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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 15h

Everybody, if you can, do the Bartman (Woah)

Shake your body, turn it out if you're bad, man (Check it out, man)

Front to back, to the side, yes, you can-can (Bartman)

Everybody in the house, do the Bartman (Uh-huh)

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 17h

What if Kayfabe but real?

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 19h

(Credit to @rokotyan.com)

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 19h

Lovely slides from Cosmos.gl, the animation in person is really smooth

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PlanScore @planscore.org · 1d

VEST has been critical infrastructure for years of redistricting analysis

University of Florida Election Lab @ufelectionlab.bsky.social · 1d

With thanks to support from @davesredist.bsky.social we've made the VEST Florida 2022 and 2024 precinct shapefiles available to the public election.lab.ufl.edu/data-archive...

» Florida UF Election Lab

election.lab.ufl.edu

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 1d

“The Wilhoit Maneuver”

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

“Four months ago, in Skrmetti, the Court used purported medical uncertainty to give Tennessee more flexibility to discriminate. Today, Alito used purported medical uncertainty to give Colorado less flexibility to protect.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 1d

Sky business

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 1d

Stoked for all those early-aughts Ivrea weirdos though

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 1d

If the Illinois National Guard ends up being deployed too, you can tell the difference between TX and IL by their patches

TX = Arrowhead with T
IL = Shield with Abe Lincoln’s head

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois. They're calling them Meal Team 6.

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 1d

Clear example of bias

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 2d

What a weird headline: "Crime is down and scandals have faded, but can Barbara Lee turn Oakland around?" Sounds like she has.

Crime is down and scandals have faded, but can Barbara Lee turn Oakland around?

The mayor recently completed 100 days in office and gives her State of the City speech Tuesday. Oakland experts credit her with bringing steadiness to the job, but the challenges remain acute.

www.sfchronicle.com

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 2d

NO DRAB GAB TUESDAY

SLUGGO IS IN HIS BEATNIK ATTIRE
BERET, SHADES AND A GOATEE

SLUGGO : AND I DON'T BLAB ANY DRAB GAB-I CHATTER HEP PATTER

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Sky business

Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 2d

nice moon

Moonrise over Twin Peaks next to SutroTower

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

My only reservation is that reasoning about sub processes is also a bit hard, maybe more hard than just Python. The GDAL API is really verbose but today’s LLMs make short work of it.

Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Like old wanked-on socks

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Like just shelling out to ogr2ogr and gdal_translate? Makes sense! Felt started there and that worked okay for a short while. Weird tabular formats always blow it up.

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

This is most of the programming I do by hand these days, I prefer the GDAL API to higher-level libs like Fiona (which Hobu tells me is “unusual”)

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 2d

"Well, that's the perverse thing. All of this frenzied investment in AI is driven by people who seem unaware that much of the eco-system will be quickly commoditized, whether it's large language models, hyperscaler services or the underlying hardware, like CPUs and GPUs."

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

I mounted the battery, charge controller, and inverter into a workbench that also includes my table saw and miter saw. Mostly it sits in the garage like its predecessor but when I need to use the tools I can now wheel out one big thing instead of fussing with many little things.

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Just plug & drive!

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Putting Profs On Dots

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

That is some DeWalt Modern design. The tool companies are making worksite microwaves, boomboxes, and espresso machines, why not whole trucks matching the house style?

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

There are some things money can't buy

kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

Oh I don’t know, the appearance of two perfectly overlapping fiery rings in the sky doesn’t seem like a good omen to me, even at low frequencies. [gizmodo.com]

Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space.

gizmodo.com

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 2d

Sky business

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 3d

I guess people call them horseshoes

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