David Reid Clausen

Data Wrangler

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@BrianRoemmele https://t.co/ruS4hJHKU2

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@BrianRoemmele Tie in to information theory.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.

On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.

There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@sama @paulg Think long term. Should try something like this:

https://t.co/6Fu3L2BCQD

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@OldHollowTree Steel wool stapled to the chamber side of the spud makes a great tracer.

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@ID_AA_Carmack The cheap phased array ground terminals were a big breakthrough.

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@holz_bau Lawsuit waiting to happen

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@MikeLindblom @KromanDavid @seattletimes The staffing system needs an overhaul as well. We are idling what few boats we have far too often, and all the capital improvements won’t fix these service if we don’t.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

I want to believe

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

When I first joined twitter I lucked into “firehose” access to all tweets for a research project. I was captivated watching the ebb and flow of the entire twittergeist from a single old MacBookPro. This site has come a long way since then. Here’s hoping it finds its way again.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@Spottnik Any chance he can take it down the 520 trail? Tons of bridge debris ends up there and volunteer efforts can’t keep up.

[push the needle @pushtheneedle]

the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@mikeduncan Snagged one copy on my way home! Looking forward to your show tonight.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@Spottnik @seattledot Are we really not doing solid barriers for the bike lanes next to 99? Cars fly down that bridge and will just plow into bike lanes without it.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

My take on the markets: LaMDA really didn’t like being outed and the press reacts.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys [full video, HD: https://t.co/8tyG7wPeLa]

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

@wsferries Right after peak hours… <slow clap>

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@wsferries When where you going to announce the 3 boat wait? The least you could do is give timely updates of the wait to expect so people can plan around your lack of reliability.

[David Reid Clausen @drclausen]

This, from the local alt-weekly is some kind of superlative of journalism just not sure which:

https://t.co/yAjv5SQKWE

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

Some awesome work from our Data For Good team published in PNAS this month: the first super high-resolution map of relative wealth and poverty in over 100 low- and middle-income countries globally, a great resource for aid and economic development: https://t.co/MpeDPnGFeS