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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-27 to 2020-10-03

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-10-04
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-27 to 2020-10-03

RT @McKelvie: That guy in the zombie movie hiding the bite on his arm and endangering the whole group, except every member of the group is… 22:10:38, 2020-10-03
Hoooboy. Mood.
"I feel as if I'm on the moon listening to the air hiss out of my spacesuit and I can't find the ho… https://t.co/PsZmalmADX 22:10:03, 2020-10-03
@JadeResurrected ¿Conoces a @Fungi_Cosas? in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:19:03, 2020-10-03
The problem is there would be riots if they did. https://t.co/Tpx21QORpF 16:41:19, 2020-10-03
(by the way this is the book that coined the phrase Conventional Wisdom and the chapter that does so is hilarious) in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:18:01, 2020-10-03
Anyway, I wrote up some more thoughts over here: Cooperative Capital Formation https://t.co/b67TKm2fll in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:14:55, 2020-10-03
Individuals, households, cooperatives, foundations, companies, cities, states, nations… there are a lot of places… https://t.co/InkUZGFY10 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:14:10, 2020-10-03
It seems like the capacity for capital formation is just as much a function of successfully limiting consumption as… https://t.co/zT0IfJequq in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:11:40, 2020-10-03
Okay but why would this require concentration? Because only the wealthy have leftovers that can be re-invested. But… https://t.co/STUrlMFvhp in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:10:05, 2020-10-03
"Capital formation" is just surplus wealth piling up somewhere and then being productively re-invested in the econo… https://t.co/XjR8lekuOG in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:08:48, 2020-10-03
I've been reading Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" and one crazy idea that he casts as part of the Conventional W… https://t.co/66hTuxAnDG 16:06:14, 2020-10-03
@electprogress This is snark, but this really was my instinctual interpretation of these emails, in the back of my… https://t.co/HMf4FWov6E in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:53:23, 2020-10-03
@JadeResurrected It is pretty nice down here. I'm sure Mexican summer missed you too. in reply to JadeResurrected 11:49:48, 2020-10-03
To be fair they are really tiny and hard to see. https://t.co/IPqaGablwA 23:43:42, 2020-10-02
RT @TheClassicalCon: Was Marcus Brutus justified in assassinating Caesar? 23:34:59, 2020-10-02
Just makes me think of discount rates. https://t.co/ONcgzCp9YF https://t.co/iK7g9JxGdW 23:33:24, 2020-10-02
RT @acvalens: “Be kind to those that aren’t to you” or whatever is for like, giving your cranky colleague a condolence letter when he loses… 23:29:05, 2020-10-02
Oh right and then also somebody has to take care of the nukes. How could I forget? https://t.co/6WPaaZfrdj 23:26:21, 2020-10-02
RT @nycsouthpaw: Unless I forgot someone, as of tonight, every Trump campaign manager in history has either been taken into police custody… 23:21:56, 2020-10-02
RT @BeijingPalmer: Chernobyl, but the entire Politburo goes on a public tour of Pripyat. https://t.co/SPc81O50XK 22:51:25, 2020-10-02
Another City Is Possible. Maybe even especially now. https://t.co/RN7QUqcgne 22:47:22, 2020-10-02
RT @JeremyKonyndyk: The amazing thing is that it took this long.
There had been a lot of near misses: 22:45:23, 2020-10-02
@Sammy_Roth Aren't those "short medieval droughts" the ones that wiped out the indigenous canyon dwelling civilization of the US Southwest? in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:30:11, 2020-10-02
Mmm, speleothems. "Our data suggest that extreme Middle Holocene aridity is more severe than the short medieval dro… https://t.co/e5NfkLbzed 22:27:36, 2020-10-02
To be fair God's always like this, but hey at least he's consistent https://t.co/x0sGmVUn5T 22:16:20, 2020-10-02
RT @screaminbutcalm: Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. 22:13:01, 2020-10-02
RT @hashbrownbeach: Trump took out a full page ad in the NYT saying 5 black kids should get the death penalty for a crime they didn't commi… 22:11:41, 2020-10-02
RT @CindyOtis_: I don’t know, folks. It kind of seems like viruses don’t actually care if people believe in them or not, that science might… 22:10:40, 2020-10-02
I've been locked in a little concrete room alone for the last 7 months and now I just can't stop cackling. AITA? 22:06:48, 2020-10-02
Is the endless barrage of Boomer clickbait & phishing spam from @electprogress trying to lure me into a web of fake… https://t.co/0XRA4uKnJq 22:02:36, 2020-10-02
This is crass and horrible and I suspect nobody is actually doing it right now.
But these guys really *did* do it… https://t.co/Cxza1yP09A 21:38:58, 2020-10-02
"Over 2,000 lines handpicked from Moby Dick, one at a time in random order." https://t.co/IucaNVSQfq 21:34:52, 2020-10-02
@cityatlas Masque of the Red Death for sure. in reply to cityatlas 21:21:28, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd The zombie tweets are about to get more numerous. in reply to ericmbudd 21:17:50, 2020-10-02
@kevpluck Check out @LeechBlockNG https://t.co/ObrArOOwDB in reply to kevpluck 20:37:22, 2020-10-02
RT @NuclearAnthro: This is me looking at my study species’s (that’d be humans!) utterly insufficient responses to existential threats inclu… 19:53:31, 2020-10-02
"Some people will say that words like *scum* and *rotten* are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but… https://t.co/Wk7WGqJTDL 18:42:37, 2020-10-02
RT @realDonaldTrump: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! 17:01:58, 2020-10-02
Is it bad that I keep hoping @PaulMMCooper will do a @Fall_of_Civ_Pod episode about the present day? Our entangled,… https://t.co/zpejeTHXB5 17:00:50, 2020-10-02
Furies FTW: "female chthonic deities that take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath" in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:29:59, 2020-10-02
Does it feel like we're trapped in an ill-advised 21st century reboot of a lost Euripides play? Is this just a kind… https://t.co/QRcjSA5cwr 16:25:39, 2020-10-02
Seriously how am I supposed to focus on Python packaging now? 16:06:17, 2020-10-02
Germophobe president bent on destroying public healthcare access ends up infected, and is sent to a public hospital… https://t.co/IDMnB7Xbxo 16:00:26, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd If they'd actually implemented it, it would have ended wildland-urban-interface development in Colorado.… https://t.co/c93ghRfkxV in reply to ericmbudd 15:41:43, 2020-10-02
@drvox Am I the only one who thinks of The Watchmen whenever someone says "Dr. Atlas?" in reply to drvox 15:40:21, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd They wanted a mandatory property risk rating for all real estate transactions, risk-based fees on proper… https://t.co/YivYGdKZXJ in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:38:09, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd I refreshed the link to the actual report (which was ignored). You can find it here: https://t.co/UxhcRhNCUp in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:36:10, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd https://t.co/WMG0ixtBzT in reply to ericmbudd 15:02:14, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd https://t.co/DWwhDoTm7v in reply to ericmbudd 15:00:14, 2020-10-02
@ericmbudd Have you read the CO wildfire plan that Hickenlooper buried because all of the measures it suggested were politically toxic? in reply to ericmbudd 14:58:48, 2020-10-02
I feel bad for all the interns and functionaries who are completely screwed, but this seems like willful, poetic, s… https://t.co/djCLXCSXKZ 13:17:52, 2020-10-02
Totally. Under. Control.
https://t.co/RpZsW97zQh 12:29:51, 2020-10-02
I have lost count of the number of awesome, ambitious young women I know who are dead set against getting married o… https://t.co/HINgsYTdoB 12:18:01, 2020-10-02
RT @tarah: Bertrand Russell was an incredibly accomplished person. He also had a starter wife, a sexy wife, a nanny wife, and a caretaker w… 12:14:41, 2020-10-02
@drvox Imagine thinking your constituents are this stupid. in reply to drvox 12:11:41, 2020-10-02
RT @nils_gilman: Just you wait for November, my dude. https://t.co/jWtSHxSYvC 07:15:56, 2020-10-02
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Yes, being an American feels as dumb as you think 00:04:00, 2020-10-02
"The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine." https://t.co/SElKFPCZy5 23:59:02, 2020-10-01
@Hegemommy Wine is hydrating right? in reply to Hegemommy 21:50:35, 2020-10-01
RT @edelstudio: https://t.co/cXW3lkUfdB 21:27:56, 2020-10-01
@spudiscool It is truly unreasonable. And then the build and testing and software packaging and dependency manageme… https://t.co/qulnd83vDo in reply to spudiscool 21:27:02, 2020-10-01
RT @Wwm_Shakespeare: Sickness is catching 21:17:21, 2020-10-01
@joshdr83 I have the right to remain silent. in reply to joshdr83 20:34:39, 2020-10-01
And it's not just law schools! If you're an engineering/science student graduating from Caltech, MIT, Stanford, etc… https://t.co/d0HgnD6Xni 18:56:48, 2020-10-01
RT @Mafalda_sv: "En esta familia no hay jefes, somos una cooperativa"… #Mafalda https://t.co/YDKaUr5ydc 18:42:15, 2020-10-01
@MattFrommer @WillToor How much of their ability to incentivize this rapid transition flows from the $200K/person o… https://t.co/smRsELrwPb in reply to MattFrommer 13:53:33, 2020-10-01
The first solar roads to make any sense at all. https://t.co/jnq7lAVplZ 08:44:08, 2020-10-01
This is insane. https://t.co/z8bD1Y52aH 23:16:05, 2020-09-30
Feels like I might be on Linux permanently. https://t.co/JujhtGwYZD 19:57:25, 2020-09-30
😭 too real https://t.co/zhBvV4Ujt7 16:03:24, 2020-09-30
@thebmbennett 😭 in reply to thebmbennett 16:01:59, 2020-09-30
@ericmbudd I think it says 1/3 of 18-24 year old women are not straight. in reply to ericmbudd 11:23:03, 2020-09-30
Seriously who in their right mind would date men. https://t.co/r6kBDsZzIK 11:20:01, 2020-09-30
RT @sarahcpr: Chris Wallace: How will you ensure we have a free and fair election?
The President of the United States: IT’S GONNA BE RIGG… 20:50:50, 2020-09-29
RT @UFWupdates: Tequila is made from blue agave (agave azul) or tequila agave. Stalks are cut off from the plants so more nutrients feed th… 20:44:51, 2020-09-29
@joshdr83 I mean my mind feels more like mush now than it did before so I guess that's a "change" in reply to joshdr83 20:42:08, 2020-09-29
@ericmbudd So there's really going to be 3 more of these huh? in reply to ericmbudd 20:41:17, 2020-09-29
@ericmbudd Is it safe to come back now? in reply to ericmbudd 20:40:07, 2020-09-29
RT @andrea_arzaba: Puro chisme #Debates2020 19:58:38, 2020-09-29
Man you watch a couple of videos about nuclear reactor designs and suddenly the Tube of You starts serving up stuff… https://t.co/WnHyjD89em 19:51:02, 2020-09-29
RT @SwiftOnSecurity: All I have is vodka and if I try to drink it straight I'll throw up but I'll be looking at a toilet instead of the TV… 19:39:21, 2020-09-29
RT @sa0un: Anyone else a masochist here?
#PresidentialDebate #Debates2020 https://t.co/dl0fEY2XPU 19:37:04, 2020-09-29
RT @xuhulk: i don’t want to kinkshame but wtf are y’all doing 19:36:58, 2020-09-29
Maybe I'll just watch this video entitled Climate Doom as a pleasant distraction https://t.co/TKqIFfNqrZ 19:27:07, 2020-09-29
RT @EffinBirds: https://t.co/VAEmU2LOsG 19:20:26, 2020-09-29
RT @sa0un: Watching the #PresidentialDebate2020. We’re barely 10 minutes in and it’s already a total disaster.
Why am I doing this to mys… 19:18:33, 2020-09-29
RT @meganstielstra: https://t.co/ck4BwNrMq5 19:14:42, 2020-09-29
RT @joshuarolson: https://t.co/sibwP6bfUX 19:09:34, 2020-09-29
RT @infinite_scream: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 19:08:21, 2020-09-29
I feel like the widespread appeal of the "alternate timeline" framing of our current debacle says something interes… https://t.co/mi3qNkmcmO 18:57:06, 2020-09-29
RT @CostaSamaras: What is the best low-carbon transportation solution and why is it spelled e-bike 18:54:36, 2020-09-29
RT @JaneAFlegal: I — and I cannot stress this enough — *hate* this. https://t.co/fRy6XIakfP 18:54:29, 2020-09-29
Apropos of nothing in particular. #2020 https://t.co/aEurZWxZdX 18:51:41, 2020-09-29
@erinoverturf Random Energy Lawyer for President! in reply to erinoverturf 17:07:51, 2020-09-29
Honestly I don't know how anybody could attend these debates sober. https://t.co/tVASPxYouI 17:05:00, 2020-09-29
Why is there no video in this story. https://t.co/NJPiL24OmX 17:00:04, 2020-09-29
@jgkoomey @JesseJenkins This is a good white paper on the technical and licensing issues surrounding open electrici… https://t.co/WHBEbMufru in reply to jgkoomey 10:33:11, 2020-09-29
@subnaughtsounds https://t.co/uyNvmgHgOS 00:14:10, 2020-09-29
@thebmbennett holyshit 700k engagements? in reply to thebmbennett 21:41:30, 2020-09-28
@Olivia_R_Will Or maybe everybody has an upset nervous stomach for some totally inexplicable reason. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 11:44:54, 2020-09-28
@KenCaldeira @Aiannucci @johnaugust But like, a fictional series. in reply to KenCaldeira 21:54:19, 2020-09-27
In its 5th season, @WeAreDrilled & @amywestervelt look at what happens when, after ~30 years, you finally win a $9… https://t.co/EHqxVnGVJJ 19:24:31, 2020-09-27
@JadeResurrected ¡De nada! in reply to JadeResurrected 16:32:40, 2020-09-27
@JadeResurrected There are some widths at which the hamburger shows up on the lighter colored portion of the wall (… https://t.co/Etosp1o5ep in reply to JadeResurrected 15:52:23, 2020-09-27
*finally* https://t.co/VfOyGyJVtZ 15:34:59, 2020-09-27
@AnimaAnandkumar @FelixHill84 @AlanBOCallaghan It makes me sad to lose childhood heroes like this. But man over tim… https://t.co/urxTwzRJ9R in reply to AnimaAnandkumar 13:45:51, 2020-09-27
I'm sure there are very fine algorithms on both sides. https://t.co/n4hnEMZQaB 13:34:52, 2020-09-27
There's something seriously dark about universities luring students back to school knowing full well outbreaks will… https://t.co/V4cRDCmMAN 07:26:21, 2020-09-27
I went out to the produce market yesterday. The city was busier than it has been. Masks and plastic barriers seem t… https://t.co/xWuuEBNUSL 07:16:22, 2020-09-27

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-20 to 2020-09-26

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-09-27
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-20 to 2020-09-26

@ericmbudd Wait, what's burning now? I thought it snowed? in reply to ericmbudd 19:57:37, 2020-09-26
@ChazTeplin Unfortunately a lot of the advocates have been kind of awful and dismissive of concerns. And a lot of t… https://t.co/1dHTrU7dS1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:53:24, 2020-09-26
@ChazTeplin David Bodansky convinced me to take nuclear energy seriously in 2009: https://t.co/jXEP7VGAz4 in reply to ChazTeplin 19:48:15, 2020-09-26
Since you have to heat up an intermediary loop anyway… it can also be used for energy storage, increasing the pla… https://t.co/B8x5ZbfhnE in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:09:17, 2020-09-26
One thing they've done here is take a costly disadvantage of sodium fast reactors — the need for a non-reactive in… https://t.co/aRtHbDo8Qh 18:58:56, 2020-09-26
RT @taraghuveer: Holy shit. In the largest self-organized housing takeover in the country, 50 unhoused mothers and children JUST WON their… 18:44:25, 2020-09-26
God it's nice to see something inspiring in the TL these days: https://t.co/5Cx2fVuGdp 18:31:33, 2020-09-26
I think I had to see this come across my feed like 10 times before I got the poll / pole pun. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/XjGkdq55FP 16:33:37, 2020-09-26
@CHThiem In we-hate-sidewalks rural North Boulder?! in reply to CHThiem 16:23:13, 2020-09-26
We should really remember and celebrate the people who choose not to end the world. https://t.co/zu2kPgcRG6 09:56:45, 2020-09-26
RT @GernotWagner: @EricGimon @business @climate More where this came from, yes. And that's indeed the truly scary part. https://t.co/DKUNbm… 09:50:13, 2020-09-26
It's weird to think about the super-human senses that these things have. Watching. https://t.co/iL8RYuQfF5 23:17:26, 2020-09-25
RT @joshtpm: take a bat to these motherfuckers while we still can, folks https://t.co/NiYK5TVqgi 22:32:09, 2020-09-25
RT @1Lcampesino: How many years away do you think we are from being hunted down by Boston Dynamics robot dogs for protesting the government… 20:34:22, 2020-09-25
I'm sure the Spanish Flu would never consider going out before 10 pm. https://t.co/SXke6vzRC5 18:01:12, 2020-09-25
@fmanjoo The left gets the three-letter-individuals, and the right gets the three-letter-agencies… CIA, FBI, DEA, etc. in reply to fmanjoo 17:27:39, 2020-09-25
@thebmbennett Power corrupts! in reply to thebmbennett 17:22:53, 2020-09-25
@joshdr83 Just find you a red dwarf that'll burn for 10 trillion years. https://t.co/oAJjBz65mP in reply to joshdr83 16:26:34, 2020-09-25
I don't know that 😡 has ever really been one for "flirting" — he likes to brag about his more direct and non-conse… https://t.co/y5stAMeTxI 16:22:15, 2020-09-25
@ericmbudd 10 tacos al pastor for about $2.50 on Mondays an Tuesday at La Piñita just down the block… in reply to ericmbudd 16:20:09, 2020-09-25
@ericmbudd Wait are you being literal about the mutation thing? Or is the new symptom that republicans take their masks off? in reply to ericmbudd 16:14:40, 2020-09-25
@drvox @TheEnergyCraig @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ The Ergodox EZ doesn't have the curved keywells, which I liked a lot… https://t.co/1YryqRkrB6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:57:46, 2020-09-25
@drvox @TheEnergyCraig @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ It took me 1-2 weeks to adjust, with most of my days spent typing. A… https://t.co/vKP6Zfi1gm in reply to drvox 13:56:14, 2020-09-25
Is it just me, or does this look like Godzilla walking to the right while shooting rainbows out of his eyes? https://t.co/cYos34NJlr 12:38:12, 2020-09-25
@drvox I've used both @kinesisergo @ErgoDoxEZ mechanical split keyboards and they're great. Not cheap, but they do last a long time. in reply to drvox 12:36:01, 2020-09-25
If "conservative" clean energy is cost-competitive dispatchable zero-carbon nuclear generation that's designed to w… https://t.co/ur8XKBWWR9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:07:29, 2020-09-25
More in-depth background on the design imperatives & constraints of Gen IV reactors in this video from last year: https://t.co/vb31ScCy2N in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:02:18, 2020-09-25
Also great to see nuclear folks designing to work with renewables, and admitting that they need to be able to compe… https://t.co/Kz60Nrd0QD in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:01:10, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira The idea is that by putting as much of the infrastructure outside of the nuclear site, cos… https://t.co/WThCXWmFEY in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:59:25, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira The thermal storage + generation facility is largely based on solar-thermal systems that h… https://t.co/aS3E0vq1VZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:58:36, 2020-09-25
@TerraPower @KenCaldeira It's a sodium cooled fast reactor that operates at atmospheric pressure, and supplies heat… https://t.co/DxyAV1a3Re in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:57:33, 2020-09-25
A talk on an interesting GenIV nuclear reactor design from @TerraPower that tries to optimize for supporting variab… https://t.co/tIx4NOrt11 10:55:26, 2020-09-25
Meanwhile, on planet Earth. https://t.co/cYos34NJlr 19:57:18, 2020-09-24
RT @CatalystCoop: Some of us have been reading @leahstokes book Short Circuiting Policy, and are gonna talk about it Wednesday, October 14t… 12:30:25, 2020-09-24
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? https://t.co/pKHnQDaX5Q 12:10:52, 2020-09-24
What could have been a reasonable policy 20-30 years ago has now become for the most part a dangerous distraction,… https://t.co/fNf78G0ryM 10:52:29, 2020-09-24
Pyro. Mania. https://t.co/wHlKhTNVPP 17:02:02, 2020-09-23
@cmgosnell if we did want to take on transportation data integration at @CatalystCoop Costa is definitely the perso… https://t.co/l0YIU21di4 16:25:39, 2020-09-23
@drvox 😂Abolish this ICE too😂 in reply to drvox 15:02:56, 2020-09-23
@otherlab Which to me reaaaaaaally suggests that reducing overall VMT through better urban design & inclusive non-a… https://t.co/PE24tVKzb9 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:07:45, 2020-09-23
Historic and important. And also, according to analysis by @otherlab founder Saul Griffith, we need a ~100% adoptio… https://t.co/PjDOWdDD7i 13:01:38, 2020-09-23
That said, the richest global 1% (~78 million people) does still emit *more than twice* as much CO2 overall as the… https://t.co/XSvQkfnoli in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:42:32, 2020-09-23
This is incorrect. I mistakenly thought that figure 5, showing proportions of GHG emissions by sector for the 1%, r… https://t.co/bYvi0W4uHC 10:38:47, 2020-09-23
🔰 I feel seen. 🔰
"And, in fact, the mood of Henry George's followers was often one of misanthropic or frustrated r… https://t.co/ucCIeWgyYr 10:36:57, 2020-09-23
@DaddyD0dd @stevebloom55 @ericmbudd And for sure the top 1% in the EU are going to be much wealthier and more flighty than the global top 1% in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:33:38, 2020-09-23
@DaddyD0dd @stevebloom55 @ericmbudd I got this by comparing the proportion of emissions coming from aviation for th… https://t.co/UIN1HMVH6w in reply to DaddyD0dd 10:33:04, 2020-09-23
@ericmbudd The richest 1% of humanity (income > $100k/yr) emits as much CO2 just from flying as the poorest 50% rel… https://t.co/Gr8s4NxE1z in reply to ericmbudd 23:20:12, 2020-09-22
tfw when millennials start getting elected to city council. https://t.co/cggkXxx7w0 22:01:41, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd Which I guess we already knew but it's something else to see it happen in agonizing real time. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:26:25, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd It is looking pretty grim. 🙁
Seems like basically anything can be normalized. in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:25:55, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd I was all like "I'll just spin up an instance on GCP to download and process this data and it'll done in no time!" but no. in reply to ericmbudd 19:23:10, 2020-09-22
Ah, I see. The slow internet connection is on the EPA server's end, not the WiFi in Mexico I share with 4 other houses. 19:18:37, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd Not really "predict" — just the general idea of the trajectory of society and the economy, prosperity, etc. in reply to ericmbudd 15:29:16, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd I'm reading this econ book from the 1950s and wooooooow we are sooooooo far off track from that paleofuture. in reply to ericmbudd 13:53:48, 2020-09-22
@ericmbudd more like ambululz in reply to ericmbudd 13:52:17, 2020-09-22
Oh hey it's just like how in Boulder if you try to save for retirement the city will kick you out of affordable hou… https://t.co/GHldEiQNuf 07:39:18, 2020-09-22
@Olivia_R_Will *sigh* in reply to Olivia_R_Will 07:34:33, 2020-09-22
Feels like there's lessons one could learn from this election:
"By a quirk of the First Past the Post system the N… https://t.co/TMDS25gGKx 21:21:31, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd Ezra Klein interviewed David French, who is advocating for a kind of soft secession outcome and it was a… https://t.co/AzSjPIjNyM in reply to ericmbudd 21:11:22, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd Uh huh. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:01:37, 2020-09-21
@Olivia_R_Will Is there no right of first refusal or some other way for the CLT to intervene? In Boulder the City h… https://t.co/VyrAN1z1ks in reply to Olivia_R_Will 17:54:56, 2020-09-21
@drvox Man throughout that whole book I felt like Griffith was yelling "Don't worry, we can solve climate without s… https://t.co/EtMOtI2e95 in reply to drvox 17:51:34, 2020-09-21
Finally an app automates the hard work of turning the economically dispossessed against each other. https://t.co/KW0pvTl8Cl 14:29:11, 2020-09-21
@ericmbudd And I thought I was being pessimistic with the 9/15 bet. in reply to ericmbudd 11:09:22, 2020-09-21
Cooped up in a (fairly comfortable) little concrete box alone in southern Mexico for the last 203 days, I feel like… https://t.co/kGI31SxX6i 22:56:15, 2020-09-20
@GalaCF It's so purposefully broken. in reply to GalaCF 18:28:43, 2020-09-20
Today I sent in my electronic overseas ballot within 24 hours of it becoming available. Now I just wait for the tex… https://t.co/9VA4yC63be 16:24:05, 2020-09-20
Man. That Alfred P. Sloan. How has the foundation ended up funding so much cool stuff, given where the money came… https://t.co/u2F3XVpQRW 16:13:44, 2020-09-20
Awww shit. I wonder if he just read that Transition Integrity Project thing from @nils_gilman… https://t.co/TMdTn1SoYg 14:44:33, 2020-09-20
And of course a boring straight Democratic party ticket on the federal, state, and local offices.
Plus a big YES o… https://t.co/BGPgjSEKZb in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:59:39, 2020-09-20
Amendment C: something something charitable bingo or whatever. Voted for it based on who the supporters were. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:57:05, 2020-09-20
Amendment B: repealing the Gallagher Amendment, which is part of a set of interlocking anti-tax measures in Colorad… https://t.co/6cSbylTlH7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:55:36, 2020-09-20
Proposition 118: establishing a paid medical and family leave program in Colorado: HECK YES.
Proposition EE: tobac… https://t.co/fDN6qUZtar in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:52:15, 2020-09-20
Prop 115: yet another attempt at an abortion ban: NOPE.
Prop 116: reducing the state income tax as the state heads… https://t.co/0fyfvsShDZ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:51:08, 2020-09-20
Proposition 114 would re-introduce gray wolves on public lands in Colorado. I'm a big YES on re-wilding. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:48:06, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Proposition 113, a referendum on Colorado joining the @NatlPopularVote compact. The legislature alread… https://t.co/JRSCv3jpeQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:47:10, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Amendment 77 would allow gambling with unlimited betting limits and additional types of games. I voted… https://t.co/uhAV1Cgnpi in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:45:20, 2020-09-20
@ballotpedia Amendment 76 attempts to prevent local jurisdictions from potentially allowing non-citizens to vote on… https://t.co/cZpAg5isK6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:43:04, 2020-09-20
Also thank goodness for @ballotpedia because man the ballot measures are out of control this year: https://t.co/NuVb1VMne8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:40:29, 2020-09-20
Welp, everybody got unanimous votes for retention from the judicial review board so I guess they can stay: https://t.co/bqs868ygGG in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:38:44, 2020-09-20
Oh man I just got my overseas ballot and I just want to vote the shit out of it but I never know what to do with all these judges. 10:13:45, 2020-09-20
Imagine a world in which we all develop our own coping mechanisms for hitting the wall that we all know is coming 6… https://t.co/7EyAB72is6 10:11:05, 2020-09-20
This is what I think of when people say "Tech." https://t.co/b5eLkyTH0Q 08:59:13, 2020-09-20
tfw you discover someone like minded from another era who confirms your biases about confirmation bias. Nice to mee… https://t.co/EsWE0HEcsz 08:52:52, 2020-09-20

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-13 to 2020-09-19

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-09-20
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-13 to 2020-09-19

🤔 https://t.co/KWKTOyNET2 23:06:58, 2020-09-19
@gschivley Hmm. Funny. Still looks pretty white. in reply to gschivley 18:00:45, 2020-09-19
RT @AnimaAnandkumar: I had tweeted in 2019 about @Twitter cropping #womeninAI headless while cropping men correcting. When I raised this, m… 17:58:45, 2020-09-19
Speaking of which, I think my next book is gonna be John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" in which he won… https://t.co/75wQuZ5s2u in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:57:38, 2020-09-19
I'm occasionally reminded just how much I've insulated myself from the algorithms. No tracking. I never see ads. A… https://t.co/BI6NgeFv8q 17:48:28, 2020-09-19
Reading Saul Griffith's "Rewiring America" & @leahstokes' "Short Circuiting Policy" at the same time has been a tri… https://t.co/erGPgBRsm6 10:18:42, 2020-09-19
The court should be expanded not in response to Republicans filling RBG's vacancy, but in response to their failing… https://t.co/3un0wLqnSX 10:02:25, 2020-09-19
What "should" happen now is that the president nominates someone to the court, the senate has hearings, and maybe t… https://t.co/80RNHFxP9Q 21:10:56, 2020-09-18
@ericmbudd It's a hella bad rule, which really should never be followed. How about more justices, with fixed terms,… https://t.co/zsNdDyMqSG in reply to ericmbudd 20:58:29, 2020-09-18
Guessing I should probably just log off. https://t.co/WKFPk2rxTH 17:55:19, 2020-09-18
@frictionlessd8a @lilscientista Okay some experimentation shows that it is looking at the format of the resource de… https://t.co/qNWrIHDhTT in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:53:05, 2020-09-18
@frictionlessd8a @lilscientista These days when one runs datapackage.validate(descriptor) what gets validated? Reso… https://t.co/mWfvJFrbFV 12:34:23, 2020-09-18
@ericmbudd If only this was the dumbest thing. in reply to ericmbudd 10:15:02, 2020-09-18
@ericmbudd @SMurray1000 @MollyJongFast https://t.co/YEBdR9QpPY in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:14:12, 2020-09-18
@ericmbudd @SMurray1000 @MollyJongFast It's so tempting to believe that humans and our societies can learn things.… https://t.co/nmiPLemHOk in reply to ericmbudd 10:13:54, 2020-09-18
Un problema con escuchar las notícias en español hoy en día para mi es que las cosas son tan extrañas que no me pue… https://t.co/ltcu4nxJ5G 08:27:09, 2020-09-18
@joshdr83 Hmm. Snakes. Birds. Suena como México. in reply to joshdr83 22:54:38, 2020-09-17
It would be awesome if they managed to destroy themselves with their own platform. https://t.co/iH3bhmZIsl 15:40:33, 2020-09-17
@ericmbudd omg I can't even. The writers of this timeline are nuts. in reply to ericmbudd 15:38:58, 2020-09-17
@sharethecities @ericmbudd Push Polls Gone Wild! in reply to sharethecities 15:37:08, 2020-09-17
@ericmbudd Does thhe FERC form 549b data format make sense in the context of COBOL / punchcards? https://t.co/k30Tql6WIi in reply to ericmbudd 15:33:40, 2020-09-17
PPP *income* per capita, I meant. in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:48:14, 2020-09-17
It's fascinating to me just how little the capacity & competence of public health institutions appears to correlate… https://t.co/lCBXapgpVM 10:42:30, 2020-09-17
@CHThiem And I thought I was being generous with the Sept. 15th guess! They really aren't shutting down? in reply to CHThiem 09:56:14, 2020-09-17
@thmscwlls @joshdr83 So like for… a given amount of utility spending on LED lighting, you would be able to genera… https://t.co/EWSUCiXuLg in reply to thmscwlls 20:11:26, 2020-09-16
@joshdr83 @thmscwlls https://t.co/Fc93hnuWQg in reply to joshdr83 18:48:01, 2020-09-16
@joshdr83 Oooh, this sounds like a grant waiting to be written. Would it be all modeling? Or are there real dataset… https://t.co/gwa2vqrSP0 in reply to joshdr83 18:25:41, 2020-09-16
@elfgirltalia Omg Python environments can be hell. I have horrific memories of accidentally installing a bunch of… https://t.co/0sIBTF4aMJ in reply to elfgirltalia 18:20:41, 2020-09-16
@joshdr83 Has anyone modeled or measured how various EE programs affect hourly demand? Like do they have well defin… https://t.co/OiQG208E1T in reply to joshdr83 16:47:41, 2020-09-16
@ElephantEating @AlnThinks @davidgraeber Apparently rates hit an all time low for Rome during the reign of Augustus. Something like 4-5% in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:44:08, 2020-09-16
@ElephantEating @AlnThinks @davidgraeber Speech from the Governor of the Bank of England, looking at growth and int… https://t.co/BxTHct9Za5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:43:32, 2020-09-16
@ElephantEating @AlnThinks I started reading @davidgraeber's Debt: the first 5000 years earlier this year. https://t.co/Z2NbWRDn8K in reply to ElephantEating 16:42:41, 2020-09-16
@ElephantEating @JaneAFlegal @PaulMMCooper have you ever looked at financial issues in ancient civilizations? Why c… https://t.co/6vSKGFIYMl in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:34:42, 2020-09-16
@ElephantEating @JaneAFlegal The Romans definitely behaved as if they had a very low discount rate! But also don't… https://t.co/Rd74LwOesU in reply to ElephantEating 16:31:26, 2020-09-16
@joshdr83 So you're saying it's like, baseload. in reply to joshdr83 16:28:46, 2020-09-16
@JaneAFlegal All it would take is enough political will! in reply to JaneAFlegal 16:27:16, 2020-09-16
@bolderbekah @ericmbudd I can't wait for his review of ONE BILLION AMERICANS in reply to bolderbekah 16:23:36, 2020-09-16
6. ¡Profit! https://t.co/NODYEYMI0J 12:28:41, 2020-09-16
@ericmbudd Did this replace the too-steep spiral overpass thing? in reply to ericmbudd 12:27:34, 2020-09-16
https://t.co/yaED8oIXGh 11:07:13, 2020-09-16
@CHThiem Sacrifices like wearing pants. in reply to CHThiem 10:36:32, 2020-09-16
I would probably hate this book. I should probably read it because I would hate it. https://t.co/dTDajr91KY 10:35:10, 2020-09-16
@CHThiem https://t.co/2ho3M5TLdX in reply to CHThiem 10:17:29, 2020-09-16
RT @GretchenTG: This is going viral because of the comic relief. But I want to be clear that parents are being put in an impossible situati… 10:17:01, 2020-09-16
And this house — the 21st Street Co-op — is one of the grungiest, most anarchic co-ops in Austin. They take their… https://t.co/JBp4Ed1HAh 19:41:30, 2020-09-15
I think we're going to find out whether humans can even normalize the state of continuously setting new records, ye… https://t.co/AIA3WSWGIc 19:33:50, 2020-09-15
@ericmbudd 🤑💰🤑 in reply to ericmbudd 19:31:04, 2020-09-15
@leahstokes 😻 Well, I'd certainly read it if you did! I'm very curious how it the broader view of the process would… https://t.co/aUTUwp3aJX in reply to leahstokes 15:25:57, 2020-09-15
@leahstokes Have you or anyone else you know of done a post mortem of the political wrangling that led to positive… https://t.co/IKDnKCgaQa 10:46:31, 2020-09-15
@ericmbudd @ewarren I miss the lady with all the plans. in reply to ericmbudd 10:37:09, 2020-09-15
@ericmbudd Just make sure you never work on a campaign that threatens The Google I guess. in reply to ericmbudd 10:35:55, 2020-09-15
@leahstokes @SunFoundation APS & ASU denied this but… "Given APS's past behavior in denying election spending unt… https://t.co/X0Tw1prw2I in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:45:56, 2020-09-15
From @leahstokes "Short Circuiting Policy": APS spent more money ($11M) electing friendly regulators in AZ in 2014… https://t.co/7wndhSQMSN 08:42:04, 2020-09-15
@Olivia_R_Will https://t.co/APbc3sNmaO in reply to Olivia_R_Will 08:19:14, 2020-09-15
@ericmbudd And it shall make you free. in reply to ericmbudd 08:14:19, 2020-09-15
@CHThiem Or is that "Only in World War Three?" in reply to CHThiem 21:16:20, 2020-09-14
@amywestervelt Please someone just rapture them away. in reply to amywestervelt 19:29:02, 2020-09-14
It's The Long Emergency. Just not quite the one that Kunstler was thinking of. https://t.co/zyaIfdufoS 19:16:21, 2020-09-14
Mass forced sterilizations in an ICE detention camp is one of the first headlines where my immediate gut response h… https://t.co/zw8O0ltkWy 19:14:54, 2020-09-14
@ericmbudd @LaurenGifford Good thing it didn't happen last week! in reply to ericmbudd 19:07:48, 2020-09-14
German study of excess mortality in Mexico suggests that only ~30% of coronavirus deaths are being reported as such… https://t.co/mpGBOojZrD 17:04:14, 2020-09-14
I see Twitter is ridiculing the UK over #Brexit? Again? Can nothing ever end? 16:31:35, 2020-09-14
😬 https://t.co/IVhHd4by7r 16:09:48, 2020-09-14
@ericmbudd Deleted. I could see that. in reply to ericmbudd 11:46:21, 2020-09-14
@ericmbudd I had 9/15! Cc: @CHThiem in reply to ericmbudd 11:39:26, 2020-09-14
@ericmbudd Hey it could be YAML files. in reply to ericmbudd 11:37:51, 2020-09-14
@Olivia_R_Will What. The actual. Fuck. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 07:24:53, 2020-09-14
RT @john_sipher: Lying works. https://t.co/RvIIIny9MI 16:12:40, 2020-09-13
@ericmbudd I think of extracting monopoly rents while preventing the use of land as a kind of anti-capitalist behav… https://t.co/E9GJYbcN1K in reply to ericmbudd 15:55:09, 2020-09-13
@ericmbudd Hmmm, I think maybe preservationism is landist at its heart, which is, in its own toxic way, anti-capita… https://t.co/00dAn0sN5E in reply to ericmbudd 07:34:36, 2020-09-13
@ericmbudd Man where's Al Bartlett when you really need him? in reply to ericmbudd 07:32:17, 2020-09-13
@nextdoorsv I'm sure that's just because these laws are illegal in California. in reply to nextdoorsv 07:31:45, 2020-09-13

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-06 to 2020-09-12

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-09-13
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-09-06 to 2020-09-12

Seriously the Senate has to go. https://t.co/mBTaEaXyhI 23:32:24, 2020-09-12
@CHThiem Some of those buildings are definitely illegal. in reply to CHThiem 18:39:09, 2020-09-12
@thebmbennett I wonder what it's like today — it's 45% women now, whereas it was 20% when I was there. in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:45:35, 2020-09-12
@thebmbennett I guess in retrospect Caltech was also pretty horrendous. I just wasn't aware of it at the time. in reply to thebmbennett 14:44:25, 2020-09-12
@thebmbennett WTF?! Is there some underlying reason why it was such a horrorshow? in reply to thebmbennett 14:41:30, 2020-09-12
@thebmbennett 😬 in reply to thebmbennett 14:40:34, 2020-09-12
@thebmbennett Ugh I'm so sorry. in reply to thebmbennett 14:38:16, 2020-09-12
@CHThiem Update Day 2: it turns out you *can* make coffee with an InstaPot. in reply to CHThiem 08:11:09, 2020-09-12
@joshdr83 MZJ would have to have a villainous cameo in this episode somehow. in reply to joshdr83 20:42:23, 2020-09-11
Will the western US stop having crazy wildfires eventually because the trees have already burned? 19:28:33, 2020-09-11
RT @SICKOFWOLVES: NOTHING QUITE LIKE CHOKING ON THE AIR UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY TO GET YOU EXCITED ABOUT GRADUAL, MARKET-BASED SOLUTIONS TO C… 10:13:18, 2020-09-11
@CHThiem And that solution is: fossil fuels. in reply to CHThiem 10:12:04, 2020-09-11
RT @DemocracyNowEs: Las olas de calor récord y los incendios forestales devastan el oeste de EEUU, con un humo que tapa el sol y tiñe el ci… 08:21:03, 2020-09-11
Después de 9 meses, ya se agotó el gas y no puedo hacer mi café. 😭☕ 08:17:45, 2020-09-11
@thebmbennett But then what are we going to do in October. 🚿🍔😭 in reply to thebmbennett 19:12:00, 2020-09-10
Uhh. https://t.co/X6oO7HoIjL 19:08:24, 2020-09-10
@KendraWrites I was lucky to spend an afternoon with Kim Stanley Robinson once, and he said he was a little surpris… https://t.co/WlD99bElxX in reply to KendraWrites 19:06:23, 2020-09-10
And yet the work of getting used to it has already begun. https://t.co/uJEYj9NsEi 12:31:09, 2020-09-10
@drvox I just scrolled back through the last few hours of my swampy list, and there's essentially no mention of the… https://t.co/Qc2Vs5SjKx in reply to drvox 12:27:22, 2020-09-10
"Shadow… and flame." https://t.co/YyYhkrPZL9 12:06:50, 2020-09-10
@JesseJenkins Do you feel like you have a sense of *why* the net-zero on-site framing is so seductive to so many pe… https://t.co/vtpnxGL6jW in reply to JesseJenkins 12:04:51, 2020-09-10
RT @autostraddle: "Well yes. It turns out the apocalypse creeps on you slowly, starting oh — in about March 2020, who would've guessed?"… 22:15:09, 2020-09-09
RT @kidcongo: This is what 1°C is like.
Imagine what 2°C will be like.
Imagine what 3°C will be like.
Imagine what 4°C will be like. 22:14:27, 2020-09-09
"Cooling centers" and "fresh air centers" are life episodic support systems, appearing here and there as places sta… https://t.co/S6yHPzcmkF 22:08:56, 2020-09-09
RT @NMamatas: Man, that Dune trailer was so great I felt like I was the one walking through a desolate landscape, wearing a mask to stay al… 21:33:14, 2020-09-09
RT @cszabla: inevitable in retrospect that someone would just update le corbusier with parametricist, greenwashed aesthetics and tech brand… 21:32:54, 2020-09-09
@erinoverturf But then there were also all these supposed VSPs! Who were like "YAH WE WON! USA! USA!" and acted lik… https://t.co/KhXs4POMWk in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:31:13, 2020-09-09
@erinoverturf Oh the 2020 hindsight. in reply to erinoverturf 21:28:05, 2020-09-09
And it's easier than ever to know things waaaaay beyond our personal experiences!
I've never seen the Earth covere… https://t.co/Wdhnw2rxfH 21:26:10, 2020-09-09
@erinoverturf In retrospect the period between the collapse of the USSR and 9/11 seems more like a weird interlude,… https://t.co/md6FHu8cHH in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:18:40, 2020-09-09
@erinoverturf Oh those sweet Halcyon days. in reply to erinoverturf 21:16:10, 2020-09-09
RT @leahstokes: Dear @nytimes, this isn't a "nuclear winter." The term you're looking for is "climate change." Which you failed to mention… 21:15:29, 2020-09-09
@drvox Or is it what they call "demand response?" in reply to drvox 21:13:32, 2020-09-09
@ericmbudd Goes great with anything white! in reply to ericmbudd 19:41:06, 2020-09-09
@joshdr83 If you could do "docker-compose up" go get lunch, and come back to a fully populated PUDL Postgres DB on… https://t.co/4GAFbcrfX1 in reply to joshdr83 09:54:11, 2020-09-09
And I thought occupancy limits for unrelated people were bad. https://t.co/4qROROnRCf 07:44:27, 2020-09-09
@joshdr83 Year to date monthly data? Never needing to up date the DB on your own? A one-line command to update the… https://t.co/r6Qdyw6pU0 in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:26:59, 2020-09-09
@joshdr83 Actually, as someone who does repeatedly download the EIA spreadsheets… what would it take to make the… https://t.co/rDM0SJUpch in reply to ZaneSelvans 07:25:25, 2020-09-09
RT @croselund: There should be no more excuses around moving from fossil fuels to renewables in electricity, no more bean-counting bullshit… 21:53:45, 2020-09-08
@brendanpierpont It's like someone's holding a magnifying glass over the whole area. in reply to brendanpierpont 21:50:47, 2020-09-08
@Nikishka Ugh, I have exactly the same problem but with work stuff. If only I'd been more productive, I wouldn't be… https://t.co/pnHWgVtfxe in reply to Nikishka 20:04:25, 2020-09-08
@joshdr83 We're working on containerizing the ETL process so that can be a one-liner, and also having it populate l… https://t.co/JtB9BpO7PV in reply to joshdr83 19:26:50, 2020-09-08
Compare and contrast. https://t.co/McpzNwqkK8 https://t.co/AwIzb7tbgg 19:24:41, 2020-09-08
@joshdr83 I feel like we are failing you somehow Josh. in reply to joshdr83 19:13:15, 2020-09-08
@ericmbudd I'm thinking you've got 2 more months of crescendo, and then another month or two of cliffhanger ending,… https://t.co/mYTRhmuzBM in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:25:49, 2020-09-08
@ericmbudd It's only 2/3 over. I hope you saved something for the grand finale. in reply to ericmbudd 17:23:17, 2020-09-08
@interfluidity "Authoritarianism with American characteristics" in reply to interfluidity 13:18:09, 2020-09-08
The kids are alright. https://t.co/kBK5YBGRhs 19:57:33, 2020-09-07
RT @buttpraxis: As I weigh abandoning my community vs remaining in an increasingly unlivable (and also very expensive) climate, feeling ver… 12:34:27, 2020-09-07
RT @SarahTaber_bww: All of this.
There's a myth out there that rural brain drain is caused by "cities vacuuming away all the young/smart/a… 12:18:21, 2020-09-07
It reminds me of focusing the sun with a magnifying glass and watching dry leaves and twigs spontaneously burst int… https://t.co/zLosLlryOi 09:31:54, 2020-09-07
@rachelkfriend @ericmbudd Jamie Lannister where are you… your country needs you now. in reply to rachelkfriend 23:46:24, 2020-09-06
@ericmbudd Okay but where are the dragons? in reply to ericmbudd 22:49:38, 2020-09-06
@Olivia_R_Will Absolutely no idea. Central California. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 21:03:31, 2020-09-06
@auffhammer I met a Swiss surfer in Indonesia. He said he'd learned riding standing waves in rivers! in reply to auffhammer 13:11:26, 2020-09-06
@interfluidity Have you read Galbraith's early criticism / warnings about advertising in the 1950s? I only recently… https://t.co/wOEmrp0V4u in reply to interfluidity 10:19:35, 2020-09-06
As a disgruntled holder of the degree, the idea of "first" generation PhDs, suggesting a subsequent inherited *lega… https://t.co/aDe7AKUhjs 08:01:30, 2020-09-06
@ericmbudd And this is one of the coolest years you'll see for the rest of your life. in reply to ericmbudd 07:57:26, 2020-09-06

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tweets

Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-16 to 2020-08-22

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-08-23
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-16 to 2020-08-22

@notFromShrek @ericmbudd A lot of people have told me I should watch this show too because I'm into local governmen… https://t.co/X6yUvepVm5 in reply to notFromShrek 23:58:26, 2020-08-22
@CHThiem Well, if it *does* overtop, he has *got* to go back and capture some more images. in reply to CHThiem 20:42:52, 2020-08-22
tfw you finally break down and set up automatic database backups on your webserver because it's stressing your out… https://t.co/zq3xjzCUZY 20:41:07, 2020-08-22
@thebmbennett We had those exact same plates growing up. A perpetually resented wedding gift. in reply to thebmbennett 19:57:53, 2020-08-22
3 Gorges Inflow: 75,000 m3/sec
3 Gorges Outflow: 49,000 m3/sec
People downstream: 400 million

Mississippi: 17,000… https://t.co/WshT0RqrBI 19:55:42, 2020-08-22
Nothing like doing code review at 5pm on a Friday in 2020. https://t.co/8G74BL0oUe 19:21:37, 2020-08-22
Mis frutas y verduras semanales. México rinde tantos productos locales! https://t.co/7BgMFCyB5K 18:14:56, 2020-08-22
They begin as a blessing
And end as a curse.
Making things better
While making them worse. https://t.co/ZnxqKxyPnu 17:51:48, 2020-08-22
Nueva capa de pintura en el muro del panteón, colonia Xochimilco. #NiUnaMenos https://t.co/yidldDVRzo 17:37:48, 2020-08-22
RT @JamesRobertsCBC: And do you think there's any elected political party anywhere in North America that's willing to take this on? https:/… 17:11:51, 2020-08-22
RT @LeavittAlone: Reminder that “jaywalking” was invented by car manufacturers to criminalize using the street after their products kept ki… 17:10:28, 2020-08-22
@thebmbennett ? in reply to thebmbennett 11:15:08, 2020-08-22
Wait what?
More people than the entire population of the US live in the downstream floodplain. https://t.co/E7rfXIiFir 10:51:06, 2020-08-22
@rachelkfriend I briefly thought this said "Run Away" and was like ? in reply to rachelkfriend 08:28:17, 2020-08-22
Analogous to : Yes! You can form your own municipal utility. It's guaranteed by the constitution! We just need to w… https://t.co/9D4xwjvvEP in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:34:43, 2020-08-21
For instance: "Yes! (But actually No)."
Yes! Let's talk about repealing occupancy limits! In this working group. A… https://t.co/Np98lK8sw6 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:32:52, 2020-08-21
One thing I've appreciated about working both on utility policy and housing in #Boulder is seeing how the same disi… https://t.co/ApkMJdp6CS 18:29:46, 2020-08-21
RT @sarahkendzior: @KendraWrites People would rather believe that researchers have magical psychic powers than admit that powerful institut… 18:27:04, 2020-08-21
RT @KendraWrites: A pet peeve is when I'm called prescient. I'm not. I never win the lotto. I never win at slots. I can't even tell you in… 18:02:09, 2020-08-21
But wait how many avocado toasts is that? https://t.co/Bk4WCIkAaU 17:42:18, 2020-08-21
Everything at once is too much. https://t.co/yfJWSixxUf 17:40:53, 2020-08-21
@ericmbudd MOAR HOUSE MOAR CAR in reply to ericmbudd 13:43:56, 2020-08-21
@shwinnebego ugh too real in reply to shwinnebego 13:41:21, 2020-08-21
@ericmbudd Welp, previous civilizations in the SW didn't make it through the multi-decade megadroughts. in reply to ericmbudd 12:28:41, 2020-08-21
@rachelkfriend @ericmbudd @nils_gilman Though in the particular context of elections we probably don't want to lear… https://t.co/dQmJiX91uQ in reply to rachelkfriend 10:44:18, 2020-08-21
@ericmbudd @nils_gilman Full report (PDF): https://t.co/CobX1w3skC in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:24:48, 2020-08-21
@ericmbudd Have you read through the "war games" style scenarios that @nils_gilman and others played out? Vox inter… https://t.co/RmovEOoyCM in reply to ericmbudd 09:24:21, 2020-08-21
Actual glitch in the matrix. https://t.co/SXYQBcMXJ6 08:51:05, 2020-08-21
RT @ZaneSelvans: And #CalFire is short firefighters because the prisons are overrun by a plague amid rolling blackouts and 105°F weather an… 07:51:38, 2020-08-21
??? https://t.co/zsmAtK1C6t 00:04:58, 2020-08-21
I hid inside the burned out hollow trunks of sequoias as a kid, mostly still living ones. There's so many of them.… https://t.co/Lxg4y1pkzy 23:51:48, 2020-08-20
OMG I had no idea what her voice sounded like. https://t.co/BXuytUuHA8 23:45:27, 2020-08-20
Yeah about that border. https://t.co/vdHjUw3QoE 23:44:01, 2020-08-20
They been around. https://t.co/zYMv1uSDAs 23:39:48, 2020-08-20
@ericmbudd Isn't this a line from Game of Thrones? in reply to ericmbudd 22:48:45, 2020-08-20
And #CalFire is short firefighters because the prisons are overrun by a plague amid rolling blackouts and 105°F wea… https://t.co/1scE9Ht9hO 22:48:01, 2020-08-20
RT @UFWupdates: Farm workers don't get to use Zoom to harvest our food. Ramiro sent us this photo from Salinas CA where he is currently har… 22:30:17, 2020-08-20
RT @MexicoPost: Se registraron alrededor de 11 mil #rayos en tan solo 72 horas, la mayor tormenta #eléctrica en todo el año que ha golpeado… 22:26:37, 2020-08-20
RT @AlexandriaV2005: This is EXACTLY how climate change affects the most marginalized & vulnerable people first! The AQI is 225+ & these fa… 22:26:03, 2020-08-20
.@emmaathenam echa otro vistazo profundo a los problemas de la eleccicón local de este año en #Boulder, y los dictá… https://t.co/rjNzFvR5BF 21:38:54, 2020-08-20
Another great installment of @emmaathenam's deep dive into the issues with this year's election in #Boulder, focusi… https://t.co/vKvRb8ut7i 21:26:05, 2020-08-20
@IceSheetMike * The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes
* "Crabgrass Frontier" a history of th… https://t.co/DZEqDB8Z34 in reply to IceSheetMike 18:32:14, 2020-08-20
In the immortal words of the Mortal Kombat referee… https://t.co/UCZL9HTnt8 18:19:58, 2020-08-20
@CHThiem lol like human civilization will still exist then. in reply to CHThiem 17:54:40, 2020-08-20
RT @AOC: This is extremely concerning. The pantry is absolutely not bare.
We need massive investment in our country or it will fall apart.… 15:42:28, 2020-08-20
?? LFG! ?? https://t.co/U1AmVL2Or3 15:41:36, 2020-08-20
@graceyswer Following sex workers on Twitter and living with a friend who was stripping and camming for a living ha… https://t.co/2o7VlPGGqj in reply to graceyswer 14:15:33, 2020-08-20
It's like a crematorium ad. https://t.co/lZsL8KadHH 14:10:58, 2020-08-20
Jeez the Utopia soundtrack from @CristobalMusic still gives me uncontrollable chills listening to it years later.
During a pandemic. 13:53:23, 2020-08-20
Probably because he didn't eat the meat raw, and failed to eat all of the organs. Which I think is the only way hum… https://t.co/G4HWysiWCo 12:35:19, 2020-08-20
I'd be fine with the Democrats becoming the new conservative party, but first the GOP has to be completely oblitera… https://t.co/f8p6fL4Q7C 11:53:15, 2020-08-20
RT @freedarko: Rideshares are one big labor loophole. That’s the entire business model. If drivers get fair treatement these companies migh… 11:41:00, 2020-08-20
What a load of BS. https://t.co/f8hOAfWbcB 11:39:49, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will And this has been extra-hard in the context of serving residents that also govern the org as members… https://t.co/ia6i0v0ZHG in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:35:02, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will I imagine a lot of it depends on your discount rate. But I agree generally — would love to see the… https://t.co/v5ZvAD9QzG in reply to Olivia_R_Will 11:32:47, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will I think it's kind of like talking about the "depth" of affordability — it costs more to provide aff… https://t.co/iqfIQUXlkq in reply to Olivia_R_Will 08:29:50, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will Are we saying the same thing? Like it's kind of baked into the LIHTC policy that capital maintenance… https://t.co/5NSoFiTzHJ in reply to Olivia_R_Will 08:28:16, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will And a consequence of permanent affordability is needing to internalize the depreciation costs, which… https://t.co/WnlyhQD8mB in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:17:50, 2020-08-20
@Olivia_R_Will It seems like there's a built-in affordability mechanism with these limited-time-offers though — wh… https://t.co/BSG5evN9hJ in reply to Olivia_R_Will 08:13:58, 2020-08-20
I literally don't want to know. https://t.co/ocg2JW3SFC 20:12:28, 2020-08-19
@notFromShrek Though tbh by now we'd probably be at each others' throats. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:11:07, 2020-08-19
@notFromShrek If the pandemic had hit at the end of October I would be holed up with a snuggly Austrian friend in a… https://t.co/mk5UL432Pv in reply to notFromShrek 20:10:28, 2020-08-19
@notFromShrek I wish. in reply to notFromShrek 19:19:47, 2020-08-19
@elispat @notFromShrek @ericmbudd Definitely a crime against God. in reply to elispat 18:50:32, 2020-08-19
@notFromShrek @ericmbudd Who knows they might be LIVING IN SIN? in reply to notFromShrek 18:44:34, 2020-08-19
I like how it's become "known fires" now. Like it's too much to necessarily keep track of with 100% accuracy. https://t.co/TFA4yFWYmV 15:18:08, 2020-08-19
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms Extra weird since they do have an active YouTube channel: https://t.co/fHyGmKXJMh in reply to ericmbudd 15:16:32, 2020-08-19
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms omg they still using that janky video thing that Boulder used to use. in reply to ericmbudd 15:12:47, 2020-08-19
#TheJackpot https://t.co/DIFUq2MssI 15:12:14, 2020-08-19
@thebmbennett ?? in reply to thebmbennett 13:53:27, 2020-08-19
(And where also, students are specifically prohibited from living in affordable housing) in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:36:39, 2020-08-19
In stark contrast to CU #Boulder and many other US universities where student room and board is a major (and desper… https://t.co/gA12GTTzMc 08:31:51, 2020-08-19
@SarahdawnH adolescent dudes terrify me in reply to SarahdawnH 23:17:56, 2020-08-18
@AaronBrockett12 @bolderbekah Are they just like, not planning to run for re-election next year or what? in reply to AaronBrockett12 23:12:37, 2020-08-18
@SarahdawnH how did anybody think this was going to turn out any other way i just don't get it in reply to SarahdawnH 23:09:58, 2020-08-18
Means testing also often erodes widespread political support for the program, resulting in its eventual dismantling… https://t.co/o2LCC8oWBn 23:07:52, 2020-08-18
Especially important this year, for the hopefully plural housing-related ballot measures that would disproportionat… https://t.co/Sz1HBaIw21 23:03:26, 2020-08-18
@charlottecpitts @ericmbudd Reality plainly described is in fact inflammatory and offensive. in reply to charlottecpitts 22:56:43, 2020-08-18
@HeartofColorado @ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms Also in case you missed it, the SAME attorney that is representing the… https://t.co/E397u8rxas in reply to HeartofColorado 22:53:28, 2020-08-18
@WillToor omg Will, did your daughter testify tonight? in reply to WillToor 22:51:31, 2020-08-18
@stiricide @ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms "So you're saying you didn't file a 27b/6?" in reply to stiricide 22:51:10, 2020-08-18
RT @interfluidity: from your mouth to Gods's ear, as they say. https://t.co/sxRukv78ex 22:49:15, 2020-08-18
CW: Boulder housing politics
CC: @chaspinrad https://t.co/1M0kGTOsVv 21:28:05, 2020-08-18
Come. On. Does Mr. Yates just think nobody is paying attention? https://t.co/h5ev0oC90W 21:19:52, 2020-08-18
??? https://t.co/I8QVE2tP35 21:16:08, 2020-08-18
omg https://t.co/NTdpiQRQSH 21:03:38, 2020-08-18
OMG so this dude is apparently like some kind of anti-renter Swiss Army knife?! https://t.co/toK1BROSpQ 20:56:37, 2020-08-18
@ericmbudd @NEWR_Boulder Un. Fucking. Believable. in reply to ericmbudd 20:55:49, 2020-08-18
@bolderbekah @BoulderBedrooms @bobyatesboulder @sampweaver @AaronBrockett12 @rachelkfriend @Junie4Boulder… https://t.co/S751h5uFFQ in reply to bolderbekah 18:40:41, 2020-08-18
(what I learned from a decade of dumpster diving, riding bikes in LA, camping in the bushes, sharing housing illega… https://t.co/UVoWvDBG8Z in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:34:44, 2020-08-18
Conversely, if you do engage in deviant behavior in public on a regular basis, you risk discovering that the rest o… https://t.co/JFKxzP1qDN in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:32:51, 2020-08-18
If you don't engage in deviant behavior in public on a regular basis, it's hard to understand just how compelling s… https://t.co/qmY4z3bJYb 18:30:14, 2020-08-18
RT @Olivia_R_Will: I'll say it again, the shit happening in Boulder blows my damn mind https://t.co/LNHu7H79w6 18:27:46, 2020-08-18
@drvox @zeynep @PopDetective And honestly it makes me hopeful that so many people were into GOT — it's not as if t… https://t.co/nwk7oGHfPC in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:29:02, 2020-08-18
@drvox @zeynep @PopDetective Realizing that this division in storytelling styles even existed was huge for me, and… https://t.co/mAxzdN16a5 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:27:14, 2020-08-18
@drvox @zeynep And @PopDetective had a great video exploring these two types of narratives in the context of Wall-E: https://t.co/iYwhXqFskr in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:15:50, 2020-08-18
@drvox I think a lot of this aversion is our cultural unfamiliarity with sociological storytelling, and constant re… https://t.co/Dy2fJ94uGu in reply to drvox 13:14:32, 2020-08-18
@ericmbudd @yimbyaction Big win for the YIMBY identity, I gotta say. in reply to ericmbudd 10:25:41, 2020-08-18
Anyone with experience using these platforms and an interest in electricity systems, energy policy, or climate miti… https://t.co/U5gXj7UNEO 09:55:48, 2020-08-18
So at this point, I believe the housing game is 100% electoral — run ballot initiatives in the even years, and get… https://t.co/kUSNkMTusD in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:59:37, 2020-08-18
I spent about $69,000 on rent while I was in Boulder between 2010 and 2018, never having more than 1 room to myself… https://t.co/LRgrNUx3YJ 08:56:15, 2020-08-18
@Kenharrison99 @ericmbudd Nah man, I tapped out. I'm just a digital ghost haunting the scene from southern Mexico now. in reply to Kenharrison99 08:51:12, 2020-08-18
RT @KenCaldeira: .@KNX1070 asks Loretta Lynch, former President of the California Public Utilities Commision (not frmr Atty Gen),
"are we… 08:44:35, 2020-08-18
@ericmbudd The Blade Runner 2049 depiction tho in reply to ericmbudd 08:41:57, 2020-08-18
RT @sharethecities: I’ve spent ~$132,400 on rent since moving to Seattle in Fall of 2009.
Housing isn’t an investment vehicle for renter… 08:38:07, 2020-08-18
(admittedly, I never think it's a good idea.) in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:33:24, 2020-08-18
How does anyone think going to Las Vegas right now is a good idea? https://t.co/nYwlhE3n9S 08:31:27, 2020-08-18
This is super sad, but after spending almost a decade being a good citizen and engaging in #Boulder public processe… https://t.co/0o2vq52zSW 08:25:43, 2020-08-18
@abshaww So much task. So little force. in reply to abshaww 23:26:36, 2020-08-17
Sobre los asuntos de comida callejera, clasimo, precaridad, y despojo, via @LaBanquetera https://t.co/G4qEM4rH0J 21:26:48, 2020-08-17
Urban homesteading is a bizarre caricature of sustainability. https://t.co/EeGqya0roA 19:41:57, 2020-08-17
Sometimes being right sucks. https://t.co/mXJHFVRjjM 18:41:13, 2020-08-17
@ericmbudd My sister has 105°F or more as far as the forecast goes in Visalia, CA. in reply to ericmbudd 18:29:09, 2020-08-17
@ericmbudd God it's going to be so weird and awful if there's a whole cohort of hundreds of millions or billions of… https://t.co/QrLn9T8GE7 in reply to ericmbudd 13:48:13, 2020-08-17
RT @3nriq3garcia: Así los de Polanco. https://t.co/2UGHhRD7ij 12:55:40, 2020-08-17
@AaronBrockett12 Un hilo largo aquí: https://t.co/R35y5f6qeX in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:10:15, 2020-08-17
RT @LaBanquetera: Durante 5 años me dediqué a escribir regularmente sobre comida callejera. Eso fue antes que los tacos hablaran. Nos había… 11:09:31, 2020-08-17
@ericmbudd Love to hear those UniHill back-to-school house parties starting up. in reply to ericmbudd 08:54:15, 2020-08-17
@ericmbudd What? 130 is a positive number. It's the most positive temperature ever! in reply to ericmbudd 08:53:26, 2020-08-17
Actively freezing the earth so you can keep on actively warming the Earth. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/qrF8v2CFCE 07:37:19, 2020-08-17
Yesterday it was parents being accused of child neglect for "virtual truancy" in the US, today it's students protes… https://t.co/EhYmkOH9V9 07:34:50, 2020-08-17
@AaronBrockett12 https://t.co/lYXjCee1uA in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:35:24, 2020-08-16
@AaronBrockett12 https://t.co/rfvyTnZU5v in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:34:34, 2020-08-16
@AaronBrockett12 Desfortunadamente, some cities are using this as an opportunity to purge the ambulantes, which som… https://t.co/RPcggsT3US in reply to AaronBrockett12 21:33:13, 2020-08-16
Oh, but we can. ?? #Boulder
Cc: @BoulderBedrooms https://t.co/3nH3sNIfqI 21:28:51, 2020-08-16
Cloudy and 107°F? https://t.co/LLawyVM3Zm 21:24:33, 2020-08-16
@sueprant @ericmbudd @MalikSalsberry Oooh, gluten-free zucchini lasagne. in reply to sueprant 20:40:29, 2020-08-16
@TerribleMaps @gschivley They finally solved the throughput incentive. in reply to TerribleMaps 20:37:31, 2020-08-16
@ericmbudd @MalikSalsberry And it's the same species as like basically every squash you could name off the top of your head. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:23:02, 2020-08-16
@ericmbudd @MalikSalsberry First domesticated in Oaxaca, 8,000-10,000 years ago. in reply to ericmbudd 20:18:33, 2020-08-16
Don't force everyone into the US' stupid monolingual norm. There are billions of people who speak more than one lan… https://t.co/4UMqGO8pKF 19:21:27, 2020-08-16
@CHThiem They thought they hated gluten. They were wrong. in reply to CHThiem 19:11:15, 2020-08-16
@CHThiem Why do you hate gluten? in reply to CHThiem 19:07:53, 2020-08-16
Endorse. https://t.co/nf9JQEpoC2 19:01:46, 2020-08-16
@AaronBrockett12 Unlike the Boulder Creek Path, there's street food, which is awesome! It's so activating to public… https://t.co/2LEaOgWgfF in reply to AaronBrockett12 18:57:43, 2020-08-16
@ryanjreilly Sadly tarantulas were not built for tarantula hawks either. in reply to ryanjreilly 18:52:01, 2020-08-16
@ryanjreilly Fighting Traffic was mostly depressing. Like oh, actually everybody working on urban transportation in… https://t.co/w1JBQQkSzI in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:43:16, 2020-08-16
@ryanjreilly They're both sooo good. Crabgrass Frontier was the first book that really made me understand how land… https://t.co/LHFrbP5Mas in reply to ryanjreilly 18:41:19, 2020-08-16
Peter D. Norton's "Fighting Traffic" does a similarly good job of explaining how cars took over US cities. And "Cra… https://t.co/864CC7UdIq 18:39:09, 2020-08-16
Making a play to peel off some of the so-called liberals who are actually kinda not that liberal? https://t.co/CO8kK0fcR5 18:35:51, 2020-08-16
@ericmbudd @sewo_sewo Fit that sucker with an N95 and LFG! in reply to ericmbudd 18:32:09, 2020-08-16
@AaronBrockett12 A lado del Río Atoyac. in reply to AaronBrockett12 18:28:11, 2020-08-16
@sewo_sewo wait for reals? in reply to sewo_sewo 17:25:05, 2020-08-16
P.S. Boy it sure would be nice if @TweetDeck could resize images to ensure they're less than 5MB, rather than just… https://t.co/N5ZrMl4D2b in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:21:34, 2020-08-16
Route here, courtesy of Cass Gilbert aka @whileoutriding https://t.co/TXZIuQSIDy in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:55, 2020-08-16
Tried a new flavor of paleta, but I can't remember what it was called! All in all a great day, and it felt much sho… https://t.co/J2GW7jKZkF in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:48, 2020-08-16
There's a lot of DIY public health messaging painted on walls, especially near transit stops. https://t.co/p3h79iSVZC in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:46, 2020-08-16
The road gradually became more road-like as I descended, and found more people who'd driven up, or were herding ani… https://t.co/U1yuxNGGxr in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:45, 2020-08-16
The ride up was a very good dirt road. The ride down was on a road that had washed out at the top, which made for a… https://t.co/wEDVzXzW28 in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:43, 2020-08-16
Met three dog-friends that were apparently taking themselves for an extended hike. https://t.co/2X1YhThftC in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:17:42, 2020-08-16
Rode up to the top of a mountain on the other side of the Etla Valley, near Cuatros Venados. Most of the day was a… https://t.co/R48hFSYDvX 17:04:19, 2020-08-16
RT @collinrees: *Narrator:* It was not, in fact, worth looking for oil anymore.
https://t.co/L8pIWr7NJ5 16:56:58, 2020-08-16
Seriously given most US history curricula this like half a step away from getting social demerits for not liking en… https://t.co/GxEwuqEXdS in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:43:53, 2020-08-16
YOU WILL JACK IN OR WE SEND THE PIGS. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:37:21, 2020-08-16
RT @rachelkfriend: ?
1. Be a woman
2. Run for office
3. Stand strong for your values

?

This is my 3 point plan for ensuring that you a… 16:30:00, 2020-08-16
It's a bummer that between BAFP and the City a cool 100 grand is gonna get blown on this, but here we are! That's w… https://t.co/VGGMdlFoAi 16:28:56, 2020-08-16
"Virtual truancy"
So now it's a crime for some people not to be present in a particular corner of cyberspace at a… https://t.co/9bqBqi0w8b 16:23:31, 2020-08-16
RT @AlecMacGillis: Where we are at with remote learning: well-off families planning pods, low-income families having child-neglect cases op… 16:20:52, 2020-08-16
It's been a good run, my fellow primates. https://t.co/7Ge3U39MMW 16:19:22, 2020-08-16
I dunno #Boulder Council, doesn't look like a niche issue that you can kill with a soul-sucking working group whose… https://t.co/wjpPeau9Nb 16:01:28, 2020-08-16
@notFromShrek @ericmbudd https://t.co/8Em2ESdx9P 15:58:17, 2020-08-16
@jordanwb God it looks like a volcano erupting. in reply to jordanwb 15:55:33, 2020-08-16
RT @sarahkendzior: April 2019. https://t.co/38yOBuCG3F 06:49:28, 2020-08-16

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Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-09 to 2020-08-15

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-08-16
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-09 to 2020-08-15

"She had died two months earlier, and the children had simply gone on living in the house, by themselves."
From "Evicted." in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:18:57, 2020-08-15
"Tim had evicted his own daughter. But this house felt strange. Dave asked what was going on, and John explained th… https://t.co/x8bVA65iOI 22:17:36, 2020-08-15
https://t.co/agarpvaGCU in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:37:28, 2020-08-15
Video of said fire tornado: https://t.co/vU3OKp3nDN in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:35:25, 2020-08-15
? ?️ ? https://t.co/jzhoIaAElz 18:26:53, 2020-08-15
RT @tomaskenn: Photo taken in Wisconsin. This is happening right before our eyes. They are sabotaging USPS to sabotage vote by mail. This i… 15:41:56, 2020-08-15
RT @joshshepperd: Right now in Rogers Park, Chicago. https://t.co/9wS2HGoBsh 15:41:50, 2020-08-15
I have to imagine a fair chunk of Latin America lolsobbing about The Situation. What comes around goes around. https://t.co/EQFQoNpZJ5 15:39:29, 2020-08-15
Available residential floor area in the US doubled from 400sf to 800sf per person between 1890 and 2010: https://t.co/2NEXBiqz7V in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:10:20, 2020-08-15
The US produces ~2x as many calories per person as is required, but some people are still short on food:… https://t.co/slaUZArrTq in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:59:28, 2020-08-15
More than any time in human history, today there's more than enough for everyone. But we've decided collectively th… https://t.co/yFo1ru8U7O 13:52:00, 2020-08-15
@kevpluck "Not even Wensleydale?" in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:48:03, 2020-08-15
@kevpluck https://t.co/LWKjTOTbKq in reply to kevpluck 13:33:23, 2020-08-15
@NieveMandarina And tomorrow, I'm going to ride out past Monte Alban into the Etla Valley, toward San Cristobal in… https://t.co/xUCEygHbzd in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:27:25, 2020-08-15
At some point I headed off the map and onto a road that seemed like it probably existed. The sign says "property su… https://t.co/csBihfg7cl in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:25:08, 2020-08-15
The rain didn't hit me Sunday, but Saturday I got drenched on the way home from the market. The towns weren't quite… https://t.co/V7gWWer166 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:16:49, 2020-08-15
I also noticed that the maíz in different fields were at wildly different stages of growth. From a foot tall to bei… https://t.co/YOaM7WqQmW in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:09:18, 2020-08-15
Early morning street side tamales picked up on the way out of town. Provisions for the day.
Lots of intercropping… https://t.co/8seyyG1RLN in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:05:58, 2020-08-15
Pro tip: do not try to eat cactus fruits in the field unless you want to spend half the day picking hair-fine spine… https://t.co/ovCt8ogiJy in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:00:01, 2020-08-15
Some pix from my ride around the southern part of the Tlacolula Valley last Sunday: https://t.co/29T5QDHV1u 12:54:14, 2020-08-15
@ericmbudd Also there are supposedly popcicles on the way home. in reply to ericmbudd 12:46:29, 2020-08-15
@ericmbudd Imma do this ride tomorrow: https://t.co/TXZIuQSIDy in reply to ericmbudd 12:44:34, 2020-08-15
Why do gasses dissolve better in cold water, but solids dissolve better in hot water? Why does warm air hold more w… https://t.co/s8ByTJnfcH 12:37:47, 2020-08-15
But a majority of #Boulder Council can pretend it doesn't happen — or at least that it doesn't happen to "the good… https://t.co/DJilDp67lo 08:48:16, 2020-08-15
RT @vgr: I’m tired of people pretending that electoral systems can’t possibly break down radically when a) there’s plenty of precedent arou… 08:04:04, 2020-08-15
Good update on the @BoulderBedrooms debacle from @shayshinecastle. I swear it almost feels like the legal ambiguity… https://t.co/s8XcQ6JXe3 22:23:04, 2020-08-14
RT @erinoverturf: Say it with me: CLIMATE CHANGE IS A RELIABILITY THREAT. https://t.co/qiDvmmudU3 20:58:13, 2020-08-14
Meanwhile in California. https://t.co/DoOxopaT1e 20:58:05, 2020-08-14
Watching Midsommar because of all the memes I've seen using images from the film to satirize white people taking ov… https://t.co/ZCVBSByIZr 20:49:13, 2020-08-14
And now it seems like the nothing that's been done with the pause will become a slide into some other structural st… https://t.co/LHqiuHJlDO in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:06:10, 2020-08-14
It's felt like everything is paused. But there are these accumulating things in the background that will break thro… https://t.co/RmPxHmdC8x 18:59:35, 2020-08-14
@alex_burness Guatemala privatized its postal service several years ago. Then the private service went bankrupt. An… https://t.co/LDSuduTCUJ in reply to alex_burness 10:39:53, 2020-08-14
RT @ajplusespanol: ¿El dinero divide?
La presión inmobiliaria ha hecho que los miembros de esta cooperativa de vivienda en Ciudad de Méxic… 08:40:01, 2020-08-14
@welcomehomebldr @ericmbudd @StrongTowns @BoulderBedrooms I think they go a bit overboard giving the city the benefit of the doubt here. in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:57:36, 2020-08-13
@welcomehomebldr @ericmbudd @StrongTowns @BoulderBedrooms Oh man, I bet they have some choice words. in reply to welcomehomebldr 16:42:38, 2020-08-13
@_awthomas @gschivley @CatalystCoop Where are you looking exactly? FERC also just totally re-organized their website. in reply to _awthomas 13:49:12, 2020-08-13
RT @CharlieKBonner: absolutely baller content from the postal workers union https://t.co/GE8DsRzAEc 13:26:35, 2020-08-13
@gschivley @_awthomas @CatalystCoop There's also the service_territory module, which generates the geometries which… https://t.co/xAcbZSYaYq in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:16:53, 2020-08-13
@gschivley @_awthomas @CatalystCoop Not really, that's all very much a work in progress. There's a notebook that ru… https://t.co/w0IpHkv5WT in reply to gschivley 13:15:52, 2020-08-13
RT @MattNegrin: TRUMP: I’m going to defund the postal service
MEDIA: sir how is the economy, good?

TRUMP: so I can steal the election

ME… 07:49:45, 2020-08-13
Occassionally in my TL it's confusing how SoftWare and Sex Worker use the same abbreviation. 07:46:56, 2020-08-13
Seems bad. https://t.co/FNZ9MNPHtj 07:45:02, 2020-08-13
Seems like any firm big enough to wield this tactic should be subject to anti-trust enforcement. https://t.co/SkUxBYfrqW 16:44:20, 2020-08-12
Plus Andrew Shoemaker has promised to file *additional* lawsuits to keep this measure off the ballot, even if… https://t.co/zYrbFe1I9a 15:10:55, 2020-08-12
RT @WillToor: I hope cities in Colorado are watching this. Zoning reform is a powerful tool to address racial and economic injustice and cl… 12:11:45, 2020-08-12
Portland ends exclusionary single family zoning. #PDX https://t.co/MVN3HnjR30 12:11:15, 2020-08-12
Feels like it's an open question as to whether we will reach herd immunity or widespread video-call proficiency first. 11:11:15, 2020-08-12
RT @daveregrets: Some unions would lobby to build concentration camps if the corporation running them had a PLA. That's not solidarity. 10:47:09, 2020-08-12
So El Zapatero is just gonna dump pro bono hours from the law firm he owns onto his personal vendetta against peopl… https://t.co/QBItHHps0O 08:32:44, 2020-08-12
@gschivley When the brainworm comes. in reply to gschivley 20:38:59, 2020-08-11
@shayshinecastle They just aren't quite to the "Fight to the Death" stage yet. But maybe they'll get there. in reply to shayshinecastle 19:19:46, 2020-08-11
@shayshinecastle @BoulderCoopFood @opavote Unfortunately, this success in electing more diverse and representative… https://t.co/aFEdFI8osw in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:06:20, 2020-08-11
@shayshinecastle @BoulderCoopFood @opavote From 1936-1945 NYC also used STV to elect its council, resulting in the… https://t.co/yBS3eh90SP in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:03:37, 2020-08-11
@shayshinecastle @BoulderCoopFood used @opavote to run ranked choice voting board elections using the "single trans… https://t.co/1wZCvFEqQW in reply to shayshinecastle 18:53:31, 2020-08-11
Make America Normal Again, 2020? https://t.co/aAZCIlCtcN 14:36:18, 2020-08-11
Wow my TL just split itself in twain, alternating between cheering/hating on the Harris VP pick. 14:30:36, 2020-08-11
@arvindpawan1 A lot of great office furniture can be gotten for like 75% off retail via Craiglist or other places t… https://t.co/lWN3ZMKB8B in reply to arvindpawan1 10:38:24, 2020-08-11
RT @bolderbekah: Where would you go, #Boulder? You probably can’t legally move in with friends because of our unrelated persons occupancy r… 09:36:19, 2020-08-11
@seancllns Until they suddenly become catastrophically worried. ? in reply to seancllns 09:30:42, 2020-08-11
@ericmbudd @markgelband Before he was transformed, into GELBANDHSELL in reply to ericmbudd 07:57:35, 2020-08-11
RT @ZaneSelvans: @akronisticlotor Someday soon we'll all just send dueling public comment generating algorithms sitting behind deepfaked zo… 21:59:49, 2020-08-10
Twitter's Gynecologist. What a job. https://t.co/9QBLEzPq1T 21:58:45, 2020-08-10
Sweet baby Jesus. https://t.co/6n7vNTFcpG 21:54:41, 2020-08-10
@akronisticlotor City Clerk: "There are currently 73,218 people signed up for public comment." in reply to akronisticlotor 21:47:49, 2020-08-10
@akronisticlotor Someday soon we'll all just send dueling public comment generating algorithms sitting behind deepfaked zoom attendee faces. in reply to akronisticlotor 21:39:35, 2020-08-10
Just like Kellogg's yogurt enema. https://t.co/ZBjpumSUVH 20:28:13, 2020-08-10
Oh dang, I guess #Boulder needs to require some kind of "proof of boning" certificate before you can get a domestic… https://t.co/TQP0IlY8ez 18:28:22, 2020-08-10
@ericmbudd Oh wow, at first I thought this was a livestream of the #Boulder housing policy debate, or one of Mirabai's Zoom backgrounds. in reply to ericmbudd 17:04:43, 2020-08-10
The chapter in Crabgrass Frontier on the end of annexation as a means of city growth in the early 20th century is v… https://t.co/FgkYZmtj0H 17:03:43, 2020-08-10
.@BoulderBedrooms needs $50,000 to get through the full legal challenge, and then if they win, they still have to r… https://t.co/kwaztaZRDS 12:10:35, 2020-08-10
Wacky Hijinx Ensue. https://t.co/kfDC4VBx4I 11:03:19, 2020-08-10
@erinoverturf @ericmbudd My god it is such a trash fire. in reply to erinoverturf 10:59:58, 2020-08-10
What the H is going on in #Boulder, indeed.
And you thought you'd escaped the city's maelstrom of nonsense,… https://t.co/7usQGW4WPG 10:55:27, 2020-08-10
@joshdr83 YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTARY in reply to joshdr83 08:47:52, 2020-08-10
You have been eaten by a grue. https://t.co/ACM5PmFbE9 21:40:08, 2020-08-09
@joshdr83 You have been eaten by a grue. in reply to joshdr83 21:39:09, 2020-08-09
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop I swear Cole is the ZigZag man. in reply to ericmbudd 20:19:55, 2020-08-09
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Wow, you didn't move in until March? in reply to ericmbudd 20:18:13, 2020-08-09
@ericmbudd @IngramCoop Isn't it coming up on 3 years now? I've been out of the US for 2 years as of last week, and… https://t.co/KEiwwqD7rA in reply to ericmbudd 20:16:35, 2020-08-09
RT @CHThiem: "When I think beyond the existential – the implications for life with the two budding learners and relentlessly social beings… 07:47:10, 2020-08-09
Doesn't it seem like Brazil's daily death numbers have been freakishly stable since like the end of May? https://t.co/vWgzNyjjgd 07:22:29, 2020-08-09

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Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-02 to 2020-08-08

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-08-09
No Comments on Tweets for the Week of 2020-08-02 to 2020-08-08

@ericmbudd It'll all go away when the weather turns. When the weather gets nice again in the spring, I'll give it 1… https://t.co/JvI4KeFjiO in reply to ericmbudd 21:01:48, 2020-08-08
@RevDrDrPhill @miblogestublog Okay from "Tortillas: A Cultural History" processed lime (for making nixtamal) and co… https://t.co/XlsPZJwSuu in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:37:54, 2020-08-08
RT @democracynow: .@nils_gilman and a bipartisan group of participants ran "wargames" playing out various electoral outcomes. "The results… 17:23:48, 2020-08-08
@RevDrDrPhill @miblogestublog That was the first hit I got when I searched too and it had no references, it's just… https://t.co/Ulz23MIg6x in reply to RevDrDrPhill 17:22:43, 2020-08-08
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms Oh that orange bike sure is cute ? @CHThiem in reply to ericmbudd 14:20:22, 2020-08-08
Seriously people now is not the time to be heading into the Oaxacan hinterlands for psychedelic trips. WTF?
"The t… https://t.co/muI5MJvopW 14:14:16, 2020-08-08
The almost infinite adaptability of humans combined with our singular unwillingness to adapt is really something else. 11:47:27, 2020-08-08
You'll never guess what happened next! https://t.co/r1BaIfS6Yo 11:36:40, 2020-08-08
RT @SICKOFWOLVES: FOR THE RECORD, BEING ANTI FASCIST IS EXTREMELY GOOD ACTUALLY 11:35:53, 2020-08-08
@gschivley @CatalystCoop @n_kracov @EIAgov @frictionlessd8a @toggl @harvest It seems really good for *time tracking… https://t.co/IfB17avJUM in reply to gschivley 11:35:44, 2020-08-08
Like maybe humanity will only give up on obsolete concepts of normalcy when it's pried out of our hot, sweaty, dead hands. in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:09:16, 2020-08-08
Speaking of which, here's a recent paper looking at the spatio-temporal extent of deadly heat+humidity events, whic… https://t.co/POnZEbUlbX in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:03:53, 2020-08-08
@judesantopietro Yo también, yo también. in reply to judesantopietro 10:57:49, 2020-08-08
Wow.
https://t.co/vEqseIuZMb https://t.co/lj7AnIA1Jm 10:55:59, 2020-08-08
The zombie-like insistence that schools have to re-open because NORMALCY even though that will kill a bunch of peop… https://t.co/ZSBceXYtIz 10:34:23, 2020-08-08
@RevDrDrPhill @miblogestublog I'm looking for something with a little more in the way of footnotes ?
Also, I think… https://t.co/pDhQZtJrNq in reply to RevDrDrPhill 10:17:21, 2020-08-08
@gschivley Physics Part 2: THE REVENGE. in reply to gschivley 10:15:22, 2020-08-08
Omfg. Lawyers. 10:10:31, 2020-08-08
The Demon Haunted World. https://t.co/cPl6Z0WAZm 22:46:26, 2020-08-07
Right but now I guess we'll see if ? can take credit for it within the bubble. https://t.co/LVCrJxfyeQ 20:54:28, 2020-08-07
@thmscwlls But only if you're more than 35 feet tall. in reply to thmscwlls 20:51:19, 2020-08-07
@gschivley @CatalystCoop @n_kracov @EIAgov @frictionlessd8a Who knows! Not much debugging getting done Friday night. in reply to gschivley 20:46:48, 2020-08-07
I knew I liked Berlin. https://t.co/cLyyrHYrbq 17:07:46, 2020-08-07
Me interesa mucho ver la película "Ya no estoy aquí" porque las reseñas de @darkolina y @judesantopietro fueron muy… https://t.co/U7XTJ2BZUe 17:03:47, 2020-08-07
@Yimbyindenver Yeah it's wild. Somehow there's a visceral edge that creeps in when it's talking about people who want to *live differently*. in reply to Yimbyindenver 16:11:44, 2020-08-07
I *finally* feel like have some headspace for work-related reading, and so I got @leahstokes' book about utility co… https://t.co/IQ92mDLAzR 16:07:38, 2020-08-07
@miblogestublog Do you have any idea how long tortillas have been a thing? Like what's the earliest archaeological evidence of them? in reply to miblogestublog 14:44:39, 2020-08-07
@drvox "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" in reply to drvox 12:11:14, 2020-08-07
@shayshinecastle @CHThiem Definitely a series. in reply to shayshinecastle 12:07:56, 2020-08-07
Rhymes with "I'm not a NIMBY, but…" https://t.co/vAUPtRK2Rr 12:03:05, 2020-08-07
Because then you'd be housing more people, and not discriminating in favor of patriarchal heteronormative nuclear f… https://t.co/Y4vmKjbRfw 11:13:23, 2020-08-07
Oh, neighbors. https://t.co/NyLHnt8AMF 08:55:14, 2020-08-07
Zombies? Cordyceps fungus? https://t.co/49MnfSeExl 21:35:31, 2020-08-06
RT @NRA: From our cold, dead hands. 21:30:32, 2020-08-06
History's also the process of selectively forgetting some things, so we can know new things. https://t.co/lgtljB6eJX 21:28:59, 2020-08-06
I suspect this kind of planning — taking constructive advantage of disruptions — would be a good thing for humani… https://t.co/aPrikO85OW 21:25:28, 2020-08-06
RT @QiaochuYuan: in japanese they don’t day “normie” they say “reaju” which means “satisfied with reality” and i think that’s beautiful 21:14:41, 2020-08-06
It's weird to feel how bad internet has become its own kind of distance. Guatemala felt further away from the world… https://t.co/0swIuSXdRS 21:10:00, 2020-08-06
Okay but like who else was in the running for this award? Maybe someone should look into them? https://t.co/NpJ1jR8nye 20:52:51, 2020-08-06
RT @lanasequoia: ?????? https://t.co/bimgbM55Og 19:43:43, 2020-08-06
@Thatmushroom And I wonder what fraction of such deals they need to go through undetected for them to keep being a… https://t.co/Q6c7BBI9Z9 in reply to Thatmushroom 19:36:45, 2020-08-06
It's like with silicon semiconductors. Once we can do everything with a single medium pretty well, resources pour i… https://t.co/kSolsl6gxy in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:30:51, 2020-08-06
@Thatmushroom Yeah and like who came in 2nd and 3rd for that lobbying award? in reply to Thatmushroom 19:29:08, 2020-08-06
Once a single energy medium attains reasonable cost & efficiency in all phases of production (generation, transmiss… https://t.co/brJUjvjIyy 19:28:25, 2020-08-06
I mean, it *was* kind of an extraordinary effort. https://t.co/NpJ1jR8nye 19:18:34, 2020-08-06
End it now. https://t.co/NouZ7kTKiw 19:12:44, 2020-08-06
To all the folks who bring up water supply constraints as a reason to exclude new Colorado / Front Range / Boulder… https://t.co/H3Fd8qU0CW 13:56:13, 2020-08-06
RT @CocoDavies: Made my 1st food box delivery for Front Range Mutual Aid Network. Food rescue such a radical act! A volunteer told me: "Com… 19:16:07, 2020-08-05
@rachelkfriend @jaredpolis Also in all seriousness, if @BoulderBedrooms does get on the ballot, I wouldn't be surpr… https://t.co/EXk8pQ3vjL in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:56:44, 2020-08-05
@rachelkfriend @jaredpolis They *did* suspend the occupancy limits after the floods in 2013 though. Which meant (so… https://t.co/F9N2fzutlW in reply to rachelkfriend 18:47:42, 2020-08-05
@rachelkfriend @ericmbudd @jaredpolis "I'm sorry, but could you send me a copy of that order? I don't recall seeing that anywhere." in reply to rachelkfriend 18:44:12, 2020-08-05
@ericmbudd The price you pay for funding them with federal flood mitigation monies. in reply to ericmbudd 18:42:02, 2020-08-05
Seems weird to me when stories set centuries in the future still have everyone drinking ethanol for entertainment.… https://t.co/gmhAaBLVJT 18:40:11, 2020-08-05
@ericmbudd Markets at all time highs because:
* Big Tech is over-represented, and benefiting from everyone living o… https://t.co/91VTWTZQ1z in reply to ericmbudd 16:37:34, 2020-08-05
Remind me again why younger people should trust the so-called grownups to make decisions? https://t.co/aSQWcRirgg 16:35:02, 2020-08-05
@CHThiem Is this typically a thing that parents get excited about? in reply to CHThiem 14:22:22, 2020-08-05
@seancllns Hah, yeah, I recall Mr. Yates in particular being very enthusiastic about that proposal. Such complete BS. in reply to seancllns 13:41:28, 2020-08-05
And the full video of the 2-hour long Rad-ish Candidate Forum is up here, if anyone is interested: https://t.co/UWUVchQlOn in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:37:37, 2020-08-05
Oh hey, here's Mary Young on "What a Grassroots Petition Should Look Like" in 2013 — It's remarkably similar to… https://t.co/03MFJFiXmt in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:24:16, 2020-08-05
Basically, everyone lies when they're campaigning, and tells you whatever they think you want to hear. And if you'r… https://t.co/5K0sTVA3za in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:18:46, 2020-08-05
Mary Young's response is especially ironic / cynical:
"You need to start a movement on this. You need to come to C… https://t.co/oLVUrMkKUq in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:13:55, 2020-08-05
And if the conversation about occupancy limits was "long overdue" in 2013… what would that make it now? in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:09:51, 2020-08-05
7 years ago when Sam Weaver was initially running for #Boulder Council, we asked him — and all the other candidate… https://t.co/pnMH0w0FI0 12:06:30, 2020-08-05
RT @CHThiem: The Boulder city attorney's office employs 15 lawyers. They couldn't interpret their own election laws for residents. Now they… 12:03:16, 2020-08-05
They love it when "young" people show up for state and national stuff. But it gets ugly real quick if you don't agr… https://t.co/7UHLvTaLFC 09:42:54, 2020-08-05
@sueprant I didn't make this request, but I think it was as simple as an email containing the required CORA languag… https://t.co/IRLEYblKmd in reply to sueprant 20:50:10, 2020-08-04
@NathalieOttawa @OICompanions Ooof. in reply to NathalieOttawa 20:25:37, 2020-08-04
@DrTaraGoddard Kill it before it takes hooooold! in reply to DrTaraGoddard 20:18:38, 2020-08-04
Unequally enforced, and the consequences are not the same for everyone. If you have social capital, you can work it… https://t.co/2XAOvNMe80 20:15:03, 2020-08-04
@Thatmushroom @thmscwlls @shayshinecastle Wait is that a real photo of Mr. Yates? in reply to Thatmushroom 20:07:27, 2020-08-04
I dunno, "Bullying, demanding, and entitled." behavior sure reminds me of #Boulder homeowners. https://t.co/ok7DnLc1W0 20:00:54, 2020-08-04
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms ??? I'll chip in another $50, since it turns out my @YIMBYtown refund was $200, not $150 like I thought. in reply to ericmbudd 19:05:31, 2020-08-04
The reality is finally setting in. https://t.co/UTbc41EEav 18:56:12, 2020-08-04
@notFromShrek ??? in reply to notFromShrek 18:47:44, 2020-08-04
@ericmbudd @GovofCO Though this *would* be very helpful in avoiding political retaliation from opponents, during the ballot campaign. in reply to ericmbudd 16:14:33, 2020-08-04
@robbieorvis @gschivley @EIAgov @NREL That's the table where we got the NEMS numbers we filled in as well.
Maybe I… https://t.co/fmduDvf4ii in reply to robbieorvis 16:02:36, 2020-08-04
@CHThiem Whew well at least they came down on *a* side. Yikes. in reply to CHThiem 15:59:50, 2020-08-04
@CHThiem I had no idea Yoda played golf. in reply to CHThiem 14:32:54, 2020-08-04
RT @borzou: Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port https://t.co/ZjltF0VcTr 11:23:13, 2020-08-04
RT @Sputnik_Insight: A Powerful explosion has occured in Beirut. It's not yet clear what caused the blast. #Beirut https://t.co/h7ayT5DKdK 11:23:10, 2020-08-04
I feel like Matt is personally trolling Gary Wockner with this book. https://t.co/l9fMYvQWvO 09:35:11, 2020-08-04
Or even if you wanna vote "No!" https://t.co/mh4U3b7sgN 20:33:48, 2020-08-03
RT @meaggagan: Just another day in paradise: crowdfunding a lawsuit against our city gov't to force them to uphold democracy. I donated. ht… 20:33:10, 2020-08-03
RT @legroth: Protecting democracy starts at home. Changing the rules of the election process midstream is never acceptable and Bedrooms is… 20:33:02, 2020-08-03
@bryanlbowen @ericmbudd @JasenThorpe IT'S THE SONGBIRD OPEN SPACE BRYAN COME ON. in reply to bryanlbowen 20:05:01, 2020-08-03
@bryanlbowen @ericmbudd @JasenThorpe And it's buried out there on the Open Space somewhere. in reply to bryanlbowen 20:03:23, 2020-08-03
This really is wild — like even if @BoulderBedrooms had miraculously interpreted the law as Council eventually did… https://t.co/pRqkBl2AuE 20:02:16, 2020-08-03
RT @boulderweekly: Only 24 states allow citizen initiatives as part of the democratic process. What began as a normal election season in Bo… 19:06:07, 2020-08-03
And Bouldermort has used what, like 5 out of his last 6 regular @DailyCamera editorials on the personal axe he has… https://t.co/2Ng6f2sHdj 19:01:08, 2020-08-03
@JasenThorpe @ericmbudd https://t.co/pi36g7wCP2 in reply to JasenThorpe 18:56:45, 2020-08-03
☝️ @Olivia_R_Will in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:37:55, 2020-08-03
Less screamy version: Council probably wants to use the credible *threat* of a parallel ballot measure which would… https://t.co/4sIIqWxUKB 18:35:56, 2020-08-03
@sueprant Yeah there were some choice emails in the CORA request. in reply to sueprant 18:20:26, 2020-08-03
The legal complaint itself is ??? and really lays out a detailed timeline of incredible actions and commentary by C… https://t.co/1BBrluhzlc 17:13:03, 2020-08-03
This is some stark, raging, bullshit. Even with all the shenanigans around changing deadlines and signature require… https://t.co/AUGVmJGwnU 15:05:07, 2020-08-03
@NEWR_Boulder @ericmbudd How the hell is that even a thing? You got your petition certified?! in reply to NEWR_Boulder 15:01:43, 2020-08-03
@JasenThorpe Can't fire them? Just make them accountable so they don't enjoy the job anymore. Who would have thought. in reply to JasenThorpe 14:34:50, 2020-08-03
Since @YIMBYtown was cancelled this year due to the pandemic, I'm donating my refunded $150 registration fee to… https://t.co/6ZqpfFWiIa 11:51:13, 2020-08-03
@BotSentinel hey do you have an explanation up somewhere of why the newest version of the Firefox plugin requires a… https://t.co/xbXyqDEUbo 11:42:47, 2020-08-03
@JMPyper @brucenilles @mateosfo @drvox @Guay_JG A couple of years ago I was thrilled to discover that my local libr… https://t.co/GmW0CQVEwW in reply to JMPyper 07:59:48, 2020-08-03
@DrZackaryBerger A floor covering that's made by weaving or otherwise entangling worn out rags that have been twist… https://t.co/ctgSaYsE4y in reply to DrZackaryBerger 21:46:32, 2020-08-02
@KendraWrites Are you looking for recommendations? For travel or household use? in reply to KendraWrites 21:09:43, 2020-08-02
Gay sex-crazed zombies on 'shrooms.
"Massospora manipulates male cicadas into flicking their wings like females wh… https://t.co/ITejcZSG9d 19:17:41, 2020-08-02
And for the homework assignment, see if you can identify the Designated Liars at the State and Federal level! in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:45:12, 2020-08-02
Jeff Flynn, Ken Beitel and increasingly, Steve Pomerance, are the Designated Liars: People with no credibility amon… https://t.co/bbBoGydGw8 17:41:22, 2020-08-02
I took 3 years of Latin in high school. Would it have been any less reasonable for them to offer Nahuatl instead? I… https://t.co/DFN8bhhV1O 17:37:55, 2020-08-02
So what, exactly, is the argument for completely innoculating one class of people (land owners) from the effects of… https://t.co/jXgc5uodgC in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:30:03, 2020-08-02
Every time a property changes hand, the mortgage payments reset to reflect the new higher price, and that increased… https://t.co/h0Vv6c8QLv in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:27:15, 2020-08-02
Renters are already exposed to *the full economic consequences* of land value increases. Any land tax short of Henr… https://t.co/38kGGxnoWX in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:25:43, 2020-08-02
Okay another thing: lots of land owners object to the idea of funding things with land taxes. Often the objection t… https://t.co/0ZHfcVWJpW in reply to ZaneSelvans 17:23:05, 2020-08-02
@CHThiem Did not see any pigs. Several burros, lots of lizards. A few cows. Two herds of goats. It was great. I'll… https://t.co/Vr1o4wC66e in reply to CHThiem 17:19:36, 2020-08-02
@emma_vawter David Adamson from the Goose Creek CLT did the cumulative $1B calculation, so you might get in touch w… https://t.co/SZxdF2KO0P in reply to emma_vawter 17:18:19, 2020-08-02
My plan for the day: https://t.co/VhW2mZ0wvX 07:53:33, 2020-08-02
One of my grandmas was 14 years old at the time, and in Pennsylvania. The other was a 12 year old girl living in a… https://t.co/QiNyleUukv 07:50:44, 2020-08-02

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Tweets for the Week of 2020-07-26 to 2020-08-01

Post author By Zane Selvans
Post date 2020-08-02
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@tau18analytics Trapped on a planet inhabited by psychotic apes, and way too much information. in reply to tau18analytics 22:44:46, 2020-08-01
And yet, still the safest world. https://t.co/LXyO2WbHvH 22:39:38, 2020-08-01
"They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking post-ap… https://t.co/0Rbq5LWGdI 22:37:42, 2020-08-01
Went to the grocery store for the first time in 4 weeks today. It was filled with "Back to School" displays. So I g… https://t.co/bY5QdUri7M 19:55:21, 2020-08-01
So… yeah. Keep fighting to make your city a better place. And you get to define what better means, no matter whet… https://t.co/wEq7wRmpTB in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:40:20, 2020-08-01
Meanwhile, all those 14% mortgage rates from the 1980s have long since been refinanced at like 4-6% with government… https://t.co/wSQgIkQmFl in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:36:23, 2020-08-01
Or the sales tax could have been paired with a property tax, with the property tax being used to buy urban land out… https://t.co/fOZ6NWkDuI in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:34:48, 2020-08-01
It didn't have to be this way — if equity had been a priority, the Open Space could have been paid for with proper… https://t.co/4C94eRRyNG in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:33:37, 2020-08-01
So the land value uplift generated by a public amenity paid for with regressive taxes has been almost entirely capt… https://t.co/ugv3cFtJ3U in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:31:03, 2020-08-01
On *top* of all that, renters — who also paid the sales taxes that bought the Open Space — have been forced to pa… https://t.co/9CyqLTH45S in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:27:53, 2020-08-01
So if even 10% of current property value is attributable to the amenities paid for with regressive sales taxes, the… https://t.co/ZxKBdaCVos in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:25:23, 2020-08-01
But did homeowners really make any sacrifice on behalf of the Open Space? There are about 30,000 households in Boul… https://t.co/iUE3i9VD1l in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:21:47, 2020-08-01
Part of the subtext of the argument here is "We taxed ourselves to make it nice here, and you — newcomer — also t… https://t.co/nNqVKkZgoS in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:15:09, 2020-08-01
Sales taxes are notoriously regressive. That means poor people paid more of their incomes toward the Open Space tha… https://t.co/2Eke1p5or4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:12:22, 2020-08-01
Some issues with this argument… a thread.
The Open Space was bought with sales tax revenues. About $1B of it. Mu… https://t.co/dZln0nN2aZ 19:10:48, 2020-08-01
@rachelkfriend @ericmbudd Oh right and then there's that! in reply to rachelkfriend 19:04:02, 2020-08-01
Welp, as of today it's been 2 years since I left the US. I still don't feel the desire to go back. I also don't fee… https://t.co/4kItGvjMkd 18:41:20, 2020-08-01
@ericmbudd The whole idea of going to the mat over freeway views is just bizarre to me. in reply to ericmbudd 18:36:10, 2020-08-01
@ericmbudd @scottholton @bldr_architect Very special. Like a year + of negotiations. in reply to ericmbudd 16:48:00, 2020-08-01
@JMPyper I think @drvox just went through the induction stove journey. I'm sure he's got a thread on it. in reply to JMPyper 12:39:50, 2020-08-01
@ericmbudd And an as-of-yet-undefined but non-zero amount to be fought thereafter. in reply to ericmbudd 12:06:22, 2020-08-01
What a time to be alive. https://t.co/mGGHsmL0V7 08:43:07, 2020-08-01
Now that I actually live in a walkable city filled with small businesses, I realize just how much I don't know how… https://t.co/OFcZSOJl0i 22:06:34, 2020-07-31
What they describe here every week is about to happen to millions of people in the US. The scale is unimaginable. https://t.co/0FVC5NODVr 22:04:02, 2020-07-31
This is especially impressive given that there are only like 12,000 tests administered per day. https://t.co/Xe0zeYhArA 20:55:22, 2020-07-31
@interfluidity Have you come across @econnaturalist's stuff on the social pathologies of positional goods? in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:34:19, 2020-07-31
That Contagion movie was way more entertaining when it only lasted 2 hours. 19:20:30, 2020-07-31
The Bomb and computers were born together, and have always been intertwined. The phone in your pocket has 10,000 to… https://t.co/ff37Z8RG92 19:15:33, 2020-07-31
@NuclearAnthro Ugh, I had a college friend go there to work on "pulsed energy weapons" and she was like "Well *some… https://t.co/K7OHci0DmR in reply to NuclearAnthro 19:11:22, 2020-07-31
@interfluidity I feel like there's a similar argument in the economics of happiness. Does having more wealth make f… https://t.co/jQXADK6Vl4 in reply to interfluidity 19:08:51, 2020-07-31
"In a society where there is both a high dispersion of outcomes and a high degree of mobility, from most individual… https://t.co/iYHTDT4ea0 18:57:54, 2020-07-31
And no, requiring 100% affordable housing of which 0 units are built does not qualify. https://t.co/kJfjy4PL5A 18:52:29, 2020-07-31
@ericmbudd omg and another one bites the dust. How long was @meltzere on the city beat? Was she the last long-terme… https://t.co/dsqKezuR4z in reply to ericmbudd 18:48:37, 2020-07-31
@markgelband @charlottecpitts No idea off the top of my head, but this should be easily scraped from the city/count… https://t.co/RKrOxQ7kyq in reply to markgelband 18:45:08, 2020-07-31
@drvox Wait but we could also be frustrated with Democrats for how *they* will behave if they win a majority in the… https://t.co/HSuszplg20 in reply to drvox 13:18:27, 2020-07-31
@welcomehomebldr @BoulderBedrooms But then we could use all the small lots for PARKING! in reply to welcomehomebldr 13:15:48, 2020-07-31
Direct democracy can be a blunt instrument, but that's what happens when you spend *decades* refusing to engage gen… https://t.co/UV2IBoWRiV 12:24:31, 2020-07-31
@interfluidity It's all very Wicked Witch of the West. in reply to interfluidity 12:19:25, 2020-07-31
@welcomehomebldr @BoulderBedrooms SHALL the Charter of the City of Boulder Colorado be AMENDED to PROHIBIT minimum… https://t.co/FbneMNzeMJ in reply to welcomehomebldr 12:15:45, 2020-07-31
@Letficks @bouldercolorado @rachelkfriend @sampweaver #SizeMatters in reply to Letficks 12:12:04, 2020-07-31
Perhaps another ballot initiative in the next even year election? @BoulderBedrooms @welcomehomebldr https://t.co/HulVu14s36 12:11:23, 2020-07-31
Boulder's minimum lot size in RL-1 (which covers most of the city's residential zones) is 7,000 square feet. https://t.co/YHS3gIGIq9 11:47:46, 2020-07-31
RT @YIMBYDurham: ?#VERMONT SENATE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES #MISSINGMIDDLEHOUSING REFORM ?
✅5400sf lot MAXIMUM where sewer is present
✅ Re-legali… 11:42:52, 2020-07-31
RT @DrJenGunter: Love it! https://t.co/4BkQYMpSDM 17:04:03, 2020-07-30
RT @LucyMangan: This is great https://t.co/mcn3eRmBKe 17:03:50, 2020-07-30
@Thatmushroom @ericmbudd Hey man, in Spanish "exito" means success! in reply to Thatmushroom 16:52:01, 2020-07-30
@ericmbudd Happy PomPom actually got *named* for once in that @BoulderWeekly piece from @emmaathenam for sadly indulging his obsessions. in reply to ericmbudd 16:40:51, 2020-07-30
@ericmbudd Isn't it more like a legal offense fund? in reply to ericmbudd 16:31:23, 2020-07-30
@sharethecities @grquetin Lots of resources available from @OKFN @CSVConference and the @ProjectJupyter and Turing… https://t.co/grCbWFv2h4 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:30:08, 2020-07-30
@sharethecities @grquetin It's easy to link a github repo to a Zenodo archive automatically, and have Zenodo archiv… https://t.co/xTpwrHwZ1w in reply to sharethecities 16:28:04, 2020-07-30
Give them time. When the choice is "Democracy or the Suburbs?" we'll see what they're dreaming of. https://t.co/iQILJM4kZI 11:11:10, 2020-07-30
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms @dailycamera Ugh, I so do not have good associations with being on the front page anymore. in reply to ericmbudd 09:46:00, 2020-07-30
RT @nami_knows: I wish it didn’t take Trump agreeing with PLAN to shock half of Boulder into realizing their views on zoning are racist. Li… 09:44:22, 2020-07-30
Maybe I need to stop being curious about these things. https://t.co/SOGPPTmtJp 07:48:51, 2020-07-30
They named their vaccine Chad. https://t.co/RDVe98Fwg8 07:47:02, 2020-07-30
Good long piece on the dangers of AI in an unabashed surveillance state. It's very focused on China, but this can b… https://t.co/hT5bJnZ3nm 07:35:07, 2020-07-30
@darkolina https://t.co/uQTDd62rxT in reply to darkolina 23:47:31, 2020-07-29
@ericmbudd Filled with viruses. in reply to ericmbudd 23:04:59, 2020-07-29
Uhhhh. https://t.co/RhS7ggVSkv 19:59:26, 2020-07-29
As if the vaccine landscape were not already confusing enough. Enter the biotech bootleggers. https://t.co/FcUjbt8nWt 18:41:17, 2020-07-29
RT @interfluidity: it's quite a game of chicken, this you can force people to go back to unsafe work out of sheer economic desperation, but… 18:35:06, 2020-07-29
RT @drvox: One of my pet dystopic theories is that older white NIMBYs are increasingly going to be confronted with their contradictions –… 14:05:51, 2020-07-29
RT @janehummer: I’m thinking Boulder might be one of the only places in which Trump’s 2020 vote share actually increases over 2016. https:/… 14:05:40, 2020-07-29
Now they need donations for the legal fund, and hopefully soon more volunteers for the actual campaign! I hear you… https://t.co/IAc5Rlzkac 14:04:30, 2020-07-29
Another world is possible. It's right there. Waiting for us. Still. https://t.co/4AZxgkttzu 13:57:21, 2020-07-29
Criminalize poverty, and lower income neighborhoods are filled with crime. https://t.co/U2RxNuphYF 22:46:04, 2020-07-28
US copyright law oozing across the border, but at odds with the Mexican constitution. https://t.co/vYuEDvYnrg 21:41:54, 2020-07-28
Paging @bobyatesboulder https://t.co/L3TJBB0jKS 21:38:19, 2020-07-28
RT @shayshinecastle: To which I replied, NIMBY isn't something people generally intend to be. It's kinda like racism: It happens without yo… 18:49:23, 2020-07-28
Well yes, it is part of that total US stock market index fund. https://t.co/Ft2GmDoEFL 18:43:54, 2020-07-28
And in fact it turns out we still have a pandemic at the end of July. https://t.co/R9amp0kIfa 18:39:47, 2020-07-28
@ericmbudd omg are you serious? in reply to ericmbudd 18:36:19, 2020-07-28
You go get you some voters that love you like these folks love them dogs. https://t.co/wnFpUTPIi0 18:30:20, 2020-07-28
Putting this out at the start of a 125+ person public hearing is pretty hilarious. https://t.co/xGGO7G9jHq 18:21:51, 2020-07-28
RT @darkolina: "La emergencia sanitaria se topó con la inequidad del espacio público."
@morozca 18:17:09, 2020-07-28
Is, is this, "legislative hardball"? ? Are the Dems still allowed to do that? https://t.co/5XtC1rqnPu 15:46:54, 2020-07-28
@JasenThorpe @samlounz That's MR. Yates to you bud. in reply to JasenThorpe 13:38:31, 2020-07-28
@ericmbudd @seancllns @markgelband Bob. in reply to ericmbudd 10:48:31, 2020-07-28
If you don't believe Bekah, go back and watch the videos of these meetings. They were very clear. https://t.co/uCehCJO60k 08:37:01, 2020-07-28
@nils_gilman @SevaUT How did you feel about the optimistic ending bit? in reply to nils_gilman 08:18:23, 2020-07-28
RT @ElleArmageddon: The algorithm has started trying to sell me jewelry made from the ashes of my loved ones, and wow, pandemic capitalism… 23:22:48, 2020-07-27
You can only take this trip in earnest so many times before your eyes start reflexively rolling out of your head. https://t.co/QkQcHppPvG 22:23:26, 2020-07-27
RT @nils_gilman: “…an unequivocal warning to the leaders of the United States of America that without urgent action the country risks havin… 22:16:55, 2020-07-27
Pshaw, an "Allowed" use? As if! It only really gets going once you link the use tables with the off-street parking… https://t.co/kVJwOLIEjB 18:57:55, 2020-07-27
@evacide @maassive @mguariglia Wow FUCK them. in reply to evacide 17:50:34, 2020-07-27
And yet #Boulder Council *still* does not believe that legalizing existing inexpensive housing options via… https://t.co/8v3mcDjk5F 16:45:28, 2020-07-27
Like a banana republic, but for carbon. https://t.co/4JyRb72aOj 12:56:41, 2020-07-27
RT @iSmashFizzle: You have to accept reality before you can change it. It's been this way for a long time, but even the most well-intention… 09:59:21, 2020-07-27
Eat all the ancient heirloom tomatoes and chiles and squash and beans and corn and that were being cultivated in me… https://t.co/O2RWoAjuGR 23:25:47, 2020-07-26
If this came up for concept plan review, open comment would be like "Why do all the buildings have to look the same… https://t.co/kBtxcs1WRl 23:12:36, 2020-07-26
Now 2020 trying to be cute apparently. https://t.co/moUAjECxyL 22:55:09, 2020-07-26
Oh I sure do like the new @BotSentinel formatting. https://t.co/iy3wVQYRS2 22:52:05, 2020-07-26
RT @devonzuegel: Schools offer History classes. What if they also offered Future classes? 21:47:49, 2020-07-26
Almost a century after it was written, Brave New World is still creeping me out.
The more I read things written in… https://t.co/GXPFDDH0oX 21:26:09, 2020-07-26
RT @graceyswer: People be like: listen to WHO they're experts
WHO organisation be like: decrim sex worker, it makes us safer

People be l… 19:58:47, 2020-07-26
@sharethecities "But maybe you'd like to join this working group…" in reply to sharethecities 19:47:24, 2020-07-26
@ericmbudd And a market of size 1. in reply to ericmbudd 19:37:20, 2020-07-26
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms @RmayorRchoice Wish I could somehow teleport in for the evening! in reply to ericmbudd 19:34:15, 2020-07-26
@bolderbekah @ericmbudd Ruh roh! in reply to bolderbekah 15:31:12, 2020-07-26
@ericmbudd @bolderbekah They seem more and more like the unmasked villains at the end of every Scooby Doo episode with each passing year. in reply to ericmbudd 15:23:48, 2020-07-26
@ericmbudd Oh okay. I was going to be surprised if Ray was openly anti-anti-fascist. in reply to ericmbudd 15:18:57, 2020-07-26
@ericmbudd Isn't that Ray Bridge? He lives in Martin Acres. Geologist. Former PLAN Chair. in reply to ericmbudd 15:16:26, 2020-07-26
A few examples, culled from the internet just now: https://t.co/jH12M9d2wh in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:28:47, 2020-07-26
@deapthoughts I dunno man, I feel like the English speaking world is pretty disadvantaged across the board when it… https://t.co/y0jEHHE788 in reply to deapthoughts 12:25:30, 2020-07-26
RT @inafutureage: Let me editorialize for a second: the protesters burned the equipment being used to build a jail for children. https://t.… 12:00:34, 2020-07-26
@mateosfo What even is free will? in reply to mateosfo 11:59:24, 2020-07-26
@thebmbennett Life comes at you fast. As they say. in reply to thebmbennett 11:58:56, 2020-07-26
@sharethecities ? in reply to sharethecities 11:47:27, 2020-07-26
"I hate density, it's so loud and polluted and the traffic is terrible."
Yeah duh, when you conspire to put the de… https://t.co/m6YNgIqkca in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:41:45, 2020-07-26
RT @alanawlsn: "As though a hand-picked working group might be more representative than the record number of voters expected to cast ballot… 10:39:38, 2020-07-26
In the US the experience of density is linked to loud, polluted, dangerous, automobile sewers, but they're not the… https://t.co/PvuoE0u8zj 10:28:28, 2020-07-26
RT @AnimaAnandkumar: When I refused to marry, my relatives suggested to my parents to confiscate my passport so that I cannot travel to the… 10:14:01, 2020-07-26
@bolderbekah @BoulderBedrooms @RmayorRchoice “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” — Bob Yates in reply to bolderbekah 10:11:30, 2020-07-26
Watching the archived discussions of this issue on YouTube, it's hard not to come to this conclusion. They were pre… https://t.co/OOrToatWhJ 09:54:34, 2020-07-26
Help make it clear to the judge that there's NO DOUBT this would have made it on the ballot if not for… https://t.co/U8qPt3kqbF 09:46:37, 2020-07-26