David Simonetti

Music, Arts, and Entertainment

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

You coming? An improvisational music tour de force descends on Miami Beach December 14th featuring Jon Cowherd, @BrianBlade, @JohnJPatitucci & Nicholas Payton.
Tickets: https://t.co/ANRQ6MiPK3

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

My next show, December 14th at the Miami Beach Bandshell. Tickets at https://t.co/Pd8AYqIRFy

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

If you're going to send me a marketing email wishing me a happy birthday, please include a present...

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

What are my small business/entrepreneurial people using for accounting? I used @QuickBooks for years, but the online version is terrible and I have to see an upsell ad after every transaction. I can't live like this. 🤣

Any desktop software still out there?

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

Still working on funding the International #JazzDay '24 concert in Miami. If you can find it in your🩷to support our work, please consider a donation. https://t.co/hBRrpmBEoK

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

We are working to put on #jazzday '24 in Miami. We are starting in Miami, but our mission is a global one. If you love jazz and would like to support our efforts please check out our fundraiser here: https://t.co/hBRrpmCcei

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

There've been some changes. In addition to pivoting my consulting work to the entertainment industry and returning to Miami, I'm now the executive director of the non-profit Jazz Futures, Inc.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

I don't know who's curating @DeltaNewsHub pre-flight music, but please make it stop.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

It's interesting that "cost" doesn't consider human dimensions. Calls into question how we value clean air, climate change mitigation, and natural resources conservation.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

People keep saying things like the NYT does today: "the cost of generating electricity from the sun and wind is falling fast." A quick look at the graphs below suggests the story is more complicated, with 3 distinct phases.
Phase 1: Introduction, 2000-early 2010s. Sharp cost declines that happened as the industry went from near zero to commercial scale. Significant tech and manufacturing advancements, economies of scale, cost of capital declines, new vendor and developer competition
Phase 2: Growth, early 2010s-2019. Smaller cost declines as industry matures. Technology improvements slow, gains from economies of scale and vendor competition plateaue, credit spreads tighten, but labor costs increase.
Phase 3: Maturity, 2020-now. Costs increase as the deflationary aspects either plateau or have become a small % of total costs. Technology advancements start hitting against physical constraints, materials and labor costs increase, top tier acreage near demand centers is already developed, interconnection delays, interest rate increase severely raises cost of capital, disruption from tariffs on Chinese solar panels, intense vendor competition eases, more accurate pricing of congestion risk, wind turbine manufacturers reprice after losing billions and, also, COVID supply chain interruptions.

The NYT writes that, "in 2023, costs rose because of supply-chain problems, inflation and other issues," as if it's a one-time event this year that will quickly reverse. I worry this cost increase is more structural.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

It's important to remember that, while climate justice is certainly an environmental justice issue, it does not define it. EJ considers a much broader scope of inequitable environmental impacts and resultant outcomes.

[Trish Gunby @TrishForMO]

Hottest July on record, flash flooding, wildfires, epic snow (or not) and the beloved town of Lahaina, Hawaii - gone. I’m prepping for an environmental justice class in the fall and this is what I’m reading. BTW, U.S. is the biggest total contributor to climate change today.

[Arbor Day Foundation @arborday]

Through our Environmental Justice Grant, 2,000+ trees were planted among Tucson's most heat-vulnerable neighborhoods 💪🌳

Thanks to @TCBTrees4Tucson and countless volunteers, these trees are addressing pressing issues that Tucson's marginalized communities face.

[Miriam Wasser @MiriamWasser]

#SCOOP: New England's largest utility Eversource, has left the American Gas Association to focus more on "decarbonization."

Experts say this may be the first major utility to break ranks with the influential trade group over diverging climate agendas https://t.co/BM4qehmBvU

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

@VFelbabBrown This is fascinating and I think the take away is that Haiti needs a policing and rule of law intervention tied to aid -this is necessary to effect long term change. Possibly a short MIL intervention for armistice, but then quickly transitioning to civil security.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

@festa_bianchet It must have been a...trophy.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

Seriously, they have to be kidding with this. This is supposed to be strategy?
https://t.co/5NOMGs9GYI

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

This jam though...so good. #90smusic @SiriusXMFLY

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

I think "unfathomable" is a good thing for a ship.

[Dr. David Coyle @drdavecoyle]

The sheer size of modern day container ships is almost unfathomable. If you look reeeeeealy close at the tip of the pointer finger, you’ll see people standing there. Of course all I see is the potential for #invasivespecies to be inadvertently transported but that’s just me.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

@christian_moerk @SheilaEYoung1 The better question is, "do you know what Karma actually means?" Most don't seem to.

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

@Jerry_Ratcliffe Being a firefighter. 2x24

[David Simonetti @DavidJSimonetti]

@jjbird888 And then they disappoint. 🤣