Jorge Soares

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Another way to read this chart is "how many people can reach city X by train in less than 2h". But Brussels is on the list and no one in their right mind would travel in that direction, so I'll stick to the alternative interpretation.

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Want to draw your own insights? Check the data for your country? Use a different metric? You can now fork and modify Baselight queries. Start here: https://baselight.app/u/jsoares/query/inter-city-rail-reachability-across-europe/

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And then there's Paris. It's a curious one, as the only listed major metropolis with a reachability ratio of less than 1, i.e. the surrounding reachable population is smaller than that of the city itself. Lower ratios are expected for larger cities, but compare London.

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How do we measure this? Turns out the European Commission collected data on the time it took to travel between rail-connected city pairs, and the data is on @baselightdb. We're restricting our ranking to those reachable in under 2h, as it's just a weekend after all.

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The weekend is here! If you live near a 🚅 station, you get to take a weekend trip in style. But how much can you see? Quite a bit if you're in 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, or Benelux; this is where some of the best connected cities in Europe lie.

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We hit the stage at CoinDesk PitchFest to share why the future of data is decentralized, composable, and open. Baselight enables true data ownership by allowing data providers to own, query, and monetize their structured data. Take a look at our Consensus pitch below👇 https://youtu.be/Wqm2QHh4psA

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The world supported the monstrosity of the genocidal occupation project of Israel and allowed them to commit atrocities for decades, now everyone’s surprised the occupation forces are firing at foreign diplomats? lol A literal genocide is being committed by Israel and mass starvation of Palestinians, but hey, no “swift international condemnation” of that. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/middleeast/diplomats-israeli-fire-west-bank-intl

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Made it to Toronto for Consensus 2025. We'll be pitching Baselight on Thursday at 1630; come by if you're around! Can't promise much, but can promise 3 brilliant minutes from @elreydetent and a cool @baselightdb shirt (while stocks last!).

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Onchain intents is how we go from humans commanding actions from AI agents to AI agents commanding actions from humans.

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Also, the usual shameless plug: @baselightdb is the place for all your data needs! https://baselight.app/u/jsoares/query/iberian-blackout-april-2025-power-demand

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We were all in different places at the time, and only managed to establish contact with everyone 6 hours later. Seriously considering getting everyone Thuraya satphones or Starlink Roam. Any suggestions, given sporadic emergency use only?

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I was unlucky enough to be in Lisbon on Monday. Always fun when your demand floor vanishes. The power outage was not all that terrible. The fact that Vodafone's network went down immediately, preventing any kind of coordination with the rest of the family, was.

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Yesterday, we released @baselightdb to the public. We wanted to go over our Linear and GitHub stats during our team recap, and what better way to dogfood our new data upload functionality? Love the sustained productivity; no crunch time here!

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Told you this would happen!

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O moment grand, for which ye all have pined!

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It's quite striking how most crypto managers are increasingly fearful of looking stupid and stopping themselves from making any falsifiable predictions. Ironically, LPs respect conviction—even if you’re wrong. Most predictions miss, but courageously staking your ground sharpens your thinking, builds credibility, and sometimes shapes the future itself.

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Come join us on Discord and talk data!

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Look ma, we on ProductHunt! @baselightdb https://www.producthunt.com/posts/baselight?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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My entire social feed is once again full of dead Palestinian children slaughtered by Israel. And we’re all supposed to just go about our day and function normally while this is happening? 😟 Fucking hell.

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Well as a humanist myself it just makes no sense to me. 400+ deaths in Gaza, of which I'm sure 50%-75%+ are innocent, in order to try and secure 59 hostages, of which half at best are still alive. All this after killing 10s of thousands of women and children already. I'm Jewish myself and have visited Israel 3 times, so I should be biased towards the Israeli POV too.

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