Brian Hawkins

Brian Hawkins

@brianhawkins.bsky.social

Formerly: Durham, NC Presently: Winnipeg, MB Canadian in training

825 Followers 489 Following 5,147 Posts Joined Sep 2023
11 hours ago

where’s my money 😔

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7 hours ago

Oh wow, 14 months into the term you realized disaster relief might actually be important!?!?!?

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6 hours ago

Definitely the first two I thought of.

Hell I watched Bloodline last week…

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12 hours ago

Making carne asada for the family tonight, pretty excited about it

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the US operation in Iran

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23 hours ago

What if infants had chainsaws? What if cats could fly around in jet packs? What if ATMs required you to insert your genitals? What if

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1 day ago

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

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1 day ago

Watching Top Chef Carolina’s thinking about what could have been

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Some tweet from the idiot president featuring a picture of him in his military school uniform when he was a teenager

I was also in marching band you don’t see me bragging about it

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If I (a person who pays more attention to American politics than is healthy) do not even know what state you are from, I definitely shouldn’t be getting campaign email from you.

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They’re getting rid of hereditary legislative seats in the UK and yet

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An image showing a tanker dropped off on one side of a landmass at the start of a trolley problem leading to two pickup points, circumventing the closed strait of hormuz

Could this be a solution?

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1 day ago

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

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I'm Sick And Tired of All The Winning Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States.

It’s become obvious that the Trump administration gave zero thought to how this war would play out. Even now, though, I don’t think they quite appreciate how locked in they are to a complete and total clusterfuck. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-sick-an...

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2 days ago
Marco Rubio wearing a navy suit and black dress shoes. He's looking down at his feet.

"i think he bought the wrong size"

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2 days ago
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The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.

What about the physical enormity of the US? Does that force people to drive more?

No, it doesn't.

Canada is an even more spacious country, and residents drive a lot less (and are <1/2 as likely to die in a crash).

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2 days ago

I was walking my dog while listening to this y/d morning and when she said that I yelled so loudly it scared him and I had to apologize

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Yeah I believe it. The house we’re renting is cute, love the location, but structurally…well I’m glad we don’t own it…

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But to your original point…I walk around this city and look at all the steep roofs poking out above the trees and see a *lot* of potential

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The cost curve of panels (and batteries) is really opening up applications no one even thought about before.

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Man just stretch and breathe, let the animals do their own thing

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Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side A new Danish study shows that bifacial, vertical solar panels in agricultural fields can generate clean electricity without reducing crop yields. And they are better received by the public than tradit...

Here you go (photo near the top)

ingenioer.au.dk/en/current/n...

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2 days ago

Lemme see if I can dig that up…

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Last year there was a study that co-located solar in fields with crops (positioned vertically rather than at a sun-optimum angle) and the decreases in solar efficiency and crop yields were completely offset by doing both on the same land.

And that was in *Denmark*, same lat as Thompson, MB

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2 days ago

We owe him an apology

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3 days ago

Generative AI will never be able to do research like a PhD student. It will never have that level of self doubt or the urge to take up unrelated hobbies.

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3 days ago

Great thread. I’d be *very* impressed to see a machine navigate the overlapping contingencies of codified laws, local right of way yielding/negotiation conventions, and frequently treacherous road conditions that exist in Winnipeg

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3 days ago

Dune (Lynch’s version, but fully realized and not so rushed in the back half)

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3 days ago

The only way this makes political sense is if you *know* the Republicans will kill it (so you can use that against them). But I don’t think that is the case (or their plan).

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Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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