Brian Shoemaker

Senior Director of Innovation at @LifeTime_Life. Ex-{@DowJones, @Intel} software engineer. Rides bikes. Find me at

[Erik Fossing Nielsen 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ErikFossing]

We probably all knew about China’s advances in this area, but I - for one - had not realised that the share coming from the US is no longer any greater than what’s produced in Europe (even excluding U.K.)

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

We have a 3-year-old goldendoodle, Murphy, and we absolutely love him. However, there are a lot of people who hate doodles.

A group of goldendoodle breeders got together to write a new breed standard under a new moniker—the Bearded Retriever.
https://t.co/a5lbNvTa7W

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

Picard Season 3 is fun! But, wow, they have turned the nostalgia up to 11. I expect a future episode will include Riker playing the trombone.

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

@DKThomp Derek, on the pod you reference a study that indicates the colleges that a student applies to is far more predictive of income than the college the student attended. Can you share the source?

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

Russia’s occupation of Ukraine is a mix of incompetence and horrific cruelty. I’m grateful for @anneapplebaum’s reporting to keep the urgency of supporting Ukraine front-of-mind. https://t.co/olZpEoGzdu

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

I found dozens of old MiniDV tapes that capture the first few years of our kid’s life that I had completely forgotten about.

I’m using a series of decreasingly obsolete cable standards to transfer:
Firewire 400 to 800
Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2
Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

North America’s biggest sources of electricity by state and province. https://t.co/bKG1v62Si5

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

If you haven’t caught the excellent stories by @kashhill on the use of facial recognition at Madison Square Garden, you can listen to her on The Daily this morning. https://t.co/zGB0K5gD02

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

Oh.

[Developers @XDevelopers]

Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

Important @nytimes story about the propane industry’s efforts to undermine the push to “electrify everything”.

“The movement to electrify everything is rapidly gaining momentum, and poses a substantial threat to the sustainability of our industry.”

https://t.co/IDy3R7jNy7

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

Important story from @HirokoTabuchi in the NY Times this morning.

A propane trade group is running a multi-million dollar ad campaign to convince people heat pumps are bad and fossil fuels are good.

They are paying HGTV influencers who aren't disclosing their funding.

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

Oh, ffs.

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

The nonprofit behind the Burning Man -- which builds a temporary city of 80,000 people in the Nevada desert every year -- is suing the federal government over its approval of a geothermal energy project, citing the potential environmental harm: https://t.co/APBqaxO2ze

[Yahia Lababidi @YahiaLababidi]

A cycling mantis?

(Sitting on 2 fern sprouts)

📸 Eco Suparman

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

Whoever filled out a cougar sighting report and wrote "your mother" under the description drop your @ we just want to talk

[u m a m i @u_m_a_m_i]

Sony owns a patent that would force viewers to exclaim the brand name during commercials to end them.

[Brian Shoemaker @shoemaker]

@SahilBloom The biggest factor improving my sleep was eliminating the post-lunch coffee. It was a tough adjustment, but now I don’t miss it.

Curious if you use any devices to measure your sleep. Whoop? Oura?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A brilliant overview of Boston Dynamics robots by CNET

[📹: https://t.co/Hz9zRhdd1p]

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.