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@kavi.bsky.social

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PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run. endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut they/them Developer and operator of urbanstats.org 📍 Cambridge Mass

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Urban Stats 30.0.0 🚨

Added international weather data to urban stats!

Also: added minimum daily temperature averages (and averages by season); seasons now represented by months not astronomical seasons.

You can now create global good weather maps!

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1m

It's kinda interesting that "clickbait" has such a modern etymology. What did people call misleading headlines before computers?

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah they're urban villains (original meaning)

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 3h

My cousin didn't notice it until I pointed it out because she was used to it in Mumbai lol

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 3h

Indiacoded

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 4h

I'm like 95% sure long term residents would like faster buses too, but many of them hated trash cans so 🤷‍♀️ tbh idk

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6h

TIL that making the buses faster is “ruining the city”

fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie
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sam is the east coast version of armand domalewski: he's well connected and wealthy; he's desperate to align with power, marketing himself as "just a smol bean guy;" and he's hellbent on ruining the city in which he *currently* lives for other, long term residents
Sam
@sam_d 1995
just a couple of guys talking about how we can speed up our buses

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 18h

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

But like bsky.app/profile/kavi...

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

I mean I'm sure that there's a nonzero number of more left leaning anti pharma conspiracy theorists that were won over into being less anti pharma by the covid vaccines, but the anti pharma conspiracy theories along the lines of "they're suppressing cancer cures" were mostly right wing in 2019 too

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

That's what I thought until I read the last tweet; it would in fact be inconsistent for someone who is deep enough in the conspiracy rabbithole to believe the pharmaceutical companies are covering up the cure for cancer to not be a conspiracy theorist about other pharma related stuff

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 22h

This person's view on the world is fascinating

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Like the show does not have Christian themes in general, they just decided to do a passion play for their first season finale out of nowhere

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The ending of Torchwood S1 is the funniest thing ever, they do the most unsubtle Christ analogy I've ever seen, down to Harkness being betrayed by his followers, dying for their sins in a fight with the literal devil, him being ressurected on the third day, and being taken away by God (the doctor)

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Like in this case it's pretty clearly bribery but I think it's understated how little democratic control there is over American foreign policy in the Middle East, the entire thing just kinda runs on autopilot

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely trying to imagine a guy who likes this, and the only american group I can think of is the Blob types who love gulf states for campist reasons

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

im sorry what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Showing this to the average Trump voter 20 years ago and watching them get angrier and angrier

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Juxtastat 769 3/5

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

Juxtastat 768 5/5

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

Opposition to abortion on genuine grounds of utilitarianism would be strongly supportive of contraceptive access. Anti abortion types generally are not, because they don't oppose the destruction of fetuses, they oppose a world where sex exists for reasons other than procreation

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans oppose abortion for the same reason they oppose gay marriage or trans people existing publicly: because it contradicts the vision they have for how society should be rigidly organized around gender lines

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

In general the Republican anti abortion position speaks liberal language, of rights and utilitarianism, so liberals imagine that it's a more popular element of the Republican social platform, but it isn't at all; and the utilitarian/rights language is just there because liberals humor it

eaglesadvocate @eaglesadvocate.bsky.social · 12d

He also needs to wear his thoughtlessness on running pro-life candidates. Coates calls him on the issue not being popular even in red states and Klein basically goes “ah, well, never-the-less”.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

- full RGB choropleth maps
- bug fixes: RTL text works now and colorbars fit in PNG exports

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Urban Stats 30.2.0 🚨

Variety of improvements and bug fixes!

- yearly stats now nest! Much cleaner interface
- ability to edit the insets on the mapper screen (by @spudwaffle.bsky.social)
- comparisons can now be reördered and sorted
- CSV export for most pages

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm pretty sure, this is called, swimming

Fun fact board saying "#200: penguins fly underwater"

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 3d

Like there's not that much real here beyond some datacenter construction. These companies don't employ a lot of people (like Microsoft does, but not people who actually work on the AI stuff) or underwrite mortgages or anything

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 3d

2008 was bad because of the fact that it involved the housing market and loans and stuff. This is almost all investment and the valuations are almost all expectation. If it bursts it just kinda disappears imo

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