The numbers here are difficult to ignore. If aid reductions continue, we’re looking at tens of millions of additional deaths by 2030, including millions of children. What you see here is derived from actual historical relationships, not hypothetical ones. #AIDE - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Are LLMs a Dead End? (Investors Just Bet $1 Billion on “Yes”) | AI Reality Check | Cal Newport YouTube video by Cal Newport

What if LLMs aren’t the future of AI? AI pioneer Yann LeCun argues they’re a dead end—too brittle, inefficient, and disconnected from real-world understanding. A new modular approach may be next. Great video discussion. #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IMV...

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants Growing concern over academic freedom as some college students monitor & report professors for perce...

Growing concern over academic freedom as some college students monitor & report professors for perceived political incorrectness. Texas A&M incidents cited. #AcademicFreedom #News

GitHub - Eric-Ness/Tiki Contribute to Eric-Ness/Tiki development by creating an account on GitHub.

I built a GitHub issue–centric workflow framework for Claude Code. A GitHub issue # drives everything: plan → audit → execute → review. Fully configurable (TDD, ADR, etc.). At this point, my 9-year-old could probably do most of my job. github.com/Eric-Ness/Tiki

Big milestone today: I integrated my satellite-based water quality models into the web app I built. I can now view and interact with the models in one place. Shown here: chlorophyll-a in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.

#RemoteSensing #WaterQuality #GIS #Landsat #EarthObservation #DataScience

Tired of firing up QGIS just to peek at a raster?
viewtif lets you:
• View single-band + RGB GeoTIFFs
• Overlay shapefiles
• Browse NetCDF time steps
• Open HDF/HDF5 + FileGDB rasters
All from the command line.
#GeoSpatial #Python - github.com/nkeikon/tifv...

SWOT captured 65-ft waves during Storm Eddie, the tallest ever measured from orbit. These waves traveled 15,000 miles, carrying the storm’s power across entire oceans. #SWOT #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #ClimateScience www.space.com/space-explor...

The World Bank just released updated high-resolution official boundaries (Admin 0–2) across GeoJSON, Shapefile & GeoPackage. Includes NDLSA areas, ocean masks, and full data dictionary + attribute tables. #GIS #RemoteSensing #Geospatial datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/datas...

Burnscar Detection Pipeline: NASA FIRMS + Sentinel-2 + Google Earth Engine + SQLMesh + DuckDB = open-source system to spot suspicious burn scars & potential arson events. #OSINT #RemoteSensing #FIRMS
Library: github.com/Centre-for-I...
Writeup: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...

So I just implemented a major update to the news clustering algorithm on newsmap.org. If anyone is interested, I am also currently supporting a number of new languages.

Wildfire modeling just got faster. PROPAGATOR uses stochastic cellular automata + rate-of-spread physics to simulate fire behavior in minutes — helping emergency teams make real-time decisions. #GIS #EmergencyManagement #RemoteSensing www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/...

My cat's litter box is connected to the Internet. Surely this is a sign of the end of days.

GitHub - developmentseed/lonboard: A Python library for fast, interactive geospatial vector data visualization in Jupyter. A Python library for fast, interactive geospatial vector data visualization in Jupyter. - developmentseed/lonboard

This looks interesting — Lonboard 0.13 just dropped and now supports H3, S2, Geohash, and even A5 layers. Lots of new ways to explore geospatial grids in Python.
#GIS #GeoPython #Lonboard - github.com/developments...

Why does Synthetic Aperture Radar use different wavelengths? | SAR bands explained YouTube video by sigma nought

SAR satellites don’t need daylight — they image Earth day, night, rain, or clouds. Different radar bands (P, L, S, C, X, Ku, K, Ka) reveal everything from subsurface rivers to cars in a parking lot. Wild tech. #SAR #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #Radar #Geospatial - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6c...

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds Analysis finds China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months due to increased solar ...

Analysis finds China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months due to increased solar & wind power. Sector emissions remained flat despite rising electricity demand. #ClimateChange #News

Tired of hunting down shapefiles? The new wkls Python library gives you instant access to 625K global administrative boundaries with clean, chainable syntax — no downloading, no parsing. Just wkls.us.nyc.cityofnewyork.wkt()
#GIS #Python #GeoSpatial #Wherobots - github.com/wherobots/wk...

With a $600 satellite dish and open-source software, UCSD & UMD researchers intercepted cleartext IP traffic from 50% of GEO satellite links — voice calls, grid data, in-flight WiFi, retail systems, even military assets. - satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontloo...

Did The Secret Service Really Foil A Plot To Destroy New York's Cellphone Infrastructure? YouTube video by Marcus Hutchins

If you’ve ever wondered where endless scam calls come from… SIM farms. USSS just shut a few down. That’s good news. But no, they weren’t going to knock out every phone in New York. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZj...

My advisors and I finally submitted our next paper! #PhDChat

Orbio Earth just open-sourced their full methane detection pipeline—models, tools, synthetic-plume engine & validation notebooks—for Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/9, and EMIT. #Methane #ClimateTech #OpenSource - orbio-earth.github.io/Project-Euca...

How do we track water flowing through rivers from space? This major review says: 1–3 day revisit. Resolution down to 30–100 m widths. Must include width, slope, & velocity. Flood forecasting + water management depend on it. #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing #WaterResources doi.org/10.1029/2024...

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

The Trump administration is pushing NASA to kill two critical climate satellites. The Orbiting Carbon Observatories track CO₂ globally — data vital to scientists, farmers, and even oil companies. Cost? Just $15M/year. #ClimateScience #EarthObservation futurism.com/white-house-...

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

"At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto's 0.85. " - futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

How to Overlay a Heatmap on a Real Map with Python | Towards Data Science Visualizing historical tornado trends

Want to overlay a heatmap on a real map using Python? This guide walks through visualizing EF3–EF5 tornado trends across the U.S. with NOAA data, grid-based bins, and Matplotlib. Bonus: how to include tornado endpoints too!
#geospatial #Python towardsdatascience.com/how-to-overl...

Sea Surface Salinity Datasets Now Available on the SNWG Earthdata Search Portal | NASA Earthdata Access Sea Surface Salinity with Sea Ice Mask, a NASA Satellite Needs Working Group solution, to discern salinity values close to the sea ice edge.

Just launched: SMAP salinity data V5.0 + V5.3 with ice/ocean flags — available now via NASA’s SNWG Earthdata Portal. Track salinity near the sea ice edge like never before. #SeaSurfaceSalinity #NASAData www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/sea-sur...

Southern Europe’s land and sea sizzles A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals t...

A record-breaking heatwave is sweeping across southern Europe and North Africa. Copernicus Sentinel-3 reveals land surface temps far above normal – and the Mediterranean Sea isn't spared either. #ClimateCrisis #EarthObservation www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Global Views of PACE Land Vegetation Data Global view of three major classes of plant pigments observed by the PACE satellite: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.

NASA’s PACE satellite just dropped a year of stunning hyperspectral data—mapping chlorophyll, carotenoids & anthocyanins globally, every 1–2 days. It's the first time we’re seeing land plants in full spectral color from space. #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5548/

Exclusive: Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group that operates it told Reuters on Tuesday.

It appears that MethaneSAT is gone. Launched in March 2024 to track powerful methane leaks, the Bezos-backed satellite veered off course over Norway and lost power. #MethaneLeaks #ClimateChange #MethaneSAT www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Introducing Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — Now in Public Preview | Microsoft Community Hub Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro — a turnkey platform that makes it dramatically easier for...

Microsoft just launched Planetary Computer Pro (Public Preview) — a cloud-native geospatial platform built for AI, ML, and massive-scale analysis. 50PB+ of data, now enterprise-ready via Azure. #Geospatial #AI techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/iotblog...

LOL - me too. What's sad is that I just wrote some code for a paper that does this, sort of. This is a better approach, though.