Bill Morris
@vtcraghead.bsky.social
Bringer of Entropy, Full-Stack Dilettante @Mapbox, Band Interleaved by Line, He/him.
https://billmorris.io/shoals/
https://billmorris.io/shoals/
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Bill Morris
@vtcraghead.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Intro:
My name is Bill; I'm a maker of various maps, most built of pixels. 🛰️
I dwell in Vermont's Big City (Burlington, pop. ~42k), and dearly love this place, though Montréal comes in a close second for my affection. ❄️
My politics are of Community and Equality. ✊
Pleased to meet you.
My name is Bill; I'm a maker of various maps, most built of pixels. 🛰️
I dwell in Vermont's Big City (Burlington, pop. ~42k), and dearly love this place, though Montréal comes in a close second for my affection. ❄️
My politics are of Community and Equality. ✊
Pleased to meet you.
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Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪.
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪.
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍
'[Researchers] looked at 2,000 posts where the most upvoted comment stated that “You are the asshole,” representing what the researchers called “a clear human consensus on user wrongdoing.”'
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/a...
Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem
In new research, AI models show a troubling tendency to agree with whatever the user says.
arstechnica.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
'[Researchers] looked at 2,000 posts where the most upvoted comment stated that “You are the asshole,” representing what the researchers called “a clear human consensus on user wrongdoing.”'
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/a...
Major props to Aravind for this post. Science is a public good. newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...
Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth Science
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether commercial Earth observation (EO) companies could replace parts of NASA’s Earth science mission portfolio. With a new Administrator coming in, that de...
newsletter.terrawatchspace.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Major props to Aravind for this post. Science is a public good. newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...
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Happy #30DayMapChallenge to all those who celebrate!
Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here!
#30DayMapChallenge2025 #points
Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here!
#30DayMapChallenge2025 #points
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy #30DayMapChallenge to all those who celebrate!
Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here!
#30DayMapChallenge2025 #points
Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here!
#30DayMapChallenge2025 #points
@macwright.com I love the bomb you just dropped here: macwright.com/2025/11/02/f...
Fewer people should run marathons
macwright.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@macwright.com I love the bomb you just dropped here: macwright.com/2025/11/02/f...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Whoa, Prop5 is relevant to my interests, NYC . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Whoa, Prop5 is relevant to my interests, NYC . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...
A dove in the clouds, yesterday evening.
(Pay no mind to the "world's tallest filing cabinet" in the foreground)
(Pay no mind to the "world's tallest filing cabinet" in the foreground)
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A dove in the clouds, yesterday evening.
(Pay no mind to the "world's tallest filing cabinet" in the foreground)
(Pay no mind to the "world's tallest filing cabinet" in the foreground)
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We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer (EU/UK) 🌍
Help build open-source, cloud-native geospatial + AI tools with partners like ESA, NASA & ECMWF.
Remote-first from an ESA member state or join us in Lisbon.
grnh.se/9f2aodg43us
#hiring #jobs #geospatial #europe
Help build open-source, cloud-native geospatial + AI tools with partners like ESA, NASA & ECMWF.
Remote-first from an ESA member state or join us in Lisbon.
grnh.se/9f2aodg43us
#hiring #jobs #geospatial #europe
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer (EU/UK) 🌍
Help build open-source, cloud-native geospatial + AI tools with partners like ESA, NASA & ECMWF.
Remote-first from an ESA member state or join us in Lisbon.
grnh.se/9f2aodg43us
#hiring #jobs #geospatial #europe
Help build open-source, cloud-native geospatial + AI tools with partners like ESA, NASA & ECMWF.
Remote-first from an ESA member state or join us in Lisbon.
grnh.se/9f2aodg43us
#hiring #jobs #geospatial #europe
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Your (or your employer's) financial support for the PSF would be very much appreciated this year! (And every other year too) bsky.app/profile/pyth...
In the end, it wasn’t a hard decision for the PSF to put our community and our values first, but it does mean we lost out on this large funding source. Donations and sponsorships will help us fill the gap, so we can continue supporting the Python ecosystem and living our values.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Your (or your employer's) financial support for the PSF would be very much appreciated this year! (And every other year too) bsky.app/profile/pyth...
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We should all be so lucky to be memorialized like librarian Robert Resnik. May his memory be a blessing.
www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
Life Story: Robert Resnik ‘Was a Loud Librarian’
For more than 50 years, the Burlington folk musician, award-winning DJ and librarian brought music to Vermonters’ lives.
www.sevendaysvt.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We should all be so lucky to be memorialized like librarian Robert Resnik. May his memory be a blessing.
www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture...
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The entire internet in one screenshot
October 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The entire internet in one screenshot
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You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...
Cincinnati in 50 Maps - Andy Woodruff, cartographer
50+ original maps of Cincinnati in a book edited by Nick Swartsell with cartography by Andy Woodruff
andywoodruff.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
You'll hear me screaming much more about this book in a month or so, but for now I've made a little portfolio update to add a thing on the soon-to-be-published Cincinnati in 50 Maps, which you can and should pre-order now. andywoodruff.com/posts/2025/c...
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The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814
Imagine winning the World Series. You'd get to visit the ruins that used to be the White House
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814
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10 years! Despite the drought and the bitching, this year looks to be mostly average here in BTV.
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
10 years! Despite the drought and the bitching, this year looks to be mostly average here in BTV.
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25 different house styles, 3D printed, and positioned on a cork & foamcore basemap, with blinky lights! $365 total cost, including laser cutting at a maker space.
October 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
25 different house styles, 3D printed, and positioned on a cork & foamcore basemap, with blinky lights! $365 total cost, including laser cutting at a maker space.
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A joyous Indigenous Peoples day to you all! And if you're struggling to quit the OTHER mid October holiday cold turkey, may I interest you in an Italian who was a better mapmaker, better explorer, actually visited New England, and didn't (as far as anyone knows) murder anyone?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A joyous Indigenous Peoples day to you all! And if you're struggling to quit the OTHER mid October holiday cold turkey, may I interest you in an Italian who was a better mapmaker, better explorer, actually visited New England, and didn't (as far as anyone knows) murder anyone?
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Giovanni da Verrazzano
The water's got thirty degrees on the air this morning.
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The water's got thirty degrees on the air this morning.
Vermont's extreme drought has given us a nearly-Californian climate here this summer and fall. While that's been a catastrophe for most agriculture, I can't remember a better grape harvest.
October 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Vermont's extreme drought has given us a nearly-Californian climate here this summer and fall. While that's been a catastrophe for most agriculture, I can't remember a better grape harvest.
"You don't get to decide when you're in a fight. If someone punches you in the face, you're in one. We're in one."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"You don't get to decide when you're in a fight. If someone punches you in the face, you're in one. We're in one."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow.
I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork
I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork
October 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow.
I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork
I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork
Seems like not the greatest of prizes to be winning.
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Seems like not the greatest of prizes to be winning.
Bless you for the wonder and stability, ESA. Thanks for keeping the lights on.
October 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Bless you for the wonder and stability, ESA. Thanks for keeping the lights on.
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So, I'm sorry bros, but if you want folks to stop calling it 'mansplaining' and saying that basically only men do it, you either need to build a pipeline to produce a generation of arrogant, hubristic female commenters or - and this would be my preference - stop doing it.
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So, I'm sorry bros, but if you want folks to stop calling it 'mansplaining' and saying that basically only men do it, you either need to build a pipeline to produce a generation of arrogant, hubristic female commenters or - and this would be my preference - stop doing it.