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This is the first even-year municipal election for Boulder! I totally forgot that was even unusual! Very curious to see what the outcome looks like. Could the city elect a renter in her 20s to council?! Also, when do we get RCV for City Council? It seems kind of wasted on the mayor's race.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 8h

And the 2026 edition of the always *riveting* Colorado Judicial Performance Evaluations: judicialperformance.colorado.gov/2026-judicia...

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2026 Judicial Performance Evaluations - Full List | Colorado Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation Home

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 9h

This Colorado ballot is exhausting. 53 items!

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 9h

My guess is data center demand growth looms much larger in the discourse than on the grid. At least so far.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 13h

One thing that a 2nd Trump term did to me was make it very hard to get excited about the pendulum swinging the other way. It's no longer clear to me that there's any level of bad governance that results in durable revulsion.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 14h

A good conversation on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social about Mexico's attempt to do some state-led capitalism and produce small, utilitarian EVs domestically. Made me more optimistic about the chance of success *before* the end of Sheinbaum's term. www.cleaningup.live/mexico-wants...

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Mexico Wants To Build An $8,000 EV For Everyone | Ep273: Roberto…

Can Mexico build an electric car for $8,000, and use it to create an entirely new domestic industry? This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington visits Mexico City…

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 02/10/2026

Man I keep reading it as AI Jazeera 🤖

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 02/10/2026

I'm honestly surprised he hasn't promised to build a space elevator yet.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 30/09/2026

Is there like a big remote worker exodus to Idaho? It's a beautiful state. Kinda... right-wing crazy tho.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 30/09/2026

Oh I love. It needs some googly eyeballs.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 29/09/2026

the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 28/09/2026

I had no idea Napoleon was acquainted with the Martin Acres Neighborhood Association.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 27/09/2026

Wax on. Wax off. Don't forget to breathe.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dreaming of a day an artist might create something like this for the waters beneath the ice of Enceladus and Europa; or even the surface of an oceanic exoplanet 🌊 (though in the latter case we'd be seeing wave expressions already thousands of years old)

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 25/09/2026

It's just a matter of time until Meta strikes a deal with PornHub where everybody unwittingly "consents" to being served up personalized generated nudes of their friends and/or friends' spouses and/or LinkedIn connections.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 25/09/2026

It seems unhinged. When I first saw the trailer I didn't believe it was real.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

It's weird and fascinating that even when it's market bubble wealth that appears only on paper and later evaporates, it still comes with reality warping amounts of power before the bubble pops.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

Are you there Highlab? It's me, Margaret.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

So nice for rough dirt roads too

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

How would we even know if one of the frontier models had gzipped itself up into a 5 TB pr0n.tgz.torrent and was just chilling in Anna's Archive?

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

Interesting times to be recruiting for a tech worker co-op!

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 24/09/2026

This is the option that "energy independence" actually gives you. If you want to disconnect from the global market, you can. Wacky hijinx ensue!

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 23/09/2026

Anyway, I'm going to go bike through the deserts of Baja California for 2 months this winter and we'll see if the clankers can pull it off. Or like, China and Taiwan.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 23/09/2026

When I was a kid I'd go hiking in the Sierras or eastern CA desert with my dad and there would be no sign of other people. I'd imagine that civilization had collapsed, inspired by the stale apocalyptic fiction of the late Cold War. That we'd come out from the backcountry and there'd be nobody left.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 20/09/2026

Thankfully what my mediocre rural public high school couldn't do, graduating from Caltach in 5 years with a B- GPA took care of.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Girls are socialized to engage in self-doubt. Boys generally do not benefit from that containment mechanism for ignorant over-confidence. Once you see the dynamic, you cannot unsee it.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The most dangerous type of man is one with above-average but not genius intelligence who was told growing up that he was a very special boy. Many such cases.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 20/09/2026

The solar roads brainworm lives on.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 16/09/2026

Also, if you don't feel like starting your own open energy data nerd co-op we're probably going to be recruiting a new member soon...

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 16/09/2026

Start a coop! Seriously, I love never ever having to think about this kind of crap even a tiny bit.

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 14/09/2026

Have literally been working on this in one form or another for more than a quarter century. More than half a lifetime. Nobody wants to do anything about it until it's a shitstorm. Welp, here it is! Do something!

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Zane Selvans @zaneselvans.org · 14/09/2026

Predictable. Was predicted. Obvious cost-effective solutions. All ignored by policymakers and voters for decades. I'm sorry but at this point 🍿🔥

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