What are your favorite examples for people using #datavis to tell about aspects/parts/events of their lives?

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

AI doesn’t have a point of view.

I guess it makes sense that a car-centric culture like the US would develop voice-based interfaces. Wonder if it would have been the same if they all used public transit.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

Love this map of the landscape of generative AI by @tallerestampa.bsky.social. Thoroughly researched and all-encompassing, yet gorgeously designed. cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Since I keep rediscovering it: David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection is an absolutely fantastic resource, also for historical #datavis www.davidrumsey.com

This collection of Cold War #dataviz and maps is worth checking out

After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

This page implements Borges' Library of Babel: containing everything that could ever be written on 410 pages, all possible 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ books. And the craziest thing: it has a search function. libraryofbabel.info

I completely missed that Tyler Vigen's "Spurious Correlations" project now also show AI-generated explanations and images as well as full, completely fake research papers. What could possibly go wrong? tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...

love the unabashedly 1998-aesthetic of this website: skepticalscience.com

For 15+ years, Codrops has shared experimental web demos & creative projects. Now, we’re bringing it all together in the new Creative Hub — a curated space to explore, learn & share from the web community. Dive in: tympanus.net/codrops/hub/

Observable Plot (observablehq.com/plot/) is a fantastic tool but had its last release in February ... is it still in active development or has it been abandoned?

"What are three books you'd recommend to the audience?" www.3books.net

There's this book livecodingbook.toplap.org

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

This:

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

Yes:

It feels sensible that the age of UX with minimal friction in computer interfaces caused the rise of the souls-like video game where friction and brutal difficulty is exactly the point.

Being triggered by AI generated images is the new being triggered by bad kerning.

history nerds 🤝 civilization nerds #dataviz www.historicaltechtree.com

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This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

deadSimpleTech - Engagement structures | deadSimpleTech deadsimpletech.com/blog/altman_...

AI is the new microplastics/aluminum/gluten/5G radiation. Something negligible in the farthest corner of a product (in this case: videogames) yet easily causing a massive shit storm. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

love this "Types of Deadlines" poster from the Timelines, deadlines and lifelines workshop www.temporalimagination.org/resources/de...

Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.” [lithub.com]

This take on coding with LLMs seems correct - they're already extremely useful tools. Even if AI development stopped completely right now, this would still be the state-of-the-art for years to come. fly.io/blog/youre-a...

I like the take that generative AI will be over soon because Disney is suing Midjourney. It should be clear that if anything will end because of this it's Midjourney. AI slop will continue unabatedly, but then be presented (and charged for) by Disney.

I wonder how long before Apple will give up on Apple Intelligence and turn that failure into an asset: "Hate Gemini in your phone? Why not buy an iPhone instead?"

I didn't realize that Jonathan Harris released an updated version of "We Feel Fine" for Apple Silicon Macs in 2024! Hooray for keeping internet/ #dataviz history alive! jjh.org/we-feel-fine

There's the people who love to write. And there's the people who love being writers. And unfortunately, current AI systems are built for the latter.

Full case study of Spirit Plant - our biggest project to date - is finally live! 🖼️🌱🌷 Learn more about - the installation concept - tech behind the generative plants and simulation - UI/UX design - and more... variable.io/expo-2025-sp...

We need better words for distinguishing between the one-shot generative AI slop crowd and actual, intentional, interesting AI and machine learning use. Since both exist. And some nuance might be possible - even within 300 characters.

Dropping the leading "Towards a" from paper titles could lead to 27.000 hours of reading time saved across all research disciplines, recent studies show.

@dtemkin.bsky.social 's Rivulet esolang prompts ideas around code and #datavis comprehension. How do we make sense of visualizations when we are unfamiliar with the 'grammar' of their design? An introduction Rivulet: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/r... An editor: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/r...

Chrome -> Arc -> Dia -> Safari

I don't think I've ever posted this: My talk from Information+ 2023: "Finding the signal in noise - comparing dataviz 📊, data art and generative art" vimeo.com/921510001

gonna vibecode a search engine that actually works. can't be that hard.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

I wonder if the authors of "Illusion of Thinking" ever expected that their little puzzle paper would be turned into "Everything that's wrong with AI at Apple"

Researcher-gone-investor writes 165-page article on how nothing can stop the growth of AI systems while tucking away the elephant in the room in a little sidebar. situational-awareness.ai/from-gpt-4-t...

The main tragedy of dystopian sci-fi is that it never works as deterrence but usually as preparation. "See? It's like Handmaid's Tale! You liked Handmaid's Tale!"