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Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-19 to 2022-06-25

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-06-26
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-19 to 2022-06-25

The centralized administrative state, selectively withering away. https://t.co/nuwSK3gfsn 16:31:49, 2022-06-25
@ericmbudd In a world that seems to be run by clowns. in reply to ericmbudd 22:34:51, 2022-06-24
RT @GalaCF: Just in case you were thinking the political does not come into the technical #geospatial #osm maps open access, they also crea… 12:55:15, 2022-06-24
@thebmbennett https://t.co/rjtuY3aM7y in reply to thebmbennett 12:54:32, 2022-06-24
@CHThiem Is this the ✨informal economy✨? in reply to CHThiem 09:13:27, 2022-06-24
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an idgaf. https://t.co/Svhm4IxG6w 22:23:54, 2022-06-23
@thebmbennett I'm sorry, because timezones. in reply to thebmbennett 22:15:54, 2022-06-23
@simonw But then again it has been more than 5 years! in reply to simonw 16:15:47, 2022-06-23
RT @mattjay: Imagine being in infosec and proudly announcing all the false positives you blocked. https://t.co/fIIQ05BWNj 10:19:35, 2022-06-23
Finally, Republicans can vote for popular gun control laws safe in the knowledge that they will have no impact! https://t.co/5l4lGwUvWs 10:15:00, 2022-06-23
Is this ✨negative engineering✨? in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:28:44, 2022-06-23
Well at least now in addition to not predicting anything my ML model is also not producing any error messages. 23:08:26, 2022-06-22
RT @ReinH: brb adding this clause to MIT and calling it the "fuck machine learning" or FML License https://t.co/7p6QJAUsFL 13:44:59, 2022-06-22
"We have been invited to a very strange party… where you get to have a consciousness. But it's made out of meat."
https://t.co/VjVQhdzY2m 18:49:34, 2022-06-21
From this paper:
https://t.co/bmTsAp6VSO in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:33:31, 2022-06-21
A fun little app to explore what city your city will feel like later this century. It looks like it's only for the… https://t.co/q5J140D7r6 18:32:47, 2022-06-21
Doooooooomed. https://t.co/pRNHYWaLTG 16:52:34, 2022-06-21
Get on it Baphomet! https://t.co/LlMyTkEWM9 https://t.co/5StcpiW4Co 16:32:59, 2022-06-21
@ericmbudd Whenever someone comes up with some subtle new angle I think of this.
"Don't worry, if SCOTUS guts the… https://t.co/pFEWfgbOaO in reply to ericmbudd 13:43:04, 2022-06-21
Y también tal vez a ustedes dos les gustaría conocerse @GalaCF y @darkolina! in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:00:43, 2022-06-21
@choldgraf @yuvipanda All brain freeze all the time. in reply to choldgraf 11:17:30, 2022-06-21
@ntnsndr @SarahdawnH @ericmbudd @LilaHickey @alanawlsn @MehdiHeris @darkolina @Olivia_R_Will @CHThiem Oh… https://t.co/mioavKTXXP in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:40:02, 2022-06-21
Lots of interesting business & organizational models waiting to be explored that are profitable but not profit-maxi… https://t.co/TAgbTLKhSm 10:37:08, 2022-06-21
Same. https://t.co/MW2xTu8HEV 11:24:06, 2022-06-20
@SorenSpicknall Onion Flats in Philadelphia has done some great affordable townhome developments, meeting very high… https://t.co/zwnDa5XW19 in reply to SorenSpicknall 09:34:38, 2022-06-20
@ElephantEating Do you know off the top of your head how this compares to electric bikes and/or electric cargo bikes? in reply to ElephantEating 14:51:42, 2022-06-19
RT @MichaelEWebber: It is springtime. https://t.co/GDGWFtEqjz 14:50:49, 2022-06-19
@Thatmushroom @ericmbudd It's just not axiomatically true without context, and it's exhausting to see everything flattened like this. in reply to Thatmushroom 14:39:09, 2022-06-19
@ericmbudd I don't know. It's the "Small is Beautiful" brainworm. in reply to ericmbudd 14:31:07, 2022-06-19
This is also probably one of the most fuel-efficient cargo vehicles ever built, in terms of energy consumed per ton… https://t.co/CkeDPKKXcU 13:50:36, 2022-06-19
The idea that a whole nation can build household wealth through land value inflation.
Also "free" parking. https://t.co/tSrpHm3jGS 13:48:14, 2022-06-19
I don't want the world. I just want your half. https://t.co/rfxQqxuEt6 13:15:35, 2022-06-19
I'm surprised to find myself torn between getting an M1 Mac and running Linux on a user-serviceable Framework lapto… https://t.co/CKXgT9Sw2O 12:58:00, 2022-06-19
@thebmbennett Oooh you're gonna have some toasty feet. in reply to thebmbennett 11:11:29, 2022-06-19

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-12 to 2022-06-18

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-06-19
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-12 to 2022-06-18

I mean what are the odds this ends up being highly correlated with crippling social anxiety? https://t.co/QyfNfsya20 22:03:50, 2022-06-18
@ericmbudd @thmscwlls @welcomehomebldr @400trix It's weird how asset inflation is considered "good" but inflation i… https://t.co/ykjHj1VpIS in reply to ericmbudd 17:17:55, 2022-06-18
@bendnorman I had no idea Alaska was so pedestrian friendly. https://t.co/b0jhvfWpND 09:53:36, 2022-06-18
The effort people put into not imagining cities built for people and bikes and trains is just 🤯 https://t.co/pan48UOLPL 22:20:55, 2022-06-17
@AaronBrockett12 Welp, I guess it's time to increase the minimum lot size. in reply to AaronBrockett12 22:14:25, 2022-06-17
I think the reason they do this and it works is that the lies are specifically crafted to be more viral than the tr… https://t.co/JSBIRwIilz 18:55:37, 2022-06-17
https://t.co/3T26c5Nael in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:15:12, 2022-06-17
https://t.co/Ihu7NmxLG2 https://t.co/qz7BCD73mg 14:09:21, 2022-06-17
RT @frictionlessd8a: In Africa, Asia or Latin America? We invite you to attend a discussion with @okfn & @LacunaFund about datasets for cli… 10:55:33, 2022-06-17
@SarahdawnH *sigh* https://t.co/qWlD5wDSqX in reply to SarahdawnH 06:32:42, 2022-06-17
@ummjackson I really liked Alexandra von Meier's "Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction" https://t.co/nCYZRxVDEg in reply to ummjackson 21:54:40, 2022-06-16
RT @jmcevoy_2: "The temporary death of democracy in Chile will be regrettable, but the blame lies clearly with Dr. Allende… Their coup wa… 21:51:54, 2022-06-16
I'm tired of being stuck in this "Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all." headspace. 20:40:27, 2022-06-16
@CaitlinAOdom And then I was like "Oh, Electric *Power* Systems, I see what you did there." in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:22:02, 2022-06-15
@CaitlinAOdom (after like 15 chapters on optimal power flow and reactive power and why we have three phase power an… https://t.co/JUzTpR04aV in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:20:16, 2022-06-15
@CaitlinAOdom I was shocked when I got to the last chapter of Sascha von Meier's book "Electric Power Systems" and… https://t.co/0dIC7zh7iO in reply to CaitlinAOdom 17:14:49, 2022-06-15
@lenazun @nostarch Oooy, @bendnorman ☝️ in reply to lenazun 16:55:48, 2022-06-15
Those years where sex-ed overlapped with messaging that said sex is a sin which is literally punishable by death by… https://t.co/a7lxgadtSu 14:35:28, 2022-06-15
@CHThiem Whoa. Flashback to the 80s. in reply to CHThiem 13:51:04, 2022-06-15
Reportedly 1/3 of all coal fired generation capacity is offline, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that t… https://t.co/p0zk6H3wvJ 07:17:05, 2022-06-15
@gwenwindflower More streaking on Twitter is clearly just what we all need. in reply to gwenwindflower 20:51:24, 2022-06-14
RT @NotNikyatu: Is she "difficult" or is she inhabiting a body you are not accustomed to taking orders from? 17:47:05, 2022-06-14
By proxy they control a substantial portion of the shareholder votes for every publicly traded company on earth. Wi… https://t.co/1xjuexzli6 16:33:38, 2022-06-14
@thebmbennett Haha, @cmgosnell was just scare quoting a "pull some data real quick" requiest this morning. in reply to thebmbennett 13:59:40, 2022-06-14
Hey! Come hang out with us and the pile of #energytwitter / #OpenData all-stars on our Advisory Board.
@priyald17… https://t.co/6DKsQOUEXV 13:11:54, 2022-06-14
My god it can also do 75% of parsing the FERC Form 1 data. https://t.co/u07cHJ5Ar4 07:50:19, 2022-06-14
RT @lenazun: the hallucinations are not the fun kind 22:25:51, 2022-06-13
RT @saylor: #NewProfilePic https://t.co/Y37Eam1Bcl 22:25:47, 2022-06-13
What Would Benjamin Graham Do? https://t.co/7BuQxqrb8q 22:20:28, 2022-06-13
I'm less worried about the alignment between AI and its creators than I am about the alignment between its creators and the rest of us. 15:39:34, 2022-06-13
@gschivley @CatalystCoop https://t.co/6g9q0VXu4X in reply to gschivley 14:45:24, 2022-06-13
Half of @CatalystCoop has had the 'rona over the last month and we don't even share an office. 10:56:15, 2022-06-13
@choldgraf https://t.co/OIgzxlAYen in reply to choldgraf 07:12:34, 2022-06-13
@astrokiwi I think I've heard enough delusional or bad-faith statements about things we're gonna do Real Soon Now,… https://t.co/wijKJ4En6b in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:55:14, 2022-06-12
I guess this is partly because I have a hard time trusting anybody who understands technology and isn't openly disturbed by where we're at. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:46:25, 2022-06-12
I wish I could separate my "data and software for work" list from my "living in a cyberpunk dystopia" list but at t… https://t.co/4sgTaxEaka 23:43:10, 2022-06-12
RT @Quinnae_Moon: Your emotions *are* real. Who you let yourself be in relation to your technological environment is real.
And tech compa… 23:38:49, 2022-06-12
RT @Quinnae_Moon: This is why the "is it sapient?" question, while theoretically interesting and one day important, really fades into irrel… 23:38:42, 2022-06-12
RT @Quinnae_Moon: We've all heard the joke about how people let wiretaps into their homes with Alexa et. al. But what about a wiretap you c… 23:38:18, 2022-06-12
@astrokiwi The atmosphere is keeping score. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:32:47, 2022-06-12
@astrokiwi It's super jarring. Especially alongside the narratives of progress that people (understandably!) want t… https://t.co/4gD8iFdIU6 in reply to astrokiwi 23:31:52, 2022-06-12
RT @arvindpawan1: It seems like college experience in the US is romanticized partly because kids have never been independent their whole li… 23:24:12, 2022-06-12
I want to believe I'll live to see it decline eventually. Or at least stop rising. But it's hard. https://t.co/DPUnsrm972 23:22:49, 2022-06-12
RT @modacitylife: To great uncertainty and controversy, in 2007, Ljubljana closed 12 hectares of its city center to private cars. Just 40%… 23:18:48, 2022-06-12
@drvolts This seems to be a big part of the narrative in Mexico resisting renewable energy projects, particularly b… https://t.co/bXR3s3kASG in reply to drvolts 23:17:00, 2022-06-12
What's more extraordinary about Epstein? That he did these horrible things? Or that he openly flaunted the fact tha… https://t.co/KxYo8VtDWL in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:36:07, 2022-06-12
Listening to this podcast, I can't help but wonder how many other men with comparable amounts of power are doing si… https://t.co/M4o0M1gQaE 13:32:24, 2022-06-12
@ericmbudd Is there a disk oligopoly? Is it just not a very competitive market? in reply to ericmbudd 10:02:02, 2022-06-12
@ericmbudd But I guess demand for storage has kind of saturated. Unless you're working with video or professional p… https://t.co/bFDrDZgs1f in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:00:32, 2022-06-12
@ericmbudd I looked up the old order, it was $136 in May 2018. Just seems different than my past experiences, where… https://t.co/sYzTKw1sz7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:58:55, 2022-06-12
@ericmbudd This is the one I've had for the last 4 years, and I think I bought it for ~$110. https://t.co/ys04hxpdbz in reply to ericmbudd 09:55:22, 2022-06-12
@ericmbudd I imagine that the fixed costs of having a disk at all (enclosure, power electronics, controller chips,… https://t.co/oSrNUylDZz in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:53:17, 2022-06-12
My external backup drive seems to have self-destructed after 4 years. I'd hoped to eventually replace it with an SS… https://t.co/dWpPIPO64A 09:48:35, 2022-06-12
@hankgreen In Mexico "milpa" specifically refers to small fields of corn typically companion planted with other cro… https://t.co/HkgO88n2fa in reply to hankgreen 09:42:32, 2022-06-12
It takes a heroic act of wilful ignorance by people in the US to imagine that these places are separate, or separab… https://t.co/IcCcWxR3ke in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:15:08, 2022-06-12
It's also ironic given how prevalent Mexican culture is in the western US! The border is obviously permeable! And m… https://t.co/goc6ie0Gqc in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:08:56, 2022-06-12
While from the north, it feels like a hard line, separating US from the Other.
This is ironic, given how easy it i… https://t.co/YFcWk33wfm in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:06:52, 2022-06-12
Sometimes the border feels like a one-way mirror. From the south, the US and Mexico are part of the same place. The… https://t.co/0AaUtX52yV in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:05:00, 2022-06-12
I just happened to sit down and the group's rendezvous point. She was the only person that showed up on time. Every… https://t.co/8cSHFIUUI0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:00:35, 2022-06-12
She's from Guadalajara, and her husband is from Nayarit. After the tour they're going to spend a few more weeks vis… https://t.co/HIUh968HTz in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:58:06, 2022-06-12
She's here on a tour… from Long Beach. The whole tour group is folks who moved from Mexico to the US. She lived… https://t.co/8sQufPVNYu in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:56:13, 2022-06-12
Initially this was kind of terrifying. I've been so holed up for so long. Real world human interaction feels strang… https://t.co/wx6iEt6kzP in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:52:52, 2022-06-12
This morning I almost just came straight back to my apartment — I'd started up the stairs already — and then deci… https://t.co/ryN5nsoeUM in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:50:21, 2022-06-12
I ran out of coffee last week, and decided not to use it as an opportunity to force myself out of the house once a… https://t.co/9SFnJoqtv9 08:49:12, 2022-06-12
This phrasing is great. Being "drawn to" conclusions, rather than drawing them, is an intrinsic part of being human… https://t.co/RnIl7GsmnW 08:46:43, 2022-06-12

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-05 to 2022-06-11

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-06-12
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-06-05 to 2022-06-11

Staring directly at the Sun for 45 minutes:
https://t.co/ilxqfpmhYJ 18:46:06, 2022-06-11
@astrokiwi How many different ways can we simultaneously break the sky? in reply to astrokiwi 00:54:06, 2022-06-11
It's like they're fighting over a limited pool of marks, and the grumpy old dudes are annoyed that their story no l… https://t.co/efI9dYLccc in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:07:22, 2022-06-10
I find it hilarious to watch hyperinflation goldbug commodity hawkers from 2008 calling out today's crypto scammers. 19:05:12, 2022-06-10
RT @polotek: "You really think people would elect a washed up reality show host who also clearly a bigot and a criminal?" 17:02:36, 2022-06-10
RT @polotek: "You really think we would go to war over nuclear arms that don't exist?"
"You really think people can be brainwashed into re… 17:02:14, 2022-06-10
RT @polotek: White dudes be like "you really think the majority of the population would go along with passing laws to discriminate against… 17:02:07, 2022-06-10
@SarahdawnH Have you seen War Witch? It takes place against the backdrop of the coltan mines.
https://t.co/VejBU3hlsX in reply to SarahdawnH 09:42:11, 2022-06-10
Round and round and round we go. https://t.co/dPHwNXVMcN 22:11:32, 2022-06-09
"Oh whoops, it turns out that whole batch was fraudulent and today the market price for permanent removal is $500/t… https://t.co/rSjrcKYeRY in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:06:31, 2022-06-09
I suspect offsets & credits will remain irredeemably scammy, but sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone w… https://t.co/8BpGLUczp4 22:02:22, 2022-06-09
It's funny how long a show that's a full hour long feels, after you've seen a bunch of 42 minute episodes.
Also, T… https://t.co/OmZH3i71Rg 21:46:57, 2022-06-09
@SarahdawnH "I realize than an increase in the amount of affordable housing limits the appreciation on existing hom… https://t.co/uXQIzoxGXN in reply to SarahdawnH 21:36:06, 2022-06-09
@thebmbennett I like big bots and I cannot lie 🤖 in reply to thebmbennett 16:10:55, 2022-06-09
@CatalystCoop "And now a word from our sponsors." in reply to CatalystCoop 16:03:42, 2022-06-09
@CatalystCoop @agelston But really we only use Python. in reply to CatalystCoop 15:05:46, 2022-06-09
@SarahdawnH https://t.co/dlhk0d0Qku in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:57, 2022-06-09
@SarahdawnH Okay but what about the lesson on gay pirate marriage? Surely they didn't remove that from the curricul… https://t.co/FYoD4lcr5j in reply to SarahdawnH 12:45:06, 2022-06-09
It seems like there are wildly diverging ideas in the US about what constitutes abuse worthy of punishment and what… https://t.co/xVME6CDzwv in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:40:06, 2022-06-09
this is happening
https://t.co/pnxGnV3NVL in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:21:56, 2022-06-09
This is happening, and also… https://t.co/hAzSsPZIIy 12:21:55, 2022-06-09
@ChuckKutscher @JesseJenkins @Arne_JJ I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out but, it seems like this is a… https://t.co/FA7xbicOoN in reply to ChuckKutscher 10:17:23, 2022-06-09
@thmscwlls @bendnorman ☝️ in reply to thmscwlls 09:04:21, 2022-06-09
@ChuckKutscher @JesseJenkins @Arne_JJ Who knows if it can be cheap enough to compete, but the Natrium reactor desig… https://t.co/h9sGyEDVWh in reply to ChuckKutscher 09:03:14, 2022-06-09
@DavidPomerantz Is one really wondering though? in reply to DavidPomerantz 23:38:56, 2022-06-08
RT @GalaxyKate: Rich people realizing that Great Artists can be rented for pennies
+ Proudly displaying both Revenge and Cringe commissions… 23:37:41, 2022-06-08
@drvolts The IRS revoking your 501(c)3 status. in reply to drvolts 23:34:41, 2022-06-08
@drvolts The procrastination vibe is so strong. in reply to drvolts 18:08:56, 2022-06-08
@ericmbudd I liked the tweets about how 2/3 of his followers are bots. in reply to ericmbudd 16:44:57, 2022-06-08
@daveregrets "To remember forever to forget…"
https://t.co/v5m0Pl8pfy in reply to daveregrets 23:35:40, 2022-06-07
@ericmbudd Okay but what about the book sales? in reply to ericmbudd 21:47:44, 2022-06-07
@LucasCohen12 Right now it's either altruism (philanthropy), PR, an attempt to help jumpstart solutions which will… https://t.co/gnxxixvxLP in reply to LucasCohen12 17:37:33, 2022-06-07
@CatalystCoop And the external backup drive is still around here somewhere in one of these drawers and we have a SCSI adapter dongle. in reply to CatalystCoop 17:28:36, 2022-06-07
These are indistinguishable from actual US bike/ped infrastructure in terms of their functionality. Someone should… https://t.co/XMTM2IpekL 15:36:15, 2022-06-07
RT @Gritty20202: there's a lot to unpack here https://t.co/KLhVxufH4p 00:08:43, 2022-06-07
RT @daveregrets: This is a really nice section of the recent NYT piece about choosing to have kids despite the climate crisis. I've talked… 00:06:05, 2022-06-07
A poignant vignette about the situation of the Ukrainian railway system today. Before the war it carried 80% of the… https://t.co/8mQhiSaMRU 21:16:04, 2022-06-06
RT @mikamckinnon: Is it time to sing it again already?
🎶Earth is Easy Mode🎶

Always & forever, attempting to create habitability anywhere… 18:39:16, 2022-06-06
Maybe Uncle Joe has finally given up on the Bituminous G.O.B. https://t.co/dxIdyWPjV1 16:50:17, 2022-06-06
lolsobbing while I talk to a former Google contractor who says they had her use a personal Gmail account and consta… https://t.co/MxAioIUnGq 15:34:28, 2022-06-06
A great fast-paced exploration of how to portray morally ambiguous characters well, and why it's important to do so… https://t.co/emXQEOofvC 22:23:59, 2022-06-05
This sounds similar to Colorado, where agriculture is ~2.5% of gross state product, but uses ~85% of the water the… https://t.co/TJwXGPdGjH 15:35:01, 2022-06-05
@kptrease ~10W/m^2 is the average power output across a whole year (so incorporating both diurnal and seasonal vari… https://t.co/xb8xGEHk5I in reply to kptrease 15:23:17, 2022-06-05
It must be weird to accidentally inspire a bunch of people to do things you don't really agree with. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:42:04, 2022-06-05
I've loved me a lot of KSR books. It's weird that the RGB Mars series was kind of taken up as a rallying narrative… https://t.co/ERVPRczsqQ 14:40:49, 2022-06-05
@KevinSLeahy Yeah, I don't ever remember seeing any burbs or traffic jams! People do seem to bop around all over th… https://t.co/6VGSLJwKRa in reply to KevinSLeahy 14:34:21, 2022-06-05
@kptrease The global average is around 2.5kW per capita. Bangladesh is at the low end of big countries with ~300W.… https://t.co/u3rJCPLlUZ in reply to kptrease 14:26:12, 2022-06-05
I love Star Trek, but I don't think this is that kind of future. Honestly I don't feel like I've seen much of this… https://t.co/LGOixdBi6d in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:22:41, 2022-06-05
Personally I think that beyond a certain point increased quantity of consumption has pretty steeply diminishing ret… https://t.co/YCcmEf87Bu in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:18:12, 2022-06-05
Or do we intend to change the nature of economic and technological development to accommodate limits as needed?
Ar… https://t.co/Eu8XJVETP1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:09:10, 2022-06-05
I don't think we've (consciously) decided which kind of world the current push for energy transition is supposed to… https://t.co/MOymqfZFZ9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:05:56, 2022-06-05
If you want egalitarian access to large amounts of energy and a large population, then you can do low power-density… https://t.co/SooIcslKcX in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:00:38, 2022-06-05
Or you could have a civilization that accepts limits to energy consumption, and instead channels economic and techn… https://t.co/IHZfuVdOxX in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:53:01, 2022-06-05
If there's extremely energy intensive futuristic technology, it wouldn't be accessible to a large number of people.… https://t.co/rqWsW5WnyH in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:49:32, 2022-06-05
Renewable energy fluxes at ground level are unavoidably diffuse. I think a civilization that relies on them will ha… https://t.co/PAB1Taahv4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:46:56, 2022-06-05
1e15[W] / 50[W/m^2] / 1e6[m^2/km^2] = 2e7 km^2 = 20 million square kilometers.
This is slightly more than the lan… https://t.co/BeqUoYsEMA in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:40:36, 2022-06-05
100kW x 1e10 people = 1e15W
Today PV produces on the order ~10W per square meter. Say they get approach the quantu… https://t.co/CRLmsjXSwW in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:35:22, 2022-06-05
The *mean* US rate of total per-capita energy consumption is ~10kW. At the upper end of the income/consumption spec… https://t.co/sZQMeg2GiO in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:26:04, 2022-06-05
Earth in Star Trek is supposed to be pretty egalitarian. Everyone seems to have access to the technology of the day… https://t.co/GjZBlwDUW3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:22:17, 2022-06-05
As far as I can tell the Star Trek universe is one in which humanity has transcended scarcity not by developing a s… https://t.co/E6pTBkJzes in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:09:35, 2022-06-05
RT @daveregrets: I wouldn't characterize myself as a degrowth person, but like, how much of both boils down to the unstated inviolable prin… 13:03:31, 2022-06-05

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-29 to 2022-06-04

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-06-05
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-29 to 2022-06-04

@kevpluck Okay but what if you put it on the blockchain? in reply to kevpluck 23:27:30, 2022-06-04
RT @adamconover: This headline from the @LATimes isn't just blatantly false and misleading; it's also the result of a years-long propaganda… 23:14:03, 2022-06-04
"DeFi community members who claim to have spoken with Andy say that he has refused to return the funds, and that he… https://t.co/TJha35pngX in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:24:59, 2022-06-04
"the Indexed team and an ad-hoc war room of industry experts convened to mitigate the damage and gather information… https://t.co/4mVz6zFmrc in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:23:51, 2022-06-04
"[T]he error was in fact an attack launched from an Ethereum address funded by privacy mixer Tornado Cash. From tha… https://t.co/kk1vNO4QC5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:22:35, 2022-06-04
This is gonna make for an amazing PhD dissertation.
https://t.co/QlRYedOVxI 22:19:02, 2022-06-04
I'm sure this is fine. https://t.co/5IDsXF9cIB 22:14:15, 2022-06-04
@lenazun Is the government adopting some kind of freemium business model for goats? How do they attain goat lock-in? in reply to lenazun 22:12:04, 2022-06-04
It feels jarring to see wind turbines in Montana in the Star Trek universe. As if that future is on a different tim… https://t.co/ShoIgnlLht 21:50:49, 2022-06-04
What if it was illegal to lie to the public, like it's illegal to lie to your investors? It blows my mind that ofte… https://t.co/PlPmSDAMkb 21:25:32, 2022-06-04
Hey, we're just asking some questions. https://t.co/S8EKgQjyHy 20:13:12, 2022-06-04
RT @Cienciaymas_: Este pequeño video muestra una revolución completa alrededor de un agujero negro simulado y su disco de acreción siguiend… 20:09:37, 2022-06-04
@drvolts ☝️ @NuclearAnthro Did this kind of movie just suddenly stop getting made after the Cold War? in reply to drvolts 20:07:55, 2022-06-04
@bolderbekah With a lot of the TikTok music it also ends up feeling like maybe there *is* no canonical mix — like… https://t.co/Q35xHyGSgB in reply to bolderbekah 16:04:50, 2022-06-04
@darkolina Uy, tengo que tumbarme. in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:25:22, 2022-06-04
@darkolina también más y más como mágico. in reply to darkolina 03:24:30, 2022-06-04
@darkolina Ah, el mercado tan libre, tan valiente. 🙃 in reply to darkolina 03:18:19, 2022-06-04
@darkolina O tal vez la idea de las "generaciones" va a cambiar tambíen, si nadie puede conocer todas las herramien… https://t.co/ylH3micusr in reply to darkolina 03:12:32, 2022-06-04
@darkolina No, no la conozco. in reply to darkolina 03:07:19, 2022-06-04
@darkolina las herramientas del poder se cambian, pero el poder sigue. in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:06:40, 2022-06-04
@darkolina Podemos entender una dimension de cambio sociotecnológio, o dos, or tres, pero nadie puede entender como… https://t.co/HGd0nWasDt in reply to ZaneSelvans 03:05:20, 2022-06-04
@darkolina Me parece que generaciones distintos viven en mundos tecnologícos separados. Y las cortinas que separan… https://t.co/66Kh26bIcH in reply to darkolina 03:02:42, 2022-06-04
RT @FreyaHolmer: I have a looming feeling AI generated art will devour the economic sustainability of being an illustrator
not because ar… 02:47:51, 2022-06-04
Somehow "I been trying not to go off the deep end" really resonated with me in late 2020. in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:37:35, 2022-06-04
I'd assumed that the catchy music on TikTok was being imported from elsewhere in the pop culture universe (which I'… https://t.co/SPhMq19Wqr in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:35:48, 2022-06-04
The other day I made a playlist of songs that I've (at some point) put on infinite repeat during the pandemic and t… https://t.co/ejKUjnyCU2 01:32:14, 2022-06-04
Do you have thoughts about this @darkolina? in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:04:23, 2022-06-04
The AI art scene is going to be weird. It seems like it's going to take over a lot of graphic design & illustration… https://t.co/LM0Wkxltc4 01:03:48, 2022-06-04
They're feel more thoughtful and nerdy and less flamboyant than the other live-aboard sailing channels I've seen. A… https://t.co/rUSDejsv7c in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:51:35, 2022-06-03
I told myself if I made it through all the refit episodes and was still engaged I would subscribe, so here we are!… https://t.co/vQ9cEAEk7C in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:48:25, 2022-06-03
I just want to publicly admit I am the one who requested the successful deployment emoji. 😎🌈🦄 https://t.co/ztKaggCZAk 22:33:41, 2022-06-03
@ClimateTown Which just makes me think it's all intentionally dumb. It's not *that* hard to get across the general… https://t.co/WZAeWbJonk in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:29:51, 2022-06-03
Somehow this episode of @ClimateTown is both a wild simplification of oil markets, and way more nuanced than the ge… https://t.co/cOabWDptkP 22:21:21, 2022-06-03
"What is this, a throwback to the nineteen seventies?"
"No, it's a throw-forward to the twenty I don't give a fucks." 21:16:55, 2022-06-03
@drvolts @ColumbiaUEnergy just had a good discussion of the role that refiners & refinery capacity play in determin… https://t.co/5kQZ76gHls in reply to drvolts 16:24:12, 2022-06-03
Maybe someday fusion changes this set of tradeoffs substantially, but that's not going to make any difference for d… https://t.co/zIyUaEMrT1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:38:47, 2022-06-03
@WithoutHotAir There is no way to have a global energy system at the scale of 20-100 Terawatts without big impacts.… https://t.co/Gt4qBqxcE2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:36:53, 2022-06-03
@WithoutHotAir And the current plan is definitely *not* to maintain current levels of energy consumption, but rathe… https://t.co/ptepabUwWm in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:33:03, 2022-06-03
The late David JC MacKay also wrote a wonderfully accessible book about it in 2008 called Sustainable Energy… https://t.co/03Ikr5mpCl in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:27:00, 2022-06-03
Also the vast scale required for a global transition to renewable energy *even without increasing overall energy co… https://t.co/bejBTzvu76 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:24:45, 2022-06-03
I don't understand how renewable energy advocates are surprised by pushback against land use changes and developmen… https://t.co/eEvEgM6NKT 15:22:25, 2022-06-03
How did I not know that @juliakent has all these great recent albums? Love her mysterious looping atmospheric cello… https://t.co/ArIP32KfsI 09:55:34, 2022-06-03
@LilaHickey Internet sad. in reply to LilaHickey 19:19:33, 2022-06-02
🏳️‍🌈 🚀 🤖 💀 https://t.co/bxpLIJY1nl 19:17:37, 2022-06-02
"Aqui estamos, siempre estamos, no nos fuimos, no nos vamos."
https://t.co/n9Cs11KFiz in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:53:20, 2022-06-02
The brutality of colonization isn't some distant historical fact. It's part of living memory on both sides. https://t.co/xwpa97mUVz 12:46:10, 2022-06-02
RT @cfiesler: re: Musk forcing employees to return to office. Recently the director of ML at Apple quit over a return-to-work policy. Devel… 12:40:03, 2022-06-02
RT @IanColdwater: the real life version of this is funnier, where the cops said that anarchists are hard to infiltrate because they read to… 20:41:02, 2022-06-01
@ericmbudd I mean, maybe it would go over well in Wyoming?! in reply to ericmbudd 20:33:19, 2022-06-01
I feel like the last time I saw a study like this the missing deaths were "didn't nod off while driving"
Like we d… https://t.co/tLipaEDbbQ 18:59:31, 2022-06-01
@joshdr83 @ERCOT_ISO How much impact is this crazy tariff / dumping dispute having? in reply to joshdr83 17:47:00, 2022-06-01
RT @CatalystCoop: This was a great conversation about a not-so-great policy situation. Hopefully CARB will provide some firm and constructi… 16:30:59, 2022-06-01
@btx91 It was probably this: https://t.co/laknlQhQQG in reply to btx91 02:20:29, 2022-06-01
In related news YouTube put The Epic of Gilgamesh (in Sumerian) in my personalized "Independent Music" mix. Which, okay fair enough. in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:33:00, 2022-06-01
The attack surface for climate policy delay is unfathomably large if every concern and objection is taken seriously… https://t.co/RpA1EWPBTX 23:57:41, 2022-05-31
"Si quieres mi machete, te muerde."
https://t.co/n9Cs11KFiz 23:39:55, 2022-05-31
Of course my first impulse was to clean it up (you can uncheck things you're not interested in!) because neurotic d… https://t.co/uiCyCC76dO in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:14:09, 2022-05-31
I just looked at the list of things Twitter thinks I am interested in for ad targeting, and it is gloriously, comic… https://t.co/VQZZgOxnny 23:08:50, 2022-05-31
@ericmbudd Hey cops know better than to talk to cops. in reply to ericmbudd 22:54:42, 2022-05-31
Sadly the dependabot has now stopped merging its own PRs. wtf man? You were doing so good there for a little while. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:54:02, 2022-05-31
Note: I started with Season 4 which covers their *extensive* (snowballing?) refit of a 36' blue-water cruiser that… https://t.co/MCQSlRag64 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:18:19, 2022-05-31
Explosive growth in solar + storage, and record high carbon emissions every year for decades are not mutually exclusive. 12:08:57, 2022-05-31
What even are words? https://t.co/N9OwwKTvKT 12:06:53, 2022-05-31
I think I may have binge-watched 8 hours of Sailing Magic Carpet this weekend.
https://t.co/jLDvdDSaRN 12:04:16, 2022-05-31
I'm unreasonably satisfied by watching the dependabot and pre-commit-ci autoupdate bot merge their own PRs when all… https://t.co/c4G5LXala6 09:13:31, 2022-05-31
A case study in malicious compliance. https://t.co/7xR53y5mu6 21:09:29, 2022-05-30
Okay fine @Apple, your anti-repair fucker has inspired me to put in an order for one of the new @FrameworkPuter lap… https://t.co/AciMfzPoJI 21:04:16, 2022-05-30
@TrentonPB @ElephantEating @drvolts A pox be upon them. in reply to TrentonPB 20:38:20, 2022-05-30
@duncan__c I thought this was a nice concise explanation by @samfromwendover that I came across during the gazpacho… https://t.co/lwk9Ez9vMJ in reply to duncan__c 18:01:53, 2022-05-30
@ElephantEating @drvolts It seems like new versions of these schemes keep coming out every few months, getting medi… https://t.co/cytHR20tvd in reply to ElephantEating 17:48:27, 2022-05-30
@glyph @SwiftOnSecurity ✨emergent properties✨ in reply to glyph 14:27:25, 2022-05-30
@drvolts @ElephantEating IIRC the fundamental problem is that gravity is a weak force compared the electromagnetic… https://t.co/UkTxnNfFmj in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:51:17, 2022-05-30
@drvolts @ElephantEating He refers back to it periodically when one of these gravity storage schemes comes up: https://t.co/2AOkFn4Vh6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:49:44, 2022-05-30
@drvolts @ElephantEating has a thread detailing the issues with this type of energy storage. in reply to drvolts 13:44:02, 2022-05-30
@KetanJ0 @Guay_JG Does the company or the (former) board have financial entanglements with the coal producers? in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:26, 2022-05-30
@KetanJ0 @Guay_JG Does the recent election outcome have anything to do with their capitulation or is it totally independent? in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:43:55, 2022-05-30
@KetanJ0 @Guay_JG Just because the wholesale generation utility wouldn't have any direct customer relationship? How… https://t.co/8Dc3NmtTn5 in reply to KetanJ0 12:42:37, 2022-05-30
@KetanJ0 @Guay_JG But why did management feel so strongly about preserving the coal plants? And financially or in t… https://t.co/GNvcyHzEtD in reply to KetanJ0 11:52:39, 2022-05-30
Would love to hear a conversation between @leahstokes and @GriffithSaul about what's going on here. Maybe a… https://t.co/mgfxBiAHYt 11:21:37, 2022-05-30
@Guay_JG Have you seen any good in-depth explanations of his strategy here? What makes it so important to keep the… https://t.co/9DPebfyZJT in reply to Guay_JG 11:12:48, 2022-05-30
@S_HastingsSimon @leahstokes @KHayhoe I enjoyed Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction by Sacha von Meie… https://t.co/KZ845ZJHt8 in reply to S_HastingsSimon 10:56:11, 2022-05-30
Relatedly, from around the gazpacho incident:
https://t.co/2LhNH9RpE0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:15:11, 2022-05-30
@aetiology @jtgriff0n10 Maybe she's just got a devious social media manager/speech writer? This came up during the… https://t.co/FO0gCN09Ou in reply to aetiology 10:11:57, 2022-05-30
Apparently it's possible for tech billionaires to buy companies and not get all Dr. Evil about it.
https://t.co/REihtOp32A 00:56:26, 2022-05-30
@jtgriff0n10 @aetiology This is an intentional social media engagement strategy. The irresistible dunking tells all… https://t.co/gSOcBz9bJ7 in reply to jtgriff0n10 21:55:43, 2022-05-29
This is an intentional strategy to drive engagement and increase online reach by encouraging viral dunking. Don't t… https://t.co/eUOZMJyDDS 21:35:09, 2022-05-29
Wow, respect to the Sphinx maintainers for releasing a major update exactly when they said they would! https://t.co/U91boMzRqh 21:30:11, 2022-05-29
RT @JacquelynGill: 😭😭😭 https://t.co/XwVyPbhG5Z 21:24:37, 2022-05-29
@lenazun No bike lanes, only híperloops 🙃 in reply to lenazun 21:14:54, 2022-05-29
@DynamicWebPaige Any society represented by that set of potential passions is not well. in reply to DynamicWebPaige 00:10:08, 2022-05-29

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-22 to 2022-05-28

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-05-29
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-22 to 2022-05-28

Love, Death, and Robots. https://t.co/XECHxufyB2 23:22:57, 2022-05-28
Okay Imma log off and distract myself either by reading about the history of @Enspiral in Better Work Together… https://t.co/kTapDUP2Op in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:03:47, 2022-05-28
"Everyone is a mess right now." Okay, but will it ever not be right now again?
I'm increasingly skeptical. 14:46:23, 2022-05-28
@LilaHickey They need some better stalker ML in there that can tell whether you were already doing a good job of ig… https://t.co/w673km7ETx in reply to LilaHickey 14:35:54, 2022-05-28
Even more strangely, we don't generally seem inclined to make use of this capability. https://t.co/XPQ7mprCqs 13:37:13, 2022-05-28
@drvolts Harry Potter and the Jet Fighter of Azkaban. in reply to drvolts 13:29:53, 2022-05-28
Why can't the US create collectively owned, affordable, community housing? Occupancy limits, parking requirements,… https://t.co/nXCRuaGyTV in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:00:35, 2022-05-28
Why does the US build lots of gas pipelines and not electricity transmission lines? Pipelines have eminent domain p… https://t.co/ANleC06Nvn in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:49:42, 2022-05-28
Meanwhile real policies are still being made out of sight, often through indirect, boring, hard to understand proce… https://t.co/6BtqEZnTXo in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:46:19, 2022-05-28
This is a particularly nefarious kind of predatory delay. A simulation of a political system that consumes everyone… https://t.co/LVNj6cjww9 12:40:30, 2022-05-28
RT @polotek: I feel like one of the biggest problems we face is that American politics is full of shit. But people keep acting like they ha… 12:35:11, 2022-05-28
RT @SarahTaber_bww: It's why in the majority of US states, anybody can circumvent any of these laws just by selling guns through "private s… 12:29:39, 2022-05-28
RT @SarahTaber_bww: Yep. It's not just about US sales either.
70% of the guns in Mexico are sourced from LEGAL sales in US. ~200K guns/yr.… 12:29:32, 2022-05-28
@DinosGonatas @duncan__c I dunno, they seem to kind of have a losing kink. in reply to DinosGonatas 11:56:39, 2022-05-28
@LilaHickey I get a kick out of how Vanguard always puts up these banners on their site about whatever the current… https://t.co/BQfa8m9RCh in reply to LilaHickey 11:54:18, 2022-05-28
Okay but do these psychologists work for Jeff Bezos or what? https://t.co/b2IpC5m0YV 17:38:04, 2022-05-27
@opencollect It may be an arcane, global network of financial entities… but instead of being secret, it's totally… https://t.co/yNVhlsx7QM in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:51:43, 2022-05-27
After a week of research I think @OpenCollect is a kind of inversion of the shady offshore tax-havens and shell com… https://t.co/KWO0dGaNkS 00:47:36, 2022-05-27
It's wild that there are still women in Texas. https://t.co/jlBhaSsml3 00:37:25, 2022-05-27
@thebmbennett I dunno if that's just a PGH problem. in reply to thebmbennett 19:51:07, 2022-05-26
@DynamicWebPaige 😢 in reply to DynamicWebPaige 23:22:16, 2022-05-25
@agelston @EnergyCredit1 @CatalystCoop @gschivley @cmgosnell @emilygrubert "One could make all kinds of REDACTED us… https://t.co/HU3usFnC14 in reply to agelston 21:32:05, 2022-05-25
@gschivley @CatalystCoop @cmgosnell @emilygrubert @agelston However this *does* give us a clear deadline to remove… https://t.co/h2dyMgGkXv in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:22:07, 2022-05-25
@gschivley @CatalystCoop @cmgosnell @emilygrubert @agelston No, the previous API also didn't have that stuff, which… https://t.co/ALoNhYuhZt in reply to gschivley 21:20:31, 2022-05-25
@CatalystCoop @gschivley @cmgosnell @emilygrubert @agelston Hmm, it looks like generation and fuel consumption are… https://t.co/hOfwq2zQca in reply to CatalystCoop 15:57:31, 2022-05-25
tfw you can tell from the vibes and vague tweets that a mass shooting has occurred but you don't know the details s… https://t.co/oFOZq2B2Uc 15:51:02, 2022-05-24
@MyleneJac Miss you guys. in reply to MyleneJac 09:28:20, 2022-05-24
Every math textbook I ever used at @Caltech anyway. https://t.co/acnNh813DH 09:09:43, 2022-05-24
RT @dcastelvecchi: Basically every math textbook https://t.co/3tXCphcz0G 01:11:13, 2022-05-24
🤣💀
https://t.co/WzkzEbQzUZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 01:10:01, 2022-05-24
Maybe after the constitutional convention the US will have a government where a small third party can effectively w… https://t.co/SdMvTYp036 01:08:03, 2022-05-24
A song celebrating Mary Anning's work:
https://t.co/Ed3n1mQZBN in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:24:35, 2022-05-24
Relatedly, after a 4-year long campaign @MaryAnningRocks has just dedicated a statue of the pioneering paleontologi… https://t.co/wz4dCLJXpO in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:23:04, 2022-05-24
Women shouldn't [something something] motherhood. https://t.co/9egbD2hUNj 00:14:12, 2022-05-24
@hankgreen The Very Extended Phenotype in reply to hankgreen 00:07:00, 2022-05-24
Entonces, si fuera a pasar un rato en españa… https://t.co/4kFC2YFr9b 00:00:27, 2022-05-24
RT @KateRoseBee: Stop letting people’s boyfriends build tech stuff for your nonprofit/ mutual aid group/ direct service org.
I know every s… 23:55:53, 2022-05-23
Oceans are weird.
Cc: @vagina_museum https://t.co/NKwMnREkUh 20:59:58, 2022-05-23
@SarahdawnH So freakin' short. in reply to SarahdawnH 19:59:49, 2022-05-23
RT @histoftech: “Just because Uber hasn’t made money doesn’t mean it hasn’t made an impact. Tens of billions of dollars—a great deal coming… 18:34:37, 2022-05-23
@piamancini @CatalystCoop @opencollect @rufuspollock Oh my god it totally made my weekend. in reply to piamancini 13:37:24, 2022-05-23
So nourishing to hear from other people working on democratic organizations and steward ownership. https://t.co/xIOqkms0p1 11:15:08, 2022-05-23
@drvolts I wonder what it would look like if it was given in terms of the fraction of per capita electricity demand… https://t.co/vvaWNsY9X1 in reply to drvolts 23:16:27, 2022-05-22
The Klept.
"But an examination of the two men’s travels toward the end of the Trump presidency raises other questi… https://t.co/PQdvqRwgKJ 21:47:19, 2022-05-22
@LilaHickey This conversation with @piamancini was a great startup antivenom for me
https://t.co/EHd1mDqZpC in reply to LilaHickey 21:40:02, 2022-05-22
Quiero un paisaje poco más verde. Un espacio pequeño para invitados. Mejor acseso a las terracerías en bici. Un cam… https://t.co/xqc8Aw8vzV in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:20:48, 2022-05-22
Tengo una semana más para decidir si voy a reubicarme otra vez, o quedarme aquí en Guanajuato para seis meses más,… https://t.co/VyKxUugVW0 16:10:11, 2022-05-22
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: That "Google engineer" saying women shouldn't program is trawling for attention for his scam cryptocurrency. There's a… 13:17:39, 2022-05-22
@IanColdwater https://t.co/03kSBTgD0D in reply to IanColdwater 09:38:18, 2022-05-22
Oof. Yeah. https://t.co/F1yelOTg1g 01:05:07, 2022-05-22
@arvindpawan1 It's crazymaking. in reply to arvindpawan1 00:50:06, 2022-05-22

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-15 to 2022-05-21

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-05-22
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-15 to 2022-05-21

Is every generation going have this sense of the computational Before Times? I remember 5.25" floppies and LOGO and… https://t.co/PNunHaUAti 22:16:47, 2022-05-21
This is kind of like how you can ignore the cost of inverters, structures, and customer acquisition when solar pane… https://t.co/NbbnjHw5gR 19:53:50, 2022-05-21
Whoa, might Australia end up with a Well Hung Parliament @thejuicemedia?
https://t.co/s6P88XCZcg

https://t.co/PGLRkOJln0 16:39:21, 2022-05-21
@DynamicWebPaige Which didn't feel great, since I had hoped we'd be forced to transition away from it, rather than… https://t.co/fzU3fnXGsa in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:36:07, 2022-05-21
@DynamicWebPaige I read Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" in the mid-2000s Peak Oil narrative and it felt really similar!… https://t.co/4tUKabOzdI in reply to DynamicWebPaige 16:35:13, 2022-05-21
@DynamicWebPaige It's kinda dry, but seeing so many examples of the same dynamics over centuries (in that book and… https://t.co/1jZTPqW1js in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:11:41, 2022-05-21
@DynamicWebPaige I enjoyed the longer historical overview of market bubbles in first part of "A Random Walk Down Wa… https://t.co/xgrp5ahLM4 in reply to DynamicWebPaige 16:07:19, 2022-05-21
RT @EFF: We've learned this lesson before. Maybe we should just call it the Amazon Ring Hypothesis: Absent strict protections, any sensors… 14:54:17, 2022-05-21
RT @FrameShiftLLC: Reparations do exist – just for slave owners, not for the enslaved https://t.co/IOsIv9ZdEd 14:53:29, 2022-05-21
Mmmm, feedback networks. https://t.co/7SuMs70AQD 14:26:59, 2022-05-21
I guess one upside of my addiction to the intermittent reinforcement of updating my conda environments multiple tim… https://t.co/yWAzH9axba 13:27:08, 2022-05-21
A 50 line PR vs. a 1000 line PR: https://t.co/lDUtyuLLyu 13:09:45, 2022-05-21
My parents designed and built the house I grew up in. My dad wanted to build it with an underfloor plenum for heati… https://t.co/fRNBaVzHMX 23:43:05, 2022-05-20
"There is no story about wishing which is not a cautionary tale."
https://t.co/GFglHzyzi0 23:36:51, 2022-05-20
RT @Grady_Booch: @elonmusk tl/dr: Elon is in favor of free speech, but he is also in favor of suing you if he doesn't like what you say. 23:18:17, 2022-05-20
@SamanthaZeitlin Wow. That is some 🔥 marketing. 😬 in reply to SamanthaZeitlin 23:15:49, 2022-05-20
RT @lenazun: malware cartels need to do better market research in LatAm. if you attack in the last couple of months of an outgoing governm… 23:12:11, 2022-05-20
I was reading about the M777 artillery pieces the US sent to Ukraine. They're made of titanium and weigh 5000kg. Th… https://t.co/3C0OAgw1fO 23:10:24, 2022-05-20
@DustinMulvaney The bones of giants. in reply to DustinMulvaney 23:04:33, 2022-05-20
Marching band counted for PE. If you didn't want to deal with sports and jocks and locker room nudity it was the ob… https://t.co/D6MDxYjm1N in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:41:56, 2022-05-20
Jennifer, Shannon, another girl named Cara, and I shuffled around in the first four flute chairs. I think we all pl… https://t.co/sVftTazqQs in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:37:18, 2022-05-20
Lots of kids had two instruments: one for marching band, and one for concert band. Clarinet or oboe. Sousaphone or… https://t.co/wtKoNF8Cf5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:33:30, 2022-05-20
All the instruments were hierarchically organized. First flute, second flute, etc. There were auditions at the star… https://t.co/ZsTEoJaiVY in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:26:28, 2022-05-20
There was a flutist I often shared a stand with, Jennifer Bevington. She complained that her boobs would not stop g… https://t.co/slnY1qLnWN in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:23:44, 2022-05-20
I remember two sisters who played clarinets, Raquel who later died in childbirth, and her very butch twin. There wa… https://t.co/7fy5AJkfSn in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:17:47, 2022-05-20
Occasionally he would find himself on the verge of flying into a rage, throw down his baton with a guttural scream,… https://t.co/x970g1qe5M in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:10:19, 2022-05-20
"GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS, BONER!"
became

"GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR DERRIÈRE!"

became

"STOP WEARING THE FRENCH HAT!" in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:06:54, 2022-05-20
There were a lot of religious kids, and I'm sure the miscreants didn't like getting chewed out, and eventually the… https://t.co/jTbd4bBwcH in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:04:18, 2022-05-20
Everyone in the band had to play at football games and do halftime shows to justify the existence of the music prog… https://t.co/uHLzwPJGVT in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:02:07, 2022-05-20
Art Garza was a ham who sat in the row behind me and played baritone saxophone. He and Boner would inject watermelo… https://t.co/aGsKCuSa8m in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:59:50, 2022-05-20
There was one especially disruptive trombonist that everyone called Boner. I honestly can't remember his real name.… https://t.co/WP45lTS0VB in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:55:41, 2022-05-20
Mr. Jaime was my high school band teacher. He was a red-headed Mexican from Zacatecas. A former military band direc… https://t.co/n9vzPgkHVV 21:51:49, 2022-05-20
@joshdr83 Whoa I did not know there were trees in Texas. in reply to joshdr83 21:46:05, 2022-05-20
@brendanpierpont @electronecon I mean, it's a pretty good risk management strategy if you're the utility. 😑 in reply to brendanpierpont 20:43:18, 2022-05-20
@thebmbennett It's genuinely horrifying. Why men. in reply to thebmbennett 15:17:49, 2022-05-20
@CatalystCoop @rabernat @choldgraf @HammanHydro @thebmbennett @priyald17 @gvwilson @lilscientista These tools have… https://t.co/5wcKO16izC in reply to CatalystCoop 15:16:48, 2022-05-20
@joshdr83 @UTEngrExecEd @MichaelEWebber @rufuspollock @smdiehl @drvolts https://t.co/vE6N8AYBR1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:13:11, 2022-05-20
@joshdr83 @UTEngrExecEd @MichaelEWebber Have you found any redeeming applications? I recently listened to… https://t.co/r3VqSyuB0t in reply to joshdr83 15:12:22, 2022-05-20
@CatalystCoop ☝️any favorite references for GCP n00bs that just want to access public requester-pays data with the… https://t.co/fvsdDcFEYO in reply to CatalystCoop 12:31:47, 2022-05-20
RT @CatalystCoop: Does anybody have a good walkthrough already written up already for someone unfamiliar with GCP, who just wants to use pu… 12:14:28, 2022-05-20
@CHThiem @PayPal I mean how could anything founded by spaceboi and Peter Thiel not make you feel gross? in reply to CHThiem 10:02:08, 2022-05-20
It's happening. Somewhere at least!
I wonder how this compares in terms of cost & functionality to the #GeoGrid of… https://t.co/aL2Nri5Ief 23:29:34, 2022-05-19
And… now I have a Python package with more lines of code in the tests than in the package itself.
https://t.co/4QkwIdjmU9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:11:53, 2022-05-19
Welp, it's 4am and I can't sleep so I guess I'll write some software tests. 03:17:03, 2022-05-19
@drvolts Hey at least they aren't the party of division and hate. in reply to drvolts 21:57:39, 2022-05-18
How accessible are these instructions for setting up a GCP billing project, so a user can access public "requester… https://t.co/aN6QDk9VuD 21:56:01, 2022-05-18
@shwiffles jfc in reply to shwiffles 21:45:01, 2022-05-18
@drvolts https://t.co/IYadbFr2RG in reply to drvolts 14:58:28, 2022-05-18
@thebmbennett Is this an anti-capitalist thing? in reply to thebmbennett 12:02:58, 2022-05-18
@joshdr83 Mexico is right here man. in reply to joshdr83 22:37:43, 2022-05-17
@GirlyGolf @DavidPomerantz https://t.co/lh9yZJGIZS in reply to GirlyGolf 19:33:09, 2022-05-17
There are so many weird bad things getting entangled with each other. https://t.co/rUfXIdaCh3 18:05:25, 2022-05-17
RT @ZaneSelvans: I'm sure I'm not the first person to wonder this, but when the crypto bubble finally pops it seems like there will be a bu… 17:46:55, 2022-05-17
Meanwhile… "number go up."
https://t.co/IoSc0pvSLJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:45:43, 2022-05-17
If anyone who wants a functional government, livable climate, and any kind of consumer protections (i.e. Dems) step… https://t.co/FHXQaJ4D9S in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:44:34, 2022-05-17
@JesseJenkins @DanielKayHertz Once I really understood this (and other deeply embedded policies around housing, fin… https://t.co/iOsrB7s4gD in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:11:17, 2022-05-17
@JesseJenkins @DanielKayHertz It is one hell of a policy feedback. in reply to JesseJenkins 16:07:02, 2022-05-17
@JesseJenkins A great essay from @DanielKayHertz exploring this dynamic from a few years ago.
"Housing can't be bo… https://t.co/txcIfiTI7Y in reply to JesseJenkins 16:04:23, 2022-05-17
@drvolts Someone should do a writeup of the different policy trajectories of Norway and the Netherlands. They both… https://t.co/Vs1lJIhG3S in reply to drvolts 15:58:46, 2022-05-17
@avilarenata Cc: @darkolina in reply to avilarenata 02:05:24, 2022-05-17
@drvolts It's been a journey. in reply to drvolts 01:54:35, 2022-05-17
"number go up" https://t.co/IoSc0pvSLJ 00:33:44, 2022-05-17
I'm sure I'm not the first person to wonder this, but when the crypto bubble finally pops it seems like there will… https://t.co/vFw0IpuaQF 00:27:30, 2022-05-17
@DustinMulvaney EIA? CPUC? in reply to DustinMulvaney 22:05:54, 2022-05-16
@S_HastingsSimon @DavidPomerantz Thankfully @mullvadnet has got me covered in Mexico. in reply to S_HastingsSimon 20:18:17, 2022-05-16
RT @topherflorence: guy from the year 10,000 adding lead and microplastics to his meals for an anthropocene diet because ancient humans bui… 01:49:12, 2022-05-16
I'm trying to make a list of all the books I've read since the pandemic started and it is honestly exhausting.
All… https://t.co/7kUiXNPDbd 17:32:18, 2022-05-15
@thebmbennett Círdan, Take me Away!
https://t.co/KeV3Lt7Rb2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:29:29, 2022-05-15
@thebmbennett If I were an elf in Middle Earth, I think I'd be headed for the Gray Havens. in reply to thebmbennett 17:26:30, 2022-05-15
@Ritter_david11 @thebmbennett I found this tutorial really helpful: https://t.co/MziUX4s9MU in reply to Ritter_david11 17:24:07, 2022-05-15

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-08 to 2022-05-14

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-05-15
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-08 to 2022-05-14

.@KzooCoop is starting a couple of new housing cooperatives in Kalamazoo (right next door to each other), they're a… https://t.co/iB1Zhyzr7O 15:08:27, 2022-05-13
@drvolts Have you read Galbraith's "The Affluent Society?" It touches on a bunch of this stuff, which was coming up for him in the 1950s! in reply to drvolts 12:13:11, 2022-05-13
RT @ntnsndr: Why do so many people call Elon Musk "Elon"? Are you friends? Do you call Joe Biden "Joe"?
I worry that the familiarity lend… 01:42:07, 2022-05-13
RT @NinaParker: As a student, I used to walk past a car park everyday on my way to uni in Bloomsbury.
@CamdenCouncil changed that car park… 01:32:44, 2022-05-13
A newsreel from Union Carbide. A funny little corporate snapshot of Bishop, California. I feel like we watched this… https://t.co/e9eo7w5x2x 01:31:28, 2022-05-13
We can do it. We should do it.
We may or may not actually do it. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:36:35, 2022-05-12
And yet. https://t.co/xgTO7zZlpi 23:28:51, 2022-05-12
Man this is such a perfect week to be finishing David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years"
https://t.co/QRYVzByeDf 23:24:08, 2022-05-12
@bolderbekah Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
https://t.co/Vsb86UPhju in reply to bolderbekah 20:52:52, 2022-05-12
@lenazun But on the upside, now you can stare directly into the sun. in reply to lenazun 14:53:02, 2022-05-12
Because of course. https://t.co/BCQZCf1GX1 02:07:38, 2022-05-12
RT @fchollet: POV: you're a Venusian catching up on Earth news circa 2100 https://t.co/xQBXUcEGQI 02:04:28, 2022-05-12
Is there really no clear best practice on how to manage imports in python via __init__.py, or does The Google just have a grudge against me? 17:05:47, 2022-05-11
RT @isevier: It's the no interest thing that fucking kills me when we require "affordable housing" to have a rate of return on a revenue st… 23:55:29, 2022-05-10
RT @JesseJenkins: $34 billion and 10 years. The performance of Southern Co. & Westinghouse at Vogtle is utterly unacceptable. If it is best… 12:22:13, 2022-05-10
@GalaxyKate What about GIS applications? It's commonly used both in open source and proprietary tools, like @qgis a… https://t.co/vDfbhZb4Vf in reply to GalaxyKate 09:53:54, 2022-05-10
RT @elizabeth_joh: The end of Roe isn’t going to turn back the clock. Things will be worse. Why? Because of the surveillance economy. More… 00:43:54, 2022-05-10
RT @haymarketbooks: “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground… 00:43:34, 2022-05-10
This was like 2600 years ago and we're still playing the same game. Running the same program. in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:41:11, 2022-05-08
They chose to pay the assembly.
Then the trireme dudes couldn't pay their employees, who immediately sued for thei… https://t.co/rNApPxaeYw in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:39:35, 2022-05-08
In the city state of Rhodes, the government paid people in silver to come to public assemblies where they got lectu… https://t.co/Pvn7bhURlz in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:35:53, 2022-05-08
I'm reading "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and I've been kind of annoyed with it. Like he wants you to think it's a g… https://t.co/VSxhcg6ZNn 22:29:55, 2022-05-08
We will have to say YES to MANY THINGS to stabilize the atmosphere. And they're all gonna be in somebody's backyard. https://t.co/27F7HRXNP1 20:57:11, 2022-05-08
"No te preocupes, después del apocalypto climatico todo el parqueo será gratis."
Ay, así funciona en México tambíe… https://t.co/R9R0OQ1XeM 20:48:37, 2022-05-08
@lenazun https://t.co/N9CquuLOF2 in reply to lenazun 20:41:13, 2022-05-08
@shwiffles Boy there's a lot going on. in reply to shwiffles 13:55:45, 2022-05-08
A really good convo between @doctorow and @rufuspollock about cryptocurrency / web3 and how they relate to problems… https://t.co/Toa4deZOQi 12:38:56, 2022-05-08
Gradually, then suddenly. https://t.co/C9FJ5vl1hD 02:13:15, 2022-05-08

Tags tweets, twitter

tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-01 to 2022-05-07

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-05-08
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-05-01 to 2022-05-07

Rome was the first city in Europe to reach a population of ~1 million (briefly) about 2000 years ago. It was a *cra… https://t.co/y6zMY3kAQY 21:11:16, 2022-05-07
@welcomehomebldr Elementary seems to be very focused on UI/UX & consistency, and is based on the Ubuntu LTS release… https://t.co/CByrqDybeG in reply to welcomehomebldr 19:06:42, 2022-05-07
@welcomehomebldr Vanilla Ubuntu. I've thought about trying out Elementary OS for my next computer, if the world eve… https://t.co/Sm6I1inlKc in reply to welcomehomebldr 17:19:59, 2022-05-07
RT @jamestplunkett: It’s really hard to think of a more perfect demonstration of sticky human behaviour than this whole 5-day-commute → WFH… 15:54:53, 2022-05-07
@RubinPsyc Curious what @econnaturalist thinks of this interpretation. in reply to RubinPsyc 15:52:14, 2022-05-07
@ericmbudd @Olivia_R_Will If you have someone willing to give you $2.6 million, favorable legislation on the books,… https://t.co/GcdWZfKGX6 in reply to ericmbudd 15:46:27, 2022-05-07
The ubiquity of consumerist examples in data+software these days feels like a kind of gatekeeping. Like let's make… https://t.co/ET1BWdrfmf 15:44:58, 2022-05-07
@thebmbennett The endless consumerism examples in software are kind of soul crushing. in reply to thebmbennett 15:41:37, 2022-05-07
@Olivia_R_Will I see commentary around the story that feels like "Just organize and you too can buy your apartment… https://t.co/Hy7U9d57xv in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:01:51, 2022-05-07
Which shouldn't really be too surprising since my phone is also running Linux and has ~100x the storage, memory, an… https://t.co/O8eN4mplay in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:53:34, 2022-05-07
You can even make a bootable USB thumb drive with your phone!
https://t.co/oVhUREB9nb in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:48:12, 2022-05-07
One big difference between debugging a b0rked Linux install in 2022 vs. 1998: you can look up how to fix it with yo… https://t.co/BVmmLraajp in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:46:47, 2022-05-07
I'm happy these folks bought out their building & are turning it into a co-op, but I don't feel like the article ex… https://t.co/gSG1SgLbgP 14:44:47, 2022-05-07
And then it was 4am. So, good morning! in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:19:59, 2022-05-07
Upgraded my Linux OS last night and something went sideways during the installation so I got to spend some time in… https://t.co/CtAKPyI1P6 11:19:38, 2022-05-07
RT @DestenieNock: In some states if "you’re a renter, and your bills aren’t in your own name, you’ll need your landlord’s permission to get… 11:12:10, 2022-05-07
Wait did the US surpass 1 million dead from COVID without it even really making the news?
https://t.co/yZqqi0Wx66 19:29:38, 2022-05-06
@alex_burness By their bootstraps maybe? in reply to alex_burness 19:01:42, 2022-05-06
@RaffiMercuri @kejtia Dude this is gonna be the century of the shitballs. in reply to RaffiMercuri 18:32:24, 2022-05-06
@kejtia You could tell them it has to do with the religion of the dung beetles. in reply to kejtia 18:31:15, 2022-05-06
@drvolts I love (hate) seeing articles about how the police and military are being "infiltrated" by the extreme rig… https://t.co/1tG7Jsblbu in reply to drvolts 17:41:19, 2022-05-06
Atento: a partir del primero de mayo el precio de las tortillas se ha incrementado desde 20 hasta 22 pesos por kilo. 17:39:43, 2022-05-06
@darkolina I've got to take a deep breath and commit to liquidating all the extra *things* that have accumulated in… https://t.co/6WhakiaSox in reply to darkolina 17:30:02, 2022-05-06
My god this thread. US sex-ed is so, so sad. It doesn't have to be like that! I loved this piece about @AlVsexed fr… https://t.co/Lq6RWX5sWL 16:53:12, 2022-05-06
@darkolina I don't know if you can milk a whole extra 10% out of the time difference 😉 in reply to darkolina 16:34:02, 2022-05-06
RT @calyxinstitute: Protecting your #privacy is important, especially when it comes to healthcare like #abortion. Check out Digital Defense… 13:06:29, 2022-05-06
@RaffiMercuri My god the YouTube algorithm keeps trying to get me to watch these misogynistic takes. in reply to RaffiMercuri 12:38:58, 2022-05-06
Ah, sweet catnip. https://t.co/xyrq49RQjf 12:29:52, 2022-05-06
@LilaHickey Okay but what about like, 6 bad apples? in reply to LilaHickey 01:04:23, 2022-05-06
@ericmbudd @CastellanoChels It's turtles all the way down. 🐢 in reply to ericmbudd 01:00:38, 2022-05-06
This is some weird shade to throw at SE Asia given the general state of carbon pricing and capture worldwide. https://t.co/vxva2KTJGv 00:52:00, 2022-05-06
@darkolina Are you back in Mexico long term? Or just visiting? in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:42:07, 2022-05-06
Isopods have been around since the Carboniferous. A third of a billion years! At least one extant genus of woodlice… https://t.co/xtv7AhLv6x in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:40:14, 2022-05-06
@darkolina No, I'm in Guanajuato now. But thinking about heading south again at the end of June. in reply to darkolina 00:32:37, 2022-05-06
"Several hundred eggs are brooded at a time in the marsupium, a pocket on the ventral side of the female pill bug.… https://t.co/t43rx8aAAw in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:30:16, 2022-05-06
Whoa they live for 2-3 years! It looks like they're probably dying of dehydration once they get trapped inside the… https://t.co/yLcioNTiwk in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:28:39, 2022-05-06
Every weekend I sweep up a few dozen of them that have accumulated at the bottom of the spiral stairs.
But recentl… https://t.co/7brKeCWKXc in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:17:28, 2022-05-06
I live on a steep hillside. My front door is at the top of a spiral staircase, but my kitchen still has a balcony l… https://t.co/vM22wrJJ1i 00:15:38, 2022-05-06
I don't know why I'm always surprised to find that financial news is still just astrology for bros. 00:09:07, 2022-05-06
@pvogren @SarahdawnH https://t.co/8gLOTzGum0 in reply to pvogren 23:09:13, 2022-05-05
@seanlinsley Wow well I'm apparently on like 50 of them. Will definitely unsubscribe and hope for the best. in reply to seanlinsley 22:07:13, 2022-05-05
@seanlinsley But they just keep adding me to new and irrelevant campaigns that I will never give money to! I feel l… https://t.co/U03Sdbd5dq in reply to seanlinsley 22:04:50, 2022-05-05
I guess maybe it's partly this:
https://t.co/SfSFRvdUCX in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:02:32, 2022-05-05
On top of which the party itself seems pretty feckless. I know, I'm not supposed to say it, but man wtf are we doing here people? in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:57:31, 2022-05-05
@Aella_Girl Also @thecarpentries are a good place to start, aimed at research oriented audience:
https://t.co/NsEwFA6AhP in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:55:23, 2022-05-05
@Aella_Girl Python installation & environment management is a perennial nightmare. I thought this was a nice opinio… https://t.co/9lA5cMx612 in reply to Aella_Girl 21:52:29, 2022-05-05
@SYoungReports 😆 in reply to SYoungReports 20:08:00, 2022-05-05
I know it's not glamorous. Trust me I know! in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:07:11, 2022-05-05
If there's so much computing power sloshing around and the tech companies supposedly care about climate stuff, why… https://t.co/a1gHcApCBp 20:06:19, 2022-05-05
I guess I'm just gonna mark all the Democratic Party fundraising e-mail spam from now on since there's no way to get off their lists. 20:03:04, 2022-05-05
@CHThiem Extravagant. in reply to CHThiem 14:11:48, 2022-05-05
@Aella_Girl What kind of data do you want to work with, and how much of it? in reply to Aella_Girl 23:38:09, 2022-05-04
RT @Aella_Girl: ok i wanna learn python to do data stuff, got any recommendations for someone who is good at processing data with python an… 23:35:22, 2022-05-04
RT @mistressmatisse: It’s not going to be: oh we just closed abortion clinics. Once this happens, a whole INDUSTRY is going to spring up to… 23:12:26, 2022-05-04
RT @AssemblyFour: Sex Workers told you shadow banning kills. https://t.co/Z5MMBFDRD6 23:12:15, 2022-05-04
Is it totally paranoid to imagine that Google might optimize usage & billing information availability to ensure tha… https://t.co/I5XXCyB2q0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:01:18, 2022-05-04
Our GCP bill quadrupled last month, which is great at some level — people are using our data!
Weirdly, the GCP co… https://t.co/kXTW6Ti85t 16:00:28, 2022-05-04
RT @histoftech: I’m hearing a lot about folks deleting their period tracker apps given recent developments, due to the fact many users aren… 15:57:44, 2022-05-04
RT @CapobiaNB: Flo app is being sanctioned by the FTC for sharing menstrual data with Google, Facebook, &others. Flo sends your data to the… 15:57:37, 2022-05-04
😬 Welp. https://t.co/L7rx7gjj6Q 15:51:29, 2022-05-04
The Romanian film "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" is an amazing, intimate portrayal of what it was like when abort… https://t.co/kbbXmFRkwC 15:48:06, 2022-05-04
@thebmbennett Omg I hate it so much. in reply to thebmbennett 13:32:31, 2022-05-04
RT @vagina_museum: Sarah Weddington (1945-2021) was one of the lawyers who represented "Jane Roe". She was at the beginning of her career a… 08:20:05, 2022-05-04
@shayshinecastle Whew. Man. in reply to shayshinecastle 23:17:19, 2022-05-03
RT @MistressBlunt: A good time to revisit Cynthia Conti-Cook’s 2020 “Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary” on the use of digital evidence… 23:12:59, 2022-05-03
RT @monaeltahawy: "If the law is not passed,we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the Congress building, becaus… 21:53:45, 2022-05-03
@thebmbennett https://t.co/PzX46hvCGs in reply to thebmbennett 19:15:22, 2022-05-03
Clearly the solution to all this is an Electoral Golden Horde rampaging across the interior strategically voting in… https://t.co/G2pZ83W3pn 16:57:48, 2022-05-03
Well this was unsatisfying. Sometimes I can't write to a mounted volume. Sometimes I can't set environment variable… https://t.co/5SIw8Uuroz in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:54:54, 2022-05-03
This data would be probably be useful in de-anonymizing folks whose commercially available location data indicates… https://t.co/D1VHbQkMal 13:01:07, 2022-05-03
RT @josephfcox: New: companies selling location data on visits to abortion clinics. We know because we just bought some data for $160.
Cou… 12:46:44, 2022-05-03
Yeah that's because they were lying. https://t.co/PHfsdSLOv4 12:27:07, 2022-05-03
And now somehow I am supposed to focus on Python logging inside Docker containers on GCP. 08:36:10, 2022-05-03
RT @evan_greer: It certainly seems like we are headed for a world where the activities of reproductive health advocates will be criminalize… 08:27:37, 2022-05-03
RT @evacide: Now is a good time to familiarize yourself with this document listing abortion funds in every state. They need money and volun… 22:32:43, 2022-05-02
RT @sahilkapur: Washington Post: The original Roe v. Wade decision was also leaked to the press https://t.co/phpbn5DrUt 22:30:41, 2022-05-02
RT @lenazun: https://t.co/qA6rVYXouK 22:30:09, 2022-05-02
RT @evacide: In case you are wondering what you can do right now, this is a thing you can and should do. https://t.co/8szJrslDxe 22:29:35, 2022-05-02
RT @Olivia_R_Will: This article is full of important info for the post-Roe era https://t.co/yqxKkL9dZ6 21:02:55, 2022-05-02
@SarahdawnH This… doesn't sound plausible. in reply to SarahdawnH 15:38:04, 2022-05-02
@ArneOlsonE3 I guess I'm thinking of these things getting traded around like financial assets, but yeah maybe not "… https://t.co/dFtl1SZzQI in reply to ArneOlsonE3 11:39:25, 2022-05-02
Not content to just taint space exploration, now they're trying to make long-term thinking and using a 0% discount… https://t.co/SfB9Lld6Hq 17:03:27, 2022-05-01
@agelston Don't worry. It won't make any difference. in reply to agelston 14:18:40, 2022-05-01
Lots of people will be surprised, but the expectations, frauds, and language will be hard to distinguish from the h… https://t.co/mS6l7oFuOn in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:10:52, 2022-05-01
I expect to live through at least two more financial crises. One will be a collapse of cryptocurrencies after the r… https://t.co/XMPB1sDyXU 14:06:28, 2022-05-01
I'm not advocating for lying. I think we should make it stop working. in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:57:07, 2022-05-01
@SarahdawnH Gradually, then suddenly. in reply to SarahdawnH 12:05:49, 2022-05-01
Lying (often) works. https://t.co/nD5Fxg9DJa 12:00:56, 2022-05-01
Mayday mayday mayday! https://t.co/9AuJFG0g19 11:58:12, 2022-05-01
Happy May Day.
https://t.co/Grkfie9vks https://t.co/cwPBUN2jQI 11:51:22, 2022-05-01

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-04-24 to 2022-04-30

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-05-01
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-04-24 to 2022-04-30

"Justice requires this… The very interests of science require it. Science only makes real progress when its truths… https://t.co/tpaj6LglfU in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:46:17, 2022-04-30
@brainpicker "We have to order things in such wise that all humanity may be capable of assimilating and applying th… https://t.co/5yPYrGpJUj in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:45:50, 2022-04-30
@brainpicker "The most important thing is to spread the truths already acquired, to practice them in daily life, to… https://t.co/DiSTEVja3D in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:45:24, 2022-04-30
This reminds me (by way of contrast) of a Kropotkin quote I recently came across on @brainpicker's feed here:… https://t.co/FsggKQ1QDs 16:44:45, 2022-04-30
This is funny because Rome ended up collapsing through hubris, infighting, an extractive economic system, and exces… https://t.co/nTBK8oAuqZ 16:34:18, 2022-04-30
RT @emilymbender: tl;dr blog post by new VP of AI at Halodi says the quiet parts out loud: "AI" industry is all about surveillance capitali… 16:18:04, 2022-04-30
I'm taking a little break from plutocratic social media, but will be available on Mastodon @zaneselvans@social.coop… https://t.co/bmijBdX8C7 14:44:05, 2022-04-27
RT @EthanZ: First, we should limit our investment in social networks we don't govern. No more hoping a better billionaire buys out a bad bi… 16:03:36, 2022-04-25
So now all major US social media sites are dictatorships? 13:37:29, 2022-04-25
Welp, I've been meaning to blog more anyway. 13:09:15, 2022-04-25
Actually this is 38 years ahead of schedule. https://t.co/6TJ5qZndBp 11:36:55, 2022-04-25
Has anyone else had issues with @condaforge Windows builds finding mysterious non-Unicode characters when reading i… https://t.co/b8guq9renq 10:43:11, 2022-04-25
@gilbeaq He's *totally* gonna give him his account back, for the lulz if nothing else. in reply to gilbeaq 09:33:54, 2022-04-25
RT @pwnallthethings: Apropos of nothing in particular, but Twitter's failure to encrypt DMs and make them disappearing by default makes bil… 09:32:27, 2022-04-25
@rabernat @choldgraf @purpose_economy @ntnsndr E.g. Zeiss / Schott are completely owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundatio… https://t.co/gKCUiqGvxG in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:26:22, 2022-04-25
@rabernat @choldgraf The German self-owned foundation is an interesting option. It largely abolishes abusive proper… https://t.co/PjBJpTN3gy in reply to rabernat 09:20:09, 2022-04-25
RT @ntnsndr: By policy framework, I especially mean financing—the pathway for getting there.
Because we have co-ops, trusts, nonprofits, a… 09:15:38, 2022-04-25
RT @MurphyAJC: .@DavidPerdueGA’s opening message in the first GOP governor’s debate: “First off, let me be very clear, the election in 2020… 21:26:27, 2022-04-24
RT @calebleal92: This is insane. #shanghai is now installing cages on roads and infront of building doors, wtf! #china #lockdown #Covid_19… 21:25:29, 2022-04-24
RT @RALee85: Video from this morning in Bryansk. 9/
https://t.co/Xh3YDxNxby https://t.co/I8aIFvoBbn 21:25:22, 2022-04-24
@DrTaraGoddard Rhodes quotes a long passage from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and holyshit it sounds just li… https://t.co/4qUBDT26br in reply to DrTaraGoddard 21:20:28, 2022-04-24
My god this history does not feel particularly historical. We are in a bad place. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:59:30, 2022-04-24
"There was no question in the mind of any person that the days of foreigners in Germany, particularly with Jewish a… https://t.co/U2sU75urf9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:58:46, 2022-04-24
@estee_nj There's just such a big gap between what's possible, and what actually happens on average. https://t.co/vIXixcv8bT in reply to estee_nj 17:07:05, 2022-04-24
@darkolina I've seen this floating around, and I'm skeptical about the specific numbers. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't be tasty. in reply to darkolina 17:04:17, 2022-04-24
New pipelines. New LNG terminals. New gas distribution systems and furnaces and stoves. New refining capacity and o… https://t.co/gK1DqlA1sx in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:19:03, 2022-04-24
Then again, this also applies to software! in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:14:26, 2022-04-24
If we can spend trillions of dollars over over a century on infrastructure that financially ruinous, space-wasting,… https://t.co/wAEvqBueHb in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:13:46, 2022-04-24
US freeways and parking lots and auto dependent sprawl are my goto example here. Urban planners and traffic enginee… https://t.co/eT00RjqJGn in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:10:45, 2022-04-24
With a big enough sunk capital investment, obviously bad systems can end up becoming immutable parts of the landsca… https://t.co/NvdGbwObmT 14:16:01, 2022-04-24
@CHThiem 🧹🧙‍♀️ in reply to CHThiem 14:04:04, 2022-04-24
@drvolts And so it will never actually die. It'll just shamble on like a zombie until the election. 🧟 in reply to drvolts 14:03:37, 2022-04-24
"Don't worry, life extension treatments will be available for everyone, not just the plutes, because markets!"
Oka… https://t.co/YhQnL3q4dD 10:45:28, 2022-04-24

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2022-04-17 to 2022-04-23

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2022-04-24
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2022-04-17 to 2022-04-23

@VICENews Meanwhile, Bangladesh is about half the size of Colorado, with about half the population of the United St… https://t.co/vmtAWswi8Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:44:45, 2022-04-23
This @ViceNews piece on the Indian government dispossessing Muslims of their homes and citizenship and labeling the… https://t.co/amA8cWKcip 19:37:53, 2022-04-23
Rhodes giving background on the ultraviolet catastrophe and Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect… which le… https://t.co/c8i7v3ksTo in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:30:20, 2022-04-23
@kyrib I mean what do you do when the shaft of your giant worm drive shears off?
https://t.co/abSI6jV9sY in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:44:51, 2022-04-23
I love watching people build or repair or remanufacture things we all depend on but almost never see or understand.… https://t.co/nhdCZGASGj 11:40:27, 2022-04-23
I didn't realize Russia only emancipated its serfs in 1861, just as the US Civil War was starting. Kropotkin's fath… https://t.co/dFwMob87Pp 11:00:05, 2022-04-23
It felt like a warning. But it felt theoretical.
Now the whole story feels tragic from the beginning, and familiar… https://t.co/TFaetHUtzB in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:57:42, 2022-04-23
But what I took away from the book was a realization that there are limits to collective human volition. That some… https://t.co/iUySbX6UPq in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:54:24, 2022-04-23
It was easy to identify with the idealistic and progress-minded scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centurie… https://t.co/HYkpprDGsA in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:51:01, 2022-04-23
When I first read it in 2002, I was about to head to Boulder for grad school. I'd been working at Caltech for a yea… https://t.co/WIugLMA9As in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:49:02, 2022-04-23
RT @brainpicker: There is also a wonderful @BBCInOurTime episode about his strange and spectacular life: https://t.co/eZrhcxIQFF https://t.… 10:36:04, 2022-04-23
I'm re-reading Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" after 20 years and wow I think it's going to be a di… https://t.co/DPfFn2oQBi 09:30:35, 2022-04-23
Well this feels vaguely Mr. Robot. https://t.co/dVhgpAbZo3 14:59:52, 2022-04-22
@Olivia_R_Will Meanwhile… https://t.co/vojtWYZHTC in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:06:04, 2022-04-21
@Olivia_R_Will This is a major trope in Corey Doctorow's book Walkaway. Endlessly forking open source variations ba… https://t.co/oclsmDeiXm in reply to Olivia_R_Will 20:04:54, 2022-04-21
RT @lesbrains: I did my student teaching in 2007 and my master teacher told me not to tell my HS students that I had a wife bcuz there was… 09:02:32, 2022-04-21
@nils_gilman Sounds like a D&D spell. in reply to nils_gilman 08:58:08, 2022-04-21
@SarahdawnH This is basically how "adjuncts" worked in Germany pre-WWII. You'd get a "privatdozent" position — bas… https://t.co/mNG60sZy9X in reply to SarahdawnH 08:51:34, 2022-04-21
That time of year. https://t.co/wnhlArAtSE 00:37:15, 2022-04-21
I guess I'm not the only one who has fantasized about David Attenborough with dinosaurs for years
https://t.co/xbQdnvfUar 00:19:02, 2022-04-21
😭 "If I had known then that my country would continue making aggressive wars for the rest of my life, I might have… https://t.co/BYHY7QFkY4 22:46:30, 2022-04-20
RT @SarahTaber_bww: sweden in 2019: haha midsommar, what a joke, the americans makes crazy stories
sweden and the united states in 2020: h… 17:09:00, 2022-04-20
RT @triofrancos: Political murals in Chile are really next level.
Here, the toilet paper is neoliberal dictator Pinochet’s constitution —… 15:50:09, 2022-04-20
Kill it with 🔥 https://t.co/SnnrhEvPzH 12:32:32, 2022-04-20
@yuvipanda Whoa did someone actually say this? in reply to yuvipanda 12:30:12, 2022-04-20
I'm sure nobody will try and operationalize this. https://t.co/dekdqnzQP9 09:25:50, 2022-04-20
I tried to go to sleep before midnight and it didn't work, and now The Algorithm has my number. https://t.co/rW7i5sj61T 02:01:08, 2022-04-20
RT @micahflee: I don't think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple h… 01:57:14, 2022-04-20
I went to live in Japan when I was 14. I'd never seen fireflies before. I didn't even know to expect them. Then one… https://t.co/rDfUsAWLD8 01:43:45, 2022-04-20
@drvolts I liked that feeling since the characters also have no idea wtf is going on. in reply to drvolts 01:34:55, 2022-04-20
Ohhhh yeaaaah, it can only go downhill from here https://t.co/QKWgG4zbcX in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:23:59, 2022-04-19
Now I'm just on a spree of approving my own pull requests so I get to see all the green checks. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:21:04, 2022-04-19
This has definitely turned into a neurosis but wow it's a nice feeling of relief when CI is finally set up an *pass… https://t.co/maKgRw3WyW 18:37:44, 2022-04-19
RT @JesseJenkins: Yup. This matters more than ANYTHING else. https://t.co/TVFffjO4Zh 18:36:16, 2022-04-19
@JesseJenkins Eeeew, politics. 🤢 in reply to JesseJenkins 18:35:40, 2022-04-19
@thebmbennett Everybody wants a revolution, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
(A sign seen hanging over a co-op kitchen sink) in reply to thebmbennett 18:33:46, 2022-04-19
@ascottkoala Oh it seems totally awful and disingenuous, but I imagine they would pitch it as "See what the libs wh… https://t.co/5shRGvn53V in reply to ascottkoala 18:32:34, 2022-04-19
@ascottkoala I wonder though if it would have the (desired?) effect of hardening ratepayers against climate action more generally. in reply to ascottkoala 18:17:22, 2022-04-19
@Adam_S_Green @Patrick_Wyman @TidesHistory Really interesting to imagine early urbanizing, specializing societies e… https://t.co/LElpm1I2gE in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:33:13, 2022-04-19
Found via this interview with @Adam_S_Green on @Patrick_Wyman's @TidesHistory podcast:
https://t.co/RF2Ck6Yxn2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:31:02, 2022-04-19
Apparently there's a raging archaeological debate about whether the Indus Valley civilization had rulers at all. In… https://t.co/jwI09G6W7A 09:28:52, 2022-04-19
Bruh! It's 419. You got a minute? https://t.co/FgGomccxPG 08:49:00, 2022-04-19
RT @DougCoupland: California 1850 http://t.co/T14MgOpVde 23:39:54, 2022-04-18
@CSVConference It would be fun to have an excuse to come visit @FiqusCoop in reply to CSVConference 09:58:13, 2022-04-18
@SorenSpicknall From the bank's point of view it makes a kind of sense. The bank gets a steady income stream from t… https://t.co/yJc4iweSrg in reply to SorenSpicknall 21:10:16, 2022-04-17
@celestelabedz Ah, so you're saying it was a globe-spanning arctic pyramid civilization! 🤣 in reply to celestelabedz 20:19:08, 2022-04-17
Sigh. 🥹 https://t.co/gjmSDmSqIe 16:59:41, 2022-04-17
Customer: Wait where's my free furnace?
Installer: Surprise! The A/C *is* the furnace! in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:27:51, 2022-04-17
@DynamicWebPaige It feels like people shopping. in reply to DynamicWebPaige 10:25:26, 2022-04-17
This is just a clever ad for heat pumps right? https://t.co/Unris6IyDP 09:42:57, 2022-04-17
It's neat that evolution thinks flying is so awesome that it's *totally* worth losing your hands to get wings. https://t.co/F75FKBKkyB 00:06:25, 2022-04-17

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