Liz Cory
@evcory.bsky.social
data viz design & dev @newamerica.org
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It's Met Gala day, so naturally we traced hundreds of outfits from the red carpet to show just how much bigger and bolder the fashion has become over the years www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
May 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's Met Gala day, so naturally we traced hundreds of outfits from the red carpet to show just how much bigger and bolder the fashion has become over the years www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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Fashion is never just about clothes.
Inspired by the 2025 Met Gala, New Americans explore Black dandyism as a tool for resistance and redefinition in a roundtable discussion for The Thread.
🎩 go.newamerica.org/black-dandyi...
Inspired by the 2025 Met Gala, New Americans explore Black dandyism as a tool for resistance and redefinition in a roundtable discussion for The Thread.
🎩 go.newamerica.org/black-dandyi...
May 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Fashion is never just about clothes.
Inspired by the 2025 Met Gala, New Americans explore Black dandyism as a tool for resistance and redefinition in a roundtable discussion for The Thread.
🎩 go.newamerica.org/black-dandyi...
Inspired by the 2025 Met Gala, New Americans explore Black dandyism as a tool for resistance and redefinition in a roundtable discussion for The Thread.
🎩 go.newamerica.org/black-dandyi...
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Federal funding directly supports your local stations and provides you with essential programs and services. As calls to end this funding grow louder, please stay informed through our partners at Protect My Public Media.
protectmypublicmedia.org
protectmypublicmedia.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Federal funding directly supports your local stations and provides you with essential programs and services. As calls to end this funding grow louder, please stay informed through our partners at Protect My Public Media.
protectmypublicmedia.org
protectmypublicmedia.org
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🆕 📣 A new interactive quiz published by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org can help Americans understand how much of their data DOGE has in hand.
Take the quiz to discover which elements of your sensitive info are now exposed.
📝 #HandsOff go.newamerica.org/what-does-do...
Take the quiz to discover which elements of your sensitive info are now exposed.
📝 #HandsOff go.newamerica.org/what-does-do...
April 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🆕 📣 A new interactive quiz published by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org can help Americans understand how much of their data DOGE has in hand.
Take the quiz to discover which elements of your sensitive info are now exposed.
📝 #HandsOff go.newamerica.org/what-does-do...
Take the quiz to discover which elements of your sensitive info are now exposed.
📝 #HandsOff go.newamerica.org/what-does-do...
great read from @robhorning.bsky.social this weekend:
March 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
great read from @robhorning.bsky.social this weekend:
at the end of January, the city of Boston began posting public notices about bird flu, in light of the statewide outbreak among wild birds. these notices called for increased resident reporting of sick/dead birds. just started digging into the 311 request data. here's a quick write-up
Birdwatching with public health binoculars
It’s been a brutal winter in Boston. To break up long stints of hibernation, I’ve been taking walks through nearby parks and doing some birdwatching. I don’t bring any binoculars, field guides, or exp...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
at the end of January, the city of Boston began posting public notices about bird flu, in light of the statewide outbreak among wild birds. these notices called for increased resident reporting of sick/dead birds. just started digging into the 311 request data. here's a quick write-up
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Fast trains catalyze EV adoption:
"By alleviating range anxiety, the expansion of high-speed rail can account for up to 1/3 of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China [from 2010-23]."
www.nber.org/papers/w33489
"By alleviating range anxiety, the expansion of high-speed rail can account for up to 1/3 of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China [from 2010-23]."
www.nber.org/papers/w33489
February 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fast trains catalyze EV adoption:
"By alleviating range anxiety, the expansion of high-speed rail can account for up to 1/3 of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China [from 2010-23]."
www.nber.org/papers/w33489
"By alleviating range anxiety, the expansion of high-speed rail can account for up to 1/3 of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China [from 2010-23]."
www.nber.org/papers/w33489
Boycott Tesla, Buy Esla
February 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Boycott Tesla, Buy Esla
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This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego.
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Amazing demonstration of data centre electricity use in Ireland - RTE, 2001
YouTube video by Ketan Joshi
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This is a veeryyyy good 3 minute explainer of how much power a data center consumes, visualised using Lego.
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
Via John Hyland on LI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHB...
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
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a legendary instance of "use current events to create a hook for science communication"
The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.
February 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
a legendary instance of "use current events to create a hook for science communication"
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A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.
February 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.