"Slow down, and make sure we don't have so many things to fix later."

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

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Taps the sign again

Oohh following now, for when you do update it! :)

Ha! Well, I started a thread here but haven't updated it in awhile: bsky.app/profile/emil...

Oh.. is there.. a collection, you say?

Shall we see more of it perhaps? :D

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

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NZ Govt has taken a huge bet on fossil fuels. NZ was already spending $8 billion a year importing fossil fuels, and now the global fuel crisis is going to make that worse. Betting on fossil fuels has turned out to be a losing bet for NZ. This is the 14 point policy record of 2 years of the NZ Govt:

Reminder that if you’re looking for a curated feed for #dataviz, it exists!

It’s curated in the sense that I have to add you to a user list (nearly 500 users!) to have your appropriately tagged posts show up. It’s a nice balance between only your followers & the firehose of just the hashtag/topic

I mean, I know there are good things. And great people. But the bad is so incredibly loud and occupies so much space, it is hard to get past it. So, amplifying the good to the point it drowns all the loudness of the bad. And to stop deliberately screwing up the rest of world would help.

For the US to export something other than the extreme bad to other places in the world. Looking from the outside it is really hard to get past war, misinforrmation, antivaxx insanity, love of guns, supporting sham coups in other nations, etc, etc...

I haven't been here for ages, is this still going? #dataviz people, are you there?

Start by following everyone here!
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Yes, we are. Hello!

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...

These look great! I love the little textures!
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Hey #datavis folk, look who's joining us!
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Come say hi and bring your tips to make the best of this platform!

Here's mine: hashtags! Use them! Or your post will get lost easily. And, reposting > liking, as it gets the post in front of more people. :)

Welcome!
Bluesky doesn't have an algo, so tagging posts is very important! Also, we have feeds! (remember back in the day when Twitter had TweetDeck and you could pin hashtags? Kinda like that).

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Look, no one is advocating for a ban here either. But what does "using it properly" mean in this context? And why is it the user base that has to figure out what using a tool properly even means? I'll never not critique this.

It's always a good time for taking a good old critical look at things. :)

I ruminate on this a lot too, and have done for the past two years or so. I don't have answers, just increasingly more questions (the speed of it all...), but as more food for thought: if the tool markets that expertise can be bypassed, when will we get the chance to advocate for better outcomes?

Also, also, This is from a few days ago:

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But that's not what their marketing is saying. Their marketing materials all say this is for non-designers and product people to prototype faster. Same as when Claude Code launched and the promise was that non-coders would make things out of thin air with no previous xp. It is vibe designing now.

I understand your article was your first impressions with the tool and all that. It shows what it can't do pretty quickly (maps?!). But these tools are reshaping how people work and it is very often not for the better and I can't get excited by novelty for the sake it. Also, I'm grumpy and old.

Tools shape how we work and live is the point. Prototyping was never the bottleneck for good dashboard design, better insight or analytics. So what is this solving? And what will it reshape? And will it indeed be a better a shape at the end? And if not, what are we prototyping faster towards to?

Cars are a good analogy. Can the problems they generate be solved just by "drive them better"? No, but we defaulted to it as a solution, and sudenly all other ideas were not worth considering, and we should instead sprawl cities and rip public transport everywhere, because cars are inevitable.

A machine that spits out a prototype from a half-baked idea will speed up the very part that is difficult because it causes friction, but that if we miss, we will also be missing the opportunity of making something focused on an outcome, rather than an empty subpar deliverable.

Making a prototype in a design process has never been about generating an artifact. It's always been about the process that goes in discussing, aligning, compromising, and collaborating with other people involved around a shared vision. If you remove that part, they become an empty form, no function

The article isn't talking about firing analysts either. Above you said AI is simply like a paintbrush. That it is "just a tool". I usually argue it isn't. Tools often shape processes and thinking. Is prototyping more quickly going to help any process, if it's never truly been the bottleneck?