@amproehl.bsky.social
Designer | map maker | New Yorker in San Francisco
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A bunch of us at the Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) recently summarized our experiences into a document about how to tackle the logistics of printing, selling, and shipping mappy goods. I hope it proves useful to some of you!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
IMA Logistics Advice Summary
LOGISTICS ADVICE FOR THE INDEPENDENT MAP SELLER Brought to you by the (visit us at mapartists.org) For many of us, the logistics of turning digital files into items that customers can actually buy is...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A bunch of us at the Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) recently summarized our experiences into a document about how to tackle the logistics of printing, selling, and shipping mappy goods. I hope it proves useful to some of you!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com.
There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...
If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...
If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
November 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com.
There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...
If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a...
If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
The unique (and enduring) appeal of maps is the subject of my latest post. medium.com/@amproehl/th...
August 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The unique (and enduring) appeal of maps is the subject of my latest post. medium.com/@amproehl/th...
Delivering insight not data — My latest post is a case study on the evolution of measurement in PR. - medium.com/@amproehl/de...
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Delivering insight not data — My latest post is a case study on the evolution of measurement in PR. - medium.com/@amproehl/de...
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Yeah, Mr. Senator, YOUR job, which provides healthcare that WE pay for. One third of the jobs for the rest of us don't provide healthcare.
June 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yeah, Mr. Senator, YOUR job, which provides healthcare that WE pay for. One third of the jobs for the rest of us don't provide healthcare.
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Who will tell the president what the Constitution requires?
Certainly not Attorney General Bondi.
And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Certainly not Attorney General Bondi.
And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.
May 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Who will tell the president what the Constitution requires?
Certainly not Attorney General Bondi.
And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Certainly not Attorney General Bondi.
And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.
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Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm.
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Next year is going to be big. Well, I personally don't think it'll be big, but if you ask the AI industry, here's the things that will happen by the end of 2026:
* According to the Financial Times, ...
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May 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Newsletter: I wrote about the ridiculous $6.5bn all-stock deal between Jony Ive and OpenAI, how little Ive has done since leaving Apple, how impossible it is to make the mythical "third core device," and how the media needs to stop acting as OpenAI's marketing arm.
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
www.wheresyoured.at/measures/
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I keep seeing this going viral but it’s just an AI-generated image some random person made on Twitter. Whatever the mystery OpenAI/Jony Ive device looks like hasn’t been revealed yet.
May 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I keep seeing this going viral but it’s just an AI-generated image some random person made on Twitter. Whatever the mystery OpenAI/Jony Ive device looks like hasn’t been revealed yet.
There is an imbalance between the immense capability of AI and the likely limited features of the device. medium.com/@amproehl/a-... #ux #design
A UX designer’s perspective on OpenAI’s acquisition of Jony Ive’s company
There is an imbalance between the immense capability of AI and the likely limited features of the device.
medium.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There is an imbalance between the immense capability of AI and the likely limited features of the device. medium.com/@amproehl/a-... #ux #design
Beautiful for who?
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will kick nearly 14 million people off health care, eliminate food programs for hungry children, and roll back climate investments... while delivering billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will kick nearly 14 million people off health care, eliminate food programs for hungry children, and roll back climate investments... while delivering billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Complete List of Everything in the Republican Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save
We highlighted the substantive changes made by House Republicans to secure the support of several holdout members.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Beautiful for who?
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will kick nearly 14 million people off health care, eliminate food programs for hungry children, and roll back climate investments... while delivering billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will kick nearly 14 million people off health care, eliminate food programs for hungry children, and roll back climate investments... while delivering billions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Every customer of a software company will quickly become a competitor”
Prophetic quote on the future of software and AI from Reed Albergotti via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
Prophetic quote on the future of software and AI from Reed Albergotti via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
Microsoft helped kick off the AI boom. It needs humans more than ever, its CEO says
In interviews with Semafor, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott explain that AI isn’t about getting rid of people but getting people to act less like robots.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Every customer of a software company will quickly become a competitor”
Prophetic quote on the future of software and AI from Reed Albergotti via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
Prophetic quote on the future of software and AI from Reed Albergotti via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
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New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about the real litmus test of the 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign.
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Cloud Yells At Old Man
This past week, the corporate media apparently met in a secret conclave and emerged with a new decree for the American electorate – Joe Biden was old.
Politico announced that "the first litmus test o...
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May 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about the real litmus test of the 2028 Democratic presidential primary campaign.
campaign-trails.ghost.io/cloud-yells-...
campaign-trails.ghost.io/cloud-yells-...
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Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
Trump: “pathetically susceptible to flattery… the perfect mark.”
here's today's post: "Donny Dumbfuck got played! his new plane is a piece of shit Qatar couldn’t sell" — Pimp Force One is a flying nightmare.
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Donny Dumbfuck got played! his new plane is a piece of shit Qatar couldn’t sell
Pimp Force One is a flying nightmare
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May 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Trump: “pathetically susceptible to flattery… the perfect mark.”
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Monumental acts take monumental teams. Adaptation is key to survival. Embrace the ephemeral. - 3 lessons from my latest post: How long designs survive - medium.com/p/how-long-d...
How long designs survive
The Internet has greatly shortened product life cycles. Objects that stood the test of time offer lessons for today. So do designs that are…
medium.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Monumental acts take monumental teams. Adaptation is key to survival. Embrace the ephemeral. - 3 lessons from my latest post: How long designs survive - medium.com/p/how-long-d...
Monumental acts take monumental teams. Adaptation is key to survival. Embrace the ephemeral. - 3 lessons from my latest post: How long designs survive - medium.com/p/how-long-d...
How long designs survive
The Internet has greatly shortened product life cycles. Objects that stood the test of time offer lessons for today. So do designs that are…
medium.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Monumental acts take monumental teams. Adaptation is key to survival. Embrace the ephemeral. - 3 lessons from my latest post: How long designs survive - medium.com/p/how-long-d...
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🟡 NEW: As the PR industry scrambles to figure out how to buffer its clients’ brands and reputations through the new medium of AI chatbots, some firms have reached a surprising conclusion: The best way to get your client’s message into the output is by talking to journalists
PR pros have discovered how to influence the chatbots: Talk to a journalist
The public relations business is poised for a resurgence in the AI age. It just needs someone to write the stories.
www.semafor.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
🟡 NEW: As the PR industry scrambles to figure out how to buffer its clients’ brands and reputations through the new medium of AI chatbots, some firms have reached a surprising conclusion: The best way to get your client’s message into the output is by talking to journalists
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"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
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"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
Interview ⤵️
Interview ⤵️
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Trolling: A think tank founded by Stephen Miller sued John Roberts last week, asking a judge to declare that the White House should control the federal court system
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System
Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trolling: A think tank founded by Stephen Miller sued John Roberts last week, asking a judge to declare that the White House should control the federal court system
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Wow, they're arguing that the Administrative Office of the US Courts is an executive agency that must be controlled by the president. This would functionally allow the president to shut down courthouses, fire judicial staff, and perhaps even cut off judicial salaries.
May 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow, they're arguing that the Administrative Office of the US Courts is an executive agency that must be controlled by the president. This would functionally allow the president to shut down courthouses, fire judicial staff, and perhaps even cut off judicial salaries.
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We’re honestly on a fast timeline to exactly this.
April 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’re honestly on a fast timeline to exactly this.
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I'm not a lawyer and I'm very tired, so excuse me if this is a stupid question:
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
April 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm not a lawyer and I'm very tired, so excuse me if this is a stupid question:
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
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DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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"The Trump 'peace' plan is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender, and the Ukrainians are unlikely to accept it," @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/zI63nuAf
April 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"The Trump 'peace' plan is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender, and the Ukrainians are unlikely to accept it," @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/zI63nuAf