Fantastic must read article by
@moritz on the crisis (or not) in #dataviz Very well articulated and resonates deeply with me: https://truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis-what-crisis

As @moritz states in his article, it's a response on yet another great article by
@shirley https://www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/2025-02-innovation-killer which has a similar vibe... Another absolutely must read!!

Excellent essay by @moritz on the state of indie data visualisation:

»Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025«

https://truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis-what-crisis

One of my favorite cities is offering a one month residency in May. Applications close on February 27, so don't snooze.
https://www.malmoresidency.com

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.

I am afraid what they will do with that.

Study Interface Design in Potsdam!

Next Monday (Jan. 27.) we have our undergraduate Open Day - both online and onsite! You can visit the Design Department and get feedback on your portfolio. If you are interested in studying Interface Design - drop by! We start at 2 pm. The event will be in German - but we are happy to take questions in English.

(Bonus: If you attend in person, you will get our great sticker set!)

#ux #ui

https://www.fh-potsdam.de/aktuelles-medien/termine/infotag-design-studiengaenge-mappenberatung

Pleasant!
From: @kepano
https://mastodon.social/@kepano/113787696433924907

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens.

Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects.

https://stephango.com/flexoki

Weil ich gefragt wurde:
Wähle nicht so als ob du in 10 Jahren Multimillionär wärst. Wähle als ob Du in 10 Jahren chronisch krank / behindert / dauerhaft arbeitsunfähig / arbeitslos und „schwer vermittelbar" / durch eine Naturkatastrophe mittellos... wärst. Das ist nämlich deutlich wahrscheinlicher.

Wähle nicht so als ob du in 10 Jahren Multimillionär wärst. Wähle als ob Du in 10 Jahren chronisch krank / behindert / dauerhaft arbeitsunfähig / arbeitslos und „schwer vermittelbar“ / durch eine Naturkatastrophe mittellos… wärst. Das ist nämlich deutlich wahrscheinlicher.

There are 8.2 billion people on planet earth. Some other countries are supposedly draconian, and police states.

So tell me why 1 in every 5 prisoners on planet earth, is locked up in the US?

And why most US prisoners are locked up pre-trial?

Mainly for low level drug charges, pushed for by Biden?

3/N

This is Elon Musk now

@jenlowe 👋 https://boxd.it/4YGZ

Welcome to today's world, where everything's made up and the words don't matter.

#microsoft

Since Calvin and Hobbes are popular right now, please know that the entire archive is available online, searchable, for free. This includes ALL the strips, including some that didn't make it into the various anthologies:

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes

And if you are insistent on using alt text but are (like me) sometimes not motivated to type out the dialogue, there's even a 'transcript' button in the three-dot submenu. It's short on describing images, but it's thorough on the text.

Just a few days left to submit a talk for the next NIAM conference (News Infographics Analytics Maps) in Berlin in January. The broad topic is „the political in maps“. It’s a very nice, small, and free (!) conference, so you should come! https://pretalx.news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2025/cfp

Anybody going to Chaos Communication Congress #ccc this year? Am considering to get tickets for my son and me… maybe we could do something datavizzy?

Es ist offiziell: Der Prototype Fund wird für weitere vier Jahre neu aufgelegt!
Dabei haben wir die Förderung als lernendes Programm maßgeblich weiterentwickelt: Mehr Geld für Teams, neue Schwerpunkte und eine Second Stage – was das genau heißt, lest ihr im Blog:
https://prototypefund.de/der-prototype-fund-geht-weiter-und-wie/.

Am 11.11. startet die Bewerbungsphase für den Jahrgang 01. Alle Infos unter
https://new.prototypefund.de.

DANKE ans @bmbf_bund@social.bund.de das die Förderung finanziert und möglich macht, und den DLR-PT für die Unterstützung!

Liebe Datenjournalist*innen, Infografiker*innen und Kartograf*innen: Für die kleine, feine Konferenz "News, Infographics, Analytics, Maps" am 16. Januar 2025 in Berlin suchen wir wieder Input – und Tickets gibt's auch schon: https://www.news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2025.html

Bis zum Montag, 25.11., könnt ihr Talks oder Poster einreichen – zum ersten Mal gibt's nämlich auch eine Postersession für eure nischigen Nerdthemen. 🧠 🗺️✨

Ich organisiere mit, Fragen und Anmerkungen also gern an mich.