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Felix sits down with writer & journalist Peter Korotaev for a wide ranging conversation on the state of the Russo-Ukranian War in the wake of the Trump administration’s spat with Zelensky & attempts at a peace deal, and loads of context on the politics of Ukraine, Russia, various oligarchs, the Atlantic Council, and other non-state actors that have led to this point.

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Tim “T-Bone” Faust makes a long overdue return to the program to brief us on the series of guerilla town halls on Medicaid he’s been doing in Wisconsin. But first, we start with a brief roundup on one of the most important health issues facing the nation today: Soda, and the role it plays in keeping Americans healthy. Tim then takes us through the current administration’s assault on Medicaid & Medicare, how the failure to push for healthcare reform in the face of COVID paved the way for hucksters like RFK Jr, and how health justice remains a bedrock principle for a left political program going forward.

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I recently gave a careers talk to students at Solent University, and through that I got to know a MSc student there who had previous GIS experience and was now doing a Data Analytics and AI MSc course. Her GIS experience was mostly in the ESRI stack (ArcGIS and related tools) and she was keen to learn other tools and how to combine her new Python and data knowledge with her previous GIS knowledge. I wrote her a long email with links to loads of resources and, with her permission, I’m publishing it here as it may be useful to others. The general focus is on the tools I use, which are mostly Python-focused, but also on becoming familiar with a range of tools rather than using tools from just one ecosystem (like ESRI). I hope it is useful to you.

Tools to investigate:

• GDAL
  GDAL is a library that consists of two parts GDAL and OGR. It provides ways to read and write geospatial data formats like shapefile, geopackage, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF etc – both raster (GDAL) and vector (OGR). It has a load of command-line tools like gdal_translate, ogr2ogr, gdalwarp and so on. These are extremely useful for converting between formats, importing data to databases, doing basic processing etc. It will be very useful for you to become familiar with the GDAL command-line tools. It comes with a Python interface which is a bit of a pain to use, and there are nicer libraries that are easier for using GDAL functionality from Python. A good tutorial for the command-line tools is at https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/gdal-tools.html

• Command line tools in general
  Getting familiar with running things from the command-line (Command Prompt on Windows) is very useful. On Windows I suggest installing ‘Windows Terminal’ (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n0dx20hk701?hl=en-GB&gl=GB) and using that – but make sure you select standard command prompt not Powershell when you open a terminal using it.

• Git
  There’s a good tutorial at https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/

• qgis2web
  This is a plugin for QGIS that will export a QGIS project to a standalone web map, with the styling/visualisation as close to the original QGIS project as they can manage. It’s very useful for exporting maps to share easily. There’s a tutorial at https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/web_mapping_with_qgis2web.html and the main page is at https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis2web/

Python libraries to investigate:

• GeoPandas – like pandas but including geometry columns for geospatial information. Try the geopandas explore() method, which will do an automatic webmap of a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame (like you did manually with Folium, but automatically)
• rasterio – a nice wrapper around GDAL functionality that lets you easily load/manipulate/save raster geospatial data
• fiona – a similar wrapper for vector data in GDAL/OGR
• shapely – a library for representing vector geometries in Python – used by fiona, GeoPandas etc
• rasterstats – a library for doing ‘zonal statistics’ – ie. getting raster values within a polygon, at a point etc

Cloud Native Geospatial
There’s a good ‘zine’ that explains the basics behind cloud-native geospatial – see https://zines.developmentseed.org/zines/cloud-native/. Understanding the basics of the topics in there would be good. There are loads of good tutorials online for using STAC catalogues, COG files and so on. See https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/docs/quickstarts/reading-stac/ and https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/docs/tutorials/cloudless-mosaic-sentinel2/ and https://github.com/microsoft/PlanetaryComputerExamples/blob/main/tutorials/surface_analysis.ipynb

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Relevant posts:

• https://blog.rtwilson.com/searching-an-aerial-photo-with-text-queries-a-demo-and-how-it-works/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/simple-segmentation-of-geospatial-images/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/whats-the-largest-building-in-southampton-find-out-with-5-lines-of-code/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/simple-self-hosted-openstreetmap-routing-using-valhalla-and-docker/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-speed-up-appending-to-postgis-tables-with-ogr2ogr/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-fix-geopandas-drop_duplicates-on-geometry-column-not-getting-rid-of-all-duplicates/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-easily-reload-a-qgis-layer/
• https://blog.rtwilson.com/travel-times-over-time/

Conference talks
These can be a really good way to get a brief intro to a topic, to know where to delve in deeper later. I often put them on and half-listen while I’m doing something else, and then switch to focusing on them fully if they get particularly interesting. There are loads of links here, don’t feel like you have to look at them all!

PostGIS Day conference: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgis-day-2024-summary
Particularly relevant talks:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O45Zy5zKkm8 – good example of building up a complex SQL query
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0WshjWfVY – includes descriptions of on-the-fly Mapbox Vector Tile creation like we use in GPAP
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsFCVTBzTvY – also includes on-the-fly MVT creation
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhWJHKuNCY

FOSS4G UK conference last year in Bristol: https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2024/bristol.html
Most relevant talks for you are the following (just the slides):

• https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2024/decks/08-robin-wilson-cloud-native-flood-risk.pdf – see what you think of the large SQL query that I talk through
• https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2024/decks/11-al-graham-overture.pdf
• https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2024/decks/13-alexei-qgis-grid-layout-plugin.pdf
• https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2024/decks/14-matt-travis-overture.pdf

FOSS4G conference YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@FOSS4G/videos – they have a load of ones from 2022 at the top for some reason, but if you scroll down a long way you can find 2023 and 2024 stuff. Actually, better is to use this playlist of talks from the 2023 global conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ
Here’s a few talks that might be particularly interesting/relevant to you, in no particular order

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7iMO1KmyJE&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=47
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1CQZ9xq6Y&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=49
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOziWmcn7z0&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=53
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaizvF5S4I&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=56
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl7LMEPvAmo&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=105
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfMljtOzWQ&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=111
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZFjSXAOkss&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=137
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7QxhAWPTc&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=140
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtsvoR0wo80&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=141
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QMmfGn7btc&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=148
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBj77BRx-XE&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=193
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-t5wHq7OrA&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=227
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbmeFkW8nM&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=230
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snGDbX8pG2I&list=PLqa06jy1NEM2Kna9Gt_LDKZHv1dl4xUoZ&index=256

Suggestions for learning projects/tasks
(These are quite closely related to the MSc project that this student might be doing, but are probably useful for people generally)
I know when you’re starting off it is hard to work out what sort of things to do to develop your skills. One thing that is really useful is to become a bit of a ‘tool polyglot’, so you can do the same task in various tools depending on what makes sense in the circumstances.

I’ve listed a couple of tasks below. I’d suggest trying to complete them in a few ways:

1. Using QGIS and clicking around in the GUI
2. Using Python libraries like geopandas, rasterio and so on
3. Using PostGIS
4. (Possibly – not essential) Using the QGIS command-line, or model builder or similar

Task 1 – Flood risk

1. Download the ‘Flood Zone 2’ flood risk data from https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/86ec354f-d465-11e4-b09e-f0def148f590?download=true for a particular area (maybe the whole of Southampton?)
2. Download OS data on buildings from this page – https://automaticknowledge.org/gb/ – you can download it for a specific local authority area
3. Find all buildings at risk of flooding, and provide a count of buildings at risk and a map of buildings at risk (static map or web map)
4. Extension task: also provide a total ground area of buildings at risk

Task 2 – Elevation data
(Don’t do this with PostGIS as its raster functionality isn’t great, but you could probably do all of this with GDAL command-line tools if you wanted)

1. Download Digital Terrain Model data from https://environment.data.gov.uk/survey – download multiple tiles
2. Mosaic the tiles together into one large image file
3. Do some basic processing on the DEM data. For example, try:
   a) Subtracting the minimum value, so the lowest elevation comes out as a value of zero
   b) Running a smoothing algorithm across the DEM to remove noise
4. Produce a map – either static or web map

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US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that inadvertently revealed the truth about the US empire, the goal behind the new cold war on China, the economics of imperialism, and how the Trump administration is serving billionaire Big Tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley at the expense of the working class. Ben Norton explains. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmpea6vvOE US Big Tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/03/us-ai-monopoly-unipolar-world-china/ Topics 0:00 (CLIP) JD Vance excerpt 0:38 US vice president speech 1:03 Preparing for war on China 3:15 Summary of Vance's speech 3:56 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat" 4:39 Deindustrialization 5:02 (CLIP) JD Vance vows "industrial comeback" 5:41 Uniting billionaires and "populists" 6:26 Neoliberalism 7:01 JD Vance's patron Peter Thiel 8:22 Trump recruits Big Tech billionaires 9:34 For monopoly, against competition 10:21 (CLIP) Peter Thiel loves monopolies 10:35 Elon Musk and Trump 11:05 Billionaire Marc Andreessen 11:47 (CLIP) Trump admin loves Silicon Valley 12:08 Trump coalition: billionaires & workers? 13:37 (CLIP) Techno-optimists vs populists? 14:21 Big Tech manifesto 15:56 Scapegoating China 17:13 (CLIP) JD Vance scapegoats China 17:34 JD Vance calls China "biggest threat" 18:53 (CLIP) JD Vance scapegoats China 19:12 Neoliberal globalization 20:07 (CLIP) JD Vance on globalization 21:18 Neoliberal globalization 22:07 Imperialism & dependency theory 24:11 China's development 24:35 US bans Chinese competitors 26:15 (CLIP) JD Vance on China's AI 26:40 US Big Tech monopolies 27:23 (CLIP) "Competition is for losers" 27:38 Trump's tariffs 28:36 Jake Sullivan's industrial policy speech 29:16 (CLIP) Jake Sullivan on Washington Consensus 31:36 Industrial policy 32:45 Tech war on China 33:31 Trump's strategy 34:01 (CLIP) JD Vance on US shipbuilding 34:53 China's Shipbuilding 35:46 State-owned enterprises 38:07 US government-owned factories 40:32 Industrial policy 43:41 (CLIP) Tax cuts on rich & deregulation 44:07 Reaganism 2.0 44:28 Historical tax rates on rich 45:48 Oligarchs avoid taxes 46:52 Trump boosts deficit & debt 47:38 Fake industrial policy 49:09 (CLIP) JD Vance is "fan" of Big Tech 49:28 Andreessen Horowitz investments 50:30 S&P 500 stock buybacks & dividends 51:03 Reaganomics 51:59 Trumponomics 53:21 Tariffs & wealth transfer 53:55 Outro

Donald Trump is portrayed as a "populist" committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes 13 billionaires -- including Elon Musk, the world's richest oligarch -- and he is cutting taxes on the rich and corporations while imposing a consumption tax on the poor through tariffs. Ben Norton explains how Trump is waging a class war. VIDEO with charts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8cg-wWBO8 Check out our related video on JD Vance's speech on reindustrializing the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmpea6vvOE Why Donald Trump won the US election: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/11/08/donald-trump-us-election-kamala-harris-economy/ Topics 0:00 Intro 0:09 (CLIP) Trump at McDonald's 0:33 Billionaires in Trump admin 1:36 Big Tech oligarchs 2:36 Corruption and bribery 3:17 Trump meme coin 4:20 Tax cuts for the rich 5:20 Tariffs are a tax 6:45 Trump's tax law benefited rich 8:25 Billionaires avoid taxes 10:01 Historical tax rates 11:44 Corporate tax rate 12:50 Progressive taxation 15:02 Why Trump won: inflation 16:43 Election turnout 18:02 Trump's low approval rating 20:20 Why people are angry 21:03 (CLIP) Obama on Wall Street 21:19 BlackRock CEO 21:48 Elon Musk 22:12 (CLIP) Trump on Tesla 22:21 US economy relies on rich 24:05 Unemployment rate is misleading 25:36 Stagnant real wages 29:34 Inflation is sticky 30:31 No more cheap goods 31:14 Scott Bessent & George Soros 33:25 (CLIP) Scott Bessent on American Dream 33:40 Cheap goods & China 36:51 Tariffs & reindustrialization 38:22 Myth of American Dream 40:07 US life expectancy is falling 41:17 Scapegoating 43:37 Recession warnings 45:01 Housing 47:02 Elon Musk buys White House position 47:35 Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman 48:34 Trump's fake "populism" 49:22 Hopeful examples 50:15 Mexico: AMLO 51:43 Mexico: Claudia Sheinbaum 53:11 Learning from Mexico 54:50 China's poverty reduction 57:54 US oligarchy 58:37 Outro

Jon Stewart goes old-school Daily Show on Trump and Republicans who pride themselves on “saving” free speech, all while censoring anybody who doesn’t agree with them.

Paul Rudd sits down with Jon Stewart to chat about his latest starring roles in the films “Death of a Unicorn” and “Friendship,” watching their kids grow up, and, of course, pharmaceutical side effects to the perineum.

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In THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973), a black man hired as a "token" by the CIA uses his training to start a black nationalist uprising. It couldn't be a more apt time to revisit this classic of radical American cinema. PLUS: Who's excited for the Abundance Agenda? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door" by Robert Daniels - https://www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ciff-2024-on-the-legacy-and-importance-of-the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door "Zaslav's Hamptons-Hollywood Vanity Project" by Matthew Belloni - https://puck.news/zaslavs-hamptons-hollywood-vanity-project/ "Leak Reveals Trump’s Full Bonkers Plan for the Kennedy Center" - https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-reveals-trumps-full-bonkers-plan-for-the-kennedy-center/ Luke's interview with Benjamin Teitelbaum - https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-putins-64721929 "Radical Academics for the Status Quo" by Liza Featherstone - https://jacobin.com/2019/12/radical-academics-judith-butler-kamala-harris-donation

Delaware state rep Madinah Wilson-Anton returns to the show to brief us on Elon Musk’s attempts to rewrite the state laws of Delaware to help him secure a $50 billion+ compensation package. We discuss the “race to the bottom” in state business laws, and the new wave of assaults on basic legal legitimacy in pursuit of complete oligarchical control.

Then, Matt Bruenig joins us to discuss the hot new word on all the wonks’ lips: ABUNDANCE. We review the Abundance Agenda, Matt gives us his takes on the policies, and we evaluate the Abundance potential as a viable organizing principle for the moribund Democratic party.

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Last year, Narendra Modi celebrated a decade in office as India’s prime minister. Modi was aiming for a third consecutive election victory and a parliamentary landslide that would give him a free hand to advance his right-wing, Hindu nationalist agenda. But the election proved to be a disappointment for Modi and his allies, who lost their majority in parliament. Modi had to form a coalition to maintain his grip on power.

Long Reads is joined by one of Modi’s leading journalistic opponents to discuss the rise and rule of the Hindu right wing. Siddhartha Deb is the author of several novels, and his non-fiction work has exposed the dark side of contemporary India. Haymarket Books published a collection of his writings last year, Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies with music by Knxwledge.

Saagar and Ryan discuss Glenn Greenwald on deportation, Bernie rallies tens of thousands as Schumer flails.

 

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Saagar and Ryan discuss Elon set for billions in Gov contracts, Trump Israel aide folds to lobby, billionaire Trump Sec laughs at missed Social Security checks.

 

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Uma and Nick talk about Hungary and Turkey. Ciarán was on holiday so he doesn't know what it's about yet.

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