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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

Friends of OVA: Giorgia Lupi

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

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

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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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 · 27/09/2026

@stephenrbissette.bsky.social's artwork in that series messed me up (in a good way—I guess?)

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Oh, boy, that type of panel weirdness is everywhere in Swamp Thing. Moore wrote the words, but Bissette & Totleben translated them into them visual magic

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 27/09/2026

To me, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run, is far superior to anything else he's done, including Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Such a deep, poetic, deeply moving (and horrifying in some cases) series of stories...

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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 · 25/09/2026

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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Yes! That's fully compatible with some varieties of analytical theories of representation. That's a great article with tons of relevant references, btw. Thanks for bringing it to my attention

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

I'd apply that to so-called "AI"

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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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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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"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

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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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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

The UMAP Isn't the Territory

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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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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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