@ZaneSelvans@social.coop
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ZaneSelvans

@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst #Coop. We use #Python to support #climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the #EnergyTransition.

I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico.

I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough.

🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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luis_in_brief, to random
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It is ultimately a small thing, but I am irrationally irritated that this piddling collection (almost certainly fewer books than I have just in my office, much less my house) is labeled a “library”. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/technology/openai-library-office.html

ZaneSelvans,
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@luis_in_brief Wow. How could a child not be inspired by serving a nation state creating a device capable of wiping out civilization only to be discarded and denigrated when you discover remorse.

CelloMomOnCars, (edited ) to random
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"A bombshell complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week reveals that Scott Sheffield, the former CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources—one of the largest oil producers in the Permian Basin—colluded with OPEC officials in an attempt to artificially limit supply and jack up prices. "

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-oil-price-gouging

That sounds bad.
But how un/American is price fixing, really?

<cont'd>

ZaneSelvans,
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@CelloMomOnCars I feel like this was a big theme in Daniel Yergin's book The Prize -- that in the absence of a cartel, the oil industry isn't profitable and lot of people go bankrupt in a race to the bottom. But who controls the cartel changed over the years. First it was Standard Oil, then the Texas Railroad Commission, and now OPEC/OPEC+.

ZaneSelvans, to random
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This $100B supercomputer with it's own small fleet of dedicated nuclear plants has some big Tower of Babel vibes.

ZaneSelvans, to random
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The idea that you could have a thinking talking relationship for decades with another being who used to literally be part of your own body is just wild. Totally normal but also bonkers.

ZaneSelvans, to random
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So Elon is going to burn Tesla to the ground, BYD is going to be banned from North America, and the US is going to bail out the domestic auto industry again? Is that the plan?

What would it look like if we'd invested in good dense cities, transit, protected bike lanes, and maybe some ebikes instead? It's like the Passive House of transportation.

capntransit, to random
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Via Carter Rubin on Twitter: Some guy hacked a Prius with trolley poles to run off the Muni overhead wires in San Francisco. Here's a writeup from 2014:

https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-80cdbe55d68e

ZaneSelvans,
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@capntransit Date, you gotta look at the date.

ZaneSelvans,
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@capntransit I was thinking more of the month and day, rather than the year.

ZaneSelvans, to random
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Climate change doesn't fit the model of "insurance." It's not a low probability, high impact event that randomly affects a small subset of assets, with a low total cost relative to the whole pool of assets at risk.

It's a high probability, high impact event that affects everybody, with a high total cost relative to the value of the pool of assets at risk.

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/05/03/seismic-shifts-are-underway-to-find-finance-for-loss-and-damage/

ZaneSelvans, to random
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In other completely normal corpo news, another Boeing whistleblower happens to be dead.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joshua-dean-boeing-whistleblower-dies-sudden-illness/

ZaneSelvans, to Finance
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Really interesting discussion of China's green/sustainable financing mechanisms (especially relative to the IRA In the US). Favorable financing for things you want, unfavorable for the things you don't. Financially it's a lot like a tax, but it's implemented by a different institution and paid far away from consumers. You can see how it might be politically different from a tax.

https://www.cleaningup.live/how-china-became-a-green-finance-superpower-ep160-dr-ma-jun/

ZaneSelvans, to random
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Let the games begin!

https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2024/04/25/api-epa-final-power-plant-rule

https://nma.org/2024/04/25/nma-slams-illegal-irresponsible-powerplant-rules-with-zero-analysis-of-the-collective-impact-on-grid-reliability-epa-imposes-suite-of-rules-targeting-coal/

https://epsa.org/epa-power-plant-rule-further-threatens-reliability-investment-in-new-cleaner-resources/

ZaneSelvans,
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The energy transition could go badly. We could make it expensive, or disruptive, or inequitable. It doesn't need to go that way, but we could mess it up. And there are people who would really like for us to mess it up.

molly0xfff, to web
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

ZaneSelvans,
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@molly0xfff I miss the (maybe naively) optimistic vibe. It was easy to imagine interoperability and openness being pervasive and building ever deeper stacks of functionality, but now it seems like those things are the exception not the rule, and often transient when they do exist.

ZaneSelvans, to random
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tfw it takes a full day to deploy your new code to a remote machine. Because the machine is a full day away at light speed: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/

ZaneSelvans, to random
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I do like the idea of being able to invest in smaller sustainability and community oriented companies directly. Say, a small urban delivery company that uses cargo e-bikes through a crowdfunding platform. And apparently I'm not alone!

https://cyclingindustry.news/cargo-bike-logistics-firm-pedalme-crowdfunds-again-to-meet-rapid-expansion/

ZaneSelvans,
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But especially in the case of small companies with not purely financial goals, keeping investing expenses low and packaging up a portfolio of investments that's diversified across sectors and locations is extremely important. Because:

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/london-cargo-bike-delivery-company-pedal-me-enters-administration-but-future-secured

ZaneSelvans,
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"London-based cargo bike delivery service Pedal Me entered administration last week, after it failed to reach a deal with the British tax authority, HMRC, over debts. The business was then bought back from administrators, meaning it will continue trading.

However, crowdfunding investors who put money into the start-up have been left with nothing"

bkeegan, to random
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An op-ed from yours truly on the white supremacist networks tapping into environmental anxieties to push their anti-immigration population control agenda.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/04/16/steve-pomerance-anti-growth-data-numbersusa-poll/?share=s1rbornmshroeoamteat

ZaneSelvans,
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@bkeegan omg that dude is in Post now too?

ZaneSelvans, to random
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Just 13 short years after inviting candidates over to the Masala Co-op for tea and cakes to discuss repealing occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated people, and 28 years after Cedar Barstow got busted for living in an intentional community in her own home and was sentenced to community service, which she used to help found the Boulder Housing Coalition.

https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/more-housing-now-colorado-eliminates-unfair-occupancy-limits-under-new-law-signed-governor

ZaneSelvans,
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@ntnsndr I am bitter and scarred and anticipate living out the rest of my days in exile.

ZaneSelvans, to python
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Did something change about the pattern of @pypi package URLs?

This one works:
https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/catalystcoop.ferc_xbrl_extractor/catalystcoop.ferc_xbrl_extractor-1.3.3.tar.gz

But the newest version doesn't, even though the package installs fine with pip:
https://pypi.io/packages/source/c/catalystcoop.ferc_xbrl_extractor/catalystcoop.ferc_xbrl_extractor-1.4.0.tar.gz

Which is foiling my attempt to update the corresponding @conda forge package
https://github.com/conda-forge/catalystcoop.ferc-xbrl-extractor-feedstock/pull/26

Or is there some kind of caching or CDN thing happening? It's been a few hours since the PyPI package uploaded.

ZaneSelvans,
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@pypi @conda

It turns out what happened is in 1.4.0 the source distribution ended up with an underscore instead of a period in the filename, separating catalystcoop and ferc_xbrl_extractor. Both packages were built by the same GitHub action 3 weeks apart, so I wonder what changed down in the packaging guts.

ZaneSelvans,
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@pypi @conda

Maybe it was this change in setuptools?

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/history.html#v69-3-0

ZaneSelvans, to random
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I'd like to go back to spending time understanding science things instead of money things someday.

ZaneSelvans,
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@luis_in_brief I'm only one chapter in but it already feels very connected to a lot of other messes we have going on!

ZaneSelvans,
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@luis_in_brief @robgalanakis

In the intro he talks about this book being a detour from another book he was trying to write, and I was like "That other book sounds really familiar." and it turned out I've had it in my library for years but haven't gotten around to reading it: "The art of not being governed." about ungovernable hill people in SE Asia.

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