Hans Wegmueller Vraga

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Herder of USGS web dev cats. All opinions here are my own.
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

Our 7th most-read article of 2025. - - -I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

No analysis of the election is complete without a long, hard look at this pre-election Reuters/Ipsos poll

Yes, something very similar holds for #climate, too.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion

#us #trump

Jennifer Barkley would have known what was coming this election.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxiZqGULe-RNUt87QRANmaNWMJXSdIstWU?si=4DG_yDGWX5q_fQvN #election2024
Before you continue to YouTube

Where are breweries, wineries, and bottled water facilities across the U.S.? Check out this interactive #dataviz looking at a new national inventory of bottled water data https://labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/visualizations/bottled-water/index.html Made with #D3 and #rstats
Water bottling across the U.S.

Rare for an economist, Deaton offers a lucid and unsparing critique of America's political system. From healthcare to taxation to poverty to regulations, Deaton sees a system that has increasingly served monopolistic corporations and the rich over ordinary citizens, allowing "a minority to prey on the majority."

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/09/26/1199422599/a-nobel-prize-winning-immigrants-view-on-american-inequality

Fantastic talk by @pluralistic at @defcon about how to combat #enshittification. If you loved #ChokepointCapitalism, you'll love this talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

YouTube
The hidden costs of using an electric bike

Electric bikes might sound like fun, but there are several impacts they'll have on your life and wallet that you might have forgotten about.

Electrek
August #streamflow conditions across the U.S. 💧 #DataViz made with #rstats#dataRetrievalhttps://github.com/DOI-USGS/flow-tiles
GitHub - DOI-USGS/flow-tiles: A tile map showing a month of streamflow conditions across the U.S.

A tile map showing a month of streamflow conditions across the U.S. - DOI-USGS/flow-tiles

GitHub

(bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man)

The conflict between pedestrians and cyclists stems from the fact that both groups must compete over a fractionally small amount of space in order to keep appeasing cars

Interested in localized hydrologic connectivity at the landscape scale? Consider applying for this Mendenhall research opportunity with my team at the USGS!
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall-research-fellowship-program/22-2-characterizing-connectivity-natural-and
22-2. Characterizing connectivity of natural and anthropogenic headwaters to develop a regional-to-national geospatial fabric capable of identifying watershed sensitivity to climate and human drivers | U.S. Geological Survey

Headwater and flowpath configurations are basic elements in understanding, modeling, and managing watershed-scale hydrologic and geomorphic processes. We seek a Mendenhall to map and quantify headwaters into a geospatial fabric involving recent advances in landscape-scale characterization of waterbodies to develop computational capabilities and advance process understanding of hydrologic networks.