Innisfree
@innisfree.bsky.social
geography, GIS, data visualization, people and the environment, inventing a liveable future, pedagogy and tech, cats, geeky stuff
Does anyone have recommendations for a beginner video on mutual aid? Like one appropriate for college freshmen?
February 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Does anyone have recommendations for a beginner video on mutual aid? Like one appropriate for college freshmen?
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What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
February 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What can you do about the assault on USAID?
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Trump to abandon his plans to rename the continent’s largest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley. #ISTANDWITHDENALI
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Trump to abandon his plans to rename the continent’s largest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley. #ISTANDWITHDENALI
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Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
February 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
DON'T DO IT.
If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.
Document, document, document.
Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document
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U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.
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Transformative Thursday: Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor in the 1950s, proving continental drift and reshaping geology. 🌍📡 Her work was dismissed as “girl talk” until it changed science forever. How would we understand Earth without her discovery? #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
tiny.cc/fl29001
tiny.cc/fl29001
Marie Tharp's groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world
In part because of her gender, Tharp was the right person in the right place at the right time to make the first detailed maps of the ocean’s bottom.
tiny.cc
February 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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once again, @theonion.com for the win
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
once again, @theonion.com for the win
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Map of the Day: Denali, the highest peak North America at 20,310 feet (6,190 m). Centuries ago, the Koyukon people gave it the name which means ‘Great One.’ Popular among climbers, the mountain is within Denali National Park.
February 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Map of the Day: Denali, the highest peak North America at 20,310 feet (6,190 m). Centuries ago, the Koyukon people gave it the name which means ‘Great One.’ Popular among climbers, the mountain is within Denali National Park.
Strawberry pickers in CA getting information about how to stay safe and avoid deportation while they are working to pick our food.
Que triste lo que estamos viviendo, aquí en California! 😢🥺🙏🇺🇸🍓🇲🇽 #fresa #strawberry
YouTube video by El campesino
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Strawberry pickers in CA getting information about how to stay safe and avoid deportation while they are working to pick our food.
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Our coalition has grown to 30,000 federal employees. Details regarding new guidance will be distributed. For those not in our coalition, here is a public message: hide any online content that is public, document everything you witness or experience, and keep daily notes at home with dates and times.
January 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our coalition has grown to 30,000 federal employees. Details regarding new guidance will be distributed. For those not in our coalition, here is a public message: hide any online content that is public, document everything you witness or experience, and keep daily notes at home with dates and times.
I hate Word. Anyone have recommendations for alternatives that aren't so difficult to format documents in?
January 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I hate Word. Anyone have recommendations for alternatives that aren't so difficult to format documents in?
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I'm experimenting with putting my hachures on new media. Now I've also got mugs & vinyl decals. If you want to support my art, tell your mountain-loving friends!
And weirdly enough, the designs all still seem to refer to the highest peak in North America as "Denali."
terrainlines.etsy.com
And weirdly enough, the designs all still seem to refer to the highest peak in North America as "Denali."
terrainlines.etsy.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm experimenting with putting my hachures on new media. Now I've also got mugs & vinyl decals. If you want to support my art, tell your mountain-loving friends!
And weirdly enough, the designs all still seem to refer to the highest peak in North America as "Denali."
terrainlines.etsy.com
And weirdly enough, the designs all still seem to refer to the highest peak in North America as "Denali."
terrainlines.etsy.com
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January 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@sciam.bsky.social republished my piece on toponyms. Everyone wants to know "Can the president just do that?" Only if we let him. Rule 1 - Do not obey in advance. Google should be ashamed. He can direct federal employees, but the rest of us don't have to obey. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico?
A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided
www.scientificamerican.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
@sciam.bsky.social republished my piece on toponyms. Everyone wants to know "Can the president just do that?" Only if we let him. Rule 1 - Do not obey in advance. Google should be ashamed. He can direct federal employees, but the rest of us don't have to obey. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
I wrote this explainer about toponyms. Toponyms matter. The disturbing part is the executive order clearly states that anyone who doesn't go along with his ideas should be fired. tinyurl.com/s5v4hwxa
via @ConversationUS
via @ConversationUS
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
tinyurl.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote this explainer about toponyms. Toponyms matter. The disturbing part is the executive order clearly states that anyone who doesn't go along with his ideas should be fired. tinyurl.com/s5v4hwxa
via @ConversationUS
via @ConversationUS
If someone trains an AI model, who owns the trained model? Does someone who the underlying algorithms?
December 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
If someone trains an AI model, who owns the trained model? Does someone who the underlying algorithms?
I'm mapping community gardens in the Twin Cities as part of a larger effort to map and quantify urban ag. Let me know what I'm missing!
uwstout.maps.arcgis.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:09 AM
I'm mapping community gardens in the Twin Cities as part of a larger effort to map and quantify urban ag. Let me know what I'm missing!
This summer I would like to attend academic conferences but zipping across the country/world on a plane multiple times a year seems irresponsible. I'm planning to buy a rail pass for 30 days and then travel across the US attending conferences. $499 for 10 "legs" of travel in 30 days. Thoughts?
December 4, 2024 at 8:05 PM
This summer I would like to attend academic conferences but zipping across the country/world on a plane multiple times a year seems irresponsible. I'm planning to buy a rail pass for 30 days and then travel across the US attending conferences. $499 for 10 "legs" of travel in 30 days. Thoughts?
Who is working on training "deep learning" in ArcGIS Pro for specific landuses? Lets be friends! #remotesensing #geoAI #gischat #gis
December 2, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Who is working on training "deep learning" in ArcGIS Pro for specific landuses? Lets be friends! #remotesensing #geoAI #gischat #gis
So this morning I discovered that my university website now comes with an AI chat assistant! Woohoo!
December 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM
So this morning I discovered that my university website now comes with an AI chat assistant! Woohoo!
I always just teach myself new stuff. But are online certificates or even testing and certifications worth the trouble/$$$? Thoughts? This would be in data science or GIS. Or is a portfolio of project better evidence of what you can do? #gis #gischat #datascience #datavisualization #cartography
December 1, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I always just teach myself new stuff. But are online certificates or even testing and certifications worth the trouble/$$$? Thoughts? This would be in data science or GIS. Or is a portfolio of project better evidence of what you can do? #gis #gischat #datascience #datavisualization #cartography
How is it that I'm not following all the cartographers, GIS folks, and data visualization folks yet? How many of us are there???
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 AM
How is it that I'm not following all the cartographers, GIS folks, and data visualization folks yet? How many of us are there???
I'm definitely into type 3. I'm certain that if we just had a large dataset, we could find some novel patterns in there. 😆
![XKCD Comic #2977. Transcript pulled from explainxkcd.com:
[A single panel with three separate drawings.]
[Caption above the drawings:]
The Three Kinds of Scientific Research:
[Cueball is pointing to a scatter plot with a best-fit curve.]
Cueball: We applied a standard theory to novel circumstances and got some surprising results.
[Miss Lenhart is pointing to a similar scatter plot.]
Miss Lenhart: We applied a novel theory to standard circumstances and got some intriguing results.
[Hairy, with leaves in their messy hair and on their body, is pointing to another chart that is covered in random dots and unidentifiable shapes, while having both arms raised. Leaves are falling from their body and are scattered on the ground at their feet. A stick is stuck in their hair.]
Hairy: Finally, a map of every tree.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:76cmi4ufav2zmftrmu5lvbdu/bafkreiajpgerenjfg44ith73udwtdaf4omez27mnl3hqhi3d57ej7365tm@jpeg)
November 19, 2024 at 4:48 AM
I'm definitely into type 3. I'm certain that if we just had a large dataset, we could find some novel patterns in there. 😆