need more Robert Reichs in the world

Sam O'Hana Cascadian Prophets Interview YouTube video by Paul E Nelson

Youtube link to the Cascadia Poetics Lab interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1u...

Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 tax return, courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Estate.

@samohana.com looks at Allen Ginsberg’s tax returns to understand how Ginsberg supported himself, and the point at which he finally started getting paid for the poetry he created. Read his findings, or listen to him on @cascadiapoeticslab.bsky.social.

centerforthehumanities.org/dear-future-...

22 Defending Affordable and Stable Housing: Progress and Problems YouTube video by BetaNYC

The video of this panel on affordable housing from @schoolofdata.nyc in March 2025 is up (with @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social colleagues @samohana.com & Holden Taylor). What a fun time. Thanks @beta.nyc for organizing this & having us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0l...

As a father of a three year old, I am haunted by these horrors.

This is a fantastic answer

www.reddit.com/r/Micromobil...

I'm just finishing up teaching a special topics short course on Rayshader – they've done some great work– the "fun"-ness of it should be emphasized!

Population density of Hong Kong

#rayshader #maptiles

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting Officials said the suspect was posing as a law enforcement officer.

This is devastating.

My heart is with Representative Hortman’s family and loved ones, and I’m praying for Senator Hoffman and his wife.

Political violence, of any kind, is never acceptable, and it must not be normalized.

Had a great conversation with Paul Nelson (@ryukanski.bsky.social) on why midcentury US poetry really was something unique– the time, money and resources they had is a situation we may never see again
paulenelson.com/2025/05/20/s...
@ryukanski.bsky.social

Postcards from Mapes Creek was the coolest thing on Seattle on a 90 degree record heat day. Thank you Jim O'Halloran and Susan Pascal for the music, Sarah Koenig and Matt Trease for the poems.

Don't Be A Sucker (1947) YouTube video by Old TV Time

This one is just as powerful. youtu.be/iQ0ct9bglYo?...

thanks! not much forest to speak of- it's the standard "desert" palette

Bathymetry around Puerto Rico

#rayshader

Population of Japan, 1947 to Present
#rayshader

feel like it's time to introduce the question of distribution behind an average into public discourse.

not really enough to say eg. "Americans life expectancy going down" without pointing to inequality of distribution.

MSM outlets should start adding some kind of Gini caveat to headline stats

Salmon–Challis National Forest, Idaho #rayshader

maptiles for r experiment (plus rayshader, but not really visible here)

Some would say I have too many Charles Olson-related documents on my laptop

Pollença, Mallorca.

#rayshader #rayvista

Course registration for the 2025 Summer and Fall semesters is now open! This summer, Special Topics in Computational Fundamentals: Studio for 3D Geospatial Rendering will be taught by @samohana.com

#rayshader

How We Reached Carmageddon Cars are deadly, inefficient, and climate-killing. Cars aren't inevitable, and they are standing in the way of a better, transit-friendly future for our country.

Cars are deadly, inefficient, and climate-killing. Cars aren't inevitable, and they are standing in the way of a better, transit-friendly future for our country.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/carmage...

I hate fraud so much. I was lucky to be raised by a deeply ethical dad who worked in the real estate industry in Florida and so was constantly bringing home stories of the worst kinds of guys getting rich in ways that they felt were "illegal but fine" but were actually the worst kinds of theft.

Opinion | Gen. Stanley McChrystal On Fear America has always known fear. But today’s fear is different. It has been cultivated.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

"the largest office to residential conversion in American history"

woah ok then 😲