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Dominikus
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generative artist and prof, data visualization developer, identity-challenged

dataviz: https://do.minik.us
art: https://dominikus.art
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
October 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Love this map of the landscape of generative AI by @tallerestampa.bsky.social.
Thoroughly researched and all-encompassing, yet gorgeously designed.

cartography-of-generative-ai.net
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Since I keep rediscovering it:

David Rumsey's Historical Map Collection is an absolutely fantastic resource, also for historical #datavis

www.davidrumsey.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This collection of Cold War #dataviz and maps is worth checking out
✨📊 Cold War Military Slides

A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars…

🔗

https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This page implements Borges' Library of Babel: containing everything that could ever be written on 410 pages, all possible 10⁴⁶⁷⁷ books. And the craziest thing: it has a search function.

libraryofbabel.info
Library of Babel
A project towards a universal library. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.
libraryofbabel.info
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I completely missed that Tyler Vigen's "Spurious Correlations" project now also show AI-generated explanations and images as well as full, completely fake research papers. What could possibly go wrong?

tylervigen.com/spurious/cor...
September 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
love the unabashedly 1998-aesthetic of this website: skepticalscience.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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For 15+ years, Codrops has shared experimental web demos & creative projects. Now, we’re bringing it all together in the new Creative Hub — a curated space to explore, learn & share from the web community.

Dive in: tympanus.net/codrops/hub/
September 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Observable Plot (observablehq.com/plot/) is a fantastic tool but had its last release in February ... is it still in active development or has it been abandoned?
Observable Plot
The JavaScript library for exploratory data visualization
observablehq.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"What are three books you'd recommend to the audience?"
www.3books.net
September 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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There's this book livecodingbook.toplap.org
Live Coding: A User's Manual
Live Coding: A User's Manual, published by MIT Press
livecodingbook.toplap.org
August 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
August 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This:
August 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Yes:
I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.
August 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It feels sensible that the age of UX with minimal friction in computer interfaces caused the rise of the souls-like video game where friction and brutal difficulty is exactly the point.
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Being triggered by AI generated images is the new being triggered by bad kerning.
July 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
history nerds 🤝 civilization nerds
#dataviz
www.historicaltechtree.com
Historical Tech Tree
Interactive visualization of technological history
www.historicaltechtree.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!
July 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM