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this post partly brought to you by revisiting the 2021 Mapbox union busting fiasco, what a miserable business

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placing.technology/notes-on-ge blogged through my dissertation ambivalence some notes on types of labor involved in geospatial software

Showed Ramsey a video of a white woman in Lululemon leggings yelling at an ICE agent and he said "it's nice that she donned the traditional clothing of her people as part of the uprising"

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: syntax, inarticulate, mountain too big, constant vigilance, crew cut spirit, werewolves, 27th place, grappling, doomed to hear, hard candy, the vibe, doorbell-synth, curiosity, communal spirit

something i say to dogs for some reason 

"you are a little prince! you are a dauphin! france is promised to you"

@paulgatling oh the wireless coverage simulator is an interesting angle! I know Avenue afforded users some customized functionality for ArcView but it does seem like MapInfo had a pretty robust third-party tools ecosystem (moreso than Esri? unclear)

@paulgatling wow! What were the Street Pro data sets? And do you know why your job(s) went with using MapInfo?

supplystudies.com/research-gui I didn't realize this was online--I worked on this research guide for supply chain investigations in 2023-24, and I think it's pretty useful for teaching purposes?

I emailed the founding CTO of MapInfo about my dissertation and links to my posts about going through his company's old software and he was into it, hooray let's hope he wants to let me come upstate to interview him

On one of the new open gangway G trains and I don't like it. God did not want us to see this far into the G train

the internet is littered with the ruins of empires who believed their hyperlinks would resolve forever

STS and computer history nerds: does the ribbon toolbar as an interface component go back to Xerox PARC or is it later in the timeline?

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: smiles, Cartesian vortex, selves weep, athwart history, roomful of dirt, beast with no shortage, Karl Marx, just because, a baby recognizing colors, as much as Todd, burgeoning pothole, Yeti blood oath

Saw a kid wearing a t shirt that just said "FANTASY" and had a dragon on it and I was so into the premise of a t shirt for a genre but then I saw the dragon had a little football and the word "FOOTBALL" below the dragon

Which at least is a much more exciting interpretation of fantasy football

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.