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PhD student posting about politics while I wait for experiments to run. endorsements != endorsements. min flow is max cut they/them Developer and operator of urbanstats.org 📍 Cambridge Mass

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Urban Stats 30.0.0 🚨

Added international weather data to urban stats!

Also: added minimum daily temperature averages (and averages by season); seasons now represented by months not astronomical seasons.

You can now create global good weather maps!

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 3h

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 5h

What features, datasets, etc would you most like to see added to urban stats?

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 Urban Stats 30.2.2 🚨

Added several statistics

- median income
- median commute time
- life expectancy

Additionally, added external links to corresponding Wikidata and Wikipedia pages to every article page!

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 7h

By not using slurs and only alluding to being a Nazi, this is actually quite subtle compared to the real thing, it seems

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12h

Like Americans are routinely paying much higher than highly tarrifed coffee prices for a fairly minor convenience. Nobody's switching to domestically manufactured energy drinks or chicory

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12h

Like especially because coffee is not the main cost in coffee. When you purchase a cup of coffee you're paying more or less entirely for labor, not the actual coffee grounds lol

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 12h

"why don't you drink chicory, peasant" is such a funny take to try to impose onto possibly the most consumerist society in the history of humanity

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly like this kind of article is probably net positive? It's very dumb so will convince ~0 people and it draws attention to the issue

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

I mean sure but I think this is relevant!

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

It's so funny how everyone's messaging on prop 50 has this vibe

(this is a pretty centrist group whose explicit goal is to be Asian AIPAC lol)

80-20 is normally strongly opposed to any kind of gerrymandering. In addition, 80-20 is not interested in participating in the irrational partisan fights between the Republican and the Democratic Parties.

However, 80-20 has a unique reason

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the group is looked down upon is a racialized association, but once the label is applied, the skin color recedes in importance

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

Ok sure, white Mexicans do exist in the US in relatively decent numbers (at least, Mexicans as light skinned as a typical Italian American)

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

There's definitely colorism that's layered on top of it, but I don't think most white Americans distinguish Oaxacans and Argentinians if they have Spanish sounding names and foreign sounding accents

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

The weird thing to her is that Americans absolutely pretend to believe that racism is based on skin color, despite the fact that it isn't, even in America

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a lot of discourse on race and america is always like "Americans can't understand racism outside the US, which is often not based on skin color", which completely ignores the category of Hispanic, which is not based on skin color at all really

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot of this comes down to names too — "Anna Taylor Joy" doesn't sound Spanish and "Eduardo Saverin" is ambiguous

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 2d

I think this cracked it, the anti Mamdani types are a bit localist (Brooklyn machine) so it makes sense to use the more localist term bsky.app/profile/elja...

Confessions of a Masc4masc @eljajlorbs.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps they’re making a point about local rather than National/international gentry? where burgher has more of a local Implication? but that seems like the opposite of what theyre getting at here so idk