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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 491 comments

Look at this gaming-ass PC under the desk. I'm sure that machine has been secured before connecting to govt networks.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

submitted 101 days ago • 14 comments

Great use of ggplot and the geomtextpath package. Also, ya know, interesting data.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

submitted 17 days ago • 144 comments

font-size: as-big-as-possible-without-wrapping;

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.

submitted 28 days ago • 68 comments

@agellison.bsky.social join please.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 32 days ago • 970 comments

Very cool that the Trump admin has reawakened the fears of dying in a horrific plane crash. Haven’t even thought twice about that since I was ~6 years old. Back on the table, baby! Also if my body is exploded at 600 miles per hour it'll be blamed on the last remaining non-white federal worker. 👍

submitted 34 days ago • 59 comments

tired? need a boost? cold out? drink an entire hyrdoflask of coffee. the whole bottle, nice and warm, just drink it up. you will certainly not regret drinking an entire hydroflask of coffee.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 36 days ago • 132 comments

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

submitted 52 days ago • 202 comments

This is 100% me. I re-read it as an adult hoping for some nostalgia and was like "oh shit, this sucks actually". Every scene is sort of a thinly veiled self-insert of Asimov talking about how brilliant he is.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely example of how weird real-world data is. I put all 55 million points in Overture maps into a Nomic Atlas map. Lots of points spuriously appearing in the ocean. But the 1° square around 'null island' (0° lat, 0° long) is suspiciously clear -- someone has cleared out bad data just there.

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks. try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Some good discussion here. In general, I think this is a larger part of a risk discussion. What is the cost of patching vs the cost of not patching. Both sides of that equation are hard to measure. Even enumerating the scenarios before you need their magnitude and probability is hard.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames

submitted 94 days ago • 38 comments

My 'I'm going to stop drinking just as soon as I'm Secretary of Defense' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

submitted 92 days ago • 49 comments

A sneak peek: the DuckDB CLI client's new nightly build now pretty-prints large numbers by default.

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Write math on 🦋 with UnicodeIt! For example: θ ∈ ℝⁿ or pp̅ → μ⁺μ⁻ Use website or install system-wide in Linux, macOS, or windows www.unicodeit.net (Created several years ago with @svenkreiss.bsky.social)

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submitted 110 days ago • 14 comments

I think alphabetical is the way to go here. The goal is to show the effect of the vaccine, which isn't affected by the order (the change is pretty uniform though, maybe slightly slower in western states). When folks interact they want to find their state. Sorting by region makes that harder.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Finally some good shit happening.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

A favorite of mine is this one showing cumulative new vulnerabilities year over year. Shows how the current year is out pacing others. This was used to diagnose a couple of data changes and errors in several years. Made by Jay Jacobs of EPSS fame.