Shepazu

@shepazu@mastodon.cloud
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Accessible dataviz guy. SVG, standards. he/him.
Neglected bloghttps://schepers.cc
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/shepazu
COVID. Like a dumbass. Sigh. At least it's a mild case.
My AI chatbot hot take:
I don't think the most interesting question is whether AI are fundamentally like human, but whether most humans most of the time are fundamentally like AI chatbots. I'm including myself here… and you.

Breaking news: Hasbro/WotC slams barn doors closed, asks Biden for Presidential pardon of the goose that lays the golden eggs, previously slated for execution.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons

Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1...

OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons

Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here's how we fix that, a paper by BBC journalist and screen reader user Johny Cassidy during his fellowship at RISJ in Oxford:
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/blind-news-audiences-are-being-left-behind-data-visualisation-revolution-heres-how-we-fix

#DataViz #accessibility

Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here's how we fix that

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
My eyes are bleeding at this headline: "Fractional NFT Real estate — A Complete Guide in 2023". It's like a scam turducken.
Today I'm thankful to Elon Musk for maliciously destroying the centralized public square that is Twitter, giving everyone a shining example why we should cap personal wealth to prevent abusive billionaires from undermining the public good, and an impetus to move to decentralized social media services like Mastodon (or whatever better thing comes along next).

Hey, @lisacrost, nice to see you. Just yesterday I was pointing a colleague to your post on diverging vs. sequential color palletes, and remarked how well it was structured and written, with great examples. Thanks for writing that!

https://blog.datawrapper.de/diverging-vs-sequential-color-scales/

When to use sequential and when to use diverging color scales - Datawrapper Blog

This is part 3 of a series on “Which color scale to use when visualizing data”. Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 4

Datawrapper Blog
My iPhone just autocorrected "Pelosi" to "Peloton". Do you not know me at all, iPhone?

Me (joking, after voting with my wife): "You voted straight Democratic, right?"

My wife: "No, I voted Republican, but I wrote IRONIC next to each one. They'll count that as Democratic, right?"

Hey, @krusynth, your script seems like a cool idea, but complicated for non-programmers. Maybe we should make an Electron app that helps people migrate?