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Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

submitted 5 days ago • 730 comments

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

submitted 6 days ago • 191 comments

Looks like the Open GIS data page for the BIA is missing when I try to access it on my machines. I see it on Wayback on Feb 1. Anyone able to confirm? #GIS #OpenData

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is taking away ppls access to doctors

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A remarkably comprehensive write-up of what xor is and why it’s useful www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/qu...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

Was trying to install Windows 11 on this laptop, and the stupid thing couldn't see my SSD. The advices I read suggested to try changing a whole bunch of settings in BIOS, find drivers etc. So I decided screw it and installed Linux (Mint, because I haven't tried it before). Smooth sailing.

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 11 days ago • 188 comments

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

submitted 12 days ago • 109 comments

My recent exploits #pixelart #art #space

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

Esri's free GIS for Climate Action course starts in less than 1 week! Join me, @katharinehayhoe.com, @globalecoguy.bsky.social and others to learn how to use the geographic approach to turn climate change around. Give a valentine 💚💝 to planet Earth --> go.esri.com/gis-climate-... #geosky #gischat

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🎉 The "Geocomputation with Python" book has been officially published today! Dive into the world of spatial analysis and geospatial data with Python. 📖🐍 Book's website: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq #geocompx #geopython #spatialanalysis

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The leaders of the anti-vax movement profit from spreading misinformation. Check out the new Factually! episode with Dr. Adam Ratner wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7iba... » YouTube: youtu.be/7ZaPkKEb9u8

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

When, in “Back Street Kids,” Ozzy sings “nobody I know will ever take my rock and roll away from me,” he allows for the possibility that someone he doesn’t know will someday do it. A lamentable prospect

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

submitted 20 days ago • 40 comments

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

submitted 20 days ago • 141 comments

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 21 days ago • 2344 comments

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

It is notable that Big Law is completely absent from the legal fights to protect democracy. In 2017, they bragged about their pro bono work for the resistance. Now, they are silent -presumably cowering in fear of Trump and Musk. Support the non-profit law orgs and small firms doing this hard work.

submitted 21 days ago • 189 comments

minor in the scheme of things but wow who could have guessed that a guy who was one of the smarmiest and most sanctimonious people in the senate was also corrupt www.alligator.org/article/2025...

submitted 24 days ago • 308 comments

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 231 comments

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

submitted 27 days ago • 261 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 27 days ago • 4415 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 31 days ago • 1663 comments

SUNDAY'S FUNDAY QUIZ! I am in the UK to promote DreamWorks' critically-acclaimed new animated movie: THE [ ] ROBOT A) RILED B) CHILD C) REVILED D) MILD E) None of the above Answer: E It's actually The WILD Robot- wonderful for ALL ages & currently at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes!!! 👀 ♥️ 👍

submitted 32 days ago • 1561 comments

The Washington Post is spreading the extremely dangerous and false anti vaxx “immunity debt” conspiracy theory. This anti vaxx conspiracy has been debunked repeatedly by scientists and yet WaPo continues to push it. Extremely dangerous www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-immun...

submitted 64 days ago • 21 comments

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

submitted 70 days ago • 354 comments

Sharing this to the world in case someone wants to try this on its own: mhinfographics.com/2024/12/19/t...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful early Christmas present arrived this morning! It's the brilliant new edition of "Data Visualisation" by Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com 😍📊 #dataviz

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Thrilled to receive such positive feedback from students in my Introduction to GIS Programming course! Although it's a small in-person class I taught at the University of Tennessee, I've made all lecture materials and video recordings freely available online.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine if we truly came to know this ourselves. Imagine if we came to understand ourselves, not as apart from nature observing it, but a part of nature, in fact, nature ourselves together with the rest of the living biome. Imagine the transformation- the awe, the coherence, and even the joy.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

This opening paragraph really made me laugh 🤣

submitted 74 days ago • 42 comments

If Democratic campaigns are basically just big money grifts then what incentive do they have to win? www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-muc...

submitted 78 days ago • 43 comments

“Math problems are good for your body!” declares my 4yo, the reincarnation of Pythagoras

submitted 78 days ago • 46 comments

success is not wealth, nor longevity, nor power. all these are temporary, ephemeral. success is when you get Pringles, the extruded potato snack

submitted 79 days ago • 42 comments