gotta be honest, pretty excited to go back to looking at the Bad Screen tomorrow

it's so bananas that OGC maintains **several** decent standards for specifying SRS, including the WKT spec, and still went with "use a literal URL to our privately maintained list of XML-encoded EPSG CRS" for their API standards

My shutdown hobbies are getting weirder (Poll worker training in preparation for Boston's municipal election on November 4th!)

lumen outage yet again

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

my partner finished his journey of visiting every blue bike station today (please clap) unfortunately the app does NOT throw confetti when you hit 100%

hey spatial folks: if anyone has a great "parquet versus zarr" write-up, let me know. I'm never going to write a serializer but I'm really interested in the performance impacts of format for cloud downloads 👀 #geosky

is this a typo in the Haymarket station artwork or is there a unit I haven't run into before #boston

Hey @universalhub.com does this qualify as storrowing?

damn it's a pretty city

Saying he can more positively impact the city by dropping out is the first time I've agreed with Kraft

JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston. This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term. via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...

Happy election day #Boston ! Thrilled to cast my vote to re-elect @wutrain.bsky.social this morning -- and grateful for our poll workers who got me in and out in about two minutes. Polls are open until 7! Find your voting location here: www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistr... #mapoli

no one ever warns you how much JavaScript you'll need to write when you're starting in data science

I see we're doing "my ideas are so uniquely brilliant that I shouldn't need to put effort into how they're presented" discourse again

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I should hope so he paid for the condo, campaign, and super pac

PhDs are job training programs. Understand what job you want when you get out, and how spending somewhere between 5%-10% of your total life making almost no money will help get you there. You owe it to yourself to be brutally honest here: what are the odds? What do you need to do to improve them?

MBTA bus frequencies are good again? when was someone going to tell me this

I love Quarto because when you show the outputs to data scientists they go "oh, a quarto doc, nice" while when you show the outputs to anyone else they go "oh, you're a wizard, that looks incredible"

And yet we still have people being like "no, I love that pipe filled with methane that goes into my house"

Josh Kraft has a YouTube ad that gets out "I love my family! But I chose a different path." before you can skip to your video and I feel like that's exactly what a guy tells you to explain why he ran away to Cancun with a mistress

TIL geopandas can't correctly read GeoJSON strings and the PR to fix this hasn't been touched in over 3 years 🫠 github.com/geopandas/ge...

my room-temperature take is that social media isn't fun anymore because every platform is botted to hell and back swear that at least half the comments on any public facing post are either automated or inauthentic enough to not be meaningfully different and platforms don't (or can't) moderate it

Thrilled to see this paper - helmed by @lucaskjohnson03.bsky.social - out in Remote Sensing of Environment! Lucas walks through methods for quantifying uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates for small areas, relevant to the scales management happens over www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

how do I get snowflake sales reps to never email me again

I wonder how much happier I would be if I had it within me to saunter & promenade like the average Costco member on a Sunday afternoon

Boston off the slowest list 🎉

This is also a good opportunity to share perhaps my favorite essay ever, "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction", which back in 2019 got me thinking for the first time about how we interact with computers and wound up shaping how I thought about my dissertation worrydream.com/LadderOfAbst...

This might be the most exciting tech talk I've ever seen

Computational Public Space. A talk about a values-driven approach to integrating computation into cities. (40 min) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...

as an ecologist I know there's only one true answer: it depends

The "Alt NOAA" account is currently spreading misinformation about weather alerts and claiming that cell phone alerts don't exist and you have to have a weather radio. Cell phone alerts absolutely do exist, check your settings to make sure you didn't turn them off. www.fcc.gov/public-safet...

It’s been a long time coming! As of today, Beacon Hill and Fenway are now home to Project Oscar bins. Big thank you to Public Works, BHCA, FCA and many others who made it happen! If you have any questions about the bin please email [email protected] or visit Boston.gov/project-oscar

my (SUNY) alma mater hired its current president because she had Cuomo's personal phone number. that was the only qualification considered I think folks don't understand how much getting anything done in a Cuomo admin depends on his personal view of you. The folks who donated and endorsed do!

When we tax the rich more, we all benefit.

凄いな。日本語で雑に尋ねてもちゃんと回答してくれた。

you should: (1) always include a custom user agent whenever your app is making automated requests (2) make sure that googling the user agent actually gives people any way to contact you if they need to talk about your automated requests

The Central Square Theater's staging of Mrs. Warren's Profession is the best thing they've done all season. On til June 22nd. If you're in the #Boston / #Cambridge area I highly recommend! www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/mrs-wa...

The Central Square Theater's staging of Mrs. Warren's Profession is the best thing they've done all season. On til June 22nd. If you're in the #Boston / #Cambridge area I highly recommend! www.centralsquaretheater.org/shows/mrs-wa...

Me too? Yes, you too! 🍦 Stop by the newest addition to America’s oldest park and enjoy pastries, soft serve, hot dogs, and more from Flour Bakery and Cafe.

the new GDAL features in 3.11 are wild I knew about some of the pipeline stuff, which is going to transform how people use the CLI, but the new gdal vsi command seems like a huge step towards portable spatial workflows

Very excited to share the newest (and my first!) post on the water data blog, announcing the next generation of USGS Water Data APIs: waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/api-wha...

🚨 THRILLED to share our new paper "New allometric models for the USA create a shift in forest carbon estimation, modeling, and mapping" We talk about how better FIA allometrics impact maps of forest carbon, and how we think about natural climate solutions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First mayoral forum on the books Someone threw in the question "What ward do you live in?" Mayor Wu: Ward 18 Domingos DaRosa: 18 Josh Kraft: I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know Alex Alex also didn't know Wu leaned over to Kraft and held up 3 fingers, signifying Ward 3

I was thinking about while listening to yesterday's Odd Lots episode, where the guest proudly claims the price of oil is entirely apolitical. Even Bloomberg disagrees!

We got rid of leaded gasoline (globally) in 2021! The NYC harbor is supporting aquatic ecosystems again. We've got a number of good stories, too

if you're a coffee person, the hand grinder I use just went on sale Back when I was traveling a ton for work I'd always pack this, an Aeropress, and beans everywhere I went www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY1XFXB8

🗣️🗣️ My first postdoc paper is now freely available online! Integrating albedo offsets in reforestation decisions for climate change mitigation outcomes in 2050: A case study in the USA 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Details provided in the following 🧵: