Tweets for the Week of 2022-07-03 to 2022-07-09

If there's no money left in the redemption bucket, and all the remaining token holders have lost all of their money… https://t.co/I41Yt19QKs in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:39:50, 2022-07-09
If I understood correctly, in the scenario discussed there's a division in project capital between common pool asse… https://t.co/su3qAGlvkX in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:37:52, 2022-07-09
But when the whole thing eventually collapses, who ends up holding the bag? In a lot of schemes like this, it's low… https://t.co/26Xxmzs5b3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:35:51, 2022-07-09
The system discussed in the podcast has an exit fee — like a back-end load on a mutual fund or a capital gains tax… https://t.co/O3eOKGBGZe in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:14, 2022-07-09
Another issue with this arrangement is *who* ends up losing in the speculative negative sum game with positive exte… https://t.co/n0UBPkHrca in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:31:50, 2022-07-09
@KendraWrites That is some next-level social distancing. in reply to KendraWrites 16:59:53, 2022-07-09
There are real issues with growth in CO (like the fact that exurban/suburban development is utterly fiscally insolv… https://t.co/FQbm6g0mRY in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:45:13, 2022-07-09
Of course, 80% of the water falls on the western slope, but all the population growth is gonna be in the front rang… https://t.co/x1X4MuhWaw in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:41:03, 2022-07-09
Wanna focus on the minuscule slice of water that *is* used by cities? Okay: Make it easy to build apartments (new f… https://t.co/oOPQmrth95 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:39:56, 2022-07-09
IIRC, the 2nd biggest water user is thermal power generation. So… shut down coal and gas plants. Build a bunch of… https://t.co/AJvX9qADLl in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:37:13, 2022-07-09
~90% of CO water usage goes to agriculture, but it's only ~2% of the state's economy, so a bunch of new people show… https://t.co/hskVbLHukj in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:35:53, 2022-07-09
Even if she got the units wrong and it's really supposed to be a 740,000 acre-feet shortage in 2050 [citation neede… https://t.co/BCbZ6bvwxg in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:13:28, 2022-07-09
@kejtia She disabled replies so I had to QT-dunk. Good grief. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:03:41, 2022-07-09
Agriculture accounts for ~90% of consumptive water use in CO, but is only ~2% of the state's economy. So bringing i… https://t.co/3wJGmZYEri 16:03:02, 2022-07-09
This number doesn't make any sense. 740,000 gallons is nothing in the context of CO water usage which is ~15 millio… https://t.co/jyNoAXEqKU 16:01:10, 2022-07-09
@HKoren @CommClaireLevy Truly nonsensical.
https://t.co/mNHZuTOgSg in reply to HKoren 15:57:22, 2022-07-09
@kejtia It is a truly bizarre fever dream. in reply to kejtia 15:41:44, 2022-07-09
@kejtia Also while it's "culturally significant" agriculture (~90% of consumptive water use in CO) is only ~2% of t… https://t.co/aoOU7uLw0a in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:40:48, 2022-07-09
@kejtia That number doesn't make any sense. 740,000 gallons is nothing in the context of CO water usage (~15 millio… https://t.co/1dM3S91TVP in reply to kejtia 15:33:30, 2022-07-09
That last view is from a pass somewhere between the elevations of Nederland and Ward, CO.
There are several river… https://t.co/CqolH7gQUz in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:25:14, 2022-07-09
Success! Picked up some tamales on the way out of town. Got lucky and all the thunderstorms missed me. Stopped in a… https://t.co/sMHNYoHDW0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:02:46, 2022-07-09
But still it's some kind of galaxy-brain move to be like "Given that markets are a speculative / extractive scam, h… https://t.co/VgQC97wid5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:39:00, 2022-07-09
Honestly given the last 25 years in the US, it's easy to see how someone might learn the lesson that markets are *e… https://t.co/5960OWb3Li in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:36:40, 2022-07-09
@forlifeitself https://t.co/ouvHoyb0DJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:54:50, 2022-07-09
The @forlifeitself #ReFi convo I was referencing:
https://t.co/yB9K4thd5G https://t.co/m61aLXMa2k 08:52:16, 2022-07-09
Something that didn't come up in the discussion of whether normal companies are positive/negative/zero sum games is… https://t.co/YDsX6pz9Nz in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:43:43, 2022-07-09
It seems like there's an extremely cynical understanding of the broader financial system that underlies this. That… https://t.co/IWSIVsUZBe in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:41:24, 2022-07-09
There's also an underlying assumption that there's an unlimited appetite for greater-fools speculation. That even i… https://t.co/sjFL6pl8BY in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:38:37, 2022-07-09
@rufuspollock And in the best case, you both make some money and the beach gets cleaned up.
It seems like the trad… https://t.co/o0GygOt3Bm in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:36:40, 2022-07-09
@rufuspollock So the clean beach is ultimately a positive externality, which is paid for by the losers of the specu… https://t.co/6cizopfTTF in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:34:14, 2022-07-09
@rufuspollock It seems like the idea is to harness the human tendency to engage in greater-fools speculation — eve… https://t.co/KWjgu75W2Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:31:14, 2022-07-09
@rufuspollock my god this ReFi discussion on the lifeitself pod is crazymaking. 08:19:16, 2022-07-09
Okay I'm going to try something Flagstaffish tomorrow.
https://t.co/02j4YHEVVh 23:24:24, 2022-07-08
This cannot be real? https://t.co/EkxnVgFw70 22:30:51, 2022-07-08
@LilaHickey @bolderbekah @betsy_farris I like how they didn't black out any of the names. in reply to LilaHickey 21:53:49, 2022-07-08
@bolderbekah It's so fucking good. I want one. in reply to bolderbekah 21:10:00, 2022-07-08
And this is why it was originally called "The Landlord's Game"
https://t.co/DTaqRkP5ZU https://t.co/QfWoceBsDx 20:45:16, 2022-07-08
RT @__femb0t: Google maps removed Kavanaugh's house from Street View and the other justices as well but I love how this just confirms which… 20:41:41, 2022-07-08
@drvolts Don't worry, The Google hid them.
https://t.co/jsmVT8kvxh in reply to drvolts 20:40:32, 2022-07-08
Wherefore art thou Boaty McBoatface? https://t.co/37Jz4rvYXl 20:38:49, 2022-07-08
@joshdr83 So crazy variable. Even on the same plant sometimes! I don't get it. in reply to joshdr83 18:04:15, 2022-07-08
@vagina_museum Clearly it's a different film based on the year, but there's also Zen Pussy: A Meditation on 11 Vulv… https://t.co/ebUY3p5D8G in reply to vagina_museum 14:45:56, 2022-07-08
@nils_gilman But we can mutually assure destruction! in reply to nils_gilman 10:57:54, 2022-07-08
@DynamicWebPaige Looks like they've been talking about expanding the scope of the ordinance in response to pandemic… https://t.co/K5nlILkFlD in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:35:01, 2022-07-08
@DynamicWebPaige You might look into LA's 1999 Adaptive Reuse Ordinance, which opened up a bunch of historic office… https://t.co/4ErbBDMaV1 in reply to DynamicWebPaige 08:28:14, 2022-07-08
@CatalystCoop @rufuspollock @lunarpunk_0x @USFWC @bhccoops @NASCOcoop @FiqusCoop It's sad but I think some part of… https://t.co/Tg5Zvtgdpq in reply to CatalystCoop 08:22:58, 2022-07-08
@SarahdawnH 😡 in reply to SarahdawnH 08:09:06, 2022-07-08
If you collect the data it will escape eventually! Usually I think it's not quite this easy though. https://t.co/ll98oTKZZo 20:19:19, 2022-07-06
@ericmbudd Maybe instead of making the building a historic landmark, they could specifically landmark the very lack of housing itself. in reply to ericmbudd 20:12:07, 2022-07-06
@__AlexMonahan__ @CatalystCoop @jrdntgn @getdbt @duckdb @simonw Right now we do a bunch of data processing in Pytho… https://t.co/LWk4BjEl7N in reply to __AlexMonahan__ 18:31:43, 2022-07-06
@bolderbekah Ugh. As a kid we often heard a hail of birdshot falling on our corrugated steel roof as people shot at… https://t.co/qWXkBLhRWv in reply to bolderbekah 17:25:48, 2022-07-06
@yuvipanda @googlecloud Uh oh. in reply to yuvipanda 17:17:07, 2022-07-06
@__AlexMonahan__ @CatalystCoop @jrdntgn @getdbt @duckdb @simonw Given that pandas (and dask?) dataframes are also s… https://t.co/VQMc558Ft7 in reply to __AlexMonahan__ 11:29:31, 2022-07-06
RT @CatalystCoop: A rich conversation between @lunarpunk_0x & @rufuspollock about what enables or holds back the development of worker coop… 09:55:24, 2022-07-06
@constans @DeanPreston @AaronPeskin Because the cost per unit of single-family housing is much, much higher than fo… https://t.co/oULNHCoGLw in reply to constans 07:10:36, 2022-07-06
Daaaaayuuuum. 🔥🍿 https://t.co/dplkmP3RlK 19:01:50, 2022-07-05
@erinoverturf Lol, if only they were shaped like crabs @cmgosnell in reply to erinoverturf 18:13:11, 2022-07-05
How would this interact with the massive proposed expansion of the 45Q tax credits? https://t.co/44TrLJA1YF 18:12:10, 2022-07-05
@welcomehomebldr Well, it's the beginning of the rainy season, so I'm sure I'll find out conclusively soon. in reply to welcomehomebldr 18:06:22, 2022-07-05
@welcomehomebldr So far it's seemed pretty sandy. Not sure what the underlying geology is. in reply to welcomehomebldr 16:31:01, 2022-07-05
@thebmbennett 👀
https://t.co/oAGqHsQ543 16:17:05, 2022-07-05
@welcomehomebldr So far I think it's the kind of riding you would like. Cool and cloudy to partly cloudy, lots of d… https://t.co/WQAkewfpR5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:38:47, 2022-07-05
@__AlexMonahan__ @CatalystCoop @jrdntgn @getdbt @duckdb @simonw But it seems like of course it would be better to h… https://t.co/hzpGy1fuLK in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:25:08, 2022-07-05
@__AlexMonahan__ @CatalystCoop @jrdntgn @getdbt @duckdb @simonw Is there a good explanation somewhere of the differ… https://t.co/Ap8yiciNRF in reply to __AlexMonahan__ 13:23:49, 2022-07-05
RT @CatalystCoop: Really interesting discussion between @jrdntgn & @getdbt about when data should come to the user, when it should go to wh… 08:48:10, 2022-07-05
But instead of rapidly industrializing a huge backward country, the US gets cheap tilapia at Costco and Whole Foods… https://t.co/kY04yRZZA0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:50:15, 2022-07-04
@DavidPomerantz @daveregrets Now if only Chevron were literally dead. in reply to DavidPomerantz 18:06:14, 2022-07-04
Structurally, this doesn't seem so far from the way the US carceral system sets people up for repeat prison terms t… https://t.co/s5yxdhbuus in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:55:16, 2022-07-04
Another disturbing parallel: in 1937 a huge wave of political prisoners were sent to the gulag camps with 10 year s… https://t.co/jH8X7kCwr3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:50:27, 2022-07-04
It's been months (!) since I went for a bike ride. So far the roads here seem nice. Got rained on at the end, just… https://t.co/aYd7PUSKRo 15:21:09, 2022-07-04
RT @elisabethepps: “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July' speech: http… 09:50:53, 2022-07-04
It made me think of the Uighur labor camps in Xinjiang, churning out low-cost solar panels, and the prisoners Calif… https://t.co/2cenoR978x in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:48:52, 2022-07-04
I listened to a lot of Dark Sun (the making of the hydrogen bomb) while driving cross country. It includes some gra… https://t.co/YNBCg3Wc5k 09:44:18, 2022-07-04
@ericmbudd It seems like a great opportunity to highlight the similarities between their strategy and the GOP. in reply to ericmbudd 09:11:53, 2022-07-04
@ericmbudd HA! The benefits are clear, they just don't accrue to Sam's party! in reply to ericmbudd 09:04:50, 2022-07-04
Even if folks catch it "just" once a year, what's the cumulative effect going to be over decades? https://t.co/XqQbotdatV 21:02:54, 2022-07-03

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