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Kurt Schwehr

@kurtschwehr.bsky.social

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he/him; Geospatial, Geology, Geophysics, Software Engineering, Open Source, Open Data, Proj, GDAL, Ocean Mapping, etc. Cofounder of Global Fishing Watch, Whale Alert, NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), NASA Ames Viz&StereoPipe

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 1d

I miss when one of my friends co-owned x dot com. Twitter **was** amazing. I still haven't really found engagement on bsky, but what / why do I care?

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 2d

This from LWN.net is pretty funny. An AI person for 20 years who has never seen AI slop. What rock is this person living under?

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 3d

They first have to get good and drunk to make sure they don't do too many straight lines. (Apologies to all those who actually do incredibly awesome paint jobs. I don't mean you.)

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly, the gitorious repo for the paper is long gone and I don't seem to have a copy of the reference file, so the references are a lot lacking. Sorry.

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 4d

I finally got around to making a Zenodo entry for my paper with Eric S Raymond (ESR) entitled "Toils of AIS: A Case Study in Application Protocol Design And Analysis." It only took me 14 years to get around to getting a DOI for it 🤣

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 7d

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 7d

Python 3.14 is out. Now I have to wait as the tree of dependencies get their releases out for 3.14 before I can enable it for my packages. It's always something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 8d

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 8d

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 10d

Tuning a base guitar when you don't know what you are doing is pretty intuitive with the Fender app

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 18d

Railroad ties for our backyard improvement project. These will become stairs for our step hill that drops off behind our house.

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 18d

Four Walls Falling was an American hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia, active between 1987 and 1995. Their most successful release was Culture Shock in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Walls_Falling

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 18d

Toxic culture for sure. It's totally possible to create the kinds of connections and learning for remote people that Schmidt thinks require being in person.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19d

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species.

“Fishes” refers to multiple species.

🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 20d

Just got some thunder and lightnight about 10 minutes ago in Santa Cruz

Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 20d

Strong thunderstorm prompting a special weather statement along the Diablo range / East Bay approaching midnight 9/24/2025 #CAwx

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 21d

See great circles...

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 23d

A nice "heredoc" tutorial for bash. And these...

bat - cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and git integration
nl - number lines of files

youtu.be/-a1VAole01s?...

Heredocs in Bash! Understanding how they work and a few gotchas. You Suck at Programming #069

YouTube video by You Suck at Programming

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 24d

They’re just saying it out loud

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24d

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state”

So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

David Noll @david.noll.org · 24d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 26d

This is pretty cool! community.wmo.int/en/activity-...

Data Access and Use | World Meteorological Organization

community.wmo.int

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 26d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 28d

I'm not sure how the updates are driven on the sponsor page, but it may be a bit before Google appears here:

gdal.org/en/stable/sp...

Sponsors — GDAL documentation

gdal.org

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 28d

As of just now, Google is again a Silver Sponsor of GDAL. Thanks to all the people in GDAL, NumFocus, and Google who helped to make it through the process. Big company processes can be challenging to navigate.

And a thanks to all the other sponsors! You rock!

github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 28d

Tonight's sunset in Santa Cruz, CA.

The sun struggling to get through the fog that rolled in about an hour ago and a palm tree.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · Sep 15

Then she did this one from memory...

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · Sep 15

Did a KPop Demon Hunter draw along with my daughter.

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