The writer for the New York Times hack piece that this article describes is Jeremy Peters , who organized writers against criticisms by colleagues who were trans and gender non conforming by lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Hans Rosling style

Data visualization by the people, for the people

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The Open Visualization Academy's newsletter is expanding! New contributor: Melissa Strong, who is also co-designing the OVA's website. Her first article in a series of 6: 'How Open Source Fuels the Future of Data Visualization (Part 1) ' openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...

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This is a really nice blog post about the value of open source in #DataViz 📊 "Trust matters in data visualization. People need to believe what they see. Open source makes that possible because you can look under the hood and see how things work." - couldn't agree more!

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

Waiting for all the breathless coverage about the all the people of color shifting blue in this election, since the shift to Trump a year ago was treated like a colossal re-ordering of the electorate that signaled the end of wokeness and progressive politics.

I saw this headline this morning, then noticed the author, and I haven't been able to stop chuckling

I'm reading S.A. Cosby's latest, 'King of Ashes'; this man has a gift for memorable sentences...

Books on display at #ieeevis! CRC Press📚/discount for attendees (code: 25EFLY3). Includes books by several presenters (incl @tnagel.bsky.social @cybunk.bsky.social ). Most feature in the www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Visualization-Series edited by Tamara Munzner & @albertocairo.com

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Anybody else going to the "Information Design Conference" this Friday? I have some copies of my book CHART left that I can bring in case anybody would like to buy a copy? (€35) I can sign it right there for you as a bonus 😉

um Brazil independente e estável é péssimo negócio pros EUA, que precisa demais de um mercado desestabilizado e corrupto para suas empresas e modelo de negócios prosperar. Desde os anos 50 Corrupção e instabilidade política é o principal produto de exportação dos EUA. tudo nasce disso.

Thoughtful and spot on, as usual:

I've just felt a brief spark of joy because I've been able to insert Baruch de Spinoza in the slide deck for a talk about visualization. Life has its pleasures sometimes.

"I didn't know that there were so many cowards in this country". Ditto.

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

New book in the AK Peters visualization series launching next week: Exploratory Data Analysis Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design by Leandro Nunes de Castro www.routledge.com/Exploratory-... Other books in the series: www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Vi...

🔥 🔥 🔥 from @aoc.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

This thread:

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

In this country, I would say it is relatively easy to be brave about data, because while the government misrepresents things (in the past few days, children harmed in care & familyboost claims) people in institutions are not (yet) at the point of punishing people who dissent from leaders propaganda

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Sunday Times book critic declares the “best defence against fascists is laughing at them”, thereby sidestepping historical reality as expressed by Peter Cook, who recalled: “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler & prevent the outbreak of the Second World War”.

Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.

"[It] is a world of creativity without craft [...] slop emerges when we eliminate not just toil (the burdensome aspects of work) but labor itself (the engagement with creation).” It is the removal of all friction, all agency, and all humanity" www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... @cwarzel.bsky.social

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What a fantastic thread:

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absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Interesting #datascience and #datavis thread on voting patterns in East Germany following the reunification of Germany in 1990.

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

Whoever did the data "analysis" and #dataViz for this piece should be embarrassed. This is beyond naive empiricism; it's wrong in so many ways that it'd take an entire article to explain them. I have better things to do, but this type of intellectually vacuous nonsense must be debunked.

I’ll be hosting a workshop on day 2! “Data Mapping like a Pro: Raster Maps with command-line tools” Let me know if you’ll be attending & what you’d like to learn (GDAL + some Python & Bash.)

I rarely go to there, so to speak. But now!

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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.