Tweets for the Week of 2022-03-13 to 2022-03-19

It's *amazing* how much bigger the same space feels when it's just got people in it, and no cars. https://t.co/5irW9dYjX4 00:21:40, 2022-03-19
https://t.co/99DEZrr3Cp in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:13:20, 2022-03-19
I can hardly believe we have tens of thousands of clay tablets from Ashurbanipal's library 2700 years ago.
Maybe w… https://t.co/TZQq1TY4Gv in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:12:24, 2022-03-19
But now it can be lost in a way that's harder for widely written languages.
"the tender speech of Wu" in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:05:34, 2022-03-19
So written communication could be homogenized over long distances without losing the variety of spoken languages? S… https://t.co/ej1qPtld9q in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:03:22, 2022-03-19
But apparently it doesn't have its own way of being written? Which I guess makes sense if you've shared an ideograp… https://t.co/aKXfVWRfdN in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:01:34, 2022-03-19
Reading about regional Chinese languages. 80 million speak Wu. I'd never heard of it! A group of languages as dive… https://t.co/l26seMUgVh 00:00:11, 2022-03-19
Also it's wild that this is happening while we're all adrift in the sea of batshit political conspiracy nonsense flooding the internet. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:18:06, 2022-03-18
I feel bad that I'm laughing, but also the world feels like this. https://t.co/BFzmv7UxHd 23:07:20, 2022-03-18
So is it gonna be like one affordable housing advocacy lawsuit per year in Boulder from now on? I wonder which side… https://t.co/wbjmcWcoP9 23:03:32, 2022-03-18
@boulderprogress @SarahdawnH What. The actual. Fuck. in reply to boulderprogress 22:55:03, 2022-03-18
@Vanguard_Group Internal Server Errors look like: https://t.co/2kh7zKixAA in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:26:46, 2022-03-18
@Vanguard_Group I'm getting a bunch of Internal Server Errors when attempting to access the personal investors site… https://t.co/afEgBTQLqc 12:25:36, 2022-03-18
@CastellanoChels @ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr https://t.co/gnZe21EO9a 11:32:32, 2022-03-18
@LilaHickey @doctorow @ericmbudd @cmgosnell We live in weird times. in reply to LilaHickey 00:45:17, 2022-03-18
"The carbon markets have paid the landowner to not do what they were not going to do." https://t.co/mBSDBkuzPD 20:59:23, 2022-03-17
RT @revrrlewis: I've played over 1,000 hours of Civilization VI. Here's how Ukraine can defeat Russia. (1/47) 20:54:07, 2022-03-17
RT @MoreAndAgain: THIS IS NEOFEUDALISM!
RUN! https://t.co/KXdSy8H43p 20:53:55, 2022-03-17
It's like we never left the stone age. https://t.co/2gySh63eda 20:00:46, 2022-03-17
I tried to watch this and it was too cringe for me to get through. But thankfully Kendra has written up a nice summ… https://t.co/qBMLhzvlAT 19:59:28, 2022-03-17
Which starts to smell like a network of co-ops with a centralized development fund, or state owned (but not state m… https://t.co/pzoUKNUuwI in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:49:20, 2022-03-17
@doctorow @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell At which point, the difference between a simple UBI and UBA is the fact… https://t.co/wDVs3V3y4c in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:47:03, 2022-03-17
@doctorow @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell How would "universal basic assets" differ from "universal basic income?… https://t.co/k88i68MboC in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:44:03, 2022-03-17
@doctorow @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell What happens if everyone owns some of everything? If the stochastic div… https://t.co/sT6SwmuvEf in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:41:50, 2022-03-17
@doctorow @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell If it's all just stochastic (assuming some guardrails around truly dumb… https://t.co/DOouyYEt9F in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:39:01, 2022-03-17
@doctorow @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell The whole premise of index fund investing (which is pretty well borne o… https://t.co/XFdmt4sKcH in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:36:32, 2022-03-17
@doctorow The paper he's riffing on over here:
https://t.co/dSMju6XNph

Cc: @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @cmgosnell in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:29:12, 2022-03-17
An interesting look at how intermediated ownership of *all* companies via asset managers who *can't* sell their ass… https://t.co/BYyvdzEFwj 19:27:20, 2022-03-17
@RCunov @evacide Yeah me too! The migration from LastPass was totally painless. I was flabbergasted and wanted to u… https://t.co/HRnSJsSfU3 in reply to RCunov 18:20:26, 2022-03-17
RT @KatysCartoons: Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of… 16:04:47, 2022-03-17
@evacide I honestly expected BitWarden to be a pain because it offers so much for free and is open source but I was… https://t.co/UFkH4vodmY in reply to evacide 15:32:35, 2022-03-17
@lenazun One of the less prominent benefits of using a VPN where you can pretend to be… wherever. in reply to lenazun 15:30:14, 2022-03-17
RT @TrashEmpireFilm: Food Not Bombs Bielsko-Biała is coordinating with other chapters along the border to do great work. You can support th… 08:15:33, 2022-03-17
Today it feels like we have two (or more!) dueling politics of inevitability in climate. The geophysical inevitabil… https://t.co/hlaZz38GbM in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:08:51, 2022-03-16
Wow, there is *so* much in here that's ripe for application to climate change. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:04:20, 2022-03-16
"The politics of inevitability is fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-freedom, because it's taking away from us… https://t.co/DM6SfQIYvF in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:02:15, 2022-03-16
@TimothyDSnyder "If you think that some larger process is inevitably bringing progress, you don't have to ask what… https://t.co/CcxVxM0FKp in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:59:34, 2022-03-16
Watching this talk by @TimothyDSnyder on the temporal dimension of politics.
"The basic problem with the politics… https://t.co/9AX978xDmA 18:53:31, 2022-03-16
lol, but darkly. https://t.co/Oznwxk75g3 18:32:18, 2022-03-16
@lenazun In the highly unlikely event… 😬 in reply to lenazun 12:53:12, 2022-03-16
@ericmbudd @LilaHickey @youfoundryan Oh man. *dislike* 👎 in reply to ericmbudd 21:29:39, 2022-03-15
@youfoundryan @ericmbudd @LilaHickey I mean, why set up the target retirement funds differently than the total mark… https://t.co/lgfnQlcyIo in reply to youfoundryan 21:29:06, 2022-03-15
@LilaHickey @youfoundryan @ericmbudd Wait there are downvotes now? in reply to LilaHickey 21:23:37, 2022-03-15
"LeMay said if we'd lost the war we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals."
https://t.co/qfS3mtlAzV https://t.co/CwS8tORl8C 21:07:47, 2022-03-15
@ericmbudd @youfoundryan @LilaHickey The weird error here seems to have been setting up that other lower expense ra… https://t.co/TYUloL1Frv in reply to ericmbudd 21:06:07, 2022-03-15
@lenazun <3 in reply to lenazun 20:41:00, 2022-03-15
@ericmbudd @LilaHickey @youfoundryan It is weirdly, bizarrely, out of line with their normal behavior. It seems nut… https://t.co/ioJCXYBXmc in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:38:09, 2022-03-15
@ericmbudd @LilaHickey @youfoundryan Yeaaaah, this is gonna be a mess. in reply to ericmbudd 20:34:47, 2022-03-15
We're all trapped on the planet of the apes. https://t.co/Xp5tqBF0DZ 15:17:08, 2022-03-15
Big if true! https://t.co/PxNrzCfvt0 15:14:23, 2022-03-15
RT @JoshGeog: It is wild to hear mainstream US commentators decry the firing of media and academic persons in Russia while we are literally… 15:07:45, 2022-03-15
Man, this history. And we wonder why Russian literature is depressing. https://t.co/nm1Fb1zDML 12:11:57, 2022-03-15
RT @FoldableHuman: The way we’re perpetually “experimenting” with viable, humane social policy like a freshman with ready access to halluci… 01:24:38, 2022-03-15
That's a hell of a sign error. https://t.co/pvdeGB96XH 01:14:07, 2022-03-15
Every so often while I'm reading I'll forget when-where I am. Then I wake up, and have to unwind the recursively ne… https://t.co/slL1668fef 01:05:23, 2022-03-15
Dude is 👑THE KING👑 of predatory delay and he's dragging his feet all the way to the bank.
Every time he threatens… https://t.co/NPpw9mKNG7 22:57:21, 2022-03-14
This is also one of the areas most heavily contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:39:02, 2022-03-14
Humanizing timeline cleanse: A channel about village life, gardening, and food preservation in Southeast Belarus. T… https://t.co/OWvvuwZukh 21:37:36, 2022-03-14
@thebmbennett We were told pi equals 1 and pi^2 equals 10 in astronomy. in reply to thebmbennett 21:15:53, 2022-03-14
@erinoverturf Wow. Just 40 years ahead of schedule. in reply to erinoverturf 16:47:49, 2022-03-14
@ericmbudd I believe it's called a "Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity" in reply to ericmbudd 16:47:11, 2022-03-14
RT @SarahdawnH: APPLICATION DEADLINE: Bilingual Climate Equity Specialist
March 20, 2022

Boulder County Career opportunity https://t.co… 16:41:20, 2022-03-14
@ericmbudd omg I'm sure Leslie's eyeballs have rolled out of her head. 🙄 in reply to ericmbudd 16:35:15, 2022-03-14
@LaurenGifford I feel like something has changed in the way people talk about CCS and DAC in the last couple of yea… https://t.co/YXj178Ss7A in reply to LaurenGifford 22:34:58, 2022-03-13
I mean:
In a tacit acknowledgment of the problem of pursuing those with continued access to capital, it was report… https://t.co/t7f8cmXXl5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:25:30, 2022-03-13
@doctorow I love that there's such a thing as an "Unexplained Wealth Order" but can can anybody *really* explain ho… https://t.co/Fi5YuaRnBI in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:22:56, 2022-03-13
@doctorow Maybe the real problem is prevailing norms around ownership that allow this degree of wealth concentratio… https://t.co/vMqkQqoqVl in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:19:37, 2022-03-13
@doctorow Is the problem here really the particular mechanism of coercive wealth concentration? Or is it the way th… https://t.co/gypNpx9klX in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:15:17, 2022-03-13
The more I think about this @doctorow piece on the Klept, the fuzzier the line between them and monopolistic or pol… https://t.co/0O0XvEWLwo 17:13:14, 2022-03-13

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