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    1. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      The institutions have a very limited window to demonstrate that they are here for everybody, that they give a damn, and that they are *actually* doing everything in their power to soften the blows that keep coming. I do not see that happening right now. The response is sclerotic.

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    2. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      If we don't take concrete ameliorative steps soon, the *best* possible short run political outcome that will be available to us at that point will be some ad hoc seizure of the institutional steering wheel by a coalition of tech companies and the defense establishment.

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    3. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      Believe me, I'm speaking as somebody who would likely be institutionally empowered by that outcome, you do not want hings to get that point and neither do I. But something at least that bad *will* happen if we don't take yet more dramatic public action *now*.

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    4. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      Dramatic action means unprecedented leadership from the mayors and governors, working in concert across traditional jurisdictional boundaries. It means a Senate select committee sitting in the West Wing calling the shots. It means completely unshackling industry response.

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    5. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      Either we act quickly and effectively within the bounds of our current system of government, or we risk losing that system of government altogether. That is a prospect that terrifies me, not just because of the anarchic vacuum but because of what could quickly come to fill it.

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    6. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      If you work in policy or in other parts of the institutional establishment and you're not already taking this stuff seriously, you have to start now. The alternative is the kind of state continuity crisis that only comes around every few centuries. Act now or regret it later.

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    7. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      Postscript: If you live in a coastal media bubble and are seeing mostly "keep calm and carry on" rhetoric from your usual information sources, broaden your inputs immediately. Good people to talk to are anybody who works in mortgage banking, supply chain, or medicine.

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    8. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      Don't take the press's third hand accounts of what's going on very seriously, you're consuming formulaic crisis PR from bureaucrats. Call up the people who you went to school with and get an idea of actual ground truth. Don't let yourself be spoonfed propaganda.

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    9. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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      If you *really* don't want to get any sleep tonight, talk to engineers who work on critical infrastructure. The electrical grid is seeing wild shifts in consumption patterns. Telecom backbone services have been failing left and right. Ask them what a "correlated failure" is.

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    10. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian Apr 10
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      > the electrical grid is seeing wild shifts in consumption patterns ...to way less usage? unless everyone is setting up bitcoin mining rigs at home i have difficulty seeing how this would be placing more stress on the systemhttps://www.axios.com/coronavirus-declines-electrical-power-consumption-9f48cb9a-f881-4cdf-adce-4e4ab2e05100.html …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 10
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      Load balancing stress, not demand stress like a hot day. The grid is balanced to match demand and supply in real time since storage is like miniscule. Taking generators offline is a big deal step function. Similar problem to glut in b2b food, shortages in groceries.

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        1. Matt Parlmer  🌐  🌷  🌇‏ @mattparlmer Apr 10
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          True, but we'll also have demand stress too in the coming months. The first things to come back online will be energy intensive industry, but the vast majority of the population will still be at home with the AC on blast.

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