Just pre-ordered my copy! ✅ Look very much forward to being inspired by all the excellent data vis practitioners that no doubt will be featured in Issue 6 of Nightingale Magazine. 😍

Data Visualization Society@datavizsociety.bsky.social · 7d ago

Almost every dataset you work with has a time column, and it is still one of the hardest things to get right. Issue 6 of Nightingale Magazine is about that problem. Around twenty pieces from practitioners and researchers, in print. Ships in December 2026. Pre-order your copy: buff.ly/SFfNXgs

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

#dataviz inspiration.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2w ago

The work of contemporary potter Evelyn Ward (of evelynwardpottery, Instagram) #Womensart

"Lille norske leksikon kan forsvinne fra januar 2027. Vi mangler fast offentlig finansiering for å fortsette å levere kvalitetssikret faktakunnskap til barn, unge og alle andre som har nytte av enklere tekst." Du kan hjelpe ved å sende støtteerklæring! 👇🏻 blogg.snl.no/2026/krise-f...

Har rantet litt om en debatt som gjør seg dum – og oss dummere.

Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)

Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.

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I will never understand why smart people all around me respond to AI with enthusiasm: it's as if they're attending a dinner party based on theft of their neighbors' groceries, plates & cutlery, saying "how convenient that these dishes just appeared, what a time-saver to steal from the neighbors!"

The image of deceased writer Maya Angelou is now an advertising puppet for a theft-based product: This will be played off as "a regrettable error in judgment," instead of what it actually is--a vivid and accurate representation of all that is wrong with AI, from theft to obliteration of consent.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:

#dataviz inspiration.

Paul Prudence@mrprudence.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bia Davou Untitled, 1975

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

This looks fun!

The Data Lab@the-data-lab.bsky.social · last mo.

Interested in data physicalization? Join our snail mail club and receive a monthly kit to collect and represent data for a particular topic: www.the-data-lab.com/mail-club

We're urging everyone to stand up for human creativity and we need your help: please add your voice by signing the petition below.

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work,…

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Our article on affirmative narration as an interactional strategy for chatbots is finally published in the special issue of Narrative Inquiry on AI and literature! doi.org/10.1075/ni.2... (An unpaywalled version is available here: jilltxt.net/txt/Roine-Re...)

“YES! YES! I absolutely love this insight!”

Abstract This article analyses narrative mechanisms that are common in dialogues with LLM chatbots. In combination, these mechanisms produce an interactional strategy for maximising user engagement, which we call affirmative narration. Affirmative narration serves to convince users of the chatbot’s utility. We analyse three narrative mechanisms that support affirmative narration in human-LLM dialogues: firstly, guiding the user to view chatbot as an intelligent and reliable character; secondly, activating masterplots, culturally significant and recurring story templates; and thirdly, using characters and masterplots not only to affirm, but also to isolate the user. The case studies range from a journalist’s unsettling chatbot experiment to cases where users have experienced delusions or even killed themselves after lengthy interactions with a chatbot. The analyses illustrate the worrying sides of affirmative narration, and the article thus concludes with the discussion of LLMs as a genre of narrative media which requires a new type of literacy.

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what ppl forget about LLMs is that if you start every prompt with “i am an academic so a very special and smart person“ then anything that follows has no carbon or water cost, no refugees have to clean the data of violent child abuse imagry, and everyone is fairly compensated for their stolen work

Logged in to Bluesky today and found I have lots of new followers via the Data visualization community starter pack by @chezvoila.com 😍 Check it out! I'm a creative information designer / data artist with a fondness for nerdy qualitative data. Here's an introduction thread I wrote some time ago:

Amelia Antzée | Studio ALFA Design@ameliaantzee.bsky.social · 2y ago

🧵 1/ Since I changed my first name formally, I thought I'd do a re-introduction 👋🏻 My previous name was Trud Antzée. I'm a classical pianist and piano teacher, but embarked on a career pivot after falling in love with web programming, CSS art, and data visualisation.

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

carlsonlab.bio

Carpet design. Léna Bergner. c.1925–1932.

I've thought about this a lot. If the majority of former practitioners are relegated to administrators and overseers of agents, we're likely to see boredom and alienation, then burnout and frustration. Also the loss of the type of passion for the work that leads to new ideas.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last mo.

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

1/ Thorough debunking of arguments against banning, by law, «smart glasses»/«perv glasses» in Norway. «The Government’s Capitulation to Meta. It seems Karianne Tung has forgotten who she works for.» 🧵

Regjeringens knefall for Meta

Det virker som Karianne Tung har glemt hvem hun jobber for.

nrk.no

Back to school. ❤️

Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses.

God artikkel om "fagsorg" i møte med KI, frå nystarta @demodemono.bsky.social. www.demodemo.no/historie/suK... #demo

Man spør en elev og får svar fra en datamaskin. Lærerens meningstap i møte med KI kan sammenlignes med sorg

demodemo.no

Just saw the term "Computer Rendered Artificial Pictures" being used instead of "AI art". I wholeheartedly support this, also because of the excellent acronym. (firmly resisting the urge to insert emoji U+1F4A9 here)

🎯

MikeasaService@ilk.org · 2mo ago

If you don’t have good (and tested) backups of your data you don’t own it, you’re just borrowing it from Fate. And yes, this also applies to data “in the cloud”.

Oda i alle kanaler. Nå om pervobriller i @filternyheter.no , republisert fra den originale og autentiske Oda i @gamer.no filternyheter.no/pervobriller...

Pervobriller og en tafatt norsk minister - Filter Nyheter

For mange år siden tok vennegjengen som spilte World of Warcraft en ukestur til et herskapshus i England. Idyllisk hage omringet av ramsløk i skogen, flere stuer med stor plass. I en av stuene satte e...

filternyheter.no

Bergen’s city council bans AI-generated promotional posters at the fish market, as they don’t follow visual profile, and may break rules for truth in advertising. www.nrk.no/vestland/ber...

Bergen kommune ber om at KI-plakatar blir fjerna frå Fisketorget i Bergen

Det har florert med reklameplakatar laga med kunstig intelligens på turistattraksjonen i Bergen. No set kommunen foten ned.

nrk.no

Information designers have been hacking at recipe designs for ever and it took an engineer to come up with this design 20+ years ago.