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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle

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Geo-geek, Geographer, Technologist, Outdoor Enthusiast, Dog Lover ---- Principal GeoOutlook, LLC ---- Opinions are my own

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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 23/03/2026
Thrilled to see the stand up of the HIFLD Next Commons to continue open access to and stewardship of this critical data source. hifld.publicenvirodata.org
hifld.publicenvirodata.org
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 15/02/2026
So much fun, do yourself a favor and go see this www.imdb.com/title/tt1341...
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) ⭐ 7.6 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
2h 14m | R
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 17/01/2026
The countdown is almost over, headed to @north51conference.bsky.social in a few days. Looking forward to several days of engaging discussion and sharing my thoughts on how AI is driving new opportunities in geospatial without the traditional GUI analysis and consumption platforms. #North51
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 11/01/2026
All the guitar players I know would rejoice at the offer of "another silly guitar-pedal". share.google/NqMh0hvZKImX...
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Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding
In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 14/12/2025
My faith has been restored...I was beginning to think my childhood was a lie and no one ever got caught in quick sand. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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Stuck in Quicksand, a Hiker in Utah Has His SOS Answered
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 23/11/2025
As they say, I may not know a lot about art, but I know what I like...and I like this! 🐕🐕🐕
Paul Gauguin - Still Life With Three PuppiesLabel for piece of art
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 14/11/2025
Do yourself a favor and go check out the new Tycho/Paul Banks track! open.spotify.com/track/6pVETl...
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Boundary Rider
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 13/10/2025
Regardless of your thoughts on the potential outcomes of current events I encourage you to give this a read, it is a thought provoking look at past events. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 30/08/2025
There are definitely some piles of money being set on fire with now.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 21/08/2025
You had me at Maps!
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 17/08/2025
"Among people who write with two spaces after periods there was an increase in reading speed of 3 percent when reading text with two spaces following periods, as compared to one. This is, Johnson points out, an average of nine additional words per minute” www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period
A new study proves that half of people are correct. The other is also correct.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 25/07/2025
This is totally fucked www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 16/07/2025
AI bias FTW, be careful how you use your new robot best friend.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 16/07/2025
The US needs to be paying attention or we are going to cede a decades long advantage in Space. share.google/lvRUoXM5vnHe...
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China appears to pull off satellite feat that NASA has never achieved
Reports that China may have docked two satellites in geostationary orbit developed on Sunday.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 07/07/2025
"But the deeper concern isn’t about any single congressional race or even the balance of power in the Senate — it’s about the long-term health of our political institutions." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/o...
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Opinion | Jeff Flake: The Republican Fever Must Break
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 09/06/2025
Have you read it yet?
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 04/06/2025
Very cool dashboard offered by Kayhan Space that allows you to watch Albedo's Clarity-1 sat as it navigates its way down to VLEO. www.satcat.com/sats/63227
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Track CLARITY-1 (NORAD ID: 63227) live with Satcat
CLARITY-1, 63227 is a payload satellite in SSO that was launched on Sat, 15 Mar 2025 UTC via an FALCON 9 launch vehicle from the Air Force Western Test Range (AFWTR). Payload-class satellites includ...
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 04/06/2025
Lots of challenges ahead, how we address them is key. This statement will be at the core of my approach.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 02/06/2025
Looking forward to the discussion at #EOSummit next week. Going to be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and make some new ones!
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 27/05/2025
This seems to be a growing challenge in many professions based on conversations I've had. How are you deciding what AI tools are up to the demands of your work?
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 05/05/2025
“The tariffs themselves are a shock to the system, and the shock is echoed and amplified across the entire chain. Even if there is resolution, it will take nine to 12 months to work out these bumps.” www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports.
A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.
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GeoOutlook, LLC @geooutlook.com · 25/04/2025
This topic has been coming up a lot lately, we can do better, but drastic, arbitrary cuts are not the way. Doing this right won't be fast and it won't be easy...but it will deliver crucial results to further our exploration and understanding of space www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...
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NASA Needs Rational Reforms, Not Reckless Cuts
We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 19/04/2025
"The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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One Simple Hack to Ruin Your Easter
The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 16/04/2025
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_...
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Dachau concentration camp - Wikipedia
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 14/04/2025
🤔 www.colorado.edu/polisci/2024...
colorado.edu
The Demise of Democracy in El Salvador
With a murder rate of around 52 per 100,000 residents, El Salvador has long been recognized as one of the most dangerous countries in the world (Statista
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 06/04/2025
This is a) hard to watch b) hilarious c) all of the above Jake Tapper asks agricultural secretary about tariffs on islands populated by penguins www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/p...
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Jake Tapper asks agricultural secretary about tariffs on islands populated by penguins | CNN Politics
CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins about tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, questioning why Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territ...
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GeoOutlook, LLC @geooutlook.com · 03/04/2025
Excited to see if this succeeds in creating some competition for StarLink. Also interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts on this upcoming launch. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Amazon targets April 9 launch of first Kuiper internet satellites
Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network next week, pinning down a long-awaited start to the company's plan to deploy a massive constellation that will rival Elon Musk's Starlink system.
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GeoOutlook, LLC @geooutlook.com · 03/04/2025
Should we spend less, probably Could we spend less, probably Are we falling behind, most definitely We need to bring this topic to the forefront and figure it out spacenews.com/space-force-...
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Space Force budget squeeze: Saltzman worries about keeping pace with China amid cuts
“We are literally shrinking in resources as a Space Force,” Gen. Chance Saltzman said.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 31/03/2025
I hope one day to professionally write a sentence this amazing (but less depressing): “I think we are going to see an absolutely staggering orgy of corruption and crony capitalism in the next four years unlike anything we’ve seen since the late 19th century, the Gilded Age.” tinyurl.com/3u6nf49c
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One Word Describes Trump
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 29/03/2025
Let's go Rapids!
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 26/03/2025
Please discuss..."Such a vehicle would, in theory, be large enough to deploy TIE Fighters." arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit
Taking tactically responsive space to the next level. Literally.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 25/03/2025
Does this hurt your feelings? Does it make you angry? Do you feel all worked up and want to tell someone how this is an afront to your very being? Congratulations you have big boy toddler feelings and need to go back to preschool.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 25/03/2025
If you think this is how it works please go fuck off...far away from me. "The father of the world's richest man Elon Musk has insisted that his son isn't racist, claiming that his son had Black friends growing up: his family’s servants." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Elon Musk’s dad touts billionaire’s friendships with his ‘Black servants’ as a kid
Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you”
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 23/03/2025
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 23/03/2025
WTFO? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Boggles the mind’: US defence department slashes research on emerging threats
Terminated projects include studies on the implications of AI in combat and how extremism spreads online.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 19/03/2025
Sounds advice for stairs at a bar and life these days
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 19/03/2025
Let's do it
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 16/03/2025
Banksy experience
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 15/03/2025
This does not look like hospital grade to me, looks like someone spit Spaghetti Os all over my tray table www.united.com/en/us/newsro...
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 14/03/2025
These are the worst kind of people to work with: www.marketwatch.com/story/linked...
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LinkedIn co-founder says Americans don't understand this about Elon Musk
Elon Musk takes a hammer-and-nail approach to everything, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says.
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Leen McBeans @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Sorry, can’t. Too busy starting fights with strangers online about pizza
Regional pizza meme
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 09/03/2025
FFS
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 08/03/2025
Anyone know the marketing team behind this ad?
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 05/03/2025
"We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset. If so, Trump's acquisition is the crowning achievement of Putin's FSB career - and Europe is on its own." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
'Donald Trump could be Russian agent' says top Tory after Ukraine betrayal
Former Tory minister Graham Stuart has questioned whether Donald Trump is a 'Russian asset' after he suspended military aid to Ukraine in a massive boost to tyrant Vladimir Putin
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 04/03/2025
"Musk’s exceedingly powerful role leading DOGE and myriad business interests present obvious and staggering potential conflicts of interests, which government contracting rules and ethics requirements are supposed to prohibit." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
After Trump and Musk gutted the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 03/03/2025
Sources tell WIRED that Germany, Canada, Spain, and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica. www.wired.com/story/doge-a...
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DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica
Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 02/03/2025
I am totally ready to watch a "For All Mankind" reality show www.reuters.com/technology/s...
reuters.com
US firm Firefly's Blue Ghost moon lander locks in for lunar touchdown
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander tightened its lunar orbit on Sunday before its inaugural attempt at an uncrewed touchdown, nearing a pivotal moment for one of a handful of private firms on the frontlines of a global moon race.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 28/02/2025
Every American should be embarrassed by this
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 26/02/2025
Votes against from the U.S., Russia, Israel, Haiti, Hungary, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Sudan, Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Eritrea, Mali and Nicaragua www.npr.org/2025/02/24/g...
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U.S. votes against a U.N. resolution urging Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine
The European-backed resolution that was approved demands Russia immediately withdraw its forces. The Trump administration had offered a competing resolution that did not mention Russian aggression.
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Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle @bentuttle.com · 25/02/2025
This is not how countries with a Free Press operate, this is how countries with State Run Media operate www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
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White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump (Gift Article)
In announcing plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.
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