Tweets for the Week of 2021-05-16 to 2021-05-22

@ericmbudd Oh it's a different Eric! in reply to ericmbudd 21:58:59, 2021-05-22
Some numbers that are weirdly missing from this piece: Ratios of CO2 to Al produced via smelting w/ various electri… https://t.co/7w9W8gqi5L 21:58:24, 2021-05-22
@drvolts Put those hard-won Twitter skills to use man. in reply to drvolts 21:35:08, 2021-05-22
@ericmbudd I thought you were better than this Eric. in reply to ericmbudd 21:27:28, 2021-05-22
Ay, que chingón la democracía. En la calle afuera de mi casa ahorita:
https://t.co/hd282efKlz 18:27:50, 2021-05-22
The idea that progress is a one dimensional forward-or-back is so bizarre. Humans have done so many different thing… https://t.co/rgNT2WVQHa 18:06:42, 2021-05-22
@AlexSteffen I'm so tired. in reply to AlexSteffen 17:54:20, 2021-05-22
This story brought to you by… https://t.co/a1bhXtS3fq 17:52:30, 2021-05-22
RT @Pinboard: Instead of having no points of control, cryptocurrency is run like middle school—everything is determined by what the popular… 15:33:47, 2021-05-22
700 billion tons of ice is about how much was melting every year in the 1990s. Now it's more like 1.2 trillion tons… https://t.co/duF27EivS5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:27:05, 2021-05-22
It's the original #humblebrag!
I *think* they're only considering heat liberated by oxidizing the fuel here, but i… https://t.co/4rG3IhSVnd 15:24:10, 2021-05-22
This is my kind of Yes And. https://t.co/bG4g7K2Dkk 15:08:02, 2021-05-22
@daveregrets @CostaSamaras Do you think the outcome of this project seems like a good indicator of the relative prominence of Yes vs. And? in reply to daveregrets 11:51:57, 2021-05-22
@thebmbennett @jasnonaz @cmgosnell ☝️ in reply to thebmbennett 11:41:39, 2021-05-22
Odio a los coches. https://t.co/ooU9IisoSQ 09:02:53, 2021-05-22
We've already had the same number of (confirmed) coronavirus deaths in 2021 as in all of 2020. Since November 2020… https://t.co/qfLacZn1kJ 08:37:31, 2021-05-22
We can't be the only ones stripping apart massive CSVs and spreadsheets and turning them (back?) into database tabl… https://t.co/sS6Lw9csZ7 20:38:29, 2021-05-21
@MoseBuchele I made a bad bet on a fixed fight and lucky for me this crime boss was willing to pay off the debt bef… https://t.co/70Bx3bBoX7 in reply to MoseBuchele 13:32:06, 2021-05-21
@ericmbudd Maybe some people just can't afford to live in Boulder Eric. in reply to ericmbudd 13:18:40, 2021-05-21
@MoseBuchele The most common analogy I've seen is refinancing a home loan and it seems to work okay. In the context… https://t.co/AnuC20CJpM in reply to MoseBuchele 12:22:18, 2021-05-21
@Olivia_R_Will @Bandcamp They are totally amazing. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 12:19:06, 2021-05-21
@ericmbudd I dunno. It's an approach that I hate and have no desire to live within, but it might be doable in the s… https://t.co/jmEWwvvGKO in reply to ericmbudd 12:16:43, 2021-05-21
I love that they are putting on a punk concert *in a public library* Their @Bandcamp is right here:… https://t.co/qlitBcyz4T 12:09:36, 2021-05-21
@ericmbudd Gotta get Amazon Ring in on this. in reply to ericmbudd 12:07:05, 2021-05-21
@tacosdedatos Has topado con estos proyectos? Parecen como algo que pueden interesarte
* @EEW_Network… https://t.co/KZQnEwouVY 09:48:29, 2021-05-21
@ericmbudd That would be a fun statewide legislative fight. 🍿 in reply to ericmbudd 09:29:37, 2021-05-21
Good not particularly fictive science fiction short film, set in the present about retrospective surveillance of be… https://t.co/paKEJU2sGP 07:51:54, 2021-05-21
@CHThiem @ericmbudd Sorry sorry, too subtle. in reply to CHThiem 07:06:03, 2021-05-21
@CHThiem It's got density. It's got market rate. It's got ownership. It's got land as a public good. It's got progr… https://t.co/xxtoGCiOIv in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:02:02, 2021-05-20
@ericmbudd Riiiiiight, don't *change* the zoning… change the *zoning* in reply to ericmbudd 21:55:12, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem How about the city eminent domains the whole property and pays what its worth with the current zoning, upz… https://t.co/DGSy7v5NXj in reply to CHThiem 21:53:45, 2021-05-20
@ericmbudd Eric if you keep attending multiple infuriating public meetings simultaneously just because you can, eve… https://t.co/HuJwc3T9mF in reply to ericmbudd 21:48:21, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem tbh sometimes it seems like they all drop acid together in the break room over dinner before the meeting. in reply to CHThiem 21:45:37, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem I mean how long do they have to delay it to ensure that the developer loses the OZ money and it's all back to the drawing board? in reply to CHThiem 21:29:37, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem Gotta hold out just a liiiiiittle bit longer… https://t.co/cY6lyGUkH4 in reply to CHThiem 20:32:21, 2021-05-20
@ericmbudd Hey be nice @CHThiem is doing y'all a public service by showing up to every meeting. in reply to ericmbudd 20:30:13, 2021-05-20
Para mi, el sarcasmo y la sátira son muy difíciles de analizar fuera del inglés, pero esto tiene que ser una sátira… https://t.co/gcMMjbXUsw 20:27:18, 2021-05-20
Irreal. https://t.co/arOwNeJzES 20:17:58, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem Sharing prohibited! Checks out. in reply to CHThiem 19:14:26, 2021-05-20
@CHThiem Much details, so analysis, many comprehensive. in reply to CHThiem 18:57:57, 2021-05-20
@ericmbudd @CHThiem Oh they talked about that earlier in the meeting. It's been in the works for 10 years. in reply to ericmbudd 18:55:17, 2021-05-20
And yet somehow this is supposed to be a "neighborhood center" supporting a walkable "15 minute neighborhood". It's… https://t.co/0RcrrfSOaY 18:51:20, 2021-05-20
@Olivia_R_Will 🧟‍♂️ what else even is there now 🧟‍♀️ in reply to Olivia_R_Will 18:03:03, 2021-05-20
On it. https://t.co/sSnPxjxNWB 15:39:41, 2021-05-20
@424ds @holz_bau Exactly. in reply to 424ds 15:35:40, 2021-05-20
@lenazun Well it looks like a very comfy gender in any case. in reply to lenazun 15:25:21, 2021-05-20
I do wonder what the long-term maintenance will look like, but just imagine a fleet cooperatively owned floating ma… https://t.co/FZ5o9b87Um 15:22:47, 2021-05-20
RT @ntnsndr: @SenatorHick Which is a sign of how scared investor-owned businesses and their political backers have been of cooperative powe… 14:38:15, 2021-05-20
RT @ClintSmithIII: If you find the UNC Board of Trustees’ decision to deny @nhannahjones tenure as abhorrent as I do, consider supporting N… 13:08:59, 2021-05-20
I suspect this EV can haul a 4×8' sheet of plywood flat. @joshdr83 https://t.co/69CHAcfVM9 10:10:57, 2021-05-20
Turns out both housing *and* labor are affected by supply and demand, who would have guessed. https://t.co/suOudL04be 10:07:36, 2021-05-20
Using healthcare in the US is like playing some kind of reverse lottery where if you don't follow the nonsensical r… https://t.co/6cfDKRMLxG 07:38:56, 2021-05-20
Does anyone have a favorite resource that clearly explains when & why using a relational DB is better than using a… https://t.co/3VbMWLgWqJ 07:32:48, 2021-05-20
@_Maxolotl The zerorail! in reply to _Maxolotl 00:11:34, 2021-05-20
RT @BlakeTrask: Perhaps electric cars and trucks should have speed governors. You know, just like #ebikes. https://t.co/jy9IoaudeY 00:00:18, 2021-05-20
@BrandonLive @megan___ross I'd be *perfectly* happy to exile all the large vehicles from cities and let them live p… https://t.co/28dzwojRJP in reply to BrandonLive 23:59:12, 2021-05-19
Also high capacity electric buses with dedicated rights of way are awesome! The marketing people can call it whatev… https://t.co/SfxhvRI7fU 22:12:56, 2021-05-19
@CostaSamaras That would be awesome. I sure do hope so. in reply to CostaSamaras 22:08:01, 2021-05-19
Haha, no tax credit for u! https://t.co/3n8i4uh9fh 22:06:16, 2021-05-19
What Could Possibly Go Wrong. https://t.co/Xptd027lbE 22:00:11, 2021-05-19
Oh hey look this one works for EVs too. https://t.co/8FRGoHhrAJ 21:58:47, 2021-05-19
Actually cities filled with 6000lb vehicles that have sports-car like acceleration are bad.
Yes I will die on this… https://t.co/hRGbxZTPM7 21:58:18, 2021-05-19
The magic of a mid-rise mixed-use economically accessible (!) city is you almost never have to be whisked anywhere… https://t.co/nBp6GtZGjl 21:44:27, 2021-05-19
A great image to spread around today! The Bullit bikes are awesome. And yet at the same time, the framing highlight… https://t.co/0MUKLweXI9 21:39:21, 2021-05-19
@TheCharlier Make it stop, Jim. in reply to TheCharlier 21:35:16, 2021-05-19
@Thatmushroom @CostaSamaras Where the car sewers are *literally* sewers. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:32:06, 2021-05-19
@Thatmushroom @CostaSamaras I am moving to this city next month: https://t.co/QVqUtmcF5s in reply to Thatmushroom 21:30:32, 2021-05-19
@CostaSamaras I hope hope hope hope hope hope so. But Denver is gonna spend a few billion widening I-70 and it won'… https://t.co/fyUL6oq5lD in reply to CostaSamaras 21:28:49, 2021-05-19
@NatBullard @CostaSamaras https://t.co/7vYxr0CPw9 in reply to NatBullard 21:24:39, 2021-05-19
@llisonwndrland You're right. I will turn that channel on for a moment of sanity. in reply to llisonwndrland 21:18:39, 2021-05-19
@CostaSamaras I guess the zeitgeist just feel like a lot more Yes than And on EVs to me. ☹️ in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:17:44, 2021-05-19
RT @larryvsharry: We choose to bike. https://t.co/Y01rdt2z07 21:16:31, 2021-05-19
@CostaSamaras You have the most wonderful twetes Costa and the best of takes! But I think something fundamental has… https://t.co/ivVk9eGRdj in reply to CostaSamaras 21:14:42, 2021-05-19
@CostaSamaras Yes and… where is the public transit, safe-streets, mid-rise mixed-use hype machine? I think that's… https://t.co/BN0RANAWZz in reply to CostaSamaras 21:08:21, 2021-05-19
Watching the #EnergyTwitter timeline bifurcate on these EV announcements is pretty wild. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:03:33, 2021-05-19
Poor people forced to own electric cars will be economically burdened, doubly so if they have a long commute. Folks… https://t.co/Hmxhw0EC4K in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:02:32, 2021-05-19
They're gonna violently kill 100 people a day in the US. They're gonna keep cities unlivable and socially isolated.… https://t.co/0dbo2HzEeq in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:58:47, 2021-05-19
I volunteer as tribute!
Electric vehicles are going to suck just as bad as fossil vehicles in most ways (and there… https://t.co/pNKzp4Ny3B 20:53:05, 2021-05-19
My parents built our house. Except they got tired of the project before it was done and stopped. So it wasn't up to… https://t.co/H1nJk02vzQ 20:49:39, 2021-05-19
This is kind of a dark flipside to the explosion of potential *combinations* of knowledge across disciplines, and n… https://t.co/UtgFO0NsCJ 20:44:45, 2021-05-19
Every nation that's ever been a great world power has some pretty horrific episodes in its history. Really powerful… https://t.co/QHXwdpgukP in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:33:56, 2021-05-19
This is insane. A Pulitzer Prize winning MacArthur fellow with *an endowed chair* is being denied tenure. Because c… https://t.co/vhMtBQSDcS 20:30:04, 2021-05-19
Imagine if we talked about other basic needs this way. Like is allowing poor people to eat simple, healthy food in… https://t.co/oZdoTXohQl 20:23:30, 2021-05-19
In addition to efficiently mowing down pedestrians and bicycles, this thing will do ~100x as much damage to roads a… https://t.co/iuQWsxjbPR 18:14:53, 2021-05-19
@CHThiem Or maybe even before not approving anything! in reply to CHThiem 13:27:07, 2021-05-19
@ericmbudd Oh I see nvm https://t.co/LvtwAiU9p0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:21:02, 2021-05-18
@ericmbudd Yeah, you just gotta go directly to the ballot for everything at this point. Which will bring its own different pathologies. in reply to ericmbudd 22:14:57, 2021-05-18
@ericmbudd Why have they been dragging their feet on this exactly? Are they that afraid of not having control over all public spaces? in reply to ericmbudd 22:11:28, 2021-05-18
@shayshinecastle They take on this cyclical, repetitive, Groundhog Day aura. Which blue ribbon panel was it? They all blur together now. in reply to shayshinecastle 22:09:45, 2021-05-18
@ericmbudd Is there anything I would rather pay taxes for than a library? Hard to imagine. in reply to ericmbudd 22:04:39, 2021-05-18
Ah yes more police will fix everything. This is like bingo night or something. I should walk away now. https://t.co/sQyPZhuwaf 20:00:04, 2021-05-18
Also any "viable residential neighborhood" needs to include multi-family housing. Exclusionary, hyperconsumptive si… https://t.co/5B4AS6m4a5 19:56:50, 2021-05-18
omfg NEWS FLASH: Students are residents. Students can vote. Students pay taxes — especially SALES taxes, which is… https://t.co/vLBgXiaLab 19:53:36, 2021-05-18
@ericmbudd Or, as it's known in Boulder: Tuesday. in reply to ericmbudd 19:46:42, 2021-05-18
@thebmbennett Hah, you are clearly a voting junkie. in reply to thebmbennett 07:04:31, 2021-05-18
@thebmbennett Super appropriate as Pacific Palisades burns in SoCal. in reply to thebmbennett 18:42:27, 2021-05-17
No nation has ever been governed by a constitution written by people representative of its actual gender compositio… https://t.co/qia8mGHP42 15:29:24, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz Treating housing like an investment asset class is pretty much guaranteed to produce pathological socia… https://t.co/jYh1JzRKck in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:21:04, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz New construction is also just… expensive. Last I heard it was easy to end up spending $300/sf even fo… https://t.co/DSFhKTmdpK in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:19:42, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz Minimum parking requirements are also a frequent constraint, either because they take up too much of th… https://t.co/kdV4ed7Q52 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:16:52, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz Many of these arcane limitations are laid out in the City's "Schedule of Intensity Standards" aka secti… https://t.co/57iWMhQSyi in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:15:18, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz In other cases there's simply a hard limit on the number of dwelling units that are allowed, based on t… https://t.co/tmwMz5OZ3B in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:14:24, 2021-05-17
@em_kertesz Often "luxury" units are essentially mandated by the zoning. For example, in some of Boulder's resident… https://t.co/4WYYYecutc in reply to em_kertesz 15:09:52, 2021-05-17
RT @jovialjoy: @60Minutes producers spoke to me for many hours. I even spent additional time building a custom demo for @andersoncooper and… 07:01:08, 2021-05-17
@bolderbekah It's a very effective rhetorical technique. Cover's all the possibilities. in reply to bolderbekah 21:03:17, 2021-05-16

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