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
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On paper at least, Musk is like 3x as rich as Crassus in terms of the size of his fortune relative to the GDP of his home country. Now if only he would also go lead some legions in Syria.
January 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
On paper at least, Musk is like 3x as rich as Crassus in terms of the size of his fortune relative to the GDP of his home country. Now if only he would also go lead some legions in Syria.
Has anyone written about the parallels between the entails of aristocratic estates and the communal ownership of Mexican ejido property? Both meant to avoid the division of land (and in ejidos, reconsolidation of ownership by the rich) 🔰
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido
Fee tail - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Has anyone written about the parallels between the entails of aristocratic estates and the communal ownership of Mexican ejido property? Both meant to avoid the division of land (and in ejidos, reconsolidation of ownership by the rich) 🔰
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_tail
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejido
I will say, my recent binge of Latin American and Roman history alongside current events has made me feel like we're already living inside a sequel of a sequel of a sequel and I'm curious how we could collectively learn even less from history in the future. But I guess we'll find out together!
January 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM
I will say, my recent binge of Latin American and Roman history alongside current events has made me feel like we're already living inside a sequel of a sequel of a sequel and I'm curious how we could collectively learn even less from history in the future. But I guess we'll find out together!
Maybe Dems will side with Trump and support the use of non-US flagged ships here in order to try to negotiate a workaround to the Jones Act inhibiting offshore wind development despite the administration's sabotage of offshore wind development.
While some unions are protesting Trump's attack on Venezuela, 4 US unions are working with the Trump Admin to demand that all oil imported from Venezuela be imported on American-flagged ships.
The move would eliminate the jobs of workers in Venezuela paydayreport.com/u-s-unions-d...
The move would eliminate the jobs of workers in Venezuela paydayreport.com/u-s-unions-d...
U.S. Unions Demand Venezuelan Oil Be Imported On American Ships - Post-Gazette Bankruptcy Fire Sale? - WBNA Strike Likely
The four unions demanded that the Trump Administration not allow ships or workers from other nations to export oil from Venezuela into the United States. The unions that say that using American ships ...
paydayreport.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Maybe Dems will side with Trump and support the use of non-US flagged ships here in order to try to negotiate a workaround to the Jones Act inhibiting offshore wind development despite the administration's sabotage of offshore wind development.
It's hilarious that this qualifies as a "baby" EV.
It’s so sobering watching automotive content creators outside the U.S., who aren’t constantly schlepping for U.S. auto makers, open an honest about the majority wanting to use phone mirroring and the benefit of optionally excluding NAV to reduce cost.
Kia EV2 FIRST LOOK: Kia’s Answer to the VW ID. Polo
YouTube video by Electrifying
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 2:22 AM
It's hilarious that this qualifies as a "baby" EV.
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A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES
HASSETT SAYS TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE BIG, COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING PLAN
January 9, 2026 at 2:29 PM
A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES
This is the way.
Brazil’s President Lula vetoes bill to trim Bolsonaro prison sentence https://aje.news/t6pycn
January 9, 2026 at 5:53 AM
This is the way.
If the Democrats are ever in power again, will they try and pass climate legislation? Abolish ICE? Expand SCOTUS? Prosecute... anyone? Rejoin the UNFCCC? Would they return Maduro? Or Greenland? Or just let all this stuff stick, and metastasize like the PATRIOT Act and Global War on Terror have?
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
www.independent.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
If the Democrats are ever in power again, will they try and pass climate legislation? Abolish ICE? Expand SCOTUS? Prosecute... anyone? Rejoin the UNFCCC? Would they return Maduro? Or Greenland? Or just let all this stuff stick, and metastasize like the PATRIOT Act and Global War on Terror have?
Gonna go watch the sunset and listen to the story of Marius and Sulla. Sic semper tyrannis.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Gonna go watch the sunset and listen to the story of Marius and Sulla. Sic semper tyrannis.
Whaat?! Have the cosmic voids experienced a few billion extra years of time, just because there's less gravity out there than in the filaments?
"...as large as a 38% difference between the time on clocks in the Milky Way galaxy and those floating in a void exists."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomog...
"...as large as a 38% difference between the time on clocks in the Milky Way galaxy and those floating in a void exists."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomog...
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Whaat?! Have the cosmic voids experienced a few billion extra years of time, just because there's less gravity out there than in the filaments?
"...as large as a 38% difference between the time on clocks in the Milky Way galaxy and those floating in a void exists."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomog...
"...as large as a 38% difference between the time on clocks in the Milky Way galaxy and those floating in a void exists."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomog...
A great response to many recent events.
UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
“I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 AM
A great response to many recent events.
Don't love that this is now the second time that I have had to desperately tune out fatal Trumpian violence while trying to finish writing a Sloan grant.
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Don't love that this is now the second time that I have had to desperately tune out fatal Trumpian violence while trying to finish writing a Sloan grant.
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social Lol, I'm reading a history of the late Roman republic that starts after the 2nd Punic War and and I finally get the Cato reference.
January 8, 2026 at 12:58 AM
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social Lol, I'm reading a history of the late Roman republic that starts after the 2nd Punic War and and I finally get the Cato reference.
Despite the title, I found this @cleaninguppod.bsky.social kickoff for 2026 was a really welcome respite from the current US insanity. Lots of good things happening globally in an energy context. #EnergySky
www.cleaningup.live/why-is-the-u...
www.cleaningup.live/why-is-the-u...
www.cleaningup.live
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Despite the title, I found this @cleaninguppod.bsky.social kickoff for 2026 was a really welcome respite from the current US insanity. Lots of good things happening globally in an energy context. #EnergySky
www.cleaningup.live/why-is-the-u...
www.cleaningup.live/why-is-the-u...
Reposted by Zane Selvans
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 PM
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
Reposted by Zane Selvans
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
I'm afraid we're getting to the point in the story where other countries realize that maybe the US won't stop, and instead has to *be* stopped.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 AM
I'm afraid we're getting to the point in the story where other countries realize that maybe the US won't stop, and instead has to *be* stopped.
From @anildash.com
"So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience [...] from technological disciplines in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies."
www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
"So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience [...] from technological disciplines in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies."
www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
From @anildash.com
"So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience [...] from technological disciplines in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies."
www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
"So much opportunity, inspiration, creativity, and possibility lies in applying the skills and experience [...] from technological disciplines in other realms and industries that are often far less advanced in their deployment of technologies."
www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...
So we're really going to do the Eurasia, Eastasia, Oceania thing?
January 6, 2026 at 12:53 AM
So we're really going to do the Eurasia, Eastasia, Oceania thing?
It's going to be entertaining to listen to the Very Serious energy pods try and make sense of the oil angle this week.
January 5, 2026 at 6:54 AM
It's going to be entertaining to listen to the Very Serious energy pods try and make sense of the oil angle this week.
✨Nothing Can Stop What's Coming✨
January 5, 2026 at 5:06 AM
✨Nothing Can Stop What's Coming✨
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
I've seen the Make America Great Again slogan attributed to the would-be dictator of the US in Octavia Butler's 1993 Parable of the Sower.
But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic Pacific Edge, from 1984!
But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic Pacific Edge, from 1984!
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I've seen the Make America Great Again slogan attributed to the would-be dictator of the US in Octavia Butler's 1993 Parable of the Sower.
But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic Pacific Edge, from 1984!
But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic Pacific Edge, from 1984!
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January 4, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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