Nerdy #GIS post but anybody know why would I ever want a GeometryCollection over a FeatureCollection in a GeoJSON file? Seems to break a number of tools like QGIS and tippecanoe
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We're at it again! CalMatters is tracking each of California's lawsuits against the second Trump administration
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-trump-lawsuits/
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Lollll I’d give myself a C/C- on this attempt. The stick pile was like a 24 inch cube and this is all I got and some of it clearly turned to ash
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Attempting to turn a huge-ish twig and wood pile into some homemade biochar in my small, urban backyard and not sure I nailed it tbh
Anybody have tips on how to achieve pyrolysis without special equipment?
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The fires in LA seem to be particularly destructive for an array of factors but a major one is just how dry it is in the area!
Soil moisture levels across southern California are between just 2% and 5% of average, "leaving dust where there should be mud" and resulting in alive plants burning like they're already dead, reports Alastair Bland
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/
[#]news #california #lafires
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In his reporting, Alastair talked to Alexandra Syphard, a senior research ecologist & adjunct prof at San Diego State who said not only would clearing brush from the whole area not have made a big difference on this fire, it might make things worse!
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/dry-danger-zone-california-fires-climate-change/#h-brush-clearing-wouldn-t-help-much-experts-say
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Per a city spokesperson Chan will be paid $340,812.60 annually (he got $593,240 when he was city manager) and will get "all benefits under that classification for up to 12 month" in his new role
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Ummm I have no real idea what nostr is but I do know that every reply I get from there is semi-unintelligible, somehow about BTC, and the usernames make no sense. I guess that's just part of the federation game
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FWIW, $352,000 for a city manager in California is nowhere near the top of the highest paid list. Here's the pay for city managers across the state
https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx?year=2023&rpt=9
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Last night #Sacramento City Council approved the contract for Interim City Manager Leyne Milstein (previously Asst. CM) with an annual salary of $352,000
But look who's back (or maybe just never left?): Howard Chan as "Special Advisor to the City Manager"
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The fires in LA now cover an area larger than 40,000 acres, a huge swath of land roughly the size of Washington, DC.
Still having a hard time visualizing the size? Use my latest interactive map for CalMatters to compare it to a place you know much better: where you live.
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-size-mapped/
[#]lafires #dataviz #datavis
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CalFire's data continues to get better and better! Or I just keep finding new stuff.
Either way, came across this #EatonFire dataset that has damage assessments per house & gets updated frequently. Not only that but it looks like there's a similar dataset for other recent major fires.
[#]opendata #gis #lafires
https://gis.data.cnra.ca.gov/apps/2e9b269c863c43a7a8cffadb951e19f1/explore
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Here's a screenshot of a neighborhood in Altadena with the data showing where homes were damaged & by how much
Also drives home the point that fire perimeters are just that: perimeters - they don't mean that everything within them has burned
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All the photos are stunning but this one really got me - I'm finding it nearly impossible to imagine my neighborhood reduced to ash & chimneys
This photo, taken by Jules Hotz, shows only a fireplace remaining after a home was burned down by the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 8, 2025
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There's no shortage of heart-breaking photos from the fires in LA (support your local media with $$ or it might not be there next year!) but the CalMatters visuals team published a sad and harrowing collection today
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/la-fires-photos/
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The state Senate Insurance Committee doesn't have a chair as the huge fires in LA escalate the state's insurance crisis because of questions around a federal corruption investigation reports Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-democrat-senate-bribery-investigation/
[#]caleg #calmatters
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
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I certainly don't know the ins-and-outs of the #watchduty software stack but I find it quite striking that a free-to-use tech product, run by a non-profit, that has been indispensable for millions of ppl in the last week only has content produced by humans with names and bios, with nary an AI in sight.
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When a woman refused a Border Patrol demand to get out of a vehicle at a gas station, after the driver was detained on his way out of the store, an officer from another agency "parked his vehicle behind the woman, blocking her car... it wasn’t until the local Univision station showed up that Border Patrol agents backed up their car and allowed the woman to leave."
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Major Border Patrol raids have been happening in the California Central Valley at a scale that some life-long Bakersfield residents say hasn’t happened before, reports Sergio Olmos for CalMatters.
“They were stopping cars at random, asking people for papers,” said United Farm Worker's Antonio De Loera-Brust of what appears to be the first large-scale raid in the state since Trump's election.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/
[#]california #news
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