guilty to violating labor laws on the basis that no person in the company… https://t.co/KKufvO30ws in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:01:40, 2021-04-20
I do think the analogy works somehow. Lots of different types, with different characters and powers and scales of o… https://t.co/HUtPnZF8bK in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:59:27, 2021-04-20
Or maybe on second thought turning applied math into a religious war isn't a good idea. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:54:39, 2021-04-20
I mean how many Pokemon did kids have to remember? We could definitely name 100 persistent algorithmic powers-that-… https://t.co/lINdHAQN6u in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:53:16, 2021-04-20
Seriously it seems like monotheism has shaped the way we talk about The Algorithm. It becomes this faceless, contex… https://t.co/JRiSTDmFcK in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:50:31, 2021-04-20
We should start personifying The Algorithms. Giving them names so they can't hide in the shadows. They could be lik… https://t.co/1yIgEqGqGH in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:47:44, 2021-04-20
The irregularity makes it hard to do other things that benefit from structure or need to be scheduled with someone… https://t.co/VPzixSyIHs in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:42:47, 2021-04-20
But it didn't seem like that in the early 2000s. People had a lot of the same kinds of jobs, got got a 2-week ahead… https://t.co/fO6OIx8843 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:39:52, 2021-04-20
Often not because they didn't want to, but because they really had no idea what they would be doing on Wednesday ni… https://t.co/XdQkwYLdHV in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:38:01, 2021-04-20
Having lived in lower income co-ops from the early 2000s to 2018, I feel like I watched this shift happen. Where at… https://t.co/AesQB1PJI6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:35:20, 2021-04-20
The algorithm treats you as a cheap dispatchable resource available on a 2-day ahead contract. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:31:53, 2021-04-20
So you lose control of your life outside of "working" hours. You can't schedule childcare. You can't take night cla… https://t.co/XgjgxkLPIB in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:30:53, 2021-04-20
To the point where the algorithm is making hourly resolution decisions about how many people need to be on shift ea… https://t.co/Eu1MITmWcf in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:29:08, 2021-04-20
I think the algorithm that hit closest to home in Weapons of Math Destruction was the one that schedules shift work… https://t.co/8rxutWEfkj 21:27:12, 2021-04-20
There's an ethnography of algorithms. https://t.co/rwmkerhsm3 21:21:54, 2021-04-20
If you scale Mexico's 322,000 total excess pandemic mortality up to India's population, you get ~3.5 million. 21:05:09, 2021-04-20
@ericmbudd I know, but you might not be the only one who is not normal. in reply to ericmbudd 20:03:07, 2021-04-20
So are all of the intense civic nerds just habitually monitoring / attending 2-4 meetings at once now? Or is it just the ones I know? 20:01:43, 2021-04-20
RT @myamaileen: A 15 year old girl JUST got shot 4 times in Columbus Ohio by this police officer. It hasn’t even been a full 24 hrs & y’all… 19:41:22, 2021-04-20
My god it's just unrelenting. https://t.co/Fi5yonFBrm 19:40:51, 2021-04-20
@ericmbudd 😬 in reply to ericmbudd 17:33:40, 2021-04-20
Apparently they are a bunch of pathological liars. https://t.co/DNrHRhUZHn 15:45:59, 2021-04-20
RT @nkjemisin: ::sigh:: A man was tortured to death in full public view on video, and we're all on tenterhooks wondering *if* his killer wi… 15:41:47, 2021-04-20
@ericmbudd Today of all days. in reply to ericmbudd 10:31:15, 2021-04-20
You can democratize speculation, but you can't democratize speculative wealth accumulation. Lots of people have to… https://t.co/fLJQOMHaYy 22:31:28, 2021-04-19
@ericmbudd April showers bring no apples in September. in reply to ericmbudd 22:27:18, 2021-04-19
@drvolts David. in reply to drvolts 22:26:53, 2021-04-19
@Sammy_Roth I heartily second the 2x Yubikey recommendation. Twitter has finally implemented real multi-key support… https://t.co/M3vnSfz4Lm in reply to Sammy_Roth 19:06:01, 2021-04-19
@Olivia_R_Will Living in Mexico does feel like cheating. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 15:02:52, 2021-04-19
@ericmbudd In my (limited) experience these are some of the best tests. Often relatively easy to write, and very cl… https://t.co/AzZe7o3TbQ in reply to ericmbudd 12:46:43, 2021-04-19
@liz_marasco @ericmbudd ☹️ in reply to liz_marasco 10:03:20, 2021-04-19
@AlexSteffen @radicalbytes @mattleacock @robdaviau It looks like they're going to attempt it! https://t.co/FPCgrAxpi9 in reply to AlexSteffen 20:51:09, 2021-04-18
@PassiveHouseBB Looks like they are taking this project on! https://t.co/FPCgrAxpi9 in reply to PassiveHouseBB 20:46:52, 2021-04-18
OMG THEY ARE DOING IT https://t.co/FPCgrAxpi9 https://t.co/P7TQZnDrxV 20:45:37, 2021-04-18
RT @SimonMahan: Love board games? Specially, Pandemic and other cooperative games? Those makers are making one based on climate change and… 19:26:26, 2021-04-18
@erinoverturf Be still my beating heart! 💓 in reply to erinoverturf 19:25:46, 2021-04-18
@welcomehomebldr @ericmbudd Oh wait, it looks like they adopted a new zoning code at the end of 2019! Change is pos… https://t.co/Dvgc4IdVWV in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:22:21, 2021-04-18
@welcomehomebldr @ericmbudd Though it's got nothing on Somerville, Mass. A city with about the same population as B… https://t.co/uny01iwUFa in reply to welcomehomebldr 19:19:53, 2021-04-18
My god @mathbabedotorg's Weapons of Math Destruction is a horror show.
pd.merge(
criminal_record,
credit_h… https://t.co/tzEhif7wKm 16:28:23, 2021-04-18
RT @TheOnion: Minnesota Deploys National Guard Ahead Of Next Week’s Police Shooting https://t.co/05bI8BRMeg https://t.co/QvsTmghNY5 16:21:37, 2021-04-18
@liz_marasco @ericmbudd Oh I think Bob understands fine. He's just lying. in reply to liz_marasco 16:16:26, 2021-04-18
@TheRealPagel @MichaelKMason @ericmbudd Boulder is totally normal in this respect. Multi family housing is illegal… https://t.co/fmTqjczwe3 in reply to TheRealPagel 16:12:12, 2021-04-18
@ericmbudd Sadly I think they're not radio telescopes, but cold-war military relics. A non-profit *tried* to turn t… https://t.co/uaZP8aKd3Y in reply to ericmbudd 10:16:13, 2021-04-18
@ericmbudd @nuttycom Or actually they have the same last name. They're probably married. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:58:51, 2021-04-18
It's crazy how much "Tech" has come to mean software. For a counterpoint, check out documentary about @otherlab spi… https://t.co/6AFqDZoojE 09:58:18, 2021-04-18
@ericmbudd @nuttycom I think they may be dating Carbon Tax. in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:53:08, 2021-04-18
@ericmbudd @nuttycom Our very unpopular mutual friend who never gets invited to parties. in reply to ericmbudd 09:47:09, 2021-04-18
@potuscosmo1 @ericmbudd A lot of houses in Boulder have negative value! It costs money to have them removed and dum… https://t.co/JxhnelrKcN in reply to potuscosmo1 09:44:51, 2021-04-18

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