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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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10 years ago today, we dropped a thing that people still ask me about regularly. The question "What's Really Warming the World?" still has the same answer. With Blacki Migliozzi, in conversation with NASA GISS geniuses @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social 🎁🔗

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What's Really Warming the World?

What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

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Side note: Since you're primarily listing blogs, might it make sense to offer a RSS feed? Maybe cross-publishing to an are.na board? Discoverability tends to be the biggest issue in keeping up to date, and social platforms have ruined the old habits of checking in on sites regularly.

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Thank you for doing this. Link rot has set in on a lot of key resources from the 2005-2015 era, a natural consequence of people shifting focus over time. A new generation is due. Blogs aren't as plentiful these days, but some links: monachalabi.com pudding.cool www.datawrapper.de/blog

William Careri @wcareri.com · 20/06/2025

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Introducing VizDex! An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. vizdexproject.com

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VizDex

A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.

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And here we are. The US is bombing Iran.

Opinion | We’ve Reached Rainbow Capitalism’s End

To think only a few years ago people (myself included) were nauseated by performative corporate Pride efforts. Now the backlash against DEI and LGBTQ+ rights is so widespread, I worry about what kids are learning. And I'm in Norway, a relative liberal stronghold. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

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Watching old Clancy movies and thinking that however dumb their plots are, they sure aren’t far off the current situation. Trump moving B2’s with nothing but yes men and conspiracy theorists in the wings is not a happy thought.

Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

As much as I dread wide-spread AI adoption (because of humans and capitalism, not really AI), I'm still delighted by the weirdness of AI anthropology. Case in point: Golden Gate Claude www.anthropic.com/news/golden-...

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Golden Gate Claude

When we turn up the strength of the “Golden Gate Bridge” feature, Claude’s responses begin to focus on the Golden Gate Bridge. For a short time, we’re making this model available for everyone to inter...

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

David Burdeny - Saltern Study 08, Great Salt Lake, UT, 2015 www.davidburdeny.com/photographs/...

Aerial photo of fed color salt flats in squares, divided by rectangular boundaries.

NftBiker @nftbiker.com · 02/06/2025

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4 years ago, I set up my indexer because those of HEN, Objkt and fxhash were regularly falling or lagging. This has not been the case for a long time now and maintaining my own indexer is time-consuming, and increasingly difficult. ⬇️ 1/4

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

And when I say emerging, I mean crawling over tombstones, because of course.

Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Oh I’m always ready to play with some data. 🥳

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Oh man. I read Amusing Ourselves to Death maybe around 1990, in my teens, still. It seems so quaint when you consider YouTube, Roblox and the MMO industrial complex.

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We have the exact same word in Norwegian (as well as the tangled boxes of obsolete USB cables to match.) 🥂

Bot farm vs (John Deere) bot farm

Photo of farm operated by John Deere robotic tractors

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Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475), "Vase in perspective" Recreated (right) in Blender by u/Subushie on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...

Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475), "Vase in perspective" - Drawing of a vase as a wireframe to demonstrate perspective.

Uccello's drawing recreated as an actual wireframe of a 3D model

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Can’t believe it took me two years to finally bother to learn how to snap vertex to vertex while moving edges and points in Blender. That UI is dense, sometimes I learn stuff by pressing keys at random.

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Remember when Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative put lasers in space and solved the nuclear arms race and we could all breathe a little easier? Me, neither. (Still have to explain to my 12yo that lasers don't work at scale.)

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon" (1970) ought to be quaint and outdated by now, an artifact of a less civilized time. But here we are, 50 years later. Only real change? The goal is now Mars, or a 10 minute selfie ride. www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwk...

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Not sure if this is just a drop-shipping hustle for fairly mid T-shirts, but the IG AI reels of a future dominated by Azerbaijan Technology and their EuroShrimp GMO farmers are pretty dope. Link to the reels, the Children of Khan site is where the merch lives. www.instagram.com/lucamaxiim/r...

Thumbnails of Instagram reels for Children of Khan account.

Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Blender files from on-going series: ~300 files of sketches + iterations, taking 1-8hrs each to render just so I can reject 90% on sight. This is just the one project, I have 3-4 more folders just like it. Render addiction? Possibly. Still worth it. Proof: Elysian Fields release (2024)

Folder listing of hundreds of Blender files.

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I hate that I immediately think “AI?” when I see an amazing image like that. Honestly happy to see Dean wasn’t just a 2D cardboard cutout. Threesome? Paul Newman? Hilarious.

Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Life isn't much better in the corporate world. People are encouraging consultants to use AI like Shakira: Whenever, wherever! No critical culture, minimal coaching only, some minor admonishments about not uploading client info to LLMs and hey presto! Have fun with your magic word machine. 🤔

Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 24/05/2025

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Listening to my Uni’s plans to add AI chatbots to every class on Canvas pre-tuned to the subject and readings to “be an always ready TA to answer questions” and instead I want smaller classes where I have time to make sure every student is in touch with what we are doing.

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I love that they had to explain that procedurally generated doesn’t mean generative AI.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025

reminds me that i should probably finish xenoblade chronicles. i got halfway through and then got a little overwhelmed!

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A few years ago, Jeff Bezos asked people on Twitter what was something he could do with his vast resources that would have a significant effect and I said it was a trivial amount of money but that he should consider funding LGBTQIA+ helplines more. thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

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StumbleUpon! I remember it well. 🤝

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@inoreader.com does what I need it to do, yes. It has a genuine free model (I plan to go paid) and honors the conventions of the feed readers of old. I'm sure there are others, but some I looked at went straight to hard you sell on "AI" feature meh..

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down

Pocket, the save-for-later app for reading articles and news, is shutting down. Previous archive exports indicate I've used it at least since 2014. I'm getting back in the habit of using a feed reader, hopefully @inoreader.com will fill the void. via @404media.co www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...

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Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Dont't forget, desire paths don't lie. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

A circle of grass in a park, with paths going around it and a well-worn (but unplanned) path straight across the circle, from people walking across it.

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The Rowboat CSV explorer by @fathom.info is a wonder. No need to open Excel, fix formatting and create the same old formulas to find min/max/median. Skip setting up a test app to see basic graphs. Just drop it in Rowboat. rowboat.xyz

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Rowboat

Welcome to Rowboat–a lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets. Sign in or create a free account to get started.

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Show me your magic trick, wizard, I shall be the judge of your power.” 😅 Please don’t ask me to show you my geometry, you’ll weep.

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

And kudos to you for doing the work and keeping your knowledge available. Past the 5-10 year mark, it does get harder. 😅

Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Curious how many data vis blogs / sites from the 2010's are gone. Visualcomplexity.com is spam, thefunctionalart.com and infosthetics.com gone. I guess people burned out or won the influencer game? Still, @flowingdata.com remains a solid resource, informationisbeautiful.net, too.

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Information is Beautiful

Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

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Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

An evergreen point for all times, and certainly our current moment.