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Sergio G.
@seriogalan.bsky.social
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Diseño, datos, software, bicis, cambio climático, chorradillas.
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mapcenter.com
Why do I include poetry in a presentation about data visualization? Because cartography IS poetry.
The ocean is not literally blue. The land is not literally green.
Symbolism, metaphor, language, cultural context and history all inform map making.
Both exercise the same brain-parts.
mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 2d
Guess I'm a freelance corporate consultant now because I just led a really fun session walking a group of software developers through some mind bending relationship visualization problems.
Bibliography: Tufte, Margaret Atwood, Borges, Tobler, Cynthia Brewer, RJ Andrews and Madeline L'Engle
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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nicoordozgoiti.bsky.social
Ahora que Mamdani ha ganado y va a dejar de ser esa cosa tan sexy que es un político en campaña para convertirse en la mucho menos sexy que es un político en el cargo, me acuerdo de esta escena de The Wire, que a mí siempre me hizo sentir mucha empatía por la denostada clase política así en general.
The Wire: The parable of the bowls of shit.
YouTube video by Jon B
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November 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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dapsdraws.bsky.social
Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
seriogalan.bsky.social
No hay que olvidar esto: www.eldiario.es/rastreador/d... Tras el primer uso del sistema de alerta por SMS, un montón de idiotas peligrosos generaron la polémica de que mandar alertas era de comunistas. Me pregunto hasta qué punto esto estaba en la cabeza de los que tuvieron que decidir en Valencia.
La derecha política y mediática se revuelven contra la alerta de la AEMET: "Es una estafa monumental"
Opinadores de medios conservadores y políticos hablan de "falsa alarma" pese a las lluvias torrenciales que dejaron desperfectos y fallecidos en distintos puntos del territorio
www.eldiario.es
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
And it’s thus no coincidence that right-wing parties have used exactly this kind of images before in a similar manner: if your politics is all about offering imaginary solutions to mostly phantasmatic problems, generative AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image
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Facebook of Reimond Hoffmann, AfD, with the Berlin Reichtstag, flying cars, German flags all over, and the caption: «Berlin, a week after the AfD takes government»
October 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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elmanyana.bsky.social
Me han publicado una tribuna en El País sobre renovables y usos del suelo: ¿impacto asumible o agresión intolerable al paisaje?
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
Defensa de las energías renovables: ¿Considera esto una agresión intolerable al paisaje?
Dar alas a quienes quieren desmantelar la transición energética es peligroso, más aún en el actual clima de trumpización
elpais.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
seriogalan.bsky.social
Cuando se agote la novedad de cambiar el nombre a las estaciones de metro hay que seguir con otra cosa innovadora. Dejo por aquí unos bocetos para los siguientes pasos. De nada Ogilvi.
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
seriogalan.bsky.social
www.eldiario.es/madrid/somos... La innovacion publicitaria no puede parar. Cualquier pixel de la ciudad moderna esta en venta ante la ultima ocurrencia del creativo publicitario canallita. ¿Podemos renunciar al dinero de las marcas por un paisaje urbano más amable? www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0FU...
"Clean City": São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads
YouTube video by LGlassMedia Inc
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October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
seriogalan.bsky.social
Es curioso pensar que en el tiempo en el que ha pasado esta enmierdificación ha coincidido con la popularización masiva del “diseño de experiencia de usuario”. Por mucho que te centres en mejorar tu pequeña parcela de features… al final no se puede ganar contra el capitalismo
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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diplomatofnight.com
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
Aftonbladet
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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infobeautiful.bsky.social
The expressive speed vs information 'bit rate' of spoken languages.
French and Vietnamese have the highest information density.

via The Economist
www.economist.com/graphic-detail
Stacked area chart comparing syllable rate and information rate across 14 languages. Two columns show distribution curves for syllables per second (4-8) and information rate in bits per second (30-60). Japanese has highest syllable rate, while Vietnamese conveys information fastest. Languages vary in speech speed vs information density.
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
seriogalan.bsky.social
La forma de hablar de Trump, transcrita, es hipnótica. Quiero un libro entero así. Un guardián entre el centeno así. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jamesbridle.bsky.social
Read this instead: "A Map, the Sea, and Many Olive Trees", by Elia Ayoub www.hauntologies.net/p/a-map-the-... (via palestinegeographies.org)
A Map, the Sea, and Many Olive Trees
And some trains
www.hauntologies.net
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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guyb.bsky.social
Vamos allá con la Comic Con de Málaga. Lo que ha sucedido es una muestra más de cómo el capitalismo se ríe de las instituciones.

Coste del evento: 3,5 millones de euros de la Junta + 1 del ayuntamiento de Málaga. A esto hay que sumarle cesión de instalaciones, limpieza, organización, luz...
October 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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tyrexito.bsky.social
Para @elsaltodiario.com.
October 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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cdelcastillo.bsky.social
Un placer poder entrevistar a mi antiguo profesor @javierdelacueva.es sobre una sentencia tan importante. La primera vez que el Supremo habla de "democracia digital", de la necesidad de transparencia de los algoritmos, de la transparencia como "derecho fundamental".

¡Enhorabuena a él y a @civio.es!
El abogado que ha empujado al Supremo a declarar la "democracia digital": "Las cajas negras en la Administración han acabado"
El Alto Tribunal ha reconocido el derecho de todos los ciudadanos a conocer el funcionamiento de los algoritmos públicos en una sentencia que habla por primera vez de la transparencia como "derecho fu...
www.eldiario.es
September 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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javier.bsky.social
Justo cuando estaba a punto de retirarme y dejar Internet para siempre, recibí una llamada de @ainhoa.bsky.social para hacer un último trabajito para la Gárgola [Digital]. No pude negarme, claro.

gargoladigital.substack.com/p/mi-amigo-j...
mi amigo Javier Arce
De qué conozco a Javier…..
gargoladigital.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
seriogalan.bsky.social
No habia hecho esta comparación. Gaza ocupa la franja rosa entre mas o menos Parla y San Sebastian de los Reyes. De ancha como entre Legazpi y Puente del rey. Dos años bombardeando todo y mandando gente de un lado a otro. Sin conexion con Cisjordania. Rodeados por mar y vallas. Sádicos inhumanos
September 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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moragasai.bsky.social
Hoy hemos visto algo inédito: el alcalde de Madrid defendiendo a un ciclista.
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
seriogalan.bsky.social
Mi voto va para prohibir la tauromaquia y destinar la cría de toros a un cuerpo de élite de los agentes de movilidad.
September 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
Señor Toro, bienvenido a la guerra contra los coches.
September 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
seriogalan.bsky.social
Hace muchos años compré un sensor bluetooth de nombre hippy para intentar que no se me mueran las macetas del balcón. Hoy entré en la web de soporte. Ya no existe. Normal. La web me lleva al nuevo producto estrella de la empresa. Drones militares. El signo de los tiempos.
September 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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motus.art
Aqueduct
A real-time simulation of water cascading down four custom built FlipDot displays.

#kineticart #flipdots
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM