@seav@en.osm.town2026-08-17 10:43:40
Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. 🥳
(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)
#maps #Mapstodon
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-08-17 11:31:12
Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-08-17 11:31:12
Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-15 16:03:25
From Sputnik to Starship - estimating the experience curve of #SpaceLaunch technology: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/7/pgag217/8732400?login=false -> For more than 60 years, the cost of transporting payload into space has been falling: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Transport-of-payload-into-space-SpaceX-as-the-East-India-Company-of-our-time-11365594.html - according to an analysis, there is no comparable development in history.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-11 03:53:50
Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) indicated that he and other Republican lawmakers
were exploring ways to reinterpret the meaning of the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause,
following the Supreme Court ruling last month against Donald Trump’s attempt to do so through executive order.
In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Johnson cited the dissenting opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas,
who argued that the 14th Amendment o…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-06-09 00:00:36
Want the world to change? That's easy from the couch.
But do you actually enjoy the changing part when it shows up in your own life?
The uncertainty we fight against is the same thing as the possibility we want. They're not separate. They're one thing felt from both sides.
What if the falling apart is the doorway?
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-10 11:25:45
Filing: regulators in Australia and New Zealand cleared Paramount's WBD acquisition, which Australia says is "unlikely" to substantially lessen competition (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-06-03 21:15:16
Privacy Becomes You, Bayou State: A Look at the Louisiana Data Privacy Act
https://fpf.org/blog/privacy-becomes-you-bayou-state-a-look-at-the-louisiana-data-privacy-act/
@…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-06 16:12:58
The Far-right Louisiana Attorney General who threatened to 'take out' Democratic New Orleans Mayor in a coup
has been indicted on 16 felonies.
In the weeks prior to MAGA’s April 30th coup in Louisiana
(When a 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 was declared to cancel elections
-- all to remove a Black Congressman)
MAGA did something awful that received far less attention…
In 2025, Calvin Duncan,
a wrongfully incarcerated man,
who fought for his release…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-01 18:17:39
Does journalism face its gravest danger yet?
Christiane Amanpour speaks to reporter Amy Goodman and filmmaker Tia Lessin, about their new documentary exploring the fight for an independent press.
Then: A powerful new exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till was denied. Historian Sarah Lewis and the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. join the show to discuss.
And: Long before Silicon Valley dominated our lives, Paulina Borsook warned of its growing power. Michel Martin speaks to the …