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Santiago Pardo Sánchez
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digital mapping was on the ballot…and 27% voted no? some big soul searching for the online mapping community
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Apple noticing a decrease in Google searches, the loss of the “long Reddit comment” heuristic, and now a decrease in StackOverflow questions. AI clearly bringing about the rise of a new internet era.

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May 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Big news! The IMA is launching a #Map of the Month subscription. Support a variety of indy mappers making beautiful products, by giving the gift of exploration to yourself or someone special.

Please help share this limited offering (closes Jun 15)!

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May 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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This is a bit too on-the-nose -- the post-pandemic employment peak in the SF/San Jose metro areas was November 2022, the month ChatGPT launched.
May 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Disney wrote Andor season 2 like, specifically for me!
April 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
April 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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we have orders of magnitude more white criollos than the Spanish empire's viceroyalties and captaincy generals but not a single Bolívar in the bunch
Man, it's really striking how thoroughly and completely c19 liberalism—no kings, rule of law, free people, free markets—is revolutionary again.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The Barkin speech is the first Fed speech that’s really marked to market with where we are in March of Trump 2.0: www.richmondfed.org/press_room/s...
March 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Who else has been thinking about these guys all week?
March 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A cool thing about the figure above is it is set to 34 million years ago and the plates are adjusted accordingly. There's an R package for this! github.com/GPlates/rgpl...
GitHub - GPlates/rgplates: R interface to GPlates
R interface to GPlates. Contribute to GPlates/rgplates development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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And now for some good news: Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
March 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Friends and I are reading Caro’s LBJ bios this year and, as we come to the final parts of the first book, I’ve been surprised at how more New Deal pilled I’ve become.

I always knew FDR was goated, but the whole infra behind him and how it was implemented was top notch. Current Dems could never.
March 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Assorted thoughts on the Boston Lyric Opera’s The Seasons.

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March 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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the next time the veil is thin I'm explaining the Latina Belt Theory to my abuelita
March 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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This is the sort of cartography modern tools cant *really* do well, simply because there is no antidote to a staggering amount of labor here:
February 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The top 10% of households ($250k+ household income) now account for 50% of consumer spending: www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
The highest-earning 10% of Americans account for almost 50% of all consumer spending.
www.wsj.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Powell’s comment just now — “If you fast forward 10 or 15 years, they're going to be regions of the country where you can't get a mortgage ..” — echoes that recent NYT piece on insurance non-renewal rates.
February 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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In today's Odd Lots Newsletter, i wrote about Walter Ong Thought, and how as we return to Orality, we're completely re-wiring the logic engine of the human brain.

Get the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
February 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I finally got around to reading this great piece and wrote a couple of thoughts. I highly recommend you give Giuliana's piece a read.

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In the midst of one of the most gruesome periods of modern human history, whales experienced a rare moment of peace.

Now, a long-forgotten post-war museum collection is revealing how the slaughter has literally been etched into the very fibers of those whales.

www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic
A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.
www.biographic.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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My annual decarbonization presentation is here.

200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Decarbonization Christmas finally arrived! The @nathanielbullard.com annual presentation is live!

www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
Presentations — Nat Bullard
www.nathanielbullard.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Beyond tech industry implications of DeepSeek, I am wondering what this does to the ridiculous projections of electricity demand growth in the next 5 years.

This is a good time to take stock of unrealized efficiency gains in AI compute before we end up building a bunch of 30-year gas plants.
Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model
DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips.
www.wsj.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM