dominikus

@dominikus@vis.social
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creative technologist with a love for data visualizations. background in germanisms.
twitterhttps://twitter.com/dominikus
Website (Dataviz)https://do.minik.us
Website (Art)https://dominikus.art
Mastodonhttps://genart.social/web/@dominikus

I'll slowly fade out my engagement here.

You can find a much more active version of me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/do.minik.us

Dominikus (@do.minik.us)

generative artist, data visualization developer, identity-challenged dataviz: https://do.minik.us art: https://dominikus.art

Bluesky Social
LinkedIn job recommender system completely gave up on me 🤷

A big irony I feel with Google is that whatever studio/individual/project they've sponsored/acquired in the past tends to thoroughly disappear from the internet after five years.

Currently doing research and whenever I'm stumbling upon something of theirs from 2018 or earlier I can almost be sure that no URL works anymore. Link rot's a real bummer, friends.

Little known at the time was that the switch from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 had been initiated mainly to ramp up content- (and thus training data) production for the GPU-based machine learning revolution on the horizon. The fake-out switch to a supposed "Web 3.0" was a panicked reaction by AI experts (then still masquerading as blockchain bros) to cover their tracks, before being fully able to drop all pretence with the arrival of the Dead Internet.
(from "A People's History of AI")

Scared of being replaced by an AI? Here's five things you need to do to stay competitive!

- enthusiastically start doing whatever's asked of you even if you're absolutely incompetent
- if tasked with something completely nonsensical never correct your manager but pursue the task until they give up (actio ad absurdum)
- be as bootlicky as possible ("I apologize for the confusion")

Oh and also:
- work for $20 a month
- be available 24/7

New dataviz project with @al_ice_t and the World Bank shining a light on the challenges of girls' education in Pakistan:

https://datatopics.worldbank.org/dataviz/girls-education-pakistan/

Five major challenges to girls’ education in Pakistan

Educating girls has a myriad of benefits ranging from greater empowerment and economic opportunities to improved health outcomes and reduced poverty. In Pakistan, school-age children, especially girls, lack quality educational access and attainment.

The Climate Charts Are Not Okay

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Splinter

Technologists: I’m barely confident this computer is able to parse dates correctly. And don’t get me started on inkjet printers.

Politicians: they can definitely be cops.

NEW 🎉 Very quick and small #dataviz experiment: parallel-lives, an interactive timeline of nearly 5000 years of notable people in history.

https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives/

3 reasons what I like about this approach: 🧵👇

I took my side-project too seriously and ended up with the biggest analysis of title drops in movies:

https://titledrops.net