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Dillon Mahmoudi

@marxist.af

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At ⋂ of software/tech, cities, political economy, uneven dev, labor. Data centers, AI, climate. Obsidian/QGIS/R/LaTeX. (he/him) Geography Prof at UMBC; Chair Urban Geography SG of AAG. SEA/THR/ATL/DUB/ATX/PDX/BWI/MTL.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 07/10/2025

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 02/10/2025

Our location on our phone is constructed using a variety of algorithms and data inputs about the built environment. This leads to various "views" on our location that conform into the needs of Google and Android. Awesome collaboration with @dancohen.bsky.social and Tommy Cooke!!

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 05/06/2025

The @niacouncil.org has put together a great and timely resource on US Travel Bans going into effect on June 9th.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 31/01/2025

No longer a rumor.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 27/01/2025

Yooo

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 18/11/2024

Adding some pics... more coming soon. Trying to fathom the scale of data and compute infrastructure, the concentration of that infrastructure, and the agglomerative effects. So. Much. Construction. And security.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 17/11/2024

The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver, via HN firehose3d.theo.io

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 23/10/2024

Excited to see this out! Fun and insightful to examine mundane file formats through the mode of production. This paper looks at the histories of GeoJSON and the Esri Shapefile; we show OS efforts to ~can~ be captured by for-profit models, which also rely on OS to bolster their market power.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 25/09/2024

Here's your reminder that we need to be interrogating tech firms and the places they inhabit. They represent 7 of the largest 10 firms by market capitalization. 6 of them are located on the US west coast. Image from companiesmarketcap.com

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 30/11/2023

Prof Wilson nailing the social science underpinning and normative leanings of our GIS MS program at UMBC. GIS needs theory, not just technicians.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 07/10/2023

Packing for a flight but had to stop to post this and holy shit I can't wait to read this from Lelia Marie Hampton. It's in this edited collection: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 28/07/2023

This reminded me of these rad revival fonts, scroll down to see De Walpergen's Pica which is a beautiful set. You can download them for free, thanks to Igino Marini. iginomarini.com/fell/the-revival-fo…

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 20/07/2023

We did recently watch Solo, and I wonder if it's because of the de-craniated servant? Or her grandmother who said something about a driver not having a head.

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 14/07/2023

I think @savasavasava.bsky.social may have the best banner here

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