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Zane Selvans

@ZaneSelvans@social.coop
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I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst #Coop. We use #Python to support #climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the #EnergyTransition.

I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico.

I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough.

🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Joined January 30, 2018
Home:
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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 07, 2026

Snippets from "The Dispersion of Power"

"Winters is concerned with a smaller class of genuine oligarchs and a narrower set of policies -- those governing the accumulation and defense of wealth.

In other policy areas, the interests of different elites may come into conflict, enabling other actors and groups to make gains by playing those elites off of one another.

In this area, however, the interests of oligarchs are fully unified and as a result, their combined material power will almost always enable them to get their way, no matter what political system happens to be in place."

#Books

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 07, 2026

How is there not a movie about her?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/seafaring-history-mary-ann-patten-pregnant-mutiny-navigation-storms-antarctica

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 05, 2026

RE: @ZaneSelvans@social.coop

The Solar + Storage part of the electricity ratchet at work, from @akshatrathi@mastodon.green

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/iran-war-could-push-countries-to-adopt-more-solar-and-batteries?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjcxNzMwMCwiZXhwIjoxNzczMzIyMTAwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQkZHRzBLR1pBTE8wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.-BZHO9K9pWnr5XP_2gf-QMFFMfcerHCaANZDOrpuTJE&leadSource=uverify%20wall

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 05, 2026

I'm interested to go to this (despite the UTC timezone) to hear what other open data folks are doing with LLMs for analysis, and if any of it works.

We embed rich table + column level metadata in our Parquet outputs, and I could imagine an LLM reading that as a guide. But...

https://okfn.org/en/events/the-future-of-open-data/

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 05, 2026

RE: @catalystcoop@mastodon.energy

#Energy #Electricity #Cooperative #OpenData #FOIA

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 05, 2026

One reason this is going to be hard to pull off is that even accepting such a thing as the mid-transition *exists* is an admission of defeat by the fossil fuel industry. Like a Miami condo developer acknowledging the need for managed retreat from the rising sea.

The idea of the mid-transition is in direct conflict with the growing all-of-the-above narrative of additive energy systems. That we'll just layer renewables and storage and new nukes on top of the existing system now that we're once again in an epoch of demand growth. It's a fossil fuel anti-meme.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-fate-of-fossil-fuel-systems-in

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 04, 2026

Apparently once every 10 years I have to do a bunch of research and backtesting to re-convince myself that there's no point in doing anything beyond slowly adjusting the stock/bond allocations in my boring total-market index fund portfolio.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Vanguard_four_fund_portfolio

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 04, 2026

RE: @catalystcoop@mastodon.energy

It was really nice to look back over the year and see everything we managed to accomplish despite the chaos. Especially the way that client work, grant funding, and volunteer contributions all help improve and expand PUDL over time. But without sustained maintenance funding that value will get lost.

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 03, 2026

RE: @catalystcoop@mastodon.energy

It's easy to query the bulk Parquet outputs with #polars or @duckdb@mastodon.social or @pandas_dev@fosstodon.org

So far we've only applied basic transforms -- real dtypes & NULL values, standardized categorical values, etc. But the upgrade to a modern cloud-native format is a huge improvement over nested zipfiles.

And a big thanks to the folks at the AWS Open Data Registry for giving us a TB of free public storage so we can publish big data like this conveniently.

Let us know what you think, and what additional kinds of data cleaning, entity classification, record linkage, or additional aggregated outputs would be useful.

#OpenData #Energy #FOSS

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Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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Zane Selvans
Zane Selvans
@ZaneSelvans@social.coop

I'm a data liberation engineer at Catalyst # Coop . We use # Python to support # climate activists, policymakers, and researchers accelerating the # EnergyTransition . I grew up in rural spanglish California, explored Mars & Europa with robots, & fought for bright green cities in Colorado. Now I'm a wandering cybermonkey lost in the misty highlands of southern Mexico. I ❤️ bikes, car-free cities, street food, & steward ownership. There is such a thing as enough. 🇺🇸/🇲🇽 English/Español he/él

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@ZaneSelvans@social.coop · Mar 03, 2026

RE: @ZaneSelvans@social.coop

And electricity is a ratchet.

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