Eric Kansa
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Eric Kansa
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Directs Technology for OpenContext.org
Tries to work for anti-authoritarian, public good goals, especially with appropriately scoped open data and open science […]

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Did the #nokings #protest today. The signs and slogans expressed our outrage, but the community spirit was both beautiful and peaceful and the event had a fun street fair vibe.

Kudos to #portland for using humor to mock the fascists. You can see that inspire us down here in #california.
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Appreciated.
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here's a token that's a reminder at how structural problems may matter more than individual personalities.
March 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
[Uspol]

Welp, at least this time around, I'm more practiced at this.

Great turnout, enthusiastic supportive honks from passing drivers. Warm, friendly, peaceful crowd organized by #indivisible.

1500 people or so, #oakland CA. #protest #democracy #fiftyfiftyone
February 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
OK. This tsunami map is over the top.

There are ~5 million people in the red areas of that map, and these red areas have huge elevation variation too.

Absolutely stay away from the water, but the map implies that we expect a 200ft (?) wall of water to come […]

[Original post on scholar.social]
December 5, 2024 at 7:46 PM
December 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
What's the plan for #DataRescue 2.0? Mobilize lawyers to try to enforce records retention laws? Mobilize international repositories to replicate key scientific and environmental data?

What does the #digitalrepository community think?
November 17, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Hm. This thing can do animated Gifs now.
November 15, 2024 at 4:03 AM