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🎁 With 6 weeks left in office, Eric Adams responded to a request I made nearly 3 years ago for the gifts he received as mayor.
The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.
The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🎁 With 6 weeks left in office, Eric Adams responded to a request I made nearly 3 years ago for the gifts he received as mayor.
The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.
The release covers only half his term. It features an engraved belt buckle, an artillery shell, dozens of books, and, yes, a box of saltines.
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children are born pedestrians yet everywhere kept in cars
July 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
children are born pedestrians yet everywhere kept in cars
This is truly a beautiful and transformative experience of a course. Worth making space in your life for it type thing.
If you want to radically re-think your relationship to data, nature & community advocacy, I have two opportunities coming up:
1. My Binoculars to Binomials course has 2 cohorts starting in September. 5 modules, 10 weeks. Cultivate an observational practice, learn creative code skills, change your 🧠
1. My Binoculars to Binomials course has 2 cohorts starting in September. 5 modules, 10 weeks. Cultivate an observational practice, learn creative code skills, change your 🧠
LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding.
Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
www.jerthorp.me
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is truly a beautiful and transformative experience of a course. Worth making space in your life for it type thing.
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As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As a scholar, as a teacher, and now as a museum educator, Chronicling America has been invaluable.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
Beyond that, though, it's OURS. We paid for it. It's a public good.
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i just finished my longest into to @beta.nyc's weekly newsletter.
this one covers the NYPD's gang database & the new QoL unit that might be using 311 data 🤷🏻♀️
#opendata #civictech #pitech
beta.nyc/2025/05/08/w...
this one covers the NYPD's gang database & the new QoL unit that might be using 311 data 🤷🏻♀️
#opendata #civictech #pitech
beta.nyc/2025/05/08/w...
What’s New in NYC Civic Tech – May 08, 2025 - BetaNYC
First, we at BetaNYC work hard to ensure that information and data are used appropriately. Second, we respect all those we work with. We truly believe that no one is above the law and that our neighbo...
beta.nyc
May 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
i just finished my longest into to @beta.nyc's weekly newsletter.
this one covers the NYPD's gang database & the new QoL unit that might be using 311 data 🤷🏻♀️
#opendata #civictech #pitech
beta.nyc/2025/05/08/w...
this one covers the NYPD's gang database & the new QoL unit that might be using 311 data 🤷🏻♀️
#opendata #civictech #pitech
beta.nyc/2025/05/08/w...
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"The Placeholder geocoder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: ... I am happy to say that we are now able to build our own custom databases which address all of these issues." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/04...
Building a custom Placeholder geocoding database
Placeholder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: The inclusion of airports, historical records and SFO Museum architectural reco...
millsfield.sfomuseum.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"The Placeholder geocoder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: ... I am happy to say that we are now able to build our own custom databases which address all of these issues." – millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2025/04...
You may be familiar with its previous name "The Manahatta Project"
Endlessly fascinated by @ewsanderson.bsky.social's now-expanded Welikia Project map.
Plug in your NYC address and learn about the ecological history of the place:
www.welikia.org/map-explorer...
Plug in your NYC address and learn about the ecological history of the place:
www.welikia.org/map-explorer...
The Welikia Project
Explore the landscape before New York.
www.welikia.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
You may be familiar with its previous name "The Manahatta Project"
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This is tomorrow!
I'll be sending out the e-mail with event details this afternoon, so register soon if you want to join our 🧶📊🐦 party.
I'll be sending out the e-mail with event details this afternoon, so register soon if you want to join our 🧶📊🐦 party.
Weavers! Knitters! Felters! Quilters! Paper-makers! Random 🧶 + 🐦 people!
On Thursday evening I'm hosting a meetup about the possibility space that exists between birds, data, and fiber arts!
Open to everyone. Share work, or just come and chat!
🐦🧶📊
binoculars-to-binomials.disco.co/share/o/T2Nj...
On Thursday evening I'm hosting a meetup about the possibility space that exists between birds, data, and fiber arts!
Open to everyone. Share work, or just come and chat!
🐦🧶📊
binoculars-to-binomials.disco.co/share/o/T2Nj...
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is tomorrow!
I'll be sending out the e-mail with event details this afternoon, so register soon if you want to join our 🧶📊🐦 party.
I'll be sending out the e-mail with event details this afternoon, so register soon if you want to join our 🧶📊🐦 party.
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The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities
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or I would build out tools for organizing, like bsky.app/profile/bunk... or trestle.us
today was my first official day as a data fellow for columbia labor lab, detailed to build data and tech tools for @cafastfoodunion.bsky.social to support organizing.
very grateful for adam reich and sureh naidu for developing this fellowship with me, and for adam weisberg at CFFWU taking this on.
very grateful for adam reich and sureh naidu for developing this fellowship with me, and for adam weisberg at CFFWU taking this on.
Columbia Labor Lab - Incite at Columbia University
A lab focused on working with labor organizations to restore the political and economic power of workers using social science and data.
incite.columbia.edu
April 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
or I would build out tools for organizing, like bsky.app/profile/bunk... or trestle.us
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if I was a funder or a technologist trying to do good, I would not launch a shadow 18f, that's just another private contractor that will be beholden to Trump's orders, I would instead backfill the left's digital infrastructure (Act Blue, Bonterra) which is under threat now
April 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
if I was a funder or a technologist trying to do good, I would not launch a shadow 18f, that's just another private contractor that will be beholden to Trump's orders, I would instead backfill the left's digital infrastructure (Act Blue, Bonterra) which is under threat now
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have you ever wanted to retrieve location records intersecting and trimmed to the boundaries of a map tile in order that you might use that data to perform point-in-polygon operations locally without having to send precise coordinate data to "someone else" / now you can – github.com/whosonfirst/...
April 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
have you ever wanted to retrieve location records intersecting and trimmed to the boundaries of a map tile in order that you might use that data to perform point-in-polygon operations locally without having to send precise coordinate data to "someone else" / now you can – github.com/whosonfirst/...
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the solution is simple, we edit wikipedia to say that america is not in trade deficit to anyone, and wait for chatgpt to be updated and re-run in a few days
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
the solution is simple, we edit wikipedia to say that america is not in trade deficit to anyone, and wait for chatgpt to be updated and re-run in a few days
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📄 Here's a fun one for NYC journo nerds.
In response to my FOIA, the FBI has released this file on David Burnham, the muckraker behind the NYPD corruption stories of the 70s who died last year.
Hoover wanted David's sources. Here's the best they had. Wish David could read it.
In response to my FOIA, the FBI has released this file on David Burnham, the muckraker behind the NYPD corruption stories of the 70s who died last year.
Hoover wanted David's sources. Here's the best they had. Wish David could read it.
April 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📄 Here's a fun one for NYC journo nerds.
In response to my FOIA, the FBI has released this file on David Burnham, the muckraker behind the NYPD corruption stories of the 70s who died last year.
Hoover wanted David's sources. Here's the best they had. Wish David could read it.
In response to my FOIA, the FBI has released this file on David Burnham, the muckraker behind the NYPD corruption stories of the 70s who died last year.
Hoover wanted David's sources. Here's the best they had. Wish David could read it.
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And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
And overnight your friends at @nehgov.bsky.social staff have been placed on Admin Leave.
“How are you?”
Living the D.R.E.A.M.
Living the D.R.E.A.M.
March 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“How are you?”
Living the D.R.E.A.M.
Living the D.R.E.A.M.
Figured it was better to be upfront about the data work that goes into our models at enigma. mdr.enigmatechnologies.dev
March 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Figured it was better to be upfront about the data work that goes into our models at enigma. mdr.enigmatechnologies.dev
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New from me —>
Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem
www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...
Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem
www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...
Wired’s un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of its role in the information ecosystem
Trump's wholesale destruction of the information-generating sectors of the federal government will have implications that go far beyond .gov domains.
www.niemanlab.org
March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New from me —>
Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem
www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...
Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem
www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...
Congestion Pricing Week 2: text scammers start sending false toll collection.
Another point in the “Unquestionable Success” column
Another point in the “Unquestionable Success” column
January 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Congestion Pricing Week 2: text scammers start sending false toll collection.
Another point in the “Unquestionable Success” column
Another point in the “Unquestionable Success” column