COVID. Like a dumbass. Sigh. At least it's a mild case.
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Accessible dataviz guy. SVG, standards. he/him.
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.
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
Léonie WatsonBlind 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
My eyes are bleeding at this headline: "Fractional NFT Real estate — A Complete Guide in 2023". It's like a scam turducken.
That said, I think the foundations of the annotation specs are solid.
Maybe now that decentralized socials are more viable, there could be new appetite for distributed annotation services.
Here's an interactive diagram showing some of us in the Annotation WG had in mind:
https://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architecture.svg
There was a lot of potential in that standard, but in my opinion, it was hampered by 2 things:
1. The usual reluctance by browser vendors to work on anything unrelated to front-end webapps; and
2. The direction of a faction of the group that was only interested in the Semantic Web aspects, to the exclusion of considering it as a distributed backend for a browser feature.
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/
