@atpfm @siracusa Lol you lot are going to get email from annoyed “U Penn is an Ivy League university and not some random state school” people. (I know you didn’t claim it was but I predict your discussion will trigger them; they are very touchy.)
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Really brings a tear to the eye. What a legacy.
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New York City Hexmaps. https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/04/19/new-york-city-hexmaps/
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Apr 16, 2026
A complete transformer neural network implemented entirely in HyperTalk, trained on a Macintosh SE/30.
https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind
https://github.com/SeanFDZ/macmind
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Apr 16, 2026
Yesterday’s fun activity was writing a package to make cartograms like this. I am also open to lavish VC funding to develop an excessively complex German-style board game based on this layout, modeled on e.g. “Escape from New York”, “Warriors”, or perhaps “My Dinner with Andre”.
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Apr 13, 2026
New Tom 7 video just dropped, so things aren’t entirely awful (though they are indeed mostly awful). Everyone should watch all of Tom 7’s videos; they are excellent in fundamentally improper ways.
https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk
https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk
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Apr 12, 2026
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Apr 12, 2026
@siracusa@mastodon.social @atpfm@mastodon.social Correct use of “the mainland” spotted in this street atlas (John Tauranac, “Manhattan Block by Block”, 2005) that I picked up at a used bookstore over the weekend.
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Apr 05, 2026
I just watched Gremlins 2 for the first time since 1990. The entire film is built around a dim, vain, tasteless New York developer named Daniel Clamp, his sprawling Clamp Building and his gimcrack Clamp Empire, which includes TV stations, his inane self-aggrandizing books, and a line of jams and jellies. At the end he falls for a character named Marla. This has been a remark about how the meaning of a work of art is not something fixed or under the control of its creators.
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Mar 30, 2026
I thought I had found a clever way around an annoying problem—I have to get hundreds of randomly-named SVG elements that correspond to ordered elements (train stations) in a CSV. So I concocted a script in Illustrator to extract, all at once, the layer names of a bunch of elements after I have cmd-clicked them so they're all selected. I am so clever. But ... Illustrator cannot extract them in the order I clicked them, only in layer order, which is itself random. Gaaah.
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Mar 28, 2026
Borough-specific sign for the day. #NoKings https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/28/subway-sign/
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Mar 16, 2026
@hotdogsladies A nice big Baby Boom poster for you about the dread year of 1946 and the march of time in general, as per @RecDiffs discussion. Some more detail at https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2023/12/20/the-baby-boom-again/
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Mar 12, 2026
RIP Tony Hoare, father of Quicksort. https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
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Mar 09, 2026
Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/09/using-quarto-to-write-a-book/
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/09/using-quarto-to-write-a-book/
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Mar 06, 2026
@siracusa A nice example of context collapse that I came across while listening to the Aftershow.
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Mar 05, 2026
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: https://socviz.co
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Feb 28, 2026
Vibes-based analysis from me of the 6C Report Card. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/charting-the-vibes-in-the-2025-apple-report-card/
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Feb 05, 2026
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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Dec 29, 2022
Everything is fine over there
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