Fernando Cucchietti
@fercook.bsky.social
Data visualization and analysis
Also left goes up and right goes down, I agree that there is a lot going on here and it’s too difficult to capture all that, but still it feels like a bit like a puzzle
February 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Also left goes up and right goes down, I agree that there is a lot going on here and it’s too difficult to capture all that, but still it feels like a bit like a puzzle
I get the up down thing and that the elite is always the same, and small. Maybe just putting the arrows in left to right order so one doesn’t have to search around too much?
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
I get the up down thing and that the elite is always the same, and small. Maybe just putting the arrows in left to right order so one doesn’t have to search around too much?
I like the copy and the research a lot, but I found the visual order difficult to follow. What about up and down and left to right for groups/time?
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I like the copy and the research a lot, but I found the visual order difficult to follow. What about up and down and left to right for groups/time?
But this has been like this for a long while now, hasn’t it? Before AI, this was used to prevent people uploading whatever
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
But this has been like this for a long while now, hasn’t it? Before AI, this was used to prevent people uploading whatever
I read it this morning and it was very hard to follow, a long and dense salad of facts, inventions, and stereotyping. Hard to fight something massive, diffuse, and confusing.
January 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
I read it this morning and it was very hard to follow, a long and dense salad of facts, inventions, and stereotyping. Hard to fight something massive, diffuse, and confusing.
Unos días personales muy difíciles, no es por algo serio pero no logro levantar el ánimo.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Unos días personales muy difíciles, no es por algo serio pero no logro levantar el ánimo.
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What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 AM
What are we doing here
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
economist.com/united-state...
from The Economist
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CDF plots are great but have you tried flattened CDF plots? #dataviz
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 PM
CDF plots are great but have you tried flattened CDF plots? #dataviz
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
rawdatastudies.com/2026/01/19/s...
Didn’t Fox loose a lot of millions for saying things like this
Trump is in Davos crazy posting. He is delusional and that's a fact, not an opinion.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Didn’t Fox loose a lot of millions for saying things like this
Wtf is going on people
January 18, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Wtf is going on people
According to this numbers in the worst case it would mean $238M in unpaid royalties, in a more conservative estimate probably half or less than that.
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 AM
According to this numbers in the worst case it would mean $238M in unpaid royalties, in a more conservative estimate probably half or less than that.
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London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]
Bread Infographic
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business:
From their post:
This comes off the back of a big decision to increase our bakers’ pay ahead
kottke.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business. [kottke.org]
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January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Discover how this powerful web app lets you search, visualize, and download LiDAR point clouds across the entire United States, in just seconds.
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I went into the paper to find they had missed some of the obvious culprits, but in fact everything is reasonably well treated (and yes it’s a readable paper). Maybe some points I’d do differently, but yes a nice paper to think about.
The most important article in issue 5 of the Big Bang Magazine on science communication in Belgium is by @vinoy.bsky.social: The Linguistic Wall.
The readability of scientific articles is dropping at an alarming rate. Convoluted sentences, excessive density and impenetrable jargon...
The readability of scientific articles is dropping at an alarming rate. Convoluted sentences, excessive density and impenetrable jargon...
January 15, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I went into the paper to find they had missed some of the obvious culprits, but in fact everything is reasonably well treated (and yes it’s a readable paper). Maybe some points I’d do differently, but yes a nice paper to think about.
Molly is a great source of news. Like months ahead of the pack
I've mentioned this before, but one thing I've been closely watching for is when crypto people begin to distance themselves from Trump.
November 2024 vs. January 2026
November 2024 vs. January 2026
![ Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has also clearly been trying to woo Trump, claiming very shortly after the election that he was “going to be spending quite a bit of time working with lawmakers in Washington DC and quite a bit of time with members of the administration to help foster and facilitate with other key leaders in industry the crypto policy”.6 While he has continued to boast vaguely about meetings with various influential figures, winkingly describing a “VIP dinner” where “diet coke will certainly be on [the menu]”, there’s been little outside confirmation that he’s had much access to the Trump administration. ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreibwu7nnfjdr7icvg2bzdh6ug5tbaza5hcut2q5lmerpqalj2cxiwy@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Molly is a great source of news. Like months ahead of the pack
I've seen this many times now, and yes it is smaller than what is perceived in the Mercator projection, but it is not objectively small, right? It's like 1/5 the size of the US, and 1/4 the size of Brazil.
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
January 14, 2026 at 9:12 AM
I've seen this many times now, and yes it is smaller than what is perceived in the Mercator projection, but it is not objectively small, right? It's like 1/5 the size of the US, and 1/4 the size of Brazil.
Forward thinking here: should US citizens in Europe start getting worried?
“US citizens should leave Venezuela immediately” … Checking in on the country President Trump executed a coup against a week ago
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Forward thinking here: should US citizens in Europe start getting worried?
This is the key pov
your computer is no longer a machine that runs apps built by other people
it’s now a Lego set you can instruct in natural language
it’s now a Lego set you can instruct in natural language
i think this is gonna be a big theme of 2026
claude code is misnamed. it's not really even about code. it's about making the computer do things you want it to do
claude code is misnamed. it's not really even about code. it's about making the computer do things you want it to do
January 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
This is the key pov
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This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
Are you talking about this? bsky.app/profile/wash...
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Are you talking about this? bsky.app/profile/wash...
A metaphor for AI code generation
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A metaphor for AI code generation