Portion of an FEC contribution receipt:<br>Name of Employer (for Individual): Robinhood Markets Inc.<br><br>Occuptation (for Individual): Senior Director of Financial Crimes
so, what do you do for work?
Eruptions is back ... and by back, I mean a return to blogging. Back in 2008, I started Eruptions to write about volcanoes as they happen, talk about volcano culture and research. Now I want to go back to that free-wheeling format. Welcome to eruptions.site: eruptions.site/2026/01/28/w...
The best time to leave the Nazi bar was when the Nazi bought the bar. The next best time is now.
#xp
Why not start a fresh conversation about why it's good to get off of X dot com now?
#xp
There is a tendency to circle the wagons when challenged.
#xp [2/2]
There is a CC-BY-NC collection of 8-band Planetscope data at docs.planet.com/data/imagery... , would that be sufficient training data?
There is also some SkySat data at docs.planet.com/data/imagery... but only 4-band, not panchromatic, so not ideal for training (PS doesn't have a pan band).
I have also seen the opposite claim, as in "AI is so smart that we don't need to clean or normalize our data, we'll just feed it raw sensor data and let the machine figure it out."
I have yet to see this work in practice.
I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than whatβs for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
Actual lava fountain spewing out of KΔ«lauea volcano.
What the ACTUAL FUCK, KΔ«lauea?! Go check it out yourself in the livestream right now. π βοΈπ§ͺ #volcano
www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
Volcano Hayli Gubbi erupted today in Ethiopia for the first time.
An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.
What you see without an OGI camera vs what you see with an OGI camera.
What you are seeing in a plume of methane and VOCs.
You can see how it is so easy for them to ignore the ongoing systemic methane pollution.
Satellite view (GOES-19) of a monster storm as it makes landfall yesterday.
(source: https://satlib.cira.colostate.edu/loop_of_the_day/hurricane-melissas-historic-day-in-the-caribbean/)
#hurricane #Melissa #xp
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson
Yeah, I get tired of people pining for the glory days of Twitter, too. Like, the seeds of its corruption & downfall were there all along; sure it was fun sometimes but itβs hard to say it was ever really a net positive influence. It had a role in destroying journalism, politics, & public civility.
Following up after a weekend of observing #Erin. The real track fell on the left side of the ECMWF Ensemble guidance envelope, but near a solid cluster of members.
Only one deepmind member showed a scenario remotely similar to what actually happened.
Some people need to find that out for themselves, but I think it is always helpful to show people that there *are* alternative careers.
And it's done it! Alsek Glacier has left the island. @planet.com image is from Aug 9. π§ͺβοΈβοΈ
now.
#GitHub #xp [2/2]
and it occurs to me that I could/should move my personal website ( https://kjordahl.net ) off of GitHub pages as well, since it is just a static site. But another point of friction, and I'm not eager to do that work for little immediate return. But it is at least on my list to do so [1/2]
So yes, it is past time to diversify beyond #GitHub for open source repositories. Everything I have there these days is just low-traffic personal projects, so it is certainly possible without much trouble for myself. Not trivial for projects that manage issues, PRs, etc. there, though.
#xp
The Krasheninnikov volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula awakens from a centuries-long slumber, spewing ash into the atmosphere.
Along with an eruption from the nearby Klyuchevskoy volcano, both came less than a week after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the region.
...and a M8.7 earthquake just hit the Kamchatka peninsula. I guess this lends weight to the megaquake advisory idea...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
This is a big earthquake, capable of triggering a trans-Pacific tsunami. Find the latest tsunami warnings here: www.tsunami.gov
The greatest trick the airlines have played on us is to get everyone who flies to envy those who have even slightly higher frequent flier status and perks than they do, and to have contempt for those who have lower status.
The Earth Sciences still haven't figured out what they are in the absence of the oil industry.
At the moment, they collectively have a degree of freedom that's not really being recognized, let alone explored.
Copyright Flotte Oceanographique Française - Nodssum cruise. Swath of Ulyx sonar data (left) and close-up of the barrels at the seafloor, showing as bright spots (from box on the left)
Copyright: Flotte Océanographique Française - Campagne NODSSUM. Barrel dumped at the seafloor at about 4700 m water depth
Copyright: Flotte Océanographique Française - Campagne NODSSUM. Barrel at the seafloor showing a probable leak of unknown material - probably tar used to embed the waste in the barrels.
Copyright: Flotte Océanographique Française - Campagne Nodssum. Sonar coverage during a dive of AUV Ulyx (gray background) covering a zone of approximately 6x3 km, with sonar swaths of about 400 m (horizontal stripes). The identified barrels shown as black dots line up along tracks followed by ships during barge dumping.
π§ͺβοΈ #NODSSUM cruise - On land, material & samples make their way back to home labs. And this morning we showed sonar images of barrels & photos taken by Ulyx flying at ~10 m above seafloor. Lots to do back in labs & offices. It was intense - good intense. Images: see copyright etc in thread
A burned pine savanna landscape, with all ground vegetation blackened, and Ponderosa pines scorched but not completely burned. Green pines are visible on the hillside in the background.
Post-fire landscape with burned Ponderosa pines, many still with needles. Ground vegetation has burned completely. Power lines run through the frame and a cliff with green pines is visible in the background.
I rode by the site of last weekend's fire in Riverside State Park yesterday. Crews managed to stop it before it spread too far, and it looks like many of the Ponderosa pines may survive as well.
#wildfire #Spokane #AubreyFire #xp
It's been a long week. So here's just a pretty graphic for your Friday evening... Simulation of atmospheric aerosols in our intricate Earth system.
Sea salt (cyan), dust (magenta), black carbon (orange/red), and sulfates (green)
Created by NASA SVS (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5552/)
@mapm8ker.bsky.social I will not be at ESRI UC, but there will be some Planet folks there. Look for our booth!
