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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. No shortcut gets you there: the process leaves a trace."

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VizChitra @vizchitra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Silver: Open Visualization Academy · @revisual.co · Visualization for Transparency Foundation, @albertocairo.com Bronze: TypeTogether · People Plus AI · Thurro · City Finance Community: @pudding.cool · TREND @ Youth Ki Awaaz

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026

Months ago I talked to Giorgia about her most recent book, and towards the end she shared some thoughts about GenAI that also appear in her article. Here's the recording openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... in the newsletter of the Open Visualization Academy

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Friends of OVA: Giorgia Lupi

A conversation about her new book, her career, and the "AI" wave

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026

Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/09/2026

All dunces like this may have obtained their degrees from Trump University

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

In the newsletter: "Visualization as epistemic representation" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/visualizat... Or: Building bridges between information design and the philosophy of science & scientific representation #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics

A diagram depicting the cycle of epistemic representation. An object called the "vehicle" (a chart, for example) represents another object, called the "target" (for instance, a data set). The reader of the "vehicle" can make inferences about the vehicle itself, and later they can use those inferences to make inferences about the "target"

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 24/09/2026

As a father of teenagers (and phone user), my current take is that we are fighting a new drug, optimized for our weakest points and with no interest for our benefit.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

I think that most college professors have gone through something like this at some point. Craig's response was the right one, I believe.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

"There has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn't locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have. A way that's built around humans again, not around algorithms. A way that values connection instead of confrontation."

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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

O cenário mais realista de os geradores de lero-lero acabarem com a humanidade é o suicídio cognitivo de três ou quatro gerações treinadas simultaneamente a deixar de pensar. Médicos, engenheiros e todos os profissionais de daqui a 5 anos estão pondo um produto de big techs pra estudar por eles.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

this is a genuinely crazy story

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"your holiness, it's called a sankey diagram"

a photo of someone explaining something to pope leo while the pope makes a face of slight discomfort

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 18/09/2026

On techne vs phronesis: "I don’t think the literal destruction of humanity—our biological species—is likely to occur, but I do think a kind of mass dehumanization is possible and even desired by its creators" @lioneltrolling.bsky.social: www.unpopularfront.news/p/reason-v-r...

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Reason v. Rule

The Real AI Risk is to Culture Itself

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the way.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Polish Army is embracing educational #wargaming in order to prepare their leaders for hard choices across echeleons and exercise their intellectual muscles. 🎲 💥

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/09/2026

New in the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: "The UMAP Isn't the Territory" by Michela Tjan openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-umap-i... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization See all our courses and tutorials: openvisualizationacademy.org

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The UMAP Isn't the Territory

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/09/2026

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The UMAP Isn't the Territory

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Jesse Onland @jdonland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mercator's projection was very useful in its time: a straight line on the map corresponds to a path of constant bearing on the globe. When navigation was done with a compass and astrolabe, this was crucial. He didn't make Africa and Greenland look the same size just for fun!

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/09/2026

One day, not far in the future, I'll create a workshop titled "Information Design for Philosophers" (this one comes from an otherwise excellent paper by G. Sanches de Oliveira: lnkd.in/e9emapSz)

A Venn diagram that shows two partially overlapping circles, each representing a philosophical perspective on how scientific models work. One is "representationalism", the other is "artifactualism", The area of overlap is "hybrid artifactualism". The diagram doesn't explain any of this. You have to read the entire caption to understand it.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/09/2026

I was wondering why Sankey diagrams have been trending here lately and oh boy...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very Smart People will see these and know that literally the world'a richest man is behind them and think "gee maybe trans activists did this to themselves"

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 10/09/2026

I'm getting many new followers because I was added to some lists. Hi everyone! Visit the Open Visualization Academy, my library of free learning resources about information design & visualization: openvisualizationacademy.org And subscribe to our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meaning, the point of a data visualization isn't just to have a visualization and look good for having had one. The point is to convey information better and more clearly than you could otherwise.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 07/09/2026

Testing new waters: I'm working on my first philosophy paper. It'll try to begin a dialogue between visualization and the philosophy of scientific (epistemic) representation. Let's see where this crazy idea leads me...

Tentative title: Visualization as Epistemic Representation

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is very good

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 04/09/2026

The technical name of this species is Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 03/09/2026

The post below also announces the release of my new Open Visualization Academy course: "Tidy Data, Tidy Infographics", designed for absolute beginners

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good stuff. I especially liked this: “[Shaw & Nave] explain the difference between cognitive augmentation and offloading—consciously delegating specific tasks to automation—and cognitive surrender, which is a tendency to ‘defer judgment, effort, and responsibility’ to devices”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This just means they need to write even more op-eds about how they're the only choice

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 03/09/2026

The post below also announces the release of my new Open Visualization Academy course: "Tidy Data, Tidy Infographics", designed for absolute beginners

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Siri, define "capitulation"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

read in between the lines and you see how white people believe they get to define reality. facts be damned.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 25/08/2026

On LinkedIn, @daniellealberti.bsky.social just announced that Axios disbanded its data visualization team yesterday. @visuals.axios.com 📊 She is now looking for a new job. A leader in our field.

Danielle Alberti
Managing Editor, Data Visualization

Yesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I've built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I'm looking for what's next.
I'm so proud of the team we built. At our largest, we were 13 designers and developers spread across the country, making dozens of quick-turnaround visuals a day for the National and Local newsrooms while also producing some stunning longform storytelling. I managed the team entirely remotely, and I'm especially proud of the culture we created while rarely being in the same room. People felt safe trying something weird to see if it landed. We genuinely liked working together, respected each other's work and wanted our teammates to succeed. Even as people moved on to other teams over the years, they kept cheering each other on. Creating a team like that is possibly the best thing I've done in my career.
I also really like making things work better. I put a lot of energy into building systems and workflows and automating processes so we could do more without just asking people to work faster. We built tools that were the envy of the industry and gave people across the newsroom the ability to make sophisticated visualizations themselves.
I sometimes joked that I was trying to automate myself out of a job. Whoops.

I've spent most of my career in data visualization, but l've always been a bit of a generalist. I've been a reporter, an editor and a developer, and over the years my job has grown to include everything from engineering and tooling to project management, strategy and people management. The common thread is that I like figuring out how things work, why they aren't working and how to make them better.
So I'm casting a pretty wide net. I'd love to keep working in data visualization, but I'm also very open to jobs outside journalism and roles that don't have "data visualization" in the title.
Mostly, I'm looking for somewhere I can do more of what I'm good at: building great teams, developing talented people and creating systems that help them do great work.
If that sounds like something your team needs, or you know someone I should talk to, please reach out.
Comment, DM, or email me at alberti.danielle@gmail.com.

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Make sure to sign up for the upcoming #wargaming webinars hosted by the Georgetown University Wargaming Society! The fall line up has an awesome slate of speakers - like Pete Pellegrino from NWC and Liz Davidson from Leder Games.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 21/08/2026

So quotable: "Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy."

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 19/08/2026

Were technology podcasts of the past really as singular in their focus as they are now on AI? (It's all I hear about) For example, was literally every episode from like 1878-1880 about the invention of the light bulb? Were people like, omg I'm so tired of hearing about this!!!! ???

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