A key insight in Albert Borgmann's 1980/1990's writings on tech: Technology's false promise to free us from the repetitive and the soul-crushing so we can devote more time to the enriching and the fulfilling; in reality, "technology frees us up for more technology". Period.

Every single penny spent, received, invested, or even touched by a US Senator should be documented on a permanent, public ledger instantly. Their entire financial portfolio should be accessible. They should show the American public everything they do with money if *they* have nothing to hide.

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest. Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.

You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

In case you missed it: my full, free, open course on accessibility and visualization is out!

Looking for deeper expertise: I was re-reading this outstanding (seminal) piece by @gillianrh.bsky.social on action research in HCI, thanks to a convo with some recent non-academic collaborators. What is action research up to now in HCI? I'm interested in epistemologies of "knowing by doing."

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I wrote about some nuance involved with annotating focus order, following a conversation with @annaecook.com where we realized we'd both been running across the same well-intentioned behaviors. #a11y ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

For the record, I hate being right. mantisandco.com/resources/gu...

Updated our long-list of resources on accessibility and visualization, including 2025 articles, guides, and technical tools! (For those that don't know, this single-page doc is one of my most-starred projects on github.) github.com/dataviza11y/...

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Good morning... Not sure if folks can read the full post by Mark linked here since it's on FedBook but if you can, it's worth it to kick off a new week: www.facebook.com/mark.provost...

In case you missed it, I have a free, full, open course on accessibility and visualization that is part of the launch of the new Open Visualization Academy. The course is packed! And the OVA has over 300+ sign-ups already (which isn't even necessary!) as well as over 4000+ newsletter subs.

In case you missed it, we launched the Open Visualization Academy on Friday. Thread:

The data shown vs the whole picture. This is another one for the "how charts can lie" slide deck.

I usually repost #dataViz and #dataJournalism I love. This by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is excellent —but I don't like what it means...

Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

I just completed my first course (thanks @frank.computer) from the Open Visualization Academy (OVA). I am in awe of the quality of the labor and care that went into building this free repository. What a beautiful gift. 📊

Just this week, a student came up to me asking how she could self-train in data visualization, and I realized that this initiative has immense potential to become a go-to resource for onboarding many new people to the craft. It will also become a training resource at Voilà:.

I’m thrilled to be part of this fantastic project!!

Thrilled to announce I'm among the instructors of this brilliant initiative by Alberto Cairo. I've contributed with a course teaching my approach to using Figma to prototype narrative data visualization stories. Long live the Open Visualization Academy!

In case you missed it yesterday...

I've long fanboyed over @albertocairo.com, ever since I was a young newspaper infographic artist starting out. And I've fanboyed just as much over @frank.computer during my time in accessibility. That they are part of a project together is not surprising. This is so so so so so good.

The paid out of state agitators are literally the ICE agents.

Most work is caring for other people.

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

The line-up of instructors is incredible! Such a great set of brilliant people, all with deep expertise. So thankful that the OVA managed to assemble this crew of folks to deeper our field's understanding of advanced, complex, and vitally important parts of data visualization.

We're live!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Participating in the general strike and not working today? Or outside the US and just interested in accessibility and visualization? My course over at the Open Visualization Academy is out! It's a perfect way to spend a day just enriching yourself and your knowledge. Link below:

It's easy to think that Pam Bondi and others are losing when they post names, photos, etc., of anti-ICE protestors, because public sentiment strongly favors the protests. But they're not interested in upvote ratio; they're signaling to a few extremists. This the logic of stochastic terrorism

The countdown is getting close! Mark your calendars for our Jan 31st release!

Read the data yourself. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

LinkedIn normies are also posting about this, and not just the usual social justice-y suspects. The business community is rattled.

wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Saw this live; it's sure to strike some chords with my tool-making friends.

Next was an excellent talk by @frank.computer on designing tools and their inherently socio-technical nature at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9LD... (5/6)

A bootleg recording of my favorite talk I've ever given, "Tool-making, for good and evil," is now on youtube! (link below) Huge thanks to @larene.dev for recording, @damianm.com for convincing me to do it, and the awesome folks hosting (and in the audience) at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social, back in Dec.

"It’s been a busy and stressful year, but it’s been worth it, as nothing I’ve done before —my four books, public talks, the popular MOOCs in the early-to-mid 2010’s— compares in scope and ambition to the Open Visualization Academy." - @albertocairo.com

A bootleg recording of my favorite talk I've ever given, "Tool-making, for good and evil," is now on youtube! (link below) Huge thanks to @larene.dev for recording, @damianm.com for convincing me to do it, and the awesome folks hosting (and in the audience) at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social, back in Dec.