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its fucked up actually that theres a hit broadway musical called Boop! and its not even about computers

it's actually Dr. Brightside, but it's in anthropology

also that this listserv was 1) created by the guy who started del.icio.us and 2) hosted on the vanity domain burri.to, like come on guys

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feels deeply dumbass-millennial coded that one of the most consequential listservs of people doing geospatial software stuff in the 2000s was called "geowanking" and now I have to explicate that name in a dissertation

RIP Corp team a month ago: working on an episode about pensions, maybe after the city primary Brad Lander will have time for us?

RIP Corp last week: LOL, LMAO even

@smathermather helpful, thank you!! I did get one person on Bluesky who told me they learned GIS on MapInfo in the early 90s while at a nonprofit, mainly b/c MapInfo was cheaper and easier to use than ArcView, and later they helped set up Columbia's planning school's GIS lab on MapInfo which was an interesting deviation.

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rami yousef stood behind me at the coffee shop and his dog sneezed on me

placing.technology/media-archa blogged about old mapping software (well, advertising for it) to feel something as I work on my dissertation

I'm excited to see this new report from @mayfirst exploring how to incorporate more environmental justice into our digital infrastructures: https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2025/justicia-ambiental-infra/

@pootriarch oh, it was just really, really popular and people would go nuts singing along to it and stuff

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: Everglades, several inches, reason to believe, humbled by age, dreamcatcher forearm, between a lentil and, unembarrassable, regolith, turned out

Respect to the guy in his fifties I saw today sitting outside the laundromat with a paperback edition of All Fours

Just overheard a guy greet a sparrow that landed on his cafe table with "well hey, little freak!"

Worried that a job interview I had scheduled was abruptly cancelled today not because of someone being sick as they told me but because this org actually accidentally scheduled me by mistake and is trying to save face or looked at my social media and said JK, both of these options feel great

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Horsin' Around

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