David M

Permanently moving to BlueSky... @mapbliss.bsky.social Hope to see you there, will be closing up shop here soon. Cheers all!

[David M @mapbliss]

Haven't been over here in a while. This place still fucking suck? Oh I see it does. Ok bye!

[David M @mapbliss]

Pleading with everyone attending the NACIS conference this week in Kentucky... please also post to the #nacis tag on Bluesky! :P

[David M @mapbliss]

@sonic You need to start explaining to your canvassers what "no soliciting" means. I'm getting tired of listening to their sales pitches with this sign staring them in the face.

[David M @mapbliss]

Well, one of these things went into space, and the other was a stupid PR stunt.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Can any space nerds help me understand how the Blue Origin capsule came back down without any re-entry burns?

Was this a trajectory thing or some kind of superior material used?

Falcon crew capsule for comparison

[David M @mapbliss]

Elon @elonmusk has had gender affirming surgery.

[David M @mapbliss]

Remember when @StephenM pretended to have hair (and I guess testosterone)? What a fucking douchebag.

[David M @mapbliss]

This is the real @elonmusk. A douchey little man child. He is proof that money can not buy personality, or charm, or wit. Or empathy apparently. #fuckdoge

[David M @mapbliss]

Permanently moving to BlueSky... @mapbliss.bsky.social Hope to see you there, will be closing up shop here soon. Cheers all!

[David M @mapbliss]

@Emotelligent_AI @EHuanglu I don't work in film & TV and it is still VERY clear these are AI. Hands obviously, most of the legs on the background people are wonky. People walking w their heads on backwards then phasing out of the scene all together! Tons of other little tells all over the place.

[David M @mapbliss]

@gisday @John_M_Nelson More of this please.

[David M @mapbliss]

@felt Again, this comes down to making the shift from seeing edu as a revenue source like your commercial users and a "seedbed" of highly creative and motivated indv users who take knowledge of your tools out into the orgs they eventually join or create.

[David M @mapbliss]

@felt it's a shame there's no longer an option to upload ANY user data in the Free tier. Even allowing a single user .shp, geojson, CSV file would have made that a usable tool for students who could have then learned about the full features of your app.

[David M @mapbliss]

@felt Yes I know, but as I said earlier in this chain of exchanges, that's a top down classroom/instructor focused solution that will get almost no use where I am. Students need an independent tier that works for them w/out the narrow focus on a single class or instructor.

[David M @mapbliss]

He’s the wealthiest person on earth and yet so eternally awkward and without any self confidence.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

A speaker at Mar-a-Lago tonight: “Where is the George Soros of the right?"

Elon Musk: proudly raises his hand.

(I thought George Soros's involvement in politics was supposed to be a bad thing 🤔)

[David M @mapbliss]

@felt As a followup, just this afternoon I showed Felt to an undergrad w an simple map assignment to turn in next week. Halfway through demoing Felt I had to stop and tell them never mind, I'll show you QGIS instead because there is no longer a photo embed option or an image expor.

[David M @mapbliss]

Disagree, he got exactly what he was paying for, his man in the White House. This purchase is paying shady dividends we can't see yet and that he will never be prosecuted for. Fuck Musk. Fuck Trump.

[Dominik Stecuła @decustecu]

“We should run the government like a business to make it more efficient.”

The business:

[David M @mapbliss]

I'm still not ready to fully remove my account here, but I am mostly posting to Threads so please come find me over there under mapbliss. Same on bsky, although I haven't been active there yet. #Resist #gischat #cartography

[David M @mapbliss]

@felt Thanks, I don’t need a demo though. I just need you guys to hear that the free tier needs to have at least some data upload to be useful to individual edu users (students, not instructors). It’s a great tool, but I can’t advocate for it to our students without data upload.

[David M @mapbliss]

Latino voters have engaged in a massive bit of self-deception IMO. What is a "family oriented" latino? How is that different or special from any other latino in the US, busting their ass to make a life for themselves?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Latino Trump voter believes Trump will not deport “family oriented” Latinos since that would be “unfair.”

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Latino Trump voter believes Trump will not deport “family oriented” Latinos since that would be “unfair.”

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Donald Trump and new First Lady Elon Musk.