Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

15 years?! Wow.. thank you @ocks.org @jasondavies.com @fil.rezo.net and all other contributors over all those years 🙌

Truth, Beauty, and Brains Moritz Stefaner's visualization about the state of Neuroscience

In the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Friends of the OVA, Episode 3, a conversation with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his recent State of Neuroscience project openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/truth-beau...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Cloudbreak 3 title image featuring white text over a grayscale cumulus cloud.

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some benevolent cyberpunk for you

Curling is my highlight of these games.

Back when I worked on iD (the default OpenStreetMap editor) I designed over 270 bespoke map icons to illustrate various feature types. These are free and open source.

A guided gallery of my icon work is now available on my portfolio: waysidemapping.org/projects/id-...

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

I was so fortunate yesterday to spend a superb 2 hours chatting with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social & @ebertini.bsky.social exploring some of the most significant data viz works that have shaped their careers. This will be released as a double 'Explore Explain' episode special out early next month.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Epic

Sich von Shitstorms selektiv beeindrucken zu lassen. ist halt auch eine Entscheidung. Der von rechts führt zu einer Änderung in der Blattlinie, wird ernstgenommen: der von links ist Cancel Culture, Kulturkampf und unsachliche Kritik

Er: „Wenn es Männer nicht gäbe, wer würde Euch Frauen dann beschützen?“
Sie: „Beschützen? Vor wem?“

Dieser Take, der gefühlt schon seit 100 Jahren auf TikTok viral geht, ist immer noch einer der besten Diskussionshilfen zum Thema toxische Männlichkeit. 💁🏻‍♀️

Ah, sorry, wrong chat! :D

Claude, formulate a witty response!

Never wanted an intern, now I have Claude.

love a bit of continvouclous morging

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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

A grid of 140 small images representing the 'thumbnails' of Observable notebooks. Below each is a small block of text (largely unreadable at this scale) with the title of each notebook.

I do think one of the most significant developments in computing in the last decade (apart from ~that~ one) has been the computational notebook.

Browsing through my @observablehq.com notebooks, they capture my visual and computational thinking more effectively than anything that preceded them.

Wann verstehen Konservative, dass Demokratieschutz konservativ ist, weil er bewahrt; wann verstehen Liberale, dass Demokratieschutz liberal ist, weil er Freiheiten sichert und wann verstehen Sozialdemokraten, dass Demokratieschutz sozial ist, weil er die Schwächsten der Gesellschaft schützt?
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This is probably ok

Text showing longwinded considerations by large language model in response to the message "test"

LLMs are mostly perfecting the art of overthinking at this point. Inspiring / relatable!

Insane level of polish and detail 🙇🙌

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

FT outdone by ABC on this one abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...