Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

After a couple of days of Norwegian Geospatial tech conference I see that:

1. OCG Apis are all the rage in the Norwegian Mapping Agency and related organizations
2. Ai for building detection is better when trained on local data than US data from esri
3. People are not dismissive of the idea of distributing changes to geospatial datasets as events
4. Open Source is an integral part of every organisation, some are even sponsoring development

The reason I stopped creating new open source projects was because I couldn't afford to maintain them.

I was expected to not only share my work, but continue adding new features, docs, and providing support for free, forever. It just wasn't sustainable for me.

Hi there, i'm Joost working as an independent art-director/game artist on still unannounced projects.

#helloworld #introduction #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly #gameart

(noob reinventing the wheel) so it seems the only way to subscribe to a firehose-type news accounts here is to put them into a list, and mute indefinitely – there seems to be no other way to hide them from the home timeline.

i so wish that you could just mark an account with “exclude from home”.

White tailed kite in #DavisCA

#BirdsofMastodon

Belated #30DayMapChallenge 'globe' entry (I'm really bad at managing multiple social media accounts)

And this is the process of creating the raster map for day 7 of #30DayMapChallenge using the great camcorder 📦 to record the plot-creating process 👇🏼

#rstats #maps #ggplot2 #dataviz #datavisualization

Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also

When doing my BSc mapping on Sicily I visited this salt/potash mine. Sorry for poor quality, my first ever digital camera was not good. Still an amazing location :)
#Geology #salt #fieldwork

One of my tasks as an admin is to decide which hashtags get to trend on my instance. So far there hasn't been anything problematic but today I saw #ThickTrunkTuesday and being a trash baby from BirdSite I was thinking oh boy here we go. But I clicked on it and it was just a bunch of lovely pictures of trees with dummy thicc trunks. I love all you beautiful nerds. Never change.

Musks Twitter: Our Story So Far

The soil had soured somewhat.

We still planted it, of course, for else were we to do? But the stems were spindly and the plants were weak and we’d sometimes find the fruits lying fallen in the rows now. Mite removal was now a daily affair.
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Looking for interesting visual content to scroll? Check out the

#30DayMapChallenge

Like this map of population density in Georgia, courtesy of @gkankia

Reforestation means more than just planting trees.

Many reforestation projects focus on the number of trees planted, with less attention to how well they survive, how diverse the resulting forests are, or how much carbon they store.

Planting a couple of species that establish themselves easily can also help. These vanguard species pave the way for others to settle in on their own—an approach halfway between natural forest regeneration and intensive tree planting. https://www.science.org/content/article/reforestation-means-just-planting-trees

Une semaine pour fabriquer un prototype d'outil de visite pour un château choisi au hasard et quelques jours pour proposer une histoire et deux façons, numérique et analogique de la raconter. Après, on ira voir les proprios pour voir si ça leur plaît. Avec Catherine Gout.

Have you heard about the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency?

It needs the best talents to open up the "black box" of algorithms and help foster a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment.

Are you in for the challenge? Check the vacancies ➡️ https://europa.eu/!nRnq8q

#DigitalEU

Octothorpe House by Mork-Ulnes Architects

"Octothorpe House is as versatile as the # symbol for which it is named… Designed by Mork-Ulnes Architects (MUA) … The floor plan is a grid, but from outside, the multiple wings, façades, and half-gables often look asymmetrical, presenting a varying aspect at every turn and elevation…"

https://nuvomagazine.com/magazine/winter-2022/octothorpe-house-by-mork-ulnes-architects

Missed opportunity to call it "hash house" but still pretty cool.

#octothorpe #architecture

The #Curta is a mechanical calculator designed by the Austrian Curt Herztark. Curtas were regarded as the best portable #calculators before the invention of electronic calculators in the 1970s. Herzstark had finalized the design in 1938 but was unable to build it due to the Nazi invasion of Austria. In 1943, the Nazis arrested him and sent him to #Buchenwald Concentration camp where he was categorized as an “intelligence slave”. He redrew the entire design from memory after the war.
#Holocaust

A beautiful illustration of the coronation of Aragorn by breath-art!

https://www.deviantart.com/breath-art/art/the-return-of-the-king-359088094
#LoTR #Tolkien #illustration @tolkien

It's po-KATE-o.