Lightning Talks III (sotm2025)

## Access Disparities to Evacuation Centers _by Mark Ducusin_ ## Post conference trip Mt. Pulag _by Thomas Hercig_ ## Using OSM to identify the busiest public transport stops in Metro Manila _by Edneil E. Soriano_ ## Vibe Coding a Web GIS Platform _by Arun Ganesh_ https://amche.in ## I'd like to show my OSM commits as 3D _by Satoshi Tanaka_ ## way/445712235 _by Maning Sambale_ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ about this event: https://2025.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SAWRUB/
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Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat

Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

HOT 15-year Anniversary (sotm2025)

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2025. This presentation will explore HOT's evolution from a small group of mappers responding to the Haiti earthquake to a global organization at the forefront of humanitarian mapping. We'll delve into key milestones, technological advancements, the growth of the HOT community, and the increasing role of local mappers in leading humanitarian responses. The talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for the next 15 years, including sustainability, technological innovation, and expanding the impact of open mapping in a changing world. This presentation will...

From the Browser to the Bloodstream

When a company collapses, its debts and assets are tallied, auctioned, and parceled out. But what happens when the “asset” in question is your very biology? That’s the question millions of 23andMe customers now face in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy.

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Dialing Back to Move Forward: Why the Landline Revival Signals a Future for Privacy

On September 30, 2025, The Washington Post reported a quiet trend in Washington, D.C.: the return of landline phones among officials and journalists seeking refuge from the omnipresent surveillance of smartphones. In a recent story, NBC News spotlighted parents in Maine and Seattle who are reviving landlines for their children—creating “landline pods” so kids can connect without the addictive pull of screens or the predatory reach of social media platforms.

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Who Owns Your Digital Self?

The lawsuits now circling Apple are not just about stolen phones. They are about stolen selves—stolen data, stolen memories, stolen identities.

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The Power of a Movement: Why Argentina in 2025 Is the Right Place for RWA

Crecimiento is here to prove what’s possible when talent, tech, and urgency collide in Argentina.

Quantum Safe Private Communications: Building the Future Before the Threat Arrives

Secure mobility is not just about encryption — it’s about sovereignty. The ability to own, control, and verify every layer of your communications stack is the difference between operational assurance and strategic vulnerability.

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Mapping the AI Universe: The Hugging Face Model Atlas

Hugging Face has become the default repository for modern AI models. What started as a hub for NLP research has grown into a platform that now hosts over two million models, spanning every domain of machine learning — from large language models and diffusion systems to niche fine-tunes for biomedical text, speech synthesis, or financial forecasting.

This success, however, creates a new difficulty: scale. With millions of models available, it has become nearly impossible to maintain an overview of what exists, how models relate to one another, and where innovation is actually happening. Traditional search and tagging systems are not enough...

Safety Without Surveillance: Designing Digital Sovereignty for All Ages

In September, a single misconfiguration in Life360’s Android API turned a “family safety” app into a map of human lives exposed. More than 442,000 users had their precise GPS trails, names, and phone numbers dumped online by a threat actor known as Emo.

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