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Stephanie May

@mizmay.com
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geographic technologist Opinions mine but we can share 👩🏼‍💻🤦🏼‍♀️ 🌎💕 #location #geo #ux #seattle #urbanism #maplibre #mapbox #esri #leaflet #python #rstats #genai #hashtags

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Nicholdav @nicholdav.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
re: these horror story posts, @kollipython.bsky.social told me today about the awful experience @mizmay.com had at #SOTMUS2026 where GitHub flagged her account & killed features for an @openstreetmap.bsky.social tutorial hours b4 a workshop (hope it's ok if I share) www.linkedin.com/posts/mizmay...
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#sotmus2026 #overpass | Stephanie May
I built a beginner-friendly web mapping workshop for #SOTMUS2026 that leverages GitHub features (Codespaces, GitHub Pages) to teach mappers how to use #Overpass, OpenStreetMap US Tile Service, and Map...
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 18/04/2026
It is scandalous that this program isn’t working in Seattle. There has to be an alternative to calling 911 (or complaining on Nextdoor) about unhoused people in crisis. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle union says police agreement on crisis response should be tossed
The complaint gets at the heart of an ongoing frustration in Seattle City Hall: that the city’s primary solution to police violence coming out of 2020 has been delayed.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 17/04/2026
Who do I know out there who is specifically thinking about LLMs and intent capture, as it relates to answering questions about geography, routing, topology, or other spatial relationships? #ai #llm #gis #ui #hci
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 17/04/2026
Under-appreciated point: without satellites the time on your smartphones would drift. perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...
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The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
An interactive exploration of how GPS works — from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 17/04/2026
Also where is the recording industry on this? You scarred my generation over peer-to-peer file sharing but sketchy devices that blatantly bypass copyright, designed to spy on private communities, sold in Walmart and by PTA moms, are fine?
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 17/04/2026
Put this episode in your podcast queue right now. 😳 I did a quick internet search for “superbox”, to confirm the utter lack of critical analysis around this obvious exploit designed for espionage. darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/
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SuperBox – Darknet Diaries
What if there was a device which gave you endless movies and TV shows without ads? Ok great sign me up! In this episode we interview D3ada55, who found such a device, but as she gazed into it, she dis...
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 15/04/2026
Did you know that your phone’s position comes from measuring time, because GPS is basically triangulation by signal delay? Now you do. Nice explainer @shrikhalpada.dev perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...
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The Physics Of GPS | An Interactive Exploration
An interactive exploration of how GPS works — from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.
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Oliver Wipfli @oliverwipfli.ch · 14/04/2026
I wrote a small blog post about Mapterhorn's current status and the plans on adding aerial imagery: oliverwipfli.ch/mapterhorn-u...
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Mapterhorn Update | oliverwipfli.ch
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Moriarty Maps @moriartymaps.com · 14/04/2026
New piece & big ol' map w/ Júlia Ledur & @emily-m-eng.bsky.social. Learn all about the state of the Strait, and the role the geography is taking in it -> wapo.st/47ZY0Ri
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How geography powers Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, despite U.S. blockade
Even with a U.S. blockage, geography gives Iran an edge in the Strait of Hormuz, shaping control of a vital global chokepoint.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 07/04/2026
We’re all crying because of… Artemis II Also because of the current trajectory on this planet though 😭😭😭
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 03/04/2026
👋 Seattle locals: I'm doing a reprise of my FOSS4G workshop at Seattle U next Thursday, if you are interested in web mapping, RSVP and come! www.meetup.com/maptimesea/e...
Flyer describing the workshop
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 03/04/2026
Last day to vote for FOSS4G talk proposals! 🗾🔊 2026.foss4g.org/en/call-for-... My talks: - A New Approach to MapLibre Style Editing - Teaching AI to Contribute to Open Source: Lessons from MapLibre Agent Skills Continuing from my previous posts, I'm gonna give you a final sample of abstracts 🧵⤵️
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General Sessions - FOSS4G Hiroshima 2026
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
With Artemis II’s launch about 4 hours away, time to revisit one of my all-time favorite diagrams. NASA published a series of Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Charts in the Apollo era, but otherwise I know nothing about them! Search mostly links to auction sites. #artemis #moon #dataviz
Map of Apollo 16’s flight to and from the moon. The detailed diagram shows the position of thew moon and its phases, and it’s relative position to the Earth.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 01/04/2026
Ok, I'm back. 3️⃣ more days to vote for FOSS4G talks, last day is April 3, what you need to do to register is provide your email address. Excerpting more abstracts below ⏬🙃🌎
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Kavanaugh twice says that he thinks their arguments about other countries adopting different rules is a good argument as a policy matter (ugh). Sauer falsely claims "almost every other country" doesn't have birthright citizenship, which is wildly wrong.
Map of countries which have birthright citizenship. Virtually the entire Western Hemisphere has complete birthright citizenship.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 31/03/2026
📢 Attention all map and geospatial enthusiasts: 🌐 🫵 You only have 4 more days to vote for which talks are included in the program for FOSS4G this year 🗺️🫨 Here's where to go to read the abstracts and vote: 2026.foss4g.org/en/call-for-... There are 376 submissions... gonna share just a few ⤵️
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General Sessions - FOSS4G Hiroshima 2026
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 24/03/2026
Something I’ve noticed — Claude sure loves em dashes. Here’s the problem: sometimes colons make more sense.
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Linda Stevens @lindastevens.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Enshittification of #GIS. #GISChat open.substack.com/pub/reimagin...
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The Enshitification of GIS
Part One: How Proprietary Ecosystems, Cloud Lock-In, and Feature Glut Threaten Geospatial Innovation
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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 20/03/2026
Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫 #RStats #rayshader #rayverse
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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A couple of observations about design: the poster is a spatial medium, not only in the poster-space that it contains but in how the viewer moves closer in and farther away. Books and websites, meanwhile, are more time-based than most designers recognize—for the web, it's the scroll.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 19/03/2026
😜 🍋 💷 🍰 Some good news ⤵️
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Afroman Triumphs in Wild ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ Lawsuit Filed by Cops
Police officers had sued the “Because I Got High” rapper after he turned footage of their botched raid on his home into music videos
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 17/03/2026
I have a joke about the Poisson distribution that you could count on making you laugh
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 18/03/2026
If navigation apps accounted for the parking and walking legs of driving trips, would people choose other modes?
fastcompany.com
Google Maps and Apple Maps are making parking harder than it has to be
Parking is a hidden time suck when it comes to planning travel. These MIT researchers just showed that it doesn't have to be that way.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finding parking can take a lot longer than Google/Apple Maps suggest. For instance, navigation apps ignore time drivers spend looking for a spot and then walking from it to their destination. Result: Trips that are stressful and travel planning that’s biased toward cars. Me, in @fastcompany.com 🧵
fastcompany.com
Google Maps and Apple Maps are making parking harder than it has to be
Parking is a hidden time suck when it comes to planning travel. These MIT researchers just showed that it doesn't have to be that way.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage. Here's the result of a rough botec, seems like inference and training are using about equivalent amounts of water, and power uses 5x as much
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 13/03/2026
🙈 the “f— around and find out” doctrine?
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 13/03/2026
This is the ultimate in the male objectivist fallacy. AI is not on your side bro.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 13/03/2026
All I’m saying is. What if we all just did this?
Census 2020 form asking what is Stephanie’s race? Checked: white. In additional field wrote in #ffe0bd
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 12/03/2026
Results of the prompt: “Create a plausible book cover that combines Amelia bedelia with the main character from the movie Memento as a metaphor for AI agents”
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 11/03/2026
“Since the age of cartography, we’ve had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren’t gay enough. I also took critical theory in college, and I think sometimes people use ‘queer’ as a verb. I do understand that the maps we were trying to make gay were, I think, of Czechia and Slovakia...”
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Mike Hall @thisismikehall.com · 09/03/2026
This posits a really interesting question I'd never considered before: where does the Iberian Peninsula start/end? We'd all say the Pyrenees of course, but Google Maps apparently has other ideas (and it's not necessarily wrong)
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 01/03/2026
I wish gen pop understood why anarchy is a political philosophy
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 28/02/2026
I am beyond disappointed in the tech industry. That THIS is the line in the sand, and one newish titan sees the value in holding it. But here we are.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/02/2026
oooh cyprus detected, gorgeous
sadly I cannot read ottoman turkish, but it's that above a beautiful map with a crescent wrapped around Turkey and a table below
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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 28/02/2026
These are some examples of #tidyplots built-in color schemes 🌈 Feel free to create your own! #rstats #dataviz #phd
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯 It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/
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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
for summarising values over groups in plots, I think that generally ridgeplots are superior to box plots and violin plots... #rstats #statistics #dataviz
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 28/02/2026
Wakes up to war with Iran… @bsky.app is losing its mind. … sneaks off to read more about the #rstats pipe-wars 🪈
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 27/02/2026
< immediately clicks on #rstats > 👀 … only to find the same delightful collection of nerdery, beauty and insights as always, plus some memes for .00001% of people 💗
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 27/02/2026
This is when racial injustice first punched through to my generation. Wow after all we’ve seen since it still brings rage tears to my eye.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 27/02/2026
In a moment of over-intellectualization of this endless frozen scream in which we are stuck… Talking to a European colleague recently I found myself citing the irony that:
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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 23/02/2026
Sorry, not sorry #rstats
The "I feel bad for you", "I don't think about you at all" meme from Mad Men, the first panel has this additional text: "%>%", the second "|>"
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 23/02/2026
Whoa deep cut @xkcd.com... [takes deep breath] so what's going on here in one post: cylindrical projections *like Mercator* represent the poles as lines instead of points, but what if we wanted to represent the magnetic poles of the Earth, which are shifted slightly in space (and time)? ...
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Conspiracy of Cartographers @conspiracyofcarto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Alaska #Petrofuture map has been challenging. Getting all those little islands to align with modern elevation data has been a complete PITA. But worth it! #Alaska #climateChange #seaLevelRise #maps
Alaska Petrofuture--a 1964 Union 76 gas station map with 66m sea level rise
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 14/02/2026
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
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Maps remade
An FT Magazine special feature on how to map a changing world
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 14/02/2026
Today is Friday the 13th, which I herby declare is Data Science Awareness Day! We love to repeat a story that reinforces our own nonsense; let's never stop. But as we do this, let's promote awareness of how data science methods help us counter cognitive biases and arrive at better conclusions.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 11/02/2026
TIL that "Area of Responsibility" is a military term for territories assigned to different combatant commanders. #ICE #ImmigrationEnforcement #AreasOfResponsibility #AOR #USMap #GeographicRegions #MilitaryTerminology #BorderPolicy #ImmigrationPolicy #SocialJustice
Map of areas of responsibility, or AORs, the administrative subdivisions of the United States used by ICE.
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 08/02/2026
Who knew the rise of white nationalism in the United States would look so petty. The right melting down over Bad Bunny’s halftime show is the latest reminder that they don’t hate American “wokeness”—they just hate America.
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a man wearing glasses and a blue beanie with snl written on his shirt
Alt: Bad Bunny wearing glasses, red shirt and a blue beanie
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 08/02/2026
A bowl for demons, that WOULD be super.
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a group of cartoon girls are standing next to each other with their arms in the air .
Alt: K-pop demon hunters cheering
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Stephanie May @mizmay.com · 03/02/2026
Rice University students create map exposing ICE raids across the country www.chron.com/news/houston...
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Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map
It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.
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