Morten Fjord

CEO at @clearsky_vision ☀️🛰️ Building satellite, geospatial and open-data products.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

Mostly, I just hope it has helped some of the people who stumbled across it. Don’t follow me for SEO advice. I have no idea what I’m doing.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

Our polygon editor might be my clearest personal example of SEO working. We never really launched the page. I’ve probably mentioned it twice.

But broader SEO work across the site helped it grow, especially earlier this year. It has now reached 27.6K clicks.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

@OJoelsen I prefer the Sheer Madness From Amager Bryghus 👌

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

@eastdakota Agreed. The process is insane. Parliament already rejected this, and now it is being rushed back through urgent procedure where it can survive unless opponents reach an absolute majority...

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

What a disappointment...

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

CHAT CONTROL IS COMING

Even though most Members of the European Parliament have voted to REJECT Chat Control, we have not been able to reach the absolute majority that was needed (361 Members).

This is a sad day for Europeans.

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

La sécheresse devient majeure. Les canicules de mai et juin ont complètement asséché nos sols : dans le centre de la France, il n'y a plus d'eau sur l'intégralité de la colonne. Rien. Nada.

Sur les 30 premiers centimètres, il n'y a plus rien sur l'intégralité de la France. Cette troisième canicule va faire extrêmement mal.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code: y-axis alert!

As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean.
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The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

On Thursday, the European Parliament votes on Chat Control 1 (the voluntary scanning, not the mandatory scanning, called Chat Control 2). Again.

The Parliament has already voted against Chat Control 1. Two times. But the Council of Ministers and the Parliament President refuse to accept it.

Now, the Council has demanded an urgent procedure. This is a procedure that is meant to be used for new legislative proposals, not proposals that the Parliament has already rejected. An urgent procedure requires an absolute majority to be rejected (361 out of the Parliament's 720 members). This will be difficult to reach, since those who abstain from voting are counted as a yes-vote in an urgent procedure. By scheduling the vote during the summer, they are making it even harder to reach those 361 no-votes. This is downright dirty tactic by the Council and the President of the European Parliament.

The President of the European Parliament has sided with the Council against her own chamber. For context, this is the EP President, Roberta Metsola:
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[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

Of course, this is visually misleading. Cities and water are not distinguishable. Also, at this zoom level, parcel boundaries are exaggerated, and the dataset also includes some agriculture-adjacent land cover.

https://t.co/LgePuj9axe

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

There’s something oddly satisfying about watching QGIS load Danish field parcels without a basemap.
Unless you know the coastline by heart, it basically looks like the whole country is farmland.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.

That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!

We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

@levelsio The problem is that startups face an increasing regulatory burden, which makes government grants less of a luxury and more of a survival mechanism.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

@marklit82 Thank you for sharing. Yeah, looking to create a diverse SAR dataset but need time series data. Might have to wait a year or two more, before the scale I'm looking for is realistic.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

.@USGS are you okay?

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

It's only people who don’t use it who keep saying public transport is the future. The last time I landed at Aalborg Airport, the next bus was 40 minutes away, and then it took another 40 minutes to travel less than 10 km into the city. It’s a joke. No wonder Uber drivers are lined up outside.

[Morten Fjord @FjordSat]

@danishnuclear Thank you for calling out the hypocrisy.