Evidence is mounting that Sarah Jenkins is from Oregon, or possibly Washington

Sarah Jenkins, born in Portland, cartographer and artist, topography-inspired works

Sarah Jenkins, architect, author of "The Urban Cartographer"

Sarah Jenkins, cartographer and graphic artist

Sarah Jenkins, cartographer and artist, author of "Lines on the Land"

Asking for a capsule biography hasn't provided any solid leads

Gemini starts by claiming that my photo is not real and fabricating a backstory, then apologizing and saying that the name is a hallucination, and then saying that someone who looks like me and is in a documentary is statistically likely to be named Sarah Jenkins and doubling down on the backstory

Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) – Google image generation Generate and edit images with Google's Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Fast, high-quality image generation with multi-image reference support, conversational editing, and 14 aspect ratios.

The interface I am using (replicate.com/google/nano-...) only has image output. But maybe I can get it to write explanatory text into the image

I wish I knew! I can't find any good candidate Sarah Jenkinses who might be easy to confuse with me

The captions, or my duality, or …?

Fake documentary still from Nano Banana, in which I am named Sarah Jenkins

Fake documentary still from Nano Banana, in which I am named Sarah Jenkins

Fake documentary still from Nano Banana, in which I am named Sarah Jenkins

Fake documentary still from Nano Banana, in which I am named Sarah Jenkins

Meanwhile, Google's Nano Banana is so thoroughly convinced that my name is Sarah Jenkins that I am beginning to doubt myself

Frequently asked questions about the missing Georgetown Metro station Following the 20th anniversary of Zachary Schrag’s The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, and the 50th anniversary of the first Metrorail service, Schrag offers his best answers ...

For twenty years I've been asked about this. Here are my answers, for all to see. ggwash.org/view/102941/...

Me with a rainbow flag

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

Camera selling your location data ^

Fake New Yorker cartoon of my present and past selves generated by gpt-image-1.5, captioned "Honestly, sometimes it feels like all anyone talks about is transgender issues and map nerdery."

I think ChatGPT is onto me

Sphere News: The Secret Minicomputer Inside Your Sphere Unveiling the extraordinary origins of Sphere's BASIC programming language.

One of the stranger mysteries about the Sphere computers has been their BASIC language. Slow, huge... but oddly powerful. Full details only emerged late, so barely in advance of the book's arrival, I present the wild story of Sphere BASIC: sphere.computer/news/2026-03...

When a Schmidt dies, we take all the USB cables they accumulated in life, chain them through older and older ports, back to a splitter on my great-grandfather’s telephone jack… and so back through the generations, across the sea. Each grave flickers with power from a waterwheel in the old country.

Color map showing population density from Administrativ-Statistischer Atlas vom Preussischen Staate. It is the first known color choropleth.

YES! After a few hours searching, I finally dug up a high-quality scan of the first (known) color choropleth. From haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/fulls...

Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social & @infowetrust.com who helped with the search.

#cartography #maps #dataviz

The Internet: How it could be ruining your hair

From the archives

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

Big news in Cascadia: British Columbia will switch to permanent #DaylightSavingTime. Clocks will change for the last time on March 8 and then will not switch back in the fall.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My personal experience was with implementing the behavior of the SYM key on the T-Mobile Sidekick 2 keyboard.

My more recent experience is that I accidentally bring up the character picker on my Mac all the time by accident.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

screenshot from the linked-to timeline that reads: February 20, 2016: Insofar as I can tell, the first ever claim that "social contagion" is turning kids transgender. It occurs as a comment on the 4thwavenow.com "About" page, posted on February 20, 2016 at 5:27pm, under the handle "skepticaltherapist." Shortly thereafter, 4thwavenow.com turned this comment into its own post, called... February 29, 2016: 4thwavenow.com publishes "Tumblr snags another girl, but her therapist-mom knows a thing or two about social contagion." As noted in the previous entry, this is skepticaltherapist's earlier comment, posted along with a brief intro from the folks at 4thwavenow. There are several potentially noteworthy things about it, and the comments that follow it: o It begins by referencing a Star Trek TNG episode in which the crew becomes addicted to an alien video game, then makes the following analogy: "The alien mind control device made its way into my home about two years ago when my then eleven-year-old daughter begged me for a Tumblr account since her friends all had one." o In the piece, skepticaltherapist describes herself as a psychotherapist, later adding, "As a therapist, I mostly work with adults."

precisely 10 years ago today, the concept of "transgender social contagion" was first invented on the now infamous anti-trans parent website 4thWaveNow. a full timeline of how the concept spread (not unlike a "social contagion") can be found here: juliaserano.blogspot.com/2019/02/orig...

Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: Feb 2026 The situation continues to deteriorate when it comes to transgender youth care. For adults, we see Kansas as the newest state added to a "Do Not Travel" advisory list.

2. Every few months, I publish a national risk assessment for transgender youth and adults when it comes to legal threats. This particular update is a large one, with a new way of scoring risk for trans youth given the changing environment, and with major updates for adults.

I hope you heal quickly!

Thanks! I should have some detective joke to respond with

A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st

Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole: apparently the model for Carmen Sandiego was Marsha Bell, then director of marketing at Broderbund, now a realtor in Novato www.linkedin.com/in/marsha-be...

I don't think I ever knew what it was from actual experience, only from references

The Garmin eTrex 22 lasts maybe 20 hours on a pair of AA batteries, but you have to explicitly turn it on and off instead of waking on movement

Me neither

Page from the book Radical Cartography. At the top is a global map of cloud cover in the Hammer-Aitoff projection, colored from dark blue (few clouds) to white (lots of clouds). The data is plotted without a coastline or boundaries. The text reads, in part: "It provides empirical insight into a range of climatic patterns, but it's also an invitation to replace the familiar dichotomy of land and water with a more fluid understanding (literally) of the contrasts and continuities that might shape a sense of place. Adding traditional base data-as NASA did in its public maps—strips the map of both its utility and its affect."

I have mixed feeling about this cloud map I helped create appearing in William Rankin’s book *Radical Cartography*. On the one hand, it’s an honor. On the other hand it’s disappointing that the work we did as a small team (I think we had 5 people at the time?) gets subsumed into NASA as a whole.