I think more of us have discovered the limits to the "we can just do things" slogan today. There are many reasons to ask, and to engage socially, and to have care and intentionality, and to do things right, do things better. We don't have to live like this.

Delighted to be launching Fraude Design: the AI-free site builder for genius founders. For too long, making bad decisions with horrendous amounts of technical debt was limited to founders with an AI license. No more! Now you can make slop without the token usage! fraude.design

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

so what i’ve gathered is i should just not update the bluesky app so that i don’t get carousel photos right

Slow claps

Yeah, more along these lines

widecat

Happy Earth Day, Y’all. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st... 🗺️🌍🌴

These diagramatic maps of the “decade volcanoes“ are glorious. All by Catalina Plé: www.catalinaple.com/home/decadev... 🌋

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marcel 🥹🤍

quite looking forward to tonight's wild plan of settling in for Magellan on Criterion Channel

BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many others

It’s literally this joke from Parks and Rec

This is what the internet is truly for. #owls #birds Also, #SciArt references galore.

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]

a comic about blocking

Sometimes.

"This is Mission Control Houston, we have quite a raucous scene taking place behind me." [Cuts to the nerdiest group of people you've ever seen standing in business casual dress and clapping.]

WHEN THEY REESTABLISHED COMMS

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

everything about this ⬇️

Home.

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

In just a few hours (at 3:30 ET), there's an event by the @datavizsociety.bsky.social on careers in data and design. 📊 The speakers are people who are used to hire, so it looks very relevant if you're looking to manage your career in the field. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/visualizin...

they just don’t make em like michael clayton anymore do they

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

Maybe we can call it the Black & Blue Marble? In any case, I wrote about the first picture of Earth from Artemis II: creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st... #space #moon #earth #NASA

Most people don’t think of Mall of America as a living, breathing arboretum, but it’s full of plants from around the globe (and bugs to help care for them!). Why don’t more visitors realize it? mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

If you no longer do the junior work, how exactly do you become senior at your job?

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I'm attending Tableau Conference, and will be running the 5th annual TC Step Tracker. I'll be bringing stickers! 📊 Link to viz: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... Website now where you can sign up for alerts, grab the data from previous years, etc: tcsteptracker.com

#Day1: Part-to-whole As phones get bigger, my choices have become smaller. A phone that perfectly fits human hands has become hard to find. #30DayChartChallenge #dataviz New to bluesky. This post from yesterday got deleted by mistake oooops.. ouch... me sad.😭

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Elsewhere someone has added me to another “anti-AI” list and my brother in Kurzweil, I’m not. I ran a chat on AOL in the early 90s called Virtual Magick. I’ve taught about it. What I AM against is this lethal, untested black hole of corporate slop that thinks it’s going to invent an ethical slavery.

Looking forward to seeing the results of this year's #30DayChartChallenge. I participated in 2024, and wrote up my reflections here: medium.com/@brittanyros...

"In today's AI-driven world, being digitally fluent is a must. We need someone proficient with ChatGPT, Gemini, and ancient runes. Prophecy isn't a requirement, but it's strongly encouraged if you want to stand out from the rest of the herd."

when someone calls themselves a "creator" its fuckin sad. have some respect for yourself! say you make videos or art or write or whatever! "creator" means "i produce chum for platforms in the way they require for better engagement" it means you "chase the meta" and this makes you Not Artistic !!!

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1841

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

watched Gallipoli for the first time tonight bc of @blankcheck.bsky.social and it knocked me out. would likely never have gotten around to it if it weren’t for the podcast, once again thankful for this weird little avenue to broaden my film horizons letterboxd.com/film/gallipo...

I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1838

now it feels like spring