Enrico Spinielli
@espinielli.bsky.social
I like map projections and programming: I'm a curious geek.
I like #rstats, #python (but not its pkg system), #smalltalk, #lisp and #observablehq
I like #rstats, #python (but not its pkg system), #smalltalk, #lisp and #observablehq
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Please join me in a new campaign to help protect Ukrainians in a very special way. My Ukrainian friends chose to call this campaign Freedom is Action. They are making an important point. One way to find our own courage is to act in support those who are showing it
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine
A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks
snyder.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Please join me in a new campaign to help protect Ukrainians in a very special way. My Ukrainian friends chose to call this campaign Freedom is Action. They are making an important point. One way to find our own courage is to act in support those who are showing it
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...
🚀 Calling all data scientists & #ML enthusiasts!
The PRC Data Challenge is back for 2025! 🌍✈️
👉 Build Machine Learning models to predict fuel burn at different stages of flight, using open aviation data
🔗 Find out more here: ansperformance.eu/study/data-c...
The PRC Data Challenge is back for 2025! 🌍✈️
👉 Build Machine Learning models to predict fuel burn at different stages of flight, using open aviation data
🔗 Find out more here: ansperformance.eu/study/data-c...
PRC Data Challenge
ansperformance.eu
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🚀 Calling all data scientists & #ML enthusiasts!
The PRC Data Challenge is back for 2025! 🌍✈️
👉 Build Machine Learning models to predict fuel burn at different stages of flight, using open aviation data
🔗 Find out more here: ansperformance.eu/study/data-c...
The PRC Data Challenge is back for 2025! 🌍✈️
👉 Build Machine Learning models to predict fuel burn at different stages of flight, using open aviation data
🔗 Find out more here: ansperformance.eu/study/data-c...
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EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND
Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.
This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻
A little background 🧵 1/
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.
This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻
A little background 🧵 1/
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND
Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.
This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻
A little background 🧵 1/
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.
This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻
A little background 🧵 1/
yle.fi/a/74-20174831
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Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Really great article and visuals from @reuters.com
(and the maps...🤩OMG!)
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
(and the maps...🤩OMG!)
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Eroding protections for public lands
Trump policies reshape the role of federally owned land, against the tide of U.S. public opinion
www.reuters.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Really great article and visuals from @reuters.com
(and the maps...🤩OMG!)
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
(and the maps...🤩OMG!)
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Les espions, ça n'existe pas que dans les films… Il y en a aussi dans votre poche 📱
July 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Les espions, ça n'existe pas que dans les films… Il y en a aussi dans votre poche 📱
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50 minutes of music blending melodic progressive rock, cinematic live strings, jazz, classical, pop, post-rock, and a touch of melancholy. Even if you don't know Ukrainian, you will feel the emotion. Listen on all platforms ❤️ rain.in.ua/go/vidrada-en
Obiymy Doschu — Vidrada (album, 2025)
The third album of the band blends melodic progressive rock, lush live strings, jazz, pop, post-rock, neoclassical and neofolk influences, a touch of melancholy, and poetic Ukrainian lyrics.
rain.in.ua
June 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
50 minutes of music blending melodic progressive rock, cinematic live strings, jazz, classical, pop, post-rock, and a touch of melancholy. Even if you don't know Ukrainian, you will feel the emotion. Listen on all platforms ❤️ rain.in.ua/go/vidrada-en
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I really like that Wired is opening up the reporting they do that’s based on FOIA requests to non-subscribers. It’s super smart, too.
NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I really like that Wired is opening up the reporting they do that’s based on FOIA requests to non-subscribers. It’s super smart, too.
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Bellingcat repeated their experiment of a few years ago in LLM photo geolocation but using modern models. "…in urban settings, LLMs excelled at cross-referencing subtle details, whereas Google Lens tended to fixate on larger, similar-looking structures…"
www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat
We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.
www.bellingcat.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Bellingcat repeated their experiment of a few years ago in LLM photo geolocation but using modern models. "…in urban settings, LLMs excelled at cross-referencing subtle details, whereas Google Lens tended to fixate on larger, similar-looking structures…"
www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Since our first release, GeoArrow has been adopted by GeoPandas, GDAL, Apache Sedona, @duckdb.org, Lonboard, Kepler.gl, and others. It has never been easier (or faster) to get spatial data from one tool into another!
May 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Since our first release, GeoArrow has been adopted by GeoPandas, GDAL, Apache Sedona, @duckdb.org, Lonboard, Kepler.gl, and others. It has never been easier (or faster) to get spatial data from one tool into another!
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If you want peace in Ukraine, pressure Russia. If you want war, don’t. The Trump people only make concessions. Which is exactly what the Kremlin expected. The US through its astounding weakness is making the war longer and bloodier than it has to be.
⚡️Trump says US will not impose new sanctions on Russia.
“Because I think there’s a chance of getting something done, and if you do that, you could also make it much worse," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on May 19.
“Because I think there’s a chance of getting something done, and if you do that, you could also make it much worse," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on May 19.
Trump says he will not impose new sanctions on Russia
“Because I think there’s a chance of getting something done, and if you do that, you could also make it much worse," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on May 19.
kyivindependent.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you want peace in Ukraine, pressure Russia. If you want war, don’t. The Trump people only make concessions. Which is exactly what the Kremlin expected. The US through its astounding weakness is making the war longer and bloodier than it has to be.
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Quarto 1.7 is here! 🎉
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Quarto 1.7 – Quarto
Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new version shortcode, and improvements to the julia engine.
quarto.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Quarto 1.7 is here! 🎉
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Now you can easily add light/dark mode to your projects with brand files and control which computational outputs appear in each mode with the new renderings option.
See it in action on quarto.org and learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
#Quarto #QuartoPub
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Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at @svelte.dev Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01...
Observable Plot + Svelte = SveltePlot?
Outlining the idea for a new plotting framework in Svelte
www.vis4.net
April 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at @svelte.dev Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01...
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🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨 Tesla posts a $400M profit, down 71% year-over-year. Revenue is down nearly $2B compared to the same time last year. Wow.
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Les paroles et les actes…
April 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Les paroles et les actes…
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Did a quick write-up for non-cyber folks of the NLRB whistleblower filing regarding DOGE covertly stealing 10GB of data and giving their credentials to what appears to be Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
On Earth 1, this story, alone, would have […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
On Earth 1, this story, alone, would have […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
![The Department Of Government [Data] Exfiltration?
NLRB DevSecOps Architect Daniel Berulis filed a whistleblower disclosure alleging the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) obtained unauthorized system access, resulting in apparent Russian login attempts and approximately 10GB of data exfiltration. Security logs were allegedly deleted, investigation attempts thwarted, and Berulis received physical threats at his home. Congressional investigation requested.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twerjlabpqmvieyx3roydios/bafkreidjgyhugyn2gvwcz7cwjk7cdsfjxxjonq4j6wwukal5la54qx5zia@jpeg)
April 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Did a quick write-up for non-cyber folks of the NLRB whistleblower filing regarding DOGE covertly stealing 10GB of data and giving their credentials to what appears to be Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
On Earth 1, this story, alone, would have […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
On Earth 1, this story, alone, would have […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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« J’ai entendu le président de la République dire qu’il faudrait rendre inéligible à vie ceux qui ont été condamnés pour corruption et fraude fiscale.
Ah bon ? Et pourquoi pas le reste ?
Pourquoi pas pour détournement de fonds publics ? »
— Marine Le Pen, le 5 avril 2013.
#PassionArchives
Ah bon ? Et pourquoi pas le reste ?
Pourquoi pas pour détournement de fonds publics ? »
— Marine Le Pen, le 5 avril 2013.
#PassionArchives
March 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
« J’ai entendu le président de la République dire qu’il faudrait rendre inéligible à vie ceux qui ont été condamnés pour corruption et fraude fiscale.
Ah bon ? Et pourquoi pas le reste ?
Pourquoi pas pour détournement de fonds publics ? »
— Marine Le Pen, le 5 avril 2013.
#PassionArchives
Ah bon ? Et pourquoi pas le reste ?
Pourquoi pas pour détournement de fonds publics ? »
— Marine Le Pen, le 5 avril 2013.
#PassionArchives
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#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has just filed more on their motion to dismiss the Fraud claim.
Here's a summary of where the case stands: deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
Here's a summary of where the case stands: deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
March 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has just filed more on their motion to dismiss the Fraud claim.
Here's a summary of where the case stands: deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
Here's a summary of where the case stands: deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
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For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago.
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Here is part 1, which discusses the week in which the USA started working with Putin to help
Russians kill Ukrainians. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Russians kill Ukrainians. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Hi All, I released the first part of my weekend update early (it’s all free) because what we are seeing is so extreme it needs to be said now. The USA is now openly admitting to helping Russia kill Ukrainians. Indeed, Trump seems to be enjoying it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #123: The Week The USA Started Killing Ukrainians
Part 1: The Trump Plan to Damage Ukraine and Help Russia
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Here is part 1, which discusses the week in which the USA started working with Putin to help
Russians kill Ukrainians. bsky.app/profile/phil...
Russians kill Ukrainians. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
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A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...