Head over to Instagram for my latest (incredibly niche) song about the Compass app. #iykyk instagram.com/reel/C0FUYK8Sa…

🚨 🌡️August will be the warmest month ever recorded in Longyearbyen (Svalbard) at 78°N in the Arctic, reaching an average temperature of 11°C (+-0.1°C). This surpasses even July's records by a large margin, while July is historically the warmest month. Uncharted territory.

These higher ed teacher performance standards featured again in a morning newsletter. I have a real problem with defining teaching in such a way that only half of us (at the most) can ever be good enough teachers. uniteachingcriteria.edu.au/framework/indi…

What is a Labor Govt for? abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0…

When I say that Germany has its own “morality police,” I am referring to the so-called “Sharia Police,” self-appointed enforcers of Sharia law. Since I published the video of a Muslim man harassing two women for not wearing “proper” clothing, I have received direct messages

This is an utterly shocking account from journalist Sarah Wilkinson of her recent violent arrest by 16 counter-terrorism police, several masked, at 7.30am. They smashed up, or stole, many of her belongings; emptied an urn of her mother's remains over the floor; have denied her

For years people have called out my categorising of green and blue and told me I was colour blind - but I can see the colours perfectly well, I just categorise them weird - and it's nice to be vindicated, but also weird to see it spelled out like this. ismy.blue

Data sitting in S3 Compressed in Parquet files Accessed in Postgres (through DuckDB) with low level Postgres extension hooks As new data arrives, materialized views automatically refreshed In short a fairly sophisticated data pipeline in 4 lines of SQL x.com/crunchydata/st…

instant-feedback SQL editing aka "query-as-you-type" uses DuckDB's AST, duckdb-wasm for local-first caching, and MotherDuck as the backend Still early, but should enable arbitrary scale and still retain a near real-time feel while writing ad hoc queries! Bye bye run button 👋

C++ code is out! The Signed Heat Method has been added to geometry-central. In 3D, compute generalized SDFs to point clouds, triangle meshes, and polygon meshes. The method should "just work" on geometry with holes, intersections, nonmanifold-ness, etc. Links below 🔽

I am running out of words to describe how absurd August 2024 was in Svalbard. Reaching an average temperature of 11°C in August would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This is totally bonkers.

Air raid alerts visualization for the last 5 months in Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv from my sirens viz. Proper uninterupted sleep have been a luxury in Kyiv recently, but it's nothing compared to the absolute living hell in Kharkiv and recently Sumy. observablehq.com/@mourner/sirens

🎧 Yup, that’s right—the GLaD podcast has returned, with a special Back to School episode in which ljw Dani Arribas-Bel `@[email protected]` and I confront our summer work goal demons and strategize how to have the best academic year ever…sort of…#GLaDpodcast open.spotify.com/episode/7pAljq…

This was so fascinating. I had a teflon knitting needle on @ISS and charged it by rubbing with my Russian fur boots. Then I directed water droplets from a syringe towards the charged knitting needle and this is the resulting dynamics. The droplets, due to charge forces, go

Crews have begun chainsawing and shredding thousands of protected Joshua trees to make way for a sprawling solar field in the Mojave Desert. Century-old trees become a pile of dust. “Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish” bit.ly/4dSFEm6

The Economist has absolutely smashed it out of the park with this article. A classic Economist analysis piece, clipped style, but not being said elsewhere. A 🧵

We are thrilled to invite you to our next GeoSPA Talk seminar by Dr. Martin Tomko Martin Tomko @[email protected] from University of Melbourne who is visiting us next week Aalto University 😊🗺️🛰️ Register here: forms.gle/RTeGXF3suQSZyR…

‘Infinite’ Lego domino ring 📹 JK Brickworks

It’s finally out!!! 🎉👀 The OSM Philippines will host the global #SOTM2025, the first-ever in Southeast Asia! 🌏 We're excited to welcome the OSM community to the Philippines. See you next year in Manila! 🇵🇭 youtu.be/Q5dyxy6YxG0

Beautiful feeling to be at my first #QGISUC2024 - at my Alma mater! #svf_stuba 20 since I was in the building! #qgis