Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lnnWgprN0A forgot that this little video essay I made in 2023 for an online lecture series at a Mexico City artists space was pretty good
(the photo in question, which escaped containment at some point and sometimes people will be surprised to learn that I was the originator of it
https://thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-here-and-everything-needs-to-be-destroyed in 2016 I posted a photo I took of an electronics shredder company's trade show booth and the photo went viral bc of the company's incredible slogan and today I learned an extremely good punk band used it as the title for their new album, who says posting never leads to anything good
https://placing.technology/expanding-on-the-zirp-geo-hypothesis-with-data-probably-part-1 I made some charts to try and see if data backs up my hot take that open source geospatial tech was a zero interest rate phenomenon
Oh my gosh then a block later I ran into ANOTHER neighborhood dog friend, message received universe maybe life is worth living cool
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-136/ this week in sentences: Ozymandian, uncomplicated, Fish Falls, dust mote, Esperanto, historical buffet, least terror
Palestinian detained at SFO, deported is reported killed in West Bank
Awdah Al-Hathaleen, a Palestinian teacher from the West Bank who was recently denied entry to the U.S. by San Francisco immigration authorities when he arrived on a valid visa, was shot and killed today in an altercation with an Israeli settler according to family and Middle East journalists. Phillip Weintraub, a lead organizer of a Palestinian solidarity committee at Kehilla Community Synagogue, who helped sponsor Al-Hathaleen when he attempted to visit San Francisco in June, said he learned of the Al-Hathaleen's death through Alhadlin’s cousin, Eid Hthaleen.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/palestinian-detained-sf-deported-killed-west-bank/
this post partly brought to you by revisiting the 2021 Mapbox union busting fiasco, what a miserable business
https://placing.technology/notes-on-geospatial-software-labor-narratives blogged through my dissertation ambivalence some notes on types of labor involved in geospatial software