a man in a captain america costume with an a on his cape ALT: a man in a captain america costume with an a on his cape

why, thank you!

a person is sharpening a knife on a machine that has a sticker on it that says ' sharpen ' ALT: a person is sharpening a knife on a machine that has a sticker on it that says ' sharpen '

I can't hear any point in the screeching

… so, how about you go grind your axe to someone who already knows what the hell your deal is? /

… you're bringing tons of your own faraway context / ideological baggage / unwarranted-assumptions to this thread that you've not explained enough for me to follow. (still can't decode what your jarring ref to political murders was meant to imply about elected democrats and/or their voters.) …

dear stranger following up on my comment how America's left-of-center party is pushjing age/ID internet restrictions: we haven't discussed what would constitute a "proper healthcare system" nor what numbers of American people want what things, so you have no idea what my estimates are. …

alas, the mere fact the US may be able to endanger you does not automatically grant you a clear or close-up view of our politics, especially if you prefer a narrow definition of 'left' that excludes most/all of the US's more-left-party officeholders.

you pronoun antecedents are hard to follow - median voters aren't pro-assassination - plus your spelling of 'centre' & focus on what's "left" suggests you are a faraway & ideological observer of US politics - a perch which rarely sheds light on how power is won & wielded here.

that's definitely the kind of 'left' the American populace isn't!

if we define the 'center' as the conjectural US 'median voter', sure, nearly every elected Dem is left of that in policy prefs & governance actions. the American populace isn't very left!

(an overseas 'centre' may mean something very different.)

"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed an executive order that will require the territory to match the map forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

butlerian click on "see less often"

butlerian insistence on "only necessary cookies"

butlerian click on "see less often"

butlerian insistence on "only necessary cookies"

fair enough, compared to her local milieu - but definitely left on a national scale of cultural and social issues!

80y later few still "ready to recognize" what Hayek saw: bsky.app/profile/gojo...

case in point: Massachusetts' soundly-left Dem Gov pushing age/ID law

religious-conservative "right wing" may like age/ID laws (bc they can't get the wider censorship they really want)… but broadly-enacted bans & surveillance come as much or more from paternalistic lefties.
bsky.app/profile/evan...

strained partisan reasoning contradicted by its own examples - Australian & UK age laws were enacted by definitively-left ruling parties

swollen with *pride* in how well its electrons have served your projects, I presume!

the 2028 general election matchup: incumbent JD Vance – having assumed Presidency after tragic Air Force One staircase mishap termed by conspiracists the "Showgirls Coup" – against Robert Francis "Pope Leo XIV" Prevost.

Vance is excommunicated live on TV halfway through 1st debate.

as the 1st American-born Pope, Pope Leo XIV is also the 1st Pope eligible to run for US President

THX 1138 (3/10) Movie CLIP - The Confession (1971) HD YouTube video by Movieclips

George's Lucas's THX-1138 (1971) had the idea, but its mechanical Jesus was sub-ELIZA in interactivity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Yk...

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highly-dynamic sankey diagrams that update/animate as you rule sources/sinks in/out, or move between related entities, might fit the need. animated/rapidly-responsive versions of the kinds of views at observablehq.com/collection/@..., perhaps?

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maybe what you really want is an interactive view, where it's not all squeezed into a very dense/intricate look, but the user easily dives in/out up/down to see any bounded locality clearly, and their global understanding emerges from the easy bouncing-around all the smaller views.
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sounds like a job for sankey-like diagrams, but you may be straining limits of what individual static diagrams can do. as effective reference (& rhetoric), a greater number of individually-clear charts likely to work better than overloading one super-diagram.
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emergent misalignment (of the y-origin)

I appreciate ack & attempt-to-fix, but this version still invites misinterpretation via eyeball-area-comparisons: 2024 ring area still >4.6x that of 2016 ring.

@recursing.bsky.social's 2nd stacked-bar graph redo may may be mundane, but keep the areas rigorously informative. bsky.app/profile/recu...

this really oughta have a zero-based axis!

even if one particular Claude generates the graphic, you might want to ask another top-power Claude to critique it, as if Tufte or some other author behind a "chart crimes" or "graph crimes" commentary account.

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and, how to interpret individual-recipient noodly appendages of the update very unclear.

my 1st rough guess might be: those are top 5 recipients per category, & line-width hints proportion of outer-ring arc-width. but that looks like ~4% of $1090M in 2024 to MIRI, which seems… high? /

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your updated donuts (in upthread reply) seem to fix area issue, but so much space/detail now in dark interstices, it's doubtful radial time presentation giving benefit over more traditional "time proceeds right" stacked bars.
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so: a natural error, easy to overlook as it was in a flattering direction. a visually-striking presentational misstep that erred in minimizing the sense of growth would've triggered a corrective double-take!
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only your later bullets about "area", "total area [=] sum", "eyeball total proportions" (in post I directly replied to) explicitly endorsed the common misinterpretation of the areas, hinting that you were earnestly reading it that way yourself.
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