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Enrico Spinielli

@espinielli.eurosky.social
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I like map projections and programming: I'm a curious geek. I like #rstats, #python (but not its pkg system), #smalltalk, #lisp and #observablehq

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 6h
🤫 {shiny} isn't the only "real" way to make an app in #rstats I've made the same website using {shiny} and {plumber2} for a made-up coffee company and deployed both on @ricochet.rs ricochet.rs/blog/ssr-in-r/ #databs
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The Shiny myth 🫢 | ricochet
Or, why plumber2 might be all you need.
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
So true, so well written. (It is like not wanting to pay taxes but pretending to have all the services [well-maintained roads, healthcare, ...])
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
play with map *projection* hypertidy.github.io/playproj map projections traced as rays from a point of light, through a sphere, onto a surface
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
See also Andrew Heiss's Quarto extension: github.com/andrewheiss/...
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GitHub - andrewheiss/quarto-wordcount: Quarto extension for calculating accurate word counts
Quarto extension for calculating accurate word counts - andrewheiss/quarto-wordcount
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
Amazing
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
Inspiring and useful evidence to show how medicine has helped/is helping...if we, as a global society, believe in funding, aid, cooperation, science.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/08/2026
In early September we'll resume releasing courses through the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org Two of the new releases are already announced: @alyssafowers.bsky.social's amazing 'Visualizing Loss and Tragedy', and my own new elementary tutorial, 'Tidy Data, Tidy Infographics'.
Screenshots of the two upcoming courses announced in my post. They show the titles, author names, and two abstract illustrations based on their content
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Observable @observablehq.com · 31/07/2026
With the memory bottleneck driving up the cost of compute, enterprises are trying to control costs. Save money with François Viète’s c. 1600 technique for the manual digit-by-digit calculation of square roots, explained & visualized here by @cyamahata.bsky.social new.observablehq.com/@christophe-...
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026
Nature always finds a way
Tree roots finding a way to support the tree even if terrain disappeared
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse
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data.table vs. base vs. dplyr | Vincent Arel-Bundock
Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
We doomed. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07…
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026
Thank you.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I know it won’t happen for many structural reasons but: wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where, after the US electorate flips the Senate(!) and maybe even get ms rid of Trump in 2 years (!!), Dem strategists look at what is happening in the media landscape of Hungary and say “this is the way”
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Val(erie) 🍉♠️ @valerie-ughh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you don't know, El-Obeid in Sudan is likely to become another El-Fasher if there is no intervention. Democracy Now interviews Julia Steers on this and UAE involvement with the RSF, and I recommend watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWAA...
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"Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan's War": Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Crimes
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
We will soon have no access to space...no astronomy from Earth, no space missions... just orbiting junk outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
See also "One million (paper) satellites" doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
And, unfortunately, they are not alone in the mega-constellation business...(damned startup business attitude about appropriating of common goods) planet4589.org/space/con/co...
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Jonathan's Space Report | Space Statistics
Jonathan McDowell's new homepage
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026
Just asking... what about r-universe?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2026
Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."
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Alejandro Tauber @alejandrotauber.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wrote a thing about why it’s not great EU institutions are moving onto @wsocial.eu — it’s not so much about being for-profit as it is about misunderstanding the at protocol! euobserver.com/223831/eu-pr...
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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 26/06/2026
I'll be presenting Gribouille (Grammar-of-graphics for Typst) next Tuesday (the 30th of June at 5.30pm CEST) at the #ggplot2 extenders meetup. @teunbrand.bsky.social will be also presenting ggsql (Grammar-of-graphics for SQL), so you have two good reasons to join! bit.ly/join-gg-exte...
No alternative text description for this imageComic book style title slide with a red, yellow, and pink sunburst background.  Bold yellow text outlined in black reads "The Grammar of Graphics Assembles".  Below it, a blue ribbon banner reads "R, Python, SQL... and now" next to a red starburst badge containing the word "Typst" in yellow.  Underneath, a white box reads "Mickaël Canouil, Ph.D." and a smaller white box below it reads "2026-06-30".
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
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Air 0.10.0
Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
Is it only me feeling it or GitHub repo webpages are very slow lately? #github
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Pitt you didn't register with @eurosky.social It is EU-based & open-source: that surely counts!
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
😜
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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 17/06/2026
SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...
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W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 17/06/2026
Why the hell have @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu migrated from an open-source PDS host (Bluesky) to a closed-source for-profit one (W Social)? It makes no sense, and is also completely ignorant of @eurosky.social, which is based in the EU, open source, and not for profit:
blog.elenarossini.com
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚
a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth
A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Thank you Sharon (and Claude 😁)
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
It would be nice/useful to be able to select the timezone ans see the match time/date change accordingly... just asking for a friend 😁
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ICIJ @icij.org · 04/06/2026
For the #CancerCalculus investigation, ICIJ’s data team created datasets using records from patent offices and courts, and analyzed the opaque pricing of a lifesaving drug with a sky-high price tag. Read the data methodology:
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Patents, prices and court files: How ICIJ used data to investigate an industry that thrives on secrecy - ICIJ
For the Cancer Calculus, ICIJ’s data team created datasets using records from patent offices and courts, and analyzed the opaque pricing of a lifesaving drug with a sky-high price tag.
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026
For me it was (painfully) C
Front page of "The C Programming language by B. w. Kernighan & D. M. Ritchie
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026
Article available at disco.cs.rptu.de/downloads/pu...
disco.cs.rptu.de
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Yesterday the Russians deliberately attacked Ukrainian civilians, hitting apartment buildings and killing more than 20. The Ukrainians responded by killing Russian oil production and sparing Russian civilians. And the Trump administration is doing what it can to help Putin.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 15/05/2026
Another fantastic and critical post from @laurenshof.online about how the European Commission @ec.europa.eu is currently missing the mark with supporting open social networks. Internet regulation in Europe could be so much better than it is right now.
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FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks
The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks.
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026
Super nice. Congrats
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Chris Kenny, PhD @chriskenny.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Introducing dais: a Rust-based PDF presenter tool. Present PDF slides (eg, Beamer) in a PowerPoint-like interface. Full drawing control, navigation tools, live text boxes, and more: christophertkenny.com/posts/2026-0...
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dais: A better way to present PDF slides – Christopher T. Kenny
Introducing a new Rust-powered PDF presenter CLI with features including slide groups, drawing, blackouts, a whiteboard, zooming, and live text boxes with math support.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 14/05/2026
in case you were wondering how the EU's regulation of Big Tech is going
This makes it both incredibly funny and frustrating that the EC opens the report by saying that the DMA exists because “a small number of very large platforms were able to restrict competition including by imposing unfair conditions both on their business users and on end users”, only to then claim that this is now being addressed. According to the report, “alternative messaging services can now interoperate with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, which has already led to new providers, including a European SME entering the market with innovative new functions”. The European SME that the EC proudly points to as evidence of a healthy interoperable market is a chatting app with a single rating on the Apple Store. Single rating, as in, one (1) individual person has bothered rating this app. This is the only app currently operating that allows for WhatsApp interoperability. Meanwhile, the report says nothing about why other apps like Matrix, with significantly larger userbases and real interoperability work behind them, are not actually interoperating with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource
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Journal of Open Source Software
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@coatless/116514621… The behavior outlined in this post is a big reason I post so little publicly about my work in R anymore. Also: use James' portable R. It's a way better & safer approach if you need this functionality.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 01/05/2026
roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats
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roxygen2 8.0.0
roxygen2 8.0.0 is now on CRAN, with first-class support for S7, a bunch of R6 improvements, a new configuration style, and a slimmer dependency footprint.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/04/2026
Microsoft's MIT licensed VibeVoice speech-to-text model (think Whisper with speaker diarization) is really good - my notes on running the 5.71GB 4bit MLX conversion on an M5 MacBook, using about 60GB of RAM at peak and transcribing 1hr of audio in ~9 mins simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/...
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microsoft/VibeVoice
VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 but I hadn't tried it...
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
spopt, an R package for spatial optimization, is now in general release on CRAN. spopt-r is inspired by the Python package of the same name. Features include: - Regionalization algorithms for building contiguous districts / territories; - Facility location solvers;
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Enrico Spinielli @espinielli.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026
I had the same request word by word (name different of course 🤣)...they are desperate to train their model with humans
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fascinating analysis of modern Ireland by Sinead O'Sullivan (who I know via her space policy work) www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap
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Mind the Gap
Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.
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