A quotation from Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are, and if we misbehave we suspect others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

Example Of Maps Used Well In A Media Article About Greenland
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https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GREENLAND-ELECTION/MAPS/zjvqaeledvx/ <-- shared media article
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[this post is NOT about geopolitics, rather the excellent use of multiple maps to illustrate the story / situation… so no text from the article itself...]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #media #reuters #greenland #projection #visualisation #education #presentation #NorthwestPassage #NorthernSeaRoute #ice #climatechange #seaice #thaw #melting #navigation #routing #shipping #transportation #geopolitics #strategic #military #NORAD #monitoring #naturalresources #mineral #oilandgas #rareearth #indigeneous #FirstNation #size #population #area #mapprojection #marine #glacier #ocean

Glacier Melt Intensifying Freshwater Loss And Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
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https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Glacier_melt_intensifying_freshwater_loss_and_accelerating_sea-level_rise <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #GlacierMassBalanceIntercomparison #glacial #glacier #global #cryosphere #regional #freshwater #water #resources #waterresources #watersecurity #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #rate #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #loss #massloss #greenland #antarctic #icesheet #anthropogenic #climatechange #melt #melting #risk #hazard #geohazard #geology #engineeringgeology #marine #terrestrial #ecosystems #watercycle #masschange #insitu #remotesensing #local #observation #model #modeling #projection

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/jan-6-released-aftermath-7e8a57a4?st=vorJYC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Other defendants are similarly arguing they should be absolved of other alleged crimes, such as illegal gun possession and child pornography, discovered during Jan. 6 investigations. At least one defendant has died in a post-pardon altercation with police.

I think it's abundantly clear now, that those who thump their chests re "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the government, are projecting their own inefficient, wasteful and fraudulent management skills in the same way that those who thump their chests about drag queens and pedophiles, etc. are projecting their own predatory and creepy behaviors.

Also HOW much time & tax $s have Musk, Trump, Project2025 wasted to date?

Good point by (@mmasnick) on the #Musk attack on the #USAID guide to fighting #disinformation. Worth highlighting because it spotlights a pattern common to other #Trumpist actions.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbook-comes-for-the-us-government/

"Musk transforms a guide about fighting disinformation through education into supposed evidence of government censorship. The irony would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous. The actual guide explicitly warns against censorship…It’s a handbook for promoting more speech and better information, not less. Yet Musk and his followers, in an act of meta-disinformation, completely invert its message to fit their “deep state censorship” narrative. Anyone can verify this — the guide is publicly available. But just as with the Twitter Files, Musk knows his audience won’t read the primary sources. They’ll simply amplify his misleading interpretation, creating another example of the very disinformation the guide warns against."

Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

Mapping / Cartography – A Visualisation Example Of How Projections ‘Shape’ Your Data
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https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/interactives/projection-face/ <-- dynamic views of different projections
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Here is one of my most useful (100yr old!) teaching aids - with a dynamic web page to 'match'!
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Text book figure, same man’s head drawn In four different projections; Charles H. Deetz, Elements of Map Projection With Applications to Map and Chart Construction (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921)
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #projections #mapprojections #learning #education #teachingaids #cartography