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tech

[The Many Lives of Null Island | Stamen](https://stamen.com/the-many-lives-of-null-island/>

At risk of ruining the secret for you, Null Island is a long-running inside joke among cartographers. It is an imaginary island located at a real place: the coordinates of 0º latitude and 0º longitude, a location in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa where the Prime Meridian meets the Equator, hundreds of miles from any real dry land.

Null Island is not just a silly place to think about when cartographers are bored, it is a phenomenon that repeatedly and annoyingly asserts itself in the middle of day-to-day cartographic work, often when you least expect it.

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politics

There’s an episode of battlestar galactica about this — about how when you assume the descendants of dirty jobs workers should take on the dirty jobs, you’re just creating a new caste system Let’s not pretend this is anything other than that — some notion of keeping people where they “belong”

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— Molly McKew (@mollymckew.bsky.social) Jul 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM

We've entered the "major presidential campaign does dril quotes" phase of our current timeline

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) Jul 29, 2024 at 1:30 PM

really starting to get that old Dickens line: "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

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— Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) Aug 8, 2024 at 9:24 PM

JD Vance liking a card that lets you trade your soul for opportunity is the most on-brand thing ever. Source: www.semafor.com/article/08/0...

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— Aidan Moher (@aidanmoher.com) Aug 8, 2024 at 11:46 AM

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