@Moore fair
@eldang I'm obviously not one to talk given my own instance lol
also that this listserv was 1) created by the guy who started https://del.icio.us and 2) hosted on the vanity domain https://burri.to, like come on guys
@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.
@scruss yes, this is how open source works obviously
@scruss I take it the learning curve was not great lol
https://placing.technology/media-archaeology-with-mapinfos-mapxpress-2-0-1996 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
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-132/ this week in sentences: Everglades, several inches, reason to believe, humbled by age, dreamcatcher forearm, between a lentil and, unembarrassable, regolith, turned out
@pootriarch i think it's just a cell antenna
@pootriarch I hope this is the case!