This might be an example of the power of framing. Because it's a diagram, and because it's about abstract art, no one saw the bull on it.

Representation of the transatlantic slave trafficking (1501-1867).
Atlas of Transatlantic Slave Trade, Eltis e Richardson, 2010

Haπ day

Globe of the Eastern hemisphere showing flight tracks between Frankfurt, Germany, and various destinations in Asia, including Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Russia, Ukraine and Iran are highlighted.

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...

Imagine combining this and Thinking Machine 😱

indeed! (had to search it)

This is @garrykasparov.bsky.social versus Deep Blue (game 2). Explore and interact with other games here:

moebio.com/chess/

(including fast Hikaru versus Magnus, longest, shortest and oldest games ever!)

As usual very well designed project. I point though to the pseudoscientific idea of intelligence being a score. What we call intelligence in dogs are measures of performance for adaptations ("training") to some subjective and cultural expectations. Ranking intelligence by race: not a great message.

Cloudbreak 3 title image featuring white text over a grayscale cumulus cloud.

Pleased to announce the next Cloudbreak.

Learn how to deploy & secure your own sovereign cloud infrastructure using best practices refined from over 2 decades of server administration.

This is an ideal opportunity to become part of the movement away from BigTech.

courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak

The alignment problem, as old as technology.

sfiscience

Tired of the hype and pseudoscience and that the loudest voices talking about intelligence know very little about cognitive sciences but have huge economic biases: listen to this 6 episodes podcast www.santafe.edu/culture/podc... beautifuly craftes by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social and Abha Eli Phoboo

La revista Experimenta #103, dedica este número a lo invisible, y me hace una entrevista: www.experimenta.es/tienda/produ...

We just infected the machines with language virus.

NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝

Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵

In 2004 I built a Small Language Model

Imagine a person that has the same tone and manifest emotions identically every day… unbearable.

Imagine an AI that changes its tone and manifest emotions differently every day… unbearable.

We don't want machine to be like humans, we never wanted.

Radical Cartography by William Rankin Find out more about Radical Cartography by William Rankin

(I'll buy the UK version, the cover is much nicer :) www.panmacmillan.com/authors/will...

L♥️ve Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography projects, so I am extra pleased he

- is a guest on the latest @policyviz.bsky.social Podcast
→ policyviz.com/podcast/radi...

- and has a new book out!
→ www.radicalcartography.net

Experimenting with Instagram data, playing here with similarities in color scales. In this case based on Belen's beautiful work, with clear color consistency instagram.com/paraisoprints

I bet you’re already excellent at it

Happy 2666

I see Mandelbrot

Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in England amid animal cruelty crackdown Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming

Recognition that other living beings have emotions, feel pain and deserve empathy, slowly arises. This is the real agency, emotions, motivations, intelligence and consciousness discussion, the one that matters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Implemented. I kept it subtle: charts.infowetrust.com