#navigation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #navigation, aggregated by home.social.
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https://github.com/nekromoff/bicycle-master-plan now includes fully working turn by turn navigation with chimes and speech instructions! I have never thought I would be able to program navigation. Junior LLM to the help under senior supervision.
Install easily for any city.
#php #map #mapping #maps #software #WebDev #DataScience #dataviz #gps #bicycle #cycling #navigation #osm #openstreetmap #leaflet -
https://github.com/nekromoff/bicycle-master-plan now includes fully working turn by turn navigation with chimes and speech instructions! I have never thought I would be able to program navigation. Junior LLM to the help under senior supervision.
Install easily for any city.
#php #map #mapping #maps #software #WebDev #DataScience #dataviz #gps #bicycle #cycling #navigation #osm #openstreetmap #leaflet -
https://github.com/nekromoff/bicycle-master-plan now includes fully working turn by turn navigation with chimes and speech instructions! I have never thought I would be able to program navigation. Junior LLM to the help under senior supervision.
Install easily for any city.
#php #map #mapping #maps #software #WebDev #DataScience #dataviz #gps #bicycle #cycling #navigation #osm #openstreetmap #leaflet -
https://github.com/nekromoff/bicycle-master-plan now includes fully working turn by turn navigation with chimes and speech instructions! I have never thought I would be able to program navigation. Junior LLM to the help under senior supervision.
Install easily for any city.
#php #map #mapping #maps #software #WebDev #DataScience #dataviz #gps #bicycle #cycling #navigation #osm #openstreetmap #leaflet -
https://github.com/nekromoff/bicycle-master-plan now includes fully working turn by turn navigation with chimes and speech instructions! I have never thought I would be able to program navigation. Junior LLM to the help under senior supervision.
Install easily for any city.
#php #map #mapping #maps #software #WebDev #DataScience #dataviz #gps #bicycle #cycling #navigation #osm #openstreetmap #leaflet -
The Past, Present & Future Of Dams In The Southeastern U.S.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02579-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @UF Water Institute
“[The authors are] helping build a foundation for better water policy, planning, and resilience. By diving into the into the history, present status, and future of dams in the southeastern region, [they are] filling a research gap of an under-examined area..”
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“Dams and reservoirs have played a central role in the industrialization and economic development of the United States, providing hydropower, flood control, navigation, water supply, and recreation. Yet they have also transformed river systems, displaced communities, and contributed to major ecological change. This paper presents an exploratory review of the history, present status, and future of dams in the Southeastern United States, focusing on U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic regions 3 (South Atlantic-Gulf) and 6 (Tennessee). Using data from the National Inventory of Dams, historical archives, and interdisciplinary literature, the study examines temporal trends in dam construction, societal and ecological impacts, hazard conditions, and emerging trends in dam management. The Southeastern U.S. contains some of the nation’s highest dam densities and storage capacities, with more than 19,000 inventoried dams as of 2026. Many dams were constructed during the mid-twentieth century through the New Deal and postwar infrastructure programs led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This aging infrastructure, in combination with inconsistent regulation, and increasing exposure to extreme weather raises growing safety concerns, particularly for the many high-hazard dams in poor or unrated conditions in the region. The paper also explores future trajectories, including hydropower modernization, pumped storage expansion, and dam removal efforts aimed at balancing renewable energy production, ecological restoration, and public safety…”
#dams #dam #usecase #USA #US #SouthEast #reservoir #industry #economics #aging #infrastructure #history #future #hydropower #floodcontrol #navigation #watersupply #recreation #waterresources #water #hydrology #ecology #ecosystems #community #humaninpacts #NHD #WBD #USGS #USACE #TVA #NationalInventoryofDams #literaturereview #SoutheasternUS #inventory #maintenance #pumpedstorage #removal #renewableenergy #publicsafety -
The Past, Present & Future Of Dams In The Southeastern U.S.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02579-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @UF Water Institute
“[The authors are] helping build a foundation for better water policy, planning, and resilience. By diving into the into the history, present status, and future of dams in the southeastern region, [they are] filling a research gap of an under-examined area..”
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“Dams and reservoirs have played a central role in the industrialization and economic development of the United States, providing hydropower, flood control, navigation, water supply, and recreation. Yet they have also transformed river systems, displaced communities, and contributed to major ecological change. This paper presents an exploratory review of the history, present status, and future of dams in the Southeastern United States, focusing on U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic regions 3 (South Atlantic-Gulf) and 6 (Tennessee). Using data from the National Inventory of Dams, historical archives, and interdisciplinary literature, the study examines temporal trends in dam construction, societal and ecological impacts, hazard conditions, and emerging trends in dam management. The Southeastern U.S. contains some of the nation’s highest dam densities and storage capacities, with more than 19,000 inventoried dams as of 2026. Many dams were constructed during the mid-twentieth century through the New Deal and postwar infrastructure programs led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This aging infrastructure, in combination with inconsistent regulation, and increasing exposure to extreme weather raises growing safety concerns, particularly for the many high-hazard dams in poor or unrated conditions in the region. The paper also explores future trajectories, including hydropower modernization, pumped storage expansion, and dam removal efforts aimed at balancing renewable energy production, ecological restoration, and public safety…”
#dams #dam #usecase #USA #US #SouthEast #reservoir #industry #economics #aging #infrastructure #history #future #hydropower #floodcontrol #navigation #watersupply #recreation #waterresources #water #hydrology #ecology #ecosystems #community #humaninpacts #NHD #WBD #USGS #USACE #TVA #NationalInventoryofDams #literaturereview #SoutheasternUS #inventory #maintenance #pumpedstorage #removal #renewableenergy #publicsafety -
The Past, Present & Future Of Dams In The Southeastern U.S.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02579-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @UF Water Institute
“[The authors are] helping build a foundation for better water policy, planning, and resilience. By diving into the into the history, present status, and future of dams in the southeastern region, [they are] filling a research gap of an under-examined area..”
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“Dams and reservoirs have played a central role in the industrialization and economic development of the United States, providing hydropower, flood control, navigation, water supply, and recreation. Yet they have also transformed river systems, displaced communities, and contributed to major ecological change. This paper presents an exploratory review of the history, present status, and future of dams in the Southeastern United States, focusing on U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic regions 3 (South Atlantic-Gulf) and 6 (Tennessee). Using data from the National Inventory of Dams, historical archives, and interdisciplinary literature, the study examines temporal trends in dam construction, societal and ecological impacts, hazard conditions, and emerging trends in dam management. The Southeastern U.S. contains some of the nation’s highest dam densities and storage capacities, with more than 19,000 inventoried dams as of 2026. Many dams were constructed during the mid-twentieth century through the New Deal and postwar infrastructure programs led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This aging infrastructure, in combination with inconsistent regulation, and increasing exposure to extreme weather raises growing safety concerns, particularly for the many high-hazard dams in poor or unrated conditions in the region. The paper also explores future trajectories, including hydropower modernization, pumped storage expansion, and dam removal efforts aimed at balancing renewable energy production, ecological restoration, and public safety…”
#dams #dam #usecase #USA #US #SouthEast #reservoir #industry #economics #aging #infrastructure #history #future #hydropower #floodcontrol #navigation #watersupply #recreation #waterresources #water #hydrology #ecology #ecosystems #community #humaninpacts #NHD #WBD #USGS #USACE #TVA #NationalInventoryofDams #literaturereview #SoutheasternUS #inventory #maintenance #pumpedstorage #removal #renewableenergy #publicsafety -
The Past, Present & Future Of Dams In The Southeastern U.S.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02579-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @UF Water Institute
“[The authors are] helping build a foundation for better water policy, planning, and resilience. By diving into the into the history, present status, and future of dams in the southeastern region, [they are] filling a research gap of an under-examined area..”
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“Dams and reservoirs have played a central role in the industrialization and economic development of the United States, providing hydropower, flood control, navigation, water supply, and recreation. Yet they have also transformed river systems, displaced communities, and contributed to major ecological change. This paper presents an exploratory review of the history, present status, and future of dams in the Southeastern United States, focusing on U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic regions 3 (South Atlantic-Gulf) and 6 (Tennessee). Using data from the National Inventory of Dams, historical archives, and interdisciplinary literature, the study examines temporal trends in dam construction, societal and ecological impacts, hazard conditions, and emerging trends in dam management. The Southeastern U.S. contains some of the nation’s highest dam densities and storage capacities, with more than 19,000 inventoried dams as of 2026. Many dams were constructed during the mid-twentieth century through the New Deal and postwar infrastructure programs led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This aging infrastructure, in combination with inconsistent regulation, and increasing exposure to extreme weather raises growing safety concerns, particularly for the many high-hazard dams in poor or unrated conditions in the region. The paper also explores future trajectories, including hydropower modernization, pumped storage expansion, and dam removal efforts aimed at balancing renewable energy production, ecological restoration, and public safety…”
#dams #dam #usecase #USA #US #SouthEast #reservoir #industry #economics #aging #infrastructure #history #future #hydropower #floodcontrol #navigation #watersupply #recreation #waterresources #water #hydrology #ecology #ecosystems #community #humaninpacts #NHD #WBD #USGS #USACE #TVA #NationalInventoryofDams #literaturereview #SoutheasternUS #inventory #maintenance #pumpedstorage #removal #renewableenergy #publicsafety -
The Past, Present & Future Of Dams In The Southeastern U.S.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02579-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @UF Water Institute
“[The authors are] helping build a foundation for better water policy, planning, and resilience. By diving into the into the history, present status, and future of dams in the southeastern region, [they are] filling a research gap of an under-examined area..”
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“Dams and reservoirs have played a central role in the industrialization and economic development of the United States, providing hydropower, flood control, navigation, water supply, and recreation. Yet they have also transformed river systems, displaced communities, and contributed to major ecological change. This paper presents an exploratory review of the history, present status, and future of dams in the Southeastern United States, focusing on U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic regions 3 (South Atlantic-Gulf) and 6 (Tennessee). Using data from the National Inventory of Dams, historical archives, and interdisciplinary literature, the study examines temporal trends in dam construction, societal and ecological impacts, hazard conditions, and emerging trends in dam management. The Southeastern U.S. contains some of the nation’s highest dam densities and storage capacities, with more than 19,000 inventoried dams as of 2026. Many dams were constructed during the mid-twentieth century through the New Deal and postwar infrastructure programs led by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This aging infrastructure, in combination with inconsistent regulation, and increasing exposure to extreme weather raises growing safety concerns, particularly for the many high-hazard dams in poor or unrated conditions in the region. The paper also explores future trajectories, including hydropower modernization, pumped storage expansion, and dam removal efforts aimed at balancing renewable energy production, ecological restoration, and public safety…”
#dams #dam #usecase #USA #US #SouthEast #reservoir #industry #economics #aging #infrastructure #history #future #hydropower #floodcontrol #navigation #watersupply #recreation #waterresources #water #hydrology #ecology #ecosystems #community #humaninpacts #NHD #WBD #USGS #USACE #TVA #NationalInventoryofDams #literaturereview #SoutheasternUS #inventory #maintenance #pumpedstorage #removal #renewableenergy #publicsafety -
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Interested in the stars? Astrolabe (Single Plate) See it here: https://www.shopwavytail.com/product/astrolabe-single-plate #astrolabe #astronomy #navigation
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Interested in the stars? Astrolabe (Single Plate) See it here: https://www.shopwavytail.com/product/astrolabe-single-plate #astrolabe #astronomy #navigation
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Interested in the stars? Astrolabe (Single Plate) See it here: https://www.shopwavytail.com/product/astrolabe-single-plate #astrolabe #astronomy #navigation
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Interested in the stars? Astrolabe (Single Plate) See it here: https://www.shopwavytail.com/product/astrolabe-single-plate #astrolabe #astronomy #navigation
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Corto-planner navigates drone faster, quieter, and safer around obstacles
Autonomous drones need to be able to fly from A to B as quickly as possible, around obstacles, and through narrow gaps.
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Corto-planner navigates drone faster, quieter, and safer around obstacles
Autonomous drones need to be able to fly from A to B as quickly as possible, around obstacles, and through narrow gaps.
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Corto-planner navigates drone faster, quieter, and safer around obstacles
Autonomous drones need to be able to fly from A to B as quickly as possible, around obstacles, and through narrow gaps.
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Corto-planner navigates drone faster, quieter, and safer around obstacles
Autonomous drones need to be able to fly from A to B as quickly as possible, around obstacles, and through narrow gaps.
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Corto-planner navigates drone faster, quieter, and safer around obstacles
Autonomous drones need to be able to fly from A to B as quickly as possible, around obstacles, and through narrow gaps.
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Android Auto: Speedometer and speed limit now permanently available
Google continues to work on improving navigation with Android Auto. The speedometer and speed limit are now always displayed.
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Android Auto: Speedometer and speed limit now permanently available
Google continues to work on improving navigation with Android Auto. The speedometer and speed limit are now always displayed.
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Android Auto: Speedometer and speed limit now permanently available
Google continues to work on improving navigation with Android Auto. The speedometer and speed limit are now always displayed.
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Android Auto: Speedometer and speed limit now permanently available
Google continues to work on improving navigation with Android Auto. The speedometer and speed limit are now always displayed.
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Android Auto: Speedometer and speed limit now permanently available
Google continues to work on improving navigation with Android Auto. The speedometer and speed limit are now always displayed.
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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.
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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.
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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.
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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.
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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.
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Android Auto: Tacho und Tempolimit nun permanent verfügbar
Google arbeitet weiter daran, die Navigation mit Android Auto zu verbessern. Jetzt werden Tacho und Tempolimit immer angezeigt.
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Android Auto: Tacho und Tempolimit nun permanent verfügbar
Google arbeitet weiter daran, die Navigation mit Android Auto zu verbessern. Jetzt werden Tacho und Tempolimit immer angezeigt.
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Android Auto: Tacho und Tempolimit nun permanent verfügbar
Google arbeitet weiter daran, die Navigation mit Android Auto zu verbessern. Jetzt werden Tacho und Tempolimit immer angezeigt.
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Android Auto: Tacho und Tempolimit nun permanent verfügbar
Google arbeitet weiter daran, die Navigation mit Android Auto zu verbessern. Jetzt werden Tacho und Tempolimit immer angezeigt.
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Android Auto: Tacho und Tempolimit nun permanent verfügbar
Google arbeitet weiter daran, die Navigation mit Android Auto zu verbessern. Jetzt werden Tacho und Tempolimit immer angezeigt.
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Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils
LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.
11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag
PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look.
11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company
Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.
#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac
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Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils
LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.
11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag
PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look.
11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company
Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.
#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac
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Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils
LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.
11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag
PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look.
11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company
Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.
#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac
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Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils
LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.
11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag
PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look.
11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company
Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.
#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac
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Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils
LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.
11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag
PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look.
11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company
Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.
#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac
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The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke
This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity.
On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 . Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate.
When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.
From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments. How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.
Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see.
Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.
1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304
2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.
#AgnesCallard #cognitiveBiases #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #decisionMaking #epistemology #evolutionaryPsychology #humanPsychology #identity #introspection #mentalModels #metacognition #mindset #navigation #neuroscience #normativeSelfBlindness #personalDevelopment #philosophy #sensemaking #socraticThinking #spaceAndPlace
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The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke
This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity.
On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 . Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate.
When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.
From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments. How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.
Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see.
Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.
1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304
2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.
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The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke
This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity.
On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 . Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate.
When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.
From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments. How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.
Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see.
Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.
1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304
2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.
#AgnesCallard #cognitiveBiases #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #decisionMaking #epistemology #evolutionaryPsychology #humanPsychology #identity #introspection #mentalModels #metacognition #mindset #navigation #neuroscience #normativeSelfBlindness #personalDevelopment #philosophy #sensemaking #socraticThinking #spaceAndPlace
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The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke
This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity.
On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 . Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate.
When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.
From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments. How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.
Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see.
Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.
1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304
2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.
#AgnesCallard #cognitiveBiases #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #decisionMaking #epistemology #evolutionaryPsychology #humanPsychology #identity #introspection #mentalModels #metacognition #mindset #navigation #neuroscience #normativeSelfBlindness #personalDevelopment #philosophy #sensemaking #socraticThinking #spaceAndPlace
