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A decade later and just thinking about this game brings up many emotions from that time in my life. One of those media objects that just burrowed into my psyche at the time. What a beautiful game.

Today’s the day! Buy some music from your favorite artists.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

I’ve been noodling this piece over for a while. It ties together a few threads that i think ought to be tied together. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

Extremely cool map of NYC!

I love weather and I love maps. So when there is an incoming snow storm it is interesting for me to see how different news agencies are mapping the event. Here are examples from @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com. Any others you've seen that work well (or don't)? Links threaded below:

Seriously, Sill is the first place I check to catch up on news these days. An invaluable tool for cutting through the clutter and getting to real information.

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Great interview, subscribe to @hearingthingsco.bsky.social! “one of the real powers of DIY cultural production is that when you’re involved with it, it teaches you again and again that alternatives are possible in a world that really doesn’t want you to believe that that’s true”

The Reformer did a ride-along -- not with ICE, but with the community members protesting them

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is an important read. A really eye-opening account of the mechanics behind a campaign of biased coverage. Explains with precise examples how the Times’ “reporting” has been manipulated to present an anti-trans narrative.

Went on a bike camping trip with @718outdoors.bsky.social back in June and had an absolute blast. One of many cycling highlights from 2025!

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

New viz 📊 published today for @urbaninstitute.bsky.social: Colleagues @wcurrangroome.bsky.social @andrewrumbach.bsky.social and team looked into the recent flooding in the Pacific Northwest and the challenges communities will face recovering, and we mapped the region. www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it: www.404media.co/404-media-is...

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones! My guide:

Hey today is the last @bandcamp.com Friday of the year. If you just posted your Spotify Wrapped this week, maybe consider buying one or two of your top albums and supporting those artists directly?

Ah man, hitting that "overwhelmingly positive" on steam less than 2 weeks after launch feels pretty good

NORCO is an awesome game. Highly recommend it. I played it a couple of years ago at this point and I still think about it often.

demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes

This is a nice guide to music discovery sans algorithms, with shoutouts to @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @afantano.bsky.social, @bandcamp.com, flowstate.fm, and other great sources of human-powered curation. I think the internet works best when it facilitates humans sharing things with each other!

Yo this game looks awesome

My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...

Really enjoying 'Winds Gate' by John Thayer this week. A gorgeous, contemplative album that draws from the landscape and geology of the Hudson Valley. Something that resonates very deeply for me. auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/winds-...

I spent a pretty big chunk of time this weekend trying to figure out how to make #atproto oauth work in a SvelteKit app. I got it working and I feel like I have experienced an important rite of passage.

The scale and sophistication of the modern data surveillance machine is terrifying. The way that so many large corporations are happy to feed this beast for their share of the spoils is not surprising but is clearly maximizing the harmful potential of these tools.

Got an instance of multi-scrobbler up and running on my home server. Recent tunes now on my pds: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

The more I use/think about atproto, the more I have been wondering this same thing. What happens if/when Bluesky can't or won't host most of the data for most atproto apps? Is it really possible to scale this up and keep things free for most people?

I like the look of the little linux cube pc. I would like a little linux cube pc plugged into my tv for gaming/streaming.

I've started mirroring some of my personal repositories on @tangled.org because it is simply very cool. Here's my personal website's SvelteKit codebase, atproto style: tangled.org/@mitchelltho...

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects. US transport spending increased by 30%, but: —Funding for non-highway projects flatlined —Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest collapsed? Our look at deforestation and feedback loops. Also, the perfect occasion to make use of our new MapLibre/Protomaps scroller component. #maps #dataviz #ddj www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Super interesting interview here. Great context for how the vision for atproto has come to life in the wake of real-world events and pressures as well as the guiding principles that have been foundational in that process.

Very nice network diagram in here mapping the many connections between Silicon Valley VC firms, Trump administration, and top defense contractors.

Not gonna lie, I am growing more excited and curious about the things that atproto makes possible by the day. Seeing the number of new ideas and experiments gaining traction right now is inspiring.

It's always fascinating to me to see the local geographic breakdown of how New York votes. Great election-district level map from @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/e...

The stream has begun. Join us: www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...

You now get double the amount of the 404 Media Podcast. We're airing two episodes a week now, with one of those being an interview with someone we've crossed paths with. This week, Joshua Aaron, creator of ICEBlock. Subs get early access. Apple/Spotify/YouTube: www.404media.co/the-crackdow...

Spent the weekend visiting family in the DC suburbs. What an absolutely perfect time of year.

Good morning from the Amtrak Northeast Regional. Truly one of my favorite places to think, read, write and work on projects. The best way to travel and it’s not even close.

Tailscale is genuinely one of the most useful tools I've adopted over the past few years. It simplified a piece of the puzzle enough to push me over the edge and start making my own self-hosted web tools all the time. Knowing I can securely access apps hosted in my apartment from anywhere rules.

Just landed a pretty big refactor of the Svelte-powered @urbaninstitute.bsky.social data viz component library that fully embraces runes syntax across all of our components. Svelte continues to be a flexible and powerful tool for our work. Check out our code on Github github.com/UrbanInstitu...

The US federal government's spending on housing—directly through the budget, or through tax expenditures—amounts to more than $400 billion a year. Only about 1/4 of that goes to low-income renters. The majority is spent on subsidizing higher-income homeowners. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social launches a new data tool: The American Affordability Tracker. We're collecting data that tracks the rising costs of a secure lifestyle, and indicators of financial distress that are contributing to a growing crisis. See the data here: www.urban.org/data-tools/a... 📊

Did you know that nearly half of families in the US with children under 4 struggle to afford diapers? 📊 A new data tool from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social looks at data in states and counties to understand where the largest gaps are. www.urban.org/data-tools/m...

Excited to share this new piece from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social @wcurrangroome.bsky.social @andrewrumbach.bsky.social @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social and team that gives an excellent data-driven overview of the last 20 years of natural disasters and federal spending in Gulf Coast states. Lots of 📊!

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...