Charlie Loyd
@vruba.bsky.social
A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
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Charlie Loyd
@vruba.bsky.social
· Dec 23
It’s got a lot of moving parts and I wanted to make it intelligible to several audiences, so the documentation gets pretty into things. I hope it makes good holiday reading.
(Mostly off social media right now due to The Horrors, which I do not optimally digest in this format. If I follow you, I would welcome an e-mail or other asynchronous communication from you. Otherwise, expect me when you see me.)
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
(Mostly off social media right now due to The Horrors, which I do not optimally digest in this format. If I follow you, I would welcome an e-mail or other asynchronous communication from you. Otherwise, expect me when you see me.)
checking my spam folder
I have to finish my damn project so I can try to get interviewed on one of the big pansharpening podcasts.
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
checking my spam folder
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You gotta hear this song, it'll change your life I swear. (plays the Shins cover of "Wonderful Christmastime")
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
You gotta hear this song, it'll change your life I swear. (plays the Shins cover of "Wonderful Christmastime")
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Critics are raving about Potato!
Charlie is too modest to say so, but potato is (in my opinion) a significant step forward in this area of image processing. If you have a requirement for high-quality remotely-sensed images for human consumption, try it out immediately.
I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Critics are raving about Potato!
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Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Here’s a thread of comparisons as I have time. The source data will all be © Vantor, CC BY-NC if from their Open Data Program. My goal here is not to deride standard pansharpening methods, only to show what’s different – what this is all about.
December 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here’s a thread of comparisons as I have time. The source data will all be © Vantor, CC BY-NC if from their Open Data Program. My goal here is not to deride standard pansharpening methods, only to show what’s different – what this is all about.
I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
GitHub - celoyd/potato: A small pansharpening model
A small pansharpening model. Contribute to celoyd/potato development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.
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Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.
Alison Gopnik’s AI interpretations continue to interest me in way that almost no one else’s do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmz...
Alison Gopnik, The Evolution of Human Intelligences | Natural Philosophy Forum Lecture 2025
YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Alison Gopnik’s AI interpretations continue to interest me in way that almost no one else’s do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmz...
Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.
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🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT
This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information
This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information
M4.8 - 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake located 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California was detected at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT. This information is subject to change. Please visit the USGS event page for up-to-date details.
earthquake.usgs.gov
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT
This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information
This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information
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September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe! www.coyotemedia.org
Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.
Best thing I saw last week was someone posting a video of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” with the caption that it was too bad they wasted a nice guitar riff on a song about furniture. The tsunami of poorly typed replies from old men, properly harnessed, could have sent a tractor to Aldebaran.
September 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Best thing I saw last week was someone posting a video of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” with the caption that it was too bad they wasted a nice guitar riff on a song about furniture. The tsunami of poorly typed replies from old men, properly harnessed, could have sent a tractor to Aldebaran.
I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.
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while you're all paying attention to this let me remind you that USGS, which produces this invaluable information as a public good, is currently facing a 39% budget cut
July 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
while you're all paying attention to this let me remind you that USGS, which produces this invaluable information as a public good, is currently facing a 39% budget cut
If you look at the buoys near the Kamchatka earthquake (www.ndbc.noaa.gov) you can see it nudged enough water to make easily measurable waves even in deep ocean. Heaps of energy.
National Data Buoy Center
The National Data Buoy Center's home page. The premier source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment.
www.ndbc.noaa.gov
July 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you look at the buoys near the Kamchatka earthquake (www.ndbc.noaa.gov) you can see it nudged enough water to make easily measurable waves even in deep ocean. Heaps of energy.
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Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.
In a few weeks, we'll be publishing the finding that [redacted] people die every year because of climate change, equivalent to a loss of $[redacted]T USD, every year.
Here's what it costs us to open that publication to you. We have no federal grants for that work, and can't apply for them.
Here's what it costs us to open that publication to you. We have no federal grants for that work, and can't apply for them.
July 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.
It’s amazing how little you have to capitalize in written English to be (1) clear and (2) formally correct! RAW photos? Those are just raw photos! RE the last e-mail? That’s the Latin word “re” and not an abbreviation! Are you learning Martial Arts? That’s not a trademark! Let that shift key relax!
July 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s amazing how little you have to capitalize in written English to be (1) clear and (2) formally correct! RAW photos? Those are just raw photos! RE the last e-mail? That’s the Latin word “re” and not an abbreviation! Are you learning Martial Arts? That’s not a trademark! Let that shift key relax!
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We talk about the northern and southern hemispheres, centered on the poles, and the eastern and western hemispheres, centered on 90° E and W, but we don’t hear enough about the implied third pair of hemispheres, those centered on Null Island and the equator/antimeridian point. In this essay,
January 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We talk about the northern and southern hemispheres, centered on the poles, and the eastern and western hemispheres, centered on 90° E and W, but we don’t hear enough about the implied third pair of hemispheres, those centered on Null Island and the equator/antimeridian point. In this essay,
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July 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin...
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro...
What these very early-’90s things share – the low-fat esotericism with artificial history flavor – was mostly bad, I fear (without revisiting). But it feels due to come back around in some form.
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin...
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro...
What these very early-’90s things share – the low-fat esotericism with artificial history flavor – was mostly bad, I fear (without revisiting). But it feels due to come back around in some form.
June 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin...
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro...
What these very early-’90s things share – the low-fat esotericism with artificial history flavor – was mostly bad, I fear (without revisiting). But it feels due to come back around in some form.
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin...
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro...
What these very early-’90s things share – the low-fat esotericism with artificial history flavor – was mostly bad, I fear (without revisiting). But it feels due to come back around in some form.
I gather there is a feud going between (what remains of) media Twitter and (what remains of) sports Twitter, and I would just like to say: Healthy, respectful debate about discourse norms in shared spaces is incredibly important, and I hope that somehow both sides lose the feud very badly.
June 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I gather there is a feud going between (what remains of) media Twitter and (what remains of) sports Twitter, and I would just like to say: Healthy, respectful debate about discourse norms in shared spaces is incredibly important, and I hope that somehow both sides lose the feud very badly.