re: these horror story posts, @kollipython.bsky.social told me today about the awful experience @mizmay.com had at #SOTMUS2026 where GitHub flagged her account & killed features for an @openstreetmap.bsky.social tutorial hours b4 a workshop (hope it's ok if I share) www.linkedin.com/posts/mizmay...

#sotmus2026 #overpass | Stephanie May

I built a beginner-friendly web mapping workshop for #SOTMUS2026 that leverages GitHub features (Codespaces, GitHub Pages) to teach mappers how to use #Overpass, OpenStreetMap US Tile Service, and Map...

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Juan Luis@juanlu.space · 4mo ago

Before reading www.reddit.com/r/github/com..., I had never considered the possibility that I could lose all my GitHub data. I've always thought "well, if everything goes wrong, my repos will always live there". Turns out GH is no longer safe. Started exporting my data.

It is scandalous that this program isn’t working in Seattle. There has to be an alternative to calling 911 (or complaining on Nextdoor) about unhoused people in crisis. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle union says police agreement on crisis response should be tossed

The complaint gets at the heart of an ongoing frustration in Seattle City Hall: that the city’s primary solution to police violence coming out of 2020 has been delayed.

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Who do I know out there who is specifically thinking about LLMs and intent capture, as it relates to answering questions about geography, routing, topology, or other spatial relationships? #ai #llm #gis #ui #hci

Under-appreciated point: without satellites the time on your smartphones would drift. perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration

An interactive exploration of how GPS works — from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.

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Also where is the recording industry on this? You scarred my generation over peer-to-peer file sharing but sketchy devices that blatantly bypass copyright, designed to spy on private communities, sold in Walmart and by PTA moms, are fine?

Stephanie May@mizmay.com · 5mo ago

Put this episode in your podcast queue right now. 😳 I did a quick internet search for “superbox”, to confirm the utter lack of critical analysis around this obvious exploit designed for espionage. darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/

Put this episode in your podcast queue right now. 😳 I did a quick internet search for “superbox”, to confirm the utter lack of critical analysis around this obvious exploit designed for espionage. darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/

SuperBox – Darknet Diaries

What if there was a device which gave you endless movies and TV shows without ads? Ok great sign me up! In this episode we interview D3ada55, who found such a device, but as she gazed into it, she dis...

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Did you know that your phone’s position comes from measuring time, because GPS is basically triangulation by signal delay? Now you do. Nice explainer @shrikhalpada.dev perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration

An interactive exploration of how GPS works — from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.

perthirtysix.com

I wrote a small blog post about Mapterhorn's current status and the plans on adding aerial imagery: oliverwipfli.ch/mapterhorn-u...

New piece & big ol' map w/ Júlia Ledur & @emily-m-eng.bsky.social. Learn all about the state of the Strait, and the role the geography is taking in it -> wapo.st/47ZY0Ri

How geography powers Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. blockade

Even with a U.S. blockage, geography gives Iran an edge in the Strait of Hormuz, shaping control of a vital global chokepoint.

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We’re all crying because of… Artemis II Also because of the current trajectory on this planet though 😭😭😭

Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️@usili.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👋 Seattle locals: I'm doing a reprise of my FOSS4G workshop at Seattle U next Thursday, if you are interested in web mapping, RSVP and come! www.meetup.com/maptimesea/e...

Last day to vote for FOSS4G talk proposals! 🗾🔊 2026.foss4g.org/en/call-for-... My talks: - A New Approach to MapLibre Style Editing - Teaching AI to Contribute to Open Source: Lessons from MapLibre Agent Skills Continuing from my previous posts, I'm gonna give you a final sample of abstracts 🧵⤵️

Stephanie May@mizmay.com · 5mo ago

Ok, I'm back. 3️⃣ more days to vote for FOSS4G talks, last day is April 3, what you need to do to register is provide your email address. Excerpting more abstracts below ⏬🙃🌎

With Artemis II’s launch about 4 hours away, time to revisit one of my all-time favorite diagrams. NASA published a series of Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Charts in the Apollo era, but otherwise I know nothing about them! Search mostly links to auction sites. #artemis #moon #dataviz

Ok, I'm back. 3️⃣ more days to vote for FOSS4G talks, last day is April 3, what you need to do to register is provide your email address. Excerpting more abstracts below ⏬🙃🌎

Stephanie May@mizmay.com · 5mo ago

📢 Attention all map and geospatial enthusiasts: 🌐 🫵 You only have 4 more days to vote for which talks are included in the program for FOSS4G this year 🗺️🫨 Here's where to go to read the abstracts and vote: 2026.foss4g.org/en/call-for-... There are 376 submissions... gonna share just a few ⤵️

Kavanaugh twice says that he thinks their arguments about other countries adopting different rules is a good argument as a policy matter (ugh). Sauer falsely claims "almost every other country" doesn't have birthright citizenship, which is wildly wrong.

📢 Attention all map and geospatial enthusiasts: 🌐 🫵 You only have 4 more days to vote for which talks are included in the program for FOSS4G this year 🗺️🫨 Here's where to go to read the abstracts and vote: 2026.foss4g.org/en/call-for-... There are 376 submissions... gonna share just a few ⤵️

Something I’ve noticed — Claude sure loves em dashes. Here’s the problem: sometimes colons make more sense.

The Enshittification of #GIS. #GISChat open.substack.com/pub/reimagin...

The Enshitification of GIS

Part One: How Proprietary Ecosystems, Cloud Lock-In, and Feature Glut Threaten Geospatial Innovation

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Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫 #RStats #rayshader #rayverse

A couple of observations about design: the poster is a spatial medium, not only in the poster-space that it contains but in how the viewer moves closer in and farther away. Books and websites, meanwhile, are more time-based than most designers recognize—for the web, it's the scroll.

😜 🍋 💷 🍰 Some good news ⤵️

Afroman Triumphs in Wild ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ Lawsuit Filed by Cops

Police officers had sued the “Because I Got High” rapper after he turned footage of their botched raid on his home into music videos

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I have a joke about the Poisson distribution that you could count on making you laugh

Alice Lilly@aliceolilly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have a secondary legislation joke but it’s very take-it-or-leave it (no YOU log off)

If navigation apps accounted for the parking and walking legs of driving trips, would people choose other modes?

Google Maps and Apple Maps are making parking harder than it has to be

Parking is a hidden time suck when it comes to planning travel. These MIT researchers just showed that it doesn't have to be that way.

fastcompany.com

Finding parking can take a lot longer than Google/Apple Maps suggest. For instance, navigation apps ignore time drivers spend looking for a spot and then walking from it to their destination. Result: Trips that are stressful and travel planning that’s biased toward cars. Me, in @fastcompany.com 🧵

Google Maps and Apple Maps are making parking harder than it has to be

Parking is a hidden time suck when it comes to planning travel. These MIT researchers just showed that it doesn't have to be that way.

fastcompany.com

A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage. Here's the result of a rough botec, seems like inference and training are using about equivalent amounts of water, and power uses 5x as much

🙈 the “f— around and find out” doctrine?

Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

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This is the ultimate in the male objectivist fallacy. AI is not on your side bro.

Effie Seiberg@effies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

All I’m saying is. What if we all just did this?

“Since the age of cartography, we’ve had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren’t gay enough. I also took critical theory in college, and I think sometimes people use ‘queer’ as a verb. I do understand that the maps we were trying to make gay were, I think, of Czechia and Slovakia...”

Andrew Middleton@mapcenter.com · 6mo ago

I love finding out all the new things these degenerate morons have been refusing to learn a single goddamn thing about www.yahoo.com/news/article...