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13 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Given the inevitability of climate change, improving indoor air quality might be the single most effective thing we can do to benefit humanity, both in our country and the developing world. Kids especially seem really sensitive to bad air, with lasting developmental effects
It won't help with North American smoke, but there's also a bunch of places worldwide where electrification (which we need anyway to decarbonize) will also have a massive positive impact on outdoor air quality.
Ubiquitous air filtration sure would have helped us with covid. You can even go crazy if you want and scrub indoor CO2, to get a little cognitive bump.
One great gift covid gave us at the beginning was a chance to see what the world looks like with clean air. thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… Map of china showing NO2 concentrations before and after the

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13 Jul
The fact that it's 2021, we can build fully autonomous vehicles, and we're not sending them to every interesting spot in the solar system is one of the many frustrations that together fill up my day. news.arizona.edu/story/methane-…
It cost less than $1B to launch and operate New Horizons to Pluto. Cassini cost $3B. Artemis (launching space dads to the moon) is going to cost at least $85B minimum. For that budget we could search for life on Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, and a half dozen other places
People who aren't space nerds may not realize how little is in the pipeline. There is basically nothing going past Mars, and launch windows are closing. I wish one of our billionaires would become obsessed with Jovian moons instead of sending his sagging body to float overhead
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12 Jul
Change the metric of success until it looks like you're winning!
It seems a lifetime ago, but in 2018 Justice Democrats were trying to win contested elections. That was such a fiasco that in 2020 they switched up to trying to beat other Democrats in primaries. That turned out to be pretty hard, too, but what's not hard is record fundraising.
I'm fascinated by the self-sabotage dynamic in progressive fundraising. To the extent it moves Democratic elite opinion to the left, it perpetuates a status quo where we can't achieve any policy goal. That failure in turn makes for every more compelling stories to fundraise with
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11 Jul
Looking forward to another riveting penalty shootout to decide a championship in the world's greatest sport. The day penalty shootouts are somehow introduced to cricket, humanity will have conquered insomnia forever.
Just add a soccer ball every 5 minutes until someone scores. Why is this hard.
There should be a world championship in free kicking where, if the score is tied after three rounds, they have to play a soccer game.
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11 Jul
Climate journalism slapstick of the day is finding a guy who says it's getting harder to live in DEATH VALLEY. Yes, I bet it is! nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/… Image
In the American desert west you occasionally come across little pockets of mobile homes in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and I always want to know their stories. One irony of poverty in the US is that mobile homes aren't. The people who can move live in RVs.
Two places like this that particularly struck me are Atomic City, Idaho, and the stretch of US 56/412 in the Oklahoma panhandle where every 15 miles there's a wheat silo, two dozen derelict mobile homes, and sometimes a closed school. And of course anywhere in Nevada
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10 Jul
Sound like Google employees might be getting outraged again. Better reset the counter. businessinsider.com/google-exec-re…
Five years in and the highest paid, most pampered workforce on the planet, hired specifically for their high intelligence, still can't find a way to stand up together against brazen disrespect by management.
When fewer than two Googlers in a thousand announced they were forming a union (with no bargaining power or official standing), it was front page news nationwide. Yet the almost comical amount of leverage they enjoy has gone unused. Googlers won't have much longer to squander it.
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10 Jul
It's been obvious for weeks that all of Afghanistan including Kabul is going to fall now that American troops are leaving, but there continues to be no urgency about evacuating Afghans marked for death to US territory in the rapidly deteriorating situation theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
This is a replay of what happened in Vietnam in 1975. All the same pieces are there—lies about how long the government could hold out without government support, indifference to the fate of people who took our promises at face value, abhorrence at the idea of opening our borders
Even if you don't care about the moral case for letting a large number of Afghans evacuate to the US, do you think that foreigners are stupid and don't see the same pattern repeat from war to war? And then we have the audacity to complain we're not greeted as liberators anymore.
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