Natty Coleman

Designer @ Google (Geospatial science for climate & sustainability - Earth Engine + Environmental Insights Explorer). 🛰🏙🌳📸

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@that_mc @SafeStreetRebel @Cruise @californiapuc It stopped and turned it's hazards on, meanwhile humans were driving down the wrong way and ran me off the road on my bike so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Caleb Watney @calebwatney]

We used to think large urban fires were inevitable as people clustered in dense cities.

But the combo of new technology + better building codes have effectively ended the threat of mass fires in the US.

We can use this same formula to improve air quality and prevent pandemics.

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@heyimjrmiller Yes but none of those people are actually from Utah, they are probably vacationing from LA or NYC

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@heyimjrmiller Oh for sure, just pointing out humanity’s already fraught hypocrisy with imposing it’s own supposed intellectual superiority over other life forms. Doesn’t bode well for something so new and alien.

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

As much as Ted Chiang's fiction is fantastic, it's really his non-fiction that I could read forever. His two paragraphs here about using ChatGPT as a writing tool are the most thoughtful comments I've seen about its utility and the practice of writing. https://t.co/AVn3wbFH5V

[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

“Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble the picture.” — Iris Murdoch

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@heyimjrmiller I'm here for a good time, not a long time!

[The McLuhan Institute @McLinstitute]

“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

Marshall McLuhan
‘The Medium is the Massage’
1967

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@heyimjrmiller You have to call me out like that??

[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

The more time we spend in the realm of digitized relations, without the benefit of a common world of things upon which our bodily senses can bear down, the more we will depend on language and the less will our language be dependable.

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@gordonbrander @pieratttt What a champ, always something great with that fellow

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

Some charts from a recent talk I gave, enjoy!

Here is TFP growth since 1947. Your income would be ~2x as high today if this hadn’t stagnated.

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@Noahpinion https://t.co/cZVs9BYyeN

[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

Now we need machines that will read all the text the machines will generate, and then we can go back to writing letters to people we care about.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

“Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few."
~Ivan Illich, Energy & Equity

(Before-after of I-980 in Oakland by @SegByDesign)

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@OshanJarow Something like https://t.co/1Dx7l766s3 maybe?

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@KaseyKlimes Very Cory Doctorow. Sort of a post-national, post scarcity solarpunk communitarian vision throughout.

[Natty Coleman @nattyc]

@KaseyKlimes Massive mindset shift. I've been trying to promote that shift on *unspecified geospatial science platform* and even the simple move from developing "features" to "capabilities" is a huge hurdle up and down different stakeholders. Success looks different and therefore scary.

[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

"From one perspective, you could argue that ours is an excessively emotional age ... But, from another angle, I’m tempted by a different proposition: Maybe it is actually the case that our emotional lives are impoverished." https://t.co/yM8ehaKlyz