steph
@urschrei.bsky.social
Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
Yes do it (are we talking normal expensive or…German expensive?)
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Yes do it (are we talking normal expensive or…German expensive?)
Mods! Mods!!
[æons pass; the seas turn to deserts and the mountains themselves are brought low by the relentless march of uncountable years etc.]
yes, hello.
[æons pass; the seas turn to deserts and the mountains themselves are brought low by the relentless march of uncountable years etc.]
yes, hello.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Mods! Mods!!
[æons pass; the seas turn to deserts and the mountains themselves are brought low by the relentless march of uncountable years etc.]
yes, hello.
[æons pass; the seas turn to deserts and the mountains themselves are brought low by the relentless march of uncountable years etc.]
yes, hello.
The follow-up is hilarious though. A month!
CORRECTION: The post was made on Oct 10. Due to a backlog in cases, our mod team didn’t review and take action until Nov 11, which is when we engaged with the account owner about the reason for suspension.
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The follow-up is hilarious though. A month!
Catching a time-out for breaking the site’s best-known rule and immediately taking to Substack to farm some clout about it by implying that the shadowy hand of the Powers That Be is at work again, up to its usual tricks suppressing The Truth.
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Catching a time-out for breaking the site’s best-known rule and immediately taking to Substack to farm some clout about it by implying that the shadowy hand of the Powers That Be is at work again, up to its usual tricks suppressing The Truth.
You can spin up a local MeiliSearch instance in a Docker container and have the text in there and fully searchable (with boosting and ranking) in about 15 minutes if you’re taking your time with it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
You can spin up a local MeiliSearch instance in a Docker container and have the text in there and fully searchable (with boosting and ranking) in about 15 minutes if you’re taking your time with it.
The clown prince of the Unseelie Court
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The clown prince of the Unseelie Court
And then farming for clout on Substack of all places! You almost have to admire it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
And then farming for clout on Substack of all places! You almost have to admire it.
As I said, whether you or
I agree with the mod actions in this instance – or with this site’s moderation policies in general – is not the point. Stop acting like marks and learn how pdsls works.
I agree with the mod actions in this instance – or with this site’s moderation policies in general – is not the point. Stop acting like marks and learn how pdsls works.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As I said, whether you or
I agree with the mod actions in this instance – or with this site’s moderation policies in general – is not the point. Stop acting like marks and learn how pdsls works.
I agree with the mod actions in this instance – or with this site’s moderation policies in general – is not the point. Stop acting like marks and learn how pdsls works.
Told you. High-follower accounts of a certain kind have been playing a metagame on social media practically since the day they realised that attention is valuable to them. Screeching about shadow bans and other inexplicable mod actions is probably the original move, in fact.
The account owner was immediately notified of the reason for the content takedown and engaged in a discussion with our moderation team. Our community guidelines prohibit content that threatens or wishes harm to others. 2/2
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Told you. High-follower accounts of a certain kind have been playing a metagame on social media practically since the day they realised that attention is valuable to them. Screeching about shadow bans and other inexplicable mod actions is probably the original move, in fact.
Both jetstream and the firehose are archived, searchable, and the contents immutable (or at least verifiably not-tampered-with) mining either for blobs created by her did with the “post” type is…I won’t say trivial, but straightforward. That should shrink the possibility space a lot.
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Both jetstream and the firehose are archived, searchable, and the contents immutable (or at least verifiably not-tampered-with) mining either for blobs created by her did with the “post” type is…I won’t say trivial, but straightforward. That should shrink the possibility space a lot.
I'm not an expert on US geodata, but @knaaptime.com is, and might have some ideas. The lowest common denominator here is you draw them yourself (boring, time-consuming, but should work, depending on your use case).
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I'm not an expert on US geodata, but @knaaptime.com is, and might have some ideas. The lowest common denominator here is you draw them yourself (boring, time-consuming, but should work, depending on your use case).
[in James C Scott voice] unless what you know the boundaries of the neighbourhoods to be exist as administrative units, you're probably out of luck. The city doesn't recognise them. OSM Overpass queries are showing some boundaries: overpass-turbo.eu/s/2fcN, but that's probably not enough.
overpass turbo
A web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap which runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map.
overpass-turbo.eu
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
[in James C Scott voice] unless what you know the boundaries of the neighbourhoods to be exist as administrative units, you're probably out of luck. The city doesn't recognise them. OSM Overpass queries are showing some boundaries: overpass-turbo.eu/s/2fcN, but that's probably not enough.
Yes, that’s where this is going in the short term (MHCLG, or parts of it, are embracing LLMs with the same zeal that other parts of the government purport to). It’s difficult to see how planning – as a profession – is going to cope with it in its current form.
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yes, that’s where this is going in the short term (MHCLG, or parts of it, are embracing LLMs with the same zeal that other parts of the government purport to). It’s difficult to see how planning – as a profession – is going to cope with it in its current form.
Perhaps we can look forward to changes to the process in a decade because nobody's passing legislation to prevent the use of computer assistance in preparing an objection (please sketch out an idea of how it might work; assume I'm familiar with the planning process and know a little about LLMs / ML)
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Perhaps we can look forward to changes to the process in a decade because nobody's passing legislation to prevent the use of computer assistance in preparing an objection (please sketch out an idea of how it might work; assume I'm familiar with the planning process and know a little about LLMs / ML)
The many bafflements of the Beano
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The many bafflements of the Beano
I don’t think that’s conspiratorial. Have they even started investing cash? It was previously “compute” (certainly on the part of Microsoft) which is classic MS behaviour: “we have lots of spare capacity, why not leverage it to acquire tech that someone else is doing the heavy lifting to invent”.
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I don’t think that’s conspiratorial. Have they even started investing cash? It was previously “compute” (certainly on the part of Microsoft) which is classic MS behaviour: “we have lots of spare capacity, why not leverage it to acquire tech that someone else is doing the heavy lifting to invent”.