And while you're at it, get off all things Meta. Again this is not about recent news in isolation. If you doubt that Meta is a company that knowingly does serious harm in the world, I ask that you set some time aside to read https://erinkissane.com/meta-meta . In that context, the recent moderation announcements simply amount to an admission that they're never going to even try to do better.
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I don't usually get so strident on this, my professional account, but I'm writing it here because I understand the OS Geospatial Foundation is currently debating whether to quit X/Twitter, and there is some equivocating about the Nazi salute going on in the mailing list. So I felt a need to draw my line: ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß, especially when it comes from someone who's already spouted plenty of Nazi ideology. 🧵
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Please don't listen to the ADL making excuses for Musk. For many years they've made clear that they only care about Israel, not Diaspora Jews, never mind anyone else being persecuted in the world. And they've continued to carry water for Israel even as it does to Palestinians what generations of Europeans did to Jews. It's sad to say, but they are not a trustworthy source and haven't been for many years. 🧵
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I don't believe that Jews are first in the line of fire this time, but we do have the collective experience to understand how bad things can get. I am driven by solidarity with other groups--trans folk in particular--who I see as under more immediate threat. Everything that was unacceptable when done to my relatives, is equally so when done to others. It just feels a little more personal with that ancestral memory, and I am asking you to listen to those who know. 🧵
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That theory is this century's "Protocols of the Elders of Zion": a fabrication rooted in a work of fiction, which people choose to present as fact as a pretext for blaming Jews for whatever they are upset about. History has shown us where that kind of scapegoating leads, and I am asking you not to ignore it. 🧵
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As a Jew, I am asking you to please get the fuck off X/Twitter as an act of solidarity. This is not about this week's news in isolation--though I will note that https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitlergruss-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trump is the only article I've yet seen covering it correctly--but about seeing it in context with Musk having espoused many pieces of Nazi ideology over the years. I personally quit twitter a few months after he took it over, because of him espousing the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. 🧵
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Today I learned about the "barrel" as a unit of measure for land areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_of_land
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One of those days in which work is pretty much "yay, I made a thing look just like the thing it's replacing", and yet I know that the updates to the underlying plumbing are going to make life way easier in the long run.
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But perhaps more importantly: it's a reminder of how comparatively recent human expansion into most of Europe was. I'm more familiar with the arguments over the peopling of the Americas, which if anything may have happened earlier than shown here. But in that whole argument, I tend to forget that the whole range of estimates has people continuously present where I live now (NW North America) much longer than where I grew up (Britain).
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I just want to rave for a minute about this world map of the spread of humans: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/113527888543173510 (h/t @trochee )
First, it's a great use of the "Dymaxion" projection, which I don't often see in the wild, and rarer still without the distracting triangular cutouts of the ocean. I usually care too much about the oceans to want to use this one, but it's a good fit for the story being told here. (1/2)
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TFW you run into a problem and the most useful resource on the web is an email archive in which one of your clients asked about the same problem 3 years ago and @pwramsey answered.
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There are a couple that are drawn from the American Community Survey, which uses 5-year averages to make up for its comparatively smaller sample size in each year. Since the latest 5-year window started before the 2020 Census, they have to be mapped as 2010 Census Tracts. So far so good.
I noticed that the entire state of Connecticut was missing from one of those layers, so I had to investigate. Sure enough, it's in the data table, so what's going wrong here? (2/?)
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I have a new favourite geospatial open data bug: US Federal Register 220519-0117 "Change to County-Equivalents in the State of Connecticut".
Sooo... a thing I'm working on for a client is to show various sorts of demographic data at the US Census Tract level, to serve as context layers for the main thing we're building. Most of them come from the 2020 Census, and are straightforward enough to handle: one set of geometries with consistent IDs that all the stats tables can be joined by. (1/?)
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