This might be an example of the power of framing. Because it's a diagram, and because it's about abstract art, no one saw the bull on it.

Representation of the transatlantic slave trafficking (1501-1867). Atlas of Transatlantic Slave Trade, Eltis e Richardson, 2010

Haπ day

With Russian, Ukrainian, and now also Iranian airspace closed, only a small passage remains for international flights from Europe to Asia. My colleague @zacys.bsky.social wrote about how some airlines are profiting more from this than others, and I created this map. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

This is @garrykasparov.bsky.social versus Deep Blue (game 2). Explore and interact with other games here: moebio.com/chess/ (including fast Hikaru versus Magnus, longest, shortest and oldest games ever!)

Pleased to announce the next Cloudbreak. Learn how to deploy & secure your own sovereign cloud infrastructure using best practices refined from over 2 decades of server administration. This is an ideal opportunity to become part of the movement away from BigTech. courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak

The alignment problem, as old as technology.

Tired of the hype and pseudoscience and that the loudest voices talking about intelligence know very little about cognitive sciences but have huge economic biases: listen to this 6 episodes podcast www.santafe.edu/culture/podc... beautifuly craftes by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social and Abha Eli Phoboo

La revista Experimenta #103, dedica este número a lo invisible, y me hace una entrevista: www.experimenta.es/tienda/produ...

We just infected the machines with language virus.

NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝 Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵

In 2004 I built a Small Language Model

Imagine a person that has the same tone and manifest emotions identically every day… unbearable. Imagine an AI that changes its tone and manifest emotions differently every day… unbearable. We don't want machine to be like humans, we never wanted.

(I'll buy the UK version, the cover is much nicer :) www.panmacmillan.com/authors/will...

L♥️ve Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography projects, so I am extra pleased he - is a guest on the latest @policyviz.bsky.social Podcast → policyviz.com/podcast/radi... - and has a new book out! → www.radicalcartography.net

Experimenting with Instagram data, playing here with similarities in color scales. In this case based on Belen's beautiful work, with clear color consistency instagram.com/paraisoprints

Happy 2666

Recognition that other living beings have emotions, feel pain and deserve empathy, slowly arises. This is the real agency, emotions, motivations, intelligence and consciousness discussion, the one that matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Implemented. I kept it subtle: charts.infowetrust.com

The discourse around lowering requirements for software to embrace LLM generated fast code, if you take it far enough, ends up suggesting that software is only about shitty online applications for trapping people into attention vortices. Truly critical software lives in another dimension.

phyphox.org @phyphox.org such an amazing app, can run all sorts of experiments. Yesterday I was playing with the manometer. Great for physics on classroom, but also for understanding all the data that's potentially being captured from your device.

Si les gusta la lingüística, compren el último número (30) de Archiletras, donde además me entrevista José Antonio Millán y charlamos de modelos de lenguaje, espacios multidimensionales de significado, lengua y cultura. www.archiletras.com

Sometimes Cursor is the worst developer buddy (like placing a break within a forEach, or changing the values of a dataset (!) when I complain about the results of an analysis algorithm), and sometimes it reads my mind.

Only a few years ago scientists struggled with the mirror experiment on elephants, until a large mirror was used (duh). Now we know even ants recognize themselves on a mirror (and become desperate to remove a mark if that flag them as enemy of the colony) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olni...

Our new science exhibition “The Invention of Time” has just opened in Barcelona. Come explore time in physics, brains & life, from Evolution 2 relativity. We even have a working Time Machine (that’s me using it) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social museuciencies.cat/en/exposicio...

12:00 PM (EST) → 12:00 PM, each hour will introduce a unique topic related to visualizing animal, plant, and other intelligences and their unique symbiotic relationships. cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... In just a couple of hours! My presentation is at midnight EST (9 PM California)

Envisioning Intelligence, a unique 24H online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team with presentations on visualising various topics #dataviz Presenters include the amazing @moebio.bsky.social and @kimay.bsky.social Check it out: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #macroscope

A failed visual analogy (architects≠builders), but who cares since these are neither the architects or the builders AI

Join us from December 13 @12pm - December 14 @12pm “Envisioning Intelligences”, a unique 24hr online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team. Speakers include @katyborner.bsky.social @boriseldagsen.bsky.social @moebio.bsky.social @annaloi.bsky.social cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

This weekend there's an Intelligences marathon!, I'll be presenting along with other data, visualization and science experts cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

OK, yeah moving to using the land-pole equator makes calculating the line much faster.

Life as a Developer: API → IPA → API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA →API → IPA

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

I tried AI but it was very disappointing, I had to tell it what to do!

I tell to my art+design students: you're not building a project, you're building the documentary for the project (consequence: the project ends up being better).

Read this if you're considering buying a telescope to a kid: bioplex.ai/telescope

"use it to fire your consultants", some people seem to get pleasure out of using machines against humans

Giving a seminar on energy (physics, chemistry, biology, economy, geopolitics) to the kids at my son's school. First session was about conservation, conversion, potential and kinetic. I took with me a small collection of potential energies. How many types do you count?

Tetra 50 #genart

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn Interactive version moebio.com/research/sev...

1800-1950 the most important data is in the hands of science 1950-2010 in the hands of companies 2010-… in the hands of people (for nanoseconds at least, before it's stolen)

DisAIppointing

I built a palette generator based on description (or in any case text), I forgot to close the tab and it kept generating palettes based on all my meetings, youtube videos, conversations at home…

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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