iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/05/2026

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how nobody can measure the ROI of AI, the reality check of token-based billing, and how firms spending millions on AI are only doing so because of the executive incompetence of Business Idiots disconnected from production. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiO...

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AI Bubble: ‘Business idiots’ are finally seeing the downside of uncapped AI | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies. martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...

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bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty

"If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Am I crazy for wanting to use Apache Airflow and PostGIS to build a geospatial data platform for my org? Is that a dumb idea? #GISchat #geosky

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

PSA to GIS Professionals: friends don’t let friends create data products with invalid geometries. #GISchat

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

None of this is official, but there have been NWS bots setup to get weather info, alerts and warnings. nws-bot.us

nws-bot.us

NWS Bots for Bluesky

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

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OpenStreetMap US @osmus.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

OSM US voting members: make sure to submit your votes for the board by midnight on March 2nd! Check your inbox for more info

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Jed Sundwall @jed.co · 12/02/2025

We're seeking funding to take @source.coop to the next level.

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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

scientificamerican.com

Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service

NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/02/2025

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Jami @justjami.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

And so it begins. #GISChat If you're using and rely on Federal Data sources for your work, do you have any alternate sources if the data you rely on is suddenly unavailable? @deepseadawn.bsky.social - will Esri keep Federal data in Living Atlas? www.eenews.net/articles/gro...

eenews.net

Groups archive environmental justice data scrapped by Trump

The organizations starting by building a public tool based on the White House's former Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool.

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A pretty solid read if you want to learn about CRS’s and the difference between a foot and a survey foot.

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Jami @justjami.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I think most of my #GISChat friends have heard of and used colorbrewer2.org tools for their maps - but have any of you checked out mapcolpal.org yet?

mapcolpal.org

MapColPal - your pal for cartographic color palettes

MapColPal is a tool to help in working with color palettes for thematic maps.

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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

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VPM News @vpm.org · 09/01/2025

...it would probably be helpful if we actually had the right links 🤦🏻‍♀️ Here's the link to the survey: survey123.arcgis.com/share/79b3f9...

survey123.arcgis.com

Richmond Water Crisis Survey

This is an unofficial survey by Richmond community members who want to better understand the extent of the January 2025 water crisis.

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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Mister Rogers never misses

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

My geospatial wishlist for 2025: 1. Governments don’t output open geospatial data with invalid geometries. 2. QGIS will be able to write to DuckDB databases. #gischat #geosky

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

If you’re using an LLM to write code from scratch and not bothering to read documentation, I think you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 29/12/2024

going into 2025 with this energy

WE KNOW HOW IT ENDS.
WE’RE ALL READY FOR IT.

(pop-tart standing atop toaster slot)

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

You know what I love about open source software? I can just fix my own problems in public—and help other folks in the process. Nothin’ better than trying to get GRASS GIS accessible to an outside Python environment on Windows. #gischat

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m stoked to finally get started exploring Apache Airflow!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/11/2024

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

More folks have to be comfortable with being wrong—it gives you an excellent springboard to learn new things.

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I had forgotten about `git worktree` and I'm glad that I get to reintroduce it to my workflow instead of `git clone` you can use `git clone --bare` then `git worktree add` to have your branches represented as directories. No more stashing or losing changes if you get interrupted!

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I would like to congratulate MS SQL Server 2025 for finally adding a JSON type, something Postgres has had for nearly a decade. Let’s see how long it takes for them to get JSONB.

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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚨 Exciting news! OpenStreetMap now hosts vector tiles on OSMF hardware! 🎉 Want to learn how to use OSM vector tiles with Leafmap and MapLibre? Check this out: 👉 Demo: maps.gishub.org/maplibre/ope... 👉 Notebook: leafmap.org/maplibre/ope...

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

You can’t convince me the people who enjoy using SAS and the people who deploy SAS in an organization are the same people. #SAS #StatisticalAnalysisSoftware

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

WOW! More people are visiting Bluesky than Threads, even though Bluesky has far fewer users and isn’t linked to the world’s largest social network. Incredible. Story here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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Gregory Power @gregorywpower.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

SQLite users: please, for all that is holy--make your tables STRICT. Lest you or people who come after you try to read a DATE column and 🧨surprise🧨 the values are TEXT.

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