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Wild opening paragraph, maybe you shouldn't be the one reviewing a Warriors game then

This could also be staging for an attack on the Bermuda Triangle slightly to the north.

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

A Halloween scarecrow with a white top that has 3 sets of x crossed laces and pinstripes, an orange cape, a jack-o-lantern head and a wide brimmed hat looking slightly up at it, it is lit up and looks like cel-shaded animation more than an actual physical object

this thing is breaking my brain

No correct aspect ratio upload to be found on YouTube, and I could be more rigorous about my editing, but I genuinely think this is some of the funniest 106 seconds in comedy history, and definitely in my top five Simpsons jokes.

These maps are amazing and terrifying

Crazy that Disney said no to this

This and No Mercy are still the best wrestling games ever made. Wish they would've just updated the graphics and kept the control scheme and let AKI develop it but instead now we have to see if 2K sucks each year or not

A screenshot from an anime girl has pulled an American flag out of a locker, and the boy is shielding his face and put that thing away

Bluesky right now.

Wildlife Biologist (Macquarie Island) Survey wildlife on Macquarie Island, monitor avian flu, collect samples, manage data, plan field trips, and support reporting in a remote team.

If anyone is interested in going far away from civilization for whatever reason, here’s a job in Antarctica.

jobs.antarctica.gov.au/jobs-in-anta... 🧪🦑🌎

This is forever etched into my memory youtu.be/vTLw9JvhHZU?...

LOGGING ON

Any trees to be planted with those houses?

Succession is more and more looking like Eddy vs Craig

But what’s up with the radioactive cloves?

LeBron explaining the game to a young and inexperienced Austin Reaves and in a second panel an experienced Austin Reaves explaining the game to a young and inexperienced Bronny James

Anime fuckin whips so much ass man

Impending? This is already happening

Apple moving the search bar in every app to the bottom is fine for access but if they don’t also move all the other navigation buttons there too it just becomes a mess of ups and downs. It’s not streamlined.

Time to break out the chart

What struck the Gaza Aid Flotilla? After we published the story, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior issued a statement describing the incident “that took place yesterday” as a “premeditated attack” stating that an investigation had been launched.”

New Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester to be removed from outside London court A new Banksy mural showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from outside a London court.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

Swish for sure

A detailed map of the Mediterranean basin rotated 90 degrees clockwise immediately disrupts the sense of a familiar landscape and makes the sea and surrounding coatslines of Greece, Italy and North Africa seems like maps from a fantasy novel or mysterious fictional realm.

It’s all a matter of perspective…

Image of Hannibal's troops, mounted on elephants, trying to cross a river.

C J Minard's flowmap of the path of Hannibal's troops across France, through the Alps and down into Italy. The width redish line indicates troop strength.

📊#dataviz #history Minard & Hannibal:
This image helps to understand why CJ Minard juxtaposed his famous flow map of Napoleon's 1815 Moscow campaign w/ a similar map of Hannibal's campaign across France, across the Alps into Italy.

Both the Napoleon & Hannibal graphics were anti-war statements

It's the first day of Poorneet (tadpole season) where I live on Wurundjeri Country.

#alwayswasalwayswillbe🖤💛❤️ #noroomforracism

evergreen post

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

Pages from a mini comic

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

A screenshot of policy text. It reads: Course AI Policy You are not allowed to use any form of AI to generate any of your submitted assignments, quizzes, or exams in this course. You may use AI as a study tool or research tool if you so choose. If you do choose to use AI as a study tool (e.g. create flashcards, re-explain grammatical concepts, etc.) or as a research aid (e.g. asking ChatGPT what are the best databases online for classics research), here are some general guidelines for using AI: be as specific as possible including very specific queries and numerous data points will help the program generate tailored and actually useful results e.g. “please generate a set of flash cards of the most commonly used ancient Greek verbs from the 1st conjugation” vs. “please generate a set of flash cards of ancient Greek words” always double check the answers it gives you for accuracy e.g. is that a modern Greek word or an ancient Greek word on that flash card? NEVER tell the AI personal information this includes things like your full name, date of birth, your medical history, etc.; if you wouldn’t share it on social media, don’t use it with the AI make sure you understand who gains access to your data and interactions with the AI when you use it I personally do not recommend using it often/at all due to the following issues: AI “hallucination” these models are designed to give you any answer at all, not to give you a correct answer (although this is changing) for niche subjects such as ancient Greek and Latin, it is absolutely not a reliable source of information it’s also designed to be a “yes man” system; it will nearly always take your side, which is not very useful if you’re wrong Burresi 2025 (https://www.ireneburresi.dev/p/the-ai-yes-man-problem-from-flattery) AI erodes your critical thinking skills Kosmyna et al. 2025 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872) Royce and Bennet 2025 (https://www.nsta.org/blog/think-or-not-think-impact-ai-critical-thinking-skills)

Gerlich 2025 (https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6) data privacy concerns King and Meinhart 2024 (https://hai.stanford.edu/policy/white-paper-rethinking-privacy-ai-era-policy-provocations-data-centric-world) Vekaria et al. 2025 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16586) stolen intellectual property Carson 2025 (https://jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11f0d063) Knibbs 2024 (https://www.wired.com/story/ai-copyright-case-tracker/) AI is probably unsustainable as a model Radsch 2024 (https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/29/ai-needs-us-more-than-we-need-it/) AI has negative environmental effects, especially regarding water use and carbon emissions, and disproportionally affects some groups more than others Bashir et al. 2024 (https://mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/8ulgrckc/release/2) Zewe 2025 (https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117) Ren and Wierman 2024 (https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-uneven-distribution-of-ais-environmental-impacts)

Last but not least, you are here to learn! It is not learning to let a digital tool passively work for you. Dr. Chiang said it better than I can: "When you’re a student at a university, you should think of yourself as an athlete in training, and the job you'll do after you graduate is the sport you will compete in. You don’t know specifically which sport you will play, and neither do your professors. What your professors do know is that strength training will help you. That’s what essay writing is; it’s strength training for the brain. Using ChatGPT to write your essays is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you are never going to improve your cognitive fitness that way." Let me expand on that. Building strength requires exertion; if anyone offers you an exercise program that involves no exertion at all, you know it's not going to be effective. The improvements that come from doing cognitive exercise are not as rapid as those that come from physical exercise, but they are just as real. Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful. Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think.” Ted Chiang in Ruddick 2025 (https://cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08/12/ted-chiang/); see also Chiang 2024 (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art) If you are ever unsure about whether your use of AI will violate this class policy, please come and meet with me during office hours! I am happy to work with you.

In case it's of use to anyone else trying to decide how to address AI in their course syllabi, here's the policy I came up with last Friday while mad at 5:30am. With citations!