Fellow #NewJersey#Fediverse denizens & supporters! I just saw this 4/4 #AndyKim video in support of #Dem#SueAltman running to flip the #NJ7 House seat, & it seemed like a good time to re-up this @Action2getherNJ action to help #FlipNJ7: ATNJ is fundraising for printing/postage to send materials (w/ handwritten notes from the #StickyNoteSquad) to get infrequent NJ7 Dem voters to sign up for Vote By Mail. No amount is too small! Donate here: https://tinyurl.com/UnionCty
Congratulations for the leftist radical democratic #DEM Party! 🎉
Despite that in #Istanbul many of their electorate voted strategically on the social democratic #CHP (and candidate #İmamoğlu), and despite (suspected) election fraud in (especially) the #Şırnak province, the DEM Party was (as successor of the HDP) able to win more provincies and districts in the #Kurdistan region.
FYI: The reason I sometimes boost the kind words you send me is not to pat myself on the back, but to let people know why I’m here: To bring you news that’s legit and cut through some of the BS.
When others validate that, it keeps me going when some of the more irritating elements of Mastodon make me want to walk away.
Sidebar: I am not on social media to debate, argue, fight, or provoke. I intensely dislike all of those things.
This is an election year. Let’s support Dems, not fascists.
@GottaLaff Geez, what kind of lawyer are you? All lawyers like to debate, argue, fight, provoke and, especially, lie! 🤣
I just ordered #Dr RachelBitecofer's book, "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts" bc I totally agree with her. #Dems are too worried about being "nice." #Dem party needs to be on a "#war footing" bc, otherwise, we'll be in real #POW concentration camps when the #GQP_GOP take over.
"Donald Trump endorsed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to help lead the Republican National Committee, a move that would tighten his hold on the party even as the 2024 nominating contest continues."
>> I don't think it's fair to accuse #Democrats of never calling Trump to task for his nepotism… because the press was singlemindedly focused on "but her emails."… They're doing it again now.
#immigration has had a rational way forward since the 80s it’s just there has been no political will from #gop & #dem politicians
1-Create a guest worker program with a path to citizenship
2-increase legal immigration
3-ENFORCE severe penalties on #companies that #employee and take advantage of undocumented #workers
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It’s about having an unprotected class of exploitable workers
It took me the whole week's free time and a lot of help, but I managed to have an initial version of a script that reproduces Daniel Huffman's famous #Blender Relief Tutorial.
"The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) has collected and released almost 7 billion individual laser altimeter returns from the lunar surface. The LOLA data is used poleward of 79◦latitude as the elevation basemap necessary for calculating shading…”
The strongest candidate for speaker right now is Hakeem Jeffries, who will have all 212 Democratic votes on the House floor.
House Democrats are on the Capitol steps tonight. “We want to find a bipartisan path to reopening the House of Representatives,” “But the House Republican civil war continues to rage on, miring the congress in chaos, dysfunction and extremism,”
In an #unusual 4p stmnt attached to an otherwise routine list of orders concerning pending cases, Justice Alito dismissed calls for him to step aside as “unsound.”
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a damning report confirming that party affiliation in Ohio and Florida was a risk for dying of Covid-19....
Another Trump presidency would be catastrophic. The authoritarianism he continues to espouse, backed by his MAGA cronies in the red states and the Supreme Court, represents a dangerous slide away from democracy.
@GottaLaff I still think #detroit would have been a better location than #chicago for the #dem convention
It would put a spotlight on crazy #maga and how #democrats can take back a state from them, also give an economic boost to the #michigan Dems.
Instead the Dem convention will do what? Just kinda play into gop talking points
A warm welcome to all the #GIS, #GeoViz & #RemoteSensing people who started following me over the past few days (not 100% sure why, though!)
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I'm nothing more than an enthusiast in this field, but do a have strong interest (and prior experience) in mapping/visualization and also would like to work more again in that field. So here's a short thread about a few related tools and artistic projects I've been working on over the past couple of years (all work-in-progress)...
This web-based shader graph editor started in 2020 and is in urgent need to be developed further (i.e. to support loading & saving of projects, #GLSL & #WGSL export). The tool is really more about visual algebra and prototyping in general and so isn't specifically aimed at DEM visualizations, but it provides several useful operators to facilitate such (at least for pre-viz purposes and/or to create custom aesthetics). For example, there're generators for ambient occlusion maps, normal maps, bump mapping, elevation-based color gradients etc. Altogether, there're 36 customizable generators & operators, some also animated. Images (up to 4K res) can be imported via drag & drop. Currently only supports JPG/PNG, GeoTIFF will have to be pre-converted for now. If there's interest, I can record a quick video walkthrough of the tool...
The attached screenshots show some of the graphs/workflows I've used to produce visualizations & artwork for prints. You can (maybe, who can say these days?) also find more examples (incl. videos) on my old Twitter:
[Analysis] Journal of AMA Study - Gap between GOP and Dem COVID death rates increased by 43% in OH & FL after April, 2021. Conservative Political Rhetoric Now Has an Official Body Count - Esquire (www.esquire.com)
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a damning report confirming that party affiliation in Ohio and Florida was a risk for dying of Covid-19....