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data viz design & dev @newamerica.org *** poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-motion/whose-side-are-you-on
An illustration of line drawings of hundreds of silhouettes of gowns worn at Met Galas in 2019, showing how the silhouettes have become bigger and more complex; the line drawings for each year are stacked on top of each other to show the overall size.
It's Met Gala day, so naturally we traced hundreds of outfits from the red carpet to show just how much bigger and bolder the fashion has become over the years www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
05.05.2025 13:58 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
"Exploring Dandyism & Black Expression: A Roundtable Discussion" article image featuring a collage of five stylish individuals at the top and the text discussing the Met Gala 2025 theme, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, below.
Fashion is never just about clothes.
Inspired by the 2025 Met Gala, New Americans explore Black dandyism as a tool for resistance and redefinition in a roundtable discussion for The Thread.
🎩 go.newamerica.org/black-dandyi...
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Promotional poster titled 'What Does DOGE Know About You?' by New America's Open Technology Institute. It features a spotlighted area with silhouettes of people using laptops and smartphones, surrounded by darker shadows of people in various poses.
🆕 📣 A new interactive quiz published by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org can help Americans understand how much of their data DOGE has in hand.
Take the quiz to discover which elements of your sensitive info are now exposed.
📝 #HandsOff go.newamerica.org/what-does-do...
“Vibe coding” retains the implication that you can’t explain or even understand how something works. But under the pressure of AI hype and its championing of incomprehension, there seems to be not a “vibe shift” but a “vibe” shift occurring, as the term drifts toward a different connotation. Where vibe once conveyed something that can’t be analyzed, now it conveys a purposeful indifference to analysis or explanation, as well as to the components that make up something. It is as though the preponderance of vibe talk made explanations irrelevant in all cases, and now we speak of vibes to forbid comprehension, which would be unfun. “Giving in to the vibe,” then, means deliberately refusing to understand, as though that would be to defy AI’s supremacy. One should let AI handle the data and the details so that you can just have gratified impulses, which are ultimately just a matter of data being manipulated to your liking — prompting, waiting, tweaking, and trying again until you are satisfied or bored with what you’re doing. Being involved with the thinking process, the details, would be to go against the vibe. It’s a superfluous burden that sets you against the spirit of the times. “Vibe” in this usage tries to lend exuberance and cachet to what amounts to being passive and negligent. It borrows from the earlier connotations of relaxing into conditions and not disrupting them by trying to pick them apart, but now applies it to the alienation that “AI” must produce if it is going to be profitable for its makers. “Vibe” evokes the the dream of a life that contains no processes, no skills, no research, no effort — just feelings that machines interpret and turn into substance. If “vibe” once could refer to a range of nameless feelings, now it refers to thoughtlessness, in every sense of the word.
great read from @robhorning.bsky.social this weekend:
09.03.2025 20:34 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
at the end of January, the city of Boston began posting public notices about bird flu, in light of the statewide outbreak among wild birds. these notices called for increased resident reporting of sick/dead birds. just started digging into the 311 request data. here's a quick write-up
04.03.2025 15:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fast trains catalyze EV adoption:
"By alleviating range anxiety, the expansion of high-speed rail can account for up to 1/3 of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China [from 2010-23]."
www.nber.org/papers/w33489
Red ice sled on a frozen lake with the label “Esla”
Boycott Tesla, Buy Esla
15.02.2025 02:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego.
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
a legendary instance of "use current events to create a hook for science communication"
12.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 91 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 0
A line graph depicting global CO2 emissions from energy and industrial processes, along with projections from 2000 to 2100. The y-axis represents CO2 emissions in gigatons (Gt), while the x-axis marks the years. A highlighted target to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C in 2100 is at 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2030. Also show is a line showing decrease in emissions equivalent to what occurred during the pandemic. The line misses the target by about 8 GtCO₂/yr in 2030.
A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
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