my best friend is one of those people who explore rural Japan looking for abandoned properties and he recently found these signs out in the country
There's also a Lego tape you can get that has studs on: amzn.eu/d/2KNr3wO
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Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.
Incredible photo reveals nature's perfect camouflage, making the owls nearly impossible to detect. 📷 Alan Murphy
Wir haben mal wieder die Nebeneinkünfte der Bundestagsabgeordneten ausgewertet: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... In der Vergangenheit lief das so: regelbasiertes Parsing der Freitextangaben, viel Regex, viel Fluchen. Diesmal haben wir ein LLM-gestütztes Parsing genutzt – und sehr viel gelernt. 1/18
(S+) Gehälter, Gewinne, Mieteinnahmen: Wie viel verdient Ihr Bundestagsabgeordneter nebenbei?
Insgesamt mehr als zehn Millionen Euro haben die Parlamentarier seit Beginn der Wahlperiode neben ihrer politischen Arbeit verdient. Kommen sich Nebenjobs und Volksvertretung in die Quere?
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"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
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Continuing to empty my office at the house. Forgot about this, which I created during the pandemic for use during a virtual school visit, showing one way to brainstorm different characters & faces. Got the idea from a teacher friend! #Edusky
This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...
Show me better than this. Ann Marie Redfield: General view of the animal kingdom, 1857. More here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/connections
Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life
With Russian, Ukrainian, and now also Iranian airspace closed, only a small passage remains for international flights from Europe to Asia. My colleague @zacys.bsky.social wrote about how some airlines are profiting more from this than others, and I created this map. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl. More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
Students find a real grid/architectural feature in the world, take a picture of it, then use that as the basis for the composition of a one-page comic! Always a treat – this batch of them are stellar! (From my intro Making course). Try it yourself!
Say hello to the Penguin Archive. 90 short books being published next month for Penguin’s 90th anniversary—fifteen of which are shown here. £5.99 each, with designs reminiscent of the old Great Ideas series. (Though sadly these aren’t debossed.)
Noch nie haben wir bei @zeit.de so ausführlich mit Datenvisualisierungen, Karten, Grafiken und interaktiven Tools über eine Bundestagswahl berichtet wie in diesem Jahr. www.zeit.de/wahlergebnis Ein Thread 🧵
