Zane Selvans
@zaneselvans.org
Data Liberation Engineer @catalyst.coop. Climate, energy, bikes, cities, co-ops, and the strangeness of Our Modern Age. A former space explorer, now lost in the misty highlands of Mexico. https://amateurearthling.org 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 he/él
On the one hand, I updated our parquet schema checks to be able to run on even the 5-billion row EQR transactions table. On the other hand, this just revealed that none of the primary keys FERC identifies in their data dictionary are actually unique.
Catalyst Cooperative@catalyst.coop · 2d agoFresh from the bitmines, new FERC EQR Parquet outputs including 2026Q2 up in our public S3 bucket: s3://pudl.catalyst.coop/ferceqr/ #EnergySky #Electricity #OpenData
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
US stocks near record high, oil falls as Trump claims Iran talks under way
Benchmark S&P 500 approaches all-time peak as Washington, Tehran offer conflicting accounts of status of talks.
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Steve Randy Waldman@interfluidity.com · 2d agohypothesis: there's an important cohort whom not only did the financial crisis fail to chasten, but instead emboldened. all you need is the levers of power, was the lesson. now they are extravagantly putting that to the test. we are along for the ride.
If you look at the all-in cost of driving and not just energy costs (as represented here by the IRS reimbursement rate per mile, inflation adjusted) it's predictably exorbitant. And this is still just a portion of the the private cost. A society that imposes car dependency impoverishes itself.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 2d agoInflation-adjusted energy cost of driving in America since 1993: Petrol swings wildly with oil markets and geopolitics. Home-charged EVs remain much cheaper and very stable. Predictability matters for household budgets. Source: buff.ly/x9BPuVL
It is genuinely insane that this is how we got to the moon.
Johnnie Johnstone@johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 3d agoEngineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964
@miblogestublog.bsky.social I don't know if you've seen the Blade Runner films but doesn't this seem bizarre? What gives?
Zane Selvans@zaneselvans.org · last wk.Well, one thing LA has figured out in the 2019 of Blade Runner is the street life. Though it is weirdly devoid of tacos.
One thing about China quietly reducing its oil imports to stave off global economic collapse is that it kind of *enables* Trump's insanity. Giving him every available inch of rope to hang himself (and the US) with. Depleting the SPR & armory. Making his idiocy obvious to the world...
Over the past decade, Beijing has experienced one of the most remarkable cycling renaissances in the world, powered by an innovation that has quietly transformed everyday mobility: dockless bike-sharing. Millions of residents suddenly rediscovered the joy of the bicycle, without needing to own one.🧵
Man the range of quality of LLM derived open source pull requests is just wild. From nonsense garbage to preternaturally responsive and good. Is there a human driving back there somewhere? I'm not sure. Is publishing our docs as markdown for LLMs to read helping? Also unclear.
If there are any wealthy benefactors interested, I'm happy to run your research institute and help direct and oversee funded research in dismantling car culture. hmu! 😄
The hilarious meta aspect of this story about used EV prices in the US rising is how long they take to reach the obvious (but repugnant to The Discourse) conclusion, that people really like the EVs that US carmakers don’t want to sell them www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/u...
EV prices aren't following the 'law of used cars,' analyst says — what it means for buyers and sellers
The prices for used electric vehicles have risen this year, which is unusual, experts said. Affordability and high gas prices help explain why, they said.
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I love (and support) @propublica.org but the org's long-running dispute with the @propublicaguild.org union has been a major black-eye. I'm glad it's finally been resolved with what seems like a decent contract. www.propublicaguild.org/updates/prop...
ProPublica Guild Ratifies First Contract — ProPublica Guild
Members of the ProPublica Guild, which represents more than 150 workers across the nonprofit investigative newsroom, overwhelmingly voted to ratify our first contract on Friday, exactly three years si...
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The fixation on humanoid robots has always seemed weird and boring to me. All body plans are now available.
cee@cee.wtf · 6d agoHow had I never come across The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows before? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dic...
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Wikipedia
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This is the conversation I wish had happened at the end of The Corridor. The delta isn't going to survive in its current form. What other forms are there? And who is empowered to explore them? www.thresholdpodcast.org/the-corridor
The Corridor
A podcast about history, pollution, and resistance on the front lines of America’s petrochemical industry.
thresholdpodcast.org
isaac@sevier.io · last wk."when experts suggest abandoning New Orleans, we have to ask: Whose city is considered worth saving? What is being framed as inevitability is, in many ways, future-framed environmental racism. But what if we refused that frame?" - Maddison Wells
Film you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Brazil Movie
ALT: Brazil Movie
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Dr. Adeene Denton@spacewhalerider.com · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
I put this on hold because of some client work but it's out now. Play around and let us know what you think!
Catalyst Cooperative@catalyst.coop · 7d agoHey #EnergySky we've created a couple of agent skills for exploring and working with PUDL metadata. If you'd like a more conversational interface to our metadata, give them a try! Links and a place to leave feedback here: github.com/orgs/catalys...
One way you could create affordable grocery stores in NYC is to make sure they aren't paying exorbitant land-rents with a public land grant or land trust. Then make them cooperatives owned by and operated for the benefit of their members, not for profit. 🔰
"Well, yes, I'm a rich Russian prince, and I'm a spy, a courtier, and a digital media expert and financial shareholder" "And I've got a yacht, and a couple of divorces and a ketamine problem" "But how am I so different from any Western guy in Surveillance-Capitalism Big Tech, be fair to me here"
"I just set up this new data validation and didn't find any errors" said nobody ever.
Well, one thing LA has figured out in the 2019 of Blade Runner is the street life. Though it is weirdly devoid of tacos.
Is it not weird that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, both ends of Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline are getting bombed, (including the world's largest oil processing facility) the Houthis are threatening to shut down the Red Sea, and markets seem to be like *shrug* What am I missing?
"Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another." bsky.app/profile/simp...
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · last wk.New North Sea oil drilling faces delay after gear accidentally dropped in sea - Blunder at #Rosebank, UK’s biggest undeveloped oilfield, comes as government considers granting licence #climatecrisis Story by @geraldinemckelvie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Economist Insult. Business School Complement. Why Not Both Dot Gif.
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · last wk.
