Jake Steinberg

One difficulty of working with the 50 Maps books is that sometimes, I truly get distracted by a map when I pick one up. A few that have snared me recently: Which Buildings have Claimed the Most Avian Lives? The Twin Cities Generations and Where to Find Them Immigrants in 1940/Immigrants Today

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Submissions for Volume 8 of the @nacis.bsky.social Atlas of Design are now open! Printed or digital, 2D or 3D, the traditional and the unconventional – we’re interested in maps about anything, from anywhere, from anyone. Visit atlasofdesign.org for info and the link to submit your map

Do you have any idea how it feels to walk into a room full of people you've looked up to your whole professional life and be seen not just as a colleague but as a friend? #nacis2026

Today we learned USA Today has rejected our request for voluntarily recognition of the Arizona Daily Star's union. Though we were hopeful, we're not surprised by management's response. 🧵

Folks, this one map alone is worth the price of the Twin Cities in 50 Maps. You get 49 more for free! beltpublishing.com/products/the...

One of best maps of our time is @jakesteinberg.com’s Minnesota state fair smell map, and thanks to his #nacis2026 presentation about it, I have learned about DEEP FRIED RANCH DRESSING!

Some absolutely stunning 3D maps from Maddy at NACIS today. Ooh. Aah. Nice. #NACIS2026

A quick slice from the upcoming Twin Cities in 50 Maps! @jakesteinberg.com put together a site where visitors could draw their own borders for the much-disputed Uptown. This depicts the responses! (I’d love to see this approach for more areas, honestly!) More info on the book: tinyurl.com/p8zvv4w9

I couldn't go here and spend less than $40 (pejorative)

What an excellent visualization tool. I would have loved to have had this available when I used to teach cartography. hypertidy.github.io/playproj/

See you at #nacis2026 next week in Milwaukee! All volumes of the Atlas of Design are in stock and we will have samples at the conference. Submissions for Volume 8 will open very soon!

Big Tech took control of the ad infrastructure and money, the biggest social media platforms have been consistently tightening the noose on social referrals to news orgs for years and now AI is devastating search traffic. This is not going to be a survivable environment for lots of news publishers.

really appreciating the amount of petty grievance there is in the geographic file format universe switchfromshapefile.org

Incredible content in this thread

Fall colors in northern MN are so vibrant right now you can see it from space

Big big Mapping Prejudice data update today: We have updated our Washington DC racial covenants data to include 20,000+ covenants that were previously identified by our collaborators at Mapping Segregation DC. The combined DC dataset is now at 27,600 covenanted parcels (and counting!).

@notalawyer.bsky.social Now that Sarah Isgur is taking over Ross Douthat's podcast, I think an Isgur episode is in order

Only $26! That's the price of a chai latte these days!

Kurt Vonnegut, writing in 1959

The Cap Times gets at what the UW would rather you not know in this story: Scheufele was a true star of the school, offered to media to speak on big, important and accessible topics. His is a recognizable name off campus.

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Threading the 2026 MN State Fair 4-H Llama and Alpaca costume contest contestants here because you deserve it 😇

One of my favorites too!

You're telling me Neil Young released a melancholy 11-minute song that sounds like it's from Harvest Moon? Fall begins TODAY.

As always, @cchurchili.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this piece. He showed me the spreadsheet he was using to manually research the name of every major U.S. city nearly a year ago! You gotta appreciate the dedication. www.wsj.com/us-news/how-...

City Like a Burnt Marshmallow. Minneapolis, Minnesota

The fires in the Boundary Waters and Canada are dumping smoke all over the Great Lakes and Minnesota this week. The AQI in Duluth this afternoon is over 500. My latest for the Strib. www.startribune.com/wildfire-smo...

for as much as social media is sold to reporters as being a necessary tool for reporting, i learned that it's really not. literally just making one five minute phone call to a real person, or going to some random event of no news value, is infinitely more productive than reading posts

Not according to a majority of the 2,000 Strib readers who submitted to our Uptown project www.startribune.com/we-asked-whe...

This fun shot is the exact site of "Silver Cascade", a fantastic waterfall where Tuttle's Creek once entered the river from @dinkytown.bsky.social. In 1883 the falls were cut off from their source by the railroad, then the whole creek was buried in 1899. Water still wants to go here though!

When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/

We've reached one fifth of our fundraising goal to support laid of Strib journalists. If you relied on our coverage of Operation Metro Surge this winter, please consider a donation. Many of those who lost their jobs covered the operation. workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/st...

Editors, fact-checkers, designers and news assistants at the Minnesota Star Tribune are losing their jobs today. Anything you can donate to help our laid-off journalists is greatly appreciated. Can’t donate? Share this post to boost our efforts.

if you appreciated the reporting during the occupation of minneapolis, then you probably have someone in this room to thank for it.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...