City2Graph: A Python library for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks and spatial analysis in urban systems https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971526000943 Looks very interesting!

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Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 23h ago

"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft." www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/e...

the testimonials: - poet laureate, Philadelphia - designer, original Macintosh - “brand @ anthropic”

kottke.org@kottke.org · yesterday

“poetry camera is a new way to see your world. take a photo with the camera… poetry camera thinks… and prints out a poem about the scene.” [poetry.camera]

Gem got me the first one of these for Christmas and I’ve been eagerly awaiting #3

robert j bennett, ceo, results omega@robertjbennett.bsky.social · yesterday

hey! that’s today!!

Some notes on contributing to the OpenElections project by @dwillis.bsky.social – I did a few rounds of contributions to MI & PA 2024 election data early last year and we’re about to have another national mid-term elections. How can we get ahead of the new PDFs? medium.com/@michalmigur...

Weeknotes, 2026W30: Feeding Elections Data To The Models

I fell off the wagon since last posting in April, working on (among other things) new stuff with the team at Cmpnd. DSPy just hits its…

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Huh.

Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

the trains got a serious challenge from cars in the early 20th century. and by the end of world war II, the train systems were worn out and needed massive government investment to survive. but because the transit companies were shitty monopolies, nobody wanted to help them out! 5/

True for every professional gathering

Simon Kővesi@kovesi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

This is the best possible scenario for the WNBA. Caitlin Clark brings in a massive crowd on national television and that entire crowd gets introduced to the genius of Olivia Miles

Park Place https://www.wikiart.org/en/wayne-thiebaud/park-place-1993

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

I bought this sticker and when I see it out of the corner of my eye reflexively think “oops, better put that back in my wallet before it gets lost”

“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System

The Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.

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@kissane.myatproto.social Cahokia Jazz was excellent! Thanks for the rec, on to Red Plenty.

Yep 100%! That's because those are jobs the local gentry can't gatekeep. So if you ever wondered why local leaders in rural areas keep getting rid of schools & medical services & thought "That makes no sense!" Now you know why they do that. Public services bring people they can't control. 💀

Mom for Gliberty@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's also notable that rural areas with some sort of middle class employment center tend to be much less right wing. Places with colleges, federal projects, etc. Even the conservative small towns with the hospital or county seat are usually a bit less stiflingly right wing.

More.

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ken Paxton has spent months calling James Talarico a soyboy vegan and religious extremist. It isn't working: He's getting killed in fundraising, his scandals are mounting, and most polls show the race is either a toss-up or favors Talarico. So now, he's pivoting. The latest:

Good lord, what is happening in there?

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 5d ago

what's wrong babe you barely touched your Calvin Harris canned rave haggis

But the moral/psychological problems he identifies really begin in the early 1980s. Some of the most interesting parts of Piketty IMO are where he demonstrates that the 1970s is the *only* period in capitalist history when a basic promise of liberalism - primacy of 'earned' income - is delivered

The earth is a mess of matter under stress A gigantic lumpen potato

Eric Gelinas@standardpixel.bsky.social · 6d ago

Let's all be thankful for WGS84

Mr. Gorbachev, turn down for what

This is Poland after russian missile struck it last night. NATO territory.

Say what you will about suburban malls, at least they didn’t let you park your car right in front of the Sharper Image

I read Tim Whitmarsh's "Atheism in the Ancient World", which makes the point that there is virtually no surviving ancient atheist writing... but there is a large pile of anti-atheist argument and drama and laws, and they had to be responding to *someone*

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

the written record of antiquity, for reasons I hope are obvious, over represents the blinkered moral perspectives of that day's most powerful people. you should take the care with generalizing from their opinions that you'd want a foreigner to take if a tech CEO was asked about your country's morals

*standng up on the plane* it's a common misconception that "the spectacle" refers to like, tiktok or ads or reality TV whatever, but that's not what de bord is getting at. the spectacle is the dominant social relationship which is conveyed via image. ok it's easier if i just read. in societies whe

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu

“My umbrella? Cross-cutting.”

William Carlos Williams appears in post-credits scene of Howl: “I'm here to talk to you about the Beat Generation Initiative”

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

We've got a fantastic announcement: The Downballot has just released a new version of our one-of-a-kind "hexmap," which shows every congressional district as the same size. @donnermaps.bsky.social has been hard at work updating it for all 10 states with new maps. Check it out here! 🧵

The Downballot releases our latest House 'hexmap,' updated for redistricting

By making every district the same size, we eliminate that misleading sea of red

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