This little tool can reveal all roads in your town & present a nice and downright tidy graphic representation of the same in the process. It was built by Andrei Kascha, apparently a Seattle-based fellow, who also has this cool little gadget that makes coffee mugs from your favorite topographies. The aesthetics are on point.
The WaPo reports on how Facebook tracks you, even when you’re signed out. Vox also covers it here – although with a more hands-on tone. The NYTimes reported on how your Facebook friends are the company’s enabler’s as they amass your biometric data. But, so they’re tracking you while you’re offline and harvesting your facial recognition signatures — they would only do that for your benefit, I’m sure.
Other bad actors also exist so The Citizen Lab’s Security Planner might be helpful if you’re interested in online hygeine.
Everyone knows our night sky (a common good) is being ruined, right? Space X’s Starlink program — and Amazon’s Kuiper program — may be the current megaconstellation projects decimating our ability to view an unpolluted night sky, but when it comes to satellite pollution others want to give it a whirl too.
As a reminder, there is a lot of junk in space. Here is an interactive model of the location of satellites currently orbiting.
Google has a new-ish dataset search tool that has been released. I tried using it twice but kept rabbit-holing to FRED and never leaving each time. Also, FRED has good data.
I stumbled onto some work of Timothy Duffy (IRL) via a monograph, Blue Muse, published by UNC Press. For any fan of photography, the blues, ‘alternative processes’, tintypes or other such topics, I would recommend checking him out. (he apparently uses 12″x20″ tintype plates to capture portraits and record images of pioneers of southern music if that give you any sense of where he’s at on the just-like-all-the-other-photographer-do continuum) He has been at this for a while.
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