Gregory Power
@gregorywpower.bsky.social
My opinions are my own and not of my employer. ISO-8601, Apache Arrow, and neovim enjoyer. they/them
Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how nobody can measure the ROI of AI, the reality check of token-based billing, and how firms spending millions on AI are only doing so because of the executive incompetence of Business Idiots disconnected from production. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiO...
AI Bubble: ‘Business idiots’ are finally seeing the downside of uncapped AI | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies. martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...
bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty
"If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.
martinfowler.com
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
PSA to GIS Professionals: friends don’t let friends create data products with invalid geometries. #GISchat
None of this is official, but there have been NWS bots setup to get weather info, alerts and warnings. nws-bot.us
NWS Bots for Bluesky
nws-bot.us
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
OSM US voting members: make sure to submit your votes for the board by midnight on March 2nd! Check your inbox for more info
This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.
Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service
NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate
scientificamerican.com
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last yr.The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding. Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund: —Communities with a higher white resident share —Low-density areas —High-income areas —Car-dependent areas
the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account
🔥🔭🌲 What is something you want to try that connects your professional and personal worlds? I would love to stay in a fire lookout tower. firelookout.org
Preserving the Legacy of Fire Lookouts - Forest Fire Lookout Association
Founded in 1990, the Forest Fire Lookout Association is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of wildland fire lookouts and their legacy. Through its chapters and members, F...
firelookout.org
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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And so it begins. #GISChat If you're using and rely on Federal Data sources for your work, do you have any alternate sources if the data you rely on is suddenly unavailable? @deepseadawn.bsky.social - will Esri keep Federal data in Living Atlas? www.eenews.net/articles/gro...
Groups archive environmental justice data scrapped by Trump
The organizations starting by building a public tool based on the White House's former Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool.
eenews.net
Anybody know of any open source tooling that can help me with evaluating/planning radio coverage? I can only find is GRASS-RaPlaT: e6.ijs.si/RaPlaT/GRASS... #gischat
RaPlaT has been originally developed for mobile phone network (cellular network) coverage computation and therefore supports multi-transmitter systems, but can also be used for a single transmitter/antenna.
e6.ijs.si
A pretty solid read if you want to learn about CRS’s and the difference between a foot and a survey foot.
Jami@justjami.bsky.social · 2y agoGet ready, datums are changing! Great storymap showing how the effect of the changes! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a8e9... #GISChat
I think most of my #GISChat friends have heard of and used colorbrewer2.org tools for their maps - but have any of you checked out mapcolpal.org yet?
MapColPal - your pal for cartographic color palettes
MapColPal is a tool to help in working with color palettes for thematic maps.
mapcolpal.org
I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵
...it would probably be helpful if we actually had the right links 🤦🏻♀️ Here's the link to the survey: survey123.arcgis.com/share/79b3f9...
Richmond Water Crisis Survey
This is an unofficial survey by Richmond community members who want to better understand the extent of the January 2025 water crisis.
survey123.arcgis.com
TIL that @qgis has been recognized as a #DigitalPublicGood :blobcatcool: https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/qgis #qgis #gischat #osgeo #opensource #gis
If you’re using an LLM to write code from scratch and not bothering to read documentation, I think you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
