I'm biking 252 miles from LA to San Diego, April 24-26. Three days.
Supporting the LA LGBTQ Center.
$25 keeps a young person safe for a day.
Possibly better ROI than a Claude sub
centerrideout.donordrive.com/participants/m…
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Maksim Pecherskiy
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Maksim Pecherskiy
@MrMaksimize
Staff Data Engineer at @Teamsnap. Formerly @CityOfSanDiego and @WorldBank. Opinions are my own. Sometimes those of my cat.
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> Meta Platforms’s Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses send user video data to company servers
> footage is manually reviewed by contractors at Sama in kenya
> workers reportedly see private moments and sensitive personal details
> face blurring does not always work in certain lighting conditions
> around 7 million pairs sold in 2025, creating a massive stream of human reviewed data
> meta’s terms allow manual human review of ai interactions
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Meta being sued over AI smart glasses, after it was revealed workers allegedly reviewed intimate, personal footage.
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3. A map of a fictional world, inspired by the Wizarding world of Harry Potter.
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2. The inside of a loft apartment in New York, on the 48th floor. Skyline is visible from the window.
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Working on a post about AI Image generation, and wanted to test one prompt with several tools.
Help me pick from the options in the threads. Vote 1, 2 or 3 from the 🧵!
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If you're stuck, walk away.
Don't sleep for 24 hours, and then give yourself 30 minutes to solve it.
You will likely succeed, with 10 minutes to spare.
You're too exhausted to think in multiple threads. Which means you're too tired to have self doubt.
But it works.
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Beautiful. And this is why I love @obsdmd
kepano@kepano
File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs. Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: > If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s. You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.
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I have a favorite meeting take-notes tool -> Granola.
It doesn't do the annoying bot that joins your meeting, and augments your notes. Great interaction pattern and UI. Now it just needs an Obsidian integration.
buff.ly/41xNcHM
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It's almost 2025. We have AI that in some cases is almost indistinguishable from humans.
So why do spam calls still sound like...spam calls?
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Running a bit late for #30DayMapChallenge Day 11: A Map of the Arctic!
This is a map of settlements in the arctic circle as of 2017. It was really difficult to use a standard projection here, so I used the "World Azimuthal Equidistant" projection to actually visualize the area.
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Haven't used twitter for a few years and just coming back now.
Trying to figure out how the algorithm works.
Do I basically just need to post stuff that will make people made in order to get my tweet seen?
Would love any advice
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Happy Saturday! Today for #30DayMapChallenge, we will make an AI map.
I used stable diffusion 3, and prompted for a map of San Diego with exaggerated mountains, and 3d side view. While the map is beautiful, it doesn't look like San Diego. But hey, I'd live here.
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Happy Friday! For #30DayMapChallenge Day 8: A map from HDX, I wasn't really sure. So I decided to map world flood events from 1985-2010, as a reminder that no matter where you live, you can't escape the changing climate.
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🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Vintage Map
Starting with a historic Lewis and Clark map, I created a custom style, then added 3D terrain and atmospheric effects. The result? A vintage-inspired San Diego / Baja view with a modern twist.
What do you think—is it vintage enough?
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 6: Raster.
Manual Shaded relief of the contiguous United States from NaturalEarth.
Whether today is a day for you to be happy or a day for you to be sad, let this serve as a reminder that when you zoom out, we're all in this together.
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#30DayMapChallenge Day 5: A Journey!
I had a long bike ride with friends this Sunday, so I pulled down the Strava GPX file, and animated it in KeplerGL. It looks like a snake moving through #sandiego!
Color is by elevation
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#30DayMapChallenge Day4: Hexagons!
Courtesy of data.gov, a hexbin of fire ignition points in the Continental US from 2020-2024. Lots of ignition points in near Phoenix for some reason.
Made with deckgl!
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#30DayMapChallenge Day2: Lines:
Puerto Rico, an island with area of 3424 sq. miles has 78 Municipalities!
Thanks for the data GADM!
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