Tweets for the Week of 2021-12-05 to 2021-12-11

@joshdr83 This video is pretty wild breakdown of an all remote scamming system: https://t.co/Cdyk58WVN4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:39:47, 2021-12-11
@joshdr83 Just make sure it's not this app: https://t.co/OVTsLB89gl in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:33:32, 2021-12-11
@joshdr83 The black market Task Rabbit: https://t.co/IyAVTKJS7F in reply to joshdr83 21:32:45, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Anyway, I gotta go make some some dinner now! in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:29:53, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Of course the *right* solution is for the public agencies to publish analysis ready data in the first place! in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:28:59, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop We're trying to centralize that work, do it well, and share the results, so that others… https://t.co/GC4MiUzzVC in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:28:01, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop So anyone without access to proprietary cleaned up versions ends up wasting a huge amoun… https://t.co/KOkEPstGVw in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:27:18, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Furthermore, there are no IDs linking the EIA and FERC data together, even though they r… https://t.co/gDZZUmX3Lv in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:25:49, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop The problem is that the agencies which collect and publish this data do not curate it we… https://t.co/gOEAzNyaTi in reply to thomas_lord 20:24:40, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Honestly I moved to Mexico to escape from the major housing issue.
Of course there are… https://t.co/QZif0er1aj in reply to thomas_lord 20:20:54, 2021-12-11
@ntnsndr A 30% chance of Democrats retaining the Senate in 2022 seems pretty optimistic to me! in reply to ntnsndr 20:16:15, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Yeah we're not gonna stay under 2°C. But even so there's still (and will continue to be)… https://t.co/s4aRYuMgqq in reply to thomas_lord 20:10:28, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop It works. But it's too late and too slow, and (maybe most crucially) it's not changing t… https://t.co/oV6yQ9jNxL in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:07:33, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Lots more policy details related to the fights we are involved in in this collection of… https://t.co/87wtKpaZUB in reply to thomas_lord 20:06:27, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Yes, it is completely fucked. in reply to thomas_lord 20:01:39, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop This book has much much more nitty-gritty details / case studies about how the political… https://t.co/uTIusJJePI in reply to thomas_lord 20:00:57, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop We would much rather make that kind of case! Unfortunately, most state utility commissio… https://t.co/F1sYywI8zu in reply to thomas_lord 19:59:11, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop If you want some more background on how utilities work (as commercial entites) this is a… https://t.co/tjKUyghKTs in reply to thomas_lord 19:57:51, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop So we're taking the public data, cleaning it up, and giving it away for free! Which prim… https://t.co/c2GkVeeIfQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:56:36, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Without *some* kind of comparable information, climate advocates are left making vague o… https://t.co/erDGIEZL3P in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:54:41, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Utilities know much more than anyone else about their own system — how much it costs to… https://t.co/HWiRMwE7v3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:53:10, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop In the US most electricity policy is made at the state level by a small number of appoin… https://t.co/Jv9uMgG7uy in reply to thomas_lord 19:52:04, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Unfortunately it's often an indirect strategy — many utility commissions don't explicit… https://t.co/MXz6OJD35A in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:49:00, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Getting climate activists, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others acting in… https://t.co/OrHNWPvGs5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:47:13, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord @CatalystCoop Utilities have detailed information about the costs & operations of their fossil assets.… https://t.co/7O9hZPLVei in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:45:55, 2021-12-11
@thomas_lord I don't know what kind of historical feud I'm walking into here, but as one of the main contributors t… https://t.co/I29Qq1ItfQ in reply to thomas_lord 19:44:12, 2021-12-11
@joshdr83 Are the wind and solar on the same scale? Like in terms of power per unit area? in reply to joshdr83 18:25:14, 2021-12-11
Came across a street vendor selling t-shirts of those NFT apes and it was just… 🧑‍🍳💋 16:06:40, 2021-12-11
@MyleneJac @whiteriskslf Well, just so long as there aren't any tornadoes. in reply to MyleneJac 13:13:19, 2021-12-11
There's no such thing as a bad climate — only the wrong ecological, agricultural, and infrastructural systems. https://t.co/pQmMEBg5wJ 12:51:47, 2021-12-11
In Mexico they call it the "Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon"
https://t.co/fgjc9Raet3 https://t.co/XiefNcwmd5 12:38:24, 2021-12-11
RT @geekgalgroks: There is a moment though, when you find another IT person who grew up lower class and you just spend 10 minutes talking a… 09:09:28, 2021-12-11
The whole Kardashev scale seems like a projection of the last 200 years years of consumerism and a very particular… https://t.co/Q1I1pWgGi5 20:02:09, 2021-12-10
@robbieorvis Isn't it just an excuse to tank the bill without having to give the real reason, which is that it woul… https://t.co/X7eWlKap73 in reply to robbieorvis 18:07:26, 2021-12-10
But now Lukashenko is actively bringing refugees to the Polish border and pressuring them to cross in retaliation f… https://t.co/8JNMn1pzAt in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:06:44, 2021-12-10
The EU pays Turkey and other countries to keep migrants from ever getting to their borders, where they would be pro… https://t.co/wKQDRCdZI9 17:05:17, 2021-12-10
@drvolts I had a similar experience with this painting by @edelstudio
https://t.co/gwABLnAWzQ in reply to drvolts 12:32:38, 2021-12-10
I can tell this is gonna be a real lol-sobber. https://t.co/kxYRIyKdCF 10:45:20, 2021-12-10
@SYoungReports The prospect of an endless series of boosters (that aren't available here) and evolving internationa… https://t.co/UskfApVqYW in reply to SYoungReports 10:29:27, 2021-12-10
@SYoungReports It's wild. Literal years of missed school. in reply to SYoungReports 09:56:04, 2021-12-10
RT @SYoungReports: First dose vaccination of my teen’s age group started yesterday in Oaxaca; the same day her age group was cleared for bo… 09:55:30, 2021-12-10
@daveregrets @S_HastingsSimon @CostaSamaras Bring on the executive orders of magnitude please. in reply to daveregrets 23:17:06, 2021-12-09
@yuvipanda 😬 in reply to yuvipanda 23:12:48, 2021-12-09
@benserrurier Okay okay, maybe it's not all bad: https://t.co/0inQ9S2BSf in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:37:24, 2021-12-09
@benserrurier I was much more optimistic about this so-called "reality" in say, February, 2020.
And much more opti… https://t.co/nRFQ8cHksa in reply to benserrurier 18:06:37, 2021-12-09
@thebmbennett Do you have any favorite (publicly visible) examples of folks using dbt to clean up messy data? I'm h… https://t.co/FiHZ6tMG5j in reply to thebmbennett 11:08:44, 2021-12-09
Cc: @ericmbudd @CHThiem https://t.co/kX73T8Lg45 11:05:05, 2021-12-09
@CHThiem It kind of feels like newspapers are just leaning into a target demographic of old, white reactionaries. in reply to CHThiem 08:20:39, 2021-12-09
@LilaHickey Same. 😢 in reply to LilaHickey 07:13:24, 2021-12-09
Do I not understand what data cleaning SQL is capable of? Or do the SQL people not understand how dirty my data is? Or it could be both. 20:54:50, 2021-12-08
RT @drvolts: … that they're all wooly-headed hippies who don't understand Very Smart Tech & Finance stuff. Maybe, just maybe, the hippies… 12:44:41, 2021-12-08
RT @drvolts: Pull the climate string long enough & you end with the need for political radicalism. The Very Smart Hero Tech & Finance Guys… 12:44:36, 2021-12-08
@LilaHickey @parktool I have a hard time not thinking about this bike.
https://t.co/2fBBd3fzfP in reply to LilaHickey 23:12:03, 2021-12-07
RT @SilvermanJacob: "The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patien… 22:41:53, 2021-12-07
@lenazun If you take a vow of silence you might just be Wintermute. in reply to lenazun 19:40:38, 2021-12-07
RT @PlaguePoems: You have not
survived
the plague.

You are
surviving
the plague.

And your
survival
depends
on understanding
that distinct… 22:51:21, 2021-12-06
Ecuador, Guatemala, and Chile each have about the same population, and they're each smaller than Mexico City.
Toge… https://t.co/TogXkvEYjX 22:49:02, 2021-12-06
There should be an NSF/SBIR funding program dedicated to disrupting existing platform monopolies with open data, op… https://t.co/8ABBcFQpWj 21:47:56, 2021-12-06
(From Marshall Sahlin's The Original Affluent Society)
If instead we combine finite wants with continually improvi… https://t.co/noZwYsJ8x9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:17:53, 2021-12-06
"But there is also a Zen road to affluence, which states human material wants are finite and few, and technical mea… https://t.co/03AdCv7UBy in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:17:53, 2021-12-06
"Thus, the gap between means and ends can be narrowed by industrial productivity, at least to the point where urgen… https://t.co/ycfFHGeRvL in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:17:52, 2021-12-06
"There are two possible courses to affluence. Wants may be easily satisfied either by producing much or desiring li… https://t.co/W7Ug9SZRvm 19:17:52, 2021-12-06
@welcomehomebldr 😻 swoon 😍 in reply to welcomehomebldr 17:02:26, 2021-12-06
I hate when I try to order something from someone directly rather than through Lord Bezos, and it ends up being an awful experience. 10:37:59, 2021-12-06
A weird, self-referential, meditative take on the nature of ubiquitous police surveillance. Often focused on Baltim… https://t.co/voCnZ0axIn 08:09:45, 2021-12-06
Watchers talking to people who don't want to be watched, while being watched themselves. Duplicity in the motivatio… https://t.co/wS31P6cIs7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:46:25, 2021-12-05
I like how they play with the documentary itself being a form of surveillance, affecting the way the police trainin… https://t.co/B6eWtjWGFG in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:43:09, 2021-12-05
@lenazun https://t.co/sWRxbCtxBq in reply to lenazun 23:39:09, 2021-12-05
Lol 💀 https://t.co/F9YE86fGkD 22:48:05, 2021-12-05
@BoulderBedrooms looks cozy! https://t.co/kvMHO7gJIr 22:32:22, 2021-12-05
@ZLabe Oooh, spells. You must be a mage. in reply to ZLabe 22:28:52, 2021-12-05
With no style, I'm just gonna take a nap here in this nice pink grass while wearing a space suit: https://t.co/S3s61jY88A in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:14:08, 2021-12-05
Using the Steampunk rather than Fantasy Art style with the original prompt yields: https://t.co/V7mjPJOY55 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:11:55, 2021-12-05
Swapping in "former" for "wayward" but with the same style, I get: https://t.co/u0FpLQdR3W in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:10:26, 2021-12-05
Yup. https://t.co/dpt369XFFh https://t.co/vzrxlOAJAf 21:06:59, 2021-12-05
@LaurenGifford https://t.co/hRU7hq0gUt in reply to LaurenGifford 20:51:01, 2021-12-05
@daveregrets @amywestervelt @_david_ho_ Whoa. in reply to daveregrets 20:44:00, 2021-12-05
All Light Everywhere is like Baichwal & Burtynsky's Manufactured Landscapes, but for the surveillance state.
"It f… https://t.co/dqz2o3VjW2 20:42:19, 2021-12-05
@LaurenGifford Remarkably accurate! in reply to LaurenGifford 20:06:04, 2021-12-05
Wait, is the war where Corto/Armitage crashes his ultralight after the EMPs go off, necessitating his later AI-medi… https://t.co/M0OtAbARHR 17:59:12, 2021-12-05
@seancllns Well that's creepy as fuck. in reply to seancllns 17:36:06, 2021-12-05
@Neurosarda I've also found The Spanish Dude on YouTube fairly entertaining and thoughtful if bite-sized grammar vi… https://t.co/my635fuZpk in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:29:33, 2021-12-05
@Neurosarda I've used this one. It provides a lot of exercises, if that's something you're looking for. https://t.co/svmrpWXBXA in reply to Neurosarda 17:27:41, 2021-12-05
@drvolts @PopDetective has several good video essays about this on their channel: https://t.co/hHyCxgB5nG in reply to drvolts 13:09:07, 2021-12-05
@shwiffles https://t.co/u9KZzXtNGc in reply to shwiffles 13:01:57, 2021-12-05
RT @shwiffles: @ZaneSelvans Let's get even more weird: Denmark de facto requires Greenland, via the block grant, to hit of oil/gas/min capi… 13:01:12, 2021-12-05
@shwiffles Whaaaaat? in reply to shwiffles 13:00:37, 2021-12-05
@shwiffles A weird analog: Norway? They've got a quarter million dollars per person stashed away, and are still exp… https://t.co/mAKrq0z31z in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:57:49, 2021-12-05
@shwiffles Would that arrangement really represent sovereignty? Or would it become a different kind of dependency,… https://t.co/3snEB8pEbh in reply to shwiffles 12:55:58, 2021-12-05
Would that necessarily lead to better outcomes? Would they be more resistant to cultural manipulation and short-ter… https://t.co/3iC6bWim0G in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:51:55, 2021-12-05
Currently this means corporate influence targets and corrupts settler governments. If indigenous people were in con… https://t.co/yitOJOhjgT in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:48:56, 2021-12-05
And as anyone who has participated in a power mapping exercise should know, lobbying resources target whoever the d… https://t.co/hghI64pqFx in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:50, 2021-12-05
Otherwise it seems like a potential set up for yet another round of disempowerment. Native peoples get their land b… https://t.co/WL9qfAbQfX in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:36:17, 2021-12-05
If what we're really trying to do is extinguish abusive property rights we should just say so.
Or if we're advocat… https://t.co/M9JAV6C9yU in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:28:09, 2021-12-05
Indigenous rights and ecosystem stewardship may be related issues, but they aren't the same thing, and I don't thin… https://t.co/VQayfJEIIs in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:25:16, 2021-12-05
How do we feel about these outcomes as climate people / environmentalists? Are we angry? Disappointed? Or happy tha… https://t.co/mmFd2hE7s7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:20:57, 2021-12-05
I'm sure there are and were internal conflicts and political differences about how to manage these resources. And I… https://t.co/yZnmgfW8SS in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:14:01, 2021-12-05
The 20,000 members of the Sealaska native corporation have hopefully at least benefited economically from the liqui… https://t.co/VF7QhI7Vqe in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:11:01, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt It's not explicit, but it's hard for me not to get the feeling that it's there implici… https://t.co/32YNmLHMYW in reply to SceneOnRadio 12:07:23, 2021-12-05
Now they're talking about giving up logging in favor of providing (dubious) carbon offsets to BP and other fossil f… https://t.co/DRAksEmc8c in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:03:00, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt In the 1970s the US ceded control of a lot of the Alaska's natural resources to native… https://t.co/oaMMGmYhT8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:00:03, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt For example, I spent a summer kayaking through SE Alaska, and stayed with a very gener… https://t.co/3hMvLbrVrt in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:57:43, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt And if we *do* want to argue for true sovereignty, then we have to acknowledge that th… https://t.co/SLK0sRknEv in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:51:27, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt If we (greens) only want to advocate for restoring indigenous lands and sovereignty co… https://t.co/wj0WowYmQ7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:49:05, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt The idea often being that indigenous stewardship of the lands and resources would nece… https://t.co/4YH9vyMq9d in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:46:11, 2021-12-05
@SceneOnRadio @amywestervelt A prominent theme in the series and the wider discourse is potentially reverting many… https://t.co/oOdGobhOYp in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:43:44, 2021-12-05
I've been listening to the current climate-themed season of @SceneOnRadio produced in collaboration with… https://t.co/WhpLoa8g1p 11:41:34, 2021-12-05
I feel like there's a weird divide in climate & energy policy circles where some people are happy to admit or point… https://t.co/CiCMcc98w8 10:29:31, 2021-12-05
Not bad. Cc: @RPappalardo https://t.co/Aq1Zw6J9qo https://t.co/vZsLG4Ar13 10:24:53, 2021-12-05

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