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The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12

respect to the sickos of open source maintaining experimental builds of node for ARMv6

I had to take a nap today because I read too hard yesterday, grad school is humiliating

Has Weird Al Yankovic weighed in on Election Discourse? It might not help with swing voters but polka voters will definitely engage

quals update: get so frustrated re-reading Discipline and Punish because unfortunately Foucault was right, a lot of things are like prisons. It sound trite now but he wasn't wrong!!

To be clear I think critical cartography is fine as a thing to do, I just don't know if I need to think hard on how maps are theoretically rhizomes in a state of becoming to appreciate critical cartography

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Academic writing on critical cartography really does feel like people trying drugs for the first time

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: a pack of tricks, cocaine-infused, problems of European boundaries, simply do nothing, a French perspective, an orderly universe, one of two holes

GIS history shitpost because I'm in that stage of exam reading 

is topology imperialist? is positivism my friend? should we go to Friday Harbor, should we invite Neil Smith

All #EarthEngine users recently got an email to link their account to a Google Cloud project. Google Cloud can be quite daunting for beginners, so we have compiled a simplified guide with FAQs to help you migrate your legacy GEE account to a cloud project. https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/gee-sign-up.html

You claim to be working class but you can afford a fuckable couch, curious

British Columbians: seeking recs for Victoria and Vancouver pls thx

Research published in Nature Geoscience has found that polymetallic nodules—the subject of highly controversial plans for deep sea mining for technology metals—are a source of oceanic oxygenation.

The paper suggests the nodules electrolyse seawater due to their positive charge (up to 0.95V). These geological deposits, formed over millenia and now sought after for their battery metals, are already producing electrical phenomena with an ecological value.

#geotechnics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8

a movie about the German banking family whose silver metallurgy and minting operations were central to the long sixteenth century called Meet the Fuggers

USpol 

Also on this call he had to tell them we're getting married so this was a real rollercoaster of a day

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USpol 

Ramsey is on the phone with his parents so he hasn't seen the news and I'm just sitting here waiting for him to find out lol

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: Werewolf Month, first theft, gendered, exhausting, rectangles and, hackers, worms

you can cite the deep magic to me if you want. i was there when it was written but I like hearing it from someone else's perspective. it's pretty cool that you're a witch, too.

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Horsin' Around

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