Favorites February 4th 2022
Dr. Zeke Hausfather@hausfath
Closing Diablo results in a loss of carbon-free generation equivalent of tearing down every wind turbine or every rooftop solar panel in California. We cannot afford to move backwards on our decarbonization goals, and further entrench our reliance on polluting fossil gas.
9:11 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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On the same order of magnitude as every rooftop solor installation in the state. (Peak capacity is 20MW, but average over a day is much lower)
Mari Saito@saitomri
Hello, I wrote about the EXTREMELY dystopian vibes inside the bubble at the Beijing Olympics. Exhibit A: Hotel bartenders making specialty cocktails in their full PPE gear reuters.com/lifestyle/spor…
8:17 AM · Feb 3, 2022
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Pretty weird vibe.
Joseph Brusuelas@joebrusuelas
US Jobs Report: Big upside surprise as change in total employment increases 467K as unemployment rate settles in at 4% as more individuals re-entered the labor force. Just as important, the December 2021 estimate was revised up to 510K
1:33 PM · Feb 4, 2022
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Wow! That's a ton of jobs, very cool V shaped recovery. (Fox News was excitedly anticipating bad numbers up until moments before numbers were released)
John Scalzi@scalzi
Like a whale fall, for bacteria.
discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/b…
3:50 PM · Feb 4, 2022
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If you click through to the photos, it's cool how modern the newest submarine interiors look.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I have never seen this on a Wikipedia edit page before.
6:29 PM · Feb 4, 2022
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If you're interested, there's a whole list of wikipedia pages with sanctions like this.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Would be good for more people to know what @olgakhazan says here — if you care to be diligent about it, one-way masking gives you decent protection regardless of what anyone else is doing.
theatlantic.com
One-Way Masking Works
6:32 PM · Feb 4, 2022
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This was somewhat reassuring, although I still don't have a great fit on my N95.
Mountain Lion In My Backyard 🦁🌇 (MLIMBY)@ArmandDoma
The “Acceptable To Italians Index” is my new favorite set of metrics
7:56 PM · Feb 4, 2022
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It's not like the Italians are always right, but you should be salting your pasta water or you're going to have a bad meal.
