In alarming cartography news, it turns out Claude can help me try out crazy ideas very quickly
Cristen J.
@thecristen.net
👩🏻💻software engineer in public transit ✨ geospatial, planning, building tech, maps, front-end webdev, dataviz, civic tech
It's a shame every single one of these social microblogging platforms insist on surfacing trending news and thereby becoming primarily national/global news sites. Not very micro of you
Yessss I finally get to try StreetComplete on my iPhone, maybe I'll get to submit more #OpenStreetMap edits this year after all! testflight.apple.com/join/K1u3eUU5
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Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Tyne Daile Sumner@tynedaile.bsky.social · last mo.A reminder that this exists and that it is, verifiably, very cool: www.surveillancewatch.io
Hello. They are going to try to fuck with your vote, and we are NOT going to let them. Last week I pinged my friend Dana Chisnell, who knows how elections work, and said "Hey, let’s make it hard for them to fuck with us.” Today, we are very proud to announce the HOW TO VOTE zine. howtovote.tips
How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
howtovote.tips
if there are people at 1password making the racists afraid to be openly racist at work, a genuine thank you. no one is paid enough to do that work but it’s not to be taken for granted, also sorry you work with scumbags and your ceo is a colossal baby with no swag
andy™@andylevy.net · 2mo agoah yes once again the racists are the real victims
A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5mo agoINGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Stadium workers near Los Angeles say they have reached a tentative contract deal, averting strike ahead of World Cup.
the way millennial + young gen x in tech/design/marketing/comms were marked for life by this ONE pdf… like "where were you when you first read The Pepsico Logo Strategy Document" it's our jfk
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 5mo agoWhen I die, at my wake please have the Pepsi Deck as one of the things projected, I want you all to have a good time.
At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com
To counter my tendency to factor my code in a million different functions, I have configured my editor to gradually reduce the font of each function I create, until they become so hard to read I have to give up. I call that: Diminishing returns
deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences
Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com
"At minimum, ranking algorithms with this much economic consequence should be auditable. We audit financial markets. We should audit attention markets too."
Lauren Leek@laurenleek.eu · 11mo agoI wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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today living in a City is daytime drinking at the tourist trap followed by a visit to the social security office
Finally got around to adding a little gallery showing parts of some nice web things I’ve made. www.thecristen.net/gallery/
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Things I've designed & built
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
a “Space Force”, if you will
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12mo agowe need a department of kerning
accidentally navigated to a random bookmark today and it was this talk ahahahah fuck
Earlier this week I flew to Oslo and gave a talk at Y-Oslo. It’s a talk about the human spirit, believing in yourself, how AI is bullshit, and how capitalism robs us of our confidence. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever makes you happy and enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...
Y Oslo - How to draw an orange, Mike Monteiro
YouTube video by Y Oslo
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
using random desktop apps to batch download media off the internet like it's the early 2000s fuck yeah
Saw dahlia flowers for the first time. I understand why people are named after them now, these look awesome