This viral image (not AI) shows a whale spy-hopping while a group of whale watching tourists are otherwise engaged. This was one of the most popular posts from the year I created the conversation. datamongerbonny.substack.com/p/the-only-t...
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Geospatial analyst, author, quantitative storyteller | sharing stories of planetary boundaries, climate science and the influence of our built infrastructure on the common good. www.bonnymcclain.com
How do our lived experiences shape what we see when we look at art? Let's explore the many ways meaning is made—through perception, memory, bias, and the stories we carry. @highpointsult.bsky.social #gischat #dataviz www.eventbrite.com/e/artobjects...
art.object.story: The Art of Interpretation | Panel Discussion
How do our lived experiences shape what we see when we look at art?
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data is the new oil or is oil the new data? Is it true we begin anew with every fresh canvas or new page whether digital or captured on paper? Why does this song visit me with melancholy? Is it a particular chord? The costumes? open.substack.com/pub/bonnypmc... #GISchat
data is the new oil or is oil the new data?
Hi.
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Early morning book club…quietly leaning into a busy day. 📚✍🏽🏃🏽♀️🎙️
This is a smart little explainer on the questionnaire design process: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/p...
How Our Polling Team Writes Sensitive Questions on Controversies
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When the federal government took Climate.gov offline, an independent nonprofit stepped up to save the science. Climate.us has officially resurrected the Global Climate Dashboard, the 5th National Climate Assessment, and vital toolkits. 🌍 bit.ly/activist360C... #ClimateScience #ClimateHope
“I can recollect better my father’s diction than I can my father.” —Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish, The Art of Editing No. 2
“I’ve got the fucking gift for it. Instinct, call it.”
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Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago. Through geologic fire and brimstone, much about its earliest eon has been lost to history, but the basics are agreed upon: It began as a ball of mostly molten rock. It became a blue marble. How?
Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. | Quanta Magazine
At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown.
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...follow the thread to LLMs and think of Claude as an unreliable narrator, not unlike the heroics of Homer. In a similar way of the map — planning what we are writing we are presented with a blank canvas. Or are we? #gischat bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/tell-me-ab...
"Tell me about a complicated man..."
Homer’s Odysseus and Claude as unreliable narrators
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Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
Benjamin Alvarez@benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeanwhile on the White House South Lawn
It was my grandfather’s birthday last week -- June 6th. Mom has advanced dementia and conjures her parents into the present. She thinks he is coming to my house to bring her to summer camp. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times...adapted from Charles Dickens
Rousseau was the original politics journalist: “Let us begin by discarding all facts, for they are irrelevant to the question.”
Now we are in modern vibe coding, AI assisted realities. Foundationally speaking, if I could convince everyone to learn at least one coding language before embarking on shortcuts I would. bonnypmcclain.substack.com/p/python-in-...
python in the room: bread & circuses or meaningful way forward
Working on selling my mom’s home in New Jersey I reached out to an electrician and a radon remediation guy on Thumbtack. It is quick and easy and it can be immediate. I need someone on Tuesday so let’...
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no scourge or perhaps solitary tear, sorrow whispers to lost moments, a new modern, a sepia image, time – a dandelion cast far and wide, your journey flashes hallucinations before there was a me, today medicates memories that confuse, all we have is now let’s figure out how to get there...
Dandelion Seeds Blowing Away
ALT: Dandelion Seeds Blowing Away
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We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.
NEW RELEASE! Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas The Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of the Sierra Nevada that has ever been made. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...
"The US Supreme Court..has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160...cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." A British King just rightly checked the entire Republican Party on the Floor of the House.
