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Freelancer anxiety dreams are truly in a league of their own. 🤣

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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Ratatouille but it's world war 1 and the rats are all incredibly skilled marksmen and the humans they ride as steeds are merely cannon fodder for sniper duels between them

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 12 days ago • 309 comments

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

submitted 17 days ago • 353 comments

Always a good thing when we can make a comparison to the British East India Company.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It’s also apparent with the rapid dismantling of ‘DEI’ it’s on straight white men to be decent, non-fuckwads professionally and protect those classes.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I have to say the speed at which the administration (and a lot of companies!?) have gone just full-on racism exceeded even my very cynical floor.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

submitted 101 days ago • 141 comments

Watching Super Bowl 360º ad campaigns start to spin up automated posts between bureaucratic coup updates is something mildly dystopian.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

These dickheads want to think of themselves as gilded age industrialists when in reality they invented some fucking app for short term rentals of birds or some other shit that hemorrhages money every year, will never be profitable, and is kept afloat through constant injections of venture capital.

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

We should all ask why we should pay federal taxes if our representatives have no say in how the funds are used. Kind of a founding principles thing, no?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Time to bellyache! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

As an aside, I think we should also structure any fines and penalties as a % of user's income/wealth — not a flat fee.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Reporters should just ask if Musk has given Trump permission to post an executive order.

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submitted 22 days ago • 85 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1307 comments

You’re not even your mom’s favorite Edward, Edward.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

When you get to a billion dollars you should have to enter new game+. Keep your laptop, car and cellphone and skills. Lose all your money and connections. Start over.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

At least I don’t follow sports because I’m not stressed out about whatever the hell that everyone else is.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like I’m going insane. Has anyone else’s Apple Maps results stopped showing a directions button if you trigger from search?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The US Copyright Office came out with a new report regarding AI & copyright. I read the 50 page report this morning. Not sure I got all of it (will probably need a 2nd run through) but my initial takeaways: I think the headlines I'm seeing are pretty sensationalist and frankly a bit dishonest. 🧵 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Freelancer anxiety dreams are truly in a league of their own. 🤣

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

Ratatouille but it's world war 1 and the rats are all incredibly skilled marksmen and the humans they ride as steeds are merely cannon fodder for sniper duels between them

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Always a good thing when we can make a comparison to the British East India Company.

It’s also apparent with the rapid dismantling of ‘DEI’ it’s on straight white men to be decent, non-fuckwads professionally and protect those classes.

I have to say the speed at which the administration (and a lot of companies!?) have gone just full-on racism exceeded even my very cynical floor.

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

Watching Super Bowl 360º ad campaigns start to spin up automated posts between bureaucratic coup updates is something mildly dystopian.

These dickheads want to think of themselves as gilded age industrialists when in reality they invented some fucking app for short term rentals of birds or some other shit that hemorrhages money every year, will never be profitable, and is kept afloat through constant injections of venture capital.

We should all ask why we should pay federal taxes if our representatives have no say in how the funds are used. Kind of a founding principles thing, no?

Time to bellyache! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

As an aside, I think we should also structure any fines and penalties as a % of user's income/wealth — not a flat fee.

Reporters should just ask if Musk has given Trump permission to post an executive order.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

You’re not even your mom’s favorite Edward, Edward.

When you get to a billion dollars you should have to enter new game+. Keep your laptop, car and cellphone and skills. Lose all your money and connections. Start over.

At least I don’t follow sports because I’m not stressed out about whatever the hell that everyone else is.

I feel like I’m going insane. Has anyone else’s Apple Maps results stopped showing a directions button if you trigger from search?

The chaos will continue until morale declines.

is this anything

This DeepSeek stuff is funny as hell.