https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-33/ this week in sentences: every stone dreams, pee bottle Snorlax, wake up, piano sounds, (itself and every thing), the sacred spirit of lucidity
https://observablehq.com/@lifewinning/cleaned-up-hillshade-generator 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
Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
How do I phrase this for the gram? Like "some personal news instead of dying later this year from burnout and economic precariousness I will die later this year from burnout but I might leave like $500 in a savings account"
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we're live at Local Tech Ecologies today, organized by @ntnsndr and @medlab - we'll be talking about the lab, and we've brought some of our One Laptop Per Child XO-1 laptops as an interactive exploration of hyper-local networking (and of reclaiming technologies with Complicated History for humanistic purposes)
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/26/conference-local-tech-ecologies
in addition to killing Toys R Us and generally being vultures feel like it's also fun to note that David Petraeus has some nonsense job title at KKR that probably pays him some obscene amount of money https://www.kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/david-h-petraeus