Tucker Carlson's recent pivot to Twitter had little fanfare, but led him to celebrate it as the sole preserve of free speech in global media. But his relation to speech was long slippery, and glossed the world in terms of competing visions of American reality. The four freedoms were never as important as the heuristic display of the 2016 electoral map that was the logo of the pundit's nightly show's that offered viewers its guiding rationale ..read more

The edges of our world may be blue, if we mean the anthropocentric perspective on our atmosphere. But the edges of those densely populated world of the Sargasso Sea are hardly blue, as much as they float in the transparent ..read more

As he waited rather glumly for “the Feds” to arrive at his home, as his stepfather predicted, Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixiera may have pondered why he had posted classified maps of heated battle fronts in the Ukraine War ..read more

Any association of planimetric projection with rationality is challenged by the lack of logos in using a simple cartographic overlay to promote Diagalon as a logic for national secession. While drawing authority from open data of USGS as if to ..read more

“Days of whiplash developments made unmistakable the volatility of a crisis that American officials fear could lead to an assault by one of the world’s most powerful militaries against Ukraine,” Europe’s second-biggest country, a development that Europeans never thought they ..read more

It was the height of irresponsibility, but one that should make Jack Dorsey breathe a sigh of relief that at last he is no longer responsible for Twitter, that the Florida Secretary of State used bad data about the rates ..read more

It is not a coincidence that corporate claims of extractive industries led to the growth of geolocated maps in many indigenous lands have created counter-maps to defend ancestral lands. The use of geolocation tools offers precise indices for extracting minerals ..read more

The “righteous strike” of a drone-fired Hellfire Missile killed Afghan aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and his nieces and nephews was America’s military doing what it did best–a precision surgical strike on a human target. As much as targeting a human ..read more

Pro-life groups almost salivated in saying that “it all comes down to Alito,” and his willingness to allow the Texas Hearbeat Act, as John Seago of Texas Right to Life put it, to take effect: “We are hopeful that Justice ..read more

We have already begun debating the extent to which an executive decision-making shouldered full responsibility for the folding of the government of Afghanistan that followed the withdrawal of United States soldier–and air cover. And so we are retrospectively questioning the ..read more