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shout out to @cstross for giving us more or less the original premise for the episode, which opens with clips from his 2018 CCC keynote!

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YESSS it's Pub Day for @beep's wonderful You Deserve a Tech Union

https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

get 'em, Ethan

📕🎉📕🎉📕🎉📕🎉📕🎉

#YDATUbook #unions #TechUnions

don’t let the book ban people know I found this in a drawer at the library

Making a giant pot of chana masala for the week like I'm a broke vegan art student again

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: every stone dreams, pee bottle Snorlax, wake up, piano sounds, (itself and every thing), the sacred spirit of lucidity

So hypothetically if I made karaoke style subtitles for a movie so that viewers could do a live fan dub, would it be funnier to do this to Titanic or Goodfellas

*columbo on the enterprise* The prime directive, huh? Sounds pretty important. I'm sure you guys are very careful not to break that one.

observablehq.com/@lifewinning/ sort of a hack but here is the cross-hatched hillshade map visualizations with cross-hatch bodies of water--because of the particular complexity of the river I'm using as an example I tesselate the water polygons but in theory you might not have to for a basic shoreline or something. Also yes, it loads super-slow sorry

Sat next to a sleepy little corgi on the subway home, NYC is back baby

@geomob @jachym ah hadn't thought of that--maybe let's check back in the fall once I'm a little more into the project

@geomob @jachym yeah let's check back in like a year? I literally just got the money, probably more interesting when I've collected interviews &c

@richlv @geospacedman yes! would very much like to avoid academic geography's weird tendency to treat OSM and open source mapping stuff as some weird alternate dimension of GIS

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