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@shrikhalpada.dev

creative coder, data nerd, preferrer of democracy also into coffee shops, guitar noodling, hoops, and playing chess poorly data viz: http://perthirtysix.com creative coding: http://shrikhalpada.dev/projects

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Kilian Valkhof@kilianvalkhof.com · 2w ago

My own pet theory is that the unfettered algorithmisation of everything is to blame. I think it should be treated like the gambling it is. Social media for <16 should be allowed, but they should only be allowed to offer you the gambling aspect of recommendation algos at 18+

Kilian Valkhof@kilianvalkhof.com · 2w ago

Interesting read on the what and why of the decline of play/anxiety in kids but it feels like everyone in the article is just philosophising about it rather than touching on anything real. "What if It’s Not the Phones? - The Atlantic" archive.ph/uIcCC

shri@shrikhalpada.dev · 3w ago

messing around with some movie data for the next newsletter! I really enjoyed both Obsession and Backrooms and that sent me down the rabbit hole of horror movie profitability

A scatterplot showing inflation-adjusted budget vs. box office revenue
amy o'kruk@amyokruk.bsky.social · 3w ago

📈 NEW: Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks. My latest graphic for CNN highlight three examples involving Nvidia, Tesla and American Eagle, comparing his 2025 financial disclosures with favorable Truth Social posts about each company

CNN graphic presents three side-by-side examples comparing Donald Trump's 2025 financial disclosures with Truth Social posts about Nvidia, Tesla and American Eagle. Each panel includes a Truth Social post above a timeline of disclosed stock trades. The Nvidia example shows multiple purchases of $100,000–$250,000, a sale of $1,000–$15,000, and another purchase of $50,000–$100,000 before an April 15 post announcing Nvidia's $500 billion U.S. AI investment. The Tesla example shows a purchase of $500,000–$1 million before a July 24 post expressing support for Elon Musk and Tesla. The American Eagle example shows a purchase of $15,000–$50,000 before an August 4 post praising the company's Sydney Sweeney advertising campaign.
shri@shrikhalpada.dev · last mo.

messing around with a chart for our next newsletter: the top 16 teams in the WC broken down by the countries of the clubs their players play in! Colombia and Morocco have the most "diverse" teams by this metric with 13 and 12 clubs respectively England and Spain, unsurprisingly, only have 4

Sankey diagram showing where players from the 16 remaining World Cup national teams play club soccer, linking each national team to the country of their clubs; England is the largest destination, followed by Spain, France, Italy, and Germany.
shri@shrikhalpada.dev · last mo.

this but michael scott is big tech, pizza by alfredo is AI-generated content, alfredo's pizza cafe is the internet before 2016, and the rest of the office is all of us

Michael Scott: Guess who just ordered from your favorite pizza place, Alfredo? Kevin: Wait. Alfredo's pizza cafe? Or Pizza by Alfredo? Michael Scott: Same thing. [everyone groans] You know what, I don't understand when you all talk at the same time! Kevin: Oscar, talk to him. Oscar: Michael, there's a very big difference between these two pizza places. Both in quality of ingredients and in overall taste. Which one did you order from? Michael Scott: Pizza by Alfredo. [everyone groans] All right, you know what? Okay, okay. What is better, a medium amount of good pizza, or all you can eat of pretty good pizza? All: A medium amount of good pizza.