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
https://amateurearthling.org
🇺🇸/🇲🇽 he/él
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what is going on in LA? theories?
February 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
what is going on in LA? theories?
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Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social
things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social
things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
Mexico’s Big Green State | Jose Maria Valenzuela
Claudia Sheinbaum plans to repurpose the country's state-owned enterprises towards decarbonization
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Get in loser, we are doing Big Green State in Mexico @abenanav.bsky.social
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social
things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
@danielagabor.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social
things happening when an energy systems scientist becomes her country’s president. Claudia Sheinbaum sweeping energy reforms:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
So is China going to buy up all the mRNA tech the US is suppressing and commercialize it like they did when the US walked away from battery tech like 15 years ago?
February 14, 2026 at 1:39 AM
So is China going to buy up all the mRNA tech the US is suppressing and commercialize it like they did when the US walked away from battery tech like 15 years ago?
Wow, a full decrim bill in Colorado! I love that it came out of the Pueblo rep actually getting to know a constituent who is a sex worker. It's amazing what a difference a personal connection makes in how we view "deviant" behavior. #CoLeg #SexWork
Colorado would become first state to remove all criminal penalties for prostitution under bill brought by group of Democrats
Colorado would become first state to remove all criminal penalties for prostitution under bill brought by group of Democrats
While prostitution is legal in Nevada at licensed brothels in certain counties, and Maine decriminalized the selling of sexual services, no state has fully removed the criminal penalties for prostitution
coloradosun.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Thinking we can lower premiums by creating a "People's Insurance Company" as climate change is about to deliver a year-round fire season to California is insane and unserious.
Opinion | Candidate comment: Insurers' blockbuster profits enrich shareholders and CEOs, not customers
Insurance helps determine who accumulates wealth. If it’s not affordable or accessible, it can cut Californians out of the economy.
calmatters.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Thinking we can lower premiums by creating a "People's Insurance Company" as climate change is about to deliver a year-round fire season to California is insane and unserious.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A dark skinned Mexican Adonis, extensively decorated with tribal style tattoos. His long black hair in a man bun. Wearing nothing but sunglasses. Slowly walking up and down the beach at Zipolite while lost in a loud and endless conversation about new age spirituality with an LLM on his phone.
February 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
A dark skinned Mexican Adonis, extensively decorated with tribal style tattoos. His long black hair in a man bun. Wearing nothing but sunglasses. Slowly walking up and down the beach at Zipolite while lost in a loud and endless conversation about new age spirituality with an LLM on his phone.
Thoughts on finishing Children of a Modest Star by @nilsgilman.bsky.social
Knowledge and its incarnation as technologies share characteristics of "planetarity" that the book highlights in association w/ climate change & pandemics. They diffuse globally despite what individual actors might prefer.
Knowledge and its incarnation as technologies share characteristics of "planetarity" that the book highlights in association w/ climate change & pandemics. They diffuse globally despite what individual actors might prefer.
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Thoughts on finishing Children of a Modest Star by @nilsgilman.bsky.social
Knowledge and its incarnation as technologies share characteristics of "planetarity" that the book highlights in association w/ climate change & pandemics. They diffuse globally despite what individual actors might prefer.
Knowledge and its incarnation as technologies share characteristics of "planetarity" that the book highlights in association w/ climate change & pandemics. They diffuse globally despite what individual actors might prefer.
@openvibe.social a great feature would be the ability to add new posts to an existing thread across multiple networks.
February 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
@openvibe.social a great feature would be the ability to add new posts to an existing thread across multiple networks.
I love love love that all whales and dolphins are even toed ungulates.
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
I love love love that all whales and dolphins are even toed ungulates.
Nothing like going to a tropical beach packed with locals to remind you that white people are some pale ass mutant cave monkeys.
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Nothing like going to a tropical beach packed with locals to remind you that white people are some pale ass mutant cave monkeys.
Lol I just today realized that "Moderna" contains M***RNA.
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Lol I just today realized that "Moderna" contains M***RNA.
The US economy is designed to reward people disproportionately for owning things, rather than doing things.
There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The US economy is designed to reward people disproportionately for owning things, rather than doing things.
OH: "You haven't been taking your microdoses have you."
Proceeds to break up with the silent girl. (
"You'll just never see things the way I do."
Proceeds to break up with the silent girl. (
"You'll just never see things the way I do."
February 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
OH: "You haven't been taking your microdoses have you."
Proceeds to break up with the silent girl. (
"You'll just never see things the way I do."
Proceeds to break up with the silent girl. (
"You'll just never see things the way I do."
[German dude on video call w/ Saudi woman]: "I'm sorry you grew up in an authoritarian dictatorship... I told you all that sugar is bad for you."
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 PM
[German dude on video call w/ Saudi woman]: "I'm sorry you grew up in an authoritarian dictatorship... I told you all that sugar is bad for you."
It will be hilarious (derogatory) if the US abandonment of climate action / R&D results in another whole round of nascent technologies being sold off to other countries to commercialize and deploy.
February 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
It will be hilarious (derogatory) if the US abandonment of climate action / R&D results in another whole round of nascent technologies being sold off to other countries to commercialize and deploy.
I took a "rest day" in San Mateo Rio Hondo and biked over to the much more trafficked San José del Pacífico on dirt roads. With the addition of coffee and removal of all my camping gear I felt superhuman.
#biketooter #bikesky #mexico #oaxaca
#biketooter #bikesky #mexico #oaxaca
February 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I took a "rest day" in San Mateo Rio Hondo and biked over to the much more trafficked San José del Pacífico on dirt roads. With the addition of coffee and removal of all my camping gear I felt superhuman.
#biketooter #bikesky #mexico #oaxaca
#biketooter #bikesky #mexico #oaxaca
Catalyst's 2026 Energy Data Ecosystem Survey is now online! Don't worry, it's short (~10 minutes).
Help us improve the future of PUDL by sharing the type of work you do, what’s important to you, and how you collaborate:
forms.gle/E9ou5fgMcR7Y...
Help us improve the future of PUDL by sharing the type of work you do, what’s important to you, and how you collaborate:
forms.gle/E9ou5fgMcR7Y...
2026 Public Utility Data Liberation Ecosystem Survey
Welcome to the PUDL ecosystem survey! We want to learn a few things:
What kinds of energy data work are people doing? This helps us understand our potential impact.
What is most important to energy da...
forms.gle
February 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Let's see how long it takes for real estate interests freak out about this.
Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Let's see how long it takes for real estate interests freak out about this.
[Stops drinking coffee, loads 20kg of stuff on the bike, immediately climbs to 3000m]: "Ugh, I am so slow and weak and old!"
[Bikes for 2 weeks...]
[Guzzles coffee and takes everything off the bike to explore some dirt roads on a "rest day"]: WHEEE I'M SUPERMAN!
[Bikes for 2 weeks...]
[Guzzles coffee and takes everything off the bike to explore some dirt roads on a "rest day"]: WHEEE I'M SUPERMAN!
February 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
[Stops drinking coffee, loads 20kg of stuff on the bike, immediately climbs to 3000m]: "Ugh, I am so slow and weak and old!"
[Bikes for 2 weeks...]
[Guzzles coffee and takes everything off the bike to explore some dirt roads on a "rest day"]: WHEEE I'M SUPERMAN!
[Bikes for 2 weeks...]
[Guzzles coffee and takes everything off the bike to explore some dirt roads on a "rest day"]: WHEEE I'M SUPERMAN!
One thing that stands out reading Roman history and early 19th century Latin American history side by side is that in the Americas the area being fought over was an order of magnitude larger, but the armies were an order of magnitude smaller.
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
One thing that stands out reading Roman history and early 19th century Latin American history side by side is that in the Americas the area being fought over was an order of magnitude larger, but the armies were an order of magnitude smaller.
I wonder if the most productive place to roll out software defined fractal electricity distribution systems might really be Africa, where DERs and micro grids are growing from the bottom up, rather than trying to retrofit an existing unidirectional grid managed by incumbent institutions. #EnergySky
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I wonder if the most productive place to roll out software defined fractal electricity distribution systems might really be Africa, where DERs and micro grids are growing from the bottom up, rather than trying to retrofit an existing unidirectional grid managed by incumbent institutions. #EnergySky
The dark side of indexing: trillion dollar meme stocks.
February 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The dark side of indexing: trillion dollar meme stocks.
Something I love about bike touring in contrast to other ways of getting around is seeing all the places in between. It's a long, slow transect through the world, instead of teleporting between a sample of weird disconnected points.
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Something I love about bike touring in contrast to other ways of getting around is seeing all the places in between. It's a long, slow transect through the world, instead of teleporting between a sample of weird disconnected points.
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We wrote a whole paper on this in 2017, on the women who often leave the field sciences as their only route to get away from harassment
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
February 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
We wrote a whole paper on this in 2017, on the women who often leave the field sciences as their only route to get away from harassment
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...