Brianna Wilson
@briannawilson.bsky.social
Visualizing, writing about design + data. Former product design engineer at Apple and Stanford 🌲. Down syndrome mom 💛💙. Portland, Oregon 🌲🌲
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"Preparing people for vibrant democracy means everybody’s at the table from the time they’re little." #inclusion
Barbara Buswell: The Journey from Parent to Advocate
Barbara Buswell is PEAK Parent Center’s Executive Director. In this podcast, she shares her perspective as a parent and how she became an advocate for families of children with disabilities. Transcri
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October 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Preparing people for vibrant democracy means everybody’s at the table from the time they’re little." #inclusion
Pretty chart about cool thing
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
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Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Pretty chart about cool thing
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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My views on today’s BS “breakthrough” on #Autism
Stop blaming moms, stop cutting REAL research and the programs that support autistic people.
Stop blaming moms, stop cutting REAL research and the programs that support autistic people.
September 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
My views on today’s BS “breakthrough” on #Autism
Stop blaming moms, stop cutting REAL research and the programs that support autistic people.
Stop blaming moms, stop cutting REAL research and the programs that support autistic people.
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I hate the argument that AI is being used in lots of jobs so students have to learn how to use it in school. AI is not that hard to use. Lots of jobs also use job-specific convoluted enterprise software and we don't teach them how to use those in school.
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Newly published video shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stopping Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, 38, while he was driving his child to preschool on July 15. A clip taken from the dashboard camera shows ICE officers smashing the driver’s side window after his child had left.
‘Daddy, police!’: New video shows masked ICE agents arrest father outside child’s school in Beaverton
Newly published video provides insights into the immigration arrest of a chiropractor outside of his child’s Beaverton Montessori school.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Newly published video shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stopping Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, 38, while he was driving his child to preschool on July 15. A clip taken from the dashboard camera shows ICE officers smashing the driver’s side window after his child had left.
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We can use the tool of human imagination to conjure then build a world that has never been. Better than anything we have collectively imagined so far. It will require respecting imagination as a skill, hearing each other, and supporting radical thinkers who envision a world where we all thrive.
July 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We can use the tool of human imagination to conjure then build a world that has never been. Better than anything we have collectively imagined so far. It will require respecting imagination as a skill, hearing each other, and supporting radical thinkers who envision a world where we all thrive.
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Multiple Little Lobbyists families traveled to Washington, D.C., from across the country (Maggie and David traveled all the way from Alaska!) to deliver a simple message to their U.S. Senators:
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid
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June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Multiple Little Lobbyists families traveled to Washington, D.C., from across the country (Maggie and David traveled all the way from Alaska!) to deliver a simple message to their U.S. Senators:
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
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Interesting parallels to the Internet, both an amazing source of information, and a major focus killer
June 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Interesting parallels to the Internet, both an amazing source of information, and a major focus killer
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The biggest scandal in AI energy right now deserves to be xAI's data center running 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/...
‘How come I can’t breathe?’: Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The biggest environmental scandal in AI right now should be the xAI data center in Memphis, which has been running for nearly a year on 35 methane gas turbines under …
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June 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The biggest scandal in AI energy right now deserves to be xAI's data center running 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/...
Beautiful color palettes!
New post: In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a rich history of space and aeronautics innovation captured in a fascinating visual archive.
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NASA Ames Research Center Archives
In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a rich history of space and aeronautics innovation captured in a fascinating visual archive.
www.beautifulpublicdata.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Beautiful color palettes!
Data analytics…wow
“.. The University of Toledo is suspending several undergraduate programs — like religious studies, data analytics, Spanish and women’s and gender studies — to comply with Ohio Senate Bill 1.”
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May 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Data analytics…wow
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Most dataviz on the web runs on SVG, and for good reason. But what happens when you need to animate thousands of points or create the perfect 3D sparkly fog effect? ✨
The secret is not in a new library, it's in the underlying graphics API.
Check out my deep dive if you're hitting SVG limitations!
The secret is not in a new library, it's in the underlying graphics API.
Check out my deep dive if you're hitting SVG limitations!
March 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Most dataviz on the web runs on SVG, and for good reason. But what happens when you need to animate thousands of points or create the perfect 3D sparkly fog effect? ✨
The secret is not in a new library, it's in the underlying graphics API.
Check out my deep dive if you're hitting SVG limitations!
The secret is not in a new library, it's in the underlying graphics API.
Check out my deep dive if you're hitting SVG limitations!
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February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Good causes don't advocate for themselves
February 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Good causes don't advocate for themselves
The march of technological progress is taken one small step at a time. Rarely is a breakthrough made by one person. Instead, countless communities of people passionate about what it is they’re working on contribute their voices and time and talents.
Does our culture put too much emphasis on who’s a ‘main character?’ On who’s the hero? These questions bounced through my mind while listening to this conversation, against the backdrop of tech geniuses working to dismantle the constitution and federal government.
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February 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The march of technological progress is taken one small step at a time. Rarely is a breakthrough made by one person. Instead, countless communities of people passionate about what it is they’re working on contribute their voices and time and talents.
“I just have an issue with protagonists…it makes more sense in my mind to show that this is a collective effort over time and over a large geographical space or galactic space…because it’s not just one person’s story.” - Becky Chambers
Resisting Dystopia | Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz
YouTube video by Long Now Foundation
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February 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“I just have an issue with protagonists…it makes more sense in my mind to show that this is a collective effort over time and over a large geographical space or galactic space…because it’s not just one person’s story.” - Becky Chambers
“Do what you can, and what you can do is enough”
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February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Do what you can, and what you can do is enough”