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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-21 to 2019-07-27

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2019-07-28
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-21 to 2019-07-27

@ericmbudd ¡ka-ching! in reply to ericmbudd 16:49:58, 2019-07-27
RT @aidachavez: wait since we’re on the subject, remember the time my journalism school wanted to kick me out of their DC program for tweet… 00:17:39, 2019-07-27
What your city is built for can change. What society says is normal can change. Pretending we lack the ability to i… https://t.co/xzeF1RCgAD in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:42, 2019-07-26
Similarly in consumption, it's not clear that there's much in the way of "intrinsic" desire. People aren't naturall… https://t.co/AZpl55nvyC in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:41, 2019-07-26
Most people, on most topics, don't have their own opinion, belief, understanding, or collection of facts. They go w… https://t.co/gd3Fm8wYns in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:41, 2019-07-26
While the GOP *clearly* understands that the beliefs and desires of their supporters can be shaped, directed, and m… https://t.co/8PMSG4Jxn0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:40, 2019-07-26
I feel like there's an analogy here, to the different understandings of "public opinion" that the Dems and GOP have… https://t.co/Ck6DQDHc0s 23:33:40, 2019-07-26
Morality is arbitrary! We have to make it up! What's your pure time preference? Your risk aversion? Various "reason… https://t.co/v1kDL9sy6N 23:07:02, 2019-07-26
It feels very transparently like a propaganda outlet, no? https://t.co/2PUSGCpIzN 22:52:51, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis @drvox And what is a legally binding climate policy — be it an RPS, a carb… https://t.co/vwqAjqnqyY in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:44:12, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis @drvox We fought tooth and nail for 8 years in Boulder to legalize *living… https://t.co/F1D549OpXu in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:38:32, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis @drvox But those affordable, low consumption, happiness producing lifestlye… https://t.co/dTuOP6axva in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:36:37, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis Or this other @drvox piece https://t.co/uJQxY3bjCM in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:32:13, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis https://t.co/V93wBLmvJp in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:31:00, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis And *also* also, satisfying these manufactured desires frequently does not… https://t.co/xgaX18BL7f in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:28:38, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 @robbieorvis And also… it's clearly possible to dramatically influence what people des… https://t.co/sE7c4soF00 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:25:26, 2019-07-26
@solar_chase @arvindpawan1 I apologize @arvindpawan1 I was more responding to @robbieorvis but wanted the context.… https://t.co/fLAjRWMlvE in reply to solar_chase 22:23:02, 2019-07-26
I agree this attitude is… not helpful.
But isn't it also worth considering whether current lifestyles can be ma… https://t.co/mwlzKaeAPC 16:20:15, 2019-07-26
Paging Mike Marsh… https://t.co/SSa5rWaxld 16:07:24, 2019-07-26
I am *so* fine with my most valuable physical possessions being a bike and a laptop.
Liquid investments that requi… https://t.co/qn29xKLFTO in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:45:11, 2019-07-26
What if housing was a place to live, not an "asset." What if it was cheap, stable, and the cost was flat or declini… https://t.co/PmVT0pF765 13:41:21, 2019-07-26
@drvox Dakota Access Pipeline? It was used by both white and native communities. One of them got steamrolled. in reply to drvox 13:28:33, 2019-07-26
"What next…" https://t.co/c7B92KZywH 11:24:49, 2019-07-26
A global, high-energy civilization (10s of TW of consumption) that depends on renewable energies (~10W/m^2) has to… https://t.co/J9kvG8Zp7Q in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:09:55, 2019-07-26
Another example, from this spring, of San Bernadino County in California banning renewable energy installations in… https://t.co/o1IU7CRaI3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:03:40, 2019-07-26
It feels like even after we get everyone on board nominally with building a zero carbon electricity system, there w… https://t.co/7c0HnZnUH0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:54, 2019-07-26
Meanwhile in California:
https://t.co/Xcv3OWKDqY in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:57:25, 2019-07-26
As with zoning & housing, empowered smaller local jurisdictions are failing the greater public good on transmission. https://t.co/eBvzQ6490n 10:54:10, 2019-07-26
@CostaSamaras @TheAndyHolland @mattyglesias I might have already pointed you at this, but @EnergyInnovLLC put toget… https://t.co/92LKoxtLIg in reply to CostaSamaras 09:42:46, 2019-07-26
*hint* *hint* https://t.co/SxPafyvKVg 09:37:41, 2019-07-26
@alexbaca Totally had this experience in LA, living there for a cumulative 11 years on and off between 1993 and 201… https://t.co/rBmyxMrnhH in reply to alexbaca 07:51:26, 2019-07-26
Barring some very large volcanic eruptions or geoengineering gone horribly awry, nobody alive today will ever meet… https://t.co/p7yZlvaDVN 19:20:11, 2019-07-25
@kevpluck https://t.co/96Q7IC0kxh in reply to kevpluck 19:09:55, 2019-07-25
@Splitcoil Ecuador tried something analogous — they asked the world to buy out the rights to 850 million barrels o… https://t.co/3oxomEZnub in reply to Splitcoil 18:35:49, 2019-07-25
What fraction of the historic areas will be underwater before they've doubled in age? https://t.co/bee7avPyqR 18:22:46, 2019-07-25
@ericmbudd No Eric that's Pokemon. in reply to ericmbudd 18:19:47, 2019-07-25
Why does the computational biology crowd publish so much of the good "best practices" stuff? https://t.co/JskC7nNzda 18:19:29, 2019-07-25
Okay enough climate apocalypse and Python build misery. I'm going to relax with a nice tall glass of differential e… https://t.co/CYcne4AdHY 16:13:26, 2019-07-25
RT @TheOnion: Pelosi Concerned Outspoken Progressive Flank Of Party Could Harm Democrats’ Reputation As Ineffectual Cowards https://t.co/bF… 16:08:04, 2019-07-25
RT @willwilkinson: Here's how I think of Omar. She's a patriotic liberal Muslim with standard anodyne liberal Muslim opinions about Muslim… 16:06:57, 2019-07-25
Yesterday it was 108°F in Paris, so here's a film looking at how extreme heat somehow mysteriously only kills the p… https://t.co/CSonvv7XrZ 16:03:40, 2019-07-25
@ericmbudd @chrisnelder @ublockorigin Dunno — I just got annoyed with AdblockPlus at some point for monetization o… https://t.co/pRhtTJ9GBV in reply to ericmbudd 13:48:34, 2019-07-25
@ericmbudd @chrisnelder tbh it's the same whenever I see a browser that doesn't have @ublockorigin installed too… in reply to ericmbudd 13:45:00, 2019-07-25
@ericmbudd This tweet literally made me sign up for monthly donations to Warren. in reply to ericmbudd 13:42:40, 2019-07-25
Added a custom prompt segment to display @NordVPN connection status & country: https://t.co/wZuqVltWJC in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:36:40, 2019-07-25
@chrisnelder @ericmbudd It's funny whenever I show someone "my Twitter" They are like "ZOMG how can you even look a… https://t.co/BVDTTKwRBu in reply to chrisnelder 13:31:44, 2019-07-25
@CHThiem Wow, really above 50°C in Spain? in reply to CHThiem 13:25:36, 2019-07-25
@ericmbudd It does feel like when they eventually kill Tweetdeck I might not be able to keep using the platform which will be sad. in reply to ericmbudd 13:23:33, 2019-07-25
@welcomehomebldr Hey, someday that second door can become the servant's entrance! in reply to welcomehomebldr 00:42:04, 2019-07-25
RT @dynarski: You were probably affected by the Equifax breach
?

Get yourself $125

https://t.co/bliEswAbqJ 21:49:25, 2019-07-24
@thebmbennett @mathbabedotorg @FryRsquared I guess it's unsurprising that all three of these books were written by… https://t.co/atWc1QLjWN in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:35:44, 2019-07-24
RT @thegrugq: I love how not even the malware devs try to get the camera working.
“Yeah, that’s just never gonna happen, but try the PulseA… 20:45:36, 2019-07-24
@derekwillis @charlesornstein The @BetterTDeck browser plugin is also great, and allows you to control much more ab… https://t.co/RKtQ74Yawb in reply to derekwillis 20:32:20, 2019-07-24
An awesome new PassivHouse residential tower in NYC! However, it's not the first high-rise to meet the standard. Th… https://t.co/Esc4KaEbYo 20:22:30, 2019-07-24
Re: climate deadlines, thresholds:
“If we have indeed lit the fuse on West Antarctica, it’s very hard to imagine p… https://t.co/GM6ofkNzJg 20:12:54, 2019-07-24
@thebmbennett @mathbabedotorg Ooh, that one I don't know. The only other book I have in that vein is @FryRsquared's Hello World. in reply to thebmbennett 19:48:33, 2019-07-24
@thebmbennett @mathbabedotorg I've been floored by how much more intuitive linear algebra feels to me with visual e… https://t.co/SEiuj70FAC in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:47:32, 2019-07-24
@thebmbennett @mathbabedotorg I have her book and want to read it but there are too many good books! in reply to thebmbennett 19:44:53, 2019-07-24
RT @Guay_JG: So nuke advocates this one really hurts. Tacking on $50M/year for a coal bailout into a bill meant to bailout nukes makes you… 19:38:34, 2019-07-24
@thebmbennett Probably not helpful, but have you come across @mathbabedotorg? in reply to thebmbennett 19:35:32, 2019-07-24
@KenCaldeira Is it really alternate though? Or have they just decided it doesn't matter what they say in public any more? in reply to KenCaldeira 16:35:35, 2019-07-24
@hausfath Agree that the hard-deadline cliff framing is not super accurate, but there *are* physical feedback syste… https://t.co/7xY72ixVOn in reply to hausfath 13:13:54, 2019-07-24
So I finally set up a small recurring monthly donation to @ewarren's campaign. https://t.co/JM2GCcGfmw 09:46:27, 2019-07-24
@CHThiem #AbolishICE in reply to CHThiem 08:39:27, 2019-07-24
Nice long piece on the move to integrating data, analyses, and narratives into dynamic publications… and the triu… https://t.co/kvIOvLkqFz 23:47:32, 2019-07-23
@HKoren Also before you get any big ideas: the state constitution prohibits home rule cities like Boulder from hold… https://t.co/DWCpE5KEDm in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:24:03, 2019-07-23
The Open Space is paid for by everyone: renters, homeowners, tourists, commuters, etc. Sales taxes are regressive.… https://t.co/obKqhK7PME 23:21:16, 2019-07-23
@HKoren And also because homevoters make up a wildly disproportionate share of the odd-year electorate, which votes… https://t.co/whsdc43Yb7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:21:38, 2019-07-23
@HKoren Because TABOR. in reply to HKoren 22:18:25, 2019-07-23
I'm gonna explore this idea some more by reading "Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not" which also happens to be o… https://t.co/B9ETTskLCR 22:16:45, 2019-07-23
@shayshinecastle It's either a very expensive way to make a small amount of affordable housing, or relatively cheap… https://t.co/eEDicQvgJy in reply to shayshinecastle 21:20:14, 2019-07-23
A good thread about a bad affordable housing finance idea. https://t.co/TwEuUcXBHZ 21:17:21, 2019-07-23
RT @ewarren: I'm not taking a dime from Washington lobbyists or PACs of any kind—because this campaign is powered by the people. Will you c… 19:20:04, 2019-07-23
@ericmbudd @espinozaa Hmm. Looks like Burning Man. But too much clothing. in reply to ericmbudd 19:10:50, 2019-07-23
Y también si todo sale mal. https://t.co/59YYsn8Avh 18:21:42, 2019-07-23
@rgunns Jesus Camp was disturbing. in reply to rgunns 18:14:48, 2019-07-23
@blobbyapple When ze Revolution Comes, Comrade. in reply to blobbyapple 18:10:15, 2019-07-23
@reubenmunger I think so. Though you'll probably need to *re-boot* in reply to reubenmunger 18:08:52, 2019-07-23
"A smarter futurism would focus less on pushing through advances and more on being sure we will use them wisely whe… https://t.co/NIFKc0T5Hd in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:09:49, 2019-07-23
“I was struck by how little the attendees knew about urban transport, how enamored they were w/ gadgets. […] When… https://t.co/YGaYf9JSfx in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:07:25, 2019-07-23
Urban motordom is/was a horrific mistake, and once we get past it, that will be glaringly obvious to all who come a… https://t.co/WppYKQaQHd 16:59:58, 2019-07-23
@drvox My god Dave you have almost twice as many followers as he does. Maybe you should run for president! in reply to drvox 14:12:30, 2019-07-23
So many great Sankey diagrams. Every quad/yr is a billion dollar business waiting to happen. https://t.co/WyGBneHGR0 14:01:19, 2019-07-23
"We're full of chemicals which require us to belong to folk societies, or failing that, to feel lousy all the time… https://t.co/k9PjIl2tMa 10:57:53, 2019-07-23
@alexbaca What do you think about housing authorities doing (relatively affordable) market-rate development and usi… https://t.co/R8i2KSSVHr in reply to alexbaca 10:49:38, 2019-07-23
@CHThiem wait I thought you just had a heat wave. in reply to CHThiem 10:47:41, 2019-07-23
RT @Guay_JG: I’ve spent my whole working life being lectured in one way or another by VSPs deploying a version of this argument. At first I… 09:34:52, 2019-07-23
I always knew #zsh was powerful, but it also seemed ridiculously opaque so I was afraid to mess around with it and… https://t.co/IOAJDfo3j4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:17:26, 2019-07-23
The fancypants #PowerLevel9k theme is here: https://t.co/WjCJ9oZkDF in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:09:28, 2019-07-23
RT @Sammy_Roth: “The youth migration is infusing this traditionally conservative area with a new ethic — part cowboy, part craft cocktail —… 00:03:59, 2019-07-23
RT @UFWupdates: Bakersfield Now: Farmworkers across Kern County fear deportations in the fields
https://t.co/SUjLd36Aij 00:03:29, 2019-07-23
RT @Splitcoil: This thing. I can't fully explain why, but this thing makes me feel so fucking awful. https://t.co/rFtx95h7no 00:01:33, 2019-07-23
…go wrong. https://t.co/8kl3EQgee2 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:58:25, 2019-07-22
RT @kron4news: @CAL_FIRE UPDATE: HWY 128 remains closed in #Napa due to fire. @CAL_FIRE reports that the #CanyonFire fire has grown to 55 a… 23:55:46, 2019-07-22
What could possibly… uh. https://t.co/Nn4Eu1wbZX 23:55:21, 2019-07-22
Tough, but fair. https://t.co/6qLUhWDwwd 23:49:40, 2019-07-22
@ericmbudd @boulderprogress @engageboulder The world may never know. in reply to ericmbudd 21:07:38, 2019-07-22
Also, when the best data indicates that you should *really* do something politically inconvenient, it will frequent… https://t.co/pVtxWA6cVw 20:47:36, 2019-07-22
@ohmyzsh Embarrassingly pleased with my new @ohmyzsh setup. https://t.co/xwyERKm8kQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:10:15, 2019-07-22
RT @CatalystCoop: Yowza, apparently all that Colorado climate and energy legislation actually *was* a jobs program: https://t.co/3VE9qaYQCJ 16:20:13, 2019-07-22
After 20 years of using a zsh configuration I cribbed from someone at my first job out of college I somehow only ju… https://t.co/7bwhP3k63m 14:07:41, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK Yeah, I think I have a high tolerance for the history-ish narrative, but agree it's not th… https://t.co/U6K5TBAbSw in reply to solar_chase 10:06:52, 2019-07-22
RT @CatalystCoop: Lots of good tidbits here about what's in the new default interface for @ProjectJupyter #JupyterLab from @IanRRose https:… 10:03:51, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK And with that history and mindset as the initial condition, some time in the 21st or 22nd… https://t.co/oG3rf2b4Bj in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:32:24, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK They see technical innovation and efficiency, rather than resource consumption, as the pri… https://t.co/dU8ZY0fkMS in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:30:10, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK But partly as a result of these traumatic experiences with resource limitations, the civil… https://t.co/5MfbuSaybl in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:26:58, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK Later after the population recovers, non-combustion based industrialization continues to p… https://t.co/YsgGOb7lr7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:24:15, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK Hydro-rich places continue to industrialize, but in relative isolation, while a few places… https://t.co/4CtGcL7gke in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:20:25, 2019-07-22
@solar_chase @EarthOrgUK In the alternative history rolling around in my head there are a couple of challenges that… https://t.co/zDdFhMzXye in reply to solar_chase 09:18:47, 2019-07-22
The parent company cut ties with the office over the video. These quotes. https://t.co/kokzeeeCi8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:04:41, 2019-07-21
Wow this promotional video from a Denver real estate agency based on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is, uh, racist and… https://t.co/j9fKBA2SX3 23:04:41, 2019-07-21
@bethhartman I've been thinking about this for the last couple of days and I really don't think it's clear! New sci… https://t.co/kjfvi2uOQf in reply to bethhartman 22:56:45, 2019-07-21
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. https://t.co/A4zLUZx0ze 21:02:00, 2019-07-21
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado In terms of indoor air quality impacts, how do the gas combustion products compare… https://t.co/g5rK8zzT16 in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:01:26, 2019-07-21
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Ah, okay. I've mostly been seeing the health benefits touted recently by folks wit… https://t.co/OdnpUBofQ3 in reply to ShellyMBoulder 19:58:51, 2019-07-21
@blobbyapple I'm guessing that's "alternate history" and not "solarpunk" 🙂
If you like this idea, I highly recomm… https://t.co/V87McJypFW in reply to blobbyapple 19:53:14, 2019-07-21
@blobbyapple It seems like an obvious premise, but my poking around didn't find anything today. What little I could… https://t.co/pT0jmXDz6G in reply to blobbyapple 19:01:06, 2019-07-21
Has anybody written a Solarpunk alternate history describing our technological development and an Industrial Revolu… https://t.co/374AD44ghj 18:05:58, 2019-07-21
My not particularly optimistic intuition also responds to Fermi's Paradox. Maybe knowledge and technology are self-… https://t.co/eRf7NIUJEu in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:42:03, 2019-07-21
Genuinely curious about this. https://t.co/7GCZW1pUzL 14:34:05, 2019-07-21
Supporting *green* building requires supporting *building*. https://t.co/q9AssDlns6 12:30:36, 2019-07-21
RT @LyleSollaYates: Reading Harland Bartholomew, I discovered this '55 propaganda film encouraging slum clearance https://t.co/02m4oOwwPU 09:53:38, 2019-07-21

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-14 to 2019-07-20

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2019-07-21
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-14 to 2019-07-20

@panamaredhat @ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Absolutely! It's the combination of trumpeting fight-to-the-death to… https://t.co/UvBJFe8ptv in reply to panamaredhat 23:56:47, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado But these measures (and many others!) that actually work are often unpopular with… https://t.co/tGqASZQ2k5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:26:58, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Especially when other more powerful and cost-effective policies — like allowing a… https://t.co/Aiyw5ovn52 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:19:45, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado One might go as far as to say overly stringent energy standards are used as a cyni… https://t.co/dIbrKaybsY in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:15:51, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado In many cases simply lifting the ban on apartment buildings would be better for em… https://t.co/KCJXRdjdMJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:06:23, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Berkeley, Boulder & many other green liberal bastions are infamous for their restr… https://t.co/qIKL9zGs9D in reply to ShellyMBoulder 23:00:23, 2019-07-20
Fun talk by Richard B. Alley on the last few hundred million years of linkage between CO2 and Earth's climate, prim… https://t.co/HsjexRxKus 19:38:02, 2019-07-20
@YIMBY_Princeton It was awful, and I was the chair of the city's Transportation Board for the whole thing. One of m… https://t.co/iZKxGY7lRx in reply to YIMBY_Princeton 19:34:17, 2019-07-20
I got into bike advocacy (by coincidence) as oil prices were rising in the mid-aughts. Change seemed possible. Inev… https://t.co/Gai6nclLON 19:03:58, 2019-07-20
Now if only they hadn't banned new homes first. https://t.co/1uYHYVncsc 18:49:32, 2019-07-20
@ShellyMBoulder @bouldercolorado Though it will be both deeply ironic and not particularly helpful if we only get c… https://t.co/5HJuXvOe12 in reply to ShellyMBoulder 18:46:49, 2019-07-20
Another reason I think knowledge-based wealth is almost unlimited: We could be *so* much better at teaching… almo… https://t.co/9ZFPjZdIJs 14:01:04, 2019-07-20
@blobbyapple Yeah, WTF would we have done 100 years ago w/o the Haber-Bosch process. in reply to blobbyapple 13:44:53, 2019-07-20
Technological development tends to follow paths of least resistance. Fossil fuels were one. Silicon semiconductors… https://t.co/vsF5qhdgyM in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:39:14, 2019-07-20
Ironically in contrast to the tweet from @binarybits that inspired this rant, I think our economic growth is more l… https://t.co/Yxm4cAGYgq in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:29:23, 2019-07-20
Nuclear war. Synthetic pandemics. Malevolent superintelligence. Re-directed asteroids. Geoengineering gone horribly… https://t.co/IfiIOYxJeM in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:23:53, 2019-07-20
I think the more likely long-term limit to economic growth in a world where prosperity flows from knowledge, and no… https://t.co/HBPIc4JGJ1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:17:25, 2019-07-20
So maybe "too much" of humanity is blissed out and "not enough" people want to strive to create new knowledge and t… https://t.co/44CgeKYfeL in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:15:48, 2019-07-20
We could still *do stuff* at that point. Explore the solar system, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, cure a… https://t.co/gY0wBpV98I in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:10:07, 2019-07-20
And what is economic growth even *for*? What if everyone just has access to a comfortable life with clean water, pl… https://t.co/RrHBWt3VoY in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:03:51, 2019-07-20
Are we going to run out of new things to know, or useful new applications of things we know? Like we're suddenly go… https://t.co/31bCoJafFJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:59:03, 2019-07-20
@otherlab @ARPAE If what we want is economic growth, and in the long run that growth depends on the knowledge we ac… https://t.co/H0KE0bp4Cr in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:51:36, 2019-07-20
And this long piece from Saul Griffith at @otherlab on the need for and utility of longer term energy R&D funding a… https://t.co/qyIETacife in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:47:32, 2019-07-20
Fossil fuels are so easy, we haven't even made a half-assed attempt to do anything else. Look at what the US spends… https://t.co/mXUkai18QN in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:42:30, 2019-07-20
@blobbyapple I've looked, and I haven't been able to find it. Might be interesting to set it in the time when this… https://t.co/aTyWLSrjQn in reply to blobbyapple 12:30:03, 2019-07-20
Returning to cement… mollusks make a similar material, precipitating CaCO3 out of seawater w/ <1% protein scaffol… https://t.co/C7WCSxAfxl in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:17:14, 2019-07-20
This is why I still have some sliver of optimism even while the world literally burns. There are other ways for us… https://t.co/6YYEs6cnq0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:05:51, 2019-07-20
We experienced a positive feedback loop between resource consumption and technological development, but in the abs… https://t.co/PhPOs1Y3Vh in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:02:40, 2019-07-20
To what extent has our relative wealth and comfort been derived from using more resources, vs. our improved empiric… https://t.co/w2A5jwtzSN in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:59:19, 2019-07-20
What would we have tried instead? Is there any reason to think that would have been *fundamentally* limited by the… https://t.co/2nbWDtxBhO in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:56:06, 2019-07-20
But back to the original point: Can you really imagine humanity gaining a profound new understanding of how the nat… https://t.co/rt21Hg5L3M in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:53:25, 2019-07-20
@welcomehomebldr Ironically it seems like there's a good chance we're going to burn them anyway, by drying out both… https://t.co/SifawvsOlC in reply to welcomehomebldr 11:48:19, 2019-07-20
Electrified rail can do intercity cargo and passenger transport.
If there's no bunker fuel to burn, how big can yo… https://t.co/hONwZLyFdw in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:17:12, 2019-07-20
Without petroleum, we never would have built the kind of transportation systems we have now.
We built pedestrian c… https://t.co/UhFbIBQxuv in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:13:40, 2019-07-20
Abundant fossil fuels have made us lazy about energy. Why bother trying to be efficient when you can just dig up mo… https://t.co/7xFMRBqMuO in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:07:05, 2019-07-20
Maybe the Arabian peninsula and the Sahara and the Atacama and the Southwest US would be heavily industrialized cen… https://t.co/qXrXzIOIJR in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:04:02, 2019-07-20
Without access to fossil fuels, maybe we would have developed solar furnaces to supply process heat for smelting or… https://t.co/04fa05H8vY in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:00:18, 2019-07-20
@welcomehomebldr Yeah, probably in most places, but there are some counterexamples like Japan (beginning w/ the Tok… https://t.co/L6u3j8rJRE in reply to welcomehomebldr 10:35:14, 2019-07-20
People were fooling around with electricity, magnetism & calculus in the 18th century. We would have gotten hydroel… https://t.co/slyLDevuuA in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:28:03, 2019-07-20
I think we still would have seen a long run of economic growth, but the driver of that growth would have been much… https://t.co/2wVy8U2SCz in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:06:34, 2019-07-20
Another thought experiment in the same vein is to imagine technological civilization developing on a world whose bi… https://t.co/gbH32F9VO1 09:48:05, 2019-07-20
A decade ago I would totally have been on the side of the telescope. Now I can't help but think "Would I want to in… https://t.co/fPsc4Oj7wu 21:52:39, 2019-07-19
Ooof. Glacier: Ok. Not. https://t.co/uMRKopqhSS 20:51:56, 2019-07-19
Seems like a good time to re-up this @planetmoney episode on why US electronic payments take 3 days, while in the U… https://t.co/AkVei1DO9W 18:15:59, 2019-07-19
@MichaelEWebber Organic. "Locavore", "Urban Ag." Yuppie farmers markets. Maybe less branded, but no less obsessive.… https://t.co/WjxeH5ltM5 in reply to MichaelEWebber 17:12:15, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd God why can't he just run for senate what is wrong with him. in reply to ericmbudd 15:07:05, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd Which is why they should continue getting chewed out in primaries in those "safe" districts. in reply to ericmbudd 13:56:33, 2019-07-19
@ericmbudd I'm afraid it will dissuade progressive voters from participating, and generally poison the base's perce… https://t.co/jSJHw2Bb63 in reply to ericmbudd 13:30:30, 2019-07-19
@PauliJllo @jfdecarolis Have y'all seen the new code + data rerpoducibility requirements from @AeaData? Are there a… https://t.co/6dc3TxemqN 00:19:25, 2019-07-19
@moaimx @MxDatalab Sería muy interesante para comparar esta con algunas medidas más cantidadativas en cada ciudad también. in reply to moaimx 00:12:48, 2019-07-19
RT @GernotWagner: FaceApp for Florida. You can bet Russia knows about this one, too. https://t.co/isZMHxgqfX 22:35:02, 2019-07-18
@ericmbudd Maybe it should be more like the World Cup, where they pair off and half of them are eliminated in each round. in reply to ericmbudd 19:11:27, 2019-07-18
RT @rgunns: do y'all have good, READABLE resources on financial instruments like equity, securitization, bonds, commodity markets, etc? we'… 16:18:39, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC @EricGimon @lausanbo also knows a *ton* about the subject, but I don't think she's On Here much. in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:03:31, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC I'm sure Uday Varadarajan at RMI would have some resources to offer. @EricGimon might as well. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:54:29, 2019-07-18
@rgunns @EnergyInnovLLC Bonds confused me for a long time. I found William Bernstein's books on retirement investin… https://t.co/hlPWUBbgMm in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:53:06, 2019-07-18
@rgunns I've probably already shared these, but, specifically in the context of retiring fossil generation and othe… https://t.co/S4nBZi1ke2 in reply to rgunns 14:50:30, 2019-07-18
If only there were some way to reallocate these resources for use in the public's interest. https://t.co/0AShNMFCRv 12:35:00, 2019-07-18
RT @daveweigel: This Tom Friedman line is a perfect encapsulation of this CW, and it never handles the central problem: Democrats nominated… 12:28:51, 2019-07-18
At what point does a person become responsible for mitigating their own (very predictable) cognitive biases? And wh… https://t.co/zFfmOfXrpj 12:20:37, 2019-07-18
Congrats to @jfdecarolis and @PauliJllo! This will be a fun project, and should add some much needed transparency a… https://t.co/L00KSdXtbY 11:15:37, 2019-07-18
RT @Dogen: Say what now
#日本 https://t.co/JnP7fHMG7P 22:09:21, 2019-07-17
There's nothing any human can do that's worth a billion dollars. Beyond a certain point wealth is just an artefact… https://t.co/NkMHlmPuPC 21:28:33, 2019-07-17
RT @Pinboard: @HirokoTabuchi @sfchronicle Twist: there are no new homes in Berkeley 21:17:37, 2019-07-17
RT @jbouie: It’s not routine, it’s ritual. A communal performance and affirmation of shared values. And you don’t have to look particularly… 20:32:28, 2019-07-17
RT @CarlosLozadaWP: The move from “lock her up” in 2016 to “send her back” today is the move from strongman lawlessness to white nationalis… 20:26:22, 2019-07-17
RT @BreeNewsome: An openly racist president targeting members of Congress for violence, overemphasizing the pronunciation of their names to… 20:25:31, 2019-07-17
A tiny ode to deep time. https://t.co/AtB8dq1Cq5 20:25:02, 2019-07-17
RT @rgunns: this is disgusting. and actively endangering her and her family. again.
WHERE IS THE FUCKING LINE https://t.co/906JlWZWw8 20:21:08, 2019-07-17
@ericmbudd You can do the hot yoga outside. Finally. in reply to ericmbudd 18:08:40, 2019-07-17
So long and thanks for all the fish. https://t.co/D9bOxgJr1e 17:48:59, 2019-07-17
Listening to my music in alphabetical order by artist.
The transition directly from Jefferson Airplane's "Triad" t… https://t.co/JruTLtJVIk 15:57:21, 2019-07-17
@MasynMoyer @shayshinecastle They do like the unanimous votes. Sometimes I wish A-Aron was a little more ornery. Bu… https://t.co/dzYC2X9Ruu in reply to MasynMoyer 15:11:46, 2019-07-17
@WhoresofYore https://t.co/qUU8m1lwVt 13:43:25, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle It would be nice if there were more calling of bullshit during the happytalk phase, with reference… https://t.co/U85wq8BEKF in reply to shayshinecastle 13:40:36, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle Do you think they really ever meant it though? It just feels too easy to say those nice things whe… https://t.co/RRgrlaAj79 in reply to shayshinecastle 12:06:45, 2019-07-17
@electronecon @brendanpierpont @RCHohenstein @mehdyson I would think this would be extractable form something like… https://t.co/w9WstTtx32 in reply to electronecon 11:57:13, 2019-07-17
RT @zachdcarter: Hard to escape the conclusion that Facebook is totally unprepared to defend Libra before Congress https://t.co/8Sn5LO6ETH 11:53:13, 2019-07-17
@CHThiem @ericmbudd Yeah, that was pretty awful. in reply to CHThiem 07:57:24, 2019-07-17
@shayshinecastle City campground. Gotta be a city campground. Fair weather housing for the unhoused. in reply to shayshinecastle 20:34:09, 2019-07-16
Also… remember that if the results of an extensive public engagement process are deemed politically inconvenient… https://t.co/0fJtzLpcXn 17:53:46, 2019-07-16
@alixtrot Yeah. The "official story" is slow to change. :-/ Looking back at the album now I see there were only 4 w… https://t.co/8Bie5eoigU in reply to alixtrot 10:38:14, 2019-07-16
@alixtrot There's a an album called "26 Scientists" by the band Artichoke — it's short musical biographies, one fo… https://t.co/Os9mpCWdoP in reply to alixtrot 08:57:13, 2019-07-16
RT @Karnythia: Individual choices cannot & will not solve a crisis created & sustained by governments and businesses. All exhortations to… 08:52:34, 2019-07-16
This is an amazing endorsement! Keep up the good work @ewarren. https://t.co/NZX6g5FjeZ 08:50:51, 2019-07-16
Never once in my life have I had health insurance that I felt like I could actually use. https://t.co/41MwN0KW1Z 21:13:58, 2019-07-15
@drvox "I don't mean it's difficult to grow beans, or air conditioning bills are inconveniently high. I mean, if yo… https://t.co/Ruy9U6ijdl in reply to drvox 17:07:02, 2019-07-15
@ideapete https://t.co/AxyBNP3o6X in reply to ideapete 12:38:33, 2019-07-15
En otras noticias… estoy planeando para andar en bicicleta desde Antigua a Oaxaca en el otoño que viene, después… https://t.co/Sb5tBBBD2a 00:09:45, 2019-07-15
More good thoughts here on the value of being very clear about whether you are generating content, or editing it, p… https://t.co/Kdkh73SQBw in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:03:23, 2019-07-15
I desperately want to write more long-form stuff, but have gotten trapped in this perfect sentence loop so many tim… https://t.co/8Ey1nJGR36 00:02:09, 2019-07-15
"I'm not against school integration, just busing as the means." sounds an awful lot like "I'm not against affordabl… https://t.co/JhJL1DD94g 22:07:14, 2019-07-14
@ericmbudd Yeah so who is on the hook for "maintenance" again? Was that the P3 or CDOT? in reply to ericmbudd 22:01:24, 2019-07-14
@ericmbudd I bet Ken Beitel could make up a great story about this! in reply to ericmbudd 21:57:59, 2019-07-14
@Madisonkanna @thebmbennett Too real. Too real. in reply to Madisonkanna 21:30:39, 2019-07-14
@Sammy_Roth @ByIanJames Have you read Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee? in reply to Sammy_Roth 17:55:04, 2019-07-14
I'm still haunted by this thread from a year ago, about the shockingly fast and lawful transition to apartheid gove… https://t.co/yDF68A7Q93 00:34:20, 2019-07-14
@Noahpinion There was this thread about the transition into apartheid in S. Africa, which seems like another intere… https://t.co/vj1C61rCSe in reply to Noahpinion 00:31:47, 2019-07-14

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Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-07 to 2019-07-13

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2019-07-14
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2019-07-07 to 2019-07-13

@KenCaldeira I don't know if you get into it at all in the paper (because paywall) but you might be interested in s… https://t.co/xjarenkXFK in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:40:44, 2019-07-13
Some people subject to court mandated GPS monitoring (often pre-trial) are geofenced — an alarm goes off if they e… https://t.co/KTgx5Jf6V5 22:37:55, 2019-07-13
@brendanpierpont @JigarShahDC @EnergyInnovLLC explores a variety of capital recycling mechanisms here that can cost… https://t.co/hH92cBwvxC in reply to brendanpierpont 22:13:45, 2019-07-13
The financial tools explored in these white papers from @EnergyInnovLLC provide some options: https://t.co/YAVOVS27Bg in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:09:48, 2019-07-13
Even if humanity never built another fossil power station or industrial facility, and just ran what we've got until… https://t.co/hn4FA6ZH2N 22:07:22, 2019-07-13
There's every reason to think rural and "micropolitan" areas will continue to hollow out. When the US becomes a nat… https://t.co/7rMx4tXcH0 21:20:47, 2019-07-13
Well this would certainly be poetic.
Remember when @bobyatesboulder was originally running for Council and openly… https://t.co/8KxStx6ayZ 20:05:49, 2019-07-13
"Fled to Latin America before things totally went to shit." is not exactly flattering, but maybe also not inaccurat… https://t.co/A13NuFHMFM 19:49:50, 2019-07-13
@welcomehomebldr @CHThiem And yes of course there are the ecological benefits of Open Space too, but it seems clear… https://t.co/5M6sscsGNe in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:39:48, 2019-07-13
@welcomehomebldr @CHThiem The difference is the scale — OS is $1B over 50 years benefiting tens of thousands of la… https://t.co/xOrQ2TVwHx in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:38:21, 2019-07-13
@welcomehomebldr @CHThiem Though systemically… there's a lot of similarity between this and the Open Space progra… https://t.co/HwIH41ln4L in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:35:55, 2019-07-13
@welcomehomebldr @CHThiem I know. I can't help it. I have a problem. in reply to welcomehomebldr 19:10:43, 2019-07-13
@Sammy_Roth @hausfath It's also interesting to note that we're in a very different world, biogeochemically, than wh… https://t.co/238zY8m3b8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:08:40, 2019-07-13
@Sammy_Roth I know this is a tempting narrative to follow, but there's a lotta pushback on this paper from others i… https://t.co/8D4TzKO1Ou in reply to Sammy_Roth 19:05:46, 2019-07-13
@CHThiem This is like, exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to work. You buy the land with public money and t… https://t.co/AzdgHmk8Hk in reply to CHThiem 18:59:43, 2019-07-13
"Preventing housing from being built on the property will put an end to 30 years of failed housing proposals and co… https://t.co/rQe2Ibl3xs 18:57:29, 2019-07-13
So many of the responses to this remind me of why living in a co-op is great.
Cc: @ericmbudd @CHThiem @bryanlbowen https://t.co/AwB2aqW1lS 00:17:08, 2019-07-13
RT @girlziplocked: The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization… 00:12:41, 2019-07-13
@PopDetective I loved your piece on sociological storytelling & Wall-E, and have since realized that most of the st… https://t.co/ljnaHxvId5 20:41:33, 2019-07-12
@JasenThorpe Sounds like a good argument for stocking the kitchen with dishes from a thrift store. When nothing matches, everything matches. in reply to JasenThorpe 15:28:54, 2019-07-12
It seems certain that we will retreat from cities like New Orleans and Miami later this century. Will we do with pl… https://t.co/re7gCzHYGx 15:22:06, 2019-07-12
2.5 billion years ago there was no fire on Earth because there was no oxygen in the atmosphere.
300 million years… https://t.co/UMQMsyG5JV 00:36:23, 2019-07-12
@andrew_leach @SeanDunn10 @github Does it feel like the concepts or the commands themselves are more the issue? in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:11:00, 2019-07-12
@andrew_leach @SeanDunn10 @github For me the commands and interactions between all the parts only really started st… https://t.co/jzTeufSfsQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:04:31, 2019-07-12
@andrew_leach @SeanDunn10 @github Maybe you've already seen it, but the workflow github recommends, integrating pul… https://t.co/rzupprL3FC in reply to ZaneSelvans 00:00:06, 2019-07-12
@andrew_leach @SeanDunn10 @github Do you want the students to just go ahead and do the merge? Or do you want to opp… https://t.co/dNZLztTg2N in reply to andrew_leach 23:58:47, 2019-07-11
This topic is even more toxic than I thought. I had no idea there were GOP congressmembers pushing natalism as a re… https://t.co/YKsrBuR99o 17:07:39, 2019-07-11
@drawohara @ericmbudd Decent heat pumps are between 300% and 400% efficient (ratio of electricity in to heat moved… https://t.co/i3MmYbwRSh in reply to drawohara 16:55:40, 2019-07-11
RT @MorganJerkins: "Child care in particular was very difficult, because it’s expensive and we don't get paid much. If I put [my son] in a… 16:49:03, 2019-07-11
@alexbaca People who don't feel like you feel? Or who don't feel like the dude on his journey of NIMBY self discovery? in reply to alexbaca 16:35:27, 2019-07-11
RT @dTrixieF: "fully automated luxury gay space communism" is a deeply flawed meme, but it caught on because of a gap in leftist discourse.… 15:28:39, 2019-07-11
RT @Dr_KatieG1: Yesterday I offered to share some writing advice that has worked for me, & it garnered a lot of interest! So I'm going to s… 15:26:15, 2019-07-11
RT @alexbaca: It is helpful to identify the problem. https://t.co/YHAfTecpAc 11:53:47, 2019-07-11
@drvox I imagine you've already seen Saul Griffith's long post (and congressional testimony) on the @otherlab blog… https://t.co/APKFJ121e2 in reply to drvox 11:51:44, 2019-07-11
@MarkyV @bolderbekah @ericmbudd TEST YOUR MIGHT. in reply to MarkyV 11:30:13, 2019-07-11
@ericmbudd Allegory for out place in history. in reply to ericmbudd 11:26:47, 2019-07-11
I kind of love that whenever I search for software or power grid engineering tutorials, I end up watching videos fr… https://t.co/JG4OPTAF4t 11:21:16, 2019-07-11
@markfischetti @GreatDismal This paper has gotten a lot of pushback from other scientists. Here's an interesting th… https://t.co/K2gkjwD6aN in reply to markfischetti 01:18:09, 2019-07-11
The population of Kenya is ~25% bigger than the population of California.
The wealthiest ~10% of humanity is respo… https://t.co/IpnFn4DkIx 00:35:42, 2019-07-11
@bolderbekah @ericmbudd FINISH HIM. in reply to bolderbekah 00:20:02, 2019-07-11
RT @CostaSamaras: Speedy & transparent environmental reviews are important to ensure impacts are minimized. But rich residents using enviro… 23:32:42, 2019-07-10
@erinoverturf Did you see the court order the judge issued in response to the WSJ piece? They were *so* not amused. in reply to erinoverturf 22:12:49, 2019-07-10
@2emesouffle @DavidQuammen The viral DNA keeps getting updated over time as the mammals evolve! It's like we're rec… https://t.co/6OwkTjhYWV in reply to 2emesouffle 22:10:56, 2019-07-10
@ericmbudd The passes all used to be unpaved! in reply to ericmbudd 21:05:51, 2019-07-10
RT @jdesmondharris: Today I found myself feeling sad for the members of the men's team because everyone is talking about how bad they are i… 13:57:29, 2019-07-10
Some interesting subtleties related to the math of atmospheric carbon removal. Which we are all going to get very f… https://t.co/XHs7IT5fXw 13:39:11, 2019-07-10
Feels like there's a lot going on in this Pelosi quote.
“I’m here to help the children when it’s easy and when it’… https://t.co/ftnZyO9h9B 11:34:37, 2019-07-10
We now know of 4000 planets beyond our solar system. When I started college, we knew of 3. https://t.co/S5VMfSeFAe 09:21:01, 2019-07-10
@shayshinecastle Are those numbers just for a particular sector (e.g. electricity or transportation)? US per capita… https://t.co/oHFRIi8tJe in reply to shayshinecastle 01:00:17, 2019-07-10
@ericmbudd But I thought Cindy got the 2 year term… in reply to ericmbudd 22:31:44, 2019-07-09
And if they were more jammed, more people would actually walk.
But instead the city has chosen to ignore empirical… https://t.co/DCrfoiDhpt 22:17:08, 2019-07-09
What's happening to the US coal industry and those who have depended on it was completely predictable. Resource ext… https://t.co/HrefIn3JF6 21:04:00, 2019-07-09
@rgunns Now all I can think of is the soundtrack from Mortal Kombat. https://t.co/7gcG6yWuXJ in reply to rgunns 20:40:04, 2019-07-09
We're Apollo trapped in a monkey mind. We do well with linear systems, or maybe quadratic (we can throw rocks and s… https://t.co/3EhbnmWSYG 18:29:00, 2019-07-09
RT @drvox: I didn't get too much into this in the post, but it's worth emphasizing: as fossil fuels decline, workers are getting fvcked. Re… 12:58:49, 2019-07-09
RT @jbouie: if i were a liberal billionaire with a $100 millions to burn i'd spend it on a nationwide voter registration drive instead of a… 12:56:56, 2019-07-09
@ericmbudd @sea_Baugruppe I believe he was chased off Twitter by someone harassing him in Seattle or something like that. in reply to ericmbudd 12:54:32, 2019-07-09
I specifically chose to work on policy instead of science after my PhD to avoid despairing, and yet so many of the… https://t.co/UXiihtT4dy 12:14:01, 2019-07-09
@ericmbudd Also I was just told by Twitter that @sea_Baugruppe's account has been restricted because of some kind o… https://t.co/8v9Pjfo9VB in reply to ericmbudd 11:13:11, 2019-07-09
A strong argument against considering Lakewood, Colorado's recently enacted migration limits any kind of helpful cl… https://t.co/28YgDf5byZ 09:27:38, 2019-07-09
@thmscwlls (which has been shown repeatedly to be dead wrong, in city after city) in reply to thmscwlls 00:54:55, 2019-07-09
If you've ever installed Zoom for a video conference, even if you've subsequently uninstalled it, check this out! https://t.co/MOq91XkVO9 22:22:25, 2019-07-08
10 deep cover Russian agents were arrested in the US in 2010 after a multi-year investigation. The story was made i… https://t.co/sQciW6jrMs 19:26:15, 2019-07-08
It only takes a week to sail from Scotland to Iceland! Beautiful footage from @climate_ice (Side note: the Mercato… https://t.co/n0QSqgwMIp 19:09:02, 2019-07-08
"Change is slow." they said. "Be patient." they said. But we only choose to make *some* kinds of change slow. https://t.co/d1bUYeSIxA 15:12:58, 2019-07-08
RT @erinoverturf: Since I'm turning into the unofficial #energytwitter employment resource for the Western U.S., let's keep the party going… 15:05:24, 2019-07-08
@ericmbudd I was so optimistic when I saw the headline, and the use of the past tense "was." It almost felt like clickbait. in reply to ericmbudd 11:48:19, 2019-07-08
@ericmbudd (with apologies to Milan Kundera) in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:45:16, 2019-07-08
@ericmbudd The unbearable denseness of being a white dude. in reply to ericmbudd 11:44:32, 2019-07-08
After his campaign staff quits, Hickenlooper openly admits that the problem with his campaign is… the candidate.… https://t.co/DmuBCTx1g8 11:35:56, 2019-07-08
From @PopDetective, a thoughtful look at the US system of mass incarceration, through the lens of The Shawshank Red… https://t.co/U4uzKA4JcJ 23:42:25, 2019-07-07
Ah, me encanta. https://t.co/UtWgeKdYSp 23:06:53, 2019-07-07
@andersem @ShaneDPhillips I'm curious to know! Mostly I've read about other kinds of ownership models, rather than… https://t.co/hikCv3ZUrl in reply to andersem 22:57:18, 2019-07-07
RT @wrathofgnon: "As we face catastrophic sea level rises and climate change we want to teach children the importance of ecology and the be… 20:18:35, 2019-07-07
@notFromShrek @a_pigott @ericmbudd The Peak to Peak back from Estes, even after you get up that first hill, is, uuu… https://t.co/JeQQxKjK9q in reply to notFromShrek 20:07:00, 2019-07-07
RT @alexbaca: I love this. My favorite part of Progress & Poverty is when George describes the joyousness that comes with other people arou… 19:56:53, 2019-07-07
@ericmbudd @notFromShrek Old Fall River Road is the best. Though I guess it's kind of New Fall River Road now. in reply to ericmbudd 19:54:08, 2019-07-07
Tremendous work putting together this piece @RosannaXia! I can't imagine how you got some of those quotes. They just seem totally bonkers. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:50:59, 2019-07-07
I'm finally fixing the slow leak I've had in my rear tire since… last September!
But only because I finally wore out the tire. 19:32:55, 2019-07-07
@welcomehomebldr @alexbaca @RottenInDenmark Who knows. I'm just a ghost on the internet at this point. But it does… https://t.co/moI0dXWHzE in reply to welcomehomebldr 19:16:15, 2019-07-07
But hey at least Russian LNG tankers can *finally* use the Northern Sea Route. https://t.co/7ViLzPDdRj https://t.co/Zfkdrvla5i 17:17:19, 2019-07-07
@welcomehomebldr @alexbaca @RottenInDenmark And then there was this gem today… https://t.co/P13HMVFwbU in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:02:52, 2019-07-07
@welcomehomebldr It's a dynamic hinted at/described in the piece the @alexbaca was talking about by… https://t.co/BmBiKbu1ii in reply to welcomehomebldr 17:02:23, 2019-07-07
@ericmbudd Hmm. The brain virus spreads to Lakewood: https://t.co/P13HMVFwbU 15:32:20, 2019-07-07
I really don't think this is how it goes down.
"At some point, everyone is going to say: ‘No, we’re not just going… https://t.co/kCTmM1H651 in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:55:45, 2019-07-07
People say the wildest things when they are in denial. I feel like I can already hear the future sobbing/laughing.… https://t.co/0wbw7dEwuj in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:55:45, 2019-07-07
Nice long-form piece from @LATimes on sea level rise in California: “Right now, managed retreat is just a slogan. I… https://t.co/3BgKLSg8dx 08:55:44, 2019-07-07
@CHThiem @BoulderHousing And sadly, "One of the the most successful IZ programs" is a fairly low bar: https://t.co/FejgrkSwVE in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:09:17, 2019-07-07
@CHThiem Also, it's not particularly concentrated! Except insofar as it can only be built in places where apartment… https://t.co/eUSwTDb7KV in reply to CHThiem 08:03:03, 2019-07-07

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Tweets for the Week of 2019-06-30 to 2019-07-06

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2019-07-07
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@bradplumer The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Other Minds
Crabgrass Frontier
Fighting Traffic
Song of the Dodo
The Two Mile Time Machine in reply to bradplumer 23:59:13, 2019-07-06
If we can't find a vision for actually progressive inclusive cities, then how can we hope to have any kind of viabl… https://t.co/siEcmpce8b in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:37:28, 2019-07-06
It's like the comparisons between NIMBYism and Trumpism are having the effect of convincing folks with progressive… https://t.co/xjpUBhptgR in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:33:16, 2019-07-06
It's terrifying to think of the intense status-quo-ism of urban (otherwise) progressive enclaves as a wedge to brin… https://t.co/ZSDKicWeRU in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:31:12, 2019-07-06
It feels like we're setting ourselves up for a loooong era of rebuilding in a brokendown world. I wish I could conv… https://t.co/UQT4KXG5nb in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:26:26, 2019-07-06
RT @AnandWrites: How do you explain to the Pelosi-Biden generation how they sound when they dismiss people like this? https://t.co/eXTmLMa7… 22:04:26, 2019-07-06
@rgunns Free your mind, and your thighs will follow? in reply to rgunns 20:50:21, 2019-07-06
Un buen hilo sobre la narrativa del lugares en nuestros mentes. Me gustaría mucho explorar esta parte del mundo por… https://t.co/V07TicQDjA 20:45:41, 2019-07-06
I wonder if the hard-core NIMBYism is going to be used as an opening to polarize the heretofore reliably blue urban… https://t.co/LWXSfoQMdh 18:57:47, 2019-07-06
@alexbaca *sigh* This meme is another manifestation of the virus. in reply to alexbaca 18:54:04, 2019-07-06
@mrocklin @choldgraf Are the additional development resources they access by keeping the project open really that v… https://t.co/aqntdmmy31 in reply to mrocklin 18:01:25, 2019-07-06
And it's imperative that we create a leftist urbanism, because more and more progressive mindsets and dense pattern… https://t.co/6o9HOq9Q1f 17:58:10, 2019-07-06
@choldgraf @mrocklin How/why has the Jupyter/Bloomberg relationship been so productive? Does it seem like a good mo… https://t.co/iVLe8vgKML in reply to choldgraf 17:52:31, 2019-07-06
And in my climate work, I feel the same way on a planetary scale. We can't be stuck in endless brawls over one coal… https://t.co/0U1vRnP5QR in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:23:39, 2019-07-06
@unicorn Access to novelty and economic opportunity? in reply to unicorn 11:16:40, 2019-07-06
What is the project of an urban leftism? A *city-ism*? How do we make The City for Everyone? How do we create a sh… https://t.co/RfxoOspKL5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:12:38, 2019-07-06
Like, even if things are broken down and in disrepair, having a bunch of other people that you're working with to f… https://t.co/f6su5apNr3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:08:35, 2019-07-06
But what really attracted me to the nostalgia for early-stage gentrification was the idea of having a shared sense… https://t.co/nHXVHqLzxZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:59:13, 2019-07-06
And this emergent urban exclusivity meshes so nicely (horribly) with our cultural idealization of exclusive suburba… https://t.co/seqYtZrFCK in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:52:13, 2019-07-06
This idea that you can keep improving things, without really changing things, inevitably leads to displacement of w… https://t.co/OpXw9bDBau in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:47:54, 2019-07-06
But it's also often a weird kind of positive change, because it's happening to a probably recently distressed place… https://t.co/g2YEqWPsIo in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:41:42, 2019-07-06
I think there's also a sense that positive change is happening (again, from the POV of a new arrival). And you get… https://t.co/nB5XC1euJs in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:37:21, 2019-07-06
But what is it that's so alluring about those times and spaces?
Of course they're affordable — at least to the ne… https://t.co/E83IFO5oLy in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:33:46, 2019-07-06
Too true in that I could see myself wanting something like that too. It also sounded like a lot of comments I heard… https://t.co/BpmqtfzhKX in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:29:22, 2019-07-06
Someone recently commented that the ideal urban neighborhood character cultivated by a lot of present-day NIMBYs is… https://t.co/N2BCnrcj9G 10:26:13, 2019-07-06
And the older progressives in Boulder remember fighting against sprawling developments to preserve the open space s… https://t.co/7NrKRP5Ci5 10:20:51, 2019-07-06
@btx91 It's a weird little hyperbolic microcosm of NIMBYism. Even if I could have stayed there, my sense of the pla… https://t.co/jGcORsCXsC in reply to btx91 10:16:09, 2019-07-06
tbh I fled the country to get away from it. https://t.co/NoGcQfJg5x 10:05:34, 2019-07-06
@thmscwlls @ericmbudd @IngramCoop The S is for sucks. in reply to thmscwlls 09:57:29, 2019-07-06
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Burninating the countryside… burninating all the peasants and their THATCH ROOF COTTAGES!… https://t.co/tV79KllpvL in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:17:37, 2019-07-06
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Alaska can come too. https://t.co/K4qZPu96mH in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:11:51, 2019-07-06
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop And the 114°F temperatures in France, obliterating previous monthly average temperature reco… https://t.co/P9ANgilsTl in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:09:25, 2019-07-06
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop And then there was that Chinese tornado. https://t.co/FO29Sare0c in reply to ZaneSelvans 02:01:46, 2019-07-06
A cool German zero-equity mixed-income cooperative housing project, built over a preschool, described by… https://t.co/lTWmzmOPUo 23:39:20, 2019-07-05
@bolderbekah @ericmbudd It's not just the bears… https://t.co/UUntyCBBAx in reply to bolderbekah 23:29:19, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd They bug me too (as you know) but… more when it happens at the systemic/policy level. Like, okay, you'… https://t.co/RJXSYZbgj5 in reply to ericmbudd 20:05:10, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Por supuesto. Porque, cambio climatico… in reply to ericmbudd 20:03:11, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Has visto la locura de granizada en Jalisco? Se cayeron dos metros! https://t.co/l8FPblwglo in reply to ericmbudd 19:58:51, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Man, it seems like this has been a rough year for gardens out up there. How are all the… https://t.co/s3RxJsZuRP in reply to ericmbudd 19:50:14, 2019-07-05
And all it took was $12 billion in federal subsidies. Socialism works! https://t.co/6O8Slj0bnO 18:23:12, 2019-07-05
tfw you finally reach the Tuvan throat singing portion of listening to your entire music collection alphabetized by… https://t.co/qL3kU4Pnsq 18:01:42, 2019-07-05
@CHThiem @DavidQuammen I am slowly working my way through Apocalyptic Planet! in reply to CHThiem 16:01:02, 2019-07-05
How about we just call them the #Depletables https://t.co/xrAlNduRQ6 15:53:45, 2019-07-05
@NordVPN It would be really nice if there were some way to whitelist specific sites so they aren't blocked by the C… https://t.co/jqUES72XpJ 13:16:11, 2019-07-05
Also, my take on nuclear power is pretty close to what @MLiebreich outlined on @bloombergNEF a few days ago. Necess… https://t.co/uuKOWncEEq in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:11:10, 2019-07-05
And who knows, maybe the Vogtle nuclear plant could be completed on time and under budget? Who's to say really? Wou… https://t.co/WQXvJHoC2W 13:06:00, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Which is of course very important in terms of the political economy. in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:45:29, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd That OpEx passthrough creates a split incentive, exposes ratepayers to future fuel cost risks, and reduc… https://t.co/iWK1qWO0fV in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:44:57, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Renewables, storage, transmission, and efficiency are all close to 100% CapEx, which should all be very… https://t.co/yxK98tBsBV in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:43:14, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd The securitization option means the rate the ratepayers pay is lower (like, close to T-bill low) and the… https://t.co/ot1PORJIh7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:41:33, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Of course, something like this was always possible, but as a regulatory asset, the balance sheets of the… https://t.co/4LjhMfC3E3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:40:23, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd The idea is that (*gasp*) the PUC can tell the utility in the ERP that it needs to retire its uneconomic… https://t.co/AMhCpqsGwt in reply to ericmbudd 12:38:55, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd And I'd be fine with that. It might be the fastest option! But, uh, I don't see a lot of other folks who… https://t.co/Y1UeblQlFt in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:23:38, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Then we'd have to use public financing to rebuild the entire electricity system without emissions, inclu… https://t.co/92TfKldJxn in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:22:17, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Sure, the "best case" solution to this problem is to soak the utility investors for the entire value of… https://t.co/ky9l2SV29X in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:19:39, 2019-07-05
@ericmbudd Are the 80% emissions reduction by 2030 and 100% reduction by 2050 passed in the same legislative sessio… https://t.co/Q7jNjPampP in reply to ericmbudd 10:16:43, 2019-07-05
Well. I guess I'm glad to know it's not just me? https://t.co/SJ8yWeJGgQ 09:52:00, 2019-07-05
Interestingly, depending how powerful positive feedbacks in the climate system are, Georgia may be rendered uninhab… https://t.co/FsGXNIXDuW 09:49:40, 2019-07-05
RT @hels: This Is Just to Say
I have eaten
the rich
that were at
the golf club

and which
you were probably
saving
for class war

Forgive… 20:02:38, 2019-07-04
@sharethecities Lol have you seen this? https://t.co/DRxVeeLLQR 19:59:46, 2019-07-04
@betatim @mrocklin @NumFOCUS At @CatalystCoop I think we spent ~2-3 person-months of time at the beginning of this… https://t.co/LUxdpKhTtQ in reply to betatim 13:05:36, 2019-07-04
@MattBakerEnergy @MichelsonEvan Partly the thread traces back to this article in @nresearchnews partly https://t.co/UWpOQHOyqh in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:00:35, 2019-07-04
Like Uber… but for open source science.
Joking aside, this is part of a good thread on the challenge of creating… https://t.co/6jfskH89AV 13:00:08, 2019-07-04
A nice essay-length adaptation of @DavidQuammen's book The Tangled Tree, about horizontal gene transfer and the dis… https://t.co/utDAaZnqfM 12:14:00, 2019-07-04
The American Revolution was a mistake. Because slavery and aboriginal genocide. Also, parliaments are better. And n… https://t.co/csGDMjanm9 09:24:01, 2019-07-04
@cleantechsonia @robbieorvis Dunno if it matters, but there are some typos in one of the tables of contents of this… https://t.co/UHbTQIK7ca 22:44:17, 2019-07-03
@alexbaca And the two shall become one flesh. in reply to alexbaca 14:45:07, 2019-07-03
@CHThiem Everybody wants a revolution. Nobody wants to do the dishes. Or the bookkeeping. Well, almost nobody. in reply to CHThiem 08:11:27, 2019-07-03
If you've ever thought about buying carbon offsets for your flights… maybe read this piece by @drvox and then don… https://t.co/a7ohdiZGdG 20:39:42, 2019-07-02
@emmy_ft @choldgraf And in that vein, @swingleft is a very good value, in terms of money per unit political change… https://t.co/B51CEzCcYf in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:12:27, 2019-07-02
@emmy_ft @choldgraf You know the One Weird Trick to get strong climate policies enacted, right? https://t.co/5UDpm62601 in reply to emmy_ft 20:11:28, 2019-07-02
@thmscwlls Did you get a wider spectrum of responses on The Book of Faces? Do people focus on personal rather than… https://t.co/05apoUFxhd in reply to thmscwlls 18:23:25, 2019-07-02
@thmscwlls Liberating hundreds of gigabytes of public data related to the US electricity system for use by climate… https://t.co/cesoVQGMf0 in reply to thmscwlls 18:47:34, 2019-07-01
The contrast between Oregon banning single family zoning right and the state GOP going into hiding to prevent clima… https://t.co/NhO74Loqw8 16:40:17, 2019-07-01
I knew there was a reason we were calling it Home Despot. https://t.co/cQC1BoQ4kh 17:59:20, 2019-06-30