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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 6h

A local center for older adults is hosting a class called "How to Protect Yourself from Your Computer".

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Do you think the magenta pixels represent values off the high or low end of the scale, or are they "no data" values?

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Not surprised this place didn't make it onto the list of "Top Places to Live"

Aerial image map with a label saying "Worstville"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Does this mean the Catholic Church about to return to becoming the world's largest funder of the arts?

October 2, 2026 tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads "In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Software versioning that starts at 10, then decreases with each release, so that when it reaches 0 it is done.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@sgillies One thousand years from now, maybe your garden will be included in Gardens of the Late America Empire.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

We just added 190 new entries to the Gardens of the Roman Empire, which aims to document every known garden from that era. roman-gardens.github.io/id/all

roman-gardens.github.io

All Gardens - Gardens of the Roman Empire

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oh, maybe I shouldn't hog the bandwidth at the violin studio by downloading very high resolution canopy height data. I guess I'll wait until I get home...

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ELEVEN PLUS TWO is an anagram of TWELVE PLUS ONE

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Catching up on some videos from the local GrassRoots Fest (which I missed this year), Taj Mahal started started out his set by saying "No, this ain't no AI, either. Taj Mahal don't play no AI!" to tremendous cheers from the crowd.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Every time you press the Enter key, a line dies, and a new one begins.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I'm starting to suspect that some mysteriously corrupted PDFs may be related to git's core.autocrlf setting

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

A student in today's QGIS workshop was running into weird problems on her computer that didn't make any sense until I realized she had set the Magnifier to 10%, which brought basemaps to a crawl.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

What kind of updates are going to be made to an obituary???

Obituary website pop-up message asking for an e-mail address so that you can be notified about important updates to the obituary.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

oof, I just came across a university website that still points to the docs for QGIS 2.8

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Map game idea: "Name this state border"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A disturbing UI trend is the search box that, when clicked, opens a hidden side panel that contains the actual search box.

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

A first sneak peek of the native hydrological tools coming to #QGIS 4.4! 💧🌍 This video shows the full workflow for stream extraction and catchment delineation, all running natively in QGIS, with no external dependencies. Huge thanks to everyone who […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This may look unimpressive in the daylight, but let me assure you that seeing it just off the road at night was rather terrifying.

A much larger than life sculpture of Ronald McDonald with various fast food items with eyes and gaping mouths.

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm going to be taking a person who uses a wheelchair to a wedding in Ohio. Apparently, the venue for the reception does not have an accessible restroom, so our backup plan is for me to drive her to the nearest truck stop which is ten minutes away. #accessibility

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

The person who once accidently e-mailed me in about the books and games her mother was getting rid of has now contacted me again, 12 years later, to invite me to join a Google Meet to discuss party planning for her parent's wedding anniversary.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

"Fare Use": when AI companies charge money to access their LLMs that were trained on stolen copyrighted materials

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I'm guessing that the US voted against the UN resolution to promote the Equal Earth map projection merely because it has the word "equal".

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

To be fair, all regions of every map appear significantly smaller than they are.

"The Mercator layout ... Because of its projection style, however, regions near the equator appear significantly smaller than they are"

Excerpt from article in The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Remember when officer Kane of the Nostromo acquired Hugging Face back in 1979?

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Didn't ArcGIS Pro used to have a basemap that used actual OSM tiles? Well, it now has basemap called "OpenStreetMap Style" which does not reflect current OSM data! LEFT: ArcGIS "OpenStreetMap Style" RIGHT: openstreetmap.org

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Hans van der Kwast :qgis: @hansakwast.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

🚀 The new edition of the book #Geomorphometry has been published. It’s not open access, but I’m glad to see a strong shift toward #OpenSource tools like #QGIS, #PCRaster, #GRASS, #Whitebox and Python/R packages. Happy I could contribute to this through my […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Book cover of Geomorphometry - Concepts, Software, Applications

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Minesweeper, but using gerrymandered congressional districts instead of a grid.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Uh oh! Multiple incoming weather warnings won't even display properly! I'll bet our power is going to go out soon...

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I just learned that a friend rearranged a piece of music I wrote 26 years ago for our 21-bell chime, and has expanded it for 4-octave carillon, to be premiered in Cleveland in October (although there was a test run in Mechelen, Belgium earlier this summer).

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: heads.social/@bourgwick/11719873532… @sgillies The magic of the Internet is that I can see a post from someone in Colorado about a radio show out of New Jersey, and when I open the page, the most recent comment mentions a local record store here in Ithaca.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Would the real Executive Order 14420 please stand up? #executiveDysfunction There are at least 3 different EOs with the number 14420: edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-dome… […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

One of the student chimesmasters posted this about my musical compositions for our 21-bell tower... Not sure if I fully understand it.

KGJ composition starterpack with musical score snippets and various memes

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Lake America only exists in the rotten mind of a very small man. It does not belong on any map.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I spent most of the day helping to build compost bins for our local community center. How should I spend the rest of the day?

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Forget about "_FINAL2" The new layer-naming convention just dropped:

screenshot of a GIS layer name that includes the phrase "pleaseGOD"

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This war on hydronyms needs to stop before someone gets hurt.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

How bad are the AI bots? A usually low-traffic website I help maintain went from the usual ~5000 pageviews in January to over 1.1 million in February. Please, consider the environment before asking a chatbot.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Happy Carto API Key Day to all who celebrate!

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Reading an article about AI in schools, and my watch tells me I need to relax.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I'm not usually a fan of Southern Tier, but this Chestnut Praline Imperial Ale I'm trying is certainly unique, like the Frangelico of beers.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Thanks to whoever decided to add these notes about when new features were added to #QGIS -- this is amazingly helpful context.

screenshot of the QGIS documentation for the "Concave Hull by Feature" processing tool, showing that the feature was added in version 3.44

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