kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇩🇰
@kgeographer.bsky.social
Karl Grossner, PhD. Geographer, nomad (still), former co-instigator and technical director of whgazetter.org. #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into #folklore and #folkart with AI-ish methods. Santa Fe, NM through January. https://kgeographer.org
Quilt map of foreclosed Albuquerque properties, by Kathryn Clark. One in a series.
January 7, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Quilt map of foreclosed Albuquerque properties, by Kathryn Clark. One in a series.
Winter sunrise, Santa Fe
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Winter sunrise, Santa Fe
Well ok then…
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases, according to two papers published in Nature Astronomy and Nature in January.
go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
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go.nature.com/40SlwfF
go.nature.com/3CC6ZLO
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January 3, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Well ok then…
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The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
January 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
Would be a boon to the hearing impaired as well 💯
Speaking in Korea recently I was translated into Korean, simultaneously, in a sidebar of the screen. Conferences can use the same technology to allow researchers to speak in their first languages to a wide audience — reducing the quiet penalty paid by everyone whose first language is not English. +
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Would be a boon to the hearing impaired as well 💯
This describes the most interesting of the ways I use llm-bots, and is remarkable on several levels apart from the several societal downsides. An irresolvable dilemma for me at this point.
"Thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition" is a great way to express the goal.
In that frame, education should be actively engaging with AI, but not in "write me my essay" mode or an "assistant" type posture. Instead as a thinking space which expands rather than shortcuts cognition when done right.
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This describes the most interesting of the ways I use llm-bots, and is remarkable on several levels apart from the several societal downsides. An irresolvable dilemma for me at this point.
Spellbound by the hundreds of works by Gustav Baumann at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe yesterday. How is it I’d never heard of him?
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Spellbound by the hundreds of works by Gustav Baumann at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe yesterday. How is it I’d never heard of him?
Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org
I'm now seeking part-time development contract(s) after a semi-retirement phase of personal research. Projects or experiments in spatial humanities, geo-inflected NLP, LLM stuff, software design, data modeling & munging all possible. DM me if you think of something and RT if inclined. Thx.
December 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org
I'm now seeking part-time development contract(s) after a semi-retirement phase of personal research. Projects or experiments in spatial humanities, geo-inflected NLP, LLM stuff, software design, data modeling & munging all possible. DM me if you think of something and RT if inclined. Thx.
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I'm now seeking part-time development contract(s) after a semi-retirement phase of personal research. Projects or experiments in spatial humanities, geo-inflected NLP, LLM stuff, software design, data modeling & munging all possible. DM me if you think of something and RT if inclined. Thx.
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I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato
December 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato
The @nytimes.com thinks that while a $350 carryon is great, a $730 would serve me better. I might not be in their target demographic.
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The @nytimes.com thinks that while a $350 carryon is great, a $730 would serve me better. I might not be in their target demographic.
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
and then retrieve the information they hold in computable form? And then make it FAIR LOD?
Can we find all the maps in (out of copyright) literature?
@axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!
@axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
and then retrieve the information they hold in computable form? And then make it FAIR LOD?
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The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
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I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
1. bibliography curators/editors
2. day-to-day editor/reviewers (format, compl...
hcommons.social
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order):
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
hcommons.social/@paregorios/...
I had a year-long experiment with AI (LLMs) & creation myths. Stopped after realizing I could only expose LLM capability(?) to interpret metaphorical text in societal context, not the myth concepts themselves. Neither of which I’m competent to judge. Comments welcome. kgeographer.org/glos_on_paus...
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I had a year-long experiment with AI (LLMs) & creation myths. Stopped after realizing I could only expose LLM capability(?) to interpret metaphorical text in societal context, not the myth concepts themselves. Neither of which I’m competent to judge. Comments welcome. kgeographer.org/glos_on_paus...
Arrived in Santa Fe for a month’s stay, so…
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Arrived in Santa Fe for a month’s stay, so…
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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Rothko is growing on me. No particular reason.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Rothko is growing on me. No particular reason.
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
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Q to the hivemind: I'm wondering if anyone else around here's been building RAG systems for cultural collections/museums?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Q to the hivemind: I'm wondering if anyone else around here's been building RAG systems for cultural collections/museums?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Phase A of my GLOS project digitized, and built exploratory tools for, canonical folklore indexes. Phase B, which attempted concept induction from creation myths using LLMs has stalled. Turned into a study of LLM interpretive capabilities, not myths. Inevitably. Blog post explains: kgeographer.org.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Phase A of my GLOS project digitized, and built exploratory tools for, canonical folklore indexes. Phase B, which attempted concept induction from creation myths using LLMs has stalled. Turned into a study of LLM interpretive capabilities, not myths. Inevitably. Blog post explains: kgeographer.org.
Hasta luego Europa
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Hasta luego Europa