The Birdbassador

@plut0nian@jorts.horse also apologies for the blurry picture but i was at an art of moby dick exhibit today and the "moby dick but all the bits that aren't gay redacted" was very funny to me

every single crossword i did today was ides of march themed, likely because both IDES and CAESAR are very good fill words. i think this means i need to change my name to something that's mostly vowels and do something prominent so i can achieve a form of immortality. ozymandias two vast and trunkless legs of stone style but it's like "13A: Notably famous historical idiot (7)"

35D Animal identity in role play (7):
FURSONA

this is the nyt crossword debut of FURSONA.

do you think will shortz already knew what a fursona was, or did some person have to explain it to him while he was editing the puzzle

Computer: tea, earl grey, hot, hd artstation trending photorealistic high quality detailed

i think nearly all books, and most academic papers, could be improved by including regency-style descriptive chapter headings that are like "chapter 4: in which a promise is breached" or "chapter 7: a fracas! mr. weathersby learns a lesson; de gustibus non est disputandum"

almost haughtily said "am i my brother's keeper?" in a work meeting today like a jrpg villain but managed to course correct in time

oh man where was this article when i needed it https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
h/t @jzong@hci.social

@ieeevis@vis.social
The BELIV workshop is returning this year! The theme this year is "Rethinking Design, Evaluation, and Ethics in Visualization in the Era of Generative AI," but we are always looking for work on research methods in visualization in general.

https://tinyurl.com/beliv2024