David Benqué @air_pump@post.lurk.org

#primedeal #amazonstrike #reminder

James Lovelock: A.I. is a new form of life.
Me:

🍗 🤯 🥕 "the Marrot"

The Beeswarm plot turned out to be more or less what I needed. One axis constrained, one with collision.

https://bl.ocks.org/chloerulesok/e45c8bb1241c4f6051ef30623e6fe552

This is a level of #dataviz failure I may be willing to live with.

#dataisugly

#dataisugly

Fail a bit less, keep failing
#dataisugly

#d3 #dataviz #help #mastohelp

Fail hard, fail harder
#dataisugly

#d3 #dataviz #help #mastohelp

I gave a keynote at the Mixit conference in Lyon last night:
'Hyperland, a scam in n-dimensions' my adaptation of 'Flatland, a romance of many dimensions' to talk about data and machine learning.
Full write up coming soon.

Many thanks @ingrid and @Bopuc@twitter.com
for letting me borrow their diagrams.

the original Flatland: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201
Burrington's Theory of scamming: https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1118539791484637188
Anthony's diagram of the vectorialist class: https://borisanthony.net/diagrams/vectorialism/

#accidentalcommunism 🌹✊

#humansofsurveillancecapitalism

#humansofsurveillancecapitalism

Procrastination: trying out drawing/painting in #krita

#mastoart

nice prediction diagram on p.79
'Fig. 2: Graphic summary of Facebook’s patent US9750752B2.' from what I gather the summary is by author Lídia Pereira.

📄 patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9740752B2/en

📬 📘 Got a very nice book in the post from the Institute of Network Cultures:

State Machines; Reflections and actions at the edge of digital citizenship, finance, and Art.

available for free:
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/state-machines-reflections-and-actions-at-the-edge-of-digital-citizenship-finance-and-art/

#humansofsurveillancecapitalism

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bbpuy5/kde_the_black_hole/

me_irl

🍎 ➡️ 🐧 I like the way Evince shows you the actual OCR'd text with its mistakes when you select text. Apple Preview pretends all is well and good until you try to copy paste and then 🙃