Chinese eclipse glasses arrived. Awesome user instructions included: 1. Put on glasses 2. Look at sun, not more than 3 minutes

Water temp nearing 30C, yikes. Bathwater.

Newfoundland joke: If you wanted to get there I wouldn’t start from here. -Doctorow

View testing for Aug 12 eclipse. We in Spain will have line of site but hope for cloudless afternoon unlike today

Geospatial Capacity Development roadmap, to be presented and discussed, hopefully, at the UN-GGIM meetings starting today. I will not be there this year but will follow-up later. I am troubled by the constant planning for CD yet the funding to make it a reality comes like from a dripping tap. 💧

Good morning.

Hawk vs. Happy golf movie in 2028. I am calling it now.

This one turned out ok but i am told my previous attempt was much better.

Michael Gould@mgould.bsky.social · 5d ago

Paella de marisco, on the way

Cleanse your mind this weekend. Watch the Rush MSG show on YouTube. 😍

Terrible immigration incident that is being managed (not resolved by any means) but the “invasion” argument planted by the orange one (spain was mean to me, now…) has set off numerous conspiracy theories.

NPR@npr.org · 5d ago

The death toll in Spain's Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier. n.pr/4hD7pUo

WTF #RedSox , 21-4 in July!! Capping it off with a strong win over the #Dodgers. I’m sure they are as puzzled as we are.

A chuckle, yes, from this AI waste of 900 gallons of water. Odyssius and Gmaps. www.threads.com/share/BAVH0N...

Paella de marisco, on the way

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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Live news in Spain shows otherwise: lots of young migrants being chased by police and military, stun grenades and teargas

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

Spain says at least 57 people died during the Ceuta mass crossings, and almost all of the remaining migrants have now been returned to Morocco. https://cnn.it/4hNnQ0i

Cheap protein

Conny Chung has one

Michael Gould@mgould.bsky.social · 6d ago

You have made it big in NJ when they name a rest area after you. Whitney has one, Bon Jovi has one

You have made it big in NJ when they name a rest area after you. Whitney has one, Bon Jovi has one

Several highways in that area still cut today as fire continues

Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X)@tonyveco.bsky.social · last wk.

🔴⚠️🔥not only central #Spain is burning. In few days, #IFLaVallDUixó has already burned 8500Ha and forced 16000 evacuations.⬇️ #Sentinel2 📸of 28 July, with active fire fronts and the small distance from populated area. #Castellón #climateEmergency #IncendiosForestalesEspaña

Just visited university and heard several reports from exam proctors of AI cheating on written CS exams. Student drops mobile phone in box at proctor’s desk but uses 2nd concealed phone to takes images of questions and LLMs provide assistance. 😳😣

Awesome. (Not.)

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 7d ago

Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.

GIS job at Disney! arcGIS, CAD, surveying. lnkd.in/p/e5vhtZYA

Past 10,000 hectares and not under control

Michael Gould@mgould.bsky.social · last wk.

That fire extent is 7500 hectares and growing.

The supermarket cashiers crack me up. The total is 43.46€ and I give her a 50. She asks me “do you have the 46 cents?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰

Seems not broadly announced yet, but a website is up: giscience2027.org #Giscience2027 @giscience-conf.bsky.social

"A Strategic Approach to AI for GIS" Webinar August 17, 4PM EST, 10PM CET. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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A Framework for Strategic Planning for the use of AI alongside GIS. The presentation introduces a GIS & AI Strategic Framework that helps organizations cut through AI hype and identify practical, hig...

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And of course many of these fires were started intentionally 🤬🤬🤬

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Extreme heat this week could worsen what French and Spanish officials say is the most severe fire season in modern history. Follow live updates.

Another perspective on the fires: this Copernicus Sentinel-5P Aerosol Index map, based on data acquired on 26 July, shows elevated aerosol concentrations over parts of southwestern Europe. Read more: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Here is Jack with many of the thirty one 2026 Esri Young Scholars Award winners from around the world. 😀 Some did not get travel visas to be in San Diego 😫

That fire extent is 7500 hectares and growing.

Michael Gould@mgould.bsky.social · last wk.

The wildfire near us is huge but not threatening castellón city or our town further north.