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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 2d

Harrell is crashing and burning. Wheels coming off the bus.

James everything is analog @analogist.net · 2d

It’s eerie how Trumpy his tone becomes when Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell gets the mildest challenge from a journalist.

You can almost hear “Justin… can I call you Justin? You know, I almost liked you…”

CHS: It stood out when I was looking through your budget plan for this coming year how important JumpStart really is in the city. Talk about how your mind has changed around JumpStart.
Harrell: Justin, what you did, and this is all in respect, I did not give you a token compliment when I said, "l like what you do." I've always thought when I read your work, I think you're very factual and you're fair, and that's the only thing I am. So let me say this — there's usually a "but" right?

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2d

I've more than once seen people who know this stuff saying that we don't actually know what the diagnostic criteria for "autistic person without cPTSD" would be, because as far as can be determined we don't know of any.

Big Dyke Energy (GFM in pinned) @azurebitch.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely am shocked to think that there may be autistic people out in the world who *don't* have CPTSD because existing in our current society as autistic is so fundamentally traumatic

DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 2d

No shit we all have CPTSD. We've been violently depersonalized our whole lives, completely disconnected from who and what we are until we finally figure it out, and when we do and talk about it there's a chance some redditors will appear out of thin air to tell us we're delusional.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

"This is not the time for hope," is a hell of a slogan. A+

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · 4d

I know who I’m voting for. And it’s not the aggressive mansplainer.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d

In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Aug 1

Not taking a stand absolutely, definitionally, puts you on the side of the abuser. Always.

Silence is complicity.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

A very basic problem with centrism is that by definition it means you are willing to listen to both sides. One of those sides is nazis. It requires you listening to a nazi and going "he makes some good points."

"Wait, you're a centrist? So you like, listen to Nick Fuentes? Willingly?"

Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you want to hear me rant about smart defaults, bar graphs, and bicycles, start at 38:50.

Techs on Texts @techsontexts.net · Jul 30

Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh

techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang

Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.

techsontexts.net

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Jul 29

My partner @taephoenix.bsky.social is a huge baseball fan. I'm a data vis nerd. Our powers combined bring you this graphic.

Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Jul 28

Had a great time talking with @jed.co about one of my favorite books, China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh. This book was inspiring for me early in my design career. Thank you for having me on the show!

www.linkedin.com/posts/iliins...

Photograph of the cover of the book showing a character with medium brown skin and black hair operating a laser cutter with an iceberg in the background

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jun 5

once again I must tap my own sign

@clairewillett

honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion

6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Jun 5

The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jun 5

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · May 30

The Joker says, “It’s simple. We, uh, kill the TurBoTax.”

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · May 25

I definitely believe that!

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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · May 25

Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.

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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social · May 25

As I noted last week:

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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social · May 20

This thread is your periodic reminder:

If you want to find something, use search.

If you want to make something up, use genAI.

No matter what genAI companies tell you, genAI is not search. Nor is it a suitable search substitute.

Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · May 20

Increasingly common library moment:

Clinician emails me "I'm trying to find these articles and I'm not having any luck. Can you help?". Sends list of citations.

I check each of them. Not on the discovery service. I check the specific journals. Pagination in the citation doesn't match.

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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social · May 25

The hype machine has convinced people that genAI can do a lot of things it cannot.

And it is going as well as you would expect:

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 21

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.

A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.

Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.

√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · May 25

If you’re eligible, I highly recommend renewing your passport online. Mine took 6 days from application to receiving it.

travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Renew my Passport Online

This page includes information about our online passport renewal system, and instructions to complete your application.

travel.state.gov

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · May 12

The New York Times "accepts" millions of dollars a year from fossil fuel interests
drilled.media/news/drilled...

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · May 12

Finally saw Sinners today, really enjoyed it. Worth seeing for the music alone, unless you don’t like mild horror. Really wish the @unaffiliatedcritic.com would write about it.

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · May 10

Yesterday I was discussing ternary plots with @danyelf.bsky.social and some other folks. The one we were looking at wasn't entirely clear.
Explanations in wikipedia and this example are quite good.
vis.csh.ac.at/citiesmoving/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary...

Ternary plot - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Amber Thomas @amberthomas.bsky.social · Nov 22

This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...

It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Apr 4

Really lovely interactive flowchart from the book "I Want a Better Catastrophe". Highly recommended.
flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart

A flowchart for navigating our climate predicament

flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Mar 21

Evergreen thread.

Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · Mar 21

Funny, I was just (30 minutes ago) looking at Robert Palmer's representation of the healtcare plan in @noah-i.bsky.social and Julie Steele's Designing Data Visualization. They contrast it to this 'beauty' from the Joint Economic Committee | Republicans:

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Farrah Bostic @farrahbostic.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thanks to @noupside.bsky.social for talking to me about her book, Invisible Rulers. I can't recommend it enough to anyone trying to understand the business, design, policy & regulatory choices that created the internet - especially people who work in PR & adland, who paved the way for this world.

Cross Tabs Podcast with Farrah Bostic @crosstabspodcast.com · Mar 19

Who tells you what to think? Tune into our latest epiosde to hear misinformation expert Renee DiResta explain how social platforms' business models value engagement over truth, and offer practical recommendations for resetting online norms beyond simple calls for media literacy: buff.ly/0P45kvs

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Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social · Mar 18

Job for a Lead/Principal level UX designer in security analytics. Key is experience with highly technical domains (security, analytics, CI/CD, etc.), and very strong information design skills.

I'm happy to introduce qualified people that I already know.
www.crogl.com/careers
#hiring #uxjobs

Careers | Crogl

Join Crogl and shape the future of autonomous security operations. Explore our career opportunities in AI-driven cybersecurity innovation.

www.crogl.com

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