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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 2d

This collection of Cold War #dataviz and maps is worth checking out

Beautiful Public Data @beautifulpublicdata.com · 2d

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides

A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars…

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https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

Text "MISSION AND ORGANIZATION" is overlaid on a fragmented map with a blue grid and multicolored sections.

A dynamic painting depicting U.S. Air Force and Navy missiles and aircraft in flight against a colorful sky background.

A pie chart from the 323D Flying Training Wing displays FY 1979 graduate assignments, with SAC at 46%, TAC at 36%, MAC at 15%, and other at 3%.

A pie chart from AFSC FY 80 showing the distribution of total funds managed, totaling $17.4 billion, with sections for procurement (43%), RDT&E (25%), foreign military sales (21%), and other (11%).

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 9d

btw, for anyone wanting a more visceral experience of said library i recommend Steven L. Peck’s ‘A short stay in hell’ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short...

A Short Stay in Hell - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 9d

This page implements Borges' Library of Babel: containing everything that could ever be written on 410 pages, all possible 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ books. And the craziest thing: it has a search function.

libraryofbabel.info

Library of Babel

A project towards a universal library. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.

libraryofbabel.info

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 14d

I completely missed that Tyler Vigen's "Spurious Correlations" project now also show AI-generated explanations and images as well as full, completely fake research papers. What could possibly go wrong?

tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...

screenshot of Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations website that shows a chart correlating the number of Johnny Depp movies with season wins for the LA Chargers, followed by an AI explanation and an AI generated image "depicting" the correlation.

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 14d

Plus: "Posted on 24 September 2025" for the latest post.

Not sure if the aesthetic is helping or hurting the page, but it's definitely something that you don't see very often (anymore).

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 14d

love the unabashedly 1998-aesthetic of this website: skepticalscience.com

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 14d

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 28d

imho p5.js makes for a much more reasonable entry point: basically the same easy-to-learn syntax, results can be directly exported to the web, nothing to install thanks to editor.p5js.org

p5.js Web Editor

A web editor for p5.js, a JavaScript library with the goal of making coding accessible to artists, designers, educators, and beginners.

editor.p5js.org

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codrops @codrops.bsky.social · 28d

For 15+ years, Codrops has shared experimental web demos & creative projects. Now, we’re bringing it all together in the new Creative Hub — a curated space to explore, learn & share from the web community.

Dive in: tympanus.net/codrops/hub/

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 28d

Good to know, thank you!

I kind of suspected that it was too many projects and too little devs in observable land :)

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · 28d

Observable Plot (observablehq.com/plot/) is a fantastic tool but had its last release in February ... is it still in active development or has it been abandoned?

Observable Plot

The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization

observablehq.com

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Sep 4

"What are three books you'd recommend to the audience?"
www.3books.net

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Alex McLean @slab.org · Aug 30

There's this book livecodingbook.toplap.org

Live Coding: A User's Manual

Live Coding: A User's Manual, published by MIT Press

livecodingbook.toplap.org

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Kinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · Aug 28

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Aug 13

www.vibechart.net

VIBECHART.NET - The Art of Subjective Data Visualization

Vibecharting: To chart based on what you want to see instead of what is true, beautiful, or useful. The art of subjective data visualization.

www.vibechart.net

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Aug 7

This:

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Aug 6

I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. www.pbump.net/o/blurred-wo...

Blurred world

I suspect that history will record 2025 as an inflection point in American (if not world) history, the point at which the promise of a future rooted in universal access to knowledge collapsed under th...

www.pbump.net

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · Jul 24

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Aug 6

"The purpose of visualization is insight not pictures" (once the insight's been had, how the transmission went isn't really that important)

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Aug 6

I assume they think that all that will be left of HCI will be: say what you want and the computer will figure it out?

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · Aug 5

Yes:

Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · Aug 5

I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Aug 6

the art market is sleeping on this

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Dominikus @do.minik.us · Jul 30

It feels sensible that the age of UX with minimal friction in computer interfaces caused the rise of the souls-like video game where friction and brutal difficulty is exactly the point.