Twilight in Chicago

It's dark, but it sparkles.

The Art of Insight by @albertocairo is already one of the most awaited book in the field. This review by @frankelavsky only makes it more so.

I often think about who the "dataviz community" is. I often feel I miss 90% of it when I discover some dashboarding community, some book and author I've never even heard about. I think this book might open some new horizons.

#dataviz

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2023/08/art-of-insight-review.html

If you know me, you know that I’m a poor typist, sometimes with hilarious consequences. I just accidentally wrote “uwu” style comments

@kristinHenry I'm older than Blanche when the shows started, if you want to know how it's going.

A friend once said New Order lyrics are so simple it's like they were written by a child, but Temptation is the only song that made me break down & cry twice, once when I was falling in love, and again when someone I loved died. So maybe children know a thing or two about lyrics.

When you come downstairs and discover there's a child in the house

My working theory is there's a fixed percentage of any population ready to hate a minority group, but it really doesn't matter which minority, they just need to be told who is on the menu.

@meidomatsuri this is what they took from us

@dangillmor @BBCRD @BBC5Live @BBCRadio4 @BBCTaster @Connected_Studio @BBC_News_Labs but none of these are just BBC news? How confusing.

On beloved Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter's birthday, her little-known scientific studies and illustrations of mushrooms, which mycologists use to this day to identify species https://t.co/kjTklrhCag

When teaching at CalTech in the 1930s Oppenheimer was interested in the occult & went to communist gatherings. His brother was friends with Jack Parsons, so they likely met. It seems that Aleister Crowley was at least tangentially present at the birth of both the US space and nuclear programs.

#oppenhimer #nasa #caltech #pasadena #oto #crowley

@anildash my congress person!

"The gay Scene was Fairy-Land, and Cheſter Lilliput."

Thomas Baldwin created the world's first map based on direct aerial observation in his balloon exploration book Airopaidia, 1785

#cartography #maps #history #balloons via my Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/willigula

After splitting my social media time between Bluesky and Mastodon (with a slice of Tumblr, as a treat) the quality of posts I see on Mastodon are consistently higher, with actual information I'm interested in, and civil discussion. But Bluesky is more entertaining in a rage-inducing way that's embarrassing to admit secretly liking. I think there's room for both moving forward.

@dan @regehr you laugh, but in 1994 my office was next the the elevator shaft, and every time one went by my CRT screen would wobble & undulate.

Western tiger swallowtail at Green Lake

#seattle #butterflies

Bringing my Tumblr back

https://www.tumblr.com/willigula/723653418657447936/zoogeographical-educational-map-of-the-ussr-by?source=share

@mattblaze I know he's persona non grata today, but I'm reminded of that scene under the Queensboro Bridge in Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' (and also the iconic opening sequence with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue)
https://youtu.be/kfQBKzJ_dHI