@billmill.org has less than 400 followers and all they do is post a bunch of NBA player and team graphs and tables like the ones below. If you like basketball stat visuals, they are a must follows and one of the hidden gems of NBA Bluesky. Follow -> @billmill.org

very unsettling conflating "taking care of people" with "rewarding them"

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

Shenandoah in November!

I'm not an expert working with this type of data, but I'd take any kind of longitudinal study of self-reported data across different eras with a huge grain of salt To the author's credit, they call this out in the last section titled 'Perhaps teens’ definition of “lonely” have changed over time'

me experimenting with diet plans

I recorded a few demos with my friend who is really talented on the cello! If you know of anyone looking for live music in the DC area (coffeehouses, wineries, farmers markets, etc), let me know :) I'd love to play out more this coming year

two weeks in a row with a #scorigami! #nflsky

my friend and I drafted our favorite album covers, and here are the 16 I went with!

I normally hate when people say "and its not even close" but...

hello fellow disgruntled Spelling Bee players

autumn in Alexandria, VA

ss anne from pokemon gen 1 ⛴️

we have leafeon at home

with Mamdani being about the same age as me and also having a multicultural identity with some Gujarati roots, it is surreal seeing someone "like me" succeed in American politics right now also, very proud to be a northern Virginian today 💙

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.

yesterday I had someone no-show a meeting (not too unusual!)... but their AI assistant showed up?

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

DC is being hit hard by the current administration between the ongoing shutdown, cuts to the federal workforce, and threats to SNAP. Donating to a local food bank is one of the most direct ways to help. No amount is too small!

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

it is an unwritten law of pickup basketball after age 30 that at least one person will comment "I haven't played in months, probably since the last time we all played together!"

nailed it

I just set up a calendly for anyone who wants to chat -- sports analytics, creative coding, data viz, music in tech, whatever! I've enjoyed connecting with people over the years and am always down to talk ideas, projects, or weird intersections between them :) calendly.com/shri-khalpada

devastating :(

If you're a fan of my data visualizations, please follow me over on Instagram. I've been posting a lot of new stuff there recently www.instagram.com/datakabas/

a good reminder to prefer open and interoperable tools over a vendor whose principles can change (or be revealed) overnight

history is full of people saying “you just don’t get it” about bad ideas always be skeptical whenever something is framed as “you’re either all in or you're too ignorant to understand it”

The question of "should I cooperate" shows up everywhere, from biology to geopolitics. In my latest PerThirtySix piece, we explore the Prisoner’s Dilemma, starting from the basics and building up to population-level dynamics through interactive simulations! perthirtysix.com/tool/prisone...

why am I seeing thirst traps on linkedin 😭

my magnum opus, an extension that converts AI-related words to egg-related words, is available for free in the Chrome Web Store!

there is almost no good reason to override default scroll behavior in the web

The entire history of WNBA MVP voting in one chart 👇 A'ja Wilson is the first ever 4x MVP

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) creative coding & data viz 2) why sufjan stevens is the GOAT 3) how good cats are for our mental health

this exists it is called thinking

as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder. here are some of my favorites: www.citationneeded.news/friends/. feel free to post yours below!

tri-colored dopamine machine

how the side the on the left keeps convincing the side on the right that they need more space is beyond me

It's a great time to learn creative coding! We’re all surrounded by utilitarian software so it can feel refreshing to just build something for creativity’s sake. Here's a free p5js resource I put together that starts from the basics: perthirtysix.com/explore-creative-coding-with-30-p5js-sketches

"having children" being 1st and "having emotional stability" being 2nd to last is... telling

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

there's no bigger tell that someone hasn't worked in a complex codebase than rejecting comments because "good code is self documenting"

20 years of weather in DC! #dataviz

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I made a chrome extension that replaces AI-related words with egg-related words and it's made LinkedIn actually enjoyable (coming to the chrome web store soon!)

one of my big pet peeves: people that use "good code is self documenting" as an excuse to not write good comments

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

it's hard to visualize power sets -- here's one approach! #dataviz