Marc Weber

The example map was inspired by this great R-bloggers post
www.r-bloggers.com/2021/03/heat...
and other examples out there.

R heatmap Strava activity

Day 4 #30DayMapChallenge My Data

Playing with my Strava activity data in R or Python for a while and today was an excuse

The R code for scraping and assembling the data as well as another static map and interactive map example here:
mhweber.github.io/posts/2025-1...

#rstats

StreamCatTools #rstats package is now on CRAN🎉
CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=Stre...
GitHub: github.com/USEPA/Stream...

Access catchment and watershed scale metrics in R for all NHDPlusV2 stream reaches and catchments as well as lake watersheds using the StreamCat API

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

International graduate student at U detained by ICE agents In an email to students, university officials called it a “deeply concerning situation.”

I just spoke with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more.

The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research. We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers.

www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...

Former Top EPA Official Warns of Dire Consequences of Planned Purge at the Agency’s Science Office - Inside Climate News Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who spent 40 years at EPA, said the proposed move will debilitate environmental protections, prevent the agency from getting ahead of future threats and leave the public expose...

insideclimatenews.org/news/1803202...

Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people

Musk doesn't seem worried that he and Trump threaten social and economic collapse. On the contrary, it appears that's his goal.

Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself.
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...

Opinion | A Day of American Infamy (Gift Article) A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

A Day of American Infamy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion | How Trump Will Fail The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

The Achilles heel of populism and Trumpism - a complete lack of coherent approaches to address issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

Trump fires at least 12 independent inspectors general, Washington Post reports U.S. President Donald Trump's administration fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies late on Friday, the Washington Post reported.

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.

Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Attention Is Now Our Most Valuable Resource Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.

"Every moment of my work life revolves around answering the question of how we capture attention. And it just so happens that the constant pursuit of others’ attention is no longer just for professionals like myself," @chrislhayes writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Offering impunity for political violence is wildly dangerous

Musk comes from a family that moved to South Africa *for* the racism. He has repeatedly endorsed Great Replacement Theory in the US & Neo-Nazis of the AfD in Germany. He championed the rights of white nationalists and restored Nazi accounts to Twitter.

But I'm sure the Nazi salute was an accident.

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Enjoy adult governance. The lunatics will soon be in charge of the asylum.

Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC.

Oh hell yes, let's absolutely get rid of the FDIC. Would love to have re learn all the lessons of the New Deal again.

www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...

Global sea level is now rising twice as fast as 30 years ago

Rising global temperatures are causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt more, adding more water to the oceans, which also expand as they warm

We caused this by burning coal, oil and gas, and deforestation

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Giving Bluesky a try after dumping twitter a while ago and fiddling with mastodon a bit