Russell Mercer

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Noticing a theme here.

Clearly your cat has a better grasp of what your priorities should be than you do.

Aye, for at 0%, every hour is 5 o’clock everywhere.

People with random knowledge, and a willingness to share it, are what we need more of in the world. We all know things. Sharing them lifts everyone up and gives that little spark of joy at learning some odd tidbit you wouldn’t have found out except by that chance interaction.

These are fantastic! Deep sea muppets need a series. Feel like there should be a pirates of the Caribbean crossover with the dead sailors from the black pearl.

So I have to ask, what about ArcPro would make this better? Do you want the contours smoother because they look better, or because you think they are more accurate?
Are contours easier to symbolize in Pro than QGIS?
Sorry, asking seriously to see what the functional differences are.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Hi all. I’m trying to connect to a MS SQL Server DB from Postgres using a FDW, and am having trouble getting the connection string right. Has anyone done this successfully on a windows server? Any assistance or pointers would be much appreciated.
#gischat #postgresql

Turns out what I found was the flatgeobuf format. Looks like it has a translator in the OGC package, so I will have to give that a shot for converting small datasets to for use on the web.
Too much new stuff to keep up with! 😊

flatgeobuf.org

Web geo people. I need help tracking down something. A few months back, I ran across info about a library or script that could be used to serve layers from a geo package out to the web without setting up a full product like geo server or map server. I can’t find it now. Any ideas? #gischat

I use a Firefox with an ad blocker and a No Script plugin. DuckDuckGo may have one. NoScript does as it says and blocks scripting running on the page. It is broken down by originating site so you allow the parts to make the site work and block the ones that serve ads, etc. Extra work, but worth it.

Son is off school today. He told me he wants to play a game. My recent history of watching YouTube horror movie clips is haunting me as now all I hear in my mind is a tape of the guy from the “Saw” movie franchise starting up and him saying that. 🤣🤣

Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees?

We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share.

We escaped hell to be here.

Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

Salish Sea Atlas - Table of Contents The Salish Sea Atlas is a free, open access, digital atlas of the Salish Sea Bioregion. Each chapter explores a different theme with text, images, interactive maps, and data download links. Learn more...

The Salish Sea contains all of Puget Sound, as well as the Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca. If you want to learn more about the Salish Sea's geography, check out my overview here arcg.is/1D8rDX0

Thank you for this information! The Salish Sea Atlas you created is a fantastic resource!
I remember hearing the name Salish Sea occasionally , but am more disconnected from Pacific Northwest topics than I used to be, and never followed up. I appreciate this cultural and ecological definition.

This really begs the question of why our brain appears to mostly use our long-term archived memories, to torture us?
Anyway, congrats on your PHD versary! I saw my wife complete her masters and the level of effort. A phd is an order of magnitude more. A great accomplishment, even ten years on!

Humble apologies for being off topic, but I read your first couple lines and thought you were obliquely referring to your dog fishing for catfish. 🦮🐟
Reading further, that would be the surprise of a dogs life if they grabbed on that big a fish!!

Winter is coming and the #30daymapchallenge Day 25's prompt is "Heat", so obviously I made a map of the 1991-2020 average winter minimum temperatures across the Salish Sea Bioregion 🙂

#geography #cartography #GIS #SalishSea #climate

Pretty amazing how far the temperature moderating influence of the water stretches inland.
Is the Salish Sea considered to contain all of Puget Sound, or is it just part of the bioregion?

He quite clearly has this all figured out. 😁

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Also I realize from looking up rayrender that you may be talking about rendering light in a scene somehow and I may be talking completely out my ass. If that’s the case, I humbly apologize!!

By path tracing, are you looking for paths between certain points, or a path from each point to every other point? Are the paths a street network or some such?
Just spitballing here, but it seems like depending on your constraints, there could be some geospatial solutions that may work.

My redesign of the downtown Seattle Metro Service map--as seen on the screen and in the wild.


#seattle #transit #maps #transitMaps #wayfinding

But is the number of people doing it statistically significant?